597 597. Island ○ product




 The next day, I came to Satnium (temporarily) in the morning.

 I wasn't alone, Sakura was with me.

 We entered through the entrance of the old apartment and went down to the lobby.

"This is the only place in the world where I see things differently.
Isn't it?

 I agreed with Sakura's frank opinion, smiling bitterly.
 It's a different world, a fantasy, and this is the only lobby on the ground floor of some office building.

'It feels like a lie that I was inside my own guts until just last night.
It was The Fantasy over there, you know.
And it's a Lasdun.
Ha, yeah.

 I laughed and headed for the elevator in the back with Sakura.

 There were four elevators lined up right in front of the entrance, just like in a big corporate office building.

 I pressed the 'up' button on one of them and waited for the elevator to arrive.

'Now that I think about it,'
Yeah?
Maybe this elevator is something I wish for, too.
What do you mean?
You know, in this world, most adventurers do endless laps on a fixed number of floors, right?
Yeah.
And yet, you have to go down every floor, even the deepest, to get to them, and it's hard to get back.
'Oh, I see. We have a transporter room, so it's fine, but it's usually a lot of work.
'Yeah. That's part of the reason why the dungeon was not this form of 'with elevator' - I think now.
I see.

 As we were talking, the elevator came and I got in with Sakura.
 I pressed the button for the appropriate floor and then the close button.
 The doors closed and the elevator started to move - bringing us to the designated floor.

 The hall where we got off the elevator had a plaque with numbers indicating the number of floors.

'You're here in a flash,'
Yeah.
This is going to be incredibly popular. Even I can see that, because I've seen how hard it is to get to the level you want in other dungeons.
Well, isn't that the best part?
What about the monster?
Yes....

 I closed my eyes lightly and tried to imagine it.

 The next moment--

Oh,

 I opened my eyes as Sakura shouted out.

 There was a woman standing in front of us.
 A model's slim, model-like figure, a little tight, but with a shrewd beauty.
 I'm not sure I'm going to be able to find the right one.

The president's secretary?
"Yeah, the president's secretary.
Do you like this sort of thing, Uncle?
'Not that I don't like it, but when I imagined it, this kind of thing popped up. And then there's this.

 In addition, I also called up the office bureau.

 It's not uncommon for two or more types of monsters to exist on the same level at the same time, it's just that they don't drop except for monsters from that level.

''Auntie?''
Bureau.
Do you like this sort of thing?
I prefer ...... the president's secretary, yes.

 It's better that people still think you like the president's secretary than to be mistaken for this (...).

"Ha-ha-ha, just kidding. Is there anything else?
That's .......

 I chuckled.

'I have a vague memory of my salaried days. I can tell you about the hard episodes for three days and three nights, but I can't remember much about the people who were there.
Do you have a receptionist at work? Though the guild's receptionist has more points for it.

 I don't know what the point is - and then he chuckled a bit again.

'You don't have much to do with the people in that company, receptionist.
"Yeah ...... and the cleaning lady?
'Oh ...... I wonder if I'll run into you in the bathroom once in a while. Hmmm, but it doesn't really come up in my memory.
Like this?

 Sakura opened her sketchbook and whispered and ran her pen over it.
 In just a second, she wrote a receptionist or a cleaning lady and summoned her with Genesis.

'Yeah, yeah, it looked like this.'

 Sakura's summoning inspired my memory, and I created and summoned a monster that looked just like it.

'How about this one?'

 Sakura said, drawing and summoning a small, fat, middle-aged man.
 He's wearing a well-tailored suit, smiling and friendly.

'What's this?'
The Gourmet Executive Director.
What is that?
Don't you get it?
I don't know.
And this one?

 Then he drew a pretty good-looking businessman this time.

'What's this?'
"Island.
Why?
In the picture, if you want to be an office worker, this is the guy, right?
Or maybe not!
'Wouldn't you rather be a better fit to be a dungeon master than Emily-san?
Let's mind the copyright!
I only do douche bags.
That's the least of my worries!

 I was a bit tired of the continuous tweaking.

 But it brought back a lot of memories for me.

 You can't use the island's work, but you can use the system that is often used in retro games, where you're an ordinary employee, a chief, a section chief, a section chief, a section chief, and a monster that gets stronger as you go up through the ranks.

 I thought so and summoned a few monsters.

''Oh, Section Chief Shimasaku, Section Chief Shimasaku and Executive Director Shimasaku?''
Get away from the island!
'What? You have the same face as mine.
...... Geez.

 I was pulled by Sakura's summons, and I accidentally made my face the same.
 I changed it in a hurry - I'm going to change it to 'Heno Moheji' for now.

'For now, it's like this, a similar hierarchy, the higher you go, the higher your position, the stronger you get.
I think the top one is the president's bargain sale.
You will.

 That's another one that's common in retro games.
 I had a bit of fun making dungeons.