Remembering That I was Developing the Dungeon

Having finished our conversation with Haku-san without any problems, we decided to hang around in the dungeon.

"Hey, hey, Goshujin-sama. When's the Gluttony Trap gonna be operational?"

"… Darn, I've been so busy with various things that I forgot."

To be honest, I didn't feel the need to do it. It was originally just a whimsical pastime idea, and ever since Soto appeared, I'd been both busy and not busy, so I preferred to just laze around when I had free time.

"That's right, Papa! An all-you-can-eat place is amazing, isn't it?"

"Whoa! Soto, don't suddenly come out like that, you surprised me."

Soto suddenly popped out by opening the [Storage].

"Were you in [Storage] again?"

"Well, it's my dungeon after all!"

My [Storage]… Well, it's fine. By the way, was Soto listening from inside the [Storage]? It really seems to be quite versatile and convenient.

"By the way, what's the Gluttony Trap?"

"It's a trap that Goshujin-sama developed the other day, an all-you-can-eat immobilizin' trap. It's amazin', a Chef Golem keeps cooking using ingredients obtained from monster spawns!"

"Papa, please make a Gluttony Trap in my dungeon too! All-you-can-eat, what a wonderful phrase!"

Soto pleaded with sparkling eyes… Well, it doesn't cost that much DP to make, so why not?

So, we decided to create a Gluttony Trap in Soto's dungeon—

—but Monster Spawners couldn't be used in Soto's dungeon. There were no Monster Spawners in Soto's catalog.

"Why!?"

"… Come to think of it, there weren't any Monster Spawners in my dungeon at first either."

"Maybe there ar some condition?"

"What achievements do I need to make a Spawner!? "

"I think it's probably the number of summons. So why not try summoning only rabbits for a while? They can be used as ingredients, too. Until you see a Spawner appear, you can just summon rabbit meat and procure it normally."

"Hmm…"

Soto looked disappointed. For now, I handed over a Chef Golem and had Soto manually replenish the rabbits and seasonings.

Well, Mikan had a Grass Spawner, so we should be able to get her able to use one if we tried various things eventually. There was also a possibility that producing a variety of Spawners would be essential, but we'd deal with that when the time comes.

In the first place, spending DP on rabbits isn't a big expense. If Ichika stayed overnight in Soto's dungeon, she could earn enough DP for a day's worth of rabbits. Now that the number of villagers had increased, we could easily afford that. Actually, couldn't we just give her the DP she needed directly?

… Well, we've become quite bourgeois. When I first came to this other world, the dungeon was occupied by bandits and our income was only 10 DP per day due to the leyline effect.

"By the way, Soto-sama, couldn't you just use [Minor Replication] to increase the amount of food?"

"If I replicate food with that, it won't fill my stomach, so I won't be satisfied."

"Ah, right, it disappears after an hour. Being able to eat as much as ya want's actually a happy thing for someone like me."

"Ichika Onee-chan's a gourmet, after all."

She was more of a bad eater than a gourmet given that she even ate weird things. She didn't eat socks, but she could get along very well with Soto…

"Soto-sama, being able to eat all you want of something you've eaten once is really great."

"Right? Fufufu, I could even share Aunty Haku-sama's goddess-level legendary rare stockings with you."

"Uhm, I don't think I can eat that…"

Even if it disappeared in the stomach and wasn't harmful to the body, that's just too much…

Now, I remembered by making the [Gluttony] gimmick for Soto, so maybe I should make the remaining Seven Deadly Sins gimmicks as well.

[Greed] was already operational with the Trial Room and [Sloth] was the Rest Area.

[Wrath] was subtly operating in the Warehouse Area and I'll place [Gluttony] by swapping the Succubus Village with it. The Succubi should be done moving by now.

For [Lust], I prepared a small room with Succubus Statues and Succubus Fluid Aroma Steamers between the Puzzle Area and the Arena Area… This one wasn't needed to be used often, so it was fine as is.

That left [Envy] and [Pride] as the last two.

… The following is a conversation I had with Nerune—someone famous in the village for her sadistic acts towards Wataru—when I consulted her:

"I think, [Pride] might be more fitting if it doesn't exist."

"Really?"

"Imagine someone notices the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins~. If they do~, they'd think, [If the other six are here, then [Pride] must be here too], right~?"

Nerune took a breath.

"For mere humans~ to assume they knew everything about the dungeon~… Isn't that the essence of [Pride] itself~?"

"I see. That's quite a cunning idea, Nerune."

"Oh my~, I'm honored by your praise, Master~."

And so I went with her idea—a trap that existed through its non-existence. How fitting for [Pride].

Well, if there was no trace of it at all, there might be people who'd try to search the entire dungeon, so I should prepare a door that will never open. Assuming the other six have been found, I'll put it in front of the boss room just beyond the Arena Area.

Now, all that's left to create is the [Envy] gimmick.

… Hmm, well, maybe I'll try making a room where treasures are shown off through glass but can never be taken to provoke envy?

Well, glass might be broken, so I need to think of something else. At worst, I could just display footage from another room on a visible monitor.