The End of the Bandits

Its been a week since the adventurers attacked. That means the dungeon was peaceful.

Adventurers havent come, so the bandits are uninjured.

The bandits left and brought back corpses twice this past week. The four corpses turned into around 600 DP. It was most likely too difficult to capture them alive.

Though I really did think that, isnt that poor earnings for twenty-six people? Well, one of them is a non-combat child.

Ah, their reward? I decided to wait a few days since they hadnt killed inside the cave. Theres no rush you know?

By the way, the boss plays around with the dog-eared girl every day thats the only part I dont find peaceful.

Even if shes a slave or something, as a Japanese, I cant just suddenly adjust and accept it.

Rather than the other slaves serving the bandits, just one of them became a plaything.

Is it a small relief that, other than the boss, no one made a move on her?

It seems his underlings evaluations of him is something like [The boss is a lolicon]. After being asked if he would buy more adult female slaves, he said theyd get them by raiding.

Still, he doesnt get tired of doing it day after day

Its becoming an eyesore now.

I had a hunch he was a good guy, but guess I imagined it~

However, Rokuko might actually have a lot of human characteristics, pouting over a girl being made into a plaything.

Oi I dont like them contaminating the dungeon with their body fluids its annoying.

Ah, that? Though its okay for me to use the master room as a restroom?

Yeah, its fine if its Kehma or Gobsuke, it cant be helped I did more or less summon you as monsters.

Im considered a monster too? Now that you mention it, I was summoned huh.

It feels like youre just going in circles. Dont be so easygoing moreover, oi, is there no way to get them to leave?

With that tone, your hobby is definitely scat. But your goblin and scat hobbies are bad.

Im not aroused by excrement you know!? Kehma is also misunderstanding that thing with the goblin you know!?

Yeah, it was fiddling around with Rokuko yesterday.

It seems like today is the day the dungeons peace will be broken.

No, the time for peace has arrived, maybe.

Ah, something amazing is coming

Hearing Rokuko mutter something to herself, I pulled up the map.

Map of the surrounding area As long as its within view distance from the dungeon, I can see detailed geographic information and features. On it were red dots signifying enemies, marching forward in well-regulated rows.

About thirty people huh they finally came. Were they early? Or slow?

Whos coming? Those guys?

Yeah, its probably the suppression group. And looking at how fast theyre progressing, theyre a trained group. The knights will probably be the end of the bandits. Though unlikely, itd be delicious if they survived.

And it seems that the bandits noticed. Taking out the semi-transparent monitor from the menu, I decided to check out what the bandits were doing.

It really is convenient since it could be used as though there were surveillance cameras installed in the dungeon.

When I looked, underlings were reporting to the boss in a panic.

[Boss, its bad, knights! Theyre coming our way!] [What!? How were we exposed, we killed everyone that saw our base!?]

The bandits boss panicked. It seems he didnt think that knights would be dispatched for them.

[No, theyre human but having said that theyre knights, its better to not be killed how many?] [S-sorry, I came back as soon as I saw them wearing armor. At least, err, more than five people!] [Tch, cant be helped then well, were going to ambush them in the dungeon even if theres more or less of em anyway.] [That so?] [If theres a small amount well use a surprise attack, if theres a lot of em well fence them in from the outside. The End.] [Ooh! I see, as expected of the boss! Alright, everyone heard him! Lets ambush em!] [[[ YEAH! ]]]

Apparently it looks like theyre motivated; more so, inside the dungeon.

Thats very convenient. Its good that I taught the bandit boss how to fight using the exits and passages for ambushes this week. Its really good he isnt bright enough to escape from here.

Then, can the bandits win?

Though it depends on the strength of the knights if the strength of those thirty are like the recent adventurers, theyll be wiped out for sure.

I also checked out how the group of knights were doing.

I decided to watch until they completed the long-awaited annihilation of the bandits. Since its happening also due to the results of my work.

As for the bandits, eight were in the entrance room, with eight people on the way to the core room. It seems the ambush will be in the core room with nine people, including the bandit boss. Though they distributed their forces, the rooms limited how many could actually perform an ambush.

When the bandits finished their ambush preparations, the knights arrived at the cave entrance.

[Full stop. Henry-dono, is this the [Ordinary Cave]?] [Yes. Most likely, that is the bandits hideout Beck, I leave it to you.] [Yeah. Thanks for cooperating Life, return the beats to my wave[Life Search].]

A knight wearing full body armor used the skill. After a moment, a transparent wave extended around the knight using the skill Judging by its name, it looks like its a skill that searches for living things. I wonder if it uses the principles of echolocation?

At least with this, the bandits ambush will lose its effect.

[Hmm from what I heard, there are at least eight people that way. Theyre preparing to ambush us.]

There certainly were eight bandits waiting in the first room.

Maybe he cant hear whats beyond the wooden door? Or maybe its the effective range?

[Thats it for the information.] [Alright, lets commence the bandit suppression. Though it doesnt look like there are any prisoners as a precaution, well use a sleeping drug.] [Understood!] [Five people stay and watch the attack from the outside. The rest, surround the entrance. Kill any escaping bandits.] [Roger that.]

The group of knights surrounded the caves exit, taking position. They began to burn an incense at the entrance.

So thats how it is? Well, that makes it unnecessary to purposely walk into an ambush.

After the incense burned for a while, it was time for the bandits to move.

When they started to smell the aroma of the incense, they werent able to endure the drowsiness and collapsed.

[Gu, this is its a sleeping drug! R-run, get to the back room!] [No, we should attack before we cant move! They wont have many people if they used a trick like this. Lets go!] [If we shut the door, the smoke ugu- w-what do we do] [Hmph, cowards, you go and sleep. Im going to kill them all!]

One of the new guys from before that had finished off the adventurers in the cave, becoming top brass, headed out of the cave with five desperate slaves.

The only guy to remain, not collapsed from drowsiness, was the guy who suggested to withdraw he was crouching and hitting his abdomen.

As for the six who went outside, their fighting strength dropped due to drowsiness. They couldnt do anything against the swords of the knights that encircled the entrance. They threw their blunt swords in desperation, though it was easily deflected by the knights armors.

Listening to his comrades shrieks outside, he mumbled [Ahh, I wasnt wrong]. He fell asleep with the other eight there, collapsing.

His definitive mistake was to become a comrade of the bandits to begin with, but it didnt seem he noticed that.

Though the smell thinned, they couldnt tell when it came to the point where it wouldnt put them to sleep, so the knights used [Life Search] again.

[[Life Search] Hmm, there are two left for now.] [Alright the passage is narrow. Well go in in rows of two. Be careful.]

The knights entered the dungeon one after another However, that the knights took up positions outside the cave meant that they already knew that the inside of the dungeon was a dungeon.

Yep, it was correct for us to expand it. Otherwise the DP from those six people dying would have been wasted.

[ Alright, two bandits left. Be sure to finish them off.] [Is that alright?] [We cant turn back at this point. Besides, its our job to raze the bandit hideout. If we crush the head, itll be fine to leave the rest to adventurers Look, were still far from the back. There are probably people better than the underlings arranged at the entrance farther inside Though itd be nice if we already defeated the boss earlier.] [Indeed.]

When they decapitated the two sleeping bandits, DP came in.

Feeling my clothes being tugged on, I looked at Rokuko. She had a strange look on her face.

Is it fine to not take the corpses from a bit ago? Its wasteful.

You absolutely cant absorb them you know? If you did that we wouldnt be able to deceive them anymore.

Deceive them?

Once they know that this is a dungeon that eats people, or that this beginner dungeon gained energy, they might consider this dungeon is dangerous and destroy the core. Though I more or less have insurance

Uu, Ill die if the core gets destroyed Insurance? What is it?

Hey, remember the goblin room I made a while ago?

Ooh, the area you made a bit away! It was the dummy [Ordinary Cave] right?

Yeah. Since this world doesnt have very accurate maps, we can probably deceive them even if the caves position shifts somewhat maybe, well, its possible theyll accept it and misunderstand that this cave is an ordinary cave. Thats just a small hope though

Un un, I see Huh? What about the core?

In fact, by placing a dummy core, the castling function though I want to save the function that could instantly switch it with the genuine dungeon core in case of an emergency (It can be used even if an intruder is in the core room), there was no choice. Since it cost 5000 DP, we couldnt take this out till yesterday. Nevertheless, its the type of device that couldnt be installed if there are any intruders in the necessary parts of the dungeon.

Well, since we separated the rooms on the floor with doors, when the time comes well turn the core room into an impregnable trap room.

By dividing the floors up, we can set up traps even if theres an intruder on another floor.

Naturally, thats if there arent intruders in the room. That condition still counts.

But right now the bandit boss is lying in wait in the core room.

Of course, the bandits are treated as intruders.

Yeah in other words, right now we want them to overlook us and appeal to them as a harmless dungeon.

I get it, so thats why I cant take the corpses. Then, how will they overlook us?

F-for now we just wait and see.

In fact, there was nothing he could do for now.

He returned his attention to the group of knights.

[Is the loot room this way? A bed u-] [ Thats a distinctive smell. Were there women here as well? But, they didnt use [Cleanup] theres so much that even if they used it it wouldnt be enough.]

Right now, the knights were examining the boss bedroom.

Its the room that he made the dog-eared girl his plaything. By the way, the dog-eared girl is under the bed right now. She had eyes like a dead fish and didnt even twitch. Without finding her, the knights moved on to the next room.

Though the knights probably would have been able to find her if they used [Life Search], they didnt use it for some reason. I wonder if theres a usage restriction? The knights probably couldnt use it just to simply explore. The captain-ish knight that had used [Life Search] outside of the dungeon was, right now, issuing instructions to subordinates at the entrance room.

The boss bedroom had been turned into a jail.

They did that in order to capture the guys that they attacked, but in the end they didnt use it. It turned into a loot room.

[Its not that good eh.] [Was our timing off? If wed come here a bit sooner there might have been some valuables. We replenished our rations it looks like we came a bit too late

Oi, watch what youre saying. But well, isnt it fine with this sake we got?]

Still, the knights retrieved the valuable items from this room before going to the master room. Though there really wasnt anything worth mentioning. The bread was moldy and got thrown away About the magic tool that could be used for light? It was like a lantern Though well, the boss brought everything that could be used for combat to the core room.

So the only things left were old food and bad loot. Since it had become a dead end, the knights put the food into boxes and carried it out.

After they finished carrying the food out, they resumed the suppression.

Putting his hand to the wooden door, a knight tried to open it. A sword sprouted from the door.

[Guah!?]

It wasnt a trap. Behind the wooden door was a bandit piercing the knight that tried to open the door.

Then, the door was completely destroyed with swords.

[Uoaaaaaah!] [Gu-!? Ryan, get awa-! Uooooh!]

The injured soldier withdrew and combat began.

[Dammit, since they tried to ambush us at the entrance I was negligent Light, heal this persons wounds[Healing]!] S-sorry, captain gu-u!]

Wrapped in the magics light, the injured soldiers wounds were healed. The large slash wound closed and the bleeding stopped. Though he was still exhausted and weak, he wasnt in a life-threatening situation.

So thats recovery magic huh. Its my first time seeing it.

Ah, the combat finished while I was admiring it.

[Sorry, Haggis was also injured in the fight just now. Please heal him.] [Damn, this is too exhausting Can you take up command instead if I collapse? Light, heal this persons wounds[Healing].] [Theres no other way so it cant be helped. Since I cant use recovery magic, just captain Seriously, itd be nice if more healing scrolls showed up on the market] [There definitely isnt enough recovery magic scrolls produced, since the Church has a monopoly on it]

Hmm, hearing that was good By the way, it seems I can exchange 100000 DP for a healing scroll. Calling it rare its the same price as the cheapest dragon. Yup.

However, if theyre able to recover from wounds they went to great lengths to inflict, theres no longer a chance for the bandits to win.

[Alright then. I checked Ryan a little ago, be careful of surprise attacks okay? Even though the [Ordinary Cave] is said to be a very short dungeon.] [Captain. There are pickaxes on the ground. The bandits likely dug more.] [Huh? The walls of a dungeon will be repaired even if theyre dug into. Why do they have something like that?] [I dont know, but there are traces of them digging through walls.]

Is that so? I looked at Rokuko.

Usually, the opened holes are closed up, yeah. Dont humans do that too?

Like healing scratches huh.

Sort of like that. Though it isnt particularly painful.

[Hmm? What does that mean? Though it was already a very unusual thing for bandits to set up in a dungeon, maybe this has something to do with that?

[No way, the bandits are the dungeon boss?] [Hahaha, Ive never heard of something like humans being a dungeon boss. Maybe the bandits are dragons?] [The rooms here are too small for dragons to fit in.]

The knights carefully advanced through the dungeon while joking around.

As for the remaining bandits, nine were lying in wait in the core room.

Though they had no choice but to take their time while looking through the eight rooms in the dungeon, the knights finally arrived in front of the core room However, the knights didnt know how to open the door to the core room.

I changed my view to the bandits.

An underling moved his ear from the door, reporting to the boss.

[ It looks like they arrived.] [Alright. Prepare your bows, quietly Shoot em dead soon as they open the door.] [Boss, we got this.] [Fuu. Those guys should be exhausted by getting here. If it comes to that, well put an end to it and just push through.]

In reality theyve recovered. I wonder what theyd do if I told them the knights had no chance of losing.

Id die from the core being destroyed in a fit of anger.

Creeeak, the wooden door to the core room opened slowly.

The moment that happened, the bandit boss gave the signal to shoot their bows. Arrows shot towards the passage.

With heavy impact, there were the sounds of arrows hitting armor. However, just one of them. One of them was really luckyand the worst case for the knightsthat an arrow slipped into the visors opening, going through his brain.

At the corner of my vision I saw the DP increase. Looks like he died in one hit.

[Ryui! Dammit, its no good! He didnt survive!] [Tch! Just one person!] [Boss!] [You guys! Go for their joints! Our armor will just deflect-]

The boss slashed at him.

[Geh-, you bastard, you Melon Vomit!] [Dont call me thaaaaaat!] [Uwaaah!]

The bandit boss was enraged, slashing with his sword. His vigor engulfed the knights body, causing him to flinch. He rammed his sword into an opening on the knights armorviolently stirring up the insides. I saw the DP increase again, guess he died as well.

I dont want to see whats inside

Rather, the heck kind of nickname is Melon Vomit?

[Wha-, impolitely vomiting melon while eating together with Hime-sama!] [How dare you do that to Ryui and Eijin, you Vomit Bastard!] [That melon was rotten! It wasnt my fault! Why did you take my fucking reward moneeeeeeeey!] [More than just vomiting the melon, you killed the chef after falsely accusing him of making the melon rotten! Right in front of Hime-sama!] [Shut up! He was just jealous that Hime-sama was in love with me! I would have been emperor right now if it wasnt for him!]

Ah, thanks for explaining how you became Melon Vomit. I literally leaned more about it than I thought.

Thereafter, Melon Vomit struggled more than expected because he got so angry.

In addition to killing the guy with his sword, he inflicted many injuries on the knights.

But that was all.

With the cooperation of the subordinates supporting each other, they gradually wore him down. The knights successfully surrounded him, sealing off his movements.

Then, before he noticed it, a sword grew from his belly.

[Dammit after that even though.]

Dropping to his knees with a thud, Melon Vomit was defeated.

Grabbing his hair, the knight forcibly lifted his face.

[Oi, where are your other comrades? Melon Vomit.] [Tch. everyone was here because of it, goddamn it why I did what I was told]

Though his words near the end were faint, it reached the knights ears.

With that, all of the bandits had become DP.

[Was there a mastermind? Though there was evidence there were women, maybe they escaped.] [Though he said everyone I dont get it. Wait, it looks like this room is the dungeon cores.] [Heeeh, here thats a dungeon core huh? Its the first time Ive seen one.] [As Id heard, it was a small dungeon. There werent even stairs.]

One of the knights aimed his sword towards the dungeon core.

[Alright then, should I destroy the core?]