Dear Diary,

Samantha wants to stay here. I messaged her and asked, just to be absolutely certain. She said it'll be good for her to stay.

Which… is good.

What isn't good, though, is that Avi has to fight. He has to learn how to not be a pacifist. It isn't going well so far.

We joined Kimi and Y's party, and they're trying to help him be ok with fighting. I'm helping, too, but by teaching him healing spells.

We'll be home tomorrow. The only quest we have left from Floor 75 is "lick lava", which isn't a combat quest, but it sounds difficult. Then we get to do whatever quests Aya has.

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The reward for the lava quest is a ring of fire invincibility. Not just resistance, but full invincibility. That's a pretty good reward, especially if you're able to keep it till the next cycle.

I kind of want to suggest a reward that's a gold trophy with "you're an idiot" stamped on it. And then if you get enough, you win an idiot crown. I feel like that's the sort of prize the Admin would have fun giving out. Especially since to complete a lot of the quests, you have to do something stupid.

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Like lick lava.

And yeah, I'm avoiding the main subject.

Avi… is kinda upset with me. Not super upset, just more… disappointed. Because I told him to stay here. I said he shouldn't fight, and should let Samantha go to the next dungeon.

But he wants to go. Mostly to stay with me. Which is super sweet, but…

Yeah.

So he's been trying to fight. He just really can't bring himself to hurt other creatures. He has a spear, which is what he used way back when we were stuck on our floor and Mika and Aya had us fight each other. But he's only actually stabbed something with it once. He keeps almost hitting, then pulling back half a second before it does damage.

Y said he should try using a crossbow instead. Or some other ranged weapon. That way the damage won't feel so personally inflicted.

Kimi kinda thinks he should give up with weapons and figure out clever ways of using illusions. Like making doubles of people, or a big wall in front of enemies, or sparkly distracting things. I like that idea, but I'm not sure the Admin would say it counts.

Maybe the others will have ideas. Aya might, and Lily can probably suggest some spells to train.

But whatever we do, we need to figure it out soon. We only have till Cycle 59 to prove Avi can fight, and Cycle 57 will end soon.

I wonder if that means we'll be going to the next dungeon on Cycle 60. Everyone said there will be 100 cycles, but I never heard the Admin say that. Maybe since there are a hundred floors, the players thought there'd be a hundred cycles.

Or maybe the Admin lied. He doesn't seem like a liar, though. He doesn't care enough about other people's feelings to lie.

…

Yeah.

Goodnight, Dungeon

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