Volume 17 Chapter 5, With Floria

Thanks to the construction of Golem No. 1, Kouske no longer had to think about feeding time.

For Amamiya Tower, which had many floors, there could be no better advantage than this.

So, he decided to summon more dependents on empty floors.

He chose the floor to summon from the nine floors that used to be the floors of the former South Tower.

The 11th Floor had already summoned Mini Dragons, so he increased the number to 50 for the time being.

On the 12th Floor, 13th Floor, and 14th Floor, he summoned Wraiths, Slimes, and Goblins, respectively.

He wanted to see if there was any difference in growth by summoning monsters the same as those in the Four Attribute Towers.

Incidentally, the 12th Floor, where Wraiths were summoned, had its design changed to a dungeon.

The function to change the environment of the Floor was originally provided as a function of the Tower, but in the early days, too much divine power was required for it to be practical.

Although it used a certain amount of divine power, the change was made at a necessary expense.

In the early days, however, there was neither the time nor the room to verify such things.

As for the other dependents, Kousuke summoned them, and they were registered in the menu, so they were used to increase the quantity of them.

He summoned 50 dependents on each floor.

He also set up the usual set of objects.

The 12th Floor, which was designed as a dungeon, also had a base of operations in a location with a reasonable size.

The naturally spawning monsters were automatically switched to those appearing on the 51st Floor when the dungeon specification was set, but this could also be something that needs to be verified in the future.

It made sense that the naturally spawning monsters would change depending on the environment.

Since there was no plan to invite adventurers, treasure chests were omitted.

Some monsters might collect the contents of the treasure chests, but it would be wasteful to set them up just for that purpose.

The addition of traps was omitted for the same reason.

The goal was to defeat the monsters and increase the level of dependents, but there was no point in using traps to reduce the number of the monsters.

As for the 11th Floor, 13th Floor, and 14th Floor, the environment remained the same.

However, the original environment was originally the floor in the South Tower, so it was not exactly the same as other floors.

When the floor with the World Tree was exchanged, the lower floor of the South Tower was exchanged, so the monsters that appeared were also low-level monsters.

As with the Slime, the Goblins were not as strong as a Template, so they were just as good as the Slime.

When evolved individuals appeared, the plan was to increase the number to a hundred at once.

After that, they decided to increase the number of them as they went, depending on how things progressed.

However, they would not summon their dependents to occupy the entire floor, unlike the Four Attribute Towers.

The reason for this was simply that the Floor was too large, and it would take too much time and effort to summon them.

Kousuke then considered how to make the most of the remaining Floor.

As for the number of dependents, he did not plan to increase the number of types because it would be too many to keep track of.

Since the first through the seventieth floors were to be used by adventurers, Kousuke would actually only have about seventy floors at his disposal, or sixty-seven floors to be exact.

Kousuke and his dependents only occupied less than 20 floors, so there was still plenty of room to spare.

It would not be interesting to simply increase the number.

That being said, there was nothing he could come up with immediately that would be useful at all.

Kousuke’s thoughts were thus trapped in a loop, but the other members were doing what they always did and left it alone.

It was also true that there was nothing special to do on the four floors, which were practically newly set up, unless there was a major movement such as evolution.

Incidentally, Golem no. 1, which was created with a lot of effort, was useful for setting up food for Amamiya Tower, and it was well received by other Towers as well, especially those belonging to the Four Attributes.

Although they were a smaller floor area, it was still a burden for them to set up the summoning circles for food, since the whole floor was filled with their dependents.

“…So, Kousuke, what are you thinking about again, frowning like that?”

Floria spoke to Kousuke, who was relaxing on the sofa in the relaxation space.

“Hey, you know… Please don’t make it sound like I’m always doing something wrong.”

“You’re not?”

She said, sounding genuinely surprised.

“No, I’m not. It’s simply that I happened to accidentally strike something that, from everyone else’s point of view, I’m doing…”

“I think that’s what you call doing something wrong, isn’t it?”

Even if it was a fluke, if it continued to happen, it became inevitable.

Floria gave him a glare, and Kousuke looked away.

He reminded himself that this was not a good excuse.

“Ah, yeah. Well, is that all you want to tell me?”

“I guess you could say that, yeah?”

Floria stared at Kousuke for a while, but then burst out laughing.

“Don’t give me that look. I’m not accusing you of anything.”

“…Really?”

“Yes. Kousuke, you are the reason we’re here in the first place. Isn’t it because of all the things you’re doing? That we can be here like this?”

“Well, that’s true.”

With regard to the very first attack on Amamiya Tower, it was completely accomplished by Kouhi and Mitsuki, but after that, it was mostly Kousuke’s doing.

Of course, he did not forget about Wahid and other summoned members.

Seeing Kousuke in such a state, Floria sat down on the sofa where Kousuke was lying down and forced him to sit up and linked her arms around him.

“…Floria?”

“Hmph. What? Isn’t it nice to do this sometimes?”

“Hmph. Hey, isn’t it nice sometimes?”

“No, it’s not that I don’t like it…”

It was rare for Floria to directly ask for physical contact like this.

He had a feeling of, ‘I’m doing what I should be doing, so what’s the point now?’ but he was reminded of what he needed to do.

They sat together for a while, not talking about anything, until Kousuke suddenly remembered and asked her a question.

“Speaking of which, don’t you have to go see Alec or something?”

“What, all of a sudden? No, it’s because it’s a time like this… If you ask me if I want to see him, of course I want to see him, but I don’t want to push him to see me. If I wanted to, I could meet him here.”

He and Floria had met in the meeting space on the Administration Floor on several occasions, as Alec had been there several times.

“No, well, yes. Alec isn’t the only one coming over here, is he?”

“Yeah, my mother also comes here, but… What? Why are you talking so much about that side of things today?

“No, I don’t mean anything in particular. I just thought you might be lonely. Especially after what happened when you came here.”

Both Alec and Floria previously considered their situation to be one where they were pushed around by slavers.

It wasn’t until they came to the Management Floor that they understood that it was a complete misunderstanding.

On the contrary, they now have a relationship that was unexpected at the time.

“Don’t tell me about what happened back then… No, that’s a good memory now.”

Floria muttered, then giggled and wrapped her intertwined arms around him even tighter.

“Like that time, I had what you might call, made a calculated move when you first held me.”

“…I’ve noticed that, well, yeah. Of course I would.”

“…Yes. But now it’s all over now, you know?”

Kousuke’s expression of surprise at Floria’s sudden confession was evident.

“What’s with that face? I know what you want to say, but even I would be hurt by that, you know?”

“No, sorry. I didn’t think you were going to say something like that.”

“I’m sure you’re right. I’m surprised, myself.”

With a mischievous look on her face, Floria giggled for a moment.

In fact, Floria had never thought she had the personality to come out and say something like this.

She was definitely aware that Kousuke had changed her.

“Well, it’s not a bad change, is it?”

“Well, I suppose. Or rather, I welcome it.”

Kousuke and Floria both started laughing together.

“Aah! No flirting in everyone’s presence!”

Their time together came to an end with Collete’s voice.

The other members, noticing Collete’s voice, came up to her and asked. “What’s going on?”

So, unfortunately, the rare time for just the two of them to spend alone together had come to an end.