Maybe I'm witnessing one hell of a sighting right now.

　Terre d'Urbain, first floor.
　A slime and a skeleton are fighting there.

　The slime is the original monster in this dungeon.
　The skeleton on the other hand - he's not quite the skeleton I know.
　It's a deformed and enlarged form that is strangely charming. The bones clattering around are also frightening in nature, but in its current form it looks comical.

　The slime and the skeleton are fighting.

"Keep up the good work!

　Alice was cheering him on from a bit of a distance.
　The skeleton, of course.

　Telluride Dungeon, the basement level where there should only be slime, has a Nifonium monster.
　Monsters are supposed to disappear on different levels, much less the dungeon itself.
　It must be pretty outrageous that skeletons are here.

　Such a battle between the skeleton and the slime ended in a hard-fought victory for the skeleton.
　He won after his arm was removed and his skull was cracked, and he was in such a tattered state.

"Wow, hone-hone-hone-hone-wonderful. Oh, do you want to go back once?

　As soon as the skeleton nodded, it disappeared with a pop, and was back to being an SD-sized skeleton again.
　The arm wasn't taken off, the skull wasn't cracked, and it returned to Alice, 100% back to its original skeleton.
　Alice lifted it up in the palm of her hand and cheeked it as if she were going to turn it into a small animal.

'Good job, Honehone.'
　Clatter clatter.

　Skeletons can't talk, but their movements are comical, and they seem to be responding to Alice in some way.

　I pick up the sprouts that the defeated slime dropped and check them out.
　The quantity and quality of the sprouts are quite impressive. It's about a drop C in my experience.
　I put them away and spoke to Alice.

'Can you make that skeleton big again?'
I can do it, it's going to take me a lot of MP.

　Alice sticks out her hands in the shape of a plate.
　The SD skeleton on top of it has grown again.

　It became intact, with no arms or anything else removed.

Will the damage heal?
'Yes!　He said he'd get better once he got back.
'That's great ...... or how did this happen in the first place?'
Don't you get it?　But,
But?
Hone Hone, he calls me big sister. I wonder what that means.
...... because we were both born in dungeons?
Okay.

　She thought it was out of the blue for her, but she guessed that from the content of the conversation.
　That made a lot of sense to Alice, the skeleton - Honehone approached her to spoil her again.
　She didn't have a clue, but she thought it might be so.

'Ah.'
What have you done now?
The pulls are calling.
'Pulling?　You mean the slime?
Yeah!

　Alice nods widely.
　I think I'm starting to understand her naming sense somehow.
　Skeletons are honehoned and slimes are pulled.
　I'm starting to get a little curious about what the other monsters will be.

　Alice and Hone Honehone, the three (?) and proceed through the dungeon.
　A young adventurer who passed him on the way was startled when he saw Honehone.

'A monster!　No, the monsters aren't this cute. Besides, this is slime.

　I was surprised and convinced one way or the other.

　A few moments later, I reached the monsters.
　One of the slimes was bouncing around vertically in a twitchy manner.

'Is that him?'　Are you calling me?
Yeah. Try to beat me, because...
Shall we?

　As he says this, he puts his hand on the gun.

'I guess it has to be me.'
Okay.

　I knew it was coming, so I easily backed off and let her do it.
　Speaking of her, I let Hone Hone do the fighting.

'Good luck Hone Hone, I'll be cheering for you.

　Thanks to Alice's support, Hone Hone went towards the slime with more tension than before.
　...... I wondered how I could find out that the tension was high against a skeleton, but the more the form changed and the more charming it became, the more I understood it somehow.

　The skeleton and the slime fought.
　They were both weak monsters, and it was a back-and-forth battle between them.
　The slime's attack took off Hone Honehone's head - and then he kicked himself in the head.

'You're good with that!'

　I plunged into it.

　Honehone's skull went spinning and flying, hitting the slime and blowing half his jelly-like body off.

　The slime faltered - but it didn't disappear.
　Just like the skeleton, the body emitted a light, and the light became blinding all at once, then condensed into a hand-sized slime.
　The form was almost the same, but it had pretty eyes.

Good job, honehonen. Yeah, nice to meet you, Pruitt.

　The skeletal honehone turned back into SD bobbed its clattering bones in Alice's hand, and the SD-formed slime bounced vertically, pulling on her hand.

'You've got a little brother again,'
No, no.
'What?　Didn't you call her big sister?
Honehone is a girl, not my brother again...
You're a woman!

　SD Skelton, Honehone's face - or rather his skull - turned a little red.
　Seriously? .......

　　　　　☆

　Hone Hone and Pru-Pru beat the slime to a pulp.
　They're both deformed and charming, even when they're big. That's their true form, how monstrous they are, fighting a monster slime.

"C'mon, keep up the good work!

　Alice cheered, and the two easily defeated the slime, which was worth it.
　The slime dropped the sprouts and just disappeared.

　Hone Honehone and Purpuru were back to hand size again, and Alice's hands were on them.
　Hone Honehone is the same way, but Pull Pull is extremely cute.
　She's so cute because of her size that I want to decorate her with a phone strap or by my computer.
　The two of them rode on her shoulder after the battle was over and Alice rewarded them.
　It got even cuter.

'Hey, neeee Ryota.'
Yeah?
'Thank you!　Thanks to Lyota, I got to meet Honnehoney and Pulle.
I didn't do much of anything. ......
'But thank you!　That's what Honnehoney and Pulle say.

　Hone Honehone clattered her bones on Alice's shoulders with a big smile on her face, and Pru-Pru bounced vertically in the air.
　I don't know what it is, but they're thanking me for it.

　Suddenly I spot a group of people looking through Alice.

　The old man who keeps his men tied up in "dreams" and "emotions" and the young men and women who work for him.
　The man and woman looked even more haggard and tragic than the last time I saw them.
　I know that look, I've seen a lot of them at my previous company.

　Even at the harvest festival, the group working on their day off went ahead and disappeared downstairs without noticing us.

'Lyota?'
Sorry, I was just thinking about something. It's better than that. I'm glad you met these guys.
'Yes!　Thanks Lyota!

　Alice nods broadly and smiles even more happily.
　Seeing her like that, I'm glad I was able to save her from the black man.
　That's what I thought.