Danma: Danganronpa, but Monster Hunter!

Chapter Sixty-Seven: Roll it up, you can roll it up!

“Ah, it hurts, it hurts…”

At the dining table in the grand restaurant, Lieyan carefully picked up a pale yellow noodle covered in rich broth and put it in his mouth, slurping it as he tried to calm his body's spasms.

Today's breakfast at the Rocky Dining Hall was pasta-like noodles served with a rich cheesy gratin sauce, which was as delicious as always.

"Speaking of which, didn't I see a similar scene yesterday?"

Looking at the current miserable state of the flames, Grace, who had placed a plate of noodles piled high on the long dining table, sighed and said earnestly:

"Flame, why don't you give up your morning training with Ais? That girl doesn't know her own strength. Judging from your current condition, this can't be called training at all; it's just being beaten up..."

"...But I'm training my endurance, and isn't endurance training all about getting beaten up?"

Flame slurped the noodles hanging from his lips into his mouth, staring at Grace with a lifeless look in his eyes.

"Training for endurance... well, there's nothing I can do about that. Good luck."

Grace remained silent for a moment. As one of the Loki Familia's top vanguards, Grace naturally knew exactly what endurance training methods entailed.

To increase the durability attribute, it is necessary to allow the body to be injured and then become more resilient after healing.

Unlike other ability growth, the growth of endurance ability is actually the most damn scientific.

Let alone Ais, even if it were Grace wanting to train Flame's endurance, he could only swing his iron fist and beat Flame half to death, then give him a recovery potion, and then continue beating him after he recovered.

"Thank you for the meal, I'm finished eating."

After breakfast, Lieyan got up, left the cafeteria, and returned to his room.

This was the day after Blaze had finished his mission to capture the Rock Dragon and returned to Flamefire Village.

After a hectic first day, followed by an entire afternoon dedicated to the dungeon, Blaze finally returned to her familiar routine.

During the day, he goes down into the dungeon to have passionate encounters with Niu Niu; after dinner, he works with Riveria to translate books; occasionally, he returns to Flamefire Village to see if there's anything that needs to be taken care of. His life is incredibly fulfilling.

Because of him, the members of the clan who had only rested for a day or two suddenly felt that they could no longer continue to degenerate, so almost the entire clan became more and more active.

Even the teams from Flamefire Village became extra diligent because Raul, who had received new weapons, began training like crazy.

With two positive incentives working simultaneously in Orario and Fire Village, Loki and Finn were both very happy to feel the positive involution that had been stirred up.

The only problem is... the blonde passerby heroine seems to be in a slightly off-topic situation.

After being thoroughly outmaneuvered by Loki over the hunting incident, Ais carefully analyzed the pros and cons.

Adhering to the principle of eliminating the inefficient from the efficient, Ais decisively gave up her favorite pastime of sneaking into dungeons to grind monsters.

Instead, there was the longing look in her eyes every day, no matter where Lieyan met her.

Flames, strange, raging.jpg.

The longing in his eyes made even the fiercest flames feel a little uneasy.

Unfortunately, Blazing Flame hasn't received any suitable missions for Ais to undertake in the past two days.

There are regular lower-rank quests available, such as clearing wild boars, clearing flying beetles, gathering special materials, and hunting the Kamaitachi Dragon King, but these quests have already been accepted and completed by the Hunter Division's Familia members.

Everyone cherishes the opportunity to gain experience in this other world and has completely transformed into a task fanatic. They can't stand seeing a single red dot in their task list and complete every task within their capabilities without leaving a single one out.

There was absolutely no chance for Ais to make a move.

So Flame had no choice but to grit his teeth and retreat despite Ais's longing gaze.

However, after receiving news from Loki that Flame needed to train his endurance, Ais, who was somewhat idle, volunteered to help Flame with his training.

This marked the beginning of my grueling morning workouts.

After capturing Flame for morning training, it seems to be venting all the energy it can't release in the dungeon into its morning training. Compared to yesterday, the intensity of today's morning training has more than doubled.

In the end, it can only be said that the breakfast bell once again saved the flames.

The rescued Flame watched Loki swaggering behind Ais, plotting something sinister, but Loki was instantly defeated, and he was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth to dust.

Loki, you've tricked me again!

Lieyan doesn't believe there's no element of personal revenge involved.

With a sigh, Flame felt the aches and pains in his body, then opened the cabinet and took out a bottle of recovery potion from the full cabinet, slowly drinking it.

The bittersweet medicine flowed into his body, relieving the pain caused by the grueling training.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Go in, the door isn't closed."

"Hehe, Blaze."

The person who walked in from outside was someone that Lieyan hadn't expected.

Influenced by Tiona's radiant smile as she entered the room, Flame blinked and smiled back.

"What can I do for you, Tiona?"

"Flame, are you going down into the dungeon again today?" Tiona asked casually, looking at the decor of Flame's house.

"Yes, I'll go. The fifteenth floor." After swallowing the last bit of the recovery potion, Flame put away the empty bottle and nodded in reply.

Endurance training is a relatively long-term process, and results are not easily seen in the short term.

Although the Flame Familia had a sufficient number of potions, the Loki Familia was not as well-equipped as the Freya Familia next door, which had an extremely large number of healers as a guarantee, so they could only proceed step by step.

In short, Flame decided to train in the current mode for a day or two, then go to Loki to update his attributes, check the growth rate of his abilities, and then adjust the training method accordingly.

"So, Flame, you're going to the dungeon after all. Do you want to come with me? I already told you."

"oh oh."

Upon hearing Tiona's words, Blaze immediately remembered.

This happened yesterday. After Diona obtained the Insect Glaive, she and Blaze agreed to explore dungeons together to get used to the new weapon.

but……

"Didn't you say it would be in two days... that you had a lot of things to do and needed two days?"

“Everything’s been taken care of.” Tiona counted on her fingers. “A long sleep, a big meal, dealing with the Ulga II matter with the Gubney Familia, shopping with Ais, Tione, and Lefia… everything’s been taken care of ahead of schedule!”

What a nice "in advance"! One day in advance, huh?

That's impressive action!

Chapter Sixty-Eight: A Death That Leaves One with Unresolved Feelings

"Well done."

Looking at the girl in front of him, who was puffing out her thin chest and looking smug as if she wanted praise, Lie Yan's lips curled up. He placed his palm on her head, rubbed it vigorously, and praised her sincerely.

"Hee hee hee."

Tiona, however, was completely unfazed by this slightly offensive gesture. Instead, she burst into laughter and then, like a small animal, rubbed her head against Flame's palm even more vigorously.

For some reason, Tiona always felt very safe and secure when she came into contact with the flames, as if she had found a pillar or a support. This feeling made her want to get closer to the flames.

The Schilute twins never knew what their parents looked like.

Between the gaps between Flame's fingers, Tiona, who was rubbing her face against Flame's rough, calloused palm, raised her eyes and chuckled as she looked at Flame's smile.

But if it's flames...

"Then let's not delay any longer and start preparing the supplies for the dungeon."

After affectionately ruffling the woman's head for a while, Lieyan turned around and picked up the coffin bag, which was leaning against a corner of the room and looked dusty from repeated use. Then he opened the fully stocked cabinet and began unloading the contents.

Because of the apothecary setting Finn assigned him, his room now contains many items that might be used to prepare potions, such as various glass test tubes and containers.

Of course, Blaze has no use for these fancy things. Why would he need such inconvenient ingredients for blending? Isn't it just squeezing some healing herb juice into an empty bottle to make a healing potion? Add some honey and it becomes a healing potion G. Why would he need such fancy stuff?

After adding so many things inside and out, in the end, Lieyan's favorite thing is still this big cabinet.

Seeing this, Diona sat obediently on the bed of flames, swinging her bare feet back and forth, her round and smooth toes playfully crossing up and down, and the gold rings on her calves swaying slightly.

The naturally free-spirited Amazonians dislike being too restricted, so their clothing is generally quite sparse, or almost nonexistent, with sheer fabrics directly or indirectly revealing large areas of their brown skin.

Blazing Flame moved extremely quickly. In just a few minutes, he had filled his backpack to the brim, reaching its limit. Most of these potions were various recovery potions, with only a small amount being other potions for dealing with various special situations.

He was far too cautious.

"Hey, Flame, can we take Ais with us this time when we go down to the dungeon?"

At that moment, Tiona suddenly asked.

"Bringing her along is fine too." Flame didn't stop moving and answered casually, "But if we bring Ais along, wouldn't it be a bit of a waste for the three of us to go to the fifteenth floor?"

"Oh, it seems so... Hmm... How about exploring deeper? Flame, you've been stuck at the fifteenth floor for quite a while now, why don't we take this opportunity to go even deeper?"

Tiona's eyes widened, and she leaned forward excitedly, as if a small lightbulb had gone off beside her head.

"But my purpose is to improve my endurance. I'm going to the fifteenth floor because my Bull Slayer skill can greatly increase my attributes against bull-type enemies. I can also handle other monsters that appear now, so I can train more safely."

“Well, but if Ais and I go to the fifteenth floor, you won’t get a good training effect, right, Blaze…” Tiona hit the nail on the head.

The flames paused.

What Tiona said... seems to make sense.

"How about we just do it this way?"

As Tiona pondered this, she suddenly slapped her left hand against her right palm with a 'smack', and then her eyes lit up as she said:

"It's still early, let's explore the deeper parts of the dungeon for a while, then head back after some time, and then go to the ninth floor together."

There's a very spacious area there, perfect for sparring. Once we get there, Ais and I will give you special training, just like we did this morning. How does that sound?

Are you a devil?!

The Hell Girls Singles match this morning is over, and you're actually planning a Hell Girls Doubles match!

To be fair, this method seems quite constructive, since the results of sparring with high-level adventurers should be better than forcibly leveling up with the Minotaur under various buffs.

The only problem is... Tiona, don't forget, you just switched to the Insect Glaive...

Blazing Flame silently rolled his eyes.