Next day.

　Ground floor of Plumbum, I waited for a while and then the gate opened.
　Eve came out of the gate and stood in front of me.

"Here you are.
Thank you.
Carrots are the way to go.
I'll have a bunch of them for you tonight.
"Hm.

　Eve nodded in satisfaction, took my hand, and together we walked through the gate.
　After a dazzling light, I was in the mansion's transporter room.

　The gate that Eve had opened for me.
　It allowed me to get to all levels of Plumbum.

Then...

　Eve turned herself around and turned to leave.

'Yeah, do you want to go too, Eve?　I'm going to introduce you to her.
I'm not interested in that dungeon.
Is that so?
I was hoping for it, but there was no rabbit's milk.
Hmm?

　After saying what she wanted to say, Eve stuttered away this time.
　Rabbit milk--does that mean rabbit milk?

　There's no such thing - no.

"Rabbits are ...... mammals, right?

　I remember when I was on the breeding committee in elementary school, taking care of the rabbit hutch.
　Rabbits have milk and they do nurse their children, although .......

You don't want that in your drop items.

　I'm sorry for Eve, who I thought she was expecting, but I'm glad I didn't.

　I got my mind back on track and used the transporter room.
　The mansion's transfer room, which can be unconditionally accessed in any dungeon level I've mentioned once.

　I designated Plumbum's room, made sure the light vortex was made as usual, and jumped into it.
　The distance that would take more than a day if I did it normally, was transferred in an instant.

'Good morning,'
It's really here: ......
You promised me.
...... Mm.

　Plumbum smiled happily.
　She looks best when she's smiling, after all.

'Noh, noh.'
Yeah?
I'd love to hear more about you at .......
Me?
That's right, it was ......, for example. You endured it when the mistress tried to crush you.
Oh, yeah.

　I took out one of the items I always carry with me for dungeon attacks, the Absolute Rock stone.

This is what I used. The Absolute Rock is an item dropped from a monster, and when you use it, your invincibility mode ...... defense power increases tremendously.
So the turtle didn't crush you?
Yes.
'Oh my goodness, ...... that should have been under tremendous pressure. ......
It's multiplied.
Didn't I shoot something, by the way?

　Plumbum's "Yona" ending was so nice to my ears that I fell in love with it for a bit.
　The old-fashioned noblemanlike way she spoke made me want to listen to it forever.

　I answered her questions one by one.
　Prumbum seemed really interested in me, and she asked me one after another.

Hmmm, that's the first time I've heard of it.

　He always looked straight at me and nodded seriously at what I answered, sometimes with exaggerated surprise.
　His reactions were loud and easy to talk to.

'Well, I think it's time for me to leave you alone.
Already?
I'll be back tomorrow. Don't worry.
I'm worried about you. ......

　Plumbum's cheeks were stained, and he would look away from me, and then he would stare at me again.

Yes, I know you're a man of your word.
Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow.
Mm, I'll see you tomorrow.

　We said goodbye to each other, and I got a strand of hair from her and left the dungeon.

　　　　　☆

　The next day.
　The first thing I did was deliver Plumbum's hair to Orton the custom cart-maker.
　I asked him to put it in a weapon.

　Orton is very good at processing parts of monsters or themselves into tools.
　First, I asked him to make a prototype of the weapon.

　He listened to me and gave me a test weapon, a normal bullet with Plumbum's hair.

　I'll use this first. I decided to test it out.

　After doing so, I returned to the mansion, and once I was transferred to the first floor of Plumbum, I went to TetraMin.

　Plumbum Weapons, a countermeasure to the split, will be distributed or sold to adventurers in the future.
　I tried to find some merchants who would take care of that.

　But the moment I stepped out of the dungeon into TetraMin.

'Ah!　Lord Lyota!
Yeah?

　I turned at the sound of impatient voices and saw Dale, the head of the Tetra-Ming Association, there.

　He was sweating and running up to me with a frantic look on his face.

'What's going on?'
'It's out!　The dungeon master!
What?
'They're running amok in the dungeon. If we attack them, they might split up, so no one will be able to help.
All right. I'll go.

　I went back into Plumbum, which I just got out of.
　I hadn't noticed it earlier, but it definitely had the aura of a dungeon master, and there were no other monsters in sight.

　I didn't want to do this, and I ran down the dungeon.

　I ran down one after another, until I came to the 15th floor underground, where I ran into that guy.

"Go to ......?

　I sounded dumb.
　If I had a mirror in front of me, I probably would have been able to see the face of a man with an incredibly dumb face.

　The dungeon master in front of me was humanoid.

　He was an adult male, wearing a protector and jacket and carrying two pistols.

　He looks like me, but .......

'I don't have a rose on my back or glitter on my back .......

　I mumbled as I was disempowered.
　Alice's summoning magic summoned me in the same way as Ryouchin, but the direction was like a different direction.

　Rhyochin has an appearance that I deformed like a plush toy.
　That makes him charming and doesn't make me feel weird when I look at him.

　But this dungeon master is different.
　In a word, he's not a shoujo manga protagonist.
　He's like an all-powerful superhuman male who falls for the heroine in some way or another.

　She's got a lot of sparkle, and she's carrying a rose on her back.

　What a world of different art styles.

　There's no time to worry about why this is happening - and so on.

　The dungeon master held up his gun and shot a bullet at me.
　A straight shot, nondescript bullet flying straight at me.
　When he flicked it off, he stepped in this time and challenged me to a fleshy, close encounter.

　I was a bit relieved.
　If you were as strong as I was, it would have been tricky with the split, but your speed and power weren't too bad.

　In terms of status, it's an all-A.

　This is about as good as it gets.
　I restrained the dungeon master to the extent that it didn't become an attack, and after having only one bullet made, I put a prototype bullet, a Plumbum bullet, into his brain.

...... ugh.

　It's not very interesting to watch a handsome guy with a self-like face, shoujo manga style, take a bullet to the brain and fall down.
　But I was able to defeat him.

　The dungeon master who looks like me dropped a key.
　It's a rusty key.
　I pick it up for now and put it in my pocket.

　The dungeon master collapsed, and the normal monster returned to the dungeon again.

　I left the dungeon and reported to Dale, who was waiting for me at the entrance.

'It's all right now,'
'Oh!　As expected of Lyota-sama. Thank you for defeating the Dungeon Master in this moment!
'Don't worry about it. I'd rather talk to you about something more than that.

　I told Dale about the weapon.
　I told him that the Plumbum weapon would stop the monsters from splitting up.

'My God!　Such a weapon!
I'll be here tomorrow with the first prototype.

　I used the plumbum bullets earlier, but the real prototype, meaning that it can be used by other adventurers, will be tomorrow.

'So, I have someone to ask for the distribution and management of the weapons, can you do that?

　When I asked, Dale responded, for some reason, Gene, sounding impressed.

'Leave it to me!　I'll take care of it responsibly!
Really?
'Yes!　I can't believe Master Lyota can count on me to do this for him: ...... I'll definitely do something about it.
All right. All right.

　This is all over for now. Now let's go to Plumbum's place again today.

　I went downstairs to the basement level and used the transporter gate that brought me here to get back to the mansion and then transferred directly to Plumbum's room.

''Good morning, I'm here again today.

　I called out to him, but there was no response.
　When I looked closer, I saw that Plumbum was writing something with a single mind.

　I wondered what he was writing, so I approached him and looked over his shoulder.

'Whoa!'

　For the second time today, I heard a strange voice.
　It was me, the one Plumbum wrote about.

　To be exact, I'm the handsome, shoujo manga-style hottie.
　In other words, I'm the dungeon master from earlier.

　After she single-mindedly wrote it off.

'No, don't ...... himself is better looking than that ......
No, I don't think so!
What?

　I surprised Plumbum with a grand plunge.
　But I dare say.

　That's not true, you know.

　Apparently, Plumbum's (super-beautiful) image of me has remade the Dungeon Master's image.