On the first floor of the Seren Dungeon basement, I continued to level up the growth bullets with Leia on this day as well.
　I stopped all other daily routines and leveled up all the time for now, and the level of the growth bullets reached 10.

　--The drain effect has awakened.

''Oh?''
What are you doing here, Master?
Now there's a voice saying the drainage effect is this: ......

　I took out a growth bullet from the gun and looked at it.
　The engraving that Seren had put on me, it was marked as level 10.

''You said you were awakened, you got it because you reached level 10?
Special effects?
Yeah, I guess so. He told me it was a drain.
Absorption. Absorption. That's the effect of absorbing something.
'That's the only way, the question is what will you absorb: ...... Leia, Revive.
Yes, sir.

　Leia flowed and hung a revive on the drop just before and returned to the rainbow slime.
　I reloaded the growth bullets and shot the slime.

　The speed and power of the bullets came to about 90% of normal bullets, it seems to be steadily growing.
　More than that.

"...... Hmm.
What do you think, Master?
'I'm definitely absorbing something, I feel like I'm taking something in, even if it's faint in my body.
What do you mean by "something"?
I don't understand that; it's not HP or MP.

　As I said that, I loaded the recovery bullets and shot at myself.
　Recovery bullets that recover HP and MP.

''Yeah, it still feels different,''
It's not HP or MP?
Yeah. Let's try some more. Let's go down to level 11.
I understand, Master.

　Leia nodded quietly and hung up the revive again.
　Hang the revive, and I'll shoot it with my growth bullets.
　The repetition of that, working, leveling up.

　All the while, I kept feeling a subtle sensation of something flowing into my body, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was.
　Eventually, I didn't understand it, and the growth bullet reached level 11.

''How about it, Master?''
No, I have no idea.
Okay.
'It's not a bad feeling, we won't have to worry about it for now. We'll pull up for once and ask Seren about it tomorrow.
I understand.

　It's a good time to start leveling up in the morning.
　We head to the transporter gate to go back to the mansion.

　Then.

"Oh, um!
Yeah?

　I was suddenly called out to her from the side.
　A teenage girl, staring at me with a desperate face.

　Has something absurd happened again?
　I was the one who had been bracing myself - but.

'I love you!'
What about ......?
I love being cool and strong--thank you!

　After the girl sowed one way, she walked away like she was running away.
　No, thank you is what you say after a ...... confession?
　I didn't answer any questions.

'Um, ......'
Master, you are very popular.
No, no, don't make fun of me.
Do I make fun of you?

　Leia nods her head.
　Okay, so she doesn't have any feelings to tease me.
　I found out that she really thinks it's amazing and irresistible, and on the contrary, I felt a little embarrassed.

　That was a strange accident. The other person is gone, so let's just go home.

"Master.
What's going on?
They're watching us.
Did he see you?

　Leia told me and I looked around.
　They're watching me just as I was told - by women.

　Every woman I can see from where I'm standing is watching me.
　Some are blushing, some have feverish eyes.

　All of them are looking at me with the same expression as the girl I just confessed to.
　I don't know what's going on, and I feel like I've been pinched by a fox.

　Without any events happening from there, I returned to the mansion at the transporter gate.
　When I returned to the transporter room, I ran into Celeste.

"Yo, I'm home.
I'm home: ......
What's going on, Celeste?

　I ask, but Celeste doesn't answer.
　Instead, she stares at me with a very surprised look on her face.

'What's the matter. What's wrong with my face?

　I ask again, and Celeste huffs.

'Uh-uh!　It's nothing.

　And then he slipped away.
　It's not a reaction of nothing, it's definitely something.

　That something is--

A growth bullet, I guess.

　The dungeon confession, the fervent gaze, and Celeste.
　A series of events, and considering the timing, it was after the drain effect of the growth bullets came on.

　I left Leia behind and used the transporter room to make my way to Celen's room.

　Seren, a glamorous spirit in a super racy bikini.

'Oh my good man,'

　I ignored her words, still dressed to the eyes of the youth, and asked her point-blank.

'What's a drain?'
Oh, you got it. That's great, it's the rarest one. There's a chance, but it's not possible unless you're a natural. But ...... yeah yeah, it's a drain.

　Seren moved closer, peering into my face from close range and convinced one of us to look at him.

'I knew it was the drain, what does that mean?'
Ummm, let's say, for example, what would have happened if I had suddenly turned glossy and gone 'whew' or something?
"...... had s*x, or something?
Okay.

　Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong!　Seren deliberately mouths onomatopoeia, "I'm sorry," he says.

It's not just the HP and MP, it's the physical strength - the stamina, of course. It's not HP or MP, it's the energy - the stamina - that is sucked out of you and restored. I think I'm probably tired now.
'Surely, for a whole day of leveling up, I'm not tired at all.
See, that's the thing.
'That's all well and good, but why do the eyes around you change color?'
Hey, nice guy.
Yeah?

　For some reason, Seren responded without context.
　He repeated the exact same line he'd used when I arrived.

　I thought about that for a moment.

'A side effect of the ...... drain that makes you look like a nice guy ......?'
"Peenpone.

　Seren says it again with his mouth, it's obvious he's amused.

'I didn't know it worked that well.'
You named your bullets, right?　Why don't you use that as a motivational bullet?

　No, no, no, no.

　　　　　☆

　I came back from Seren with a transfer gate.
　Even though it makes you look better when you listen to it, the effect is on the level of "women in love become more beautiful".

　I've heard that people who are in love produce more hormones and as a result they look more beautiful.

　I'm convinced, and it's not a negative effect, so I'm back at the mansion .......

......
......

　I feel eyes on me from outside the transporter room.
　It's Celeste and Elsa.

　They're a little farther away, glancing at me from the shadows.
　Their cheeks are stained with embarrassment.

　It's not that I don't want them to like me, but this air is a bit annoying.

　Now I'm thinking, "What do I do now?

"Low Level Detection.

　Eve walked briskly into the transporter room.

'I want a carrot,'
......
'You're so low-level and cocky to stare. I'll charge you a carrot in ten seconds.
"...... is that all right?
What?

　Eve tilts her head slightly in the air.
　I compare her to Celeste and Elsa, who are glancing away, alternately.

'Eve really likes carrots, doesn't she?
My dream is to eat a poisonous carrot, become a sleeping princess, and have a prince on a carrot wake me up with a carrot in his mouth.
That's a very specific dream.

　Eve was still too much as usual, and I giggled a bit.
　The air was contagious, and both Celeste and Elsa came up to me and talked to me as usual, though they were still a little red in the face.

　We're friends who live in the same mansion, so hopefully they'll get used to it eventually.

　By the way.
　After this day, I started getting confessions and offers from the dungeon.