Confirming that he had hit the limit with his storage ring and magic. Ryu decided to return from the Dungeon and take preparation for tomorrow's classes. But of course, before going back to home, he makes a trip toward his association first.

"Mia, I want to trade."

"Go, do it as the usual, it's probably all perfect again."

Mia's counting nonchalantly the material Ryu places on the desk. Though when she's in the midway of the counting, her eyes suddenly opened quite widely.

"Oh my..."

Then in another second.

"OH MY!!!"

After finishing the counting, Mia surprised face transformed into a look of someone who's ready to tease.

"Oh sir, are you feeling unwell?"

"What's wrong with you? I'm perfectly fine."

"I see, however, look at here... you not getting a perfect, and not a normal either, but a 5 POOR material quality! Also, 20 normal qualities one."

"So? What's wrong with that?"

"Pfft, I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but your faces seem to be more honest than the words you just muttered."

Mia can't help but giggles when she looks at the expression that Ryu wears. His face was currently colored by a beet red color, embarrassed from the fact that he fails to dismantle the material flawlessly. Before long, he slams the table lightly with his hand.

"Well, that was out of my control. Its material is its weak points."

"Hmm, that was true. But, here you have twenty of those with a standard quality."

"That's when I already accustomed to it, also, isn't it normal to have one or two poor quality materials in there, right?"

"It is. But, it becomes different when you're the one who did it."

"Holy cow! What kind of discrimination is that!"

"It's called Ryu discrimination apparently."

"Don't even think of naming it!"

"But, I'm only answering your question."

Hearing this response, Ryu begins to shake his head, it seems there will be no end if he always retorts to everything stated by Mia.

"Okay, okay, I'm the wrong one, just tell me how much did I get from the exchange."

"Hihihi, Seeing your response makes me want to tease you more instead."

Sensing a menacing gaze coming from Ryu, Mia instantly stops her giggling and pulls back the intention.

"Well, you got 640 from the pair of wings, 1800 from the green worm horn."

"For the Treant core, its base price is 20, because you got twenty of those you'll get 400 disks.

"And, there are also 5 of poor quality ones that sell for 10 disks, you've got 5 of them, and that makes it 50 disks."

"In total, you get 2890 Disks and 450 Points, for your information, each Treant core is worth 4 achievement points."

Ryu's mood slightly improved when hearing the reward he got.

"Well, subtract the usual for a set of meal, please."

"Okay, I will put an extra effort to make it up for you."

"In what?"

"In your dish, of course, isn't there anything else?"

Ryu immediately bewildered when he heard Mia replies.

"What!? You mean you're the one who cooks them!?"

"Fufufu, surprised ain't-cha? I saw you licked clean my food every time you eats it, why don't you propose to me now? I might've considered it!"

Mia gives out her left hand while making a proud look, But, in response to this, Ryu suddenly gets an idea of how to pay her back. Taking the left arm that she sticks out, Ryu then gazes at her passionately.

"YES! Please Marry Me!"

"F-Fueeh!??"

At first, Mia wants to tease him more. But, didn't expect this kind of response, her face instead becomes a deep red, and her lips also tremble slightly.

"B-but you're Se-seven years younger than me..."

"Isn't that even matters in this era? I've seen an old man marrying a teen girl!"

Ryu continued to give her a deep stare as his grip of Mia's hand also become tighter. Because of this, Mia hangs her head down, embarrassed to meets Ryu's eyes directly.

"Al-also, I'm rarely staying at home. Mo-mostly I spend my time here."

"Then we're the same!

"E-Ehhh!? B-but... B-but..."

Mia's mind starts getting overheated, but not for so long. Ryu suddenly let go of her little hand and gives a chuckle.

"Pfft, I'm simply joking. I didn't expect you to even stammer like that. You're surprisingly a cute person, huh."

After hearing this, Mia's brains suddenly went blank for a moment, it feels like a bucket of cold water was being thrown at her head. Before long, a realization has struck her. Her face still has a deep red color. But, this time, it's definitely not an embarrassment but anger that has shown up.

"RYU, HOW DARE YOU!"

"Oh come on, we're even now."

"YOU'RE PLAYING WITH A MAIDEN HEART HERE!!"

Lifting her right hand, Mia seriously wants to slap the boy who's standing in front of her.

"I'm sorry if it makes you that mad, but tell you what, I'm about 40% serious there."

"W-WHA!?"

The statement was true, if Ryu didn't already set his eyes on Ayano, maybe he will marry Mia without hesitation at all. But, seemingly not convinced with the response, Mia suddenly puts her hand down and storms her way toward the kitchen before taking out something from there.

"Here! Your sets of the meal!"

Ryu's mouth began to twitch as he looks into the plate. Pointing his finger toward the black thing, he asks reluctantly.

"Umm, Isn't this a charcoal?"

"E-A-T it!"

"O-Okay."

Sensing that his life will be in more danger if he refuses this out.

Ryu began to eat his meals with hesitation, wandering about its taste. But, one thing for sure, he successfully gets on Mia's Bad Side. Luckily, at the end of the day, Mia still serves him the original dish she planned to cook for him.

***

"I'm glad she's professional when it comes to her job..."

After globing down the foods, Ryu is currently standing outside of the building while sighing off quite loudly.

"If she gives in her emotions, there's no doubt that she will really only give me that burned food."

"Now... What should I do next?"

Putting its hand on his chin, Ryu is losing inside his thought.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me, I need to upgrade my storage ring."

"How many Disks I have with me, I wonder?"

Wants to check his current budget, Ryu takes out his card and presses his thumb at the card chip. After pressing it for around 3 seconds. A hologram that only Ryu can see appears before his eyes.

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Name: Takazaki Ryu Current Disks: 8410 Current Points: 1885 Hunter Rank: G

"Hmm? I already accumulate that many points in a month?"

"That was quick..."

"Unexpectedly, I also have quite a lot of Disks with me."

"Maybe It's enough to buy medium-sized storage ring +10."

Decided to buy the item, Ryu strides his way toward the magic shop. When he arrived at the magic shop, he got greeted by the clerk. Not wasting any time, Ryu instantly states his purpose.

"Miss, I like to buy a medium capacity storage ring."

"It's 3000 Disks, do you want to enchant it too, sir?"

"Yes, please enchant it to the fullest."

"Copy that, do you want to have an additional purchase, sir?"

"No, I like to check out instantly."

"Okay, the total of your purchase is 6000 Disks, you can check out in there, sir."

Followed by the clerk, Ryu went to the cashier. He followed the usual procedure. He gives out his card and makes the machine scan him. Before long, the clerk returns the card to Ryu and proceeds to enchant the storage ring before giving it back to Ryu.

Outside of the store, Ryu stares at the ring, somehow there's a sense of regret in him from buying it.

"... 6000 Disk for this little thing."

"It can give me 200 of Mia's meal set."

"Well, that can't be helped, I guess. The fact that I still need more space for the dismantled material can't be ignored."

Having muttered those things, Ryu quickly switches one of the small capacity rings he had with the moderate one.

Having no other purpose from staying outside, Ryu decides to come to his residence. In the past month, he didn't get a chance to check his room. When he goes back, he prefers to stay in the inn near the Dungeon, so it can save his traveling time.

Reaching the front of his room, Ryu can't help to imagine how dusty his room was. It's been untouched in a month. After building his determination, he opens the door to his room.

"This is..."

Sure enough, when he opens the door. He can see a lot of things already covered by a thin layer of dust. The usually well-coordinated place is now colored with a light grey color. Even if someone is not a clean-freak, seeing this scene makes one urge to clean them, except if they're actually enjoyed living in this kind of environment.

While his body went stiff because of the condition in his room, suddenly, a girl's voice wakes him up from his shocked state.

"Ryu?"

When Ryu turns into the source of the voice. He sees a girl that's about the same age as him. She has a sky-blue hair tied with a Rapunzel braid style, her face and smiles somehow give her a cheerful vibe.

"Eh? Sorry, you're?"

"Ah, I'm Mizuha, I'm in the same Division as you, A-Division. We're also at the same Division in the last semester."

"Oh yes, I remember you, what are you doing in here?"

"This is where I live..."

"Pardon? At which room?"

"It's 342."

"Hmm?"

Thinking that something is odd, he closes his door and checks at the number inscribed in it.

"Ehhh!? Mizuha, did you live next to me all this time?"

"Ah, yes, did you just notice it? I thought for sure you know it."

Mizuha laughs awkwardly while rubbing her cheek with her finger.

"I'm sorry, I'm kind of occupied with myself all the time, so I don't have time to notice such things."

"It's okay, it's originally my fault for assuming that after all. By the way, why are you standing still in your room entrance like that?"

"Ah, it's nothing."

"Come on, tell me what's happening in your place."

"Wai-."

Pushing the owner of the room to the side with her body, Mizuha opened the closed door and took a glance at Ryu's place.

"Oh, is the rumor about a boy's room always being dirty was true?"

"It's not like that."

"Well, being neglected for a month, I guess this state is inevitable."

Ryu unconsciously wears a perplexed look when he heard this.

"How do you know about that!?"

"Because it's been a month that I haven't seen you training under our residence tree."

"..."

Ryu's dumbfounded by the excuse that she muttered. Does she stalk him? Or she's simply super attentive with her surroundings?

"Hmm, Ryu, want me to help you with the cleaning?"

"It's okay, I didn't want to trouble you."

"Come on, don't be so shy, we're friends, right?"

"But..."

Getting a stranger into his room doesn't fit well with him, in addition to that, the other party was also a girl that physically have the same age as him.

"Hmm, don't tell me, are you hiding some 18+ content somewhere? Then let me do the treasure hunts too!"

When Ryu wants to turn down the offer, it seems to make Mizuha more motivated instead. Seeing her eyes glittering like that, it only makes it harder to refuse the suggestion.

"Well... I guess that's okay..."

"Good! Let me get my cleaning tool first!"

After that, Mizuha charged toward her place to take out her own cleaning utensils. Meanwhile, Ryu appears to have a bad feeling concerning this as he knitted his brows together.

"I can't help thinking that I'm forgetting about something..."

"Nah, it's merely a hunch, nothing more.

Just as when he shakes his head, Ryu's sight dropped on a dusty magazine, although it's slightly screened by a speck of dust, the title and the cover of the book still can be read easily by him.

"Alone with the teacher..."

Although the title looks like a romance story between a student and a teacher, the cover of the book blown all of Ryu's prior imagination. It's without a doubt, a grown-up book.

In an instant, like a drop of water causes a big ripple in a pond. This single book makes Ryu remember how much perverted he was before when he's still at this age. He didn't have the time to notice this thing at all, because the last 3 days before the holiday, he simply sees his room as a place to sleep, so he didn't look into a cranny detail like that.

"Ah, shit. I must clean this thing up first!"

"Now, I remember that there's an additional annoying fact regarding this thing..."

"I'VE HIDDEN THEM IN A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT SPOTS!"

Placing its hand on his hair, Ryu can't help but to strokes at them strongly. Before long, he leaks out a mouthful breath from his mouth, calming himself down with it.

"Seriously, why you can be this depraved, Takazaki Ryu!!!"

"But, for now, my priority is..."

'Click,' a sound of a door being locked from the inside can be heard reverberating around his room.

"Now, I have bought myself time, I should find all of them as fast as possible."

Having a girl to see such a thing is nowhere being called good. He should hide these things somewhere before she comes back.

"It's have been 100 years, I hope I still remember all of its locations."

With that, Ryu takes a head start for the treasure hunting, without having any intention to let Mizuha take part in it.

Ryu search all the corners of his room. The desk shelf, drawer, under his bed, even at the blanket. After a brief time, the late participant has arrived, knocking at his door.

"Excuse me!? Ryu, are you there?"

"Please wait for a minute, I got a sudden stomachache."

"Then, why the door locked?"

"That's... It's bad if a thief suddenly comes in when I'm still doing my business. Please, wait there for a minute."

"Are you in the toilet right now? Your voice seems like you're already out from there though?"

"Doesn't that really matter?"

"Don't tell me, did you actually preparing the stage for the treasure hunt right now?"

Ryu's cursing himself pretty badly, he didn't expect to find so many improper magazines in his room. Also, what's more, the girl who's waiting in front of the door seems to be annoyingly very observant.

"Give me a notice if you're done hiding it, okay?

"I'm gonna wait for it in here."

Hearing this, Ryu gets more nervous instead. It seems that he already founds all the treasure, but what makes it a dilemma was how to throw the book stacks out of his sight?

"I've got no choice."

Nodding his head off, Ryu takes out something from his hip pouch.

"I'm gonna burn them all!"

Just as when he wants to squeeze the fire scroll, he reminded of his surroundings.

"But, wait, It's bad if the room gets burned, not to mention this room is full of dust."

"Urghhh, what should I do."

He wracks his head to think about an alternate way to hide those things. But, no matter how hard Ryu thinks, he seems to can't find it at all. It looks like he doesn't have any other choice except to boldly showing his collection to Mizuha. Just as when he decided to give up and grabs the doorknob, Ryu finally sees the real solution for the problem.

"I HAVE THOSE THINGS WITH ME!"

This scream is so loud that it even startle Mizuha, who's waiting outside. Right now, Ryu finally gets the key to the issue. It's actually so obvious all this time, but due to his nervousness, he seems to forget that he got a brand new medium-size storage ring with him.

Only after he stores all of those dangerous things did he finally let Mizuha enters his room. But when she's inside, she abruptly steals a glance all around the room.

"Just as I thought..."

"What wrong, Mizuha?"

"You're hiding some naughty books in here."

"W-What are you talking about?"

For sure, Mizuha is not your ordinary girl. When she comes into Ryu's place, she immediately looks for some evidence if Ryu's hiding something indecent or not.

"Look, there's a trace of things being moved from there."

Mizuha points to one of the spots that have no dust in it, and the cleaned space has formed a rectangular shape.

"You're strangely so good at perceiving small details."

"I'm trained to become an archer after all. So am I right?"

"Yeah, I did hide something, but it's definitely not a wicked thing. It's one of my secret martial books that's passed down from generation to generation in my family."

"I see, does that including the one you use against Baron?"

"Um, yea, why?"

"Hee, that's really a legendary book then. If I can find it, will you give it to me?"

"Of course not!"

"Pfft, I'm kidding, let's clean your room now."

Glad that his bluff seems to be successful, Ryu and Mizuha finally proceed to clean his room together. It takes about two hours for them to sweep the dust off from the room thoroughly.

"Well, thanks for helping me out with the cleaning."

Giving a cup of warm tea to the currently sitting Mizuha, Ryu expresses his gratitude. But, Mizuha seems to be in a bad mood.

"It's not a problem, although I'm kind of disappointed."

"Why?"

"I seem to can't find the hidden treasure..."

"As I said..."

"Yeah, yeah, I know, but you're still a boy, there should be one or two..."

"Hey, this is the first time we talk right, I'm surprised you can be so friendly like that."

"I can't help it, that's the type of person I am, wait, don't change the topic!"

When Mizuha starts to retort, she sees a strangely thick book at the table. It's a book with a black cover.

"Hey, what's that book?"

"Hmm? I don't know, never seen it before."

"Hee..."

Seemingly curious about its content, Mizuha stands up from her chair and approaches the book.

"My Favorite Collection..."

"Hmm? Its title seems familiar to me..."

"Isn't this a self-made scrapbook?"

"Self-made scrapbook... Oh! Wait, don't open that!"

Remembering something that he should have recognized before, Ryu hurriedly warns Mizuha to not open the book. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mizuha already opens the first page.

"After Cleaning S*x With My Classmate In My Room Until The Morning Comes..."

In a second difference, Mizuha instantly closes the black book. Unlike the previous one that Ryu notices, the title of the book seems to be bold enough to roughly explain what's the content of it. Coincidently, it's title is also like the current situation between Ryu and Mizuha right now, which makes things more awkward between them.

"Umm, since I'm done helping over here, I guess it's time for me to go back."

"Y-yeah..."

"N-next time, don't forget to hide it, okay?"

Finished saying that line, Mizuha instantly dashes forward to her room. Unlike her brave words before, it seems she's still very timid when she encounters it directly like that. Of course, it's not only Mizuha who has her face blushed.

"What the..."

"The moment I thought that I've avoided the crisis, it instead comes back to bite me with a doubled concentration..."

"How can I face her from tomorrow..."

Putting the palm of his hand to his hand, Ryu tried to cover his face out of embarrassment. After some time has passed, Ryu decided to train his body in the usual place, hoping that it can distract his current emotions. Well, though, in the end, it's for naught. The awkward scene keeps popping up in his head, no matter how hard he wants to erase it from his brain.

Later, at midnight, Ryu's finally done with his training routine. He's currently lying in his bed, stretching out his arm while looking at the back of it.

"It's still faint, but I'm sure."

"My emotion... Other than anger, It's revealing themself again."

"I'm starting to feel like a human again..."

"Hah~, is this a good thing?"