Some Renovation

I decided to leave the mysterious sisters alone until they get their instructions.

I thought about getting trying to get some information from Haku-san and Ontentoo, but unlike the time with Rin, this wasnt really so much of an emergency. Its better for me to collect information myself rather than owe them a debt. Lets set aside the conditions of someones DP income being 0, theres a good chance that this [Toy] thing has nothing to do with dungeons.

And so I decided to mess around with the dungeon for the first time in a while.

Lets check out how its doing.

Starting from the entrance is the entrance area, labyrinth area, the empty former riddle area, the spiral staircase that heads down to the warehouse area, which the warehouse area then divides into three branches.

The new riddle area leads to the arena and the boss room, the meadow area thats the dead-end campgrounds, and Fenis miniature garden area that heads towards the fire cavern that Rokuko made.

By the way, theres a hidden ceiling in the boss room for the core room. Nerunes laboratory is there too, but thats another story.

Now then, lets renovate two spots this time.

First is the warehouse.

Ive been using it as a substitute for storage space so far, but therell be adventurers making their way into it here soon, so that wont do anymore. With that being the case, Ill make a proper warehouse in a spot that no one will come to. [Warehouse Area (Real)]. Itll be a warehouse completely isolated from the outside, just like the thug human farm I left to Rei Honestly, we dont even need that anymore. We have a pretty huge income just from the village. Besides, wouldnt it be increasingly unneeded with the next thing Im thinking about?

With that, theres another thing I have my eye on. The riddle area. Im going to renovate it.

The old riddle area turned into this after it was destroyed by Rin.

Theres no one there right now, so its a good chance to do the renovations. I think Ill go with setting up the gimmick I thought up earlier.

However, Im not going to be building something that will obstruct people. Ill be making a small room on the side of the passage and make it look like they found a secret passage. The reason it cant be too big of a room is because it was inadvertently positioned just next to [Fire Cavern]. Well, there are several ways I could describe the small room.

Its a DP collection room.

That is, even if Im calling it a DP collection room, its not as though Im going to be killing people in it. Its basically a [Jail]. There will be several cells about the size of a toilet stall that could fit one or two people set up. By confining people there, their DP per day would increase to six times the normal due to the locked up and jail effects.

So what will this jail be doing, you ask? Ill get adventurers to walk into it.

There obviously wouldnt be people whod just walk into such a small and suspicious room, so Ill give them a reward.

Ill repay their DP income with with items and money. Just a small portion of it, though.

If a person thats normally worth 50 DP is confined in the jail, theyd be worth 300 DP per day. If they do that, Id still make a profit by spending around 100 DP of that for a silver coin. Thatd be like 10,000 Yen a day for doing nothing. Maybe itd be alright to just give them fifty copper, theyll just be sitting there doing nothing after all? Actually, it might be better to give more as some kind of opening event.

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With the renovations over, I brought Meat along as I went to give it a trial run.

It wouldnt be a lie even if I reported it to the guild if I actually used it, so I have to go there myself.

If no one knew how to use it, no one could use it. That disaster from back with Uzoh and Muzoh in the magic sword test room was plenty enough for me. Besides, this time, itll be even harder to understand how to use than the test room. Ill need to report it.

Destroying the wall that lead to the hidden room, I made my way to the DP collection room.

The rooms were lined up like private toilet stalls. They were all jail cells, but I disguised them as ordinary doors to protect peoples privacy.

Moreover, although all of the rooms are vacant right now, a red symbol will appear on the doors of cells that are in use. Just like a toilet stall.

Shall we head in?

Yes.

I entered a cell with Meat. The only things that were there were two hourglass-type timers next to each other and the doors that would lock themselves through a mechanism. I also included a red button for emergencies as a measure of kindness.

The items and money I set up behind the scenes will fall into the payment hole once the timer hits zero after enough time passes.

Concerning their payment, something like a daily DP sensor doesnt exist, so Rei and the others will have to do their best at manually doing it all behind the scenes. I say that, but since they wont be rewarding anything to those who stay less than twelve hours, they just need to check twice a day. The payment calculation itself will also be easy enough since they can use the calculator golem whenever they arent needing to help someone at reception. Itll normally reward money with a few items sprinkled in occasionally.

We have too much money at this point because of the inn. Were depositing the money in the guild, but were never really going to use it.

I turned the two hourglass timers upside down. They were small, but theres a golem mechanism in place so that they would take twelve hours to finish. Only one of the hourglasses allow for sand to drop at a time, so it ends up being twenty-four hours by the end. If they want to stay longer, they can just flip the completed hourglasses over to go again.

Everything Ive seen tells me that adventurers are horrible at remembering things if I make it too complicated, so I made it as simple as possible.

Right now Im planning on spending the next twenty-four hours in leisure as a test.

I laid my futon out inside the private room. I designed it so that it would just barely fit. Then, I laid down with Meat as my hug pillow as usual.

Ill eat some of the food thats in my [Storage] if I get hungry. Haaah

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Crap, theres no toilet this is a serious flaw.

As expected, even I got woken up by Meat.

I got Rokuko to collect it this time, but humans cant go without using the toilet for a full day

Should I put some sort of pot with a jelly in it to deal with that stuff in the room? Ah, crap. Jellies are monsters, so I cant put them in safety zones. What should I do about the restroom?

Should I remove the safety zone? Toilets are indispensable.

For now, we took a toilet break and let twenty-four hours pass. Three silver coins dropped down into the payment hole located under the hourglasses with a clinking noise at the same time that the door unlocked.

Looks like the device is working properly By the way, this isnt taking me being here into account. My daily DP is worth 0 after all.

Lets get an adventurers point of view on it now.

Thats why I made that kind of facility. Ichika-sensei, what do you think about it?

Whats with the -sensei Eh whatever, first off the moneys bad. Wouldnt it better better for em to just earn money like normal instead of going in there?

I got an immediate fail.

Now that she mentions it, if they have the ability to make it past the labyrinth area, theyd earn a lot more money by hunting iron golems.

Itd just be pocket money and gettin locked up in such a small room would be horrible, let alone being alone for half a day

They could just sleep though?

Goshujin-samas the only person who could sleep that much. Twelve hours is way too long. Ya cant get rid of the safety zone either, people wouldnt be able to be at ease in a dungeon without it.

Now that she mentions it, Im fine with it since the place is like my home, but for anyone else itd just be spending twelve hours in a dungeon, not knowing what or when something might happen.

So they cant rest without the safety zone huh.

Im stumped on the toilet part though.

For a toilet ya can just have a pot and use [Cleanup] on it.

Eh, that works? [Cleanup] is convenient.

[Cleanup] is seriously all-purpose. For it to even work for a toilet

Well, the earnings bad but if theres a jackpot kinda thing, it might work out. Goshujin-sama should know yeah? Like that time with the Uzoh Muzoh bros.

Should I use a blade golem as bait?

Yeah! Like bein able to get a magic sword just by waitin for half a day. Thatd make for a great story.In fact, how bout we trade for the magic sword with gold coins?

Kukuku, Ichika. Are you some evil overlord?

Not as much as Goshujin-sama, kukuku~

Ichika and I laughed evily together.

Itd be a problem if we distributed too many magic swords and caused their value to drop, but that much wouldnt be a problem if we kept the demand high.

Moreover, since the blade golem is pretty close to an ordinary sword, its pretty much a consumable item. Itll recover somewhat if magical power is poured into the magic stone in its core, but its alright since itll break sooner or later after doing it two or three times. From what I hear, theres a lot of other magic swords like that so it wont be a problem.

And so I went to go report the new facility to the guild.

That it would lock you up when you turn the hourglasses over, but would let you out immediately if you pressed the red button.

That you would obtain silver coins by waiting until the sand in the hourglass finished falling.

And that the two hourglasses each took twelve hours to finish.

With the above information, I earned ten silver.

There was an investigation commission sent out from the guild the following day. Several adventurers headed to the DP collection room along with various items meant for killing time.

As a result of the several-day-long investigation, it was recognized as a place that would give money and items if you waited twelve or twenty-four hours. It looks like one of them was even lucky enough to get a magic sword. It also looks like that guy went to buy food and immediately returned for a second go at it.

The result of his second time? Twenty copper.

After various things, the small room was dubbed the [Avarice Lodge]. There were a lot of people that slept through the whole twelve hours.

Since there was a chance at getting a hold of a magic sword without even having to do anything, there were a lot of people who went there.

It ended up turning into a facility that generated a decent amount of DP.