225. Fish salmon




 Lantern Dungeon, first basement level.
 I was walking around with the pendant that was dropped from the Rare Monster Ashigaru General.

 It's a rare monster drop item, I have to make sure to check its ability.
 Even if it's from around.

Get rid of it.

 Even if it's something that would be laughed at.

 I met the flaming footman, dodged the spear that was thrust at me, and headshot him with a growth bullet from zero distance--.

''Whoa!''

 I was startled and screamed.
 A growth bullet with increased power, a head shot from zero distance, blew my whole head off.

 I was a bit surprised.
 I'll try it on the zombies when I get back to Cyclo, not the footman.

 The flaming footman, who lost his head and fell down, immediately dropped an edamame with a pong.

 I immediately encircled the next flaming footman, this time removing the pendant and shooting out the same way with the growth bullet.
 Then, there was a cracking sound of water and beer was splashed into the dungeon.

 I check it out, switching it around a few times in turn.
 With the pendant on, without exception, what was a drop of liquor became a drop of a snack to go with that drink.

 I look at the edamame on the ground and look around.
 Without exception they're all knocking down flaming foot soldiers and producing beer, no one is letting the edamame drop.

 It wouldn't be completely unsaleable either, but it would probably be extremely cheap.
 An exception in a city that specializes in something, and the numbers are miniscule.
 It's not surprising that they were bought for two or three pennies.

 The reason why the fish pendants from the drop of the footman are treated as outliers is clear.

 Since no one would pick them up, the edamame hatched into a monster.
 From the edamame came a flaming foot soldier.

 I shot the flaming footman without the pendant.
 Then the beer was sprayed on the footmen.

 Apparently, beer and edamame have the same root.
 It'll be a flaming footman from either one, and which one it will be depends on the presence or absence of the pendant.

'Here's the thing,'

 After a round of examination, and with nothing of note, I tried to put the pendant away.
 Out of the corner of my eye, away from me, another edamame hatched into a footman of flame.

 I stopped moving to put the pendant away.

 Suddenly, I remembered that I hadn't finished checking it completely yet.

     ☆

 We left the dungeon and out of the city of Filin and came to an unpopular open field.

 I put the fish pendant on the ground and kept my distance.

 Leia wasn't there and Revive wasn't available, so I waited as I had in the past.
 After a while, the haglemono footman general hatched.

 As I approached with my gun in hand, the footman general scurried around and then, to my surprise, turned himself around and ran away.

I'm not sure if ...... can do anything but power up the foot soldiers.

 I thought so and chased it for a while, but General Ashigaru just ran away and didn't attack at all.
 I defeated the Ashigaru General when I confirmed that it was really only commanding, apparently.

 A pendant was dropped, the shape changed slightly.

''Is this a ...... shake?''

 A fish is a fish, but in the form of a fish I know well.
 With the Shark Pendant in hand, I made my way back to Filin and back to the Lantern Dungeon.

 The first basement floor, a ninja house filled with foot soldiers.

''Ah, Ryota-san. I've been looking for you.

 As I walked in, Tale found me and ran over to me.

'What's up,'
'The head of the dungeon society in Filin wants to say hello. So I've been looking for you.
Oh, I see.

 Use the Dungeon Master to change the ecology of the dungeon - breed improvement.
 Eric will have a story to tell, but from the Dungeon Association head's perspective, he'd like to see what the execution team is like once they're in place.

'Okay, ......, but first, one last check.
Will it take long?
No, we're just taking down a footman or two.
Okay, okay.

 I made Tale wait and I put on a freshly made salmon pendant and shot the nearest flaming footman.
 Then it was at the same time.

 Beer and edamame dropped at the same time.
 It's like a set of something.

'I see, so you're going to get both.
'Yeah! Hey, what's going on?

 Surprised Tale, I took him down to the basement level with me and knocked over the ice footman.
 This time I dropped a set of wine and cheese, again.

'Awesome! I've never seen both dropped at once. What did you do?
It's a trade secret.
Yes. ......

 Tale looked at me with a look of admiration.

 Sharkfish pendants, this one still seems to have a use for it.