Chapter 497 Joint Dungeon Exploration Start!

This mee-soh soup thing is really delicious said Gaudino-san as he slurped down miso soup made with cabbages, onions and fried tofu.

Aahhh, this really warms me up, Gaudino-san nodded like an old man over his bowl of soup.

This egg roll thing is really good too. The texture is really fluffy and the flavour is nice and savoury, Siegwald-san said as he popped another piece of Das.h.i.+maki into his mouth.

Indeed, indeed, Gideon-san was also popping pieces of Das.h.i.+maki into his mouth.

Mukouda-sans food is too delicious, said Gaudino-san as he stuffed his cheeks with rice b.a.l.l.s made with mustard greens and commercially available [1] Furikake from [Net Super].

I was actually concerned about feeding members of the [Ark] meaty meals so early in the morning and decided to put in the effort to make a standard j.a.panese breakfast meal. Since the men were all bigger than me, I estimated that they would eat at least twice as much as me.

As for Feodora-san

As a veteran cook for gluttons, I can more or less estimate how much a person (or monster) could eat. Which was why Feodora-san gets three times more food than all three of them combined.

It looks like I underestimated her appet.i.te.

Feodora-san ate up everything in a flash, so I gave her three more rice b.a.l.l.s, which also disappeared as soon as they touched her plate. Then, she started staring longingly at Fers Teriyaki c.o.c.katrice on rice.

Was it normal for Adventurers to prefer meaty breakfasts?

I asked Gaudino-san about this and

No, no, no, I prefer a light and refres.h.i.+ng meal like this,

Same here,

I ate a bit more when I was younger, but now that Im older, I cant stand heavy meals in the morning.

So, the abnormal one was Feodora-san [2]

Oi, someone do something about that Elf, she keeps staring at my food, Fer snapped.

Yeah, its getting really annoying!

Oi, Feodora, stop it,

Even her colleagues were heckling her.

I took out a bowl of Teriyaki c.o.c.ktrice Don and, woah, her eyes are following my hands

Tee hee, its actually funny to see her gaze move up, down, left and right with the bowl.

Well, thats enough teasing. I promise to feed them well so

Ahem, its not good to overeat before entering the dungeon, so, just one bowl, alright? I said.

Feodora-san nodded several times, her fingers twitching.

I handed the bowl over and she immediately begin to stuff her cheeks with food.

Please accept my apologies for this persons behaviour, said Gaudino-san.

Yeah, sorry about that, said Gideon-san.

That Elf, she becomes like that whenever she sees delicious food, said Siegwald-san wryly.

After her first large swallow, Feodora-san slowed down. However, the bowl of Teriyaki c.o.c.katrice disappeared all too quickly. She looked sad about not getting seconds, but, seriously? I had already given her a lot of food

After the livelier than usual breakfast, everyone took a little break to settle the food in their stomachs

Right, lets go!

naturally, Fer was the first one to break the comfortable peace.

Indeed, lets capture some delicious meat.

I cant wait!!!

Sui will

pew pew

~!

Pew pew

~!

I cant help but compare my easy-going party to the more serious-looking [Ark] members.

This is

Umu

,

Hey! n.o.body said anything about this much water!

Hohoho, looks interesting.

Fishy~ fishy~

The [Ark] members were staring at the scene before us, completely speechless.

Well, I cant say I blame them.

What do you generally expect to see once you take the stairs down a dungeon? A cave of some sort? A tunnel? A stone dungeon-like underground horror?

Well, the stairs led to something that was rarely seen even in the fantasy world.

A wetland.

An actual wetland, or wasteland depending on who you are speaking to. Thats right, we went down a narrow stairway into a wide s.p.a.ce filled with greenery and water.

Frankly, what I know about wetlands came from watching TV in my past life.

Woah, I never thought Id ever see an actual wetland I mused.

Gururururu

That human told me the dungeon contains a forest-like place, how dare he lie to me?!

Well, this

is

a type of forest

In other words, it was a forest growing on a shallow body of water

Gununu

Also, they also said they heard about it from other people, so you cant blame them for pa.s.sing on bad intel. It was all they knew. You should be grateful that the dungeon even existed.

Muu

,

More importantly, what are we going to do now? Shall we just cancel the dungeon challenge? I dont mind that.

No! were going in!

If you want to go, youll have to endure it! I finally snapped. Stop complaining, you overgrown ball of fluff!

Grrrr

Er, Mukouda-san, apologies for breaking into your conversation like this, but a Fanged Boar just noticed us, Gaudino-san said.

I turned to look and blanched. What the no, no, no, what business does a boar have to possess fangs like that?!

Feodora! Gideon! Siegwald!

Feodora drew her bow.

The men of the [Ark] drew their weapons and settled into their battle stance.

Pu-giiii-

!!!

The Fanged Boar let out a pig-like squeal and charged out of the bushes towards us, splas.h.i.+ng dirty water everywhere.

I was situated safely between Fer and Grandpa Gon with members of the [Ark] in front, ready to fight when-

Sui will go!!

Pew!!

A single Acid Bullet struck the Fanged Boar on the head, right in between its eyes.

It continued to dash forward due to inertia but eventually, it collapsed in a heap in front of Gaudino and the rest of the [Ark] members.

Yay~! Yay~! Sui beat the piggy~! Yay~!

They could not hear her cheering, but they could not have mistaken the cheerful bouncing as anything but pure happiness at having taken down a prey.

I-Im really sorry you guys.

Our Sui is not good at reading the atmosphere.

Thus, as we venture further in to explore the Unexplored Dungeon, [Ark] found this joint venture difficult in many different ways.

[Gumihou: Oooh, I feel sorry for them already]

[1] Furikake a dry condiment sprinkled on cooked rice or fish, or as an ingredient in onigiri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furikake

[2] Deleted [Ark]s banter about Feodoras appet.i.te

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