A Good Idea

When I woke up from sleeping, Rokuko looked into my face.

Why did you sleep?

Eh? No, uhh

Sehza.

Eh? S-seiza?

Un, sehza. Do it. Okay?

And so I was made to sit in a seiza for some reason. Why?

Even sleeping is no good? Im a human, I need to sleep.

Well, why did you sleep? Even though Im in a pinch.

Is that a biological question? Humans will die if they dont sleep.

Even if you dont sleep for one night youll be alright. You slept just before this.

No, well, yeah, but Please think about it. I woke up. Waking up means I did my best against the terrible drowsiness. I even woke Ontentoo up and consulted with him, so I think I did well. Seriously.

I did my best since I was no use in the battle you know?

Cant you wake up for my sake too?

Thats not it Rokuko. I cant demonstrate my original specs if I dont sleep, so in other words, I sleep to power up.

Really?

Really really. I think about things while Im asleep, I even thought about how to deal with our enemy while sleeping.

Hmm. So, how will we deal with it?

Rokuko stared at me dubiously. She crouched down as though to pry more out of me, who was still sitting in a seiza, from above.

What to do huh ah, come to think of it, Ontentoo said that slimes are kept and trained huh. So that means tamers couldnt we go with taming it? Alright, lets use that as an excuse.

I heard about it from Ontentoo, but it seems there are these people called tamers If we tame that black wolf, wouldnt it turn into an amazing strength for the dungeon? Thats what I was thinking.

I see, itd really be a strong companion. Well, how?

Yeah. First, theres a strong possibility of that wolf being a slime using mimicry to take the shape of a wolf. Also that it was raised before.

Un, and then?

It feels like my excuse caught her attention. Lets keep it up.

First we have to know our opponent. Well talk to it.

Who, and how?

Itd be great if I could talk to someone directly using the dungeons functions, but unfortunately even if the functions allow for us to hear voices inside the dungeon, it doesnt have the ability to send my voice to wherever I want. If there were, itd be convenient for convening for emergencies like this. Setting aside the monster girls, Meat and Ichika arent even able to communicate with the dungeons menu function.

But I just now remembered that I made a golem that could reproduce voices perfectly the other day.

Ill communicate to it with a golem. If it looks safe, Ill get closer to some extent and try using [Air Voice], yeah? If it was raised by humans, I think it should have enough intelligence to understand human speech.

While I was at it, I also remembered that I d learned the wind magic [Air Voice]. Its been a long time. Since before I went to buy Ichika.

In the end, all Ive really been using is [Create Golem] huh, its really too convenient. Im definitely a golem expert That backfired on me a bit this time though.

Hmm, you thought about it properly this time.

Obviously. Who do you think I am? Im your partner, the dungeon master.

Thats right, youre my partner after all. Sorry for doubting you okay?

Saying that, Rokuko glanced at the red ring that shined on her ring finger, smiling.

Thinking about if the conversation goes badly For now, the boss room will turn into a sea of magma and the core room will sink into a sea of lava.

Well, thats just peachy.

I couldnt come up with a good idea while speaking after all

Nn? Did you say something?

Nah, its nothing. Ah, can I stop destroying my legs now? I want to go back to sleep.

Kehma? Right now, this dungeon has been invaded all the way past the boss room, Im in a pinch you know? Im afraid and cant sleep at night though?

And she had me sit in seiza for another thirty minutes.

This much doesnt seem like a punishment.

Moreover, she said that and sat on my thighs. It felt like Id turned into some kind of floor cushion.

That said, she didnt do anything else and just stayed sitting down. As expected, I tried to think of a way to start a conversation.

Since there was thirty minutes of silence, I gave up and spoke.

Hey, Rokuko?

I-Ill forgive you with this much!

She dashed out of the room.

What did Rokuko want to do there?

My legs are super numb.

Ah, it turned into a punishment huh. Wait, didnt she just go with what she said at the start?

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I went back to sleep after being released from Rokukos floor cushion punishment since I cant actually do that, I decided to replenish our golems for now.

Apart from the three girls favorite variety golems that could easily be made with the single incantation, the haniwa golem has a lot of parts that take time to make.

For now I repaired the stone haniwa golem that had started breaking, upgrading its sword and shield to be made of iron.

Additionally, I remade the iron golem from scratch since it was eaten and completely destroyed.

I didnt really add any functions to them in particular.

And I thought about it just now, on the topic of it being a haniwa golem, after being made from clay, isnt it more clay golem-ish than haniwa-ish?

Because of that, I made a simple clay haniwa golem with no armor to relax.

I made it and thats all good, but theres no use for it

And so I decided to use it as a messenger golem.

In short, it was a golem that was in charge of a thread telephone golem.

First, the golem would run to the other party, and when I talked into the thread telephone golem on my end, it would reproduce my voice on the other end.

Since I can hear voices by using the menus monitoring function, it only needs to deliver my voice to them.

Then again, it has nothing to do with whats happening right now since the other person is a wolf or a slime.

No, it might be able to talk huh, that salamanders able to at least.

Still, this string telephone golem was different from a usual string telephone. It was something excellent that could carry my voice along whether or not it was pulled around corners or shut in doors.

The point is that the string telephone is a single golems body.

[Receive vibrations in the receiving paper cup and play them back with the playback paper cup.] With that order, its able to deliver my voice. Its the same kind of thing as if I told it to move its left hand just like how I move its right hand.

Its attained a ridiculous level of convenience, I want a golem telephone line throughout the dungeon. How about I stop being a dungeon master and start calling myself a golem master?

Ah, oops. Right now we need to get through this unscathed.

I looked to see what the black wolf was doing with the menu. Its still sleeping huh Maybe well get along?

Ah, doesnt the taming success chance go up if you raise a flag like that?

Its definitely my imagination.