An Adventurer Mom, Who Awakened [Housewife] Skill Through a Login Bonus, Is Making the Most of Her Adventurer Life With the Weekly Flyers She Gets! - Chapter 6

On the 7th, after completing her morning daily mission, Kachua headed toward the dungeon.

“Good morning,” she greeted the familiar gatekeeper. He gave her a puzzled look in return.

“Oh, Kachua, you’re not working as a porter today?”

Kachua wasn’t wearing her usual issued porter gear. Instead, she was dressed in a sturdy everyday dress, equipped with a ladle and a pot lid.

“That’s right.”

“Will you be okay? Don’t go too deep, be careful.”

“Yes, thank you. I’ll be careful.”

Parting with the gatekeeper, Kachua entered the dungeon.

As the gatekeeper had advised, Kachua was careful not to venture too far in.

“I only need to defeat four of them!” she muttered to herself like a mantra as she advanced through the dungeon.

However…

“Eek!”

When she actually encountered a monster, fear took over, and she ran away at full speed. As a mother of two, Ed and Barbara, Kachua had unexpectedly strong legs, and fortunately or unfortunately, she managed to escape the monster.

“This isn’t going to work,” she sighed. For someone like Kachua, who wasn’t even good at preparing fish, defeating monsters was too difficult—way too difficult!

At that moment, she heard a scream from afar.

“Help! Someone!”

“!?”

Without thinking, Kachua dashed toward the direction of the child’s voice with a speed that even surprised herself.

There, two small children were being attacked by a monster!

“What do you think you’re doing to those kids?!”

Kachua rushed in front of the children and, in a frenzy, swung her ladle around.

In an instant, she defeated four slimes.

12 monster points acquired!

***

“Thank you, Ed’s mom,” the two boys, with tear-streaked faces, thanked Kachua.

“Oh, it’s Ren and Ran!” Kachua recognized the twin boys. They lived in the knights’ residence and were the same age as her son Ed—eight years old. Their mother, Natalie, was also one of Kachua’s friends.

“Why are you two in the dungeon? You know only adventurers are allowed in here!”

In the labyrinth city of Loa, anyone who wasn’t registered as an adventurer was forbidden from entering the dungeon. Adventurer registration was allowed from the age of nine. Since Ren and Ran were only eight, they weren’t eligible yet. Not only that, but children without combat ability shouldn’t be anywhere near a place like this.

“Did you come with an adult?”

“No, it’s just the two of us.”

“We snuck in while the gatekeeper was dozing off.”

“Coming here alone is reckless! Did you sneak out without telling Natalie?”

“Yeah… We’re sorry.”

“Well, here, have some candy. Are you hurt? Let’s head home together,” Kachua said as she gave the twins some candy and started walking them back. Along the way, they stopped by a statue of the goddess to pray.

Kachua was supposed to be home that day. Even if she had been working as a porter, she wouldn’t have been wandering around the first floor of the dungeon with adventurers.

Maybe it was the goddess’ guidance, Kachua thought.

After leaving the dungeon, Kachua escorted the twins back to their mother, Natalie, at the residential area.

Before they arrived at the twins’ home, Natalie, with her hair disheveled from worry, spotted them.

“Ren! Ran!” she cried out, running toward them. “Where were you!?”

“…The dungeon.”

“We went to find a Slime Hat.”

“I found them by chance inside the dungeon,” Kachua added.

“Kachua, thank you so much. How many times have I told you not to do anything dangerous!” Natalie scolded the twins.

“We’re sorry.”

“But Boris really wanted a Slime Hat for his birthday.”

“Boris…?” Natalie was shocked.

Boris was the twins’ younger brother, only five years old.

Kachua had assumed the twins were searching for the Slime Hat for themselves, but they were doing it for their brother.

“You were doing it for Boris…”

“We wanted to defeat slimes because you get a Slime Hat if you do.”

“…”

Kachua thought for a moment. She had accumulated enough points, after all.

Opening her coin purse with a snap, Kachua pulled out her monster points card. She counted, “One, two, three… nine, ten.” As she traced the mascot character, Loa-chan’s stamp on the tenth slot, a status board appeared with a message flashing across it.

—Congratulations! You’ve earned 10 monster points!—

“Ah!” Kachua yelped as something fell from above her head.

What fell was a Slime Hat.

—Slime Hat: A cute hat shaped like a slime. Defense +5.—

“A Slime Hat!”

“A Slime Hat!”

The twins’ eyes lit up as they gazed at the hat.

“Here, this is a gift from me,” Kachua said, offering the hat to the twins.

“Wow!”

“A Slime Hat!”

The twins reached out to take the hat, but Kachua held onto the edge tightly, not letting go just yet.

“Listen carefully, both of you. The slimes on the first floor are just weak slimes. If you really want a Slime Hat, you’ll need to defeat much stronger slimes. So!” Kachua stared into the twins’ eyes and said firmly, “You must promise me you’ll never enter the dungeon alone again. Swear it on the Slime Hat, okay?”

Kachua made them promise once more. The twins were the kind of kids who might cause trouble again.

“We promise!”

“Thanks, Ed’s mom!”

“Are you really okay giving them the hat?” Natalie asked Kachua.

“It’s fine. Without the Slime Hat, they might try going back into the dungeon again, right?”

The energy and determination of these twin boys were no joke.

“Thank you. Once they set their minds on something, there’s no stopping them.”

“But they’re good kids, doing this for their brother. Not everyone would do that. Happy birthday to Boris as well,” Kachua smiled.

Both Kachua and Natalie were still rookie moms, figuring things out as they went. There was no right answer.

“Thank you so much. Oh, if you’d like, please take some food with you! Ed likes stuffed cabbage rolls, doesn’t he? And I just baked an apple pie too.”

“Thank you! I was wondering what to make for dinner tonight!”

Kachua hadn’t stopped by the market on her way home, so she hadn’t been able to buy groceries.

As she parted from the twins and walked the few dozen meters to her home, Kachua thought, I said all that, but what should I do about the Slime Hat now…? Since she’d used up her points reward, she’d have to buy one from the tool shop. However, there was a one-per-family limit.

“Maybe I’ll ask my cousin Maria, who lives in the neighboring town, to buy one for me…”

As she reached her house, Kachua heard voices.

“Yay! Thanks, Jessica-chan! I really wanted this!” It was Barbara, holding none other than a Slime Hat.

And the person Barbara was talking to…

“Jessica!”

“Kachua! I picked up Barbara for you.”

Their roommate Jessica had returned.