The morning arises, the sun peeked through the windows… is what I’d like to say, but the thing is the place was underground, there was no such wonders here. I had a normal body clock though, so I awakened somewhere in the late morning. 9am? I woke up on the floor, that solves the mystery of my slightly sore neck.

In the distance I saw Ayuzawa still sleeping on the bed… only at the fact that she was wearing only her undies? … W-wait…. What? I thought to myself. I decided to peek even a little, I mean… you can’t really blame me can you? Think about it, if there’s an extremely hot lady lying on your bed in undies, you’ve gotta peek don’t ya? It’s a man’s nature.

I headed to the bed and quickly surveyed her body and the fabric she has on her. White lacy panties and a pure white bra. It was the pure type in my opinion. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! But as if she knew, she started to awaken from her sleep.

She slowly turned her gaze towards me.

“Wh-wh-wh-WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?” She said as her face turned tomato red.

“I SAW NOTHING… Is what I’d like to say, but…” I suddenly hesitated to continue my statement.

Ayuzawa suddenly took her staff that was lying on the side of the bed and started invoking a magic spell. The only problem here is that the staff was pointed directly at me.

“WA-WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT. YOU’RE GONNA BURN DOWN THE HOUSE!”

As if she did not hear me she carried on invoking.

As an opposition I decided to act on my instincts and ran towards her stealing her staff from her. She held her staff even harder making it seem like a tug-of-war against each other the staff being the rope. The only problem was that the spell was starting to manifest, the fire was starting to get bigger.

“TH-THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR STARING AT A SLEEPING MAIDEN!”

“Bu-but I can’t help it, you’re way too cute and beautiful for me to not stare at. I couldn’t help it!!!”

“Wh-wh…..” She stuttered and her face began to be even more red and flustered as it was before the occasion. The magic that was being invoked also started to die down.

*sigh* I sighed in relief.

“Can you please get ready? Let’s head to the dungeon.”

Ayuzawa reluctantly dropped the subject of the occasion and began to get ready.

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“The dungeon entrance! Finally, again for the second time.” I said that as I checked for my Katana that I so happenly forgot that day.

“Okay it’s there.”

Ayuzawa still had a face of slight irritation but yet a mildly happy look to her face as we arrived at the entrance.

“Let’s head down Ayuzawa-san.”

“Fenix-san, Mei is fine.” Ayuzawa said in a really really really tiny voice.

“What’s that?”

“IT’S NOTHING!”

As I was walking down the stairs to the first level I wondered what was up with Mei. There was clearly something wrong but I obviously didn’t get it. Was it because of this morning? Well, no point thinking about it now.

When we finally made it down the stairs

A rabbit popped of the ground like the first time I entered the dungeon. This time I had my Katana though. Things weren’t gonna be the same as before little one.

I was gonna test the strength of the rabbit and see how rough, tanky it was. I sheathed my katana from its scabbard. Held it in both hands was the name of my self smithed katana.

I slashed the rabbit diagonally. This did some sort of damage, it did not fatally injure the rabbit but there was a clear slash of blood on its body, from the slashes oozed out red blood. This caused the rabbit’s pristine fur to be tarnished at the bottom of the slash.

I followed up with another quick diagonal slash aiming for it’s wound due to the prior attack. I’d assume that this would deal more internal damage to the rabbit… a so called critical strike?

As I slashed out towards the rabbit, the rabbit nimbly dodged the second attack pouncing back around 50 cm and it lunged itself forward in the same way it did on my first experience. It aimed for my stomach and launched itself headfirst. Before the rabbit could reach, Ayuzawa shot a flaming ball towards the rabbit causing it to fall short of its attack falling to the ground.

“Are you okay? Fenix-san?”

“Yeah, that was a close one. I’d kind of wished that had hit me though, It’d be good to figure out how much damage that rabbit could do. It’ll be great for further references.”

As the rabbit fell, parts of its body started to fade, like dusts flying through the sky. Before it was almost over, the top part of the pristine fur did not fade away but instead dropped onto the floor.

“Is that supposed to be a monster drop?”

“Yeah, it’s rather uncommon. Based of previous statistics it’s said to be the drop chances are 10%.”

“Hmmmm, can that be used to sell? Or create fabric? It looks like it could be good material to tailor some suit or craft some other form of fabric.”

“Yeah, the drops on this level is not worth that much. Maybe 1000e per piece?”

Being blinded by the monster drop, I’d later realize that there was a slightly small crystal beside of the drop.

“So what are those crystals? Are they drops as well?”

“Those are the crystals that are dropped by each unique mob. Each of the crystals symbolizes a certain type of mob. Technically, the bigger the crystals and the more glow they possess, means that the mobs are stronger and more agile.”

“Ohhhh, so how much are this rabbit crystals worth?”

“Hmmm, if I’m correct they are only worth around 50e per crystal. There are however, sometimes, elite mobs, they are technically stronger than the other mobs but possesses more skills in comparison to the normal type. I guess you could call them mini-bosses? Their crystals are usually worth around 100 times more than the original value of the mobs. So in this case, if a rabbit elite was to spawn… the crystal would cost around 5000e. But for elite crystals, the crystals are usually appraised by professionals and would vary based of the crystal’s size and glow.”

“Hmmmm, 50e for a crystal. I’m going to aim to kill a 100 today then, if I manage to I can secure us dinner for today.”