I Formed a Party with a Girl via an Adventurer Matching App - Chapter 3

 The Violet Dragon

"W-We actually defeated it... A Violet Dragon..."

Collapsed right before Cordelia and me was a massive dragon, easily measuring over ten meters in length.

Its entire body was covered in violet-colored scales, and its vicious rows of jagged teeth and razor-sharp claws were a testament to its raw ferocity.

And yet, that very same Violet Dragon lay sprawled out on the ground, without so much as a single twitch.

It was dead. And the ones who had ended its life were, without a doubt, Cordelia and me.

"......" 

"......"

Cordelia and I looked at each other, our expressions painted with utter disbelief.

Cordelia—the selfish, awful-tempered woman I’d been paired with via the Adventurer Matching App. Immediately after our match was locked in, she had glared at me and declared:

"If the guild refuses to admit they made a mistake, then I'll just have to prove it myself!"

Prove it herself. In other words, she wanted us to actually go out on an adventure together and prove just how incompatible we really were.

"There is absolutely no way a dull, fourth-rate adventurer like you could be my ultimate partner! If the guild claims their data is correct, then the data itself is fundamentally flawed! In the first place, trying to quantify me, Cordelia Salisbury, into mere numbers was a mistake to begin with!" 

"Look, Cordelia—" 

"Don't speak my name so casually! You're just a stray!" 

"...Wow, you really are something else..."

I was already completely fed up with Cordelia and her loud, barking tantrums. No matter how beautiful she was, I couldn't stand someone this obnoxious. That's why, as far as I was concerned, her proposal to prove our incompatibility was practically a wish come true.

And so, we plunged into the highest-difficulty dungeon in the region exactly as we were when we matched—without making a single proper preparation for an adventure.

Up until a certain point, our incompatibility was going beautifully. Take one step, and Cordelia would find something to complain about. Take two steps, and I'd snap back. Take three steps, and a full-blown argument would erupt.

There's no doubt about it. We are the absolute worst match. Both of us had been half-convinced of this fact.

Right up until the moment we actually drew our weapons and faced the monsters, that is.

"......That thing lying dead in front of us. It really is a Violet Dragon, right...?"

Hearing Cordelia mutter blankly pulled me back to reality from my sea of thoughts.

"Y-Yeah... Looks like it." 

"It's not just some lookalike fake, is it...?" 

"There are no other rooms past this one, so this is definitely the Boss Room." 

"Right... It is, isn't it..."

Before us lay the Violet Dragon, its massive frame completely silenced.

The "Dungeon of Delusional Dreams," located just past the Hills of Silence... This was an SS-class danger-rank boss monster lurking at the absolute deepest depths of a sprawling, fifty-layer labyrinth. It was an impregnable bounty monster that constantly broadcasted a hallucinogenic poison from its skin while attacking with its jagged teeth and sharp claws.

Well, actually... Even on the way to this boss room, we had been cutting down the monsters that ambushed us like wheat to a scythe. During all that, the thought had vaguely crossed our minds: Wait, are we... kind of overpowered together? But we had kept reassuring ourselves along the way, thinking, Well, we're both highly capable individuals, so we're probably just clearing this despite having zero chemistry.

But now that things had come to this, there was no denying it. It looked like we had just accomplished something utterly insane.

"If I remember correctly... the guild's recommended party size to subjugate a Violet Dragon is ten groups of six-man parties..." 

"And... didn't we just kill it with one-thirtieth of that force?"

Yeah, we sure did.

By the way, the bounty placed on a Violet Dragon by the guild was a whopping 100 million Norgle. Considering that the reward for clearing an average quest was around 10,000 Norgle per run, this was the equivalent of 10,000 quests...?

In a single hunt, we had just acquired enough wealth to live in luxury for the foreseeable future, even if we decided to take a long break from the adventuring business.

And we did it on an adventure taken together by just the two of us—me, and this arrogant, awful-tempered woman.

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