Yuri Kiss? Uh, False Alarm!

Hey, Shun here!

I actually didn't like Yuri as much but I've seen some of it and enjoyed some as well. However, I don't think such a thing will happen right in front of my very eyes.

That's just impossible.

I called it now! Impossible, I say!

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(Shun's POV)

"And that's all that we discussed, Number 695. We'll be having a Dungeon Battle."

"Eh?! What's a Dungeon Battle, Number 89?" I figured out as much but, seriously? Are you being serious right now, Rokuko? You, a Dungeon Core, don't know anything about a Dungeon Battle?

I've been meaning to ask this to you at a later date but I guess it would've been a fruitless endeavour to do so.

Anyway, when I was done with my inner monologue, Haku and I explained the term to Rokuko.

"Wow, that sounds like fun! Let's do it!" Rokuko beamed.

"It is a competition, so we'll be fighting with DP on the line. I'll lend you your share of DP this time." Haku patiently said with a small smile on her face.

"Eh?! You can share DP with me?!" Again, how do you know so little about dungeon terminologies, Rokuko!?

I mean, I also didn't know about these things before, but that's totally different. And I wonder how DP is shared…

Back to the topic, Rokuko not knowing a whole lot about dungeon management may be a crucial point to our dungeon's growth. I need to fix this somehow.

Well, I guess the culprit of that is right in front of me. I thought as I eyed Haku with blame.

"See what you did to her? What would happen when she got trapped by some scheming bastard just because of your selfish desires? Huh?"

Haku seems to be genuinely surprised at my sudden remark as she looked at me with her eyes widened.

"What do you mean by that, Shun? Didn't I already told you the reasoning behind it?"

"You did but that's just you thinking up of millions of reasons so that Rokuko would never grow and so that she could remain as your baby sister for a long time. I guess you weren't thinking of how lethal this is to her as time goes on?"

"What are you even—"

"Oh, then, let me rephrase it into something that you would understand perfectly. Isolating her doesn't mean that she will be protected from any harm. If somebody other than me—a more trashy human being than your previous Dungeon Master—were to appear here without your knowledge and enslaved Rokuko, what would you do?"

"I'll hunt then down until they beg for me to kill them!"

"Oh? Then that's just a thing that you would do when it already happened. This means that you also think that what you're doing is not a full-proof method, huh?"

Haku's eyes widened even more at my statement.

"I'm not saying that babying your sibling is completely unacceptable but… just… you know? Do it in moderation. Sometimes, you need to let them experience things in order for them to grow up."

I paused for a few seconds to make my words sink in before continuing.

"Did you not grow up as a dungeon after experiencing such things with your previous Dungeon Master? Or am I wrong?"

"I… I did…"

Haku seems to be quite shaken because of my sudden outbursts but I think she'll be able to recover in no time. Based on my first impressions of her, she's a really tough woman.

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(Shun's POV)

After my brief outburst, I apologized to Haku. I couldn't hold it in. How could she be so careless in things regarding her sister?

"So? How do you exchange DP?" Rokoku asked, clueless as to what happened. She should have an idea why I ranted earlier but kept it in for later.

"It's, um, it's only natural that you didn't know that, Number 695. You never had the opportunity to learn. The truth is, u-um… DP is exchanged by… kissing! It's true! We have to give each other a nice, long kiss! Mwah!"

"Really? Is that true, Chloe?"

"No. If my memories are correct, a simple handshake would do well enough." I consulted the butler for confirmation and got a quick, firm answer.

"…This is the first time Number 695 has ever exchanged DP before, and I'm giving her an entire two hundred thousand. It's important that we kiss so that none leaks out and is wasted by mistake. It's easy to make mistakes when you're doing something for the first time. Is it not wise for us to use the safest method here…?" That excuse is so obviously fake it hurts…

Rokuko looked at me for a second before saying, "I-I can't do that! W-What should I do if I need to exchange with other Dungeon Cores? Do I have to kiss them too? What's a kiss, anyway?"

Hmm? This is unexpected from her. I thought she would agree, clueless as to what will happen.

Haku froze in her tracks again, not expecting this to come out of Rokuko's mouth.

"H-Hmm… That's right isn't it? I can't have my dear little sister get used to kissing other Dungeon Cores just to exchange DP. Then, we shall do this…"

"What should I do to take the DP from you, Number 89?"

"Close your eyes, open your mouth juuust a little, and stick out your tongue. Mmm, yes, just like that. Leave the rest to me. I-I really want to eat you u—I'll give you the DP now."

…She was just about to say "I'll eat you up," right? Damn siscon.

Haku stuck out her finger and inserted it inside of Rokuko's slightly opened mouth. She relished in the sensation as she watched Rokuko's body slightly tremble.

Rokuko looked nervous due to never having done something like that before, but she kept her eyes shut and entrusted her body to Haku. She was blushing bright red and would occasionally twitch as if some sensitive spot on her body was being touched.

Haku is really taking her time in this. Also, is it just me or this looks really sensual or something?

And so, that continued for about ten more minutes. When Haku separated her index finger from Rokuko's mouth, a string of saliva bridged the gap between their finger and tongue before breaking apart.

"Phaah…! Gaaah, haaah…"

"Nfuu… That was good. Even though I didn't get to do what I wanted to…"

Their expressions were entirely different. Rokuko was breathing heavily with her eyes shut, whereas Haku was smiling in satisfaction while licking her index finger. Yep, this woman is confirmed to be a huge siscon.

"…A small amount leaked out, but I gave more than that as a bonus."

"Haah, haah… Th-Thank you, sho mush… Number 89.… Hauuu…"

"You go and rest with your sister for some time Rokuko. Zenko, Ikumei, and me will be here outside with Chloe."

"Ufufu. That's right, Rokuko. I'll keep holding on to you for as long as necessary, so rest well." Haku gave me a thumbs up behind her back. That means 'good job' right?

I checked our DP while Rokuko rested her body against Haku's… 237,059 DP. The exchange certainly seemed to have gone well.

I think we had 15,579 DP before this. I killed some monsters outside and brought them here so we managed to collect a decent amount.

That aside thought, the DP we worked so hard for is just a minor "bonus" in Haku's eyes. Just how much DP does she earn a day?

"Aaah, by the way, Shun. Do not even think about losing intentionally by not preparing for the battle. I won't accept the DP I just loaned you as a way to repay your debt. It has to be new DP."

"That plan never crossed my mind. I'm just curious as to how I will proceed with this game…"

"Fufu, it's good that you aren't a coward. By the way, this is a gift from me."

Haku gave me a copy of [Intro to Dungeonology]. I took a look at the author and saw that it had been written by Haku Laverio.

Makes sense that a Dungeon Core would write a book about dungeons. This is probably the best source of information I could ask for.

"Humans believe many things that aren't quite true, so you should read this and be careful. Most of these are things I've thought up myself… One thing that's particularly popular amongst we Cores is this section." Haku pointed her pale, white finger to a section in the book named "Safe Zones." I glanced over it and saw that Safe Zones were described as, reasonably enough, "safe places where monsters cannot enter."

"This is just an act on our part. We set up magic tools that appear to serve some kind of function and then order our monsters to never go into the area. That causes humans to let their guard down, thinking the area is completely safe."

That's pretty smart. You could earn DP from the adventurers resting within your dungeon, but the best thing of all was that Safe Zones weren't safe at all.

The adventurers would all have their guard completely down without any eye witnesses… You could easily kill them all without leaving any evidence behind.

We could easily kill any clueless adventurer then hide the evidence. It's such a perfect scenario. I'm really impressed at Haku for thinking up of such a scheme, manipulating the humans through her written books.

This reminds me of how the media manipulates people through the information they let out.

"If you sooometimes order a monster to enter the Safe Zone, the adventurers all start panicking about a 'new species' of monster. Isn't it funny that all it takes for humans to be tricked is a change in fur color? Sometimes I dress up as a fortune teller and tell them which 'species' can go into the Safe Zones. They always practically cry in happiness while thanking me. Isn't that just comical?"

Wow. Making a problem and then selling the solution to that problem. Haku sure is something.

But tricking people into thinking Safe Zones existed was convenient for me. Humans being ignorant of how dungeons worked was nothing but a positive for me. I gladly accepted the book.

By the way, dungeonology books above the intro level apparently focused on more specific information. For example, books about how to conquer certain famous dungeons.

"You have a lot to learn and much to prepare, so we can begin the battle in three days. Do your best, okay?"

"Do you have enough time to go back to the capital?"

"I walked here since my adventurer identity is weakened to match what humans would expect from me, but I do know [Teleport]. Oh, and by the way, [Teleport] scrolls cost 50,000,000 DP. The only problem is that actually using the spell takes up so much mana there normally needs to be a team of magicians working together to make it work. It's not really something humans can use on their own."

"…I thought we were going to connect our dungeons using Space-Time Magic."

"That is actually a natural ability of dungeons, much like the menu. I dedicated several of my scientists to research it, but all they could figure out was that it was done through some form of Space-Time Magic. All their research only resulted in us learning something that was obvious from the start. Isn't that odd?"

Probably because of a someone's tampering… Or something like that.

"Well then, see you in three days. I'm looking forward to our battle. Mmm… In the depth of my mind are memories of distant lands once traveled, forming a mental path from here to there. Fly through space, fly through time. There becomes here and here becomes there. Fuse, conjoin, connect… [Teleport]!" Haku chanted in a sing-song voice, causing both her and Chloe to float up, before a bright flash of intense light exploded around them.

When the light faded, they had left nothing behind but a soft wind that brushed against our cheeks.

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※~To be continued~※

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