Volume 1 Chapter 63 Sakurako's Confession (I)
Whooah!
"Whoa! That was really dangerous... It was just a joke!"
"You... how could you make that joke in this situation?"
"Well, I thought it got a little dark, so I wanted to lighten the mood..."
"You didn't have to do that!"
Ah, she's really 'mad' now.
"I'm sorry."
"Hmph!"
...a change of topic.
"So, this time, I want to ask about you, Sakurako-chan?"
"Me? Sure. What do you want to know?"
"I have a lot of questions, but the biggest one is how you came to this modern world."
"Hmm. Well, that makes sense."
Sakurako-chan said this and took a sip of the coffee I made earlier before she started to talk.
"I came to this world about 20 years ago... It was at the same time the dungeons appeared here."
"Eh? What?!"
Right from the start, she shared a huge story.
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"Twenty years ago... I had just become the chief of the elf village 'Sedina,' when suddenly, a 'space distortion' appeared in Sedina, and I was the only one pulled into it."
"Space... distortion? What's that...?"
"If you were in another world, you must have heard of it, right? The 'space distortion incident.'"
"Ah, yeah. Well..."
'The space distortion incident'
When I was in another world, there were rare cases of sudden spaces tearing apart and pulling things in.
And strangely enough, the targets pulled into the 'space distortion' were always 'sentient beings'... more specifically, humans, beastmen, elves... including demons, only 'intelligent beings' were affected.
Because of that, the 'space distortion incident' was feared by all races.
By the way, even after I defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the world, the 'space distortion incident' was still unresolved right before I returned to this world.
...I wonder what it's like now?
"By the way, I remember when I stopped by 'Sedina' during the Demon King subjugation, I heard from the chief that the previous chief was pulled into a spatial distortion. But I never thought that was 'Sakurako-chan'..."
Huh?
But, I heard the previous chief's name from the chief back then, and it wasn't something like 'Sakurako'... was it?
"Ah... are you tilting your head because you don't recognize the name 'Sakurako'?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah..."
No, Sakurako-chan, you're quite perceptive.
I mean, you're way too good at picking up on things.
"Well, that's because I came here and changed my name. My original name was 'Sakurakoru'."
"Ah, that's right! I remember! Yes, when I heard that name from the elf chief back then, I felt a strange familiarity because it had 'Sakura' in it."
"Oh, I see. By the way, the first people I met when I came here later became my clan members for dungeon exploration, and one of them told me, 'Then you should rename yourself to Sakurako!' That's how I got this name."
"Oh, I see."
I see...
Sakurako-chan's name was given by a former clan member, huh...
No, they gave her a good name.
Good job, former clan member!
"...Let's get back to the topic. So, the place where I was spat out after being pulled into that 'spatial distortion' is this world, and the place where I opened my eyes is... 'Ikebukuro dungeon'."
"I-Ikebukuro dungeon!? Are you talking about that 'Seeker training dungeon'?"
"That's right. By the way, 'Ikebukuro dungeon' is also the place where the first dungeon appeared in this world."
"Eh!? The place where the first dungeon appeared in the world is... Ikebukuro dungeon!?"
Seriously...
"Well, the public doesn't recognize 'Ikebukuro dungeon' as the place where the first dungeon appeared in the world."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I want to take the initiative... no, it's not that grand. There are these annoying folks who are really fixated on 'the birthplace of dungeons is here.'"
"A fixation on the birthplace of dungeons...?"
"Yes. Their guiding principles are all over the place. Some are just selfish individuals, while others are extreme nationalists or believers who deify dungeons and preach dungeon supremacy... they're all crazy folks."
"Ugh, I see..."
"Of course, the way they pick fights is also troublesome, right? They use international law as a 'shield' to make unreasonable demands, or they send assassins to physically take lives... it's always like that."
Wow, that sounds really annoying.
This is definitely something I want to avoid.
"Well, I can't understand it, but for some reason, there are a lot of those types in this world. When I first came here, I was researching dungeons while exploring with my clan members..."
"Researching dungeons? What were you studying?"
"Well, I'll talk about that later. Anyway, continuing the story, I once announced to the world that 'Ikebukuro Dungeon is the first dungeon to appear in this world,' but at that time, I was confronted by several countries."
"Several... countries?"
"Yes. I'll talk about those countries later."
Geez!
Stop being so dramatic!
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