Window cutter!

　I used my magic just the way it appeared in my head.
　A green wind whipped up, and a blade of wind sliced through the empty space.

'So that's the first magic.
Yeah. It's called a window cutter.
It's wind level one magic.
"Level 1, well, that's about as powerful as it gets, but ...... it's true that this has a lot of disadvantages. It's a bit sad when you level up and pay millions of dollars for a spell like this.
'In some cases, a girl like Emily can learn recovery magic, so if it's up to one, it's more of a luck than a disadvantage.
Yes.

　I nodded and agreed with Celeste.
　And if you're lucky, as Celeste says, if you can learn recovery magic from a pure warrior type like Emily, you'll expand the dungeon's, and the adventure's, scope.

　In that sense, I wasn't a good puller.

'What kind of magic is the other one?
It's not that easy.

　　　　　★

　Terre d'Argent, 6th floor.
　I came down with Emily, who had joined us.

　We immediately encountered the monsters of this level, the parent and child slime.
　There were many small slimes in one group of large slimes.
　They may look like a group of slimes, but they're actually all one piece of slime.

Well, as we discussed.
Yes, sir!
I'll take care of it-- Inferno!

　Celeste cast a spell.
　Inferno, a level 3 broad-spectrum fire magic, burned the spreading slime together.
　The child slimes were burned one by one and disappeared without dropping.

''Resurrection.''

　When all the children disappeared and there was only the parent slime (the real thing), I cast a magic spell.
　A magical light enveloped the powered-up parent slime.

　The magic light was absorbed into the slime's body and disappeared.
　In the next moment, Emily jumped on the hammer, spinning it around.

　The hammer blow with speed and weight on it hit the slime cleanly. The slime's body crumpled and part of it flew off.
　The parent slime, which had been strengthened to its upper limit after the child slime was knocked down, didn't fall with a single blow. It regained its shape as if it were clay and immediately fought back at Emily.

''Don't let it!''

　She fired a restraining round to stop the slime from moving.
　With no more worries about counterattacks, Emily pounced on the slime even more.
　She kept hitting the slime as if it were a rice cake.

　I closed the distance somewhat.
　I held my gun at a distance where the strapped bullets were sure to hit, but not get in Emily's way, and tried to follow up.

　After Emily's hammering spree and two strapped rounds.
　The parent slime was smashed by Emily.

　Immediately after, a pile of potatoes was dropped.
　A large amount of child slime was dropped from where the child slime was once.
　It wasn't Emily's drop E, it was the drop from when I was defeated by my drop S.

'It's amazing, it's just like Yoda,'
So now magic is ......
Yeah, I've cast a spell that only applies to people I've already cast a spell on and whoever kills me will get my drop.
You mean the drop-s equivalent?
Yeah. But it's also very subtle. It's nice to have someone other than me as the drop S, but since I'm putting it on the target monster and not a human, it ends up having to be me, so there's no point.
'Right. If I could get a human to call me instead of a monster, I could have Ryota-san call me and we could split up and do something called .......
Well, for all the trouble you're going to put into this monster, it'll be a lot faster if I take it out myself.

　I smiled bitterly and nodded at each other, I and Celeste.
　Not that it doesn't make sense, but it seems to be a subtle outlier.

'No, it's not!　Thank you.

　Emily suddenly thanked me.

'Thank you for what?'
This way.

　Emily took me by the hand and started walking.
　We walked through the open air-like dungeon for a while and found the Now Board set up for adventurers.

　Emily manipulates it and gives me a status.

---1/2---
Level: 25/40
HP A
MP F
Power A
Strength C
Intelligence F
Spirit F
Speed E
Dexterous F
Luck C
--------- ...

Level 25 ...... leveled up... now.
'Yes, sir!　I wasn't up since then at 24 when I was a bicorn, but I've moved up a level again!

　Emily said with a big smile on her face.
　If you look closely, not only did her level go up, but her HP went up as well, to A.

''I see, because if you use that magic, you can make someone other than Lyota-san take the top spot.
I can raise the bar!
...... Oh.

　I clap my hands together.
　The reason I ate the magic fruit is because my level is fixed at maximum 1 and won't rise.
　The drop is S, so when I'm hiding in dungeons with my buddies, I'm almost always the one to beat them, but that's a complete waste of experience.
　This magic is a solution to that problem.

But Ryota-san has a lot of work to do.
That's not true.
Hi!

　Celeste let out a small scream as I immediately refuted her.
　I couldn't help but scream.

　I had taken away their experience without realizing it.
　When I realized this, I felt I had to give them their experience back.

And now, to top it all off - share the experience with the rest of you.

　Look at Emily and Celeste.

'We'll all eat the magic fruit when we've leveled up.
...... Yeah.
Thank you!