The next day, after hiding for an hour or so in the basement level of the tellurian, I carried the dropped bean sprouts back to the city of Ciclo and brought them to my favorite buyer, Tsubame's Benefit Shop.

　Tsubame's Benefit Shop is still very busy on this day.
　In this world, everything is dropped from dungeon monsters.
　The dungeons, adventurers and these buyers are what we call the primary industry in my former world - producing raw materials.

　Most of the towns are clustered near dungeons, and they are overflowing with adventurers and fence-sitters.
　That's what makes this so popular.
　It's an interesting sight and system, if you think about it.

　While thinking about this, I look for a counter that is open for purchases.
　A pair of purchases have just finished, and a counter has been vacated.
　I went to the counter, Elsa Monsoon, a familiar face who has been in charge of my purchases many times, greeted me with a smile.

'Welcome. It looks like you had another great catch today.
There you go. That's it.
'Yes, just a moment, please. Um, Satou Yota.
It's Ryota.

Oh, I'm sorry. Lyota, your name is very difficult to understand, unlike everyone else's.
I hate it.
No, I'm sorry.

　Elsa stuck out her tongue with a mischievous smile and checked the contents of the bag on the counter.

　She weighs the amount and calculates the amount.

Yes, let's see, ...... it's all 1,967 piro. Mr. Lyota, you always bring in a lot of stuff, so I'll give you a service of 2,000 piro.
Thank you. But it's still sprouts, so it won't be worth much money.

　Considering the amount of time I've dived into the dungeon, the hourly rate is a little over a thousand piro.
　Piro is roughly equivalent to a yen, so I'd say it's good and bad.

　...... It's heavenly, though, from those days when rusty work was averaging 100 hours a month.

'I think I'll go to the basement bunk of Tellurian. What's the basement second floor like?
The monster is a sleeping slime and the drop is a carrot.
Carrots or .......

　I imagined the scene.
　The slime is defeated and a carrot is dropped as an item.

　It's too surreal.
　It's too surreal, but that's what's "normal" in this world.

'What about other dungeons?　Even on the basement floor, everything else would make more money than tellurian, wouldn't it?
What are the other dungeons like?
Silicone, Arsenic, all sorts of things.
You have a lot of interesting names.
Is that so?

　Erza tilts her head slightly.
　Well, maybe it's normal for the residents who live there.

''But the name of the recently born dungeon is a bit difficult to say.
Born?　Are dungeons ever born?
Yes, they're born sometimes, aren't they?

　Again, I nodded my head and said, "Of course not, right? Elsa makes a face like.
　So you're born.

What kind of name is that?
Uh, it's called nipo-- or niphonium, for short.
Nihonium. That's easy to say.
Really?

　It's kind of like "The elemental elemental name I thought of in the Greatest Generation", which makes me feel strangely close to it.

'The drop is being looked up by the Neptune family right now, so you'll find out soon enough.
"The Neptunes?
Don't you know?　It's the most powerful organization in Cyclo, it's an amazing group with five plant drop A's.
Oh, so you're gonna bring me all these awesome fruits and vegetables and stuff?
It's amazing, but I won't bring it to our house.

　Elsa chuckled.

'Why?'
''There's a lot of them, and some of them are expensive. From what I've heard, the other day they brought hundreds of melons from the dungeon with 50,000 piro per ball all at once. It sounds like it was a big mission for the whole family.
Oh, wow.

　It's a great story.
　I mean, what kind of melons cost 50,000 pounds each?　Yubari melons or muskmelons or something expensive like that?

　I was talking to Elsa like that, but I suddenly noticed that I was pinched back.
　All of the adventurers who are bringing in the same buy-in are making reluctant faces.

　Oops, this isn't good.

I'm sorry for interrupting. I'm done with this. I'll see you tomorrow.
Um!
Hmm?

　I was about to return the kibisu and leave the store when Elsa stopped me.
　I stop and turn around, she's squirming for some reason.

'What's wrong?'
'Mr Lyota!　Bi, do you like beer and stuff?
Beer?
'Yes. There's a new shop around the corner, called Lantern, that serves delicious beer straight from the dungeon. Why don't you come with me today if you want?
Beer or .......

　I'm not sure.
　I don't hate beer, in fact, it's my favorite drink of all.
　I like it, but ...... my entire fortune right now is 2,000 piro.
　I don't have enough money to go out drinking.
　Besides, I have to get home to Emily.

Sorry, I'm gonna sit this one out.
'I see. ......'
See you later.
Oh, wait a minute. Here.

　This time I was about to walk away, but I was stopped again.
　Elsa pulled out what looked like a ticket from behind the counter and handed it to me.

'Is this a ...... coupon?'
'Yes!　Here's a coupon to buy it back next time for 5% more.
I didn't know there was such a thing.
Yes, sir.

　Elsa winked and gave a mischievous smile.

''Please continue to patronize our house for as long as you can.
Okay, thank you.

　He waved to Elsa and left the store.

　The front of the house was filled with more people coming and going than the inside of the store.
　The agricultural city of Cyclo, with five dungeons.

　Since most of the monsters in the dungeons drop plants, it's a city that attracts people with high drops from that side, and tens of thousands of people still live here.
　The pure residents and the adventurers who squirm into the dungeons to produce vegetables.
　These two types of people naturally mix together in this strange town.

　Let's buy something to go with sprouts for dinner for less than 2,000 piro.
　With that in mind, we wandered around the city and headed home.

　　　　　　☆

　Elsa stares at the door with a wistful look on her face as Swallow returns the favor, and her colleague Ena at the counter next to her.

'Too bad you got dumped,'
"Hmmm, I haven't been dumped. I mean, it's not like that!
"Ha-ha, no hiding, no hiding. You don't want to look like that.
That's not the kind of thing you can go to ...... or ......
I'll give you one piece of advice. I'll give you one piece of advice: if you don't invite him out for a drink, he won't be able to get through to you unless you ask him out in a different way or say it in words.
So...
Oh, we have visitors. Welcome. Wow, Eve, you've brought a whole bunch of stuff today.

　Ena had just walked in, heading to serve a petite bunny girl who was pulling a cart.
　Elsa was left behind after being pointed out one way or the other.

'It's not and ...... not at all.'

　He murmured sadly again.

　　　　　☆

　I'm back home.
　A cheap 87-year-old apartment in a lonely part of the city of Cyclo.
　I put my hand on the door and stop.

　I hear someone inside.
　Sorry I lied. Knowing the presence is an exaggeration, I'm not such an expert.

　It's a rundown apartment, and even when I'm outside, I can hear the clattering of feet inside.
　There's someone inside, it's Emily.
　That's fine, that's fine.

　...... What am I going to do about it?

　When I think about it, it's been decades since I've left while someone else is here.
　What am I supposed to do, say I'm home?

　Uh ...... ugh .......
　Yeah!

　I can't even think about it!　Let's just get inside.

Ta-ka-hi.

　I opened the door and chewed him down, uncoolly and grandly.
　It's an uncool bite that could end a hundred years of love in one fell swoop.

Welcome home.

　Emily greeted me, smiling.

'Ta, I'm home,'

　This time I stuttered, but I managed to say it.

"Yes, you're home.
What did you do today, I mean, is the room nicer than ever?
Yes, I'm done cleaning.
Cleaning is not at that level ......

　Yes, it's not on that level.

　The walls are pure white, the floor is shining.
　Before I left the house in the morning, it was so crumbly that it might have been a big cockroach war, but now it's so clean that it looks like a new house.

　It's more of a renovation than a cleaning!

'No?　I've never cleaned a room before, so I got into it. ......
No, it's not bad. In fact, it's great.
'I see!'

　Emily's face brightened as she almost sank into the shunned.
　But ...... it's amazing.

　I walked into the room and checked every detail.
　I traced my finger over the frame of one window - it slipped on the slippery side!

　It's so beautiful that even the meanest mother-in-law can't complain about it.
　All I can say is wow, wow is all I can say.

Yes, Yoda. Here's a towel.
A towel?

　Emily held out a hot steaming towel.
　I took it and naturally wiped my hands and wiped my face as well.
　It's so refreshing and pleasant.

What's this?
Thank you for the day. Would you like some tea?
'You even have tea?'

　It's kind of amazing, I guess that's what being blissful is all about.
　Emily made me feel good all the way home.

　For that, Emily was moving impatiently.

'Emily, since you have so much going on, why don't you take a break?　You're tired.
It's new and exciting to get f*cked in the house. I'm not tired at all.
Yeah. That's okay.

　Emily seemed to be really enjoying herself, as she self-declared, and was smiling the whole time.
　Well, if that's the case, I'll let her do what she wants.

'Oh, by the way, I heard there's a new dungeon on the horizon. It's called Nihonium.
'I heard that too. It's like a bad dungeon.
Bad dungeon?
Many people have gone to investigate, but it seems to be a dungeon with no drop at all. I called for support from other cities, and there were a lot of people with drop A's, but they didn't seem to drop anything.
Oh, I didn't know that was a thing.
'There is. There's a dungeon called Chrome, but it doesn't drop anything the same way. But the water there is so good that some people sell it, so some people say the drops are water.
I see. ......

　A dungeon that doesn't drop, nihonium.
　I'm a bit curious.

　　　　　Stars.

　The next day, I left Emily to go to the basement level of Tellurium as usual, and I headed to Nihonium.

　The dungeons in this world that drop this and that.
　There are dungeons that only drop alcohol, like beer, wine, shochu, etc., and there are dungeons that are monopolized by a group of rogues because they only drop marbled meat, even meat.

　In this world where dungeons drop all kinds of things, it was counter-intuitive that they don't drop anything.

　I came to the dungeon and went inside.

　It's a dungeon that feels like a natural cave, like a stalactite cave, unlike the underground level of Tellurium.
　It's not very popular inside, and there's no now board to check your abilities.
　Maybe they don't drop anything, so they don't install those things.
　It's kind of like I've just been born and this neglect is proof that there really isn't anything here.

　Oh well, we'll just have to see it in action. Even for me - if I don't get anything in the drop S, I'll just go back to Tellurium and meet up with Emily.
　Now, what kind of monsters will we get?

　After wandering around in the dungeon for a while, a monster appeared.

　It appeared as a human-like monster, but with tattered clothes and nothing but bones.
　Its name is probably Skeleton, that kind of monster.

　I attacked the skeleton.
　Aiming at the skeleton, I hit the body of the skeleton with a bamboo spear.

　It penetrated the tattered clothes, but did not hit the bones.
　He drew the bamboo yarns out of the bamboo, struggled to avoid it, and stabbed his head this time from the side.

　A full-force blow, the bamboo spear pierced his head.
　The bamboo spear went through the head.
　The skeleton, whose bones were destroyed here and there, staggered, fell to its knees, and fell to the ground.

　It stopped moving and just disappeared.
　Phew .......

　And the drop is ...... oops?

　There was some kind of seed-like drop where the skeleton was.
　Is this the drop?

　With that thought, I picked up the seed - and it melted the moment I touched it.
　It melted and disappeared in the same way that a raccoon dipped cotton candy in water.

　What happened?　What does this mean?
　If you think about it.

　-- Maximum HP has been raised by 1.

　Such a voice came out of nowhere.