Blessing from the Goddess and Transfer to Another World! ~No Thanks, I Don’t Need a Special Ability~

Chapter 65 – A Test of Skills and the Dungeon’s Dark Side (Part 2)

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Does being an area leader mean that she’s in charge of floors 1 through 10?

A: That’s right.
Additionally, there’s also a floor leader for each floor.

She is dressed like a normal adventurer.
Yeah, I guessed that Carro’s bunny-girl outfit wasn’t the official uniform of the dungeon keepers.
If that were the case, I would have had to question Azuma’s sanity.

“So, what’s wrong? Since you came here in person, I’m guessing something serious must have happened? Pyon.”   

“Yes.
The number of children in our custody has exceeded twenty.
We’re running out of hands.
We can’t just bring them to an orphanage either…”

“Right, …Pyon.
We can’t really ignore this any longer.
Pyon.”

“What are you two talking about?”

I think I just heard something disturbing.

“It’s unwanted children, Pyon.
Some get abandoned in the dungeon by their parents every so often, or by people from the orphanage who can’t take care of any more of them.
They’re not really in good shape, but we pick them up before they die.
Some of them are boys though, so we can’t just make them all dungeon keepers, Pyon.”

“We’re already at full capacity, so it can’t stay like this any longer, and so we’re in trouble.”

Coral is in charge of floors 1 to 10.
It’s where all the dungeon entrances are, so I guess it falls under her responsibilities.

I knew that there were a lot of children orphaned by the deaths of their adventurer parents, but I didn’t think anyone would go that far.

There are monsters in the dungeon, so abandoning them here is basically no different from sending them to their deaths.

On a side note, the keepers are only allowed to go outside of the dungeon when defending it from outside threats, so they can’t just return the children themself.
But they can’t just leave them to die either.

“Some go as far as to kill the children inside the dungeon.
In such cases, we can’t help them at all…”

“Won’t they stop them at the entrance?”

I don’t think they will allow children who are not explorers to enter.

“It’s all about money.”

”Truly lamentable.
Pyon.”

Apparently some receptionists tacitly approve of the act of abandoning children in exchange for a small sum of money.
It doesn’t seem to be so common in big cities, but in relatively small villages and towns, it’s not rare.

This is like using the dungeon as a garbage dump that leaves no evidence behind.
How could they even come up with such a despicable thing?

Of course, if you’re caught, you’ll get severely punished, but in a country where the dungeon is the backbone of the economy, it is only natural that they would use it for something vile too.

“This is an urgent matter, Pyon.
Since you’re already here Jin-sama, I’d like you to decide what to do about it…”

“That’s right, …it’s not something we can ignore any longer, but we can’t stop it on our own.”

I guess saving some kids wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.
Plus, I just don’t like the idea of them being killed in Azuma’s dungeon.

“But there are boys who can’t be dungeon keepers, Pyon.
And though there are some girls who aren’t in bad shape, I don’t know if they’ll accept being dungeon keepers either, Pyon.”

“Well, that’s not really a problem.
I can just make them my slaves.”

“I see, Pyon.”

Not everyone saved by the dungeon keepers might want, or even be able to also become one as well.
In that case, I can just turn the rest into my slaves to prevent them from divulging any of my secrets in the future.
Problem solved.

“We can’t just send them back to the surface, so we’ll set up an orphanage on the 51st floor and raise them there for the time being.
Once they grow up, we can let them choose to either become keepers, maids, butlers, or adventurers on the surface.”

I don’t think the kids will be of any help to us right now.

In this harsh world, there is no reason for a child, especially an orphan, to be of any immediate use.
However, even though they are orphans, they still have the same potential as every other kid.
If we raise them well, they should be able to become useful to me in the future.

In particular, my ability to help people grow more powerful will prove very helpful here.

ED Reminder: On top of literally being able to give stats and skill to his subordinates at will, Jin can also grant them access to his unique skills, effectively letting them gain a portion of stats and skills of every monster they kill (the rest goes to Jin), not to even mention Inventory, Identify, Map, Sakura’s original spells like ‘Portal’, and constant support from Alta.

We can’t just send children who were thought to have died in the dungeon back to the surface, and there’s probably no place for them there anyway, so we can just raise them here.

There is also an option of leaving them at an orphanage in Kastal, but the two countries are adjacent to each other, so there is always the possibility that something might happen.
On the other hand, if you raise them on the 51st floor of the dungeon, there is little chance of information leaking out.

As for who would raise them… how about our maids?

A: No problem.
We have enough people, and I will select the ones suitable for raising children.

As always, it’s great to have you.

“Next, we also have to deal with the ones who would directly kill a child, …yeah, let’s get some witnesses.”

“Witnesses? Pyon?”

“Yes, I’ll have one of my explorers to ‘happen’ to be there.”

“Oh, so we’re going to save the children under the guise of an explorer, and not as a keeper.”

Coral nodded her head in agreement.

“Oh, and then we get the adults, …and the corrupt receptionists.
It’s hard to catch the ones who throw them away, but we can catch the ones who kill them directly, and it will help curb this in the future.”

“I understand.
I’ll arrange it that way.” Maria replied.

As a dungeon master, I don’t intend to do a perfect job, but I’m not happy with the dungeon being used for such despicable acts.
I’m going to take some counter-measures.

“I’m sorry, Pyon, In the end I couldn’t handle it on my own, Pyon.” Carro apologizes to me.

“There’s nothing for you to apologize for.”

I’m not going to give Carro, who has been maintaining and managing this place by herself for decades, a hard time.

Plus, the ones to blame are those who would use the dungeon for such vile things.

“Ah!” Coral exclaimed.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“No… its…”.
She stuttered.

“You’re not talking clearly, Pyon.
Speak up, Pyon.”

“Yes.
I just got word from one of my men that a man came to the dungeon to kill a child.”

“Bad timing, …no, isn’t it rather good?”

I mean, the child is rather lucky that they were about to be killed after we decided on our future policy.
So, in a way, the child was saved by it.

“If they are already in the dungeon, we don’t have enough time to leave it to someone else.
I’ll go there myself.”

“I’ll accompany you.” Maria said.

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Since Carro and Coral couldn’t go out in the open and we didn’t have much time, Maria and I decided to go rescue the child ourselves.

“Carro, you proceed with setting up the orphanage.”

“Yes, Pyon.”

“Do your best for those children’s sake.”

By clearing the dungeon’s 50th floor, and becoming the dungeon master, I gained the ability to teleport to any location in this dungeon.
Unlike the “Portal” spell created by Sakura, it’s not treated as magic, but as a kind of authority.
The proof of this being that it consumes zero MP and does not require any chanting.

I’ll be moving to a location a little farther away from the coordinates Coral gave me.
After that, I will immediately use “Summon” to bring Maria along.
Unfortunately, it seems that you can’t use this ability on other people.

-Don!

“Guh…”

As I approached the point where the child was about to be killed, I heard the sound of something hitting a person and a moan.

Rounding the last corner I’ve arrived at the scene, where I saw a reasonably well-dressed middle-aged man beating a little girl of about five years old with a wooden stick.

“Maria, stop him.
But don’t kill him.”

“Yes.”

When I gave the instruction through telekinesis, Maria disappeared before approaching the man.

“That’s enough.”

The moment the man swung his wooden stick backwards, Maria, who had reaapeared behind him without making any noise, caught it and took the stick from the man’s hand.
Sneaking up behind someone without a sound is an essential skill for a ninja.
All assassins can do it.

“What? Why are you here?”

“It’s a dungeon, it’s not surprising that there are people here, right?”

“Another one?”

While the man got distracted by Maria, I picked up the little girl and took some distance from them.
The little girl was shaking in my arms and clinging to me tightly.

The man was surrounded by Maria and me on both sides of the corridor.
Of course, I was aiming for this.

“Nonsense! There shouldn’t be anyone in this area!”

It’s true that this spot is pretty out of the way, it’s far from the dungeon entrance, and there’s no stairs to the next level nearby.

It’s a place that no one would normally visit, meaning, he’s either a habitual criminal or he learned about this place from someone else.

“Damn it! Now that you have seen my hobby, I can’t let you live.
Die!”

Saying so, the man drew the sword that was hanging on his waist and began to approach Maria.

Habitual criminal it is.
He is a lot more trashy than I imagined.
Looks like he was hitting the girl with a wooden stick, so that she wouldn’t die too fast…

Maria, who was already prepared for it, approached the man, grabbing him by the arm, and performed a perfect one-handed shoulder throw. (ED: A judo technique where you throw the opponent over your shoulder)

“Gah!” (ED: It was ‘ぐべっ!’ in the original, maybe it was supposed to be a part of some Japanese expression, but got cut short)

The middle-aged man got slammed into the ground, letting out a strange voice as he fainted.
There’s froth coming out of his mouth, so he shouldn’t be dead just yet.

To be honest, I wouldn’t mind killing him, but I think it would be better to bring him back alive and publicize him crimes for the sake of deterring any future offenders, hence I instructed Maria to keep him alive.

“Well done.”

“Thank you very much.
I imitated the technique that Jin-sama used when he fought Mira-san.”

Speaking of which, I did use a throw that one time, on Mira, who was rampaging after becoming a vampire.
Did Maria try to imitate it? I’m not a judo practitioner to begin with, so I just threw her over my shoulder.

Come to think of it, Maria learned the “martial arts” skill on her own, didn’t she? Could it be that she acquired the skill by practising shoulder throws?

A: That’s right.

Maria, who can obtain the skill just by imitating the shoulder throwing I used by imitating what I saw on TV, is extraordinary in her own way…

While I was lost in such thoughts, the trembling little girl in my arms pulled on my clothes.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh… uh… thank you.”

She thanked me in a slurred speech.
I think I’ll better ask her about what had happened.

“You’re welcome.
What happened here?”

“Ugh…”

When I asked her about it, she shivered and clutched my clothes, seemingly at a loss for words.
It may have been too hasty to ask so soon.
I’m sure she’s still terrified.

“If you don’t want to say, that’s fine.
Let’s just get out of the dungeon for now.”

“Un…”

“Let’s go.”

Maria, who tied the old man with a rope and put him on a trolley in the short time it took me to talk with the little girl, also said she was ready to leave.

While holding the little girl in my arms, we made our way toward the nearest entrance, which was about 30 minutes away.
Even though it was the first floor, the old man must have been pretty skilled to safely reach this place.

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“Norton!? Why!?”

The man at the reception desk shouted with a blue face when we arrived at the entrance.
Hmm, this guy seems to be related to this.

By the way, Norton is the man who beat up the girl.
He didn’t have any interesting skills, and he’s not a strong opponent, so I’ll skip the status.

I took away his stats, leaving just enough to keep him alive.

“This man was trying to kill this child in the dungeon.
Do you know this man?”

“Yes, yes, he’s the director of the orphanage in the city just outside the entrance.”

A middle-aged man whose hobby is beating children to death, and on top of that, he is the director of an orphanage.

Isn’t this country done for? …I’ll be preaching to Cattleya later.
No, it might be more effective to not let her eat at our place for some time.

“Which receptionist was here when this guy came through?”

“Well, I don’t know.
I just started my shift, so I wouldn’t know…”

I could tell at a glance that he’s lying with how his eyes were swimming all over the place.

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“I see.
Then call the previous receptionist.
He said he enjoys hurting children, so it’s not like it’s his first time.
If the receptionist is on it too, they will most likely be treated as an accomplice.”

“Ugh…”

The man’s face turns even bluer.

Obviously, I’m not going to let him get away with it.

“Maria.”

“Yes.”

“Guffaw!”

Maria approached the man standing at the reception desk using “Flash Step” and punched him in the stomach, instantly knocking him out.

Was she trying to imitate the gut punch I used that other time?

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I will explain what happened next.

First of all, the orphanage director in question had apparently been beating children to death for quite some time.
The records of the children who had left the orphanage had been falsified in various ways, and most of them had been taken in by homes that did not actually exist.
Almost all of them are probably dead…

It became apparent that there were not just one or two receptionists who had assisted the director, but quite a few.
Using the full power of Alta, we were able to catch most of those who were in that city.
I guess I’ll leave it to the kingdom to capture the ones who have already fled.

“You really saved me a lot of trouble this time around.
I didn’t expect you to do so much in half a day.
…Please leave the rest to me.
And don’t worry, I won’t ask you any questions about why you were on the first floor or how you came across such a scene.”

It was Elincia who said this.
When I contacted the Explorer Guild about this, she rushed here, even going as far as to use a transfer stone.

ED Reminder: One of the dungeon items, that lets you instantly teleport back to the dungeon entrance.
Since it takes you to the last entrance that the stone, and not the person passed through, they are used for instant travel around the kingdom.

Being Cattleya’s subordinate, she sure works fast.
Plus, the transfer stones for moving around the country shouldn’t be cheap…

A: Elincia is paid well.

I don’t think that’s the problem here.

“So, what about the orphanage?”

“It was a state-run orphanage, but it will be shut down as expected.
The kids will be dispersed to other orphanages.
Also, whoever was auditing the orphanage will be appropriately punished.”

As usual, Elincia is merciless.
…No, it’s probably appropriate in this case? Multiple children have been killed due to their negligence.

“What about the director and the receptionist?”

“I’m sure you’ll agree with me, it’s an act that smears the dignity of the entire country.
It will never be tolerated.
In the unlikely event that the death penalty is not carried out, I will go and put an end to them myself.”

The probability of the director and the receptionists surviving had just dropped to zero.

“That’s it for the report.
Then, I’ll send this child to the orphanage.”

The little girl I had rescued in the dungeon has stayed by my side until now.

It was getting dark, and there was no reason to take her around any longer, so I tried to hand her over to Elincia.

“No! I will stay with you!”

She still refused to leave my side.
She reminded me of a koala, clinging to me with all her strength.

Chapter 65 – A Test of Skills and the Dungeon’s Dark Side (Part 2)

Does being an area leader mean that she’s in charge of floors 1 through 10?

A: That’s right.
Additionally, there’s also a floor leader for each floor.

She is dressed like a normal adventurer.
Yeah, I guessed that Carro’s bunny-girl outfit wasn’t the official uniform of the dungeon keepers.
If that were the case, I would have had to question Azuma’s sanity.

“So, what’s wrong? Since you came here in person, I’m guessing something serious must have happened? Pyon.”   

“Yes.
The number of children in our custody has exceeded twenty.
We’re running out of hands.
We can’t just bring them to an orphanage either…”

“Right, …Pyon.
We can’t really ignore this any longer.
Pyon.”

“What are you two talking about?”

I think I just heard something disturbing.

“It’s unwanted children, Pyon.
Some get abandoned in the dungeon by their parents every so often, or by people from the orphanage who can’t take care of any more of them.
They’re not really in good shape, but we pick them up before they die.
Some of them are boys though, so we can’t just make them all dungeon keepers, Pyon.”

“We’re already at full capacity, so it can’t stay like this any longer, and so we’re in trouble.”

Coral is in charge of floors 1 to 10.
It’s where all the dungeon entrances are, so I guess it falls under her responsibilities.

I knew that there were a lot of children orphaned by the deaths of their adventurer parents, but I didn’t think anyone would go that far.

There are monsters in the dungeon, so abandoning them here is basically no different from sending them to their deaths.

On a side note, the keepers are only allowed to go outside of the dungeon when defending it from outside threats, so they can’t just return the children themself.
But they can’t just leave them to die either.

“Some go as far as to kill the children inside the dungeon.
In such cases, we can’t help them at all…”

“Won’t they stop them at the entrance?”

I don’t think they will allow children who are not explorers to enter.

“It’s all about money.”

”Truly lamentable.
Pyon.”

Apparently some receptionists tacitly approve of the act of abandoning children in exchange for a small sum of money.
It doesn’t seem to be so common in big cities, but in relatively small villages and towns, it’s not rare.

This is like using the dungeon as a garbage dump that leaves no evidence behind.
How could they even come up with such a despicable thing?

Of course, if you’re caught, you’ll get severely punished, but in a country where the dungeon is the backbone of the economy, it is only natural that they would use it for something vile too.

“This is an urgent matter, Pyon.
Since you’re already here Jin-sama, I’d like you to decide what to do about it…”

“That’s right, …it’s not something we can ignore any longer, but we can’t stop it on our own.”

I guess saving some kids wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.
Plus, I just don’t like the idea of them being killed in Azuma’s dungeon.

“But there are boys who can’t be dungeon keepers, Pyon.
And though there are some girls who aren’t in bad shape, I don’t know if they’ll accept being dungeon keepers either, Pyon.”

“Well, that’s not really a problem.
I can just make them my slaves.”

“I see, Pyon.”

Not everyone saved by the dungeon keepers might want, or even be able to also become one as well.
In that case, I can just turn the rest into my slaves to prevent them from divulging any of my secrets in the future.
Problem solved.

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“We can’t just send them back to the surface, so we’ll set up an orphanage on the 51st floor and raise them there for the time being.
Once they grow up, we can let them choose to either become keepers, maids, butlers, or adventurers on the surface.”

I don’t think the kids will be of any help to us right now.

In this harsh world, there is no reason for a child, especially an orphan, to be of any immediate use.
However, even though they are orphans, they still have the same potential as every other kid.
If we raise them well, they should be able to become useful to me in the future.

In particular, my ability to help people grow more powerful will prove very helpful here.

ED Reminder: On top of literally being able to give stats and skill to his subordinates at will, Jin can also grant them access to his unique skills, effectively letting them gain a portion of stats and skills of every monster they kill (the rest goes to Jin), not to even mention Inventory, Identify, Map, Sakura’s original spells like ‘Portal’, and constant support from Alta.

We can’t just send children who were thought to have died in the dungeon back to the surface, and there’s probably no place for them there anyway, so we can just raise them here.

There is also an option of leaving them at an orphanage in Kastal, but the two countries are adjacent to each other, so there is always the possibility that something might happen.
On the other hand, if you raise them on the 51st floor of the dungeon, there is little chance of information leaking out.

As for who would raise them… how about our maids?

A: No problem.
We have enough people, and I will select the ones suitable for raising children.

As always, it’s great to have you.

“Next, we also have to deal with the ones who would directly kill a child, …yeah, let’s get some witnesses.”

“Witnesses? Pyon?”

“Yes, I’ll have one of my explorers to ‘happen’ to be there.”

“Oh, so we’re going to save the children under the guise of an explorer, and not as a keeper.”

Coral nodded her head in agreement.

“Oh, and then we get the adults, …and the corrupt receptionists.
It’s hard to catch the ones who throw them away, but we can catch the ones who kill them directly, and it will help curb this in the future.”

“I understand.
I’ll arrange it that way.” Maria replied.

As a dungeon master, I don’t intend to do a perfect job, but I’m not happy with the dungeon being used for such despicable acts.
I’m going to take some counter-measures.

“I’m sorry, Pyon, In the end I couldn’t handle it on my own, Pyon.” Carro apologizes to me.

“There’s nothing for you to apologize for.”

I’m not going to give Carro, who has been maintaining and managing this place by herself for decades, a hard time.

Plus, the ones to blame are those who would use the dungeon for such vile things.

“Ah!” Coral exclaimed.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“No… its…”.
She stuttered.

“You’re not talking clearly, Pyon.
Speak up, Pyon.”

“Yes.
I just got word from one of my men that a man came to the dungeon to kill a child.”

“Bad timing, …no, isn’t it rather good?”

I mean, the child is rather lucky that they were about to be killed after we decided on our future policy.
So, in a way, the child was saved by it.

“If they are already in the dungeon, we don’t have enough time to leave it to someone else.
I’ll go there myself.”

“I’ll accompany you.” Maria said.

Since Carro and Coral couldn’t go out in the open and we didn’t have much time, Maria and I decided to go rescue the child ourselves.

“Carro, you proceed with setting up the orphanage.”

“Yes, Pyon.”

“Do your best for those children’s sake.”

By clearing the dungeon’s 50th floor, and becoming the dungeon master, I gained the ability to teleport to any location in this dungeon.
Unlike the “Portal” spell created by Sakura, it’s not treated as magic, but as a kind of authority.
The proof of this being that it consumes zero MP and does not require any chanting.

I’ll be moving to a location a little farther away from the coordinates Coral gave me.
After that, I will immediately use “Summon” to bring Maria along.
Unfortunately, it seems that you can’t use this ability on other people.

-Don!

“Guh…”

As I approached the point where the child was about to be killed, I heard the sound of something hitting a person and a moan.

Rounding the last corner I’ve arrived at the scene, where I saw a reasonably well-dressed middle-aged man beating a little girl of about five years old with a wooden stick.

“Maria, stop him.
But don’t kill him.”

“Yes.”

When I gave the instruction through telekinesis, Maria disappeared before approaching the man.

“That’s enough.”

The moment the man swung his wooden stick backwards, Maria, who had reaapeared behind him without making any noise, caught it and took the stick from the man’s hand.
Sneaking up behind someone without a sound is an essential skill for a ninja.
All assassins can do it.

“What? Why are you here?”

“It’s a dungeon, it’s not surprising that there are people here, right?”

“Another one?”

While the man got distracted by Maria, I picked up the little girl and took some distance from them.
The little girl was shaking in my arms and clinging to me tightly.

The man was surrounded by Maria and me on both sides of the corridor.
Of course, I was aiming for this.

“Nonsense! There shouldn’t be anyone in this area!”

It’s true that this spot is pretty out of the way, it’s far from the dungeon entrance, and there’s no stairs to the next level nearby.

It’s a place that no one would normally visit, meaning, he’s either a habitual criminal or he learned about this place from someone else.

“Damn it! Now that you have seen my hobby, I can’t let you live.
Die!”

Saying so, the man drew the sword that was hanging on his waist and began to approach Maria.

Habitual criminal it is.
He is a lot more trashy than I imagined.
Looks like he was hitting the girl with a wooden stick, so that she wouldn’t die too fast…

Maria, who was already prepared for it, approached the man, grabbing him by the arm, and performed a perfect one-handed shoulder throw. (ED: A judo technique where you throw the opponent over your shoulder)

“Gah!” (ED: It was ‘ぐべっ!’ in the original, maybe it was supposed to be a part of some Japanese expression, but got cut short)

The middle-aged man got slammed into the ground, letting out a strange voice as he fainted.
There’s froth coming out of his mouth, so he shouldn’t be dead just yet.

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To be honest, I wouldn’t mind killing him, but I think it would be better to bring him back alive and publicize him crimes for the sake of deterring any future offenders, hence I instructed Maria to keep him alive.

“Well done.”

“Thank you very much.
I imitated the technique that Jin-sama used when he fought Mira-san.”

Speaking of which, I did use a throw that one time, on Mira, who was rampaging after becoming a vampire.
Did Maria try to imitate it? I’m not a judo practitioner to begin with, so I just threw her over my shoulder.

Come to think of it, Maria learned the “martial arts” skill on her own, didn’t she? Could it be that she acquired the skill by practising shoulder throws?

A: That’s right.

Maria, who can obtain the skill just by imitating the shoulder throwing I used by imitating what I saw on TV, is extraordinary in her own way…

While I was lost in such thoughts, the trembling little girl in my arms pulled on my clothes.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh… uh… thank you.”

She thanked me in a slurred speech.
I think I’ll better ask her about what had happened.

“You’re welcome.
What happened here?”

“Ugh…”

When I asked her about it, she shivered and clutched my clothes, seemingly at a loss for words.
It may have been too hasty to ask so soon.
I’m sure she’s still terrified.

“If you don’t want to say, that’s fine.
Let’s just get out of the dungeon for now.”

“Un…”

“Let’s go.”

Maria, who tied the old man with a rope and put him on a trolley in the short time it took me to talk with the little girl, also said she was ready to leave.

While holding the little girl in my arms, we made our way toward the nearest entrance, which was about 30 minutes away.
Even though it was the first floor, the old man must have been pretty skilled to safely reach this place.

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“Norton!? Why!?”

The man at the reception desk shouted with a blue face when we arrived at the entrance.
Hmm, this guy seems to be related to this.

By the way, Norton is the man who beat up the girl.
He didn’t have any interesting skills, and he’s not a strong opponent, so I’ll skip the status.

I took away his stats, leaving just enough to keep him alive.

“This man was trying to kill this child in the dungeon.
Do you know this man?”

“Yes, yes, he’s the director of the orphanage in the city just outside the entrance.”

A middle-aged man whose hobby is beating children to death, and on top of that, he is the director of an orphanage.

Isn’t this country done for? …I’ll be preaching to Cattleya later.
No, it might be more effective to not let her eat at our place for some time.

“Which receptionist was here when this guy came through?”

“Well, I don’t know.
I just started my shift, so I wouldn’t know…”

I could tell at a glance that he’s lying with how his eyes were swimming all over the place.

“I see.
Then call the previous receptionist.
He said he enjoys hurting children, so it’s not like it’s his first time.
If the receptionist is on it too, they will most likely be treated as an accomplice.”

“Ugh…”

The man’s face turns even bluer.

Obviously, I’m not going to let him get away with it.

“Maria.”

“Yes.”

“Guffaw!”

Maria approached the man standing at the reception desk using “Flash Step” and punched him in the stomach, instantly knocking him out.

Was she trying to imitate the gut punch I used that other time?

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I will explain what happened next.

First of all, the orphanage director in question had apparently been beating children to death for quite some time.
The records of the children who had left the orphanage had been falsified in various ways, and most of them had been taken in by homes that did not actually exist.
Almost all of them are probably dead…

It became apparent that there were not just one or two receptionists who had assisted the director, but quite a few.
Using the full power of Alta, we were able to catch most of those who were in that city.
I guess I’ll leave it to the kingdom to capture the ones who have already fled.

“You really saved me a lot of trouble this time around.
I didn’t expect you to do so much in half a day.
…Please leave the rest to me.
And don’t worry, I won’t ask you any questions about why you were on the first floor or how you came across such a scene.”

It was Elincia who said this.
When I contacted the Explorer Guild about this, she rushed here, even going as far as to use a transfer stone.

ED Reminder: One of the dungeon items, that lets you instantly teleport back to the dungeon entrance.
Since it takes you to the last entrance that the stone, and not the person passed through, they are used for instant travel around the kingdom.

Being Cattleya’s subordinate, she sure works fast.
Plus, the transfer stones for moving around the country shouldn’t be cheap…

A: Elincia is paid well.

I don’t think that’s the problem here.

“So, what about the orphanage?”

“It was a state-run orphanage, but it will be shut down as expected.
The kids will be dispersed to other orphanages.
Also, whoever was auditing the orphanage will be appropriately punished.”

As usual, Elincia is merciless.
…No, it’s probably appropriate in this case? Multiple children have been killed due to their negligence.

“What about the director and the receptionist?”

“I’m sure you’ll agree with me, it’s an act that smears the dignity of the entire country.
It will never be tolerated.
In the unlikely event that the death penalty is not carried out, I will go and put an end to them myself.”

The probability of the director and the receptionists surviving had just dropped to zero.

“That’s it for the report.
Then, I’ll send this child to the orphanage.”

The little girl I had rescued in the dungeon has stayed by my side until now.

It was getting dark, and there was no reason to take her around any longer, so I tried to hand her over to Elincia.

“No! I will stay with you!”

She still refused to leave my side.
She reminded me of a koala, clinging to me with all her strength.