222. There is no S rank, but ...




 It took me a whole day to come to the city of Filin in the carriage Eric had arranged for me.

 By the way, I came alone this time.
 The dungeon master and endurance battle, looked pretty dangerous, so I didn't want to let my friends risk it, so I came alone.

 As soon as I entered the town, I felt that the tension in this town was generally high.
 I could hear high tension laughter from all over the place.
 The tension is surrounding the entire town like a bar.

 As I stepped out of the carriage, I realized that my impression was correct.
 The residents of the town are drinking here and there.
 If you're drinking, of course you need snacks.

 The town of Filin has stalls selling snacks at every corner.

 Residents buy snacks, drink and laugh at each other - such is the town.

"Ryota Sato-sama?
Yeah?

 I turned to look at him as he called out to me from the side.
 The one who looked up at the carriage was a boy who looked like he was in his mid-teens.
 His hair was trimmed so short that it didn't need a lot of grooming, and his cheeks were littered with freckles for his age.

'And you?'
'My name is Terre Angus. Eric told me to show you around Lyota.
I see.

 I thought for a moment and jumped down from the carriage.

'What's the matter with you?'
'I'm tired of the carriage. I'd like to see the dungeon, you can show me around.
Okay.

 Tale whispered something to the carriage master and the empty carriage moved away.

'I'll show you around. Which one do you prefer?
Which one?
"There are two dungeons in Filin, Lantern and Cerium, which one do you see first?
'Yes, ...... Lantern please. Eric asked for a lantern, I want to keep track of the dungeon until the Dungeon Master's scheduled appearance date.
Okay.

 Tale started to lead the way and I followed.

 It's like crisscrossing the city of Filin, but everywhere you go, people in town are drinking.
 Even if they're not drinking, it's like they're doing a little bit of everything after a normal day of work.

People drink a lot, don't they?
Yeah, whatever. It's from Philip's. Oh, look at that.
'Huh? You mean that well?

 Tale told me to look at the well on the road.
 It looked like a featureless well, but a middle-aged man approached it and drew water from the well.
 He dipped his mouth into the water he drew up.

''Puh-uh!''

 I drank it all at once.

'Wait a minute, wasn't there something wrong with the color of the water now?'
It's a beer.
Beer?
There's so much booze for sale in Filin (、、、、). There are so many cheap drinks that are not for sale in other cities that you can drink them for free.
It's a great city.

 I was almost speechless.
 The liquor is just, you can get it from the well and drink it at random.
 It reminded me of a certain prefecture where you turn on the faucet and orange juice comes out.

'Is it like the water in other cities?'
Yeah, well, there are a lot of disconnects.
Off?
The higher the status of the drop, the higher the quality of the liquor dropped. When it's low or out of line, it turns into cheap liquor like that.
I see.

 So it's air and water in other dungeons, or substandard vegetables that aren't for sale, or something like that.
 So, as a drop S, I'm allowed to drop high quality booze.

 I can't wait to see what they're going to give me.

Oh, if you're going to the dungeon, you might want to buy some of those.

 Tale stopped in front of the tool shop.
 He pointed to a large number of bottles with blank labels.

'What's that?'
Have you ever used a collection box?
Yeah.

 I'm well acquainted with not just the collection box, but its improved version, the Pandora Box.
 It's a handy item that sucks dropped items into the box the moment they're dropped.

 Using that, Margaret was selling the 'Princess Margaret's Homemade Air Box'.

It's a filin special version of it. With this, you can rank the liquor you drop on the spot.
What does it look like?
Their ranks are like ABCDEF.......
I see.

 If that was the case, I bought about five bottles anyway.

 Tale led me through the city and into the dungeon.
 It's a busy dungeon with a lot of people coming and going.

"We've arrived, this is Lantern.
I'm told it's a brew-only dungeon.
Yes.

 I was a bit surprised when I entered the dungeon.
 I've been in a lot of dungeons before, but this one is definitely different from the previous ones.
 In fact, it's so well constructed that I didn't even realize it was a dungeon.

 Lantern dungeon, the first basement floor.
 Inside, it's like a ninja house.

 In what appears to be a Japanese-style room, adventurers are fighting with monsters.
 And that monster is called.

...... Ashigaru.
"Ugh, the monster in the basement level, the flaming footman.

 Tale answering, I gave a complicated smile.

 The monster's appearance is that of a foot soldier from the Warring States period itself.
 The sight of many of them, fighting with adventurers in a Japanese-style mansion, looks like the final stage of a battle that broke into a castle tower.

 The only difference is that the monster foot soldiers are wearing flames on their bodies and the spears they use to attack are also on fire.

''What's going on?''
Oh no, I'm just confused by my first monster.
I see.

 A convinced tail.
 I composed myself and pulled out my gun.

 One hand on the gun, one hand on the bottle I'd bought earlier.

 First of all, a small check, and use growth bullets instead of regular bullets.
 It's a good thing that the growth bullets, which are much more advanced, are now powerful enough to replace the regular bullets.

 I aimed it clearly and aimed between the armor of ...... foot soldiers.

 The flaming foot soldiers approaching with their spears at the ready were shot and staggered.
 Shoot more, one after the other, aiming between the armor, and then a final tome blow, knocking the flaming footman down.

 It's not very strong, well, it's a monster about a basement floor, that's about it.

 As soon as the flaming footman disappeared, a flood of liquid poured into the bottle he was holding.
 Not only that, the blank label also read "Rank: A".

 Yeah, just as I thought.
 I'm a drop S, after all, and I can make a high rank liquor drop just by knocking it down normally.
 It's been like that before, so I wasn't surprised to see it as expected.

 But when I turned around, I saw Tail exclaiming.

''What's up Tail?''
Yeah, I'll show you. It's really a full tank of rank A.
What does it matter?
What's going on? It's not. High ranked liquor has fewer drops.
What?
It's a good thing that you can't get a full tank of it in one sitting. ...... It's impossible to get a full tank of it in one sitting... ...

 Tale stares at the bottle and exclaims again.
 Apparently he did it without ...... knowing it.