- The kitchen of the City Lord's Manor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Hey, someone looks like they're coming. You've been smelling it for too long, aren't you?"

Standing quietly in the shadow of the kitchen entrance, I turned my head to watch Alice running around the kitchen, sniffing around like a cat excited to smell mint.

After carefully avoiding a few squires and the like, we managed to sneak into the kitchen.

It stands to reason that things will go so well.

The chaos doesn't seem to have weakened yet, most of the servants in the city lord's mansion who have no combat power have rushed to take refuge, and the guards who stayed behind should have rushed to the vicinity of the treasure house, so the kitchen side is particularly clean.

And if what Alice said is true, there is a treasure trove under the kitchen.

Either it is estimated that the previous city lords did not tell the guards about the underground of the kitchen out of the mentality that if they want to deceive others, they must first deceive their own people, or Alice is lying.

I'd rather lean towards the second conclusion, if I want to ask why......

"Don't worry, Uncle Bone, I'll find it right away. Oh, what is this thing, it tastes surprisingly good. ”

"Tell me what I was thinking, your performance was not in any way convincing to reassure me. ”

Even in the danger of being in danger of his life at any time, he can't forget to taste a certain werewolf who tasted a cake sweets halfway through the investigation work, and gave a positive evaluation of this sweet dish.

Hearing me say this, Alice also seemed to realize that something was wrong with her, and began to search again.

"Oh, that's weird. Why can't you find the entrance, Alice obviously feels the smell of a treasure underground. ”

After investigating again, she was still full of confidence just now and was stunned in place.

It looks like we've hit a bottleneck.

Although I'm just helping to release the wind, I don't have anything else......

But it's hard to say if you'll be able to find the entrance to the treasure vault, let alone run away with your stuff. Now I really only have an ominous premonition left, do I still want to go home empty-handed after a long time......

"I've been looking for it for so long, and I can't find it, so I can't help it. Could it be that you have a cold, and then your sense of smell is out of order. ”

My remarks seemed to poke Alice's explosion point, causing her to explode.

"Well...... how is it possible, Alice can smell fresh apples in the cabinet next to you, Uncle Bone, Oh! ”

Then, Alice, who seemed a little unconvinced, pointed to the cabinet above me on the other side of the kitchen and said seriously.

Really fake.

After being reminded by Alice, I disbelievingly and cautiously opened the half-locked cupboard.

"Poof!!"

"Hmph, believe it. Alice is in great shape today. ”

"Oops, I almost got my hands on this guy, it's dangerous. I've wanted to complain for a long time, it's too dangerous that the vegetables and fruits in the other world are so active and aggressive...... And it's true, you can't have secretly opened it before. ”

I anticipated the trajectory of the apple that would attack me after jumping out of the cupboard, and grabbed it in my hand.

And then took a bite by the way.

"......Uhh Uncle Bone, you don't need food, and you're just eating an apple, can you bite lightly? It feels horrible to watch a skeleton in the kitchen on such a cloudy day and bite an apple. ”

"No, that's it. You also saw it, this guy just wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage to slap me in the face, obviously it was just vegetables and fruits, it was too arrogant. ”

I ignored Alice, who had a [like she had something to say] expression on her face, and began to look at the kitchen.

Although I still don't believe that there will really be a treasure trove in the kitchen underground......

However, if Alice, who has confirmed that she has an excellent sense of smell, says so, there may be something to say.

“…… I don't think there will be any guards coming, so I'll help too. Alice, try to see if there are any walls that can be recessed into or ornaments that can be rotated. ”

"Oh, is it the trap passage in the Demon King's City like the one told by those bard brothers!"

As we said that, Alice, whose eyes lit up, began to investigate.

If there is a separate space in the basement of the kitchen, then it is customary to have a passage that leads to it like a secret door. In this case, as long as you can find the mechanism that is opened, you will be fine.

I didn't expect that there would be a time when I needed to search for the secret channel, so I really should bring a thief over.

If you're a professional thief adventurer, you'll probably have skills and experience such as sensing traps or finding secret rooms.

At this time, I felt that the magician was really too weak.

"What are you kidding! It's too leaky, you can't find it at all......!"

Misguided.

I thought the kitchen was so big, and if you had time to search carefully, you shouldn't be a thief.

But after more than ten minutes, when Alice and I had gone through all the bits and pieces in the kitchen, the only things that could be moved were pots and pans, and nothing else of note.

It's like the routine of opening a secret passage by pressing the wall in the novel, but the wall is made of granite, so you can't press it at all.

There are no items in the kitchen that don't fit this space, and if you think about it, it would be unnatural to have something in the kitchen that often appears as a secret trap, similar to a vase or an oil painting.

I still underestimate this magical world.

Now that I think about it, there is actually no need to make a secret passage at all, and you can bury it after leaving a spatial coordinate after building the treasure house.

When you want to see it, you can just use the space magic array to teleport directly!

After all, most of the undead don't need to breathe, so you don't have to worry about air circulation. It's okay to leave treasures in an airtight space, and it's because of these unconventional routines that I hate the other world!

"Damn, it's been too long, there's no way to continue the investigation today. It seems that he will have to go home empty-handed. ”

"I'm sorry, Uncle Bone. It's all my own decision......"

Listening to my casual complaints, Alice, who was also very disappointed, seemed to bow her head a little ashamedly, and now she also swept away her previous confidence, but stood pitifully and did not speak.

People with special attributes will die when they see this scene.

…… Alas, she is not very good at dealing with such an occasion, and it is time to comfort her.

"Well, nothing. I'm not a skeleton who can't tell right from wrong, you've done your best. Besides, if you apologize, leave it to Ah Shu, if it doesn't play any role except to let off the wind, I may kneel on the washboard with you......"

"Sister Felicia, Alice just needs to be coquettish. When the time comes, there will only be Uncle Bone, you will kneel alone. ”

Hearing me say this, Alice finally lifted her spirits a little.

After a tacit glance at each other, we were about to give up and prepare to quietly leave the City Lord's Mansion.

"Katz!"

At this moment, a part of the floor in the depths of the kitchen suddenly rotated sideways and opened.

We didn't do anything, it was opened from the other end of the ground.

With a "clang" of metal, a figure wrapped in knight's armor walked out from under the floor.

――After noticing someone else in the kitchen.

"Yawn-!~ yes, someone. Good morning, I woke up to a familiar smell. Oops, I've been sleeping for a long time and I'm hungry, oh, that. I'll see if there's anything to eat, take it and leave. You don't have to worry about me. ”

It seemed that she had just woken up, and while yawning, a lazy female voice came out of the knight's armor.