12 12. Where things that don't drop don't drop




 I told Elsa about the scene I saw earlier in the day at the buyer's shop "Swallow's Grace", which was crowded with adventurers today.

Didn't you know that? If you leave a drop item in an unpopular place, monsters will be born from it.
Oh, I'm sorry: ......

 I'm a newcomer to this world, I have no way of knowing, but the way Elsa talks, it's common sense, so I apologize without thinking.

"So, does that mean that Hagremonos are almost like man-made disasters?
'Yes, it does. There are exceptions, of course.
Exception?
There was a storm, and things got blown out in the open.
'Ah ...... I see, I see ......'

 In that case, would it still create a haggle of monsters?
 The point is, if you drop something from a dungeon and leave it in an unpopular place, it will revert back to its original monster.

'Even in a dungeon?'
Even in the dungeon.
Okay.

 I've put together in my head what I just heard.
 If that's the case--

'Um, Ryota-san. If it's okay with you, I'd like to have dinner with you tonight! I found a really great place--
'Thank you, Elsa! I'll be back!

 I ran out of the store excited to try what I noticed right away.
 I was so excited that I couldn't see what was going on around me if I could make it happen.

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 Inside the shop where Ryota had disappeared, Elsa's colleague, Ena, came in beside her as she stared wistfully at the doorway.

'Zannen, you got dumped,'
It's not like I was rejected. Ryota-san, I just had something important to do.
"Ha-ha, no sulking, no shuffling.
I'm not sulking! It's just that Ryota-san should be more alive.
Wow, that's some pretty good food. Oh, welcome.

 Elsa stared at the door that Ryota had left with a sad look in her eyes.

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 I dropped the carrots that killed the sleeping slime in the Tellurium's basement two floors and brought them to the ground.
 The reason I didn't use a pumpkin is to prevent accidents.

 If I did it with a pumpkin, I could see that Emily would somehow (...) pass by.
 I've gone with the carrot.

 You can do it with carrots, pumpkins, or even sprouts.
 The key is to intentionally create haggletons.

 When you kill a haglemono, you get something that doesn't exist in this world.
 Kill a gorilla, get a gun, kill a cocrosstime, and the bullets are replenished.

 Bullets are consumable and need to be replenished constantly.
 If you can intentionally create a haggle of things, you can replenish them at will.
 With that in mind, I put the carrots in an unpopulated area, just in time to see them in plain sight.

 What do you think?
 Then, after waiting for a while.

"The Great Carrot.
You can't catch it!

 Eve appeared out of nowhere and picked up a fallen carrot and ate it.
 Eve ate the carrot in a way reminiscent of a rodent.

'Why are you eating it!'
Low level.
Don't call me that! Why are you eating that carrot?
Because that's where the carrots are.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry I didn't think you'd be able to catch me with a carrot.

Good. You like carrots?
I won't eat it!
I'm not giving you anything.
You can't give me that?

This carrot belongs to the rabbit. This carrot belongs to the rabbit, and I would never give it to anyone, no matter how hard heaven and earth may turn.
That's the first time I've ever heard that long line of dialogue from you!

 Bunny-girl Eve gurgles carrots contentedly.
 Her own cowlick twitches.

'Ha, I'm glad I got more.

 I put down the spare carrot.
 Jumped, and Eve's ears jumped.
 She's staring at the carrots, she's drooling!

No, wait a minute, don't do that.
But the carrots--
All right, there's something for you.

 He also handed a spare carrot to Eve.
 Eve looked at the carrots in turn and compared them with the ones on the ground.

That one is a carrot, and this one is a carrot.
'Really? ...... Yeah, you can take that carrot to Emily's.'
Emily: "Emily: ......
She would have made a hell of a carrot dish.
Carrots...... Emily...... God was born.
Is that it?

 Without paying any attention to my tsking, Eve left with a new carrot.
 Phew, that's something.

 I look at the carrots and think.
 Somehow I dug a hole in the ground and buried the carrot.

 And then you move away from it, and look at the ground where you buried the carrot from a distance.
 Then, I wait for a while.
 Just when I thought it was no use.

 With a pop, a slime was born from the ground.
 And a slime was born from the ground.
 It's the sleeping slime that lives in the underground level of the dungeon in Telluride.

I've been waiting for you!

 Grab the gun and pounce on the sleeping slime.

 Pan! Poof!

 The sleeping slime has been shot out and 10 bullets have been dropped!

Yeah!

 I couldn't help myself.
 The experiment was a huge success. Now I can deliberately put out a haggle of bullets at any time and have a steady supply of bullets that don't exist in this world.
 A big step forward.

 I thought it would be hard to wait for the haglemono to drop anything, but I'm glad I discovered this method.

'Hmm? Wait a minute, ...... nothing drops ......?

 I felt an inspiration in my head.

     Stars

 Nifonium, basement level two.
 Sink a zombie that has taken you by surprise with a headshot.

 The zombie's head is blown off and it drops a seed.
 Picking up a seed raises its power by one.

 This zombie is also a "non-dropping" monster.
 They're the only monsters in this world that can't drop, and they drop their seeds when I kill them.

 Just like hagglers.
 So I figured.
 What if a zombie turns into a haglemoth?

 I came to Nihonium with that in mind, but I was in trouble.
 The seeds of the drop items disappear when you pick them up.

 Items have to be taken outside to spawn haggles, but the seeds here disappear as soon as you take them up and they take effect.

 I went back to the basement floor above.
 I searched a bit and found a skeleton.

 It's a bone, so I didn't have much to aim at, but I calmly took it down with my gun.
 A seed dropped.

 Maximum HP hit 0.

 This is a problematic result.
 I thought I could bring the seed to the max HP of S, but it only goes up to 0, and the seed still disappears.

 I can't take the seeds out of the house.

 It's a good idea to make sure that you're not going to have to worry about the fact that you're not going to be able to get your hands on any of these things.
 It's no use. It's just that it doesn't work out that way.

 We've replenished our ammunition, so let's go back to tellurium and make some more money for today.
 With that in mind, I leave Nifonium.

 I came to the exit, and I was wondering if my HP would be SS or something, since I got a seed in S. That's when I came to the exit.
 The wall collapses and a skeleton ambushes me.

'You too! I love the monster ambush on Nifonium!

 He kicked away the skeleton that grabbed him.
 The skeleton flew away and flew out of the dungeon.

''Oh shit, by the haggle - that?

 The skeleton disappeared.
 A second after I left the dungeon, it disappeared into a fog.
 What did that mean? I nodded my head.

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 Tellurium, and Nihonium.
 After some experimentation in two dungeons, I discovered yet another simple principle.

 All monsters can only live on that floor.
 They can't set foot on a different floor by themselves, but if they are blown up or sent to another floor, they will disappear as soon as they are blown away.

 The only time they become haggled over is when the dropped items are left outside, and if the monster leaves normally, they disappear immediately.
 If you go to another floor or go outside from the first basement floor, it will disappear.
 Monsters followed that principle without exception.

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 Nifonium, basement level.
 I was waiting for you in the doorway.

 I waited patiently for a long time.

 I waited for it to come out, and finally, after about an hour or so, a skeleton appeared from the ground and attacked me, waiting for me.

"Whoa!

 He grabs the skeleton's thin neck bone and throws it outside.
 Then he shoots at the skeleton as it is thrown outside.

 Sharpening his nerves, he fired in rapid succession, aiming between the bones for only a second.
 The bullets shattered the skeleton into pieces.

 And then--.
 Pong!

 One bullet dropped!

 Monsters that don't normally drop, outside of dungeons that don't normally drop!

 I dropped the item.

 Pick it up and put it in the gun.
 I'm sure, this is something different.

 Outside the dungeon, you aim at a single tree and pull the trigger.

 The bullet hits the tree and a magic circle spreads out around it.
 Immediately after, the tree turned into a large block of ice.

 Frozen Bullets ...... magic bullets.
 An expression like that naturally appeared in my head.