39. For You
Seren dungeon, basement level two.
I came there with Emily and we looked for the monster.
We walked around for a bit, and then it came out of the ground like a creeping thing.
Trent, the monster in the second floor of the Serenium.
It was an old tree, about three meters tall from the side, but as I approached it, it reacted to me and attacked me, twirling its branches like a tentacle.
I quickly dodge it and look at Emily.
She's staring at Trent with a straight face. Her hand, holding a hammer that's bigger than her own body, also strains.
'Well, let's do it.'
Yes, sir.
Emily took one deep breath and jumped out, carrying her hammer.
In her hand is the ring I gave her as a gift.
She kicks the ground and dives in, while Trent intercepts her with a whip-like branch.
I take cover.
I fire a conventional round and flick the tentacles.
Emily continues her lunge, and finally jumps and swings the hammer headlong down!
Becky!
There was the sound of wood snapping and half of Trent's tentacle branches shattered.
'Did you do it?'
Hi!
Emily slumped as she landed, and Trent fought back.
After attacking with his remaining tentacles and pushing Emily back, the shattered branches began to regenerate.
With tremendous speed, it regenerated back to normal in a mere five seconds.
It's the same as the rare slime above. I'm sure you have a lot of self-renewal in your life ......
I'm fine!
Emily pounced again and slammed the hammer down again and again.
It's like a rice cake making machine: ...... such a word comes to my mind.
Trent was shattered by Emily hitting him at full throttle.
Trent, shattered by more damage than he could regenerate, disappeared with a pop.
'Looks like it's okay if you hit it carefully.
Yes, sir.
Emily nodded, her profile was reliable.
The trent was down, but there was no drop, I didn't care, I looked for the next one.
Soon the next torrent grew again.
Emily pounced on it before it was fully grown. She struck first.
I didn't need to cover her, and this time I crushed it with a single blow.
The item dropped.
The old tree disappeared with a pop, and the meat dropped.
It's a juicy looking chicken breast.
A breast, I wonder if it's cheap per unit price.
While I was thinking such things.
"It's been dropped: ......
Emily picked up the dropped breast meat, her voice quivering with emotion as she stared intently at it.
'Does it matter that much?'
I was an F. F is just below E, but in reality the gap is very wide. There are even dungeons that prohibit players from entering the dungeon from the first floor, because the people who drop all Fs are called F-final.
'I see. So that's why you sent me the F.
Emily nods her head.
I told her about Eugene, a powerful man hired by the hetero side.
'He's a strong fighter, but he's a plant drop F,' she said.
'That's one strategy.
Emily was strangely impressed.
After a moment, she put the dropped breasts in the magic cart and looked up at me.
'Thank you so much, Yoda,'
I'm glad you like it.
I've never heard of this kind of equipment. Is that because you are Yoda?
Emily stifles her voice in the second half.
Drop S. It's almost a secret between us at the moment, a secret that only Emily knows.
So she asked in a stifled voice.
'Correct. I made it a haglemono and took it down once more.
I knew it. ...... That's Yoda for you.
Now, I've checked the effects of the ring.
Now we just need to loosely hunt monsters to make money.
''Now we can ...... both animals and minerals. I can keep up with Yoda-san everywhere .......
Emily gently touched the ring and murmured calmly.
I couldn't quite catch what she mumbled, but she seemed happy, so I thought again that it was worth giving it to her.
Then a monster attacked Emily by surprise!
An old tree was born not from the ground, but from the wall directly beside her.
Sharp branch tentacles ripped through the air and attacked her.
'Emily!'
-Oh!
Emily jumped to her side in response to my voice.
The monster's attack gouged the ground where she was standing.
"Are you okay?
Yes, sir.
Good.
But this tree is a little different from the one in question.
Huh?
I was safe, Emily told me, and I looked at the one that attacked me again.
It looks like an old man with an old man's face and goatee, though it is still an old tree.
The size of the tree is one size larger and has a certain atmosphere.
It's clearly a different one from the one before.
I'm sure you'll be able to find a lot of people who will be able to help you.
So that's the one downstairs, the rare.
I'm sure he is--Hyah!
Rare Trent waved his tentacles, sharper than a normal guy, and Emily quickly guarded with her hammer and was blown away.
'Emily!'
I'm fine!
Emily holds the hammer up as it lands, and it doesn't seem to do much damage.
'This--'
I raised my gun - and for a moment, I hesitated.
The monster in the second floor of the Seren basement, the drop is meat.
That rare monster, the drop must have been meat.
It hasn't been confirmed, but it's theoretically certain, and we're just waiting for proof.
Both the cyclone and the hetero are waiting for it.
That this guy is going to drop some meat.
"There it is, Trent Beard.
Oh, God, I wish I had.
Don't drop, don't drop, don't drop, don't drop.
Before I knew it, adventurers had gathered around me.
I'm sure this rare monster, Trent Beard, will give out a large amount of rewards from the Hetero's Dungeon Association if I find a drop from him.
Just like I got a reward from Cyclo in the basement.
Only the first person to get it will get it, just like I got it from Cyclo in the basement.
And monsters are only allowed to be beaten up by the first adventurer to secure them.
So the other adventurers are hoping that I don't drop it.
If I don't drop, they'll be left with a chance to take their chances the next time they come out.
But I'm the drop S.
If I take this thing out, you can bet your bottom dollar it will drop.
So what do you think?
If I beat him, I'll have to bring Ciclo and Heero back to even terms.
That's - that's ridiculous.
Suddenly, I saw a familiar face among the adventurers.
He's in charge of Hetero's dungeon society... a guy named Harvard.
He's looking at me, with a wry smile on his face.
He sees through me, doesn't he?
You know that I'm lost, and you know why?
It's possible, and a competent adventurer would have a high drop, which is an imagination that anyone who's not crazy can quickly follow.
Maybe Harvard sees through it.
If you look closely, you'll see a man standing beside him.
He's not like Eugene, but he still has an air about him.
I can tell, just like I can tell with Harvard.
Maybe he's got Animal Drop A.
I'm sure hetero put a bounty on the info, and when they found a rare, they went right to work.
When I looked closer, I saw Duke on the other side of the room - the man in charge of the Cyclo side - and he was there, too.
He's looking at me with a puzzled look on his face.
Many onlookers, both of them in charge.
I'm not going to let them beat me any more if I'm in charge of ......
Emily!
Yes, sir!
The moment I called out, the wind blew past me from the side.
Running past me was Emily, a six-foot-two girl carrying a huge hammer.
She glanced at me and threw something fluffy at me.
I catch it on the spur of the moment - it's the ring I gave her.
Emily seems to notice what I was thinking, too.
No, I'm sure she noticed it before I did, as she's been an animal drop F for years.
So she took on Trent Beard.
To make use of her own drop - the drop that she removed the ring and returned to F.
'I'll cover you.'
I loaded the gun with frozen bullets and fired a series of shots at the ground.
The legs of the old goatee tree - freeze the whole root, and freeze all the branch tentacles, too.
Emily pounced on that thing that had stopped moving completely.
''Yaaaah!''
Dashing up, Emily jumped up and swung the hammer down headfirst.
A flash of spirit, a blow so strong that the dungeon shook.
Emily shattered the Trent Beard with a single blow.
The rare monster disappeared - there were no drops.
The adventurers around her scattered in a racket, happy to see no drop.
Harvard, who had a thin smile on his face, understood the significance of Emily's defeat () and left with the adventurers, looking like he had bitten down on a bitter bug.
After Harvard was gone, I approached Emily and gave her the ring back.
"Thank you, Emily.
You're welcome.
But that's great, by the time I got to you, you were already in the air.
I just remembered what you said earlier.
Okay.
'I'm glad I was able to help you, Yoda. It was always worth it to me to think about what I could do.
Emily said with a carefree, smiling smile.
My chest felt a little hot.
'Thanks for the help,'
He smiled at Emily, shook her hand and handed the ring back to her.
She takes it happily and with great care.
I'm both happy and excited.
Perhaps if I defeat the hagrete, other items will appear.
Items, like seeds, gain status, but if you remove them, they lose their effect, so you can change their effect as you please.
This leads to many possibilities, I'm excited to see.
'Thank you!Thank you, Satou-san!
"Oops!
'Thank you so much, that's why Satou-san didn't take it down himself, isn't it? Thank you so much.
I was thanked, over and over again, by Duke, who understood Emily's low drop in the situation.