As a villain, I raised a defeated dog to become a black boss

"Oh? You're actually drinking here without telling me."

"Don't mention it. I took it out of the cabinet and it seemed to be expired after I tasted it. I had to keep it here just to show off."

Will looked at Shona under the moonlight.

She looked like a melancholic lady who couldn't sleep at night and went out to drink.

Will always felt that Shona was the kind of person who wouldn't be sad.

"What's wrong? Do I look good tonight? Are you staring at me?"

When she saw Will, the melancholy on her face flashed away and was replaced by a teasing smile.

"Speaking of which...you really didn't treat her as a 'person' today."

There seemed to be a layer of smile underneath her voice.

"Who?"

"Lucifer. When you said those words, I was shocked."

"Um...that sentence about wanting her heart?"

"Yes."

Shona said, shaking her wine bottle, and the full bottle would naturally not ring.

"She herself has always said that she is the empress of the underground city. Isn't this much higher-end than others?"

Speaking of which, Will has been thinking too.

Lucifer's reaction seemed quite extreme, and she kept describing herself as a scumbag who was good at manipulating emotions - why exactly?Although now it seems that he is really good at it.

"Hmm...don't you feel it? Speaking those words in that environment, there is something perverted that comes from the heart."

"What's wrong? Generally speaking, when it comes to dungeon strategies, it's not recommended to start with the heart of the emperor. To be fair, haven't you touched or even stabbed the hearts of several emperors? Besides, when it comes to the heart, isn't she the first... …”

Halfway through, Will paused.

"Think about it again? Touching the breasts of a seven or eight-year-old girl and then seriously saying that you want her heart..."

Oh no.

Something is really wrong.

At that moment, he really didn't regard Lucifer as a "human". After all, the demons in the Tenth Castle seemed to be small.

But if you think about it carefully, besides having some demonic elements in you...

Lucifer is completely humanoid!

There’s no problem at all with looking at a stunning waifu!

Why did he do it so naturally?

Is it because...

because……

When she said those words, she really looked like an empress who was guarding her own dungeon, looking at the desolate scene in the dungeon, wanting to change but unable to do anything?

As the empress of an unvisited dungeon, she did almost everything she could to win over adventurers, but it was a pity that she had little effect.

perhaps……

For an empress who has supported the dungeon by herself, it would be a good thing not to be treated like a child.

Fortunately, there was no one else except Shona, otherwise the door of System's house would have been trampled on by unknown people who came to deliver the child the next day.

"Okay. It's my fault. She deleted my memory several times and teased me with scraps of gossip. Let's call it even."

"Haha, that's exactly what you would say."

"So, Xiuna is standing here so late, what is she feeling melancholy about?"

"How should I put it? In fact, I was thinking about this issue when I entered the dungeon on the first day. Will, you said...why is there no adventurer in the Tenth Castlevania?"

"..."

Will was silent for a moment.

As a member of the System family, theoretically, he has the most say on issues concerning the Adventurers Association.

But actually...

What he learned about the Adventurers Association from the System family was not even one-tenth of what he learned about the Adventurers Association from the original work!

"What's wrong? Can't answer? Well...it turns out that the young master of the System family is really not favored at all."

"Yes, yes. The family's operations have nothing to do with me. I am completely excluded. It's as if I'm dead..."

Will paused.

right.

It's like... I'm going to die?

"But, just take a look at the Adventurers Association's information and you will know."

"Hmm? Shona, are you staying up at night because you are studying this?"

"Correct."

Shona nodded.

"As a town close to the capital, its Adventurer Association is not marked on our commonly used adventurer map, but is blocked by the large icon of the capital. Of course, you and I both know that the Adventurer Association of the capital... "

"It's very small. There's no need to use such a big icon."

"Secondly, almost all the recommended dungeons don't mention the Tenth Castlevania - if the old witch hadn't specifically mentioned it, I wouldn't have come to this place at all."

"..."

"Finally, a very strange point. As a city with underground cities, the most convenient transportation in Caimat Town...is to transport vegetables and fruits to the capital, but not to communicate with other cities that also have underground cities."

"It's almost like..."

"It's like being deliberately ignored by the Adventurers Association, isn't it?"

Chapter 218 "Winner"

"It's like being deliberately ignored by the Adventurers Association, isn't it?"

——The words that came out of Yu Xiuna's mouth made Will startled.

This is true.

Although as the person who founded the association, he didn't want to admit it.

but……

What makes Lucifer so "frustrated", "sad" and "tangled" is indeed the Adventurers Association's intentional neglect.

"So, you from the System family..."

Like a keen detective, Shona deduced the "murderer" just through the current "information".

At the same time, she used her keen sense of smell to get close to the "murderer" and stared at "him".

"...You should know the reason behind it, right?"

"That's how it should be. But as the outside world thinks, I am the least favored one, and I have no intention of letting the head of the family give me a seat, so I don't know what they think. "

"What a pity. You could have been more aggressive and given Lucifer a surprise, for example..."

Xiuna paused for a moment, seeming to be preparing an interesting tone:

"'It doesn't matter, as long as I give the order, you can receive hundreds of adventurers tomorrow' - something like that?"　

Will was frightened by Shona's imitation of a domineering president's tone and stepped back - although there is no such profession in this world.

"But if you think about it from my business perspective, at this point in time..."

At this point in time, when the System family is restricted by Entak's royal family, they have not been able to completely bring the dungeon to the forefront.

They also have to pay a large amount of taxes every year and are restricted by the government and military of Entak in various cities.

and so……

"Carver may have wanted to use such behavior to isolate and weaken the royal family. After all, the closer to the capital, the greater Ntak's sphere of influence."

This was the conclusion that came to Will's mind.

"You see, with the traffic maintained by the Adventurers Association, they rarely even open such a road."

From the perspective of time and fate, it’s very reasonable, right?

only……

Thinking about it this way, the appearance and supplies of dungeons have always been a "random" existence in this world, but if Carver can control the prosperity of dungeons by controlling the number of adventurers, then the System family and the Adventurers Association, There were far more things he could control than he initially thought.

Is this the long hidden line buried in the original work?

"Is this so? I always feel that... things are not that simple."

Shona clenched her chin, seeming to be thinking about something deeper - something that had nothing to do with the superficial political struggle.

"Without the exploration of adventurers, this dungeon will always stop. Well... my intuition is very accurate, but I usually don't just trust my intuition."

She went from looking at the deserted street outside the stairs to closing her eyes and thinking silently.

"Why did the old witch lead us here? Even if she wants to trick us, she shouldn't go to a dungeon that is also weak in strength, so there must be some other information she wants to tell us here..."

"I advise you, don't try to understand what an experienced witch is thinking. Maybe she really wants to play tricks on us."

"But Will, I always feel that this time, someone is preventing the exploration of the dungeon—perhaps from the inside of the dungeon, and it has nothing to do with us humans."

"This one……"

Will didn't speak.

If it was just the information he knew from this world, he wouldn't be able to analyze anything.

but……

Speaking from the original work...

Judging from the parts he took over when adapting it into a game, there is indeed an "organization" inside the dungeon.Some dungeons that are not geographically related on the surface are actually a united front on the inside.

However, the original work is already stuck here.At the end of the published sixth volume, the empress met another empress in the dungeon and said this - speaking of it, the six volumes of the original work did not meet as many emperors as he had seen in his current adventure.

If you look at it from the original work...

This may be an abyss best left untouched.

"Forget it. I think we should not think about this anymore. After all, we can't interfere with the things inside the dungeon even if we want to."

"Well……"

Shona nodded, then opened her eyes and sighed.

"That's right."

"Okay, okay, let's go back to sleep. Although... I can't sleep either."

"No, wait a moment..."

Shona grabbed Will's wrist who was about to turn around.

Her strength was not light, causing Will to frown slightly.

"I'm thinking about some of the ultimate secrets deep in the dungeon, so I can't sleep. You - why can't you sleep?"

"This...this..."

Will thought for a while, and it seemed that he had indeed never told Shona.

"Huh? I can't sleep anyway, why don't you tell me?"

Shona gently turned her hand and pulled him to the window next to her, and made room for him.

"Here, I've wiped it clean. Let's look out the window together and talk about it?"

Will bowed his head.

Outside the window, you can see the slightly desolate streets of Tsemaat Town. There are few shops on the streets that are open to the public, and they are basically residents' houses.The houses were also dilapidated and looked unrepaired.

It is hard to imagine that a town with an underground city that is relatively close to the capital and even provides supplies to the capital can be in such a dilapidated state.