Is it wrong to try to meet someone in a dungeon?

Ais didn't notice that Riveria was watching her with a stern gaze while she remained silent, and so she moved forward on the boundary of "beginning".

then.

The moment Ais had been waiting for finally arrived.

"Gurgle..."

"!"

It has short arms and legs, a slightly plump body, and green skin.

It is the "Goblin" that appears on the first floor of the dungeon. This monster, along with the dog-headed, human-bodied "Earth Spirit," is considered one of the low-level monsters that adventurers encounter at the beginning.

Ahead of the straight passage, the goblin bared its short fangs and growled.

Inside Ais's chest, her heart trembled violently.

The back, engraved with the word "Grace," seemed to contain black flames, emitting high temperatures.

"Do not start a war rashly. Do not try to defeat your opponent in one blow. First—"

Rivera wanted to teach Ais how to fight, but she was interrupted halfway through her sentence.

Because Ais completely ignored her instructions and rushed out on the spot.

"!Fool!"

Despite the elf's scolding striking her back, the little girl raised her sword high above her head and charged forward.

Despite her clamor, Rivera had no intention of helping Ais. Her conclusion was that dealing with goblins, regardless of the counterattack, wouldn't be fatal. Ais needed to suffer some hardship to learn from her mistakes. That was her thinking.

However, her guess was wrong.

Golden strands of hair fluttering in the maze...

A full-force slash unleashed from her entire petite frame...

The monster was blown to pieces.

"────"

"Chirp!?"

Slices of flesh splattered, blood gushed, and the death screams soared to the heavens.

Its limbs shattered and exploded, turning the hideous monster into even more grotesque pieces of flesh.

The monster was struck by the trajectory of the "Child's Sword," and in an instant, it met its demise.

That wasn't the effect a slash should have. Witnessing what looked like someone being smashed with a sledgehammer, Riveria was speechless.

one strike.

This is how the "goblin" was killed.

A level 1 adventurer who has just received [ability points] should not have such power in their first attack.

This resulted in an undesirable outcome—overkill.

This was "Adventurer Ais Wallenstein's" first battle, and also her first victory.

"……so……"

With a crooked slash that barely qualifys as a swordsmanship, Ais slowly straightened her upper body, which was covered in blood.

The little girl's cherry-like lips murmured these words unconsciously:

"So, we've taken down one..."

This is the first one worth commemorating.

It was the little girl's first step, the "beginning".

However, Ais felt no emotion whatsoever.

He felt no sense of accomplishment, not even excitement or other emotions; he simply accepted the spoils of war with a blank expression on his blood-stained face.

This is just a necessary stage.

The little girl's journey to achieve great strength has such a long end that this tiny step is insignificant.

So Ais rushed out.

To awaken an even stronger fighting spirit, she ran while pounding her chest and roaring.

Attracted by the girl's cries and the bloody scent of their kind, hordes of monsters gathered from all directions of the labyrinth.

Riveria snapped back to reality and tried to stop her, but Ais ignored her and began slashing at the monsters roaring in the depths of the labyrinth.

The blade emitted a muffled thud, carving out several trajectories.

Accompanied by the cries of monsters.

"How is this possible... Unbelievable."

Faced with the entire scene before her, Rivera could only manage to utter these few words.

"Eek!?"

"────────Ahhh!?"

Every time the little girl swung her fist, the monster would explode one after another.

Like the earliest "goblin," the monster turned into a pile of flesh and exploded.

"Ughhhhhhh!!"

From Riveria's perspective, it was nothing short of a clumsy attack. Ais had her entire weight on the sword used by the dwarf race, and her posture was awkward as she delivered a forward-leaning slash. However, the power hidden within the blade was indeed enough to kill a "goblin" or "earth spirit." The threatening cries quickly turned into shrill screams. As the little girl repeatedly used her "power," even the sword began to wail.

The ground was covered with the hands and feet of monsters, and the walls were splattered with blood that had turned into paint.

It was an unusual sight. It wasn't something a little girl, who had never even properly held a sword, let alone fought, could create. The little girl was still frantically charging at the monster, her ferocious face sending chills down even Rivera's spine.

"!!"

"Gooooo!?"

Just as Riveria felt a chill run down her spine, Ais delivered a final attack to the last remaining monster.

She gritted her teeth with all her might and unleashed a powerful strike that struck the center of the "Earth Spirit's" body.

The monster's entire body, along with the "magic stone," was shattered and turned to dust.

"Haa, haa, haa..."

Now, all that echoes in the underground city is the little girl's disordered breathing.

"...Ais, that's enough for today. Time to go back."

"I...can still fight!"

Rivera was worried about the little girl's condition and told her it was time to go back.

Ais dodged the hand that was reaching out to her, her fighting spirit showing no signs of waning.

However, at that moment—with a thud.

Something gently fell from Ais's lips.

"what……"

"...?"

The little girl noticed something and froze on the spot, while Riveria looked surprised.

She crouched down and picked up "that" that had fallen out of Ais's mouth.

"This is……"

That thing was placed in Riveria's palm.

The pure white, radiant object was neither a "magic stone" nor a "dropped item"—it was a child's baby tooth.

*

"Hahahaha────!?"

Loki burst into loud laughter as he pinched the adorable baby tooth between his fingers.

"She used so much force that she lost a tooth! That's hilarious! But then again, Ais is only a seven-year-old little girl!"

"I never imagined I could grit my teeth and fight to this extent..."

Loki, clutching his stomach, sat on the table laughing so hard his legs were swinging wildly, while Finn, sitting behind the desk, wore a wry smile.

The location was the office at the Loki Familia's headquarters. Besides Ais and Rivera, who had returned from the dungeon, only Loki, Finn, and Grace were present. Rivera and the others had come to report that Ais had completed her registration and officially debuted as an adventurer.

Riveria told Loki what had happened in the dungeon, and with the addition of Ais's teeth that she had brought back, the goddess burst into laughter as soon as she heard it.

As for Ais herself, who was being ridiculed, her face turned red, and she turned her head to the side.

Moreover, she pursed her lips into a thin line, as if she would never open her mouth no matter what she said.

"Hey, Ais, say 'Ee-', 'Ee-'! Let me see your cute, toothless face!"

"don't want!"

Loki approached with a grinning, middle-aged face, while Ais turned her back to him and walked toward the door.

"I'm going back!"

"—Dream on, Grace!!"

Loki immediately snapped his fingers, making a crisp sound.

The dwarf sighed and leaned over, gently scooping Ais up in his arms.

"!? Let go of me!"

"Hehehehe—! Here, I am truly a god—!"

The little girl was pinned under her armpits, her tiny feet kicking and thrashing about; Loki immediately launched an attack. And it was a precisely calculated tickling attack, not escalating into a perverted act of groping.

"~~~~~~~~!?"

"Come on, come on, open your little mouth!"

He scratched her waist with ten fingers, making the little girl's eyes widen suddenly.

Her desperate resistance was futile; before long, she couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Stop... Ugh! No—ah... Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!?"

Riveria put her right hand to her forehead and closed her eyes, while Finn still wore a bitter smile; right in front of the two of them, Ais's face was flushed, tears welled in her eyes, and her mouth was wide open.

Loki leaned closer to take a look and saw that next to the canine tooth, on the upper side, a molar had fallen out, exposing the gum.

"Hahaha! So cute! Ais's face with the missing tooth is now permanently stored in my memory!! I'll keep this tooth safe!"

After laughing to his heart's content, Loki carefully wrapped his baby teeth in a scarf, treating them like precious treasures.

Just the next moment.

Ais finally stopped laughing, stood up unsteadily, and her golden eyes shone like a wild beast.

She closed in on Loki with astonishing speed and kicked him hard with her little foot.

"snort!!"

"Gugah ahh ...

Even though it was just a low kick from the little girl, it was a "favored" kick, a strengthened kick that could even kill monsters; this time it hit Loki's shinbone directly, and Loki let out a shrill scream.

Seeing the main god rolling around on the ground with one foot in his hand, Riveria and the others all looked like they had a terrible headache.

Ais, her face flushed with anger, didn't even glance at the humiliated Loki, and finally left the office.

For quite some time, the god's agonizing screams echoed incessantly in the room.

"...So, how is it, Rivera? How is the child?"

After the little girl's scent had faded from the office.

Loki, screaming in agony, seemed to have been faking his previous reactions. He stood up and asked Rivera a question, his expression shifting from a playful grin to a stern, unsmiling one.

Rivera looked back at her and revealed her inner thoughts:

"Largely as expected. She disregarded her own life, was too eager to achieve her personal goals, and was overly obsessed with gaining power."