Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7446, Month 7, Day 17

We killed the 9th Minotaur in total at almost the exact time we predicted of 9:00 in the morning. After all it was correct that they revive on an average cycle of 17 hours. To be more correct I think it's just a bit longer than 17 hours. Ever since I returned Basutoral to the surface on the 13th about half of our spare time has been spent doing running around this room while also exploring it but we never encountered anything suspicious or any monsters. Just once shortly after defeating the Minotaur we teleported into the 9th floor and hunted some Red Battle Crabs but after that just in case we've always been keeping an eye on things as much as possible.

Also, up until this day we discovered what could be called a place for the second shower room. In a place about 200 meters away from the pillar there was a rock that was nicely shaped like the character for ko and the center of that was close to flat so we were able to confirm that it could be used as a shower room right away after opening a hole there and bringing a bucket. Though it's the second one, since the ventilation of the teleport room is bad, we'll probably be using this one as our main shower.

The reason we didn't completely relocate was nothing more than a result of our experiments. If we move the pillars for the shower around 100 meters away from the teleport room then within one night the ropes we used to tie it start to loosen and come undone all on their own before collapsing. However, strangely enough for some reason the binding on the buckets doesn't come off. Those will probably come off over a longer period of time. Also, it feels like when it comes to weapons or things with a lot of metal the amount of time until they break feels longer. They probably wouldn't break for at least a few decades up to several hundred years.

Through grasping those sorts of characteristics of the dungeon it could be said that the areas surrounding the pillar of the teleport room on the 8th floor are the ideal place for experimentation. Up until now we've always just relied on our intuition and it's possible we could have assumed things based on the wrong impression. In testing we just tried making a simple rope with a knot it in and leaving outside and in just one night it had loosened quite a bit after all. The Durability of the rope itself through Identify hadn't decreased. I guess that's only obvious huh?

Well, if we just close our eyes to the slight inconvenience of it we can have a shower in a bright and open place so it can't be helped worrying too much about it. It's that sort of thing and I'm sure there's no choice but to accept it. Although, things like that we had established through observations since quite a while back so it was nothing more than reconfirming the results of those observations. However, we can't just keep observing things in the dangerous halls so you could say it's nothing more than being able to more accurately measure the time and change relationship over here.

In any case, it was a big harvest just that we were able to get an almost perfect grasp on the revival cycle of the Minotaur and our base in the teleport room of the 8th floor has turned into something reasonably satisfying. Now then, first we'll return Giberuti ahead of us and then after earning some from hunting ogres on the 7th floor shall we return as well?

We'll get dull from just running and doing the radio exercises that we could only vaguely remember. Training is necessary.

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Year 7446, Month 7, Day 18

Now then, we've purchased a large amount of food so for the next week from here on out we'll explore centering around the 9th floor. We didn't earn much of anything last week (though even then we still made around 30,000,000 Z from the ogre magic stones), and we didn't do much work at all so even if we go without days off this time it was welcome with arms in the air. However just Basutoral won't be accompanying us this time and when we returned last night I had Giberuti follow after him towards the factory in the capital.

We arrived at the 8th floor at our usual pace. We rested for one night and had breakfast, then went for a good two hour run with everyone. In regards to showering we used the second show room outside of the teleport room as well. And then for raising morale we beat down the Minotaur that revived at around 9:00 in the morning before grabbing the teleport crystal into the 9th floor.

Now then, we're going to start walking around the same as usual after this aiming to clear through the 9th floor!

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