Sorry, but I’ll be the first to get stronger, Father. I’ll pay you back for letting me become a dungeon explorer later! I knew that if I said any of this out loud, my father would continue the fight we couldn’t finish before. I decided to call it even by ‘forgetting’ about how shamefully he acted when Arachne first appeared.

As I finished up the negotiation with my father in my head and gleefully looked at the spear in my inventory, Mastiford flinched slightly. She must have gotten 2nd in contribution.

“Ah, I’m 2nd. Good, It would have been too shameful otherwise. Let’s see…eek.”

Mastiford clicked her tongue as if she didn’t like what she saw. Mm, I couldn’t fault her. There were really two items she could choose from. The Silk Dress was obviously the better one, but she already had an excellent battle dress. There was also no guarantee that the reward from the A-rank dungeon, Spider Den, would be better. After all, her current battle dress was made from a named monster drop from the 45th floor.

If she ended up choosing the earrings, then Minami would end up with the dress. Even if Minami’s contribution was higher than my father’s, she would not choose...