Lazy Dungeon Master, Volume 13

Lazy Dungeon Master #13

by Supana Onikage, Youta (Illustrator), Quof (Translator)

I'm Keima Masuda, a Dungeon Master aiming for a life without work. Haku told me about there being a Hell Tournament in the Demon Realm with the reward being the Divine Pajamas, and she even sent me over as an imperial official. She's being so generous I can't help but feel like something's off... And of course, the winner of this year's Hell Tournament suddenly forces me into a fight. "Now then, in accordance to the law, you are now mine." What?! If you lose a duel in the Demon Realm you're the winner's slave? No way! Thus begins my live as a slave. And he's forcing me to train in combat?!

This is Volume 13 of my own kind of dungeon story! The demonic hands of forced labor are grabbing for me!

Genres: Light Novel, Slice Of Life, Fantasy, Harem, Comedy

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 25, 2020

Reviews

[Pieter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keima is send to the Demon Lord's realm as an ambassador and to learn more about demon culture. He quickly learns that combat strength is everything to the demons and their subjects. So when the Divine Pyjama is offered as a price of a fight, it requires every braincell to eventually win. What follows in an entertaining story, much like earlier parts of the series. Keima has to use his brains, learning some new magic and experimenting with it for its optimal use. The demon realm's culture is also surprisingly interesting. As in earlier volumes it comes with some of the typical tropes for the genre and some jokes return all the time, but not to to the point of distraction. All in all, a good addition to the series and an entertaining read.

[Pablo García · Rating 3 out of 5]

Neruneh the "little witch" is on the cover and the story takes Keima and his retinue to the Demon Lord's Tournament to see if Keima can "win" one of the pieces of the Holy Sleeping artifacts (as if Keima who is addicted to sleep and sloth needs another excuse to sleep or actually can sleep a little better from having yet another item to help him sleep more)... The ideal, I guess, would be to have a main character that always sleeps...the Dungeon had no changes, and just another three "monsters" gotten through the gacha dungeon machine.
Story is still moving at about 1/4 speed (2/4 irrelevant side stories and the rest are the illustrations, explanation and author excuses in the afterword). Illustrations have never included maps from this other world, from the Dungeons conquered or the Dungeons managed, no character summaries illustrated either.
The Tournament is an Arena type of dueling to find a tournament champion or champions...
Because Keima and Japanese Light novels in general, foster slavery, well, in this book 13, Keima is enslaved, and because Niku was a slave, is re-enslaved with Keima as well, and they have to figure out a way out of it. Not the abolishment of slavery, but getting out of being another's slave...
The author spends 20-30 percent of this book explaining the convoluted and over-complicated plan to "succeed" while becoming a slave had been a "trap" that took seconds to plan...(there is no relation between the causes and effects) and it wasn't entertaining or fun to read several view-points about the same convoluted and over-explained plan and execution...