131. Dumpster diving criminal (?)




 Six floors below Nifonium, take on the form of a stone and go around the dungeon.
 With the poisonous fog filling the air, I took my gun and took my time aiming for a headshot.

 Nihonium doesn't require you to make a time attack, so I did it carefully over here.
 One shot at a time, maintaining a 100% headshot and hunting it down.

 And while I'm at it, I also remember to dodge attacks.
 The Absolute Rock stone makes me invincible, but that's just a countermeasure against the poison fog.
 I decided to dodge the monster attacks properly and not be sidelined.

 It often happens when you're playing a game, but when you're strong enough to hunt a lower-ranked monster, you sometimes let your ability get the better of you and make a big move.
 I'll be careful not to do that and keep hunting the Poison Zombies.

 Dodge all attacks, and maintain a 100% hit rate on headshots.
 The later in the day, the more focused you get and the more they grab you, but I kept doing it in case of an emergency.

 I spent the entire morning raising my intelligence from a D to a C.
 Of course, I kept my evasion and hit at 100%.

     ☆

 I came to the city once at noon, before I went out to earn my afternoon.
 After I offered the mirror to Nifonium, I spent more time wandering around the city looking for the leftover swords and gravestones.

 The dungeons are now transferable, and the increased free time that I had to go to the dungeons became the time to wander the city.

I'm going to have a cigarette, brother. I have all the cigarettes from the 30th to 60th floor of Hudralgurum.
There are newts, sponges and pit vipers from Zinkum. We have Jinkum's rare items!
'Only one box of Krypton leeks in stock today! Eat and shake it up! It's the freshest and tastiest onion of any dungeon in the Cyclo!

 The city of Cyclo was busy again today.
 The market is crowded with goods gathered from dungeons all over the world.
 It's a little emotional to think that my vegetables are flowing into cities around the world like this.

 I wandered aimlessly through the marketplace. Sometimes the names of the dungeons I've been hearing make me think, "Hey, hey, hey!
 I thought the gods of this world really don't like cigarettes, like the specialties of Hudralgurum.
 Zinkum's energizer is ...... well, I don't have to say anything.

 Compared to those, Aulum's gold is straightforward and even likeable.

 I'm not going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to get the best out of it.
 Suddenly, I noticed that a corner of the market was in an uproar.

 I wondered what was going on as I headed towards it.

''A monster! There's a haggler out there!
Go get someone! Pierre's husband is being attacked!

 --GH!

 As soon as the commotion got close enough to become a discernible word from the noise, I kicked the ground and dashed further.
 At the source of the commotion, with onlookers surrounding us in the distance, a middle-aged man was being attacked by a monster.
 The monster was Frankenstein, a haggler born of trash.

'Repetition!'

 The man was about to be hit at any moment, so I hit the repetition as fast as I could because it was urgent.
 Frankenstein is silenced and the man is saved.

 Immediately afterwards, a cheer broke out.
 They were thanking and praising me for saving him.

     Stars.

'Thank you, you saved me.'
Are you okay?
Yeah, it's just a little scratch.

 The man I saved - Pierre laughed, showing his elbow.
 It's definitely a bit of a scratch, probably just a scratch that he scraped against the wall when he was running away.

 I'm glad it's nothing serious.

'But there's been an increase in them lately.
More, Frankenstein?
Don't you know? I've been going around town a lot lately.

 I didn't know that was possible.

'Why? Cyclo has a proper garbage disposal company, right?

 It reminds me of the previous job of one of my friends, Celeste.
 In this world, the so-called trash after humans finish using it will also be turned into haggles.
 The things that are turned into trash are not the monsters of the original material, but are uniformly turned into monsters called Frankenstein.

 This is why garbage disposal is much more important in this world than it is in modern Japan, and it has led to a high quality living environment.

 There are multiple dungeons and many adventurers in Cyclo, and since the dungeon tax is making money, the garbage disposal should have been done properly.

''That's the thing,''

 Pierre said with a raised eyebrow.

'There are people raiding the trash these days. I don't know what it's all about, but they're going to raid the garbage.'
"Raiding the garbage.
Yeah. That's why the trash that gets scattered around turns into something awful like that sometimes.

 That's right: .......
 Trash trolling, who is doing this for what?

 Pierre and I parted ways and I walked around the city, aware of it all.
 I could definitely see the trash falling from time to time.

 Garbage can be a monster, so it's been 'zero' until now.
 It's out of necessity, but in this world, there's no trash at all, it's a kind of peachy world.
 But now it's a little bit of it.

 The garbage on the main street is not a problem for now. Because there are people in the daytime, it does not become a haggler.
 However.

 Hoooooo .............

 The wind blew, and the trash flew up and was carried into the back alley.
 I just saw it, so I quickly set it ablaze with a fireball.
 The garbage carried to an unpopular place like this will eventually become something haggard, and cause a commotion like the one just now.

 Anyway, why do you scavenge the garbage?

     ★

 I went back to the mansion and called out to Alice.
 I explain to her what's happening in the city and ask her.

"Can Alice detect the location of a monster in the city?
Yes, you can, because when you play hide and seek with the hone-hawks, that's how you win it all.

 Alice speaks proudly. The monsters on her shoulders protested, flying and jumping and hitting her pokey.
 They're good friends, as always.

'Then that's just fine, I'll let you patrol the city for a while. With Alice's powers, I'm sure we can find the newborn Frankenstein and take him out before he attacks people.
Yeah, okay.
I'm sorry to be the one to ask you to do this.
'It's okay, it's cool to keep everyone in town safe,'

 Alice laughed indifferently.

'Oh, I found it early.'
What?
Hey. There's a monster just down the road.

 Alice pointed to the wall of the mansion.
 It's a wall, but beyond that is a garbage dump that collects all the trash around here.

I'll be back in a minute.
No, no, no. I'll be right there. Thank you, Alice.

 I thanked him and ran out of the mansion.
 I head in the direction Alice pointed.
 When I came to the dumpster, I found a wriggling shadow.

 The shadow is small and not human. It's a haggler.

 There's a house nearby, if we leave it unattended, it will attack the house.
 I used Repetition to put an end to it as soon as possible.

 The strongest round-the-clock magic, Repetition, kills monsters once defeated without mercy.
 I'm not going to be able to get my hands on any of them, but I'm going to be able to use them.

 The monster was skulking around the garbage and eventually ran away.

"...... Ha! Wait!

 I stopped moving for a moment, confused by the fact that the repetition didn't work, and in the meantime, my opponent ran away.

 Another repetition while chasing after it, and it still didn't work.
 Why? So I looked at him.
 It's hard to tell who he is because he's wearing a cloth. But I don't think he's Frankenstein.

"Oh, yeah, trash-trolling!

 I remember earlier, this guy was doing something sneaky around the garbage. And it's not Frankenstein.
 So he could be the trash thief.

 So I decided to catch him instead of knocking him down.
 I kicked the ground and dashed with my speed SS.

 I beat the fleeing man to it and put a muzzle to his head .......

Don't move.

 The other guy has stopped moving, he's pulling and shaking.
 I hold him at gunpoint and remove the cloth he's wearing.

"Don't attack me, I'm not a bad monster.

 I was surprised, meh, surprised.
 What emerged from under the cloth was a shabby looking thing, its fur dirty and shabby looking all over the place.
 It was a dog, a dog-like monster.