Lazy Dungeon Master (light novel)/Volume 3/Story

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**Story**

## Volume 3

* English
* Japanese

## Story

### Prologue

A peek into the future where Keima is holding a naming ceremony in the boss room for the three newcomers. With Rokuko, Niku, and Ichika present as well, Keima names the Vampire, Silky, and Apprentice Witch Rei, Kinue, and Neruneh respectively. Afterwords, he gives them the order to serve the dungeon by becoming inn employees.

### Chapter 1: Day 100 - 139

#### Expansion of the Dungeon and Town

During Summer the Dancing Doll Inn became busy due to the traffic of visitors using the Great Tsia Mountain Tunnel. In addition, the recreation building was added so that people could play games with dice and cards found in the Cave of Greed. With the addition of Iron Golem spawners and steady advertisement from the Adventurer's Guild, more adventurers were visiting the dungeon.

#### Arrival of the Blacksmith

Kantara the blacksmith arrives in town after receiving Gozou's letter about iron golems appearing in the Cave of Greed. Kantara agrees to create Keima a magic sword after he gets phoenix egg shells to create his forge.

#### Summoning Employees for the Inn

After Niku collapses from overwork Keima realizes that they have a labor shortage for the Dancing Doll Inn. After getting Rokuko to help in DP saving form, Keima decided to summon more monsters to serve in the inn. After receiving some training from Ichika on how to manage the front desk, Keima created their employee dorm building for the new employees.

#### Developing the Dungeon

After the end of the labor shortage, Rokuko wanted to expand the dungeon after the puzzle area. While she was doing that, Keima was creating and testing a newly made slot machine with Ichika. Afterwards, this was put in the new entertainment room at the inn.

#### Assigning Dungeon Administrators

Rei ponders her existence and wanders around town before asking Keima for meaningful work in the dungeon as she is unhappy doing receptionist work at the inn. She is granted menu access with Kinue and Neruneh. Keima saw that the third son of the Rich family and his followers are stuck in one of the greed trap rooms with the third son, Dorasan, refusing to put back the magic blade on the pedestal so they can leave.

#### Hatching Phenny's Egg

Rokuko gets Keima to hatch Phenny with Redra's help. They go to the Flame Caverns and have the egg hatched with Redra breathing white colored flames. After being born, Phenny attacks Keima for all the times his egg got cracked by the egg cracking golem.

### Chapter 2: Day 142 - 156

#### Paying backing the DP

Keima decides to pay back to DP that he borrowed from Rokuko during the Dungeon Battle with the Flame Cavers. With Kinue's help he cultivates sugar beets and processes them into raw sugar. He makes a profit, but the profit is so low that he makes a gold plated iron Dragon statue similar to the Dragon Golem to sell to Ittetsu as a gift for Redra.

#### Preparing for the Hero

Haku arrived with information that a hero would soon visit the Cave of Greed to investigate the playing cards that appeared as loot in the dungeon. After getting an agreement from Keima to return Wataru Nishimi alive, she gives Rokuko 200,000 DP to modify the dungeon. After accidentally causing the guild to think there was a Paradigm Shift occurring Keima learns of the Mysteries of Goren from Gozou. During that time, Rokuko finished renovating the dungeon to include a floor for Phenny that connected to Flame Caverns.

#### The Arrival of the Hero

The hero Wataru arrives at the town. We learn of the reason of his summoning three years ago and what happened to his initial benefactor, Duke Brie String. After leaving the String Province’s chivalric knight order, he was placed under Haku's protection and appointed as one of her personal guards. He arrives at the Inn and after eating the A-rank meal talks to Narikin about the playing cards. Later on, Keima monitors Wataru as he is talking to Neruneh at the receptionist desk.

#### Keima vs Wataru

Keima suspects that Wataru was sent to spy on him by Haku and challenges Wataru to a duel by gambling with Dice from the dungeon. The stakes involve Niku's freedom and a reduction of the table repair fees if Wataru wins or doubling the 500 gold fee to repair the table. After multiple rounds, Wataru ends up with a 2300 gold coin debt. After learning what Niku means Keima decides to give Niku the last name of Kuroinu as she refuses to give up her first name.

#### Exploring the Cave of Greed and Flame Caverns

After drinking with Team Bacchus, Wataru decides to go explore the Cave of Greed to find magic blades, treasure, and monster drops to start paying off his debt to Keima. While exploring the Cave of Greed he finds Rokuko's playground for Phenny and starts exploring the Flame Caverns. Before Wataru departed the town he gave two letters from Haku that gave information about a Soldier of God that was coming to the dungeon.

### Chapter 3: Day 158 - 163

The second letter told of the Soldier of God, Dragon Suzuki and his story from when he was summoned in the Kingdom of Daide to why he fled to the Laverio Empire. After arriving in the empire, he was sent to the Cave of Greed to be executed.

#### Suzuki vs Dungeon

Suzuki arrives at the Inn and stays in the Grand Suite with some of his slaves after selling out the rest of them for beer and killing Elulu. After staying the night and trying to steal items in the Grand Suite, he decides to attempt to conquer the dungeon and break the Dungeon Core. He dives in the dungeon with his remaining slaves and Keima sets out to take revenge on him for killing Elulu at Ichika's request.

As Keima and everyone work to separate and rescue the slaves from Suzuki, they leave them for other adventurers to find and rescue in the dungeon. Afterwards, Keima initiates Operation Cask of Amontillado to trap Suzuki in a dungeon wall.

### Epilogue: Day 169 - 171

Haku arrives to rescue Suzuki and take him back to be punished as a criminal. Keima asks that Suzuki's slaves be freed and she with several adventurers escort them back to town. With the Doppelganger Suzuki leaving, the real one remained trapped in the dungeon as a living wall.

### Extra Chapter: Clash at Golemhead - Budokai! Ready, Set, Go!

Keima and the Cave of Greed staff hold a Golem battle tournament to see who is the best at controlling and fighting with golems.

## Notes

### Differences from Web Novel

* The web novel went into more detail for the event related to the Rich family's knight's attempt at rescuing the third son, Dorasan. While the fate of Dorasan and his party was the same between the web novels and light novels, it is unknown if the knights were captured in the dungeon and turned into a human farm in the light novel or if this occurred only in the web novel.
* In the web novel only, Niku verbally challenges Wataru when he tries to tell Keima the meaning of her name. Keima then orders her to be quiet so he can learn the real meaning. Also in the light novel he tells both Ichika and Niku what their punishments would have been but does not carry them out, however, in the web novel they are actually punished with the worst of it being their standard of food dropping to their world's standard for a month.
* Dragon Suzuki was a light novel only character and Elulu never appeared in the web novel after her brief reference during Ichika's purchase.