When My Room Turned Into A Dungeon Rest Stop Volume 3 Chapter 2 Part 3
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Translator: “SomewhatOkay” Editor: “Weasalopes”
Kuno thanked me cheerfully, but Tateishi, having removed her coat, sat silently, her white clothes soaked with water.
Telling her that she’d catch a cold, I handed her a towel and a jersey to change into, but she flatly rejected my offer.
「What do we do now?」Kuno asked Tateishi. She was probably asking about the ghost.
My apartment was certainly strange for multiple reasons, but ghosts were most definitely not one of them.
「I’m telling you, there’s nothing weird going on here…」I protested.
「I knew it. I sense a spirit bearing ill will.」
There’s nothing of the sort here.
「A spirit! Don’t worry, Suzuki! Ayame has done tons of exorcisms! She’s even done one at a major traffic intersection!」
「A-ah, is that so.」
No matter how you looked at it, Tateishi seemed entirely clueless when it came to the supernatural. But hearing about her full-blown exorcism jobs, I guess the rest of society hadn’t picked up on that fact.
「By the way, Suzuki,」The white-clothed beauty addressed me. 「What’s with that room over there?」
「I-it’s just a Japanese-style room.」
「I see.」
She stabbed her finger in that direction.
「I sense the spirit coming from that direction.」
Her finger was pointed directly at the closet where a bloomer-wearing elf and some forbidden texts were concealed.
Despite having zero sense of the supernatural, Tateishi had a seriously impressive intuition.
「It is most certainly a malicious spirit, but whether it’s a healthy malicious or an unhealthy malicious…」
「I understand. Then, we should purify it as soon as possible.」
Tateishi stood up from the table.
That made sense… NOT. I didn’t have a single idea of what they were saying.
I hurriedly stood up as well, blocking Tateishi’s way.
「Stop, stop. You can’t.」
「W-why? Why do you stop me?」
Uh-oh. I couldn’t think of a single excuse. Admittedly, I did have several good reasons, none of which I could say out loud.
「Just, you can’t!」
「Suzuki, you’re being possessed by an evil spirit. Please just look at yourself in the mirror!」
「That’s just ‘cause I’m sleep deprived!」
「Whatever! Please just get out of my way!」
Tateishi moved to push me from blocking the entrance to the Japanese-style room.
「Urgh~~~~~. Urgh~~~~~.」
Unfortunately for her, she was beyond weak.
「Hm?」I glanced at her.
Tateishi panted from the exertion. 「Even though I’m stronger than all the girls… This must be the power of a man possessed by an evil spirit.」
Tateishi was 165cm tall, so her claim of being stronger than all the other girls didn’t seem far-fetched.
But despite exerting so much effort that her face turned bright red, her pushes felt no more powerful than a child’s.
「Kuno, help me out here~~~~!」
「Leave it to me!」
While Tateishi was tall, Kuno made up for it with body mass, with how fat she was.
She charged at me like a sumo wrestler, and I panicked, thinking that I’d be sent flying backwards. In reality though, I didn’t budge a centimeter..
「「Urgh~~~~~. Urgh~~~~~.」」
Kuno and Tateishi were pushing me together with all their might, but I could barely even feel it. What was going on?
Oh- that’s right! My 「Strength」had risen significantly since I started from level 1.
Thanks to Shizuku, I’d been able to catch a few winks of sleep, so I figured I’d try calculating my strength now. My grip strength was 4 times my 「Strength」, which was 28, so…
A grip strength of 112kg??? Wait- didn’t you only need a grip strength of 80kg to crush an apple!?
A-alright!
「I’m telling you, you can’t.」I declared, a little more confidently this time. I forced Tateishi and Kuno backwards, taking care to not commit any acts that might be perceived as sexual harassment.
Pushing them all the way back to the front door, I opened it, requesting them to leave.
Luckily, I still had the key in my pocket. That should send them back to Japan.
I gave them a small shove, and they slowly backed away through the doorway.
「But- there were two of us pushing!」
「W-what power!」
Amazing… The results of my grinding were paying off, even in Japan.
I was becoming increasingly addicted to the leveling-up click game.
And with one final step, they were both out the door. At that time:
「Are those… guests? And is that… a sumo wrestler?」
A golden haired girl wearing bloomers appeared from behind me.
As it turned out, with how sleep-deprived I was, my brain was only half-functioning.
Because even if Deet was safely hidden inside the closet, I had failed to account for the fact that Ria had been in the bath.
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Ria sat next to me, a bright grin spread across her beaming face. Sitting across from me were Tateishi and Kuno, glaring at me with obvious suspicion.
This time, I brought out tea for 3 people.
「Um. This is Tateishi and Kuno. They’re my co-workers.」
Though they seemed far from satisfied, the two bowed politely.
「So, who’s that girl?」Kuno asked.
「She is, um, Ria.」
「Ha-llo.」Ria, still smiling cheerfully, greeted them in broken Japanese. Though to her, it would be the monster language.
I had instructed both Ria and Deet to avoid using telepathy when speaking to Japanese people, and use Japanese instead. That warning had paid off but… Kuno continued to bombard Ria with questions.
「What country are you from? Why are you wearing bloomers? Suzuki, don’t tell me you’re doing indecent things to a foreign girl…」
Even after I told them her name, the questions continued. Well, fair enough. They’d gone to my room to perform an exorcism, only for a golden haired bloomer-wearing girl to randomly appear, so questions were only natural.
「Y-you’ve got it wrong!」
I wasn’t lying either! It’s not like I did anything to her, and Ria was the one who chose to wear that outfit, and besides, she wasn’t a foreigner! She was from another world!
「U-um… Romania? She’s from Romania, doing a homestay?」
「Who’s even the one asking questions here? And what’s your explanation for the bloomers?」
「U-um, well, Ria really likes Japanese culture, so she came here to learn more. Like, about why old-fashioned bloomers are so popular right now.」
Kuno’s suspicion only seemed to grow, but Tateishi’s face brightened instantly.
「Ah, so it was something like that. I figured you wouldn’t be the type to do perverted things.」
Ehhhh!? For some reason, Tateishi believed me now? Kuno looked as equally surprised as I was.
「U-um, why, you, wet, white, clothes, wear?」Ria stammered out.
Just as a golden haired bloomer-wearing girl would stand out like a sore thumb to a Japanese person, apparently a girl with straight black hair and wearing wet white clothes was anomalous to a person from another world.
「These are clothes for purifying ghosts.」
「Ghosts?」
「Ghosts, spirits, spectres- they’re monsters.」
As someone who had casually mowed down hordes of skeletons, there was no way that these supposed ‘monsters’ could frighten Ria. Or so I thought, but the second that Tateishi mentioned it, Ria dove under the table, cowering and trembling in fear.
On a side note, she didn’t fit all the way under, and her bloomer-wearing butt was stuck out, exposed. Well, somehow, it turned out that Ria was afraid of Tateishi’s monsters.
「Don’t worry, Ria! I was born in a temple, and I’m an expert in exorcisms. I will protect both you and Suzuki!」
「P-please, do.」Ria said earnestly.
「So please let me investigate that malicious spirit.」
「Y-you can’t. You can’t.」
I once again stood in front of the Japanese-style room, hands spread out. And Tateishi once again moved to push me aside.
「Why don’t you let me pass? There’s a ghost in your room!」
「No means no!」
Tateishi was weak as expected, but this time, Ria joined her.
「Sir Tooru. Even if, ghost, scary, they help, kill it, is good.」Ria said, then shoved me lightly.
My body flew backwards, until I finally collapsed in a heap in the Japanese-style room.
My measly 「Strength」was nothing compared to Ria, who was well over level 30.
「Is monster, inside there?」
「Yes. It’s a powerful spirit.」
「S-stop! Don’t look in there-」
Kuno turned to look at me. 「Why do you keep trying to stop us?」
「W-well, that’s because…」
As I fumbled for words, a pleasant sound came from the closet, and the door opened from the inside. The girls, all thinking it was a ghost, freaked out. Of course, the one inside was none other than Deet. She had covered her ears completely with her hair.
「W-who is that?」Tateishi stammered.
In response, Deet glared at all of us with cold, harsh eyes. Then, she pulled out a single, thin book, flipping through it and displaying the contents to us.
「Geh-!」I instinctively choked out.
But this was all part of Deet’s strategy.
「This is what Tooru’s been hiding in his closet, and why he doesn’t want you looking. There’s no way something as unscientific as ghosts exist! Hmph!」
With a snap, Deet closed the closet door again, shutting herself inside.
Her Japanese had been flawless, and when I looked carefully, I realized that the book was on the softer side. The girls all stared, flabbergasted by what had just happened.
「T-that was Deet, and she’s also from Romania. So, do you get it now? There aren’t any ghosts haunting my apartment.」
This time, I forcibly pushed Tateishi and Kuno straight out the front door and closed the door on them.
For a brief moment, I heard their indistinct voices sound from the other side of the door, but their chatter quickly faded as they left.
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I took Ria shopping in Japan, leaving behind Deet and Shizuku, who continued to shut themselves away in the closet.
Eventually, we made our way back to the apartment building. Ria had been in a bad mood for the entire trip.
「Jeez! If you have such vulgar books, either throw them away, or at least keep them out of sight!」
「Eh~. But some of them are valuable, you know.」
「If you really want to do stuff like in those books… just tell me.」
「S-seriously?」
I turned to Ria, but she had averted her face.
「We’ve arrived at the apartment!!!」Ria suddenly exclaimed.
We were certainly facing the entrance of my apartment.
I was carrying a plastic bag. Inside were two banana chocolate-cream crepes.
「Maybe Deet will come out of the closet if we offer her this.」
「Jeez! All you say is ‘Deet this’ and ‘Deet that,’ Sir Tooru! I should hide in a closet too! But you won’t be able to make me come out with just a crepe.」
「What would I have to do to make you come out?」
「L-let’s see… I’d come out if Sir Tooru did the things from that book to me.」
Ria’s face was a bright red as she opened the front door.
But she probably didn’t know. That Deet had taken great care in choosing a book on the softer side. Ria would most certainly riot if she saw one of the more hardcore books. I had to keep those securely stowed away.
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