We're home.

　Our home in the city of Cyclo.
　As soon as I came back and stepped inside the mansion, I felt a tremendous shock and fell flat on my ass.

''Welcome home, master!''

　The one who pushed me down was my dog, Cerberus, who was even bigger than a lion at the zoo.
　The Cerberus, a monster even bigger than a zoo lion, jumps on me out of nowhere and knocks me on my ass.

　Cerberus licks my face even harder.
　It's a gesture of instinctual dearness, I don't feel bad about it.

　He's wagging his tail all over the place, dog tail wagging, a good mood sign, but size is size.
　It looks like he's hitting the ground with a little club. It looks painful if he hits it.

　It will take a while for him to be in such a good mood, I thought, when suddenly Cerberus' body came to the surface.

'Meh!　It is.

　I didn't float up.
　If you look closely, you can see Emily, who came a little late, grabbed Cerberus and lifted it up with a flourish.
　The 130-centimeter-tall Emily, from a sidelong glance, looks like a schoolgirl.

　The sight of it lifting a super giant - a dog the size of a lion - with one hand is unbalanced and a bit strange.

'Mr. Yoda is tired, I will moderate my jostling.
'Ugh ...... sorry ......'

　Cerberus is teased by Emily, the shadow ruler of our house.
　I shuffle off, and my tail, which had been dancing wildly, hangs down without power.

　I stood up and rubbed my buttocks while I stroked Cerberus' head with my other hand.

'I'll play with you again later,'
Yes!

　　　　　★

　I sat on the sofa facing Emily and Celeste in the saloon of the mansion, Emily and Celeste.
　The sun was gentle and the windows were open and a pleasant breeze was blowing in.

　We drank the tea Emily had made for us.

'Yes!　Delicious!　I feel like I'm back with Emily's tea.
Thank you, sir.
'It's no wonder you can't compete with the tea Emily makes, but didn't you drink tea over there?'
No. It's all she does is drink. It's a surprise. It's all the booze that comes out of the wells. All the cheapest booze you can find is free booze, all you can drink as much as you want.
That's great.
Yoda did a great job with that filin, too, which was amazing.
The rumors are already coming through?

　Emily and Celeste, both nodded at the same time.

'I've groped the Dungeon Master, beaten him a bunch of times and remade the dungeon the way I wanted it. They've already been talking about it.
There's a statue going up on the dungeon society grounds.
It's him again!

　It's not a figure, it's a statue.

　I tsked at Cell's usual behavior and told them about my stay in Filin.
　I was having a rambling chat with a group of like-minded friends.

'Ugh!'

　Suddenly, Celeste held her head down and began to suffer.

'What's wrong?'
Suddenly there's a magic storm at ......
I'll close the window.

　Emily got up and ran with a flurry of activity and closed the window.
　When she closed it, the wind stopped instead, and Celeste's headache seemed to ease.

'Thank you Emily,'
You're welcome. ...... It's urgent.
Well, the forecast for today didn't say anything about a magic storm coming.
It's a weather report, you know. It's bound to miss.

　Emily and Celeste nodded.
　It was like the weather forecast was off and I didn't have an umbrella and got soaked, and that's about it.

　That's what I was still thinking at this time.

　　　　　☆

Dungeon Master?

　Cell comes to visit the mansion at night.
　He has an unusually serious look on his face.

"Mm. It's silicon, and it's showing up.
Really? ...... showed up?
That's what I'm talking about, Sato-sama.

　Cell chuckled.

'Yes. Actually, the silicon dungeon master has been there since this morning. Of course I tried to get him to take them down immediately, as usual, but a series of buyers suggested I change the breed.
...... Maybe it's my fault?
Because

　Cell nodded.

'What Satou-sama did with Filin. He wanted to make something that would be famous for cyclo, after knowing about Bodley Lyota, and he suggested that the Dungeon Master survive for a while, and breed with it. However,
...... The magic storm came in defying the forecast.

　Cell nodded further.

　I have a general idea of the story.

　Silicon dungeon, a dungeon I've entered before to help people.
　The monsters there are physically disabled without exception, and only magic works.

　Technically, they're not disabled, but even I'm a power SS, and if I tried to do it with physics, the zakos would be harder than the Dungeon Master.
　Normally I'd use magic to take them down, but every once in a while there's a magic storm that doesn't allow me to use magic at all, and when that happens, all the silicon monsters are practically invincible.

''So the Dungeon Master has the same properties?''
''Exactly. At first we were doing well with magic, but then the magic storm suddenly came and that magic stopped working. As a result, the Dungeon Master became completely invincible and turned into an untouchable monster.
It's been a long time ago, and it's a messed-up silicon ecosystem.
''The magic storm is still going on, and if we leave it like this, the Silicon Dungeon itself will be killed by the Dungeon Master.
Okay.

　I stood up quickly.

"I'm going to take him down right now.
Thank you.

　　　　　★

　Silicon Dungeon, first floor underground.

　Unlike the lanterns in the Ninja House, Silicon is a cave - a cave type dungeon.
　Compared to that dungeon, this one is more "the cave" and in a way more comfortable.

"I can't say that,

　The moment I stepped in, I felt bad.
　When the Dungeon Master is out, the atmosphere of the dungeon itself changes, but now the air is in a circle and it's in bad shape.

　The air itself is extremely gloomy, and many parts of the cave are on the verge of collapse.

　This is not good, I thought as I rushed ahead, but fortunately, or perhaps I should say, it was in this situation that I felt the presence of the Dungeon Master strongly.
　It's as if I'm being guided through the dungeon.

　I walked in a straight line and went down several floors.

　When I arrived at the destination, that guy was there.

　It seems to be silicon with insects like caterpillars, flies and grasshoppers, and the dungeon master is also an insect.
　Instead, it was huge.

　It was a giant moth, roughly 10 meters in length.

'It's like a moth.'

　As I was having these thoughts, the other side noticed me and flew at me.

　I reflexively threw a punch.
　A beautiful cross counter that met the flying, the fist pierced Mothra's compound eye--.

''--!

　My arm almost squirmed.
　I faltered.

　Silicon dungeon, physical attacks don't work at all.
　My neatly matched cross-counter didn't do any damage to the other side, but on the contrary, my fist and then my shoulder had to take the force of the lunge one way or the other.

　My shoulder hurts, I jumped as hard as I could to get a distance and recovered with infinite recovery bullets.

　That's right, bullets.

　The last time I rescued someone during a magic storm, my physics and magic didn't work, but the special bullets were the only thing that worked.

　That time I ran out of bullets and was in a pinch, but that won't happen this time.
　I fought mainly with infinite lightning bullets and growth bullets (this one also had infinite bullets).

　Mothra wasn't that strong.
　He was probably the weakest dungeon master I'd ever fought.

　It was a tricky one, because this was a field of physically invalid dungeons, and Mothra itself wasn't that strong.

　By the time I carefully ducked the attack and shot five infinite lightning bullets into it, it had already fallen, and Todome stabbed it with a growth bullet, hoping it would also grow.

　After Mothra dropped the item and disappeared, the normal monsters came back.

　　　　　☆

　The next morning, Cell came to the mansion for a visit.

'First of all, I would like to thank you,'

　Cell said that in his usual hawkish tone.
　The Stem family, a ridiculous level of nobility, he calls me "Satou-sama" while his own first person is "Yo" and his tone is subtly pompous.

　It's still the same ...... something .......
　Doesn't he look like he's subtly biting down on a bitter bug?

I'm not sure if I can call you Satou-sama. It's a good thing that you're able to easily defeat the Dungeon Master under such poor conditions. The magic storm passed just a few minutes ago, but if you left the Dungeon Master that far behind, Silicon would have been dead for sure.
That's all well and good, but why do you have that look on your face?
"It's not Satou-sama's fault at all - in fact, it's only this much (、、、、) thanks to Satou-sama's immediate defeat.
This is it?　What happened?
The silicon ecosystem has changed.
...... Hmm.

　It reminds me of yesterday.
　I had felt it from the moment we entered the dungeon.

　The cave was in shambles, and it was about to fall apart.
　The dungeon master had affected it, but it hadn't returned even after the dungeon master was gone.

　Even on the way back to the ground after the defeat, come to think of it, the monster had changed.

'Come to think of it, this is the first time I've seen a dungeon master change its ecosystem. I've heard a lot about it, though.''
......
What's going on?
Physics ...... and magic on top of it.
...... No way.

　Cell nodded, "No way," he said.

'The silicon monsters have been rendered ineffective in both physics and magic.

　I could tell my eyebrows were cupped together.
　The silicone had become quite important.