Fourth Omake

New Years

New Years. Unlike Christmas, New Years isnt a religious event, its a celebrated event even in this other world.

Because of that, I tried setting up a New Years versions of traps. In addition, since its ability to kill got unexpectedly ridiculous, the target this time is just Hero Wataru. Itd be a bit awkward to kill someone with just a bit of joking around after all.

Eh? This Isnt Revenge For Christmas Yknow~?

After all, its not like Id be angry enough to kill him for correcting the in exchange for the socks to put inside of the socks right? Hahahahaha.

And so Hero Wataru. Could you go and check to see if anything in the dungeon seems off?

Hahaha, so looks like Kehma-sans going to sleep through New Years, huh!

Hey, theres a reward for it, this thing that came from the dungeon. Its an advance payment.

A pochibukuro! Thats a pochibukuro, isnt it!? A New Years gift for the first time in three years! Ill accept it! [1]

I knew youd say that.

Dying to the point that you dont die would be great.

*

The first things that the hero encountered after entering were the skewer traps.

Bamboo cut diagonally into a point attacked him from the ground. In the flash of an eye, a green needle flew towards the hero from the side.

Hyaah! T-this is New Years pine decorations!? No way, is it really!? [2]

Wataru was jumping about, placing his feet onto the tips of the sharpened bamboo as his tension rose slightly.

When taking a closer look, the needle that stuck into the ground was a pine needle And so, while Wataru stood on top of the bamboo, suddenly

Huh? What about the plum blossoms?

Thinking about New Years pine decorations, there should be all three: pine, bamboo, and plum blossoms.

Hearing the sound of air being barreled through behind him, he turned around to see a log swooping towards him.

He caught the log with his left hand

Is this the plum tree? Might be Well, I dont know since its just the log. But pine decorations huh? Pine decoration traps on New Years, this is getting fun.

and more traps sprung up from the ground.

A bit surprising huh.

Wataru smiled.

*

When he walked into the labyrinth, a large torimochi suddenly dropped from the ceiling. [3]

Oh ball of fire, burn my enemy! [Fireball]!

The torimochi was burned away instantly

More torimochi burned in his surroundings a dreadful trap, it wouldve been impossible to move if hed gotten caught.

Fufufu, mochi, mochi huh kagamimochi nn? Wait, then that means! Oh ball of fire, burn my enemy! [Fireball]! [4]

Trusting in his intuition, he once again cast fireball, this time aiming for the ceiling. A second wave of torimochi rained down, burning.

The second wave of kagamimochinot that, torimochitargeted negligence. It really was a nasty trap.

If its like this, is there the thing that must be placed on top of a kagamimochia bitter orangetoo!?

He was vigilant of the ceiling after that, but nothing really appeared

Maybe its the type of kagamimochi that doesnt have an orange? Ah, but it has a sweet filling!

Wataru hurried forward.

*

He went further into the labyrinth area. Suddenly, he felt a sense of incongruity in his vision. For a moment, it had blurred.

When he turned around, the passage that he definitely came from wasnt there rather, it had moved ninety degrees to his side.

He looked at the floor.

A rotating floor? Hmm, could it be a spinning top? No way, maybe Im overthinking it?

And then, at that moment, a small black ball flew through the air.

He deflected it with his sword on reflex.

Clang! Clang!

It let out a light sound.

H-hanetsuki? Is it really hanestuki? [5]

And so, he looked at the ball that fell down right, on that ball was

Zzzzaaa.

a black liquid poured down from the ceiling, staining Wataru.

Theres feathers on it!

Because the shuttlecock hit the ground, Wataru received the ink baptism. It was that kind of thing.

However, this really

smelled like oil.

This isnt ink, is it [Cleanup], [Cleanup], [Cleanup]

Using [Cleanup] over and over and over and over, he was finally clean.

*

The place he thought was the riddle area had turned into a safety zone.

So he took a breather.

However, this dungeon was able to communicate with Japan in some way. Watarus conviction of this deepened.

New Years yeah, the theme right now is definitely New Years.

He regretted not having the time to dive into the dungeon on Christmas. He felt it was a blunder on his part for just leaving after giving the standard greetings since he didnt have the time. He was sure that there was definitely a Christmas theme at the time.

Like there would be more treasure chests or something.

However, I wonder if theres games like flying kites or pin the tail on the donkey, or maybe anything like that?

Taking a glimpse into the next area, it was the spiral staircase area

Theres definitely gotta be [Ball Dropping].

For some reason, he was able to predict it.

Following his prediction, a giant ball fell down and attacked him, so Wataru was satisfied.

*

How was the dungeon?

It was awesome Ah, no, its in a really dangerous state.

This guy got caught in so many of the New Years traps, but hes smiling?

He really just brushed them all aside, but is this guy an M?

I asked to see his report of the traps on a map. Yep, I already knew it, but hes in high spirits. He figured out the inspiration for them all, so Im also satisfied.

But maybe its unreasonable for that rotating saw trap to be the [Happy New Years] itself, hmmm

Ah, sorry. Thats just a normal trap. Youre overthinking it.

Hmm, maybe its going through another transition phase?

No no, its definitely for New Years I think maybe three, no, seven days at the most is how long itll last. Im thinking that the items are a limited time thing. Please, look at these.

Wataru held out a can filled with curry powder.

Its currey powder!

Hmm, does that have any direct relation to New Years?

Not directly, no.

Well, Im the one who put it there though.

Also, please tell me if something like this happens again!

If its a limited time thing, wouldnt it be over by the time a report to you arrived?

Wha!? Now that you say it, thats right huh.

Yep, I definitely dont want to do something so troublesome as switching around the dungeon constantly.

Furthermore, the limited edition New Years dungeon ended three days later.

Of course, me sleeping through New Years got ruined since there was talk of a transition phase going on.

Damn it

Footnotes:

Pochibukuros look like this and are gifts given on New Years, generally to children. Commonly(usually) have money in them. Return

The decorations are like this Return

Sticky paper used to capture birds and insects. Think flytraps that we have here in the US. Return

Mochi -> sticky rice cake. Kagamimochi -> a pair of mochi used as New Years offerings, cut and eaten on January 11th. Return

Japanese badminton! The thing he deflectedthe shuttlecocklooks like this Return