Lantern dungeon, 20th floor underground.

　I flew in from Cyclo using the transporter room in the mansion, and what I saw was a sentry who exudes an air of somberness.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find the right one for you.

Mmm, who's there!
Um, .......

　There's nothing to be sorry about, but this atmosphere makes me puzzled as to what to do about it now.
　There's no need to hide, so I went out in front of the guards normally.

''Ah--I'm sorry!

　The young man in the guard stood upright and felt his heels aligned and saluted me.

'I'm sorry for yelling at you, I didn't know you were Satou-san,'
No, it's okay-- I mean, do you know who I am?
'Yes!　You're Master Satou of Bodley Lyota, right? I know everyone who guards this floor!
Okay. Why am I being guarded?
'Because Bodley Lyota manages production. We're not supposed to buy people who don't have a license, but if we did, they would go to the black market, so we decided to manage it from the production floor. That's what the Filin Association decided to do.
I see.

　You're going to be pretty serious about managing production.
　This is going to be a little bit more of a "bodhray ban!" every season. is in Filin - or maybe it's going to be a trend in Cyclo.

　It's hard to maintain a brand.

"All right, I'll take a trip into town. I'll have to ask Mao for a license.
Oh, I'm dealing with a word from the head of the association.
Yeah?
"'Master Lyota is free to go as far as he wants,' he said.
Are you sure about this?
Not a personal message, but that's what I told my guards. It's not an excuse, but I did say to my bodyguards, "Of course it's okay for you to drink it yourself, Ryota-sama. Of course it's okay for you to drink it yourself, as long as you sell it for a good price without a license. ......

　It's very thorough.
　Well, you know.

Okay, I'll take you at your word.
Yeah, go ahead.

　I said goodbye to the man of the guard, defeated the monster, let him drop a few (...) wine for the number of people and took it back to the mansion.

　　　　　☆

　The terrace of the mansion, I was outside in the night breeze.
　The base of my ears were hot and my body was on fire from drinking a good amount of wine.

'What are you doing, Lyota?

　Alice came out from inside and came over next to me.

'I was just sobered up a bit. I think I might have had too much to drink.
Really?
It was a good drink.
Yes, it's delicious!

　Alice smiles and sips on the wine glass she brought with her.
　Maybe, but what she calls 'delicious' and what I call 'delicious' have different meanings.

'It's really good, Bodley. That's as good as it gets, Lyota, it's amazing.
Really?
'Yes!　See, everyone's having a blast drinking it.

　I'm talking about the fellow monsters on Alice's shoulders.

　The slime pull, the skeleton honehone, the little devil bonbon, the needle lizard spiky spikes, and the master dragon gau gau gau.
　Deformed in SD size, Alice's fellow monsters are drinking as they chirp and lick the contents of the glass she's holding.

'These girls eat things too,'
Not often. But you seem to enjoy it very much. Maybe it's because it's Ryota's drink.
Maybe.

　A wine so good that Filin decided to take control of production, and the best quality I've ever served in my drop S.

The kind of drink that would make a monster swoon.
Kellie's been drinking this delicious, delicious stuff.
Cerberus, well, he usually eats food and stuff.

　My family's guard dog, Cerberus' haggle of Cerberus, Cerberus.
　It's a different beast than Alice's companion monster.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a great deal of information about the breed, but if you're going to breed again, take me with you. Show me how Ryota is breeding.
'Yes, ...... then, when Alice comes with a genie.
'Yes!　You're not allowed to do it unless it comes with a genie, right? Yeah!　I'll go for it!
Yeah, go for it.

　My family's enthusiastic Samonar, I'm sure she will eventually conquer some dungeon and become a genie with a spirit.
　Somehow, I had a feeling that she would.

　　　　　☆

U......n. Fluffy.

　The next morning, I woke up in the morning sun.
　Emily's house - I slept on the best bed I could find with that kind of (、、、、) effect, like the name of a skill anymore, and I slept clear and well, fully recovered.
　Just when I was thinking that I was going to do my best for the day - that's when I thought.

　Whew.

　Something hairy stroked my face.
　Whoa, papa. Whoa, papa--.
　I know the feeling, a dog's tail.

"Did you crawl under the covers, Cerbero......s?
Good morning, master.
......
Are you okay, master?

　Cerberus (?) stares at me as I sit up with my eyes open. .

Are you ...... Cerberus?
'Yes, I'm Cerberus. I'm Cerberus, the Cerberus my master named me.

　What does it matter?　Cerberus (?) nodded his head as if to say I grabbed the guy's face and turned him to the window.
　I grabbed the guy's face and pointed it toward the window.
　The window, which also functions as a mirror, reflects a giant cobbler, a shiba-inu-like looking Cerberus (?). Was.

　　　　　★

He's a unique monster.

　In the president's office of the Dungeon Association, Cell, facing me, said in an assertive tone.

'Unique ......'
...... monster?

　Hearing this, me and Cerberus, exchanging glances, still nodding our heads.

''What's that?''　It's unique ......, which means unique in the sense of unusual.

　Cell nodded.

'It's also called a mutant species. Sometimes a haglemono evolves into something that looks like only itself in its own species.
It's like a rare monster.
'No. Rare monsters live on the same level, but they are different monsters. A slime mutant and a slime broth are two different things.
'I mean, Cerberus is still Cerberus as a species, but ...... hmmm'

　He folded his arms and cocked his head.
　I thought about what expression would fit best.

'A rare Cerberus, the only one in the world,'
'Exactly. But ...... yay.

　Cell looked at Cerberus, who had become a giant bush dog.

''I didn't expect it to be a unique monster, as expected of Satou-sama.
Yeah?　How can it be me?
"99% of unique monsters change from hagremonos. Because they need to be continuously exposed to human vibrations, magic, life force, etc. - in other words, their unique human energy - and 99% of them are Hagremonos because they continue to be exposed to their owner's energy.
'Yeah, because if it's a ...... dungeon monster, it's going to be taken down very quickly.

　Cell nodded.

'It doesn't change that much just because you keep them, though, about one in a hundred. And it usually takes a few years to a few decades. When Satou-sama started keeping that dog--
Not even a year old, yet.
That's great, I'm proud of you, Lord Sato.
But why the change all of a sudden?
Have you ever taken a large amount of energy from Master Sato?
...... Oh, wine. I gave him a lot of bodhray yesterday.
That's it.

　I looked up at the giant - a Shiba Inu Cerberus, about the size of a wagon.

　A unique monster, Cerberus the Shiba Inu.

　My dog has evolved a bit.