Ayame laughed a bit as she watched Yui and Timi jump straight into their meals, and seeing them so carefree reminded her that it wasn't just themselves that the group was fighting for. Her research for a project she had done had shown that the primary demographic that games were marketed for and the video game players thrmselves didn't always match up. There were young children in thi game who were unable to fight themselves, which meant that they were also fighting so save the lives of those who were helplessly thrust into a situation that they couldn't have foretold. Pushing hat demoralizing thought aside, Ayame started to eat as well. It wasn't exactly what she had been used to at home (a bowl of rice every morning was pretty decent for a meal), but at the same time the taste felt... Well, different, like what Fujiwara's parents had made when they had come over for trips every now and then. It made her slightly nostalgic, but at the same time it reminded her of the incident that happened just a little while ago. As Yui thanked her, Ayame smiled in returned and nodded.
"It's no problem at all. Everything's either free from grinding or cheap from the markets right now, so given enough time it'll only get better! Something to look forward too, right?" she said before turning to Suki and beginning to speak.
"That does make the most sense, but at the same time grouping up to rapidly map out the dungeon makes things easier when mapping a quick route to the boss. If we spend today grinding through the dungeon's final floor, it'll be easier to map a quicker route to the end. Moving as a large group also means less inherent risk- it's harder to wipe a group of 30 than it is to wipe a group of 6 or 7." she said as she continued eating. "I'm not exactly an experienced gamer, but I'd thinl that unless the monsters are somehow able to swarm us like locusts and wipe us all we'd lose a lot less by mapping as a group. Fighting the boss would be an entirely different story, however. THAT I would recommend leveling until you can't level anymore, and even then..."