Lazy Dungeon Master

ind the insubstantial wall after No.
564’s attacking forces passed by.

​ Haku judged it to have been due to the insubstantial trap [Illusory Wall (500 DP)] and couldn’t help but feel admiration for using it to get past enemy troops.

​ “Hmm, it looked a bit different to me.
Please ask him.”

​ “… Understood, I will.”

​ However, Haku couldn’t help but connect her monitor to Kehma and ask now that [Father] had said that.

​ “Kehma-san, do you have a moment?”

​ [Oh, what’s up Haku-san? I’m a bit busy with the Dungeon Battle at the moment.]

​ “I have a question for you.
How did you hide Core No.
666?”

​ [Oh? You didn’t see the map? She was in the gate room from the beginning.]

​ She hadn’t looked at the map, but Haku did already know that, of course.
Besides, Haku already felt she knew how this happened… but when she glanced back to [Father], he was looking at her with [Ask how she hid herself!] written on a piece of paper.

​ “Umm.
How did she hide?”

​ [… Not going to say for free.]

​ The negotiations began.
With that, [Father] quickly created a strong will bracelet.
Its effect was enhanced through a god’s power, so this strong will bracelet could even be called godly.

​ … Haku felt that Kehma was getting a bit too compensated for this.

​ “So, how did you hide her?”

​ [It wasn’t anything so complicated.
See? I spread a monitor to fill the room and made it show the picture of a wall.
Then I just had her stand behind it.]

​ In other words, he’d expanded a monitor to the maximum size, made it visible, then used it to hide behind.

​ “Eh? You didn’t use an [Illusory Wall]?”

​ [… Illusory…? Oh, the trap.
Those are expensive though? They’re worth ten futons.
A monitor was enough for this Dungeon Battle.]

​ Setting aside whether 500 DP was expensive, for him to use the menu’s monitor like that…

​ Haku was suddenly brought back to the mind-shattering feeling he’d forced her to feel before.

​ “… That helped.
Thanks.”

​ [No, no.
Please give Father my regards.]

​ Saying that, he closed the communication.

​ “… It looks like Kehma-san did notice you after all, Otou-sama.”

​ “Ahahaha! Well, that’s Kehma-kun for you.
But maybe I should respond with [You have no right to call me Father!] or something? Eh, I’m not really against it though.”

​ “If you don’t mind… wait, No.
6? What’s wrong?”

​ When Haku turned toward Core No.
6 next to her, she saw him busting a gut laughing.

​ “Kukuku, it’s nothing.
Just seeing your face when you heard about how he used the monitor was funny.
Forgive me.”

​ “… Did I look that strange?”

​ Haku placed her hand against her cheek.

​ “Yeah, you did.
Your eyebrows and mouth froze solid.
Kukukuku.”

​ “Alright.
I’ll go all out in my attack in our next war.
Perhaps I should lend my magic sword collection to my knights…?”

​ “Wait wait wait! I didn’t do anything wrong here! Right, Father!?”

​ “Ahahaha! Sorry No.
6, you’re at fault for saying saying a girl’s face looked funny.
Though Haku, aren’t you the one that decided he’d used an [Illusory Wall]? I think you should be a bit more flexible.”

​ … [Father] had likely already realized what Kehma did even before she’d asked him, but had her do it for her own sake.
He was grinning like a kid whose prank just succeeded.

​ “Did you know? In another world, they have people called shinobi that use cloth colored to look like walls in order to slip past enemies.
They call it kakureminojutsuNinja Art of Camouflage.”

​ “… Is Kehma-san one of those shinobi?”

​ “That’d be a sight to see, wouldn’t it! —Ah, how about we get back to watching the Dungeon Battle?”

​ The Dungeon Battle was still in its early stages.

​ As for what events would unfold next, only god knew—nay, not even [Father], a god, had no clue and was looking forward to it in excitement.