The morning after my return to Cyclo, I came to Nihonium for the first time in many years.

　I started by restocking the flaming bullets that I had used the most in Seren.
　Upstairs in the basement, the monsters are zombies.

　The first one, it had been so long since I'd seen one, I almost forgot what to do for a moment, and then my body went rigid.
　With a bitter smile on my face, I readied my gun and took a headshot.
　The zombie crumbles and becomes a seed of power, getting sucked into the collection box.

　That's right, I just need to make a headshot.
　I calmly make a headshot and go to take down the zombie.

　I keep walking like that, and suddenly, I almost remember something.
　My body moved faster than my head could fully recall.

'Hah!'

　The wall cracked for a moment, and then he punched into it.
　Force S's all-out punch, his fist thrust into the wall, and he could feel a raw body across the hard rock.

　Nihonium's famous, undead surprise attack.
　I've been through this place so much that I've already learned the signs of the moment of the surprise attack.
　In the moment of the signs, I made the opposite preemptive strike and smashed the head of the zombie still buried in the wall with my fist.

　That's bad, if you take it down inside the wall, the seed is inside the wall too.
　The seeds would disappear if you touched them, my power is already up to S. I don't want to touch the power seeds because I want to use them as bullets.
　I thought it was a no-brainer, but the collection box worked well and sucked the dropped goods' power seeds out of the wall.

　I continued to kill the zombies on the second basement level and replenished my 200 rounds of flame bombs.

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　Three floors below Nifonium, the monster is Mummy.
　They are macho undead monsters wrapped in bandages.
　They are tough, and often can't be defeated with a single round of normal ammo.

　That's why it often takes a long time to defeat them.

　In the afternoon, I promised to meet up with Emily and Celeste in Tellurium and go underground to the sixth floor.
　We have less than an hour to spare.

　I'm lost at the entrance to the third basement level, and I don't have much time.
　Time is running out, should we cut loose or continue?

Let's do .......

　Remembering what happened in Selenium, I choose to continue.

　First, I close my eyes and picture in my mind the structure of the third floor of the Nifonium basement.
　Then the points where mammies are common, the points where they usually come out, and the points where they surprise you.
　Add to those points the time of reoccurrence and build a route in my head.
　The most "efficient route to go around".

...... Okay!

　After we made our decision, I took off running.
　I ran into the mummy. I take two pistols and shoot it through the head with a fusion round.

　I don't wait for it to go down, just hold it and keep going.
　The mummy disappeared in the middle of the process, and I dropped a speed seed.

--Speed has been increased by 1.

　The speed of the A stop has been increased by 1.
　After reflecting on the bicorn battle, I decided to raise my speed to S.
　It's a trait of mine, and it's the way of the world.

　The "S" in status is in every way a privilege.
　So I'm going to give it to you.
　I figured I'd give it to you right before the meeting.

　Mummy showed up again.
　This time I grabbed her by the neck, lifted her up and busted her head off as I proceeded to the next point.
　I take the seed of speed and increase my ability.

　We came to a little hall.
　There were two mammies. I put a fire fusion bullet in one of them and left it there, and ran to where the other was.
　I took this one down with a meatball, not a gun.
　He's as powerful as he looks, Mummy, but he's no match for me, a power S.
　I kicked him up and knocked him down with a hammer punch, then stomped on his head to take him down.

　I pick up the dropped speed seeds and then go back to the other side.
　The mummy from earlier had dropped and turned into a speed seed, and as you approach it, another mummy comes out of the wall and takes you by surprise.

'DON'T!'

　The timing of the surprise/regeneration is as per the route I concocted in my head.
　This guy will kill it instantly with a penetrating bullet, take the seed of speed that has been reduced to a total of two, and head to the next point.

　Thus using various moves.
　With my speed turned to S, I was able to meet up with the two of them just in time.

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　Six floors below Tellurium.

　In the cave as if in the open air, I concentrate and look for the slime.
　Suddenly, I found it at a distance.

　I left the area dotted with trees and grass and came to a wilderness-like area where I could only see rocks and dirt.
　There was a little hollow in one spot on the ground, where water was pooling and the ground was muddy.
　There were some baby slimes there, playing in the mud as if they were playing in the mud.

'They're just kids. In this way, they are very cute.
'It's like a little pig. Anyway, no parent slime?
The father-son slime is an integral part of the monster, it has to be out there somewhere.
Okay. I'll be at the vanguard, so...

　Just as he was about to say it, the rock in front of him slithered.
　It wasn't a rock, it was a mud-covered father and son slime!

　Disguised--they were ambushed by the inadvertent proximity of a parent and child slime that had assimilated into the ground!
　The kids all pounce on him at once, crossing their arms to guard against a body hit, while flying backwards to escape the damage.

'Yaaaah!'
Emily?

　I stepped back and Emily jumped forward instead of me.
　I hit the ground as hard as I could with the hammer, mud splattered with a pajah, a wet sound.

'Hah!'

　It didn't stop there, Emily swung the hammer right beside her.
　With the wind pressure, mud, rocks and parent and child slime went flying off the ground at the same time.

　Seeing this, I stayed in the air and raised my gun.
　I fired a freezer round to freeze the mud and rocks.
　A wall of muddy ice was formed.

　The wall pushed back the slime, and the slime fought back, tackling it one by one.
　Seeing that it was cracking slightly, I fired another shot to reinforce the ice wall.

　At the same time, I rushed and pushed the wall.
　I used the ice wall, which was about ten centimeters across, to bulldoze the parent and child slime into the first mud-playing slime I saw.

　I thought I had it all together - but then one of the little slimes slipped through right beside me and flew over.
　I'm pushing as hard as I can, I can't avoid it--but I can avoid it as normal.

　But I was able to avoid it normally.
　I slumped over my upper body, grabbed the slime and pushed it into the ice wall.
　It was pretty easy to do.

　I was puzzled for a moment, and I soon found out why.
　It was because I was now at speed S, but my body still felt the same as it did at A.
　I thought that would make it impossible to avoid it, but it actually did.

'Mr. Yoda!'
Oh!

　He kicked the ice wall and flew backwards.

'Inferno!'

　The moment I left, flames engulfed the parent and child slime.
　The flames melted the walls and burned the child slime.
　In the midst of the flames, the strengthened parent slime was slowly coming at me like a phoenix.

　Feeling a little bit cool, I held up my two guns and hit it with exactly four annihilation bullets.

　The bullets gouged the parent slime, almost killing it instantly.
　Just like yesterday, a lot of potatoes dropped from the parent and child slime.

　By the way, if we defeated all the child slimes and then the parent slime, the total amount of drops would be about 125,000 piro.
　It was 120,000 piro for a combined effort.

　Emily and Celeste arrived.
　The three of them looked at each other.

　Yesterday's victory was the result of a meeting.
　Today's victory was a result of an almost impromptu show of force by everyone.

　Smiling at each other in silence.
　We high-fived each other with our elbows.