The Anti-Leona Strategy Meeting

I decided to call the dungeons executives together to hold an Anti-Leona Strategy Meeting.

The participants are me, Rokuko, Meat, Ichika, and the three monster girls. Succubus Ring Neru is here on Meats finger, too.

My identity was found out, so it suddenly feels like theres a knife to my throatmore like a guillotineand Ive already went through something dangerous

Because of all that, our goal is the dungeons survival and Leonas expulsion.

As a result of talking with Leona I figured out how much of a hedonist she isor maybe its better to say shes living in the now for her futureand well, I dont want to be involved at all. At any rate, I now understand that she has a troublesome personality.

Her actions are entirely based off of whether or not something is amusing.

Still though, the Last Boss, is it?

Yeah, Rokuko. Thats what Leona told me. It almost sounded like a bluff though.

Having seen the recording of it, Rokuko blinked in surprise when I responded to what she said.

Huh? Whys that? She looked pretty enthusiastic about it to me.

It was like she was trying to persuade herself it just looked like acting to me. Shed even obviously prepared it all beforehand, seeing as how there werent any logical fallacies. Maybe what shes thinking deep down is quite the opposite. To to hurry up and kill her or something. The Last Boss is an existence that is eventually overthrown, after all.

Umm, really?

If not, she wouldnt be giving herself those handicaps and playing around, shed be doing whatever she wants and dominating the world.

Hmm? But Leonas already threatening Haku-san, the empires top dog. Maybe shes already finished with her world domination? Well, whatever.

By her deliberately saying [want to become], not if or when, shes holding her ground as Leona.

Troublesome, isnt she

Seriously.

Its not like shes trying to think about how to become the Last Boss, but rather that shes going to end up as one. The strange part is that she said that she wants to become it despite herself knowing that it would be like that. It appears that shes hiding something, but I dont really feel like figuring out what that something is. At any rate, she herself is aiming to be the incarnation of selfishness itself, so its probably something dumb.

Whether its the truth or a lie, it doesnt change the fact that she might just explode at any moment. The best option for us is to get her to leave as soon as possible.

As Haku-san said, Leona likely wont kill us, so we can be a bit bullish about it.

Kehma, why do you think she wont kill us?

Because [it wouldnt be interesting]. Itd be over if she killed us. Shell go with the way that leaves us with some hope. [It would be interesting].

Seeing as how Haku-san told us to [kill Leona if you get the chance], thats probably how it is. I dont think that shed ever put Rokuko into a dangerous situation.

And I dont think Leona would approve, either.

Kehmas amazing. Even after listening to it all I didnt understand any of that!

Yeah It feels like she did something when I met her. I started understanding Leona for some reason. I feel sick. Im also having trouble thinking right Neru. Please check to see if theres some condition on me. I dont even care if you have to possess me for it.

[Kaaay. But what if the point of what she did was to get you to say you dont care?] It might have been a passive skill that improved our affinity with each other, or maybe some kind of persuasion-type skill that could convey your intentions to another person easier Ichika, do you know about any skills like that?

Not that Ive heard about. It wouldnt be weird if there were skills rulers could learn that ordinary adventurers didnt know about though. If Goshujin-sama says so, theres gotta be a possibility. Theres not in the catalog?

None from what I saw, but its not like every skill is listed on the catalog Rokuko, please send a letter to Haku-san and check.

Alright. Theres probably going to be other stuff to tell her, so Ill wait to write it until after were done.

If its a skill with the effect of allowing the users and the targets consciousnesses to be tuned to one another, I think that thered have to be some other adverse effects. Even if it seems mostly harmless on the surface, just having someone know the way you think is, in a way, dangerous.

That might also have been why Haku-san san [make sure that Rokuko-chan doesnt get seen by Leona. Itll corrupt her]

However, even so, were now meeting to set up our Leona countermeasures. Setting up measures against someone we know should be easier than otherwise.

Master. I understand were considering countermeasures here, but what if we went with [Doing Nothing]? To be accurate, make it so that nothing happens. Well have her realize that this place is boring and let her grow bored. Wouldnt she leave of her own will?

Rei, youre definitely on the right track but its too late for that.

Leona has clearly shown interest in me. Shed also taken an interest in Rei during our conversation.

Even excluding that, Nayuta and Setsuna are here at our dungeon, same with Meat. I doubt shed get bored of staying here.

I absolutely dont want Meat to meet Leona.

Setsuna and Nayuta said that Meat is a [Toy], so the reason Meat cant remember her past is probably because Leona did something to her. If she met with Leona and they were unsealed, what would happen to the current Meat? I could solve it all since shes under my control as my slave, but I dont even want to think about it. If she resented me for turning her into a hug pillow and want to stab and kill me or something, itd be a pretty big shock.

Rather, if she regained her memory that shes Leonas grandkid and that made her be like Leona yeah, thatd also be a shock.

Then maybe it would be a good idea to have something else shes interested in happen somewhere else?

Maybe Haku Ane-sama could do something?

That would be scary in a number of ways. On the other hand, the amount wed be indebted to our neighbor (Ontentoo) by pushing her onto him would be awkward.

How about we win over Setsuna and Nayuta and talk with them to get them to lure Leona to some other place?

Oh, thats a pretty good idea, Rokuko.

As expected of my partner. She can do it if she tries!

Come to think of it, what were Setsunas and Nayutas Leona countermeasures? Looks like it wasnt too effective seeing as how they were dealt with pretty quick, though. Do you know theyd planned, Kinue-san?

Yes. It appears that theyve procured various things that Leona hates Seeing the recording, it appears that they werent able to take those things out, though.

Things Leona hates, huh. I kind of want that information too, so maybe it would be better to win them over as allies? Getting them to go to the [Avarice Lodge] so that I can talk to them with Euma each and every time is troublesome, after all. So, Nerune. Talk with them about being someone from the dungeon. Be the middleman. Speak about us only ever ambiguously, decide how much you should say depending on how its going.

Got it~

Setsuna said that she was a Dungeon Cores child, so we should be able to talk a bit about whats going on for us.

And as for why I chose Nerune thats because Nerune has been getting along with them the best as an employee. Rei feels like their boss, Kinue-san feels like an older sister, and Meat and Ichika have some circumstances stopping them from doing it. Theres not too much of a difference, but Nerune is the closest to them. Her naive appearance seems to have an influence on it, too.

Also, the one least likely to make a mistake is Nerune. Rei has some thoughtless moments

Now then, Meat.

Yes.

Lets ask again. You are what to me?

A faithful horse.

Wrong. You are my hug pillow so you dont need to be a fighter. You wont be making a move this time so that you dont get stolen but even if you are stolen, come back to me. As my hug pillow.

Yes.

Meat nodded, her face blushing a little.

I will continue to emphasize that she is my hug pillow till the very end.

Assuming Meat has some of Leonas brainwashing and training in her, theres a good chance it will activate with her as a [Slave] or as a [Fighter]. Even if theres something there, itd be great if her being a [Hug Pillow] works as a loophole.

Its okay, Meat. Youre Kehmas hug pillow right? Then you can just leave everything to Kehma!

Yes, Rokuko-sama.

Ill also be leaving it all to Kehma this time.

Well, thats good. Its better that I dont let Rokuko and Meat meet Leona.

For the time being, well talk with Setsuna and Nayuta and try collecting some things Leona isnt too good against.

With that, [Operation Eject Leona From the Cave of Desires] began.

Rokuko was the one to name the operation, it had nothing to do with me!