Dear Diary,

David has been trying to make things up to me. However, I don't really know if I should trust him just yet. I'm glad he is being more gentle with me and not killing me anymore, but it seems dangerous to blindly trust people, especially him, now. I don't know if I even really want to talk about this too much, it's still a bit of a sore point. I hope things feel easier in the future...

As part of the contract with David, he has to bring me whatever tribute I want, within reason. So, I'm planning to stock up on lots of culinary ingredients. While I'm sure magical plants and metals might make more sense since I could use them to research weapons and increase the value of my dungeon, I don't really want to go that route right now. Instead, I'm hoping to create lots of delicious food to assign as rewards for completing the challenges in my dungeon.

I still don't have any real way to know what the outside world is like, but I'm operating on the assumption that this is a medieval world. What little I know from animes and school suggests that sweets should be fairly rare in this world. Plus, you know, I'm sure the children and beginner adventurers will appreciate a tasty snack for all of their efforts. I know I certainly wouldn't have complained about completing a jigsaw puzzle only to be rewarded with some tasty iced carrot bread.

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Well, I've never actually had carrot bread before. I've had zucchini bread and iced cinnamon raisin bread before. Both of those were really good. I only had carrots to use at the time I was making the reward, though, so I had to use what I had. Oh well, I'm sure it will still be enjoyable, even if it is a little strange sounding.

Another new group also entered my dungeon today. It was a party made up of women from various races. The leader was a pretty blonde named Rosetta. I ended up going to greet them because they were taking forever to leave the dungeon. I can't exactly tell where everyone is, but I get a weird feeling, like my skin is crawling, when people are in the dungeon. Still, I only have a few rooms, so it was pretty easy to figure out where they were.

They were trying to stack the pieces to the jigsaw puzzle! Can you imagine? It took everything I had not to burst into hysterical laughter at the sight of it. I ended up offering them a hint on how to complete the puzzle in exchange for them leaving the dungeon. They seemed reluctant, but ended up, thankfully, accepting my offer.

I don't know how cooperative most of the people of this world will be. However, I can't really have people remaining in the dungeon too long. Since I can't build on the floor they're on and I only have one floor, it makes it hard to continue to upgrade things if they linger around too long. I mean, I don't want them to leave too quickly either. That makes it hard to earn enough mana from their visit to refill my mana in its entirety. I guess its a bit of a balancing act, one that I can't really control at that.

-Violet