6 06. Rabbits, carrots and seeds of power




"Well, ...... what are you doing here in the first place?
Here.

 Bunnygirl pulled out a carrot and stuck it at me.

"Carrot? What is this?
You must be Yoda's carrot.

 Emily said from behind me.
 'My carrots?
 I looked again at the carrot that was thrust at me.
 It looks like a carrot that I had bought from Elsa's shop, which I had dropped at Tellurium's basement level.
 I can see them, but I'm not sure. I have to remind Emily to check it out.

"Are they?
That's what it smells like, and that's what it is in color. They are Yoda's carrots.
"Yoda Carrot.

 Bunny Girl whispered to herself.

'It sounds like that kind of breed,'
It happens.
What do you mean by that?
'There are artisans out there who hunt certain monsters all the time. People who only drop things that others don't produce very often can have their own names attached to things.

 Yeah, I can see that.
 Because it's often named after the producer.

 I get it-- I saw the bunny girl.
 If I brought back a carrot from the dungeon, what does that tell you?

Carrot butterflies.
The "big time"?
"Rabbit and Carrot

 He nodded at me and stared at me with a straight face.
 And I realize now that I'm not the only one.

 The rabbit ears that seem to grow out of the bunny girl's head are the ears of a real rabbit.
When I said "I'd like to eat a carrot," the rabbit's ears twitched.
 The rabbit's ears bobbed in tandem with my eyes, which were as excited as a child's when he got a toy.

 The girl dressed as a bunny girl was a real rabbit. ......
 This world still seems to be very deep.

     ☆

 Inside the house, a bunny girl named Eve is standing next to Emily, staring at her as she cooks.

'Thus, the first thing we do is peel the carrots. After we peel them, we slice them and cut them into thin strips.
Noodles......?
'Yes, sir. Now you have carrot noodles. Boil them for ten seconds and let them cook just enough to keep them crunchy.
Ooh, .......
Now chop up the carrot leaves and fry them up a bit with the meat, season them to taste and thicken them with potato starch.
Ankake ......?
Finally, if you toss in those carrot noodles from earlier-- yes! It's a three-color ankake carrot soba.
"Whoa!

 The bunny girl's eyes sparkled.
 There's so much sparkle in her eyes that it looks like her eyes are shaped like stars.

 I know what you're thinking, Emily's skill is like a magic trick.
 The three of us ate the food that was made in such a short period of time.

 I was a little nervous about the carrot noodles until I ate them, but as soon as I slurped and took a bite, it was gone.

 I didn't feel the carrot smell I had been afraid of, only a nice sweetness.
 Even though it was cooked, it still had a crunchy texture, reminiscent of thin noodles made from balikata.
 Thanks to the use of carrot leaves, the mochi is a perfect match for the noodles, and the soft taste spreads from my tongue to my whole body.

 I was so happy.
 Along with the deliciousness, an unexpected feeling of happiness enveloped my body.

It's so good!
I'm glad it's in your mouth.
'It's not like it's good for your mouth or anything, it's good, it's very good! It's the kind of thing you can get in a restaurant.
"980 piro for a drink.
'Realistic pricing! No, this tastes even better than that.

 Eve and I were raving about it, and we were gobbling up our food with great gusto.
 Maybe it was because we were both praising the food and praising it as delicious, but Emily was too embarrassed to eat.

 Eve looked at her portion of the food greedily.

''Juri.''
Oh, you want some of this?
"Foodie Talk

 Emily gave her her own portion.
 Eve gobbled it up with an incredibly happy face.

'Are you sure?'
'Yes, sir! I'm happy for you because you're going to eat well.
Okay.

 I saw Eve, who was eating well.
 We met in a dungeon, and then she came out of nowhere.
 I thought she was a strange girl, but now she's kind of cute.

 Noticing my gaze, Eve blushed, "I don't like it.

"Low level, I hate it.
You don't have to chop as you remember.

 When I said that, Eve looked dissatisfied, but she neatly flattened Emily's food and finally said 'feast' with a neatly clasped hand.

     ☆

 The next day, this day, I came to Nihonium.
 I graduated to the first basement floor because my HP was at S. I headed to the second basement floor with high hopes.

 After walking for a while, we encountered a monster.
 The monsters on the basement level two were zombies.

 A zombie, just like Skeleton, wearing the same tattered clothes and rotting all over his body.

"So you're a zombie as we know it.

 The dungeons of Nihonium had already been researched by other humans and information was shared.
 The names and characteristics of the monsters and their characteristics were also shared and disclosed, along with the contents of the drops that the producer named Adventurer was most concerned about.
 As per the information, a corpse monster, a zombie, appeared.

 I don't mind the ...... one that showed up.

'Jeez,'

 I feel like I'm being watched a lot.
 They are staring at me from the shadows.

 She turns around, hiding, but her ears are sticking out.
 The rabbit's ears are twitching. 'It's Eve.

'Hey, what are you doing there?'
......

 No reply, but the rabbit's ears remain visible.
 It's hard to tell if he's really trying to hide or not.

 Just as I was thinking that, a zombie attacked me.
 I groaned, "Wooaaa......" and swung my rotten arm down.

 I was so distracted I didn't duck in time.
 I take it with the bamboo yari I have.

 Crack, melee!

 The bamboo palm Emily had given me broke in half.

'Shit, my weapon--'
"Ei.

 As I was wondering what to do, Eve appeared in front of me.
 She had been hiding right behind me a few moments ago, and now she's in front of me.
 Eve stepped in between me and the zombie and swung her sword at it, and the zombie shattered.

 The zombie shattered.

'How could you shatter it with a chop? And it's not even a bone!

 I plunged into it.
 One vertical swing of Eve's chop, not in half or in pieces, shattered the zombie.

'What the hell did you do now?'
I chopped a hundred times in one second.
You're chopped!

I do it for the carrot guy.
'That was beaten a hundred times!
101 times to be exact.
'Fine! It's the last one!

 Eve looked at me with a straight face as I gave her a big shove.

"You shouldn't be here,
'What? Hey, why not ......
I'm not dropping carrots here.
That's it!

 For a moment, I thought there was something wrong with me, that I didn't know about the Nikonium bunker, but that's not what happened.
 I was just thinking about the carrot.

"I don't want to hear that you're not here, you want me to go back to Tellurium,
'Carrot people go back to carrots.'
That's a strange thing to say.
Rabbit, I need a carrot.
Why don't you just buy it at the store?
I want to eat your carrots.

 Her eyes were moist and she accused me of looking up.
 Ugh, I thought.
 The gesture was adorable and "I want to eat your carrots" made me imagine that I was evil.
 I was doubly "ugh".

 I don't want them both to realize it, especially the latter, which is bad.
 I had to fake it.

"Okay, okay. I'll come over later.
Later?
Later.
...... Got it.

 Eve looked reluctantly convinced, returned the kibisu and left.
 And then she stopped and came back to me.

What's the matter, you're still here?

 He hit me in the forehead, causing me to pinch myself.

"I hate low-level crap.
Don't bother going back to do it!
I really hate it.
You hate it that much?

 After a short pause, Eve walked away this time, feeling a little better.
 I looked at the broken bamboo spear.

 We're out of ammunition, but we'll still have to kill one of the zombies before we can leave.
 I've got S-HP, so I should be able to handle that.

 The skeleton on the first basement floor dropped a seed that would increase HP, what about the zombies here, that's what I want to know.

 I walked around the dungeon.
 After a minute or so, I met another zombie.

 I pulled myself together and confronted the zombie.
 I punched that guy with my bare hands.
 He hit me a few times, but surprisingly it didn't hurt, and I decided it was okay, so I didn't dodge and hit him.
 I wish I had a weapon ....... I'd like to have a weapon for long range combat because fistfights are dangerous.
 I used to use a lot of gunners and wizards in games and stuff like that.

 I was thinking about that when I fought.
 I'd put in a few good shots, the zombies would fall over, disappear--and the seeds would drop.
 The same shape as the zombie upstairs, only different color.
 I picked it up.

 --Your power has been raised by 1.

 I heard a mysterious voice saying "My power has been raised by 1.

"Whoa!

 I heard the rabbit, too.
 You didn't come home, yet.