*
At that moment.
Geuru was lying spread-eagle atop crackling thunderclouds, having taken off the doll clothes.
It felt like lying on a bubbling massage bed.
Near their head, a giant octopus sat primly, fanning them with its legs(?).
It was Demisrin, the AAA-grade boss of the Thunder Domain.
- Is it refreshing?
“Mmm…….”
Geuru murmured, flipping over once.
Mephi really is a lofty one…….
Being treated as a monarch after inheriting the title was nice. However…….
The hamster clicked its tongue, tsk-tsk.
“Myumyumyu.” (What an incompetent master, unable to even properly open a cradle.)
“I think I know everything Bei’s saying.”
It was probably thanks to the title. Even hamster speech had become automatically translatable in their head.
When Geuru shot it a sharp glare, the hamster turned its head away with a huff.
The moment they arrived at the boss room, Geuru opened the cradle.
A white snowfield stretched to the very end of the boss room, so vast that one could hardly tell this was the Thunder Domain.
It was the first time they had ever unleashed a snowfield this large.
Not needing to open a new subspace to unfold the snowfield, as before, was a huge advantage, but the problem was…….
‘I have no strength at all!’
It felt as if all their mana had been instantaneously depleted.
“Geuru can’t move at awl…….”
The Monarch said, wriggling while sprawled atop the clouds.
Mephisto told them to rest well and stroked Geuru’s head with a wing, while Lucifer rubbed their cheek against Geuru’s face as if worried.
Only Beillakeu watched this with a look of utter disdain.
“Myut myut! Myumyumyu myut myut!” (It’s because you just lie there that your mana keeps leaking out! You need to take control of the space!)
“But…….”
With mana trickling away, their head grew dizzy and heavy, their eyes kept closing, and they had no idea what to do.
Unable to control the output, they couldn’t even shrink or erase the snowfield at will.
The snowfield, as if possessed of its own ego, pulled out all of Geuru’s mana as it pleased and used it recklessly.
This uncontrollable power brought on exhaustion and a strange fear.
‘It’s hard…….’
So Dad feels like this every day.
It was then, as Geuru was thinking of Jurim.
- I’m gonna be ketchup~ I’m gonna dance~ The stylish tomato~
As if on cue, a ringtone began to play.
“It’s Dad.”
Geuru sprang up and checked the clock.
Hm? Dad’s calling at this hour all of a sudden? He should know I’m filming today. Is he calling to check if filming went well?
Since Geuru was too busy worrying to answer, a message arrived shortly after.
[On Jurim: On Geuru, where are you?]
In an instant—thud! It felt like their heart had plummeted.
The tone, the force behind the message.
They could be certain.
They’d been caught coming to the dungeon.
[Geuru: Geuru’s in the bathroom!]
[On Jurim: You didn’t go to the dungeon alone, did you?]
As expected!
As they racked their brain wondering, ‘How did he know?’, they soon recalled how delighted they’d been that the Blue Lagoon guild master would post on an internet community.
‘Stupid Geuru!’
They’d only thought of the good things and hadn’t even considered that it would reach Dad’s ears.
[Geuru: Nope! I came to play at Woojoo’s filming set!]
[Geuru: I’m in the bathroom right now!]
Geuru quickly sent the messages and moved their leaden body.
“Mephi, Bei, Pere. We gotta finish the whole dungeon in ten minutes, ’kay.”
Geuru held up the clock to show them.
“Dad knows we came to the dungeon.”
At those words, the three’s faces hardened with shock and panic.
“Ppi-!”
“Myumyumyumyumyu!”
“Kkyuuuk!”
Soon, each began to make a fuss. Mephisto flew around in circles, Beillakeu hopped up and down while gesticulating wildly, and Lucifer went crazy crying.
Only Demisrin, the dungeon boss, sat primly with a bewildered expression.
“Sh’okay. There’sh still about ten minutesh.”
He should wait about ten minutes since I said I was in the bathroom.
Time limit: 10 minutes.
They absolutely could not get caught by Dad, who was scarier than a dungeon boss.
“First, let’s break the dungeon and get outta here. Can’t get caught being in the dungeon. Mephi, go fly and break the core, ’kay.”
“Bbit!”
Mephisto swiftly flew up. If the core broke, the dungeon would be unable to maintain its form and would collapse.
Next, Geuru humanized Beillakeu.
“Beillakeu was with Geuru the whole time. Got it?”
“Understood. However, even if we break the core, Demisrin will remain. We must deal with Demisrin.”
“Ah…….”
If they only broke the core, such a huge octopus would suddenly appear outside the dungeon.
Imagining a giant octopus appearing on the zombie film set (visible only to Geuru), their vision blurred for a moment.
That absolutely wouldn’t do.
“In the bag, let’s put it in the bag.”
Geuru, vision spinning, opened the bag.
The octopus squeaked and tried to stuff its legs in, but a giant octopus couldn’t fit inside a small hip sack.
Unable to bear watching anymore, Beillakeu shouted.
“It’s the snowfield! Make it smaller!”
“Ah, got it!”
Geuru