I woke up from my slumber.
　I look up to a strange ceiling, a stone ceiling with no warmth whatsoever.

　It's like an underground passage somewhere - oh, I've been to the tellurian basement second floor.
　Huh?　So why are you lying there looking up at the ceiling?

　I suddenly felt myself being pettisoned.
　I get up and turn my head to the side - pfft!

　Something slammed into me. It bumped into me and kept its distance.
　Once again, I saw it was a slime.

　It's the sleeping slime from the Tellurium's basement two floors.
　...... This thing sent me to sleep!

　Remembering that we are in the middle of a battle, I get up in a hurry.
　I pick up the bamboo yarns that have fallen beside me and hold them up.
　How long have you been sleeping?　I mean, they put me to sleep and beat me to a pulp.
　Shit, I'm glad I didn't die.

　A slime flew at me, and I intercepted it with a bamboo spear.
　The furious bamboo spears grazed the sleeping slime.

　Shishu!　Slime changes direction and comes flying back in with a bang.
　A clean hit to the side!　Huh?　It doesn't hurt--I was thinking.

'This is ......?'

　I fell asleep again as my consciousness grew distant.

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　I wake up from my slumber - and this time, I get up with a bang.
　I'm back where I came from, and the sleeping slime continues to batter me.

　I set up my bamboo spear, and this time I aim well and skewer the flying slime.

"...... Phew.

　He wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand.
　It was a bad fight.

　Tellurian dungeon, two underground levels.
　The moment I stepped in, I ran into a monster, and in that moment, I was put to sleep twice and beaten to a pulp while I was there.

　They put me to sleep, beat me up, and in the game, it's a trend that could have wiped me out. And that's two times!
　I feel like I've been baptized on a new level. I see why Emily doesn't want to come down.

　That slime dropped a carrot.
　It's a decent-sized, well-shaped carrot.
　I wonder how much it would sell for, I picked it up and put it in my bag, wondering that.

　I walked further into the dungeon and searched for the sleeping slime.
　They'd put me to sleep and beat me up, but my body wasn't much of a problem.
　Maybe - or maybe it was definitely.
　It's because I got my HP up to S in the first basement floor of Nifonium.
　If my HP is at its maximum, getting beaten up by a weaker monster from a lower level won't do much damage.
　That's the way it is.

　That's why I kept looking for the slime boldly.

　A sleeping slime appears.
　Setting up my bamboo spear. The slime flew at me, and I dodged it.

　I decided to take it more seriously.

　Even if it put me to sleep, I could probably get up before I died, but since I'm hiding in Telluride for the purpose of hunting and exchanging drop items, it wouldn't be efficient if I slept every time I went to bed.

　Dodge and hit.
　Dodge and poke.

　I fought cautiously, because a hit would put me to sleep.
　The fight was long. Three minutes in, and we're still not done.

　Something flew in from the side.
　Something red flew straight at the slime, and the slime burst into flames.
　It burned, melted, disappeared, and turned into a carrot.

　A smaller carrot than the one I just gave you--what the hell?

　Quickly turning to the side, there were four men and four women there.
　Three men and one woman. I wonder if it's a party.

What are you waiting for?
If you're too busy dealing with one sleeping slime, you might as well go back upstairs.
"'Easy Scan' ...... level 1... I warn you, it's dangerous to be on level 1 in the Tellurium's basement level 2.

　They ran their mouths off, didn't look at the dropped carrots, and slipped past me to the back.

　The three men had their way with me, and then they headed to the back.
　There was a staircase a short distance away, and we used it to get downstairs.

　What the hell was that? I was a little angry.
　However, there was no point in being angry, so I decided to go back to hunting sleeping slime.
　-- and then I thought.

'Whoa, what the heck.'
......
I thought you were going to be there.

　The one who suddenly appeared in front of me, startling me, was the reddest of the four girls.
　She's a little over five feet tall, in a bunny girl outfit. She's probably an unsympathetic character, or maybe she's just looking at me emotionlessly.

　I mean.

"Those ears ...... own?

　When I first saw her, I thought she was dressed as a normal bunny girl, though she was in a rather orthodox bunny girl outfit.
　When I looked closer, I realized that the bunny's ears look like real ears growing out of her head, not a hair band or something.

　What does that mean?　He wondered.

'Level one?'
'What?　Yeah, me. Well, you're level one. What's the matter with that?
Low-level hate.

　And then the girl said that and bit me in the forehead.
　Huh!　I heard a sound of air being ripped out of the air and it "flattened" against my forehead.
　It didn't hurt, I was confused by that.
　What the hell was that chop?

"......?

　The girl also got a puzzled look on her face for some reason.
　She tilted her head back and made a curious face.

'What, what?'
..................

　He walked away without saying a word!
　He turned himself around and stuttered away.

　Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was that all about?
　It was difficult to understand what was going on, but since there was no sign of the four of them coming back, I was going to go back to hunting sleeping slime.

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　I didn't want to miss Emily, so I got up on time today.
　I brought the carrots I dropped in the basement second floor of the tellurium to Tsubame's favor and got them redeemed.

　The person in charge was my familiar face, Elsa.

''Where did you hunt these from?''
Where? Tellurium, downstairs, the Sleeping Slime.
Yes. Do they produce carrots like this over there?

What do you mean by this carrot?
It's great. There's not much of a carrot smell, and it's very sweet. They're so good that you can eat them without dressing.
'Heh, ...... the higher the drop, the higher the quality?'

'Oh, plant-based drops are high, aren't they, Lyota?
Well, you know how long you think ...... is?
'If it's such an awesome carrot, I'd say it's ......B or the world's best A.'
Is A the best?
'Yes. Human abilities range from A to F, with A being the best.

　Hmm.
　This was a nice little supplement to what Emily told me.
　Her abilities range from A to F, and A is the highest.
　I was skeptical because Emily is a bit of a natural, but Elsa seems like a normal girl, and she's a clerk at a place like this, so I'm pretty sure that's it.

　My S doesn't usually exist, right?
　I don't know why.

　While I was thinking about it, Elsa was bartering me some carrots.
　High-quality carrots, in bulk. Today's earnings came to 8,000 piro.

　8,000 times 30, that's 240,000 piro for a month's income.
　Considering that one pillow is worth roughly one yen, it was a little more than my old monthly income.
　I was a little happy.

　　　　　☆

　I came home to a warm house.
　The moment you open the door and walk in, you are surrounded by happiness.

'Welcome home, Yoda, ...... and look around your room to see how you're doing.

　Emily greeted me and asked me if I was weird.

I thought it was strange," she said. I mean, it's so ordinary, but when you look at it as a whole, it's so warm and inviting," she said.
Really?
'It's beautiful, but it's not the only thing that's beautiful. Hmmm ......

Yes, ...... and more importantly, welcome home.
Yeah, I'm back.
He's here for tea.
Thank you ...... Oh, it's cool and delicious.

　The tea Emily offered me was moderately cold.
　It wasn't exactly kinky, and it wasn't lukewarm either.
　It was cold enough to soak into my body after I got home.

　That's great, Emily.
　I gave her a carrot.
　I gave them to Emily and gave her some carrots, saving enough for the both of us to eat.
　I give them to Emily to make dinner.

　I'm sitting in the room, happy and excited, wondering what I'm going to have for dinner.

　Concon.

'Yes, who are you?'
Yeah, I'll get it.
Yes, sir.

　I stopped Emily as she started to cook, and I went out to take her place.
　I open the door and I see a familiar face.

"You're the guy from .......

　There was a bunny girl I encountered in the dungeon.
　She took one look at me and chopped me right in the face.
　--Snap. I didn't want to hurt her, but it was too soon.

"You shouldn't have all of a sudden...
Low-level hate.
You can't do that in a public place.
......

　Bunny Girl looks at me.
　Her eyes, devoid of emotion, are nowhere to be found in what she's thinking.

'Um, ......'
......

　She left without saying a word.
　What the hell is this?

Who was it, Mr. Yoda?
No, I want to know.
'What?　Oh, it's back again.
"Huh?

　The bunny girl returned, dragging the man with her.
　The man was one of the four I had met earlier, one of the four I had met.
　He was the one I remembered because he was the foul-mouthed, thug-like guy.

'Godd*mn it, what are you doing?'
It won't take long. It won't hurt.
It hurts - you're lying, we're on the same side.

　The bunny girl made the man stand up and let loose with a chop.
　Pfft--pshhhhh!

　Blood blew from the man's forehead, like a whale squirting.

'Kyah!'

　Emily screamed. It's obvious, right?
　Bunnygirl left her fellow man alone (they're buddies, right?) He looked at me.

"I hate low-level stuff.
Oh, yeah.

　Pfft.
　I got chopped, it didn't hurt much.

'Why is it ...... when the level is so low?'
Why? ......

　Maybe this is what happens when you're level 1 and your HP is S.

'Wonder ...... now chop, this house would be broken.'
You did that to me!
It's just so weird.

　The bunny girl nodded her head in a very strange way, as she said.