Chapter 2 Let’s Start Operating the Tower Part-(2.1-2.5)

Chapter 2.1 – Management Start

Without noticing that a violent earthquake is shaking the world for the first time in history, the registration process has been progressing inside the tower.

The voice inside the tower is no longer the previous voice but changed to a mechanical one.

「…analysing registrant….ruler condition confirmed….tower management system confirmed….support configuration…..completed…」

Kousuke's party silently listened to the mechanical voice.

Kousuke is no longer touching the control panel.

He's just waiting silently.

「….optimization completed…creating work area…all work completed」

「…..oh? Is it over?」

When Kousuke heard the mechanical voice signaling the end, he stood up and checked the surroundings.

At the control panel, there's a transparent board that never appeared before.

「To manage the tower, touch with your hand.」

「….you mean this?」

He pointed at the transparent board but there's no reply.

Since there is no other way, he touched the board.

The moment his hand touched the board, characters appeared.

<Do you want to start the Tutorial? Yes or No>

Kouhi and Mitsuki are also watching from the left and right of Kousuke.

When he touched <Yes>, the tutorial of the tower management began.

—Scene Change—

☆ Tower Management Rule Memo

1: You can store power to three kinds of crystals in managing each floor.

You can use that power to place various things in the tower.

2: The power of the three crystals (Divine Power, Holy Power, Magic Power) are interchangeable.

However, their conversions are of different values. Divine Power > Holy Power + Magic Power. 1000 holy power = 1000 magic power = 1 divine power.

3: The management floor menu is different from the tower menu.

Things that are in the management floor are also different from the things that are on the tower. Management floor can decorate and expand rooms on that floor. On the other hand, tower can arrange things like the nature of the floor, adding buildings, monsters, or even magic formation in the whole tower.

4: Three kinds of power can be obtained from nature, living things, buildings, etc. present in the tower.

It is possible to obtain a small amount of power from living things. However, there is much more to be gained if living things die. (Holy power and magic power can be obtained from living things while divine power can be obtained from a newly dead creature.)

In case of natural death, the amount of divine power obtained is smaller compared to subjugating it.

5: Each floor of the tower can be expanded however, it requires an enormous amount of divine power.

The tower is in default state so each floor is of the same sizes.

It can also expand using management floor and it uses less divine power compared to the tower level management.

6: The number of items that can be placed using management floor/tower will increase as the level of the tower rises.

Tower level rises due to various factors. The ruler has no choice but to level up the tower. The ruler must try various things.

7: It is possible to bring in and place something from outside the tower and place it in the tower using the tower.

Whether it is a living organism or not, things can take root in the tower however, it will still be dependent on the floor's environment (if it is something that can only live in cold places, it should be placed on a floor with cold environment).

8: It is also possible to bring in things that are not in the management menu.

Whatever you bring may or may not appear in the management menu. Its condition should be confirmed by the ruler himself.

9: Treasure chests and traps can also be placed.

The thing that is placed on the chest can also be arranged using the menu. The ruler can also prepare it himself.

10: For living creatures that can move, it is possible for them to move from floor to floor using the teleportation gate.

There's no movement restriction on living creatures. It is also possible for the ruler to specify whether they can move or not.

11: For both going in and out of the tower, it can only be done using the entrance of the first floor or via a teleportation gate. When using teleportation gate, the ruler's permission is needed.

The entrance can be opened and closed. This makes it possible to prevent anyone outside from entering.

12: When a person who can destroy the tower appears, that person can also destroy the world.

—Scene Change—

The tutorial was very long so they took note of the memo.

Though there might be some things missing there but it will probably have all the general content.

Kousuke consulted Kouhi and Mitsuki, who also listened to the tutorial and they nodded at the content.

Currently, the crystals have 1 million divine power points and 100,000 points each to holy power and magic power.

Kousuke thought for a moment on what to do with those points.

He concluded immediately to not think about it.

First of all, he had to enhance their base.

Presently, the management floor only have a room with the control panel and crystals and a room with the teleportation gate.

If they want to live there, it will be necessary to change it to a livable environment.

「….I agree」

「Me too」

Kouhi and Mitsuki immediately agreed.

They are indeed in a situation where they can't utilize this place as a base.

After checking the management floor menu, he installed various things.

Medium Room X 2 = Divine Power 1500pts X 2

Small Room X 2 = Divine Power 1000pts X 2

Furnitures (various things included) = Divine Power 150pts

Kitchen = Divine Power 50pts

Books = Divine Power 1500pts

Various Seasonings + Kitchen Utensils + Ingredients = 75pts

Four rooms were added between the teleportation gate room and the control room.

The medium rooms are the living room and bedroom while the small rooms are the dining room (including the kitchen) and study room.

They plan to make each room bigger in the future but this arrangement will be good for now.

Though that might sound really stingy given that they have 1 million divine power points, they don't want to waste it and planned to use it wisely in tower management.

By the way, talking about the kitchen, Kousuke's opinion was not included upon making it.

The kitchen was the result of what both Kouhi and Mitsuki wanted.

Since the food was enriched, Kousuke has no problem with it in particular.

As for books, he chose magic-related and history books about this world.

They were surprisingly expensive but given that even the books in the city are expensive, he just accepted it.

Finally, the three of them went to see what the place looked like.

Kouhi went to the study room while Mitsuki went to the kitchen.

And when the two of them checked the bedroom, they looked at Kousuke with eyes full of expectations. However, Kousuke pretended not to notice.

Naturally (?) since there's only one bedroom, the two of them hope for it. They are all going to use it eventually so they did not do anything. Haste makes waste after all.

「Do you think this place is good enough to be our base?」

「I don't see any problem.」

「It's okay.」

If there is something missing, they can add it later.

Since the two have not seen any particular problem, Kousuke concluded the construction of the management floor.

As for his next move, he'll decide how to manage each floor of the tower.

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Chapter 2.2 – Revenue and Expenditure Management

After finishing managing the management floor, Kousuke started checking out the tower floors.

For the tower floors, the default income is 100pt of divine power per day.

This is because the subjugation pt being absorbed by the tower are from low-level monsters fighting against each other.

Though a lot of pt can be obtained from dead middle and high-level monsters, those monsters already have high wisdom so they won't fight against each other for no reason.

Given this situation, it is unlikely to gain pt regularly from middle and high-rank monsters.

By the way, in the default state, the lower floors are from the first floor to the fortieth floor, the middle floors are from the 41st floor to the 70th floor, and the high-level floors are from the 71st floor to the 100th floor. Kousuke leaves it as it is.

There are two ways to generate monsters on each floor.

First, they will naturally spawn there because of the natural environment of the floor.

The second one is to spawn them by summoning them using the management menu.

To summon them, of course, three kinds of pt are needed.

For instance, slimes can be summoned like this.

Name: Slime Summoning Formation

Rank: Monter Rank F

Installation Cost: 100pt(divine power) or 50000pt holy power + 50000 magic power.

Description: Randomly summon up to 1000 slimes. If 1000 of them are subjugated, divine power gained will be 110pt

In using summoning formation, there are two problems.

Rather than using divine power, it is cheaper to install it using holy power and magic power.

Problem number one. How do you collect holy power and magical power?

Answer, it is collected once a day automatically.

To begin with, each floor will naturally produce holy power and magic power. Humans themselves can use magic or holy power but it is small compared to how much nature can produce them.

Since there are as many as 100 floors in the tower managed by Kousuke, holy power and magic power are replenished from each layer on a daily basis. However, replenishment is limited to the maximum capacity of the holy and magic crystals which is 1000000pt.

Problem number two. The number of slimes summoned is not random.

That means that even if you install it using 100pt divine power, you may not get 100pt divine power after subjugating all the slimes that will come out of the summoning circle.

This is completely based on luck so there's no way to adjust.

For these two reasons, it will be a waste to set up a summoning circle and have Kouhi and Mitsuki to subjugate them.

In addition, the summoning circle can only be installed are only for low-level monsters so the pt obtained from subjugating them is also small. It is simply not worth the labor and the cost.

「….those are the reasons….」

Kouhi and Mitsuki nodded as if they were impressed hearing Kousuke summarizing the issue while looking at the management screen.

「….I see, as expected of you desu.」

「Right. You're amazing.」

「Am I….?….aren't you familiar with it?」

Kousuke's thought simply comes from his gamer's mind.

「Familiar…..」

「If we don't think about the revenue and expenditure properly, we will fail sooner or later. Well, holy power and magic power can be collected from nature and will accumulate on their own so we still have some leeway.」

「So?….what are we going to do?」

「Set up a summoning circle.」

Hearing Kousuke's answer, Kouhi looks confused while Mitsuki looks doubtful.

「What do you mean?」

「The summoning circle that can be installed now is certainly not worth the pt but we don't know in the future. I think the summoning circle that can be installed will change if the tower LV up. However, I don't know how to raise the tower's LV. Though this is only my assumption, I think the number of summoned beings is one of the conditions. I mean, we won't know until we try after all.」

「Then, do you want us to subjugate those monsters?」

「No. Don't. As I said earlier, it is a waste for the two of you to do it. However, that might be a good idea.」

「Then, what do you want to do?」

「We are not the only ones who can enter the tower, aren't we?」

Kousuke's words surprised them.

However, they immediately raised questions.

「But how do you get adventurers to go here?」

In the first place, one of the reasons why no one else has captured the central tower is because of the difficulty in reaching it.

「When I checked earlier, I found some good stuff.」

「Good stuff? Nani?」

Kousuke displayed what's on the management screen to the two interested girls.

Name: Teleportation Gate(external)

Installation Cost: 10000pt(divine power)

Description: A teleportation gate to connect any place outside the tower to any floor of the tower. One-way and two-way are both possible.

For the central tower, which adventurers can't go to, it can be said to be the perfect facility.

「Heh. Indeed. You can use this to bring adventurers here and let them subdue the monsters.」

「That's one of the objectives but not the only one.」

When he found that teleportation gate, Kousuke came up with an idea.

「What you do mean?」

「First, when someone uses the teleportation gate, we'll collect a toll. If the adventurers think that they can make money in the tower, they'll go even if you collect a toll. But that reason alone makes no sense. We can consider them as temporary visitors of the tower.」

Kousuke broke off the conversation. He took a deep breath and continued.

「We need people to be active inside the tower. Thus, we'll found a city in the tower….Of course, at first, it will only be at the level of a few houses. I think making it as big as a floor in the tower is enough….what do you think?」

After Kousuke talks, the two silently thought for a while.

They are sorting things out in their minds. They are going to ask Kousuke several questions.

They will do that not to discourage Kousuke's idea but to fill the holes of his plan once they proceed.

「In order for people to settle in, they need houses. What are we going to do about that?」

「I checked the menu and found it there. For a normal size house to be built, it needs 20000pt. I think we should build around 10 houses first.」

「After that?」

「It would be better to have craftsmen come and build them. It is also to save pt.」

「Where will you put the houses inside the tower?」

「It's going to be quite difficult at first. However, I think it would be convenient to have a base in this place.」

「….You will need to adjust the placement of the monsters in the entire tower.」

「We also have to make them think that they can make money here.」

They keep asking one question after another in order to find a hole and fix it.

Kousuke received good suggestions from them.

As the three of them talked about various things, time passed and things started to take shape. Mitsuki proposed to end it that time.

「This is just a suggestion but, can you share the magical power accumulated in the crystal with us?」

「Hnn? What do you mean?」

Kouhi plainly answered Kousuke's question.

「Summoning desu ne.」

「Right. If we get along with your initial plan, no matter how you think about it, we'll be short on manpower. However, it wouldn't be a good idea if we employ outsiders.」

「I also think that it would be better for us if we leave the discussion with the outsiders to those who will be summoned by us. Kousuke-sama should only busy himself with managing the tower. With that, we need you to share divine power with us.」

Kousuke agreed to the suggestion. He had no idea what they meant by summoning whoever.

「I understand. I'll be busy adjusting the tower for a while so while I'm doing that, you can proceed with your summoning. Should we have them adjust to the outside world too?」

「Alright. Let's do that.」

「Understood.」

When the two nodded, the future plan was set in stone.

Though there are still some unpolished things, no one knows what will happen until they actually execute the plan so that's all they can do.

Thus, the management of the tower has fully started.

By the way….it took a long time before the three of them realized that they have yet to decide the name of the tower.

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Chapter 2.3 – Summoning Technique

Summoning technique.

Is a technique to call out an object that the summoner wants.

What is the "object" referred there? A living being or even an inorganic substance.

Theoretically, anything can be summoned as long as the summoner has the ability to. This means if a summoner summons someone stronger than himself, he will not be able to restrict the summoned being and the summoner might even be attacked by the summoned being.

Therefore, summoning technique sets the restriction the summoner wants.

The restriction is a contract. In short, summoning technique is a built-in contract where the summoner becomes the master of the summoned being.

However, there are exceptions to everything.

That is, if the summoned being has already signed a contract with the summoner. In Kousuke's case, he has Kou.

Kou, who was brought by Mitsuki, had already signed a master-servant contract even before signing the summoning contract. After all, the master-servant contract acts as the content of the summoning contract.

In both cases, the summoner becomes the master of the summoned being.

…..that, should always be the case.

「…..so, Kouhi, Mitsuki….what is this?」

Kousuke decided not to look at the scene before him and asked Kouhi and Mitsuki.

「Is there any problem?」

「I'm sorry but I don't know what Kousuke-sama wants to say.」

The two truly seemed unsure. Because of that, Kousuke looked up at the sky and once again ruminated on what he knows about summoning technique.

However, no matter how many times he ruminated, he can't understand why everything is happening.

For some reason, a man and a woman are kneeling before him.

These two are people who Kouhi and Mitsuki summoned respectively.

The man is called Wahid while the woman is called Eck.

According to the rules of summoning, those two should have been kneeling before Kouhi and Mitsuki and not before Kousuke.

「No, why are these two like this….」

「.....ah!」

「.....that's simple desu. The summoner is the master of the summoned. We, the summoners, are your lordship's servants. It is only natural for the two of them to kneel before you, my lord.」

(…..of course!?…..right, of course…..)

To back up Kouhi and Mitsuki, the two summoned beings nod after hearing what they are talking about. Kousuke gave up thinking.

「Fuh, is that so? Then, I look forward to working with you.」

The two of them bowed deeper after hearing Kousuke.

「…..by your will」

「Please take care of me from now on.」

Kousuke thought that it might be very hard for them to work together in the future but he did not say anything else.

After all, they are not the only people that Kouhi and Mitsuki plan to summon.

「Apart from them, you will summon more, right?」

According to their plan, Kouhi and Mitsuki will each summon six people.

「That's right but we have to change our plan. We can only summon once a day.」

「…..The power of the crystals is not replenishing enough.」

「…..eh? Is that true!?」

「Yes. It is not like we can't replenish our power using the crystals but when we try to absorb power from the crystals, we losses some of them.」

「It seems to be more efficient to use the tower management directly than have the power absorb by us.」

Hearing the two, Kousuke thought for a while, arms crossed.

「….I see. Then, should we use it from now on?」

「I agree.」

「That would be better.」

「Got it. Then, there's something I want to try over there.」

The summoned beings were entrusted to Kouhi and Mitsuki while Kousuke modifies the tower.

—Scene Change—

Kousuke thinks that they need adventurers to subdue the monsters on each floor to gain divine power.

The problem is how to bring adventurers to this tower. Adventurers can easily go to the tower using the teleportation gate.

However, Kousuke thinks that's not enough.

To begin with, many adventurers on the central continent are above the average in terms of level compared to the other continents.

High-level adventurers won't find the low-level monsters from the 1st floor to the 40th floor attractive. That's even more so in this tower since each floor is very wide.

On the central continent, a lot of intermediate-class monsters appear at the outskirts of the cities so they won't bother going to the tower given the current situation.

If that is the case, what should be done?

That's what Kousuke was looking for in the management menu.

(....Here! This is it!!)

After finding his objective, Kousuke feels at ease.

If that is not possible, his plan would collapse.

Name: Floor Exchange

Installation Cost: 100,000pt (Divine power)

Description: Swap any two floors

(Kuh!!!…. Expensive? Not really. Compare this to completely changing the environment, this is pretty cheap….However, the remaining divine power won't be able to keep up with our plan. What should I do….)

There's no problem in swapping one floor but according to the plan, he needs to swap several floors so his divine power pt is clearly insufficient.

For the time being, he put "Floor Exchange" on hold and tried to find other functions.

Name: Teleportation gate(Specify Floor)

Installation Cost: 10,000pt (Divine power)

Description: A teleportation gate where you can specify the floor destination. Only one floor can be specified. Round trip and one way settings are possible.

「…..This is it!…..ah, sorry.」

He instinctively shouted, which made Kouhi, who's nearby, startled so he apologized.

Since using the <Teleportation Gate(Specify Floor)> is feasible, Kousuke immediately installed them.

For the time being, the first point will be the 5th floor since they are planning to build a village there.

The 1st to 6th floors were left as they were.

He installed one <Teleportation Gate(Specify Floor)> on the 6th floor and connects it to the 41st floor.

Next, he installed one <Teleportation Gate(Specify Floor)> on the 45th floor and connects it to the 70th floor.

Then, he installed one <Teleportation Gate(Specify Floor)> on the 72nd floor and connects it to the 7th floor.

After that, he set things up to make sure that the floors he just designated with are sandwiched between the 6th and 7th floor. He installed one <Teleportation Gate(Specify Floor)> on the 40th and one on the 70th floors, and they are connected to the 46th and the 73rd floors respectively.

With that, the installation of the teleportation gate is completed.

Since the flow of the floors of the tower will be troublesome if he left things as it is now, he removed the original teleportation gates to the next floor from the 6th, 40th, 45th, 70th, and 72nd floors.

By the way, removing them did not cost any pt. Unfortunately, nothing was acquired either.

In addition, the entrance gate of the tower on the first floor was closed.

Now, any work related to teleportation gate is complete and the floor lines will be as follows.

First floor(closed from external visitors) ～ 5th floor(Planned Village) ⇔6th floor ⇔40th floor～45th floor⇔71th floor～72nd floor⇔7th floor～40th floor⇔46th floor～70th floor⇔73rd floor～100th floor

※「～」connected, 「⇔ 」round trip

By the way, the holy power and magic power collected each day are being wasted so Kousuke checked if he can do something about it. He found out that he can disconnect the crystals from each floor so he cut off the connection from the crystals of the 7th floor to the 40th floor.

Kousuke wondered where the surplus holy power and magic power would go to but after thinking about it, he couldn't seem to figure out where, so he stopped thinking about it.

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Chapter 2.4 – Arranging Living Quarters

Now that the road for the 5th floor has been finalized, the next step is to create a village….Mitsuki talks to Kousuke about it.

「Kousuke-sama, can I have a moment?」

「Yeah. What's wrong?」

「I want to send Eck's group to the city.」

Kouhi and Mitsuki are appointed as assistant managers.

By the way, both Wahid and Eck have become part of the management team too.

If one is appointed as manager, assistant manager, or part of the management team, he can freely enter and exit any floor using the teleportation gate.

If they use the management gate, they can go to the 1st floor in an instant. From there, they can get out of the tower.

As long as they can get out of the tower, Mitsuki can take them to the city.

Teleporting from the tower directly outside the tower and vice versa is not possible.

Accessing the floor of a tower can only be done through the help of a teleportation gate.

「Ah, wait a minute. I'll open the door on the 1st floor first….you can leave now.」

「Thank you.」

After talking to Kousuke, Mitsuki approached Kouhi and whispered something.

The two of them looked at Kousuke and for some reason, Kouhi turned red and nodded. Mitsuki giggled happily.

「…..eh? What?」

「No…..nothing!」

「It's okay. It won't be bad for Kousuke-sama….probably.」

「Huh…..maa, do what you want.」

Though he's worried about what the two have talked about, he did not dig into it. He knew that he wouldn't be able to get any answer.

Kousuke understands that forcing a girl to talk will not get him a good result.

「So, when will you come back?」

「I'll be back tomorrow.」

「Got it.」

「See you later.」

Mitsuki took Wahid and Eck to the city.

Aside from Mitsuki, who's scheduled to return tomorrow, Wahid and Eck will be active in the city for a while.

「I'll prepare dinner.」

「Please」

Kouhi left the management room while blushing.

Kousuke, on the other hand, begins creating the village on the 5th floor.

—Scene Change—

Name: Common House(Type A)

Installation Cost: 20,000pt (Divine Power)

Description: A typical common house

Name: Medium Sized Store(Type A)

Installation Cost: 50,000pt (Divine Power)

Description: A medium-sized store. There is a counter on the first floor. Can also be used as a guild.

Name: Temple(Very Small)

Installation Cost: 50,000pt (Divine Power)

Description: A temple where a teleportation gate can be installed. It is very small because all it has is a room for the teleportation gate installation.

Ten houses and one store were built in the center of the 5th floor.

In the center of the city(planned) will be a teleportation gate that can be used to get in and out of there. The temple will be built there too.

The teleportation gate is yet to be installed. They planned to build a building for the teleportation gate outside Ryuusen City so it will be installed after that building is completed.

The preparation on the Ryuusen City side will rest on Wahid's group.

It will naturally be built by human hands so it will still be a long time before the teleportation gate can be installed.

Name: Low LV Barrier for Buildings

Installation Cost: 5000pt (Divine Power)

Description: A barrier that prevents intruders from entering the building. Permanent type.

A barrier was installed in each building.

Goblins also appear on the 5th floor. This is something that will prevent the buildings from being vandalized until actual people live there.

It will also be better if either Kouhi or Mitsuki will periodically exterminate monsters around the village.

For the time being, the creation of the 5th floor village will end with that.

As if waiting for it, Kouhi came to Kousuke to tell him that dinner was ready.

「After dinner, can we go to the fifth floor?」

「The fifth floor? I don't mind but, what do you want to do there?」

While they were eating, Kousuke checked if Kouhi is okay with it.

「Since I built some buildings there, I thought the monsters there should be exterminated as much as possible.」

「I don't mind but…..we don't have time to exterminate that many monsters. Mitsuki's not here too.」

「No problem. Our main purpose for today will be checking the village's surroundings. The full-scale subjugation will take place after Kouhi and Mitsuki are both here.」

「I understand. I'll accompany you.」

If it is only monsters from the 5th floor, even Kousuke can deal with them but both Kouhi and Mitsuki won't allow him to do so so it was decided that full-scale extermination will be at a later date.

Kousuke doesn't think that they are being too overprotective. On the other hand, he's thankful that the two care for him so he follows their advice.

After dinner, Kouhi went to clean up so Kousuke decided to work a little in the management room.

He adds a room for the summoned beings, Wahid's group, on the management floor.

Since the summoned group will be working outside for a while, they don't need a room on the management floor but there will be a problem if they come back for something.

Therefore, Kousuke added a room for 6 people.

Small Room X 6 = Divine Power 1000pt X 6

Furniture(Various Items Included) = Divine Power 200pt

Each room only has a bed and a small shelf.

Other than that, Kousuke planned to have the room owners themselves decide.

In addition, Kousuke realized that he had forgotten something very important for him.

Bath(Changing Room and Miscellaneous Good Included) = Divine Power 10,000pt

In fact, he has always thought of baths.

When he was doing nothing, good memories about open-air baths visit him.

In order to save pt, he had not installed the best one but he's planning on saving for it until the time comes.

By the way, Kousuke doesn't have anything impure in his mind. He really only wants to take a bath.

Unfortunately(as expected), there are no games in this world so the only luxury he has is that bath.

—Scene Change—

After installing the bath on the management floor, Kouhi came for him so they went to the 5th floor.

From the teleportation gate, they head to the center and check the newly built houses and temple.

A gray wolf was wandering beside a building so there's a possibility that this place is near their den. Perhaps the only reason it has not entered the building is because of the barrier.

They decided to exterminate the wolf first before checking the house. Kouhi exterminated it easily.

As for the house, they are in the condition that it can be used anytime.

And there, Kousuke noticed a fatal mistake.

「…..I forgot a well….」

「That's right. Come to think of it, how about the sewage system?」

Looking around, she couldn't see anything like a sewage.

「When I first built a house, it seemed like it would be built underground automatically. I spent 100,000 divine power pt for it but it was a necessary expense.」

「I see.」

In addition, he also looked for water supply but there's no such thing as a water supply facility in this world.

It can't be found in the management menu which means he can't install one.

It will be possible for him to ask craftsmen in this world to build it but he doesn't intend to do that much.

Kousuke and Kouhi returned to the management floor and decided to start the full-scale monster subjugation after tomorrow.

After installing the well he forgot, Kousuke decided to take a bath immediately.

Ordinary households have no bath so they don't use hot water that much. In order to get hot water, Kousuke needs to use a certain amount of pt.

When Kousuke was slowly enjoying the bath, Kouhi came in for some reason.

「Ko-Kouhi!?…..what's wrong?」

Kouhi came in with only a towel covering her outstanding body. She approached Kousuke with a red face.

「I thought that this will be a good time to accompany you….am I a bother?」

「N-no….that's certainly not true. Rather, I'm happy….no, nothing.」

Though Kousuke was surprised, he doesn't have any reason to decline and even welcome it deep inside his heart. Kouhi joined him like that.

(Speaking of which, this is the first time I've been alone with someone in this situation…)

In the first place, Kouhi and Mitsuki rarely act separately.

This situation is, of course, the first time.

In the end, the night has become intense and he had no choice(?) but to show her that he's a man.

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The next day.

After eating breakfast, Kousuke looked at the management screen and noticed that Tower LV had risen to 2.

Kousuke tried to look for the reason why it leveled up. There's a button called "Notice" so he checked it out.

In the "Notice", there's only one item written which is the tower leveled up but upon pressing, information about it can be found in details.

Notice: Tower LV has risen to 2.

Details: A total of 10 tower management experience points have been obtained for meeting the following conditions.

– Installing five teleportation gates. 4 experience points earned

– Installing 10 items. 6 experience points earned

The experience points needed to level up the tower is 8 so Tower LV 1⇒2. It is now Tower LV2. The remaining tower management experience is 2.

Apparently, it seems like it has met the condition to level up yesterday.

However, after meeting those conditions did not make the LV 2 immediately.

Tower LV can only happen at a certain time, for this instance, midnight.

Since this is the first LV up experience, nothing is certain yet.

There's only a little information about LV up so he decided to not think about it for the time being.

At least he found out that when Tower LV increases, the number of items that can be installed has slightly increased.

Name: Gray Wolf Summoning Circle (10)

Rank: Monster Rank F

Installation Cost: 10pt (Divine Power) or Holy power + Magic Power = 5000pt

Description: Can summon 10 gray wolves. Unlocked in Tower LV2. Can be used as watchdogs.

Name: Gray Wolf Summoning Circle

Rank: Monster Rank F

Installation Cost: 100pt (Divine Power) or Holy power + Magic Power = 50,000pt

Description: Randomly summon up to 1000 gray wolves. Subjugating 1000 gray wolves will make you 110pt divine power.

<Gray Wolf Summoning Circle> obviously cost more compared to <Gray Wolf Summoning Circle(10)>.

However, after thinking a little, Kousuke set up <Gray Wolf Summoning Circle(10)> near the temple of the village.

The installation cost is only 10pt so even if he made a mistake, he thought it wouldn't hurt.

Mitsuki said that she'll return before noon so he decided that he'll go to the village when there's the three of them.

—Scene Change—

Mitsuki came back before noon as planned so the three of them went to the 5th floor after lunch.

The objective is to confirm the summons that Kousuke set up earlier.

The summoning circle was neatly set up in front of the temple.

When he touched the summoning circle as a test, he found that there's a slight flow of divine power there.

At the same time, the summoning formation activated and one wolf appeared.

「…..My lord!!」

「Wait!」

Seeing the summoned wolf, Kouhi, who was nearby, immediately tried to cut it off but Kousuke stopped her.

Fortunately, Kousuke managed to stop Kouhi in time. The summoned wolf is still alive.

The wolf was just silently staring at them from the summoning circle.

Kousuke, who somewhat figured out what's happening, gently called it out.

「…..come here.」

As if waiting for those words, the wolf attacks. It pounces him.

Kousuke, who was crouching down to touch the summoning circle, was taken down involuntarily.

「Uwah....wait a minute...it tickles!!」

Those words were said without a hint of worry. The wolf is on top of him, licking his face.

Kouhi and Mitsuki were both surprised.

「…..your….summon?」

「Probably….I'm surprised that it looks like he tamed it.」

「Hey…..wait a minute…..fuu. No….maybe it is not like a normal summon. I didn't use summoning.」

After calming the wolf down, he joined the conversation.

「What do you mean?」

「I think the summoning circle is just one of the functions of the tower. For normal summoning, you won't use magic power or holy power.」

To confirm, Kousuke used his left eye.

Personal Name: none

Race Name: Gray Wolf

Inherent Skill: Howl LV2, Bite LV2, Group Action LV1

Blessing Skill: None

Title: Kousuke's Familiar(Temporary)

He already expected that title.

Other gray wolves summoned from <Gray Wolf Summoning Circle> installed in another place did not have that title.

He's worried about the (Temporary) but he doesn't need to worry about it now.

He also spoke to both Kouhi and Mitsuki about the title.

「I see. That means monsters summoned by the summoning circle set up by using the tower management panel will belong to Kousuke-sama, right?」

「Not all summoning circles but there are summoning circles like that.」

For the time being, after having found out that there's no particular danger with the wolves summoned by that summoning circle, Kousuke continues his summoning.

As a result, he summoned 10 gray wolves.

After the 10th gray wolf was summoned, the summoning circle disappeared.

He decided to name the summoned wolves. It will take time to name them one by one so he named them Hih, Fuh, Mih, Yuh, Itsu, Muu, Nana, Yaa, Koko, and Kou.

After naming them, the personal name changed and the (Temporary) in title disappeared.

If you name them, they'll become your official familiars.

Next, Kousuke tries to check how much instruction they can follow.

He asked Kouhi and Mitsuki to look for a monster nest near the village and go to that place to check what they could do.

As a result, they found out that it would be better to give them freedom to some extent.

Instead of Kousuke giving detailed instruction himself, he can just say attack and the pack will decide on how they'll attack themselves.

Though their skill LV are still low, with the help of Kouhi and Mitsuki, no big accident occurred.

Perhaps it is the benefit of their group skill.

By the time they returned to the village, their Group Action skills had risen to LV3.

It is a convincing result since their cooperation gets better and better.

After returning to the village, Kousuke instructed them to guard the village. After that, Kousuke's group of three returned to the management floor.

—Scene Change—

Kouhi and Mitsuki, who have returned to the management floor, are going to perform summoning again.

They summoned a man and a woman. They introduced themselves as Isunani and Doll.

As usual, they kneeled down before Kousuke. Kousuke no longer cares about that kind of courtesy so he just greeted them normally and ended it there.

It seems like today, it is Kouhi's turn to take them to Ryuusen. And so, they left.

After that, Kousuke is….

「…..ugh….」

He groaned in front of the management screen.

He has done what he can for the village and all he can do now is wait for Ryuusen's side.

Even if he finds something to do, it will be difficult considering the risk.

He can do a lot if he has spare divine power but unfortunately, he doesn't.

「Ara ara. You seem to be very troubled. Would you like to eat first?」

「Eh….!? It's already time to eat?」

After groaning in front of the screen for a long time, Mitsuki finally decided to talk to him.

It was already time for dinner before he knew it.

「Thank you. Yeah, let's eat.」

When Kousuke stood up and said that, Mitsuki happily crossed her arms on his.

Although the distance to walk to from the room to the dining room is short, Mitsuki is still happy.

(By the way, isn't this the first time I'm alone with Mitsuki?)

He's been alone with Kouhi several times but this is the first time he's been alone with Mitsuki.

He noticed that Mitsuki's tension seemed to be high.

In the end, after eating, he decided to spend time with Mitsuki from the bath to the bed as if it was the normal thing to do.

Kousuke himself welcomed it anyway….

(Kouhi-san, stop telling everything to Mitsuki….)

Kousuke finally guessed the relationship between the two unexpectedly.