Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)

- Gayagaya.

A tavern overflowing with hustle and bustle.

Step in there and you approach the sitting table of the person you are meeting.

"Did you make him wait?

"No problem. Nothing like killing time in a tavern."

The person I was meeting was an informer who sold me a map at the guild.

When I got back to the inn, I said to the room we were using, "Why don't you buy some info?" The note was pinched.

Sylvia, who saw the note, told me it might be a trap on Rio's side, but if they're even turning to informants all over the city, our winnings are completely gone.

The current situation is that the Rio side is on the 22nd floor underground and we're on the 18th floor underground.

The first day was devoted to gathering information, so there is more information on the other side.

The informant's contact was appreciated because it was necessary to obtain information in some way in order to reverse it from here.

Silvia and Melissa are letting them leave a message at the inn because they just couldn't bring a woman to a place like this.

"Well, it looks like I'm asking for information, but I don't know what information to sell if I don't know where you stand. This one could turn the next emperor against his enemies, so I want to make sure we sort out the information we can sell and the information we can't sell."

"So is that."

Inform Alistair that he is fighting for the speed of the Labyrinth's attack after contact.

There must have been a lot of questions from time to time, but the informant is listening to me without going into depth.

"There are two pieces of information I'm looking for. Information you might need to attack the labyrinth - if you have more than a map you bought during the day."

"That's all right."

Tactical information collected independently by informants not drawn on the map was obtained.

This, thank you. But if I had listened earlier, I wouldn't have hit my head because I knew that there was a forest of illusions up to the ceiling.

However, what was obtained was information up to the 40th basement floor.

I just didn't have any more information.

"It's not like I specialize in labyrinth tactical information. If you really want to know, you should rely on an expert. I'd like to introduce you, too, but that's just less of an informant I have when it comes to tactical information after the 40th basement. You should realize that you're trying to get to a place like that."

"The danger is well known."

It is likely that even after the 40th basement, it is not a hierarchy to stop intruders, but rather a hierarchy set up to eliminate intruders.

That's why few adventurers came home even when they tried to attack.

"Well, the offensive information on the labyrinth can be minimal. More than that, I want to know about Rio."

"Hmm? Don't you know him?

"Speaking of acquaintances, do I feel like I know them, but I don't know the details?

"So I thought I'd take on a lot of requests."

Absolutely.

I had overbelieved that they were the same labyrinth lords.

"First, I want to know about three people: Katrea, Button and Nanaka"

We have been working closely with Iris to make sure that these three have not joined the offensive.

"Katrea is easy. At first, it was just Rio and her party. From the first time you came to the Adventurers Guild, it was our perception that you and your daughter were some nobleman. Some aristocratic children who do not take over aristocracy register with adventurers to show strength. So that's what they thought Rio was like at first."

But the two aristocratic children also went to the Adventurer's Guild as they did every day, taking seriously small requests like the chores that are found all over the city.

If those days continue for months, their ranks will rise naturally and they will take on the request of a bandit crusade to gauge their ability to increase their ranks.

"That's when I saved you from the bandits. I'm not even sure what your name is. I'm a little girl named Sonia. Apparently, he was caught when a bandit attacked a slaver's carriage, and he was a pathetic daughter with no one to turn to. I liked her at first sight, and Cattleya picked her up and raised her as an adventurer."

"Isn't that a good story?"

Pick up an unfamiliar child.

It seemed like it would have been better for the girls to keep them in orphanages or introduce them to safer jobs than to make them adventurers, but no one complained about taking them away because they liked the Rio guys who helped them at a glance.

More importantly, Mr. Cattleya was like a mother to a girl who didn't even remember her name clearly: 'Sonia'.

"So, when it was over, it was a beauty story."

"Huh?"

"They've had the habit of picking up guys tied up on odd edges ever since, with slave girls and village daughters who shouldn't be capable of fighting, girls who are not sociable and have fallen out of school, and even thieves and crooks at the end of the day"

"... what is that unique party?"

The most important thing in organizing a party is to be able to do well with your buddies.

Because of this, we often work with other people that compensate for each other's weaknesses or are easy to work with.

Will it be possible to collaborate with such distinctive members?

No, if we're even family members, we're prepared to be together.

"You know where Rio is, don't you?"

"Yeah."

"Though the sideroom, is it okay for the wife of the next emperor to be such a person?

"No problem. Whatever the emperor or queen was to us civilians, it would be fine if it didn't affect our normal lives. Besides, Rio and Cattleya will be emperors and queens around here. Later members are like daughters and sisters to us."

I did just see a little on Alistair, but Rio felt trusted by his people.

That much trust lies between them.

At least I don't abandon someone I've made a family member of.

"And even if I say thieves or fraudsters... thieves only steal from bad nobles like you're wasting your tax money from the people or fattening your private bellies by doing something about breaking the law sleuth. If you're a fraud, you were the one who specializes in deceiving adventurers like bandits who are powerful but have a weak head. Well, I hear we both had something in the past."

"You were willing to keep those people company a lot, no matter how many circumstances there were"

"You don't know it's not in person around here. Well, that's not only why he stood out at the Harlem party, but also because he kept one interesting fellow after another, it was a famous party among the adventurers based in the capital."

I wanted to ask you about Rio's party.

Basically, Rio and Mr. Cattleya's party. However, with the addition of people there, the number of people went up.

I've seen it before because I've heard about people and past actions.

Mr. Cattleya is basically in the habit of thinking about things around Rio. For Rio's sake, I have tolerated some impotence and acted, and since I was one of the first, I am doing things like overseeing all my family members.

Mr. Button apparently was a Sister in a village outside the Empire after finishing his training as a Sister, but he accidentally caused a major injury when he was pressed by a church priest. It seems that the priest who was furious with the matter banished him from the church, and it was Rio who picked up where he was at the crossroads.

Nanaka seems to have gotten along with Rio from a little trouble being abused like ignoring what she was doing at school, and she still acts like she has more fun acting as an adventurer for what she has in school.

"How did we get so many members with so many one- and two-habits"

"Come on, but since we've been able to gather so many distinct members, Rio may have completed the Emperor's trials and become Emperor."

"The Emperor's Trial?

"I don't know what kind of trial it is, but there are people in the empire who have been emperors despite their low right to inherit the throne for a long time. Among the informants who heard the story, there was a trial to become an emperor that would only be passed on to the royal family, and those who completed it realized that they could become emperors."

I see.

Is that how it is generally conveyed that you will become a labyrinth master?

"Thank you for everything."

Leave the gold coin as the amount of information.

"Speaking of which... I didn't drink to tell you I came to the tavern, okay?

"Yeah, I have work to do tomorrow, so I'm trying to keep it down."

Ever since I came to the tavern, I've only ordered fried chicken as a knob.

I didn't actually care about the next day, I was just resigned because I couldn't drink.

"But it's true that there's a lot to do."

When I get back to the inn, I have to consult with Melissa on how to attack based on the information I have on the Rio's.