80. Family features




 The Magic Cart Shop, Progress.
 It's the store where I bought my family's magic cart.

'Haha ...... Dad ......'

 As I walked into the store with my friends, I saw the owner's son, Chuck, whom I'd met before, rubbing his brow and sighing.

'Come in,'
Welcome ...... Oh, you're that guy.
It's Ryota Sato. You remembered me.
Yes, thank you for your help with that one. How's the cart?
Thank you.
'I see. Thanks to Sato-san, we've also had an increase in the number of customers who want to bring in heavy and light locks and modify them in the same way.

 Heavy Rock and Light Rock, the monsters of the Arsenic Dungeon.
 The shop here can customize a magic cart with a drop money tally for that characteristic.

 We often show it to our buyers in return for their kindness, and when asked, they say they can put it on this progress, so that's how they advertise it.

That's good news.
Hey, hey, why did you sigh?

 Alice asked Chuck from the side.

'Actually, my dad went to the dungeon and hasn't come back.
Again.
Really?

 I nodded to Alice, who looked at me curiously.

'It's happened to me before. You're not coming back this time, leaving a note saying you're going to the dungeon again?

 Chuck nodded with a troubled look on his face as he confirmed it while explaining.

'Yeah, I've been gone for a whole week this time. It's Arsenic, so I don't think we're in any danger.'
Arsenic's monsters don't attack, do they?

 Chuck nods at Celeste's words.
 As he does so, he glances at me.

 Does this mean you should go to ......?

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 Arsenic Dungeon, level 17 underground.

'Duh, I'm bored!'

 The moment I descended, I screamed at the sight of a rock - a rock monster with a face on it.
 From the first floor to the 17th floor, they were all similar rock monsters.
 Strictly speaking, there were slight differences in the faces and expressions on each level, but it was really a very subtle level of difference.

 And yet the rocks just look at me, they don't attack me.

 It's good that this is one of the most peaceful dungeons in the world, but it's completely uninspiring and drives me crazy.

 Emily, who is an expert rock-breaker, and I came with her, because she's an Arsenic.

'It's a fight, it's the seventeenth floor and Mr. Orton should be here.
'I know. But ...... really hasn't changed at all.
The rock on the 17th floor is a bit of a wreck.
Well, that's good to know.

 I jerked at the rocks up close.
 Just as Emily had done, the rock monsters here and there in the dungeon had a shabby look on their faces.
 They look like tired office workers on the last train after a long day at work.

 It's not a very pleasant look.

...... Now, where is Mr. Orton?
We'll go around.

 I nodded.

'I don't think there are any adventurers on this floor, even though there were a few upstairs for some reason.
'But wow, this place is amazing, about 90% of the adventurers were using Emily Hammer.
Ugh, ...... that name is embarrassing.
'Sounds like you're being useful as a billboard. I'm going to have to take some additional advertising dollars for this one.

 I teased Emily.
 Emily Hammer, when Emily's beloved hammer broke before, Smith, an arms dealer, offered to replace it.
 It's like an athlete: the manufacturer provides the tools, and when the athlete does well, his admirers want to buy the same thing.

 With that offering, Emily got a new hammer. And now 90% of the adventurers who attend Arsenic are Emily hammers.

'It's because this hammer is so easy to use, not because it's me,'
There's a guy downstairs asking for a sign. You're already a total celebrity, Emily.
Forget it!

 Emily yelled out with an embarrassed look on her face.
 By the way, the sign is still a young woman with an Emily hammer, and she wants you to sign the hammer because she admires Emily.

 She is about 18 years old, and unlike Emily, she is extremely standard-built, but unlike Emily, she can't hold a hammer properly because it is very heavy.
 I wondered if that's why I admired her so much.

 While I was teasing Emily about it, I found Orton.
 A stocky, middle-aged man with a boho beard, I thought he looked like a dwarf at a glance, just like the last time I met him.

'Mr. Orton,'
Huh? Oh, it's you.
We were worried about you again, Chuck.
He's a tightwad, he left a note saying he was going to Arsenik.
But a week is still too long.
I have no choice. I'm not going to drop it.
Is it a drop?
'I need the rare monster here, Master Lock. Hey, I need you to help me get Master Lock. If we can get that thing, I can give your magic cart a serious makeover.
I understand.
Yes, sir.

 Emily and I responded immediately.
 Because that's what we had planned to do in the first place.
 As well as the fact that we came to check up on Chuck because he's worried about us, this Orton guy is the kind of guy who puts his life into modifying his magic cart and throwing his real life away to annoy and worry his family.

 I'm curious to see what the man spawns after a week of being holed up in a dungeon, and what he spawns at the end of it.

'So I guess we'll just have to find Master Locke then?
'You don't have to find it. You can just touch the slay blocks around there.
Why is that?
I can see it in your hand.

 Orton just said yes.
 He and Emily looked at each other and nodded at each other.

 Nearest, I approached the slay block and touched it.
 The rock, which looked like a company man, didn't do anything.

'Nothing's going to happen,'
That means it's not out yet. We'll know when it's out.
Yeah.

 Believing Orton's words, Emily and I touched a rock every ten seconds or so with our replacement baggy.
 It was just about the time when I started to feel like I was going to be able to handle a plain dungeon, too much time on my hands.

 Emily, who was touching the rock, suddenly disappeared!

Emily?
There you are!

 Orton raised his voice and touched another rock.
 Then Orton disappeared, too.

 I didn't know what was going on, but I couldn't just leave him there, so I touched the rock with my hand on my gun.

 The next thing I knew, I was in a completely different place.

"Yoda!
Emily, are you okay?
Yes. It was more than that.

 Emily pointed to the other side, where there was a monster with a distinctly different face.
 If the people around them are tired office workers, this one looks like a rich guy who's been samuraiing girls in a club or cabaret.
 Apparently, if you touch the Slaybrooks, they'll send you to Master Lock's place.
 It reminded me of a composition that looks like a slave paying a superior payment.

"This is Master Lock.
Do you want me to take him down?
Yeah, but--
I'm coming, sir.

 Without waiting for Orton to try to say something, Emily took the red potion, drank it, and pounced on it, twirling the Emily Hammer.

 I stayed put.
 Emily, whose home turf Arsenic dungeon is now fanning out, drop A on the red potion.

 I knew I could handle it.

 The moment that Emily swung the hammer down - her figure disappeared.

'Emily!
I'll be fine. I just got blown out of the dungeon.
Out of the dungeon?
Master Lock is a troublesome fellow who must be defeated in a single blow or he will be sent out of the dungeon.
You'll just get bumped off.
Oh.

 Then you don't have to worry about Emily.

A blow.
Can you do it?
I'll try.

 I pulled out my gun and thought a lot about it.
 I tried to simulate this and that for maximum firepower in one shot.

 After thinking about it, I put 5 reinforced bullets and a flame round in one side and 5 reinforced bullets but with a frozen round in the other side.
 And then I shot.

 The flaming bullets and the frozen bullets collided and fused together.
 The annihilation bullets of the reinforced bullets were able to gouge out a space of five meters in diameter all together!
 Naturally, Master Lock disappeared without a trace.
 Annihilation bullets with reinforced bullets.

You ...... don't think that's a bit much, do you?

 It was so powerful that even Orton, who told him to take it down in one hit, was stunned.

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 I returned from the dungeon and returned the dropped flowers to Slaybrook and Master Lock, respectively.
 Arsenic monsters are special monsters that don't attack you in the dungeon, so they don't do you any real harm when they become hagrems, they are special monsters.

 I carried them in a box that Orton had developed and carried them back to Progress.

 With Chuck's concern suitably dismissed, Orton went into his work area.

'Totally ...... that a**h*le dad,'

 Despite his swearing, Chuck was clearly relieved.
 After waiting for a while with his friends, Orton came out with a magic cart and a large box.

 The cart was the same one I used to use and the box was an ordinary box with an opening at the top.

It's done!
What's going on?
Young man, just listen to me.

 Orton gave Emily an earful.

'Okay. Mr. Yoda, I'm going to go for a while.
Emily? Wait--

 Faster than I could stop her, Emily pushed her cart and ran out of the store.

'What's going on?'
Watch it.

 Orton said and looked at the box that remained.
 Watch," he said, as he himself looked expectantly at the box.

 After a while, there was a crackling sound and sprouts popped out of the box.

'Here it is! It's a huge success!
Sprouts? What do you mean?
The new feature is that you can send the contents of your cart to a box over here, wherever you are. You can put this box in your city's hub or warehouse and never have to come back to it.
That's handy!

 It's a lot easier to carry around in a magic cart, but I still had to go back and forth between the city and the dungeon every time.
 With this feature, I only have to go back once a day.

It's almost as if you've made it, thanks to you.
Can you put this on more than one cart?
Of course, it's designed to be sent to the base, so it can be sent from multiple slay blocks for the family. How many units do you have?
There are five of us.
It's nice to have a few people around.

 Orton holed up in his office again with a happy look on his face, and his son, Chuck, had the look on his face as he did it again.

 Thus, I got a magic cart with new features for all the people in it.