102. Account balance and HP




 Nifonium, first basement floor.
 The dungeon is still uninhabited, and you have to defeat the skeletons that appear one after another with lightning bullets.

 The moment the bullets hit the cave, lightning fell from the ceiling of the cave, and the bone monster was smashed to pieces in a single blow.
 It's powerful enough to be the most powerful single special bullet.

''The cost is so high, the original (...)

 Lightning bullets, the special bullets that are dropped by hagglers hatched by the gold sand dropped by the monsters in the Aulum Dungeon.

 Since it's gold sand, its original cost is about 3,000 Piro per bullet.
 The cost is much higher than the regular bullets that drop from vegetables and such, or the tracking bullets that drop from garbage.

 And I shot them without a care in the world.

 As soon as the skeletons and encounters, they are instantly killed by lightning bullets.
 As soon as I met them, I'd shoot them appropriately, and even if they didn't hit me, I'd push them off with a series of shots.
 I didn't reload or anything during that time, I just kept firing.

 Infinite Bullets.

 An item dropped by a monster that I defeated in a space that shouldn't exist in the fourth floor underneath Aurum, an item that made one type of bullet infinite.

 In other words, infinite lightning bullets.
 I shot it sparingly - without the need to spare it.

 After circling the first basement level, HP seeds accumulated in the pouch.
 With that, I walked out of the dungeon.

 I came to the usual unpopular area and scattered the seeds on the ground to keep my distance.
 After a while, the seed hatched into a skeleton haglemono.
 I used the same lightning bullets to kill it instantly, turning it all into frozen bullets.

 With this, I was able to replenish the frozen bullets that I had used up on my Aurum business trip.
 And at no cost.

 The replenishment of bullets was done by defeating Hagremonos, until now, there were two choices: take them down in a meatball battle with no cost for time, or take them down in a costly, time-saving firefight.

A good mix of both: ......

 He stared at the gun loaded with infinite lightning bullets.
 This thing made it possible to replenish bullets at no cost and in less time.

 It became more and more convenient.

 I retrieved the frozen bullets and this time I dove into the basement level.
 The monsters were almost as strong as the zombies and skeletons, and we used infinite lightning bullets to collect a pouch full of seeds, and then went outside to turn them into haggles and replace them with flaming bullets.

 The third basement floor was the same, we used infinite lightning bullets to recover a lot of recovery rounds from the monster mummy.

 We've only been here for a couple of hours. We came here first thing in the morning and it wasn't even noon yet.
 I thought that if I had infinite lightning bullets, I could do anything.

...... That's right, it wasn't so sweet.

 Fourth floor of the Nifonium basement, a mummy that drops strength seeds and restraining bullets.
 The mummy looks the same as the third floor, but with one crucial difference.

 In order to drop them, you have to shoot a recovery round into the tome in order to completely annihilate it.

 I shot an infinite number of lightning bullets at the encumbered mummy.
 The mummy collapsed and its body disappeared, but the bandages remained.

 I fired a series of infinite lightning bullets at the bandage.
 I pulled the trigger all over the place, using the fact that it was infinite as a good thing.

 A barrage of lightning, the ground gouged and the terrain changed.
 A bandage was left in its wake, a completely intact, pristine bandage.

 He took out another gun, loaded it with freshly refilled recovery rounds, and fired.
 The bandage, which hadn't flinched under a hundred rounds of lightning, was gone in an instant.

 This is the type of monster that won't let you top it off unless it's a specific attack.

''Let's use the recovery one for the next infinite rounds.

 The infinite lightning bullets had increased the efficiency of recovering most of the special bullets and also found their next target.

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 At noon, after a round of replenishing bullets, we left Nihonium and headed home.
 Our house, which was three stories high, with a magic storm guard.
 When I walked in, I saw Emily and Elsa doing something.

 The first floor, which is like a garage, I put a drop transfer function on it, so Elsa was seconded from Tsubame's gratitude to become the resident here.
 It's a place that should be called Tsubame's gratitude sub-branch, if you will.

 The two of them, Elsa and Emily, are doing something there.

''I'm home.
Mr. Yoda! You're home!
It's good to see you, Ryota, and it's good to see you back.
Yeah.

 It's been a long time since I've seen Elsa, and she smiled at me.
 I got back from Indor yesterday after a long absence and went out to Nihonium early this morning, so this is the first time I've seen Elsa since I got back.

'Thank you, Lyota-san, for being the first to bring the story of that place to our house. Master was very pleased.
'It's always been good to me. I hope it pays off.
'It's not a place to be! It's a very big business. The master said he'd hire a full-time staff and send them over there.
Where's Ina?
Ena's knowledge of plants is specialized in plants, so she still thinks it's better to send someone who knows about gold or something like that for the future.
Yeah, that's right.

 I'm a cyclo buyer, so it's not surprising that minerals are not my specialty, in a way.

'What did you do for more than that?'
'I was just filling out Miss Emily's purchase in the passbook.
A bank book?

 I've never heard that word before.
 If it's as they say over there, it's a bankbook. ......

 I've seen Emily, a six-foot-four woman who literally has what looks like a bankbook in her hand.
 She looks like a schoolboy on his way home from the post office with a piggy bank.

 Noticing my eyes, Emily explains to me what's going on.

''Elsa-san has been seconded to me, but it's not a good idea to keep the cash here, so I've decided to transfer the assessed amount directly to the bank.''
A bank book and a bank book.

 As it is, there's zero room to imagine something else when you hear the explanation.
 I didn't know we had a banking system over here.

"Yoda-san, Yoda-san,
What's going on?

 Emily calls out to me, her eyes shining brighter than ever as she looks up from below.

'I'll look at this,'
You mean the bank book? --Oh, that's over a million piro.
'Yes, sir, I exceeded it at the drop this morning.
It's amazing. I've never seen a savings account with so many numbers in it.
Really?

 Emily looks incredulous.

'I've only ever seen my own bank book, and I was on about 120,000 a month in take-home pay until the end. I didn't have the income to save. I always felt like I was dying back then, and at the end of the month I'd see the account balance on my website.

 My past self, which makes me sad and angry when I remember it.
 Every day when I was working overtime in a black company, when I was being exploited and my HP was constantly dying red.

'You couldn't grab the super necessity when it was blinking red.
?

 Emily nods her head in a scowl.

'In that case, Yoda, I'll make you a passbook, too.
Make it?
Mr. Yoda can go to 10 million--no, 100 million--right away. It will be even more than mine!
...... Right.

 I nodded, I'm sure I did.
 I've been spending as soon as I've earned it, but at Emily's suggestion, I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a bit of fun with my savings.