**Day 28 Noon Dungeon Bottom Floor**
"Seriously useless otakus! Pointless trivia! Head-mounted decorations! More like storage sheds! Might as well burn those heads! ...I did burn them. Ah, that was a surprise."
Seriously, who falls off a cliff? Who? Me.
More like—the pit trap inside the wall? It's blocked? Even though it's a trap? Wait—was this trap specifically set for when I tried to renovate Floor 1 and live here? Nobody else fell into it, right? This is exactly why housing in this isekai never improves. Renovate properly already!
"Fell pretty far, huh? How many floors? Bottom? Is my favorability here? Opposite-sex kind?"
Well—at this depth it'd be instant death normally.
So probably no conquerors have reached here.
So maybe my favorability is here? Opposite-sex?
Without "Air Walk" I'd definitely die.
The problem is pit traps.
Cliffs? No problem falling or climbing back up.
I've got "Air Walk" after all.
But pit traps.
Completely vertical.
Super narrow.
Slippery as hell.
"Air Walk" is walking on air. Meaning air stairs. Forward and upward. Fine for cliffs.
But can't climb a narrow vertical hole.
Even spiraling up—too tight.
Slippery—so can't grab and pull myself up.
"Cliff fall, cliff fall—they kept saying cliff fall, but it's a pit trap! Didn't think of that at all! This is the otakus' trap! Burn them?"
But this shape... Presence Detection? Somehow I can vaguely sense the space's size and form?
Checked status—"Spatial Grasp Lv1" appeared. For design? Renovation? Super convenient.
That's fine, that's great. What pisses me off is "Trap Detection Lv1." Got it because I fell. I get why. I understand the reason. But getting "Trap Detection Lv1" after falling is too late! Way too late! I'm already fallen! Already trapped! Thoroughly!
It'll be useful going forward. Extremely useful. But right now I'm furious! Livid!
Tried using "Spatial Grasp" to scan the labyrinth... Straight line? ...Dead end? ...No... circular huge room? Hall?
Looks like a single path.
With this shape... big bathhouse. Dig a little—hot spring maybe?
But super deep—probably over 100 floors? Getting to a hot spring would be a hassle. From Floor 1... three days round trip? I'd catch a chill on the way back.
"Well, single path means gotta keep going. Only way. But Floor 1 and here—and every pit trap—are all single paths. This is a labyrinth?"
Just a road. Narrow, tight, dark. I'm seriously gonna renovate it.
"Long—long path? Corridor? Highway? Maze? No, single path—no way to get lost. Straight shot ever since entering. Brought a map and haven't needed it once. Got 'Spatial Grasp' and still no maze in sight?"
Grumbling while walking. (Quietly leveled the floor, shh.)
Finally hit the end. Door? Huge? Circular plaza? ...Coliseum? Stadium? ...Which one? Doesn't feel like baseball... Presence Detection says probably not?
Opening it will tell me.
Not opening means I won't know.
Opening means no turning back.
What if it doesn't open?
That might be the worst case?
"Knock knock."
Courtesy first.
No answer.
Not a job interview apparently.
Guess I have to open it.
"Coming in~? Gonna come in~? Kyaa, don't say ecchi~!"
I said don't say it, but secretly that's the best-case scenario. Shh.
But probably the absolute worst-case instead.
Bottom floor, circular arena—definitely boss fight. Not the Japan Series. Not Japan. Isekai Monster Series!? Kinda wanna see it!
Big circular bathhouse is probably hopeless. Gobs going "Kyaa, ecchi" would be instant boiling oil punishment.
"Who the hell challenges a boss fight at Lv12?! If you're dropping people, drop the otakus! I'll drop melted rocks from above too... Meteor. Definitely Meteor (Otaku Head Lava Drop) will burn their heads for sure."
But why am I the one who fell?
Why is there zero sign of my favorability anywhere?
Maybe it did fall? Like nosedive?
Or maybe it didn't even have far enough to fall?
Bottom floor.
This is it.
Opening the door.
**Day 28 noon**