Game mechanics changer for this darkest dungeon!

While Darkness was strangling the butler in tears, a letter dropped to her feet.

“…? What’s this?”

“It’s a letter from the royal palace. Young lady, after you read it, you’ll understand the crisis impending on House Dustiness. And this is related to Satou-san over there…”

The butler glanced at me.

Stop, don’t drag me into this!

After opening the letter, Darkness’s face became more and more pale before finally kneeling onto the ground.

The content seemed serious.

“… What’s it about?”

I asked timidly and Darkness snapped back to her senses.

“No-no-nothing at all! This has nothing to do with Kazuma-sama! Please don’t mind it!”

Darkness suddenly used weird honorifics in her words, making me feel that something was off. And so, I reached my hand out.

“Show me the letter.”

“No, I refuse. No, I apologize for dragging you in every time. Hey, that’s what you said, right? You don’t want to be involved in troublesome matters anymore! And so, this matter–”

“Steal!”

“Ah!”

After I stole the letter, I read it quickly, with Aqua and Megumin peeking from behind. It read…

‘To the one who defeated many of the Demon King’s generals, a great adventurer who made exemplary contributions to the nation, Satou Kazuma-dono. I’ve heard about your marvelous accomplishments, and hope to meet with you face to face. May I enjoy a meal together with you?’

At the end of the letter was the emblem of the kingdom and the name of the author.

The name was Iris.

Even though I was unfamiliar with this world, I still knew that she was the first princess of this country.

A royal princess.

“Kazuma, let’s reject this invitation! If anything happens to first princess Iris, we’ll lose our heads! It’ll be a big problem if one of us did anything rude! You know nothing about ceremony and etiquette, right? You hate such restrictive events, right? Am I right? Let’s reject it! Yes, that’s right, the Dustiness house will book a good restaurant and we’ll only invite close friends to hold a party that commemorates your achievements! So…!”

I exchanged looks with Aqua and Megumin, and we all nodded our heads together.

“Our time has finally come!”

Darkness shook her head with tears in her eyes, grabbing onto my waist and refusing to let go.