My Room Has Become a Dungeon's Rest Area (LN)

Book 1: Chapter 3: (5)

A-are you already done? That was really quick for such intricate dishes. And it looks so deliciousand it smells so good

Hahaha. Lets eat, lets eat.

Ria prayed to a god who I had never heard of.

Maybe she was poor now, but she probably did have a good upbringing.

Lets eat! I thought silently in my head as well.

How should I eat this?

Ah, I guess you probably dont know what rice is. So you ladle it in your fork like this. But itll taste better if you eat it together with the hamburg steak. Did you know that?

Yes

Lets see. Its alright to eat anyway you like, but the way it tastes the best is if you split the fried egg over the hamburg steak.

I cut the fried egg open with my knife.

The unhardened egg yolk drizzled out from inside and mixed into together with the demi-glace sauce on the hamburg steak.

It tastes really good when you eat this egg yolk and demi-glace sauce together with the meat underneath.

To demonstrate, I took a bite of it. Yup, it was delicious.

Wow. Ill try eating it too!

Even if she didnt know what a hamburg steak was, Ria probably used the fork and knife better than I did.

Ria broke apart the fried egg on the hamburg steak and skillfully mixed the melted egg yolk and demi-glace sauce together with the hamburg steak before she brought it towards her mouth.

Mm! Mm~mm~mm~~!

It must have been pretty delicious. She probably tried to control herself but her body was bobbing up and down, ever so slightly.

I-Ive never eaten something so delicious in my life.

You dont need to exaggerate. Or could it be that youre just really hungry from that incident in the dungeon

Im telling the truth! I used to live in a mansion too but even then, I never had anything as delicious asmm~~~and it tastes even better with this thing called rice

When you say it like that, I guess it was really worth making it

Even if it was just flattery, I was happy to hear those things.

Although I only actually made the fried egg and the salad.

But it was certainly true that I felt like the fluidity of the egg yolk of the fried egg was done better than usual today.

I probably did well because I wanted to make Ria happy. I felt a wave of happiness rush over me as I watched her eating so happily. Food really did taste better when you eat with someone else.

After we finished eating dinner, I went to wash the dishes, with Ria helping me out.

In the cramped sink area, we washed the dishes huddled beside each other.

Today was the only day that I wouldnt have minded even if there were 10 times more dirty dishes than usual.

Here you go

Ok!

I was in-charge of getting rid of the dirt on the dishes with the sponge and detergent and Ria was in-charge of washing the soap off.

Everything was cleanly eaten off of Rias plate. And the same went for mine.

It really was delicious. Especially the dish you call the hamburg steak

I see. It was worth the effort making it then. Thats good.

Mixing in the creamy egg yolk together with the sauce, just, wow!

I was glad that I made what I did. From the bottom of my heart.

By the way, are the hamburg steak and rice, as well as the salad, some sort of artifact with special effects like the cola just now?

W-what They werent artifacts of any sort, at least to my knowledge. They were just made of normal ingredients cooked in a normal way.

I think its probably temporary but I can somehow feel my strength and magic growing stronger! I know that those sort of really valuable medical artifacts do exist, but is the food you make similar to that, Sir Thor?

Is it? Is what she asked. But I had no idea It was true that, in games, some dishes that you made had those sort of special effects.

I wouldnt know because I cant check my status here but Im right, right~? Hehehe

Ria said, as she gave me a face withI know what youre up towritten all over her face, as she smiled at me.

But she probably didnt know. Worse, she was misunderstanding it.

As I smiled back at her with a vague answer, Ria started to talk about other things.

Your cooking is great too but the artifacts you use for your daily life really are very very amazing, Sir Thor.

What? Artifacts for daily life?

Yes! As I said before, most artifacts we usually see are made as tools for fighting

I see.

Thinking about it, no matter what the time period was, the field that demanded the latest technology is always war.

And the budget poured into that research is always disproportionately big. It was probably the same for the other world.

Thats why I love artifacts used for daily life. I was scared that you were experimenting with some terrible artifact, since you lived so deep in the dungeon, Sir Thor.

Well, I do have some dangerous artifacts.

What?

Shock was written all over Rias face.

There were guns on Earth. And there were missiles and even nuclear weapons.

Not that theyre anywhere near here.

Thats good~Im relieved.

We were mostly done with washing the dishes.

I sat Ria down and we started having the conversation she promised me. I wanted to learn as much about the dungeon world as possible.

Ill bust out the black tea and potato chips.

What is this?

Ria held up a single potato chip, carefully and fearfully.

You could kind of call it an after-meal dessert. But I guess calling it a snack would be more accurate. Just try a piece

After nibbling a bit of the potato chip around the corners, Ria stopped for a while, before she started eating the second piece, then the third.

This is delicious. I even sort of feel like my body became lighter.

Ooh. It seemed that it made her happy. That was good.

Andthis was just a guess but it was possible that potato chips boosted your [Agility] temporarily.

I made a memo. Ill experiment with it later.

Although she already ate everything.

Ah, what a shameful thing I have done

No, no, its alright.

It made it easier for me if she let her guard down a bit too.

Trying to match with RIa, my posture was improving quite a bit today.

Her back was always completely straight.

For now, it seemed that she was ready to have the conversation. There were a lot of things I wanted to ask her butfirst, I wanted to ask her about statuses more than anything!

By the way, I kinda want to ask you about the stuff thats happening above the dungeon soon

Yes, of course. I did promise you.

Ria answered cheerfully.

Nice. First I wanted to ask her about skills.

What are some examples of rare skills up there?

What? Rare skills? There are a lot of different types. But the super rare ones would probably be those likeThe fate of the Heroor Darkness Magic

The fate of the Hero? The more questions I asked her, the more questions I had.

But first, let me ask her the question I originally intended to ask the most.

Is the skillNo maximum growthconsidered rare up there?

Oh, No maximum growth! Its a very rare skill!

Yay! Woohoo!

But compared to the skills I mentioned just now, The fate of the Heroor Darkness Magic, it is more common. Its just like how some people have Unemployedunder their occupation

Buargh! Cough cough

Hearing the word unemployed, I accidentally spit out the black tea I was drinking.

A-are you alright!?

Some tea just got stuck in my windpipe.

As expected, things arent going to be so convenient.

Is No maximum growthconsidered a strong skill up there?

Rather than how rare it is, its probably more important how strong the skill is.

Of course it is strong. But there are very few people who can use it well because levelling up is so hard

It probably wasnt that hard at the point I was at. But there was a possibility that it would get increasingly harder the stronger I got.

Thats how it works for levelling up in games too.

As expected of Ria. Being in a combat occupation, she was knowledgeable about combat skills.

It would be the strongest skill for someone who can keep winning battles that are a matter of life or death. I guess one could say that its a type of skill where being a late bloomer is taken to the extreme and where theres a possibility that you might fail.