Yo this whole arc is straight up fucking braindead. Neither of them are acting in ways that are consistent with their characters. Just very poor lazy writing to manufacture melodrama.
This manga is so subtly well written. It doesn’t take itself seriously at all which makes it funny and ironic, but simultaneously has an actual interesting story and world without ever exposition dumping or trying too hard. The nonchalant MC surrounded by overly serious characters basically...
I’m with the translator on this one. This series had decent potential at the beginning but he fucked up the MCs personalities so badly, now they are boring.. so he has to insert useless melodrama to try to stay relevant. Too bad.
Honestly Bete is kinda based. He’s sort of like Bells foil in a way, he knows only the strong should be in the dungeon in the first place and doesn’t help others. Which is completely true, like why risk your life exploring a dungeon when you could just get a normal job and have a normal life...
I was hoping this would eventually develop into a legit story with real plot like many successful episodic manga do, but after almost 100 chapters it hasn’t. Time to drop it I guess.