The living room of the three-story house in the morning.
　I was eating the breakfast Emily had made for me and looking at the bank book she had made for me.

　Celeste peeked at it from the side with a curious look on her face.

'What are you looking at?'
The bank book. Celeste, I got mine made yesterday.
'You didn't have it before, why does ...... only have 12 pillows in it?　Isn't it usually a thousand or ten thousand, or some other amount that's reasonably easy to hand over?

　Celeste twists her head curiously.
　Certainly, when opening an account, if there was no particular reason to do so, a single bill that could be handed over quickly is the norm, or for some other reason, there is a pattern of one yen (piro).

　It's impossible to give such a middle amount of money.
　But I did what I did.

I said, "I found this in the account over there.
Over there?

　Celeste nods her head again, not caring, I continue.

'It was the end of the month. I had 912 yen in my account, so I deposited 100 yen and withdrew it as a 1,000 yen bill at the ATM. That was the last money I had. I had about three days until payday, so I had plenty of time to spare.
'Well ...... three days to 1000 ...... yen?　It's a pillow, does that mean you're going to spend time with it?
Yeah.

　The value of a pillow and a yen over here is about the same.

I wonder if that's something we can afford.
I can afford it. I can do it for a month. I can live on a thousand pounds a month.
"Don't be a golden legend.

　I say to Emily as she comes back from the kitchen with the food.
　I'm sure she can afford that much cash, considering she was living in a dungeon for survival instead of money.

"I got it, Emily!
Yes?
Go ahead.
You've got to go to ......?
Yeah, it looks good.

　Emily said, "? I thought of many things, including Celeste.

　I took another look at my bank book.
　Twelve piro.
　The last deposit balance on the other side, the number with the HP gauge flashing red.

　I dared to match that number, I wanted to make it look like I was starting fresh from here.

'I'm going to make as much money as I can today,'
You've been here all morning?
I will.
Okay. You're going to make your lunch and take it to school, right?
But I'm afraid it might be a bad day.

　Celeste said that as she looked out the window.

'What do you mean it's a bad day?'
I'm in the diurnal colony today.
Solar eclipse?
"Yes, Nikolai.

　Celeste nods at me and looks out the window again.
　What does that mean?　I got up and opened the window and looked out.
　Cyclo was reasonably busy in the morning. No, much more lively than usual?

　The shops that only open around noon are already open, and the open-air bar three doors down is already full of adventurers drinking.

　I've seen this scene ......

'Magic Storm, it's similar to how people stop going into dungeons because they can't earn it and have fun.
It's that thing.

　Celeste comes right beside me and points up at the sky.
　I followed it and looked up in the same way and was ...... amazed.

　My goodness, there were two suns.

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　Terdungeon, first basement floor.
　Much fewer adventurers than usual, and far fewer monsters than usual.
　In the midst of it all, I pushed my magic cart around.

　Monsters are few and far between, and they're hard to come across.

''This is the 'Sun Reproduction', there are a few days a year when the sun increases, which reduces the number and drop rate of monsters.''

　Celeste, who followed me, explained.

'The number of monsters has visibly decreased, but the drop rate too?'
Yeah, they're all roughly one grade down.

　Celeste operates the nearby Nowboard.

---2/2---
Plant F (-1)
Animals F(-1)
Mineral F (-1)
Magic F(-1)
Characteristic F (-1)
--------- ...

　The status displayed was clearly displayed one rank lower.

'So it goes like this,'
I see.
'It seems that most adventurers don't enter dungeons on days like this because there are so few monsters and the drop rate is doubly inefficient,'
''So the air was similar to the one during the city-wide magic storm?

　The same way I operated the now board and checked the drop rate.

---2/2---
Plant S (-1)
Animals S(-1)
Minerals S(-1)
Magic S(-1)
Characteristic S (-1)
--------- ...

　Celeste's tongue wags as she looks at the status displayed.

''As expected, it doesn't seem to affect Lyota at all.
'That doesn't mean I can't, because the drop rate is the same for me, but there's nothing I can do about the dwindling number of monsters in the first place.
Certainly, there's nothing we can do without a monster to beat.
It would have been better if it had been an increase instead of a decrease like this.
Yes, that one. 'Moon Reproduction. According to the Eastern spellcasters, during the Sun Reproduction, the Yang Qi is increased and monsters are suppressed, so the overall number is lowered, and during the Moon Reproduction, the Yin Qi is stronger and the numbers and drops are higher.

　There's some kind of logic to that.
　Eastern spellcasters are those kinds of people you'd like to meet ...... once.

'Will there be more moons ......?'

　I giggled a little at the thought of it, but at the same time I felt like I'd been outsmarted.
　I was going to make some money and increase my balance today, but the timing is too bad.
　If it comes to this, we'll have to leave it until the end of the day and do something else today.
　On days like this, everyone runs to consume, which should be a good way to replenish the tracking rounds, since there's a lot of garbage out there.

......

You're going to do it.
Yeah, it's a handicap, but I'll do it.
Good luck, Lyota.

　With Celeste cheering me on, I decided to go around the dungeon with fewer monsters.

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"d*mn it!　Run away well!

　Twenty minutes into the hunt, I found one more thing - well, two things that were different than usual.
　First, the monster became weak. The slime on the first floor of the tellurium was weak to begin with, but its speed of movement and strength of attack had all been cut in half.
　It was so weak that even a child could defeat it now.
　The other thing was that the monsters were now easier to escape from.
　Perhaps because they were weaker, they would often run away as soon as they encountered them.

　Day of Reproduction, it's not a double whammy, it's a triple whammy.

　Fewer monsters, fewer drops, and less efficiency because they would run away as soon as they encountered them.

'I quit, I quit!'
You're a big boy.
You don't usually drop anything when you're up to speed, and then you just quit.

　That triple whammy got me, and the other adventurers who came into the dungeon came out of the dungeon with a series of noises.

　I stayed on.
　The existence of the bankbook I had left with Elsa, the number 12 piro, made me stomp on.

　I tightened my grip on my gun and went around the dungeon.
　The first floor of Tellurian basement, a dungeon I was familiar with, I went around the monster appearance points.
　One out of every three times, I would strike out without a monster appearing.

　For that amount of time, I didn't miss the monsters I encountered and defeated them exactly.
　Infinite lightning bullets, I didn't stint and took down the monsters.

　My drop rate fortunately didn't go down, the same as it did with the Defiler of Purity, Bicorn, it didn't go down from S.

　Where others were triple-dipping, I was able to get away with double-dipping.

...... You really are one of the few that do.

　There was also a situation that rarely happened normally, where the next monster didn't spring up after a round of the dungeon.

　I sent in 32,109 pillows worth of bean sprouts ...... that didn't reach the usual 40,000 and hunted for a while.
Down from the exhausted basement floor to the second floor.

　Fewer and fewer adventurers, and fewer monsters.
　I go around the second basement floor as well, dropping from the sleeping slime and sending a little over 20,000 worth of them.

　Efficiency is bad, much worse than usual.
　Still, I kept going around.

　I'd hunt all the way down to the bottom floor, and when I'd hunted all the way down to the bottom floor, I'd return to the top floor where I'd recovered a bit.
　Even when I returned, the efficiency was even lower, and the first half ...... sprouts were in the 10,000-pilo range or something like that.

　Still, I continued to go around.

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Welcome home, Mr. Lyota.

　Dusk.
　The first floor of the three-story building, Tsubame's grateful sub-branch.
　After going around the dungeon for a whole day, Erza greeted me when I returned.

''Thank you for your hard work.''
'Day-colonization sucks, and I don't want to go around the dungeons on a day like this ever again.
'It's hard to moonbeam, though. The monsters get a little stronger too.
I see.
''A lot of people still think that even if you're pushing yourself a bit too hard because you'll still make good money ......, so even in the dungeons you're used to going to, you'll still get the occasional death.
I see.

　Phew, I let out a collection of air in my lungs.
　I'm so tired. ...... I'm so tired.
　Or rather, I felt like I was halfway through a laborious task.

　I felt like I was back in the old days, back in those days when there were no magic carts, when I would come back to town every time my bags were full.

　No, in terms of the minutes I walked, it might be more than that time.

'Yes, I left it with you.

　Elsa smiled and held out the passbook to me.
　My passbook, a passbook that only had a balance of 12 piro.

　I take a deep breath and open it to see how much it is.

　1,200,000 piro (1,219,001)

　The passbook had numbers and digits I'd never seen before.

'Wow. ......'

　The sense of drudgery that had previously dominated my body was quickly flipped over to a sense of accomplishment.