Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 328: Whirlpool of Joy
　The happy events continued after Aeris’s birthday celebration.
　The first was the birth of her younger brother and sister.
　Marquis Van Dyne and Mei, his former head maid and future wife, had been blessed with twins: a boy and a girl.
　Aeris was overjoyed. “I need to work hard for my little brother and sister!” she declared with renewed enthusiasm.
　Because of the births, Aeris and Marquis Van Dyne temporarily left their Royal Capital residence and returned to the Van Dyne domain.
　Tauro and his companions were permitted to continue using the mansion in their absence. However, now that Tauro had been adopted by Count Graunewald and Aeris had retired from Black-Gold Wings, he felt it was time to leave the place that had long served as their Royal Capital base.
　Tauro therefore moved properly into Count Graunewald’s Royal Capital residence, bringing Ankh and Ragune with him.
　Count Graunewald and his wife, Aida, were delighted to have him there. Merely seeing Tauro in the house seemed enough to keep both of them smiling.
　Whenever no quest or other business kept them apart, they ate together. Tauro gradually relaxed in the warmth of the couple’s affection.
　They were still learning how to live together as a family, but the distance between them was unquestionably shrinking.
　Then, one day, Tauro and his companions visited the Dragonfolk Village.
　As usual, they had accepted a quest to transport a supply team to the deepest rest room reached by the dungeon-conquest expedition.
“You’ve already reached the 264th floor… I can only admire how hard everyone in the conquest teams has worked.”
　The expedition’s progress over the preceding months had been astonishing.
　Naturally, Tauro’s [Spatial Transfer] had contributed greatly. Because the conquest teams could receive food, replacement equipment, and other supplies without making the return journey themselves, they could continue fighting without constantly calculating how much strength they needed to reserve for retreat.
　That allowed the dragonfolk to display their full ability and advance at a speed that would previously have been impossible.
“Tauro-dono has made the greatest contribution of all,” Tsugumu, captain of Tauro’s escort team, insisted.
“Even so, the conquest teams are the ones confronting every powerful monster. Their courage and perseverance deserve the highest respect.”
　Tauro modestly rejected the praise as the supply team settled into the 264th-floor rest room.
　Before long, several members of a support team returned from the front.
“Tauro-dono, your timing is perfect! We’ve cleared the 264th floor and reached the 265th!”
　The dragonfolk had plainly survived a brutal battle. Their armor was battered and their bodies were covered in wounds, yet their eyes shone with excitement.
“Congratulations! I was beginning to worry because clearing the 264th floor took nearly a week.”
“The realm guardian was so formidable that the battle alone lasted an entire day. The ordinary monsters on that floor were extremely powerful as well. It was a hard-won victory.”
　The support-team leader smiled as though the ordeal had been nothing remarkable.
　Then the smile gave way to an expression of barely restrained emotion.
“Tauro-dono, the crucial 265th floor appears to be the end. We came back because everyone wants you to witness the conclusion with us.”
“What…?”
　Tauro looked at Ankh, Ragune, Tsugumu, and the other members of the escort and supply teams.
　The end of the dungeon conquest – the centuries-old dream that had shaped the entire Dragonfolk Village – was finally within reach. No one could immediately believe what they had heard.
“Do you mean…?” Tauro asked carefully, afraid he had misunderstood.
“Yes. We’ve reached the deepest point of the dungeon: the Dungeon Core.”
　The support-team leader tried to answer calmly, but the final words burst out with irrepressible force.
　The 264th-floor rest room was instantly swallowed by a whirlpool of joy.
“We did it!”
　The dragonfolk embraced one another, thanked one another, and praised the conquest teams whose struggle had finally brought them this far.
　Tauro and Ankh stood overwhelmed by the celebration until Ragune, tears filling her eyes, threw her arms around both of them.
“Thank you!”
　After several hundred years of repeated attempts and countless battles, the dragonfolk had conquered the Dungeon of Beginnings.
　At their request, Tauro used [Spatial Transfer] to send members of the supply team back to the surface so they could report the achievement to the village.
“Tauro-dono, the conquest teams are waiting in the Dungeon Core chamber on the 265th floor,” the support-team leader explained. “A rest room has appeared directly outside it, so please transfer us there.”
　The dragonfolk waiting below were surely growing impatient for everyone to arrive.
　Tauro, Ankh, Ragune, the escort team, and the remaining support-team members formed a circle. Tauro then activated [Spatial Transfer] and carried them to the 265th-floor rest room.