I guess I should go to ...... for this one.

　I stare at the stairs and mutter to myself.
　When I beat the monster, instead of dropping something, a staircase that leads down appeared.
　Moreover, the staircase that appeared on the fourth basement floor when I went through all the steps and decided there was no more down there.

　Hidden stairs, hidden layers.
　My heart is racing, I'm excited to see what's down there.

　Check your equipment.
　Two pistols, each loaded with conventional, frozen, flaming, tracking, strapped and reinforced bullets.
　Instead of the reinforced bullets from a while ago, there were recovery bullets, which can handle most situations, but the Indore trip was prolonged and the recovery bullets ran out.

　Still, I should be able to handle most situations, trying to avoid the attack, not get hit, and I went down the stairs.

　The moment I went down, the stairs disappeared.

'Is this a pattern that you can't get back to without accomplishing something? Or is it .......

　Anyway, there was no way it was going to end like this, and I was even more alarmed.
　The place I got off was a completely different place.
　The upper floor is a narrow street, but this is a completely white space, a space that is like a different world.
　The air is somehow different, the air is different even though it's the same dungeon.

　I don't know what I'm going to get. I tighten my grip on my gun and cautiously go ahead.

　Then I come to a slightly open space.
　Not as big as a gymnasium, about as big as a park in a residential area.
　There was a man there.

　No, a monster.
　He was dressed like an aristocrat with silver hair and beard, black cape and aristocratic attire.
　He had bat wings on his back and horns on his head.

　The word "demon" comes to mind, and he's a guy who looks like a higher level demon compared to the little demons of the upper levels and the goat-headed, half-naked demons.

'Do you want to talk about it?'

　I throw the ball of conversation at him while I put my hand on the gun.
　The guy raises his hand and points it at me with two fingers together.

　A chill runs up my spine.

　A chill runs up my spine, and I quickly dodge it by flying to the side.
　The place where I was standing a moment ago is gouged out without a sound.

'No questions asked!　That's easy to understand!

　Landing, shooting regular rounds with two pistols for a small check.
　Of course, I didn't just shoot it, I shot it so that it would fuse on the way.

　The fusion piercing bullets for one reinforced round go flying.
　Pashin!　There was a sound, and the penetrating bullet stopped in the middle and fell to the ground.
　When I looked closely, I saw that there was a wall of magic that emitted a blue-white light.

It's a barrier or a shield. Then how about this!

　Instead of normal bullets, he puts another reinforced bullet in it, and shoots freezing and fire bullets from left and right.
　On the way, the fusion and annihilation bullets.

　The extinguishing bullet collided with the barrier, gouging out a part of the barrier in the entire space.

　The moment I shot it, I kicked the ground and rushed forward, hitting the half-destroyed barrier and completely destroying it.
　Demon in the flesh. I tried to fire annihilation bullets from zero distance, saying that I can fire one more flame round and one freezer round on each side, so I can fire another annihilation round - and I tried to fire annihilation bullets from zero distance.

　But before he could fire, he closed the distance from the other side in the opposite direction.
　It dived further inside the muzzle of the gun.

　The red eyes towing the afterglow from below stared at me - not good.
　The demon swings his arms like a body blow, not a fist, but a fingertip with a fist, a sharp claw.

　I'm going to be the one who immediately visited him with a knee kick, swaying while kicking up that guy's wrist.
　Claws covered in a black aura-like substance graze the tip of his chin.
　The front of my clothes were torn off, and something fell to the ground.

　I jumped backwards and loaded the bullet while keeping my distance, dropping back further while firing.
　The thing split the barrier between the fusing fire and freezing bullets.
　The flame and freezing bullets that didn't fuse are each bounced off the barrier.

　It spread the barrier and played them before they fused.

''You're a quick learner!''
......

　It is silent and gets even more intimate.
　I was made to learn the fusion bullets and challenged to close combat, and I returned fire with my gun and body techniques.

　Gun = Kata. The art of fighting at close range with a gun.
　I fight demons with my own style.

　My power and speed aren't that strong, all of them are probably only A or B.
　However, he has a strong magic barrier, and he is a good learner and can make quick decisions.
　It can quickly learn the pattern of an attack, and even if it avoids an attack, it will change the pattern and come back with another one.

　It's a nasty one, and it makes you feel like you're dealing with a human, not a monster.
　In a way, it's exactly what it looks like.

d*mn, it's getting sharper and sharper.

　The demon's attacks kept evolving. I was in such a hurry that my back was soaked in sweat when I was feinted and an unexpected attack came flying at me.
　Even if I fired a bullet, it wouldn't hit, and a single tracking bullet wouldn't get through the barrier if it was a single shot.

　Eventually, the flaming bullets ran out, both the restraining and tracking bullets that hadn't hit me even once ran out.
　I was gradually cornered against the wall.

'......'

　I thought he grinned and laughed.

''--You're fast, you're proud to win!

　Putin!　I heard a sound in my head, and I put the muzzle on it.
　The demon must have read it, because he tries to dive into his pocket - where he swings down with the gun and hits me with his grip.

　Palin!　A different sound than before.
　There was a sound like glass breaking and the barrier shattered.

　As it was, I put the muzzle to my brain and pulled the trigger continuously.
　Zero-range continuous firing, hitting all the loaded rounds you can get.
　The right one is a conventional round and the left one is a frozen round.

How's--okk!

　A counterattack, I dodged it, sharp claws came flying.

　I keep my distance, blue blood is flowing from its head.
　It's not on the right side, it's bleeding from the left side of your head, emitting cold air from the left side, bleeding from there.

'Odd, I'm a magician myself.

　I made a light comment, and for the first time I could see a kind of emotion - anger - in that guy's face.

　The same number of consecutive shots, the left side of the frozen bullets worked, not the right side where I put the normal bullets into it.
　If it's a magic attack, it will work, I thought, and tried to fire only freezer bullets - but.

''d*mn, I guess I ran out of freezer bullets too!

　He spat evasively.
　It had been a long time since I left Cyclo, and I could hardly replenish my ammunition in that time.
　Even so, I thought I could handle dealing with the normal monsters of Aulum, but they were unexpectedly strong enemies and used up all of that too.

　Seeing this, the devil, as if he had sensed something, twisted the corners of his mouth.

''--!　Window Cutter!

　There's magic without the special bullets!　And then he shot the magic he had learned from eating the magic fruit.
　It hit the demon directly - but did little damage.
　The demon took it without a barrier and continued to smile thinly, not moving slightly.

'd*mn it ......'

　I stepped back. He stepped in.
　I step back, and he pushes me back.
　I'm trapped in the wall again.

　I can't let it get away from me.
　And then I saw something.
　Then I saw something.
　I saw something beyond the demon.

　That's ...... if you can find it.
　But can you go to ......?
　No, it could work, it's possible.
　But it's only a momentary possibility.

　It's only a momentary possibility.

　I moved away from it, inch by inch.
　I got away from it, as if to get away.
　The demon chased me, chasing me as if it had me trapped against a wall.
　All the while, I didn't stop smiling thinly.

　Eventually, I was cornered at the edge of the space.
　The demon grinned and twisted his mouth into a 'delta' shape and swung his claws at me.

''

　Now!　And I raised my gun.
　It laughed, like a human being, mockingly.
　It stopped attacking, as if to say, "Go ahead and shoot me with the rest of your bullets.

　I shot. The other side of the--the demon.

"--!

　The demon's obvious surprise for the first time, that guy turned around and surprised him twice.

　There's a little demon there, for a second.
　It's a haglemono that hatched from the gold that he gouged out of my clothes in his first attack.

　Hagremonos can only exist for a split second in the same dungeon, as confirmed by Nifonium.
　I took that moment to shoot the little demon with a conventional round.

　The demon looked unsure why I did that.
　I wasn't going to let him know, because he'd decide in one shot.

　From inside the pouch, I loaded the lightning bullets dropped by the haggle-headed little devil, and attached five rounds of enhanced bullets to it.
　He then thrusts them at the demon's solar plexus.

'You'll regret it for disrespecting me.

　I mumble that and pull the trigger.
　A zero distance thunderbolt, lightning envelops the demon.

　The demon rears back and grunts as it crisps and discharges.
　Eventually, that thing is scorched black and collapses from its knees and falls to the ground.

　And then one bullet is dropped, a rainbow colored bullet.
　I pick it up with high hopes that since it's such a strong enemy, a stronger enemy than a dungeon master if it's bad, the drop should be amazing.

--Please choose one of the infinite bullets!

　As I expected, I could hear the "wow" in the voice that I knew.
　I thought about it a lot, and I chose the most expensive single shot, the thunderbolt made from gold sand.

　The rainbow-colored bullets emitted a bright burst of light and then changed their appearance to lightning bullets.
　It's just a lightning bullet, but it can't be just any bullet.

　Load the gun and shoot.
　A bolt of lightning lands in the empty space.
　You shoot again, and the lightning goes back again.

　You shoot again and again, the lightning comes back, and you never run out of bullets.
　It was an infinite supply of lightning bullets.

It could have been an infinite recovery round.

　I guess that's because I'm getting tainted by this world too.
　I somehow thought that safety first, infinite recovery is better if you're assuming to go around.
　Well, this one's good too.

　Well, now that we've got the rare item, it's time to replace it.

Congratulations.
What?

　I suddenly heard a voice and turned around, startled.
　Standing there was a girl I'd never seen before.
　She was about fourteen centimeters tall, dressed in very gothic clothes, and had horns and bat wings just like the demon from earlier.

''A monster?!''

　I have a gun.

No, I'm not a monster.
...... Then what is it?

　I wonder, and the girl's reaction certainly doesn't seem to be a monster.
　But why are they here?　And why does it look like the demon from earlier?

　All sorts of questions came to mind, but the next thing I knew I had almost half the answers with one word from her.

'My name is Aurum, Aurum.