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[You have triggered a new Dungeon: Dark Hospital]
[Difficulty: Unknown]
[Players, please prepare. This Dungeon will open promptly at 9 PM tomorrow.]
"…Natsuki-kun?!"
Tsuba-senpai, who heard the ga notification, paused her steps and quickly turned to look at Amamiya Natsuki.
"I heard it." Amamiya Natsuki nodded lightly, taking Tsuba-senpai's cool, soft hand and walking towards a corner, "Let's talk over there."
The two arrived at an deserted corner.
"Natsuki-kun, I'm sorry." Koyasu Tsuba bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth, apologizing in a low voice, her tone full of guilt, "I didn't know coming to the Hospital would trigger a dungeon."
The last dungeon had ended less than a week ago, and now a new one was triggered, and it was all because of her, which was truly terrible.
"Senpai, don't worry about it." Amamiya Natsuki didn't mind at all, saying calmly, "They say smoking is harmful to health, but the truth is, among all lung cancer patients, non-smokers account for the majority. So people smoke, drink, and perm their hair, yet their bodies are super strong, while others exercise daily and yet are struck by serious illness… Even if we didn't co to the Hospital today, we might have triggered a dungeon just by walking on the street."
Koyasu Tsuba still cared quite a bit: "I wish I hadn't asked Natsuki-kun to co with ."
"Then I'll put it another way." Amamiya Natsuki pondered for two seconds, "If Senpai ca to the Hospital alone to visit cousin and also triggered a dungeon, would you tell us?"
"I…"
Koyasu Tsuba pursed her pink lips and stopped talking.
Of course, she would.
Studying and exercising were fine, but she had no confidence in clearing a dungeon alone; only team action could bring peace of mind.
"So, whether I co or not is just the difference between knowing sooner and knowing later." Amamiya Natsuki extended his right hand and patted Tsuba-senpai's head, "No matter what, I would never leave Senpai alone."
"Don't touch my head." Koyasu Tsuba's pretty face flushed slightly, and she glared at him with bright eyes, "Say that to Kaguya-san."
Amamiya Natsuki withdrew his hand and said:
"Then I won't say it anymore."
"…"
Koyasu Tsuba's pink cheeks couldn't help but puff out slightly: "Let's go see cousin."
"Also." Amamiya Natsuki stepped up to follow, "When Senpai apologizes in the future, please show so sincerity."
"What sincerity?"
Tsuba-senpai looked back in confusion.
Amamiya Natsuki didn't speak, his gaze moving downwards, landing on Tsuba-senpai's slender, beautiful legs clad in black stockings.
"…Lewd!"
Koyasu Tsuba's pretty face flushed, and she imdiately understood what sincerity ant.
He even wanted to touch them, how could she possibly agree!
The two took the elevator to the third floor.
"Cousin is inside."
Koyasu Tsuba stopped in front of a patient room and gently knocked on the door.
A weak voice ca from within the room:
"Please co in."
"Let's go in."
Tsuba-senpai whispered, pushing the door open.
Amamiya Natsuki, carrying items in his hand, stepped into the patient room.
This was a single patient room. On the patient bed sat a girl, her right hand receiving an IV drip. She looked quite thin, with a dull complexion. Below the collar of her patient gown, her sunken collarbones were clearly visible, indicating she was indeed the cousin suffering from anorexia.
Many people who want to lose weight fantasize about having anorexia, but in reality, anorexia is incredibly painful, a difficult suffering for both the patient and their family.
Koyasu Tsuba walked to the side of the patient bed and said softly:
"Cousin, I'm here."
Amamiya Natsuki stepped forward half a pace and introduced himself: "…Nice to et you for the first ti, please guide ."
"Hello." cousin smiled in response, "Are you and Tsuba dating?"
"Cousin, what are you talking about!" Koyasu Tsuba's pretty face flushed, and she quickly said, "I told you in the text ssage, Natsuki-kun is a family-inherited psychotherapist… We're not dating!"
Bringing a boy suddenly, she needed a suitable identity, so Amamiya Natsuki had transford into a family-inherited psychotherapist.
As everyone knows, anorexia is usually a psychological illness.
Amamiya Natsuki spoke neither subserviently nor arrogantly:
"Senpai has taken good care of at school; she is a very reliable senpai."
"Then you'll have to work hard." cousin pursed her lips and smiled, "Tsuba has a gentle personality, a good figure, and most importantly, she's never dated a boyfriend. As long as you trick her, her first ti will all be yours, you know."
Amamiya Natsuki nodded in agreent.
Her figure was indeed very good.
No need to ntion that; he already knew it.
"Cousin, that's enough." Koyasu Tsuba's pretty face was crimson, and she couldn't help but shout, "Don't say weird things to Natsuki-kun!"
"Well, I'm already like this, so a joke is normal, right?"
Cousin didn't care at all, smiling as she looked at Amamiya Natsuki: "Tsuba is shy, Natsuki-kun has a lot of hope, work hard, okay."
Amamiya Natsuki looked at Tsuba-senpai: "Maybe she's red from anger?"
"Don't worry, when Tsuba gets angry, she just sulks with a straight face; she doesn't talk this much."
"I see."
Cousin took out her phone with a smile: "I have Tsuba's swimsuit photos on my phone, Natsuki-kun, do you want to see them?"
Amamiya Natsuki said seriously: "I couldn't ask for more."
"You two should stop already!"
Koyasu Tsuba put her left hand on her hip, her right hand supporting her forehead, took a deep breath, and glared at Amamiya Natsuki: "You quickly show cousin."
"Then I'll leave it to Natsuki-kun."
Cousin leaned back on the pillow, smiling as she looked over, though there wasn't much expectation in her eyes.
Since falling ill, she had seen many psychotherapists, but with little effect.
"I've already understood the general situation…" Amamiya Natsuki skipped the boring psychological counseling and relief, "Next is the ancestral mysterious treatnt thod. I need to touch cousin's head."
"It's fine." cousin smiled in response, "As long as Tsuba doesn't mind, you can touch other places too, you know."
Koyasu Tsuba stood by, completely unfazed, and said calmly:
"It's only natural for a doctor to examine a patient's body; of course, I wouldn't mind."
"Eh, how boring."
"…"
As soon as he entered the door, Amamiya Natsuki had already planted a mushroom on cousin.
Now, with a touch, the identification was quickly successful.
Amamiya Natsuki turned to look at Koyasu Tsuba, who was tightly clenching her pink fists, and nodded lightly.
"I'm going to the restroom."
Amamiya Natsuki gave Tsuba-senpai a look and walked out.
Soon after, Koyasu Tsuba quickly followed him out, lowering her voice and saying:
"Natsuki-kun, is it really a Gluttony Mushroom?"
"That's right, it's a Gluttony Mushroom."
Amamiya Natsuki nodded lightly; he certainly wouldn't joke at a ti like this.
"That's good, cousin's anorexia can be cured."
Tsuba-senpai's eyes suddenly lit up.
re anorexia, under human instinct, certainly wouldn't be an opponent.
Just like her Sloth mushroom, no matter how much she gritted her teeth and resisted, she would eventually beco a lazy salted fish.
Amamiya Natsuki asked in a low voice:
"When do we detonate the mushroom?"
"Hmm…" Koyasu Tsuba pursed her pink lips, pondering for two seconds, "cousin hasn't eaten properly for so long, she can't eat too much at once. How about setting the mushroom for ten minutes?"
"Ten minutes it is." Amamiya Natsuki nodded, "Speaking of which, I still don't know what the ti limit for mushrooms is… Senpai, do you want to verify it?"
"I refuse." Koyasu Tsuba crossed her arms and flatly refused, "Natsuki-kun can plant mushrooms on himself, right? Please verify it personally."
Amamiya Natsuki said in a low voice:
"If I verify it personally, Senpai, you'll be in danger."
"I'm not asking you to verify it right now." Tsuba-senpai's pretty face quickly flushed, "You go verify it alone when you get ho tonight."
"We'll just stand in the hallway for a bit." Amamiya Natsuki took out his phone and said, "Let's tell everyone about the dungeon first."
"Okay."
When the dungeon was ntioned, Tsuba-senpai's expression quickly beca serious.
Amamiya Natsuki reminded the other players in the mutual aid group:
"…A new dungeon has appeared in this Hospital, it's a trigger type. Please all remain vigilant."
Trigger-type dungeons appear randomly, and not many patterns have been summarized yet, but generally speaking, players trigger a dungeon when they enter a specific location or pick up a specific item.
The ga does not ask for players' consent; once a dungeon is triggered, they must enter it—except for those naturally bold and thrill-seeking individuals, no one wants to venture into a dungeon.
Seeking benefit and avoiding harm is human instinct.
"Oh, right." Koyasu Tsuba suddenly thought of a possibility and looked up, saying, "Natsuki-kun, since it's a trigger-type dungeon, and doesn't require item tickets, can we call everyone to join?"
"With so many players entering the dungeon together, the chance of clearing it would be higher, right?"
"Good idea." Amamiya Natsuki looked at Tsuba-senpai, "Unfortunately, it won't work."
"First, everyone in the mutual aid group is spread across the country, and it would take too much effort to gather everyone together."
"Secondly, the dungeon difficulty clearly has dynamic adjustnts." Natsuki continued, "For example, in the fairy tale dungeon we cleared last ti, the main quests were not the sa. If so many players flooded into one dungeon, the difficulty would definitely beco very high."
Koyasu Tsuba's idea had been proposed before, but after discussion, most people voted against it.
To sum it up, it was not worth the effort.
Buzz buzz.
The phone suddenly vibrated.
Natsuki looked down at his phone; it was a call from Marin.
"Natsuki-kun, I just saw the announcent." The voice of the Succubus Girl quickly rang in his ear, "Tell the address, I'll be right over."
"I couldn't enter the dungeon with you last ti, but I definitely won't miss it this ti."
Natsuki reported the Hospital address: "Just take the train over."
Imdiately after, ssages from other people started coming in one after another.
Shinomiya Kaguya: "When does the dungeon open?"
Hayasaka Ai: "Pervert Senpai, can't you ever be quiet? Seeing the announcent just made my blood pressure rise."
Juju-sama: "Why do we have to go to a place like a Hospital… I'll ssage Komi first."
"…"
After replying to all the ssages, about ten minutes had passed.
Natsuki put away his phone and looked at Tsuba-senpai:
"Shall we go back to the ward?"
Koyasu Tsuba softly assented and walked back to the ward with Natsuki.
Snap.
Natsuki raised his right hand and gently snapped his fingers. The mushroom on cousin's head burst open, turning into a cloud of purple smoke and silently disappearing.
"You're back…"
Her cousin, who was staring out the window, suddenly widened her eyes halfway through her sentence and covered her abdon with both hands, "What's going on?"
A strong sense of hunger surged forward. It was like a tide, wanting to engulf her.
In the face of this instinctive appetite, anorexia had no power to resist.
"So hungry…" Her cousin couldn't help but say, "Tsuba, I want to eat sothing."
"Cousin, I'll get it for you right away."
Koyasu Tsuba's bright eyes lit up, and she quickly walked to the bedside.
On her way over, she had gone to the Convenience Store to buy fruit and food, which now ca in handy.
"Eat a bag of bread first."
Koyasu Tsuba handed over a bag of bread.
Slling the sweet aroma of the bread, cousin eagerly began to eat.
Natsuki stood by, twisting open a bottle of milk: "Drink so milk."
Watching her cousin eat and drink, sitting on the Hospital bed with bread in her left hand and milk in her right, as if she had returned to her forr self, Koyasu Tsuba couldn't help but smile.
"Natsuki-kun, thank you."
Tsuba-senpai thanked him softly.
"We still need to observe the situation," Natsuki whispered. "It's very possible that her appetite has only recovered for now, and the anorexia hasn't been cured."
"I know." Koyasu Tsuba nodded gently, "cousin couldn't eat anything before, so this is already very good… Natsuki-kun, if you have ti in the future, you can co with ."
"Wouldn't that be bad?" Natsuki feigned contemplation, "What if your cousin misunderstands, and my innocence is gone?"
"…"
Koyasu Tsuba's lips twitched slightly, and she finally couldn't resist, secretly pinching him.
Shaless!
How could he say sothing about losing his innocence, how could he even say that?
Under the effect of the Gluttony Mushroom, cousin quickly finished the food she had brought, a look of imnse happiness on her face.
"How amazing… I actually ate so much in one go." Her cousin licked the corner of her mouth, looking at Natsuki with a curious expression, "Your family's traditional therapy is actually that effective?"
Natsuki said seriously:
"Sorry, this is a family secret, I can't tell you."
"Hmm…" cousin's eyes darted around, and she giggled, "Then if I marry Tsuba to you, and Tsuba knows the secret recipe and then tells , it'll be fine, right?"
"Cousin, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
Koyasu Tsuba's pretty face quickly flushed red.
Even if I were to marry, I wouldn't need your approval, cousin!
Natsuki showed a contemplative expression: "Then I'll have to think about it carefully."
"Think about what?!" Koyasu Tsuba turned her head, and although she had been backstabbed by her cousin, she didn't act shy. She pushed Natsuki, "Don't you still have things to do? Hurry up and get busy."
"Today's treatnt effect was pretty good. I'll co again tomorrow."
Natsuki took the opportunity to leave, while also brainstorming the developnt and Exploit of mushrooms.
Narrow.
The path has narrowed.
The Gluttony Mushroom, which seems like it could make people burst, can treat anorexia, so what about the lust mushroom?
That thing can totally be used to strengthen the kidneys and body.
And the Sloth mushroom, super effective for treating insomnia.
It's just a pity that mushrooms grow randomly, and I can't specify their attributes myself…
Leaving the ward, Natsuki went downstairs to the Hospital entrance and waited silently.
"Natsuki-kun, I'm here!"
Before long, the girl's clear shout reached his ears.
Natsuki looked up to see the Succubus Girl, with soft golden hair reaching her waist and a black choker around her neck, happily waving. Her bright smile seed to brighten the dim sky.
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