Elma looked at the paper with the recipe, uo believe what she saw. She g me several times, searg for answers. I'm sure she's thinking, "Where did you steal this recipe from?"

  But how could I steal something that didn't eve?

  "What is it? Speechless?"

  "Of course I am! How I think this is normal? I've never seen paper made with these ingredients before. Are you sure I make something like this?"

  "Well… To be ho, I haven't tested it yet, but the recipe is absolutely genuine. Why don't you give it a try? You could enhahe quality of your books this way."

  "Of course, I'll test it! If it works, I'll be rich!"

  "Aren't you already rich?"

  "Not like you." Elma smiled. "But seriously, who are you? How you be so talented and still have a recipe like this? Are you sure you're human and not a god?"

  "If I were a god, Hestia would know, wouldn't she?"

  "What? Me? ht." Hestia started ughing. "Luan is really special, but he's definitely not a god. I'm sure of it!"

  "It was just a joke, of course he's not a god." Elma smiled bitterly. "But it's surprising how amazing you are. Thank you again, Luan, for saving my store and my life."

  "Your life?"

  "Of course! This store is my life. You basically revived it, gave me a reason to live again. I'm so grateful for that."

  "You're exaggerating."

  "No, it's the truth! I owe you so much!" Elma stepped closer and grabbed my hands. "I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life. No matter what happens, you t on me for anything! I'll do whatever it takes to help you!" Tears began to well up in her eyes.

  I started feeling a little unfortable, but I didn't pull away. I held Elma's hands firmly and smiled at her.

  "You've also done a lot for me, Elma. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to publish my book so easily. Let's keep w together!"

  "Yes!"

  I looked over at Lili aia, and they both seemed quite happy, watg our iion.

  After this rather emotional versation, we decided to head home.

  Elma kept saying how grateful she was to me the eime. She repeated it so much that I had to ask her to stop.

  She only stopped when we parted ways.

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  When I arrived at the mansion, I took another bath with Lili and put on clothes. After all this time, I think it's time to return to the dungeon. Last time, I didn't explore that much.

  But even without much exploration, I mao kill that cursed dragon.

  It was fun fighting it. Will I e across another ohey're rare monsters, so...

  And now that it's time to return to the dungeon, it's the perfeent to test the [Iory] skill. I should've tested it earlier by st the manuscript, but I preferred not to reveal this ability in front of Lili aia just yet.

  I was alone in the room and grabbed my dagger.

  "It's a bit damaged. I thought it had more durability. And the poison thing didn't affect the monsters oh and 12th floors. What trash. I need a neon."

  I pced the dagger in my iory. As soon as I did, it simply vanished from my hand.

  I expected something like a bck hole to appear and swallow the dagger. Like in animes where simir skills exist.

  But here it was different. It just disappeared.

  "Iory."

  And there it was.

  A system window with several "slots" appeared. I had no patieo t them all, but there were probably more than 50. The dagger was in the first slot. I only had to think about it, and it appeared again.

  It floated in the air until I grabbed it.

  It's ve.

  "I wonder how I'll store water. I'll probably need bottles, right?"

  I'm also curious about food. This type of skill usually freezes time ihe iory so the food doesn't spoil. If this ability works the same way, that would be perfect!

  I could stockpile a lot of food here and never worry about it.

  Knock, knock, knock~~

  Then, someone knocked on the door. I put the dagger ba the iory.

  "Who is it?"

  "It's me. Have you finished what you were doing?" It was Lili.

  "Oh, yeah, e in."

  Lili ehe room and walked over to me. She gave me a light kiss on the lips.

  "I'm heading out now. I'll be back tonight, okay? You don't mind, do you?"

  "You e whenever you want." I kissed Lili's lips. "Anyway, I'll only be here at night. I'm heading to the dungeon now and will spend a few hours there. I 't wait to reach Rivira."

  "You're already reag Rivira? Alone?!" Lili excimed, surprised. "How is that possible? I knew you were strong, but… Isn't that too much?"

  "I've bee even strohan before, Lili."

  "I want to go with you! I want to see you fight!"

  "I don't think that's a good idea. I'm going really deep this time."

  "..." Lili stared at me sadly but sohtened up. "I trust you! I'm sure you'll be able to protect me!"

  "That's not the problem..."

  I want to move quickly, so she'd only slow me down. If I'm with her, I won't be able to teleport or run through the floors. I o expin that to her so she'll give up.

  After expining everything to her, Lili finally gave up on ing with me.

  "Alright, but ime, I'm going with you!"

  "Okay, ime I'll take you to Rivira."

  "I'm looking forward to it!"

  Then, I set off for the dungeon.

  But I met someone I wasn't expeg to see on the way.

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