Only I Level up My Dungeon Equipment!

Chapter 27

The Final Cramming

Translated by NotBlueYet
Edited by Kingavent

World-renowned corporations.

The headquarters of Japan’s leading companies line the streets of this office district.

Among them, one building stands out.

The building with a large logo and signboard that reads “Sugar” is the headquarters of Japan’s largest company, [Sugar Co.]

The equipment trade has now become an industry that has surpassed the automobile industry.

Sugar is the largest wholesaler in Japan and the world.

Two men face each other in a room on the top floor.

The skyscraper that rises high in the sky is like a dungeon that also rises in the sky.

There, a battle different from that of a dungeon has begun.

“What can I do for you, young up-and-coming president who’s just about to take the plunge?”

“No, no, I’m just always struggling to get by. I’m here today to talk business.”

“Oh, that’s interesting.”

They laughed at each other, and at first glance the atmosphere seemed friendly.

But their eyes were not smiling.

Because this is their battlefield, a scarecrow fight between a fox and a raccoon dog.

Their only weapon is their mouths, not their swords or armor.

That is why they choose their words carefully.

“First of all, I would like you to see this.”

Tanaka then shows a tablet and plays a video.

“Hmm.”

Representative Sato looks at the video.

And he is astonished.

Because it showed his son beating up a humble salaryman in a back alley.

“Your son was an explorer, wasn’t he? I didn’t expect him to violate a civilian.”

This businessman is an employee of Tanaka’s company Weapon.

Coincidence?　Representative Sato knows that this can’t be true.

“Are you trying to shake me down?”

“Also, I would like you to see this, a video of your son attacking my contracted and valued explorer, Kenya Goken, and I went to stop him.”

The next video shown is of Tanaka himself almost being attacked by the guild’s explorers on Sato’s orders.

The equipment is completely materialized, and as one would expect, there is no excuse for this.

Moreover, the person in that video is here.

Representative Sato sighs, shifts back in his seat, and gives up.

It seems that today’s winner has been decided.

No, it wasn’t even a contest from the beginning, the cards in his hand were too different.

If the scandal involving his own son, using the company’s equipment, were to be leaked, the company would be shaken.

If it goes badly, there is a possibility that he will have to take responsibility and resign, because it was Representative Sato, of all people, who lent the equipment to his son’s guild.

“What do you want? Me being fired?”

“No, nothing like that. Then let’s begin.”

Tanaka then crossed his legs, looked straight at the loser and said.

“Talking business, you know?”

…

Sato’s consciousness returns.

He is in a hospital room.

It seems that he has been carried in.

He was knocked unconscious by Tendo Ryunosuke.

“Damn!　How could such a monster be in such a place?”

It was no coincidence, but Sato still refuses to admit it.

He still can’t connect that incompetence with the strongest.

“You’re awake.”

“Dad!”

Father hears his son’s voice and comes into the hospital room.

“Hey!　Give me some money!　I’m going to buy B grade equipment!　C is no longer good enough for me!”

It would cost well over a hundred million dollars to get B grade equipment, but it would be possible for the son of the number one company in Japan.

But he is the only son.

“You’ve gone too far. Don’t get involved with him anymore.”

“Ha, ha!　What are you talking about?　Why did you side with him, that incompetent!”

Bash!

“Your lack of foresight!　Why can’t you see that you brought this on yourself!”

Suddenly the son is hit by his father and yells at him.

Why did he hit me?

“Stop calling him incompetent, you know, you know, you know he’s special.”

(Special?　That incompetent?)

I won’t admit it, I don’t want to admit it!

I kicked him out, I decided he was incompetent, that he was not special!

The father looks at his son in dismay.　

There is no way that that person, that being that President Tanaka tries to protect so much, is incompetent.

“It’s my fault too for neglecting you, but do you realize how much damage was done to a piece of work like you!”

“I don’t know anything about that!”

“Huh… so I decided that I have more important things, like the company and employees to protect than you.”

My father then pulled out a sheet of paper.

“Oh, hey!　What is this!”

“I don’t want you anymore!　I disown you!”

The document, with the words “I disown Toshio Sato” and his seal stamped on it, was held up in front of Toshio Sato.

He had been disowned and disinherited from his family.

Karmic retribution, everything was confiscated, including equipment.

He is already a high school student, his compulsory education is over, and if so, he will receive no assistance.

Toshio Sato is left to live on his own.

He is rough and rowdy, his grades are poor, and he has only friends who are connected by money.

When money runs out, relationships run out.

The guild is dissolved and Sato is left with nothing.

And he had to leave home as if he were being kicked out.

…

A little bit in the future.

“It’s so cold.”

Sato, freezing in a cardboard box under the elevated railway tracks, stands up.

His pride is getting in the way, and his part-time job doesn’t last long, so he lives for the day.

He is still hungry, but he has no money, so he spends his days scavenging through garbage.

The former explorer is now a shadow of his former self, his beard has grown long and his body emits a foul odor.

And from there, he looks up at a tower that rises far into the sky.

He clings to it as if to regain his former glory.

Sato walks toward the tower, step by step.

…

Where did I go wrong?

Surrounded by kobolds, Sato collapses to the ground, covered in blood.

This is the fourth level of the dungeon.

The number of kobolds increases one by one.

The goblins, who were laughing and smiling, were chopping him up little by little.

His voices have already died down, and he can no longer scream.

The goblins, who were supposed to be the weakest of the monsters, were a formidable enemy for Sato, who had no equipment.

But he still thought he could beat them, perhaps because of his meager pride.

On the verge of death, Sato wondered….

Where did I go wrong?

When he attacked that woman?

When I ridiculed that man as incompetent?

I want to go back to when I fired that guy.

And I want to tell him, I’m an idiot.

I want to tell him that he is special, that he should be one of us, that we should be friends, that he shouldn’t be fired.

Sato’s pride is completely broken, and he finally admits that Kenya is special and that he is incompetent.

But even if he admits it now, even if he wishes that Kenya would come back, it is too late.

Even if he regrets it, it is too late.

As he weeps and bleeds to death, all Sato can think of is regret and….

“I don’t want to die…”

Only the thought of not wanting to die.

Zashu!

And another one became flesh and blood in the dungeon.

This is a dungeon.

A place where many blood, bones, and tears are buried.

And there, one more reckless, incompetent, and stupid explorer died today.

What a common, common story.

But it can’t be helped, because he.

He made the wrong choice….