After leaving the Chairman's office, I walked alongside Cell in the hallway.

'I'd like to ask Satou-sama for help,'
Yeah?
I'd appreciate it if you could stay in town for a few days.
'Stay?　I don't mind that, but why ......?
I'm going to hunt him down now.

　Even more so.
　I remember Linus' frightened expression, and I feel a little sorry for him when he gets to this point.

'I'm going to use every hand I can. I'm going to drive them from the inside out.
Do you want me to do something for you?
No.

　Cell looks at me with a straight face.

'Just being there, Satou-sama, is fine. Your mere presence is enough to put pressure on them.
Pressure just to be there: ...... Isn't that too much of an exaggeration?

　Cel didn't say anything more than a lifted corner of his mouth to form a smile.

'Anyway, it would be nice if you could stay.'
"Well, ...... should I make him disappear occasionally?
That's my boy, Lord Sato.

　He said respectfully.

'It's even better if you do, it makes the other side more suspicious on its own.
All right. I'll take care of that for you.

　I accepted Cell's request and decided to stay in this city, Sametilene, for a few days until it was settled.

　　　　　☆

　Sametylene, a prosperous city with nine dungeons.
　In one of them, I entered a dungeon called Cobalt.

　The dungeon I stepped into, on the first floor beneath Cobalt, was surprisingly large and looked like a forest.
　The trees are so thick that if you look up, you can't see the sky (if there is one) because it's covered by trees.
　The gap between the dungeon from the edge of the prosperous city and the dungeon was an interesting one: it was a dense forest.

　There weren't many adventurers in the dungeon.
　It's only a trickle of them being visible.

　It's not like there's a magic storm, nor is it a day of breeding when the drops are low.
　But subtly, there are few people.

　When I was wondering why ...... I encountered a monster.

　It's almost human in size, bent forward, with arms as long as its legs, hanging slackly.
　It had bat-like wings on its back, and its entire body was a purpleish color.
　If you look closely, it has no eyes and moves as if it were wandering around at random.

"Demons, huh?

　I mumbled that from the looks of it.
　In fact, I hadn't heard anything about it.
　I approached adventurers in town and asked them how many dungeons they had and their names, but I didn't ask them what they were.

　It's just a matter of getting out.
　It's part of the training.

　You go into a dungeon without knowing anything about it and develop the ability to be resourceful in a real battle.
　I followed the same policy from a little while ago and did the same thing here.

　I pulled out my gun and - oh.

'Come to think of it, you're still down to one gun. Can we get some tuna in town?

　Keeping the replenishment of the gun he had lost in the Grand Eater battle in a corner of his mind, he loaded up his regular bullets and shot the monster.
　With a shot, the regular bullet shot through the head of the eyeless demon.
　A single headshot, the demon sank with a single shot and dropped the item.

''Weak ...... well, it's the first floor, so it's not like this.''

　I picked up the drop, dismissing it as such, though it wasn't trained or anything, but I picked up the drop.
　It was a rectangular, dull-colored mass.

'Is this tactile and shiny ...... iron bars?　It weighs in at about ...... a kilo.

　I touched and stroked the demon's drop and knocked it with the second joint of my middle finger.
　Probably iron, I'm sure.

　In the dungeon of Aulum, I defeated a small demon and dropped a gold sand.
　The demon here dropped iron.

　There is a clear trend in the type of drop items and monsters.
　This dungeon called Cobalt would be a dungeon with demon monsters and dropping minerals, I judged from my previous experience.

　I put the iron bars, which were about a kilo in weight, in my pocket.
　I didn't bring the magic cart because I didn't expect this to happen, but I had the Grand Eater's pockets, so it wasn't a problem.

　I walked for a while and was with the demon again.
　On closer inspection, the way it wandered around was vaguely similar to the zombies in Nifongnium. The color of its skin is similar to that of a zombie, too.
　I wonder if it's a zombie demon or something like that.

　I headshot it with a regular bullet, and another iron bar dropped.
　I knew it was about a kilo of steel.
　I pick it up and put it in my pocket.

...... That doesn't feel like having two kilos of stuff in your pocket.

　Only a man can understand this.
　That subtle feeling you get when you put too much stuff in your pocket.
　That heavy, dangling, weird, obnoxious feeling on your thighs.

　Naturally, that's not there at all.

　You take out the zombie demons.
　You can do headshots, stop the gun and punch them down, or grab the top and bottom of their biting mouths and rip them apart.
　I took down monsters in the cobalt basement level and went around collecting iron bars.

　I kept going around mindlessly, and then I knew one thing.

　The adventurers here are no different from the adventurers in Cyclo.
　I defeated the monsters with efficient movement on the premise of circling and put the dropped iron bars into the magic cart, but I pulled it up before the cart was full.

　It still looks like it's going to go in, but the cart I'm pushing is oddly wobbly.
　It's like the weight reached the limit of the magic cart before the volume.

　I see, that's what happens with steel.
　Well, the specific gravity is far heavier than that of vegetables.

　Just like that, I continued to observe the adventurers in this city while defeating the monsters in the new dungeon.

　　　　　☆

So this is the dealer.

　After leaving the cobalt dungeon, I came to a buyer's shop that I heard about from the people in town.
　The sign said 'Oshidori Gassen' on the sign.
　I walked into the shop empty-handed, mixed in with a group of adventurers pushing a magic cart.

　Unlike "Tsubame no Omiai", the inside was needlessly large.
　Instead of counters, it was built like a supermarket cash register, and that's what it was made to look like with an extremely wide layout.
　I went to one of the empty cash registers.

'Welcome, customer, is this your first time?'

　The male clerk at the register asked with a business smile on his face.

'Yeah. Can you buy it for me for the first time?
Of course. I'll buy anything you drop in this city's dungeons ...... but it looks like your customers don't have anything.
Not really.

　I reached into my pocket and pulled out one of the iron bars and placed it on the checkout table.
　The moment I put it down, the numbers moved in the checkout machine.

'I see, so it weighs you down when you put it down.
Yes. But, sir, a draught of iron is not enough.
There's more.

　More iron bars out of his pocket and put them down.
　More numbers, take out more.
　Takes them out and puts them down. One after another, he takes them out and puts them on the register.

'What?'

　The male clerk, who had a "that's a lot in there" look on his face until halfway through, couldn't keep his mouth open in surprise at one point.

　He asked me when I had laid out about 100 bars with a unit of one kilogram ...... of gin on the other side.

'Well, wait a minute, customer, how much did you bring in?'
There's more to come.

　I take them out one after the other.
　I pile the iron blocks into the cash register, which takes up a lot of space.

　How much am I in the middle of it, too?　I thought to myself.

'Oh, come on, what is that?'
A new kind of magic cart technology?
Or is it magic?　No. Is it an inherent skill?

　The stunned shopkeepers and the adventurers gathered around.
　As they looked on, I continued to let them out, and eventually the number exceeded 1,000 and cheers erupted from all around me.

　More than a ton of steel had been placed in my pocket.