Stardew Valley of Gensokyo

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"Cirno!"

Realizing what was happening, Da Jiang flew towards the direction of the pillar of light.

"Akina-kun, your cake is quite delicious too."

Akina Ze, also sweating profusely, watched Marisa's Eight Trigrams Furnace, which was still emitting a wisp of blue smoke, and swallowed hard.

"Haha, thank you for the compliment."

"I'm full, thank you! I'll take my leave now. Remember to come find me if you need anything! da★ze!"

Marisa rubbed her slightly protruding belly, sat on her broom, and prepared to leave.

"sure!"

Akina Ze, sweating profusely, saw Kirisame Marisa off. Watching Marisa's retreating figure in the distance, Akina Ze felt that perhaps he needed something...

Suddenly, the system, which had been absent for a long time and was almost invisible, reappeared.

【System update completed】

[Open the Treasure Hunt Dungeon]

……

Chapter Fifteen: Treasure Hunt in the Mine?

"Holy crap! This isn't a treasure hunt! This is clearly rummaging through a garbage dump!"

Exhausted, Akina Ze sat on the damp ground on the first floor of the mine, surrounded by rocks he had broken open with his copper pickaxe.

Looking at his backpack full of trash, Akina Ze also had the idea of retreating, but he was unwilling to waste his energy going back like this.

However, Akina Ze also noticed two boxes appearing in the lower right corner of his field of vision: one for health and the other for stamina. This gave him the illusion that he was playing a high-tech futuristic game, but the blisters on his hands reminded him that this was not a game.

Furthermore, in the mine dungeon, Akina Ze finally saw the system data that wasn't displayed in the outside world.

[Planting Level 1: 600/1000]

[Effect: Low probability of improving crop quality]

Fishing Level 0: 200/1000

[Effect: None]

……

But Akina Ze also felt that although there was an extra health bar and stamina bar in the lower right corner, they didn't seem to be of much use.

Perhaps sensing Akina Zeya's thoughts, the system popped up another message.

"Tsk, more random messages popping up. Where's 360?"

Akina Sawa also pouted.

【…】

[Note: The system has been updated and the host data has been digitized.]

"What? I've already been digitized, but what's with these blisters on my hands?"

Upon seeing the system notification, Akina Ze quickly pinched the blood blister on his hand.

"Ouch! Where is the data digitized?!" Akina Ze also winced in pain.

[100% realistic simulation of normal human beings]

"..."

"Well, it's a useless system after all." Akina Ze's eyes also lost their sparkle. "Let's find a place to uninstall it."

【…】

[The realism level can be adjusted during battle]

"Oh?" Akina Ze also put down the stone that had been probing around his head...

I'll go out when the time is up. Akina Ze is still wearing the same shoes he wore when he came. Walking on the damp ground of the cave, the shoes are already a bit worn out and he needs to change into a new pair. He also needs to change his clothes.

Inside the cave, it was pitch black, and Akina Ze could only rely on the torches that occasionally appeared on the walls to find his way.

After walking for a while, the nearby ore had all been broken open. Akina Ze looked at the torches in the distance and decided that if he still couldn't find any ore by the time he got there, he would go home.

Akina Sawa had already made up his mind, and leaning against the wall, he slowly moved forward.

"?" Akina Ze also suddenly felt a resistance at his feet and looked down.

A bright green slime was blocking the way.

"piu!"

The slime seemed to realize that the one blocking its way was a human, and its liquid-like body bounced up, trying to crash into Akina Sawaya's face.

"!"

Akina was also startled, but the slime was too fast, and he couldn't do anything else. He could only subconsciously put his hands in front of his eyes to block it.

"Snapped!"

Unexpectedly, although Akina Zeya fell to the ground due to the impact of the slime, he did not feel much pain. His health bar dropped a little, but he still had a lot of health left, so Akina Zeya was not worried at all.

So this is the battle mode! Akina Ze also stood up and quickly switched his copper pickaxe to a copper axe from his belt, glaring at the slime that was slowly crawling on the ground after the impact.

As expected, a health bar appeared above the slime's head, making it feel more like a game.

The slime, which was crawling on the ground, suddenly stopped moving.

Akina Ze also sensed that this might be the prelude to an attack, and his body tensed up! He gripped the axe in his hand and stared intently at the slime's every move.

"call out!"

Sure enough, the slime launched an attack. It suddenly sprang up from the ground, and although it was a small piece, it displayed the momentum of a meteor!

Akina Zeya swung his axe with all his might, and time seemed to have turned into bullet time for him, allowing him to clearly see the trajectory of the slime as it charged towards him.

With its full force, the axe cleaved through the air, and carried by a wave of air, it swung with all its might in the direction the slime was moving.

"Wow!"

Oh no! Something's not right! The axe, wielding its full power, cleaved through the liquid-like slime with unstoppable force, but precisely because the slime was liquid, it didn't absorb much of the impact. The axe, still powerful, slammed into the wall.

"Qiang!"

The axe struck the wall with a loud thud, but because they were in a cave, the sound echoed several times.

Akina Ze felt as if the hand holding the axe no longer belonged to him, trembling uncontrollably.

With his free hand, he trembled as he wiped away the unidentified green liquid that had flowed from the cleaved slime on his face.

Those who hadn't arrived immediately saw what the slime had dropped, and Akina Sawa sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

Although it's a low-level slime, this is the first real slime that Akina Sawa has ever seen outside of fantasy works.

During the battle, he hadn't thought of this. It was only after the battle that Akina Sawa felt a sense of lingering fear, because in the works he had read, most slimes had tentacles, and even powerful magical girls might not be able to defeat them.

Remembering the tragic fates of magical girls in the works he had read before, Akina Sawa couldn't help but shudder.

"I can't stay here any longer! What if there really are those tentacle slimes?!"

Akina Ze decisively abandoned the idea of going to the next torch and promptly opened the system page to exit the dungeon.

A ladder suddenly appeared out of thin air, and Akina Ze climbed up and returned to the house. Looking back, the ladder had vanished just as it had appeared, replaced by a floorboard.

This is also what makes the system so frustrating: if a ladder can magically appear to enter and exit dungeons, why not just make it work directly?

Why not just teleport yourself around? Wouldn't that be more convenient?

Akina Ze glanced at the sky outside; it was already late. The market in the distance was still brightly lit, but Akina Ze didn't plan to go today because he was tired. Thinking about what had happened today, Akina Ze felt very weary.

When I returned from the izakaya in the morning, I was seen by Fujiwara no Mokou and was even disliked by him. At noon, I saw the newspaper fabricated by Shameimaru Aya, as well as Cirno and Mitsuki's quarrel, and Marisa's unreasonable magic cannon. In the evening, I was attacked by slimes while running a dungeon and was even doused with slime juice by a slime.

Thinking of this, Akina Ze also lifted his shirt and sniffed it. It smelled like slime, just like semen, and Akina Ze almost threw up.

As he casually tossed aside his shirt, Akina Ze noticed that his little belly was gone, thanks to all the exercise he'd been doing these past few days.

This made Akina Sawa, who was in a bad mood, feel a little better...

"Crash!"

Akina Ze sat comfortably in a wooden tub filled with warm water, having not had such a comfortable bath in a long time.

Soaking in the wooden tub, Akina Ze finally had time to check what he had obtained from the mine that night.

There were only a few pieces of coal ore and slime drops; everything else was junk.

Akina Ze also pursed his lips and cleaned up all the trash.

The backpack the system gave me is so small! It filled up completely in no time. I can't put anything in it unless I clear out the trash.

After cleaning up all the trash, Akina Ze also opened the detailed description of the slime's drops.

Slime Liquid Fertilizer

[Effect: Slightly accelerates crop growth]

Yes, this is the biggest haul for tonight. Akina Ze can't wait to use these things on his precious farmland.

"Hey! Is Akina-kun there?"

Suddenly, Fujiwara no Mokou's voice came from outside the door.

"Ah! I'm here! Don't come in yet!"

Akina Ze also stood up in a panic, intending to quickly dry himself off and leave.

What? You won't let me in? Could it be...? Fujiwara no Mokou remembered the scene she saw earlier that day where several fairies were fighting on the roof of Akina Sawaya's house, but because the fairies' fighting power was too low, she couldn't be bothered to care.

No! This is a crime! I have to stop him! Fujiwara no Mokou slammed open the wooden door, which couldn't stop her at all.

All that could be seen was Akina Sawa's Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon, which was exposed to the air and was seen by Fujiwara no Mokou.

"what!!!"

Don't get me wrong, that's Akina Sawaya's scream.

"Oh, so you were taking a shower. I thought those little vixens..."

Fujiwara no Mokou paid no attention to it.

"So what are you here for!"

Akina Ze also sat in the wooden tub, hugging himself tightly as he spoke.

"I came to see if you were injured in the battle with the fairies. Since you weren't, I'll be leaving now."

Fujiwara no Mokou quickly left the awkward situation.

On the street, Fujiwara no Mokou's face flushed slightly. "Tsk!"

……