Telldungeon, first basement level.

　Emily jumped in with a hammer, with an all +1 ring, a plant +3 red potion, and a plant drop fully boosted to A.
　She came at the jumping slime with more speed than that and smashed it with a counter blow.

　The slime disappeared - it just disappeared.

'I knew it was no good.'
'This is the tenth body ......A in a row without a drop.
It's never happened before.
And that means: ......

　I nodded to each other, and Emily nodded to each other.
　Emily has been experiencing the world of Drop A since she learned of the existence of paper money haggling and started boosting drops with potions.
　She's clearly strange, too.

　Then Eve walked in from the back of the dungeon.
　She hung her own scissors and slumped her shoulders.

'How did it go?'
The carrot is dead: "The carrot is dead. ......
'Carrots don't kill you, but neither does the ...... basement level.

　I asked Eve to split up and go check out the sleeping slime and carrot drop on the second basement floor, but it seemed to be no good there either.

　It wasn't just Eve who was depressed.
　The other adventurers around me were also despondent.

"Why didn't they drop the carrots, d*mn it!
Oh, crap, crap, crap, I can't pay you back for that money you owe me until this evening.
'Keh!　No way.　Ooh, drink, let's go drink!

　You can hear impatient and desperate voices from all over the place.
　One by one, adventurers are being pulled out of the dungeon.
　There are far fewer people in the dungeon than usual.

　The phenomenon of lost drops.
　It's not a decrease, it's a disappearance.
　I had heard about it, but when I actually came to the site, I realized that the situation was worse than I expected.

Ryota-san.

　This time Celeste came from outside the dungeon.

'Well?'
This is pretty bad. The drop is gone, so there's hoarding going on all over the place. All the vegetables are gone from the market.

　Celeste said gravely as she went to check on the city.
　'I thought you might be buying up, or maybe,' he said, 'but it's happening a lot faster than I expected.

'This isn't good,'
Speaking of which, what about you, Yoda?
I don't know if it's me.

　Just as one of the slimes came to me, I pulled out my gun and fired a normal round.
　The bullet blew through the slime and blew it away--the sprouts dropped!

'Wow!　Mr. Yoda is a sloppy--

　I quickly put my hands over Emily's mouth.
　I picked up the sprouts and threw them in the magic cart and looked around.

　Fortunately, no one seems to notice the current drop.


Oh, sorry, shut up about that one.
"Mugu.

　Nodding, Emily releases her hand from her mouth.

'Puh-uh ...... I thought I was going to die.
Bad, bad. Celeste and Eve, keep your mouth shut about that one.
Of course I do.
The rabbit demands to be kept quiet.
Double it when you're done.

　Eve nodded, she was cholo.

'But why?　Only Mr. Yoda is ...... because that's the one, after all.
That must be because it's .......

　Ore and Emily nodded at each other.
　What came to their minds was "Drop S".

It's no good at A. Only Yoda is ...... like a haggle.
Or niho--no way.

　In a flash of inspiration, I ducked down and ran out.

"Mr. Yoda!
Where are you going?

　I shook off Emily and Celeste's voices and ran out of the dungeon.
　The moment I left the tellurian, I ran into Alice.

'Lyota?　What's the matter with you?
'Just in time, Alice!　Last night, "The new kid? And you said it.
'Uh-huh. Like I said, .......
Which one is it?
Uh, ...... that way?

　Alice looked around once and then pointed in the direction of her right hand side.

'Over there ...... I knew it!
Oh, wait, Lyota!

　I'm running even faster, overcoming Alice's voice.

　I'm running as fast as I can through the streets at full speed, and I'm in Nihonium.

"Huh ...... if I'm right.

　After catching my rising breath, I loaded the two guns and stepped into the dungeon.
　Nihonium, the first basement floor.
　Normally the place is crawling with skeletons, but right now I didn't see a single one.

　I walked and walked and couldn't find them, no monsters at all.
　I know this sight.

Dungeon Master.

　When he shows up, all the monsters disappear from the dungeon.
　And if you stay long enough, it changes the ecosystem - the master of the dungeon.
　It's the exact same situation as it was in ...... Selenium, which was out.

　Dungeon Master of Nihonium.
　A situation like this one, where only I get a drop, has spread throughout Cyclo.

''So you're saying that the drop disappeared from Cyclo because of the dungeon master?

　We have no proof, only circumstantial evidence.
　But.
　The air in Nihonium is the same air I felt in Seren before. The very same air as when the Dungeon Master showed up.
　And ...... the air I felt when I left home this morning.

'Why couldn't I remember this earlier, at all!

　Swearing, I proceed through the dungeon with my gun at the ready.
　Without a doubt, I am convinced that the dungeon master of Nihonium is the source of this no-drop phenomenon.

　I searched the entire basement floor, but he wasn't there.
　I went through the second and third floors, but as soon as I entered the fourth floor, no one was there.

Phew!

　I felt the presence of the densest dungeon master I've ever seen.
　Definitely - he's on this floor.

　I paused and switched bullets.
　Regular bullets, frozen bullets, flame bullets, recovery bullets, restrained bullets, and tracking bullets.

　I loaded all six types of bullets I had.
　We don't know what works, the first time we meet a dungeon master, we don't know what will work, and we'll be able to deal with whatever opponent comes up.

　After doing so, I proceeded in the direction of a thicker presence of air.
　After walking for a while - I met it.

　It was a humanoid monster.
　She was just under six feet tall and looked like a woman.
　Her hair was long and hanging down to the ground - probably over two meters long.
　She has no clothes on, she is naked.

　But I don't feel Eros, rather a chill runs up my back.
　This is probably because of its expressionless face, pale skin and the phosphorescent light it emits.
　I intuitively thought it was a zombie or a dead spirit of some sort, with no signs of life at all.

''You're the dungeon master here, can you speak?''
......

　I asked him while holding a gun to my head, but he didn't answer.
　I couldn't resist attempting a dialogue with him because he was humanoid - but that was a mistake.

　The dungeon master's figure shook.

“--!

　The next moment phosphorescence appeared in front of me, I quickly crossed my arms and guarded.
　The impact goes through my whole body, I'm blown away.

　I landed with a stance in the air and saw that the Dungeon Master had released a kick.
　My guarded arm is numb, even with HP Strength S, I've taken a lot of damage.

　But this was easy to do.
　If it was a completely hostile monster, even if it looked humanoid, it was until I took it down.

　I raised my gun and fired a series of bullets.
　All the bullets were fired at once.

　I didn't know what would work, but I shot them all anyway.

'Slipped through?

　I let out a scream-like voice.
　A total of twelve bullets, left and right, slipped through the Dungeon Master's body - and slammed into the wall behind him, where there was nothing to see.
　Even the tracking bullets slammed straight into the wall.

　The Dungeon Master flew in with more bullets.
　He's still fast!　This time, a kick swung down from above the jump.
　I raised my arm to guard it, the impact penetrating through the guard and into the side of my head.

　He was blown away as it was, and rammed into the wall.

　I fired wildly with 12 regular rounds in it.
　As usual, all the rounds slipped through, some of which ricocheted off the cave wall.

　I'm getting used to the speed, so I dodge and fire again, all the bullets slipping through, and again the bullets ricochet off the cave wall.
　All the bullets slipped through and ricocheted again, giving me a front kick.

　I managed to land, but I fell to my knees.
　I press down on my belly, forcing something in my stomach that is about to reverse.

　It's strong, and it's tricky.
　There must be some way to attack it.
　Just as I was thinking about it, I noticed that the Dungeon Master's foot was bleeding.

　You know, the one that kicked me in the leg that bled.
　The Dungeon Master raised his foot and pried the bleeding out with his fingers, so much so that it hurt to watch.
　A single bullet was teased out of his foot.
　It had hit me in the leg that kicked me.

　And the bullet had been fired just now--

　The dungeon master's figure shook again.
　For the fourth time, my eyes were getting used to the sight.
　I counter shot a bullet in response to the swooping kick.

　Countered a single shot. A normal bullet hit the back of his leg and penetrated.

　Catching the kick whose momentum does not diminish, I use that momentum to take the distance.
　I knew it.

　Normally there's no substance to it, but just the moment it attacks--.

　The impact came from right beside me.
　I was blown off my feet and into the wall, unaware of what had happened.

　My head was shaking and my eyes were flickering.
　You realize belatedly that you've been attacked at a greater speed than you realize.

'You're going to speed up again.'

　He stood up while holding his knees and fired a series of bullets with twelve bullets.
　All of them aimed at the Dungeon Master's feet.
　All of them slipped through and into the ground.

　Twelve more rounds were loaded and fired in rapid succession, and as expected, the bullets went into the ground.

(Grin)

　The Dungeon Master, who had been expressionless until then, lifted one corner of his mouth.
　It's a mocking face. I felt like I had been told that was useless .......

　And the next moment the Dungeon Master's figure shook even more.
　More imperceptible speed comes.

　I didn't move.
　With a faint flash of light, the twenty-four meteors followed!

----

　The light stopped with an unheard-of scream.
　The dungeon master slumped to the ground, facing forward for a deafening moment.
　His right leg and both of his arms were ravaged by a hive of bees.

　The Dungeon Master looked at his limbs with an incredulous look on his face.

''You didn't just use your legs, you used your hands as well?''

　He stared at me with a snap. I felt like I was being asked, "What did you do?

"The one that got hit and knocked out the first time, I thought it was a ricochet, but it wasn't ....... It wasn't a regular bullet you were jerking off, it was a tracking bullet.

　As I explain, the dungeon master looks at me incomprehension.

Your attacks, the first two tracking bullets you fired as soon as it materialized. As soon as it materialized, it flew off the wall and tracked you automatically. I realized this and fired all the remaining tracking rounds I had left at your feet.
-Oh!

　The dungeon master turned with a flash and saw where he was standing.
　The hole was gouged wide open because the bullets had shot out of it at a different angle.

Twenty-four of those bullets responded to your attack. You're fast, faster than I am. But you're not as fast as a bullet.

　He approaches with his bullets loaded.
　The fallen dungeon master looks clearer (、、、、) than he did the first time around, probably because he took heavy damage.

　I raise my gun and fire a loaded conventional round.
　The bullets simultaneously pierced through the Dungeon Master's brow and chest (...).

　The look of hatred is bared for a moment, and then the Dungeon Master is gone.
　The air of the dungeon returned, the air returned to normal.

'Fufu......'

　I wobbled and fell on my ass on the spot.
　I got attacked stubbornly, and when it came to the last one, I probably wasn't just kicked, I was punched.
　The proof of that is that every part of my body hurts to death.

　It was a narrow victory.
　He was faster than an S-speed human, and he was a nasty opponent that only materialized for a split second after attacking.
　It really was a narrow victory.

"I don't want to do anything else ...... today.

　I rolled over on my back and looked up at the ceiling in a wide circle.
　I rested for a moment until Emily, who had come looking for me, informed me that the dungeon drop had returned.