Various: ......
Yeah?
'I've been thinking a lot about what my first words would be when I met you. I think I'm going to end up with these words.

　Nihonium smiled, smiling serenely.

'That's impressive.'

　I said.

'What?'
Do you remember giving you the repetition?
Yeah. The first time I could see you in front of me?　They picked a magic fruit to be a repetition in a drawing.

　It seems so long ago now.
　I was in my favorite item store, and I was seriously choosing a magic fruit that cost three million piro, which was not cheap to me at the time, when Nihonium appeared and showed me how good it was.
　The magic of the moment was Repetition.

'Yes. I had to give that magic to you, I really had to give it to you. Normally, you wouldn't be able to get here without it.
...... sure, if it weren't for the Repetition, I wouldn't have been able to defeat nine of them within a nine count. The three-headed dog was just a matter of luck and a few redoes, but the mammy was a definite two moves.
''Yes, that's why I gave that to you. No matter how strong you are in status, no matter how much training you've accumulated, you wouldn't have been able to come here ...... without the repetition.

　This time it's Nifonium who smiles lustrously and s*xily.
　A Japanese style beauty in a kimono, that smile.
　It was very s*xy.

'You've made it this far without Repetition, you've gained that much strength. He's ...... an amazing, amazing person, far beyond my imagination.

　He quietly called me "amazing".
　It's a word that is usually said a little bit, but it has a different flavor ...... gladness when said by Nihonium.

'More importantly, why did you call me? You have a reason, don't you?
......

　Nihonium smiled sadly.
　A forlorn smile, different from the smile he had smiled earlier.

''Please don't smile.''
Yeah.

　I nodded clearly, looked straight at Nihonium and waited for the words to come out.

'Needed and wanted to be done.
......
'I don't need to dare tell you anymore, but ...... I don't need anyone in this world to tell me that I'm not wanted by anyone.
'There's Margaret: ...... No, not that one either.'
Yes, it doesn't have to be me. There's no one else coming here but you.

　It was inevitable.
　This world where all kinds of things are dropped from dungeons.

　The dungeons are fields, mines, factories and so on.
　Among them, Nihonium doesn't drop anything.
　No matter what you do, it's a dungeon that doesn't drop anything, even if an advanced adventurer with drop status A stays caged in all the time.

　It's a barren land where nothing grows for sure, so to speak, and that's the Nihonium dungeon.
　It's not surprising, given the system of this world, that no one comes and is not needed.

'It's getting harder and harder to sustain human life.
What do you mean?
'Monsters usually have a lifespan. A monster that is not defeated and wanders around the dungeon will reach the end of its life and disappear. ...... No one knows this anymore, though.
...... That's right. I don't normally leave monsters to their lifetimes.

　Nihonium nods at my words, and continues further.

'And the monsters that disappear in their lifetimes become air. None of them come to us, and the Nifonium Undates continue to automatically create air day and night.
............ oxygen, the air humans breathe?

　Nihonium nodded further.
　The gentle smile disappeared.
　There was an exhausted woman there.

'I keep maintaining the air that everyone needs, and yet no one needs or appreciates me.

　Then it turns into a smile of self-mockery.

'The repetition of it has worn me out.
......

　I understand now.

　She's-- she's me.
　She's exactly the same as I was before I came to this world.

　I worked hard, tried my hardest, even to the point of scraping myself off, and endured.
　And yet, she is forced to spend her days unappreciated and unrewarded.

　She's me.
　No, ...... you are in a more unrewarding situation than I am.

So I need you to ...... help me.
...... I've been told this before.

　The words came down to me like a revelation.

　The words that made me step into a new life back then.
　I handed them to Nihonium as they were.

'Hard work always pays off. There's a difference between early and late, but those who work hard will always be rewarded.
Is that so?
Yeah.

　I nodded without hesitation.
　Then he laughed.

'Because I am. So.'
So?
I'm gonna turn you into the dungeon everyone needs to be in.
You sure you want me to trust you?

　Tears are stored in the niphonium's blinds.

'It's not like I believe it or anything,'
Eh, .......
It's confirmed. It's not a matter of believing or not believing. People who work hard get rewarded for their efforts, and with me on board, it's a given.

　This is an oath.
　To further solidify my resolve, I used strong words that I wouldn't normally say.

　Surprise, confusion, and - joy.

　After all the emotions came and went on Nihonium's face.

"--Yes!

　The third smile she showed me.
　It was the smile of a human being who had found hope and was reaching out to me from the depths of hell.