Nihonium, 7th floor underground.
　Leia's follow-up to me was hunting mammy.

　Leia merging with me as a protector and arm.
　It's still useful, but I'll find a way to make better use of it.

　There's a lot of things I can do, it's purely like having four more arms, now six.
　But since it's nihonium, four of them can't be used as a stopper.

　I tried many things within that constraint.
　Halfway through, I got stuck in a pattern and started working on it to the hilt.

"Master. "Master, 75 degrees right.
Yes!

　I turned around and topped off Mammy, who was freezing her legs off with Leia's gun, with my fireball.

"180 degrees back.
Well, I'll tell you what.

　I don't completely turn around and half turn around and still toss Mammy, who has frozen both of her legs.

　Leia stops her and I finish her off.
　It's a bit different than purely weakening her, and I focused on stopping her legs.

　Sometimes I'll use firebombs for the shot, other times - depending on the distance - I'll use an annihilation shot if it's far enough to fuse them together.
　We looked for various patterns to stop their feet and go on from there.

　Stopping your feet is a method that can be used in any situation.
　And mastering the pattern after that is never a waste of time.

"The Master.
What's going on?
''Is this necessary? A master can take it down in one hit without doing this.''
It's like a bad habit of mine. It's a skill that isn't just about status, or personal skills as the game calls it. I have a habit of wanting to be good at that kind of thing. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to come with me.
I understand, sir. I'll do whatever you say, Master. There's no need to feel bad about it.
Okay.

　Leia and I went around the dungeon together.
　We got some patterns from shooting through the legs.
　I started practicing some of those patterns over and over again in the middle of the game.

　I could feel the movements seeping into my body as I did them on repetition.

'Okay, that's as far as it goes,'
"Is that enough, Master?
Yeah.

　I nodded and picked up the freshly dropped spirit seed.
　Checking it with the portable now board, thinking it would have arrived by physical sensation, I do.

---1/2---
Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Power SS
Strength SS
Intelligence SS
Spirit S
Speed SS
Dexterous F
Luck F
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　As I felt, my spirit was s.
　Today's quota was met.
　It doesn't mean anything in particular, but I've decided that every time I dive, I'm going to improve my ability by one rank.

　That's the kind of "Kiri-ness" that I think is necessary for repeated laps.

　Now that I've done it again today, it's time to get out.

'This was originally the max I could do.

　I mumbled something to myself, and suddenly I was deeply moved.
　The feeling that I've come a long way is rising from the depths of my heart.

　My spirit is going to be Max's SS next, but right now (,) I can't do it.
　So I'll keep my S level and go to the next 8th floor first.
　I'm starting to look forward to the next one, whether it's dexterity or luck.

"Master
What's going on?
"I'm reading something that I can't determine.
A phenomenon that can't be determined?
Monsters come and go.
Monsters come and go, don't they?
"...... I'm paraphrasing.

　Leia's tone became even more serious.

'It's increasing for a moment and then quickly decreasing.'
Yeah?

　That's definitely not right.
　The monsters are increasing and decreasing for a second.

'Someone's taking them down?　No, no. The only people who come to Nifonium are Margaret and her friends except me, and I've never seen anyone else. Even for Margaret and her friends, they don't come down from the basement floor.

　It's been a long time since I came to this world, quite a few months since I started holed up in Nifonium.
　I don't remember seeing any adventurers after the second floor of Nifonium.

　A world where everything drops in dungeons, and dungeons that don't drop anything.
　As a result of the combination of these two things, people didn't stop by as a matter of course.

''Just in case, there's no one else here, right?''
No, sir.

　Leia said once and for all, she could figure out not only the monsters, but also the adventurers, to some extent.

'Do you know where they're appearing?　Or rather, is it the same place?
This way, sir.

　Leia's arm extended and led the way. I head in the direction the arm is pointing.

'Here it is.'
It just looks like a dead end.
It's down.
Hmm?　Does that mean it went up now and then quickly?
"Yes.
'I didn't see anything. I don't see a mistake .......

　That's not the case with Leia so far.
　She has a robotic side to her. It's not just in her attitude, but in her 'performance'.

　She's so robotic that if you order her to freeze a mummy's leg, she'll faithfully shoot every mummy's ankle with a freezer bullet.

　So in Leia's case, it's not a misunderstanding.
　There was definitely something going on, and she caught it. I think it's fair to assume that.

...... Is it just for a moment, or is the increase
"Yes.
Is it cyclical?
Yes.

　Leia answers immediately, also robotic in this area.

'Okay, then let me know five seconds before that cycle comes.
I understand.

　I stood there for a while, waiting for Leia to give me the signal.
　Eventually.

Five seconds.
Okay.

　He thoughtlessly drew his gun and fired a bullet into himself.
　It was a freshly picked, freshly accelerated bullet taken this morning.

　The world almost stopped the moment I fired the bullet into myself.

　In the accelerated world, I waited for five seconds to pass.

　A naked zombie appeared in front of me.
　A zombie with no skin and bare muscles all over its body, a zombie that was dozens of times creepier than the human body model in the infirmary.

　I didn't even have time to think about it, I had a spinal reflex to move.
　Even in a world that had accelerated to the point of pseudo-time stoppage, the zombie rapidly faded away from the moment it appeared.
　I hit them as hard as I could.

　I can't use my gun, it disappears faster than the speed of a bullet.
　I can use my body, my accelerating body.

　So I hit it as hard as I could.

　The zombies are getting thinner and thinner--just in time!

　I shake my fist out with a strong reminder, no response.
　I look where the zombies have been, there's nothing.

"It was nothing. It was just a matter of time. Oh well, we'll try again tomorrow.

　You can try again tomorrow, one accelerated bullet a day.
　With that in mind, I waited for the acceleration effect to disappear for 60 seconds of real time.

　There was a slow glow in front of me.
　It was slow to even glow, and slowly, vaguely, something emerged from that light.

　...... Oh, so that's what it was.
　I had to beat it to get it down, but it just felt slower to drop because I was in the acceleration.

　I chuckled and waited for the drop to come out.