Tennesin, fifth floor.

　I waited in vain on my first level.
　My friends would come to me.

　A short time later, the transporter gate opened and Meeke, a mini-sage unique monster, returned from the vortex of light (、、、、、).

　Meeke carried the slime, which was almost as big as his own body, in his arms - or rather, it was more like a transport.
　The slime struggled, but it couldn't escape Meeke.

'Here you go, I caught it from Tellurium.
Thank you.

　Saying that, while receiving the slime from Meeke, he shoots a restraining round without a pause.
　As he said he caught it from Tellurian, Meeke is the only being in the world that can make him and the monsters he touches cross the dungeon's hierarchy.

　Unique Monsters.
　A monster that has evolved from a monster to become an individual with its own unique abilities.
　Meeke is the only monster that has gained the ability to enter and leave a dungeon, something neither dungeon masters nor dungeon spirits can do, and he is always with Aurum because of this ability.

　It is also accompanied by a spirit named Meeke Aurum.

　I asked such Meeke to bring one of the slimes here.

''Lyota-sama, what are you going to do with this boy?''
See.

　I put the restrained slime in its place, added more restraints just in case, and then took Meeke with me and left the place.
　When I was sneaking around in the shadows to see what was going on, one of the shadows, a Tennessee monster, appeared and waveringly approached the slime.

　The slime tried to jump to counterattack, but it was bound by the restraining bullets and couldn't move at all.
　On the contrary, the shadow attacked the slime.

　The slime was weak, he fired a series of recovery rounds at the slime at the same time as the shadow's attack to avoid being hit by a single shot.

　With the follow-up of the recovery bullets, the slime somehow survived the shadow's blow.

　Immediately after, the shadow began to transform.
　The bare shadow will turn into the form of the attacker it started attacking, huh?

"Meeke, take care of the slime. Keep it where I can see it.
Okay, sir, I'll take care of it!

　I stepped out of the shadows and left the slime to Meeke.

　The shadows transformed into slime, and 12 "star" bruises formed on the original slime's body.

　Today is a test to see what happens if all these 12 stars disappear.
　In addition, it was also a test to see what would happen if a slime that dropped bean sprouts turned into a pseudo-slime.

　You'll have to confirm that a star appears on a monster before it turns into a slime pose...

Guho!

　I was hit by a tremendous rush and my eyes flickered as I wobbled.

　The shadow was a monster slime, its rush was fast and heavy, and it was hit in the split second I looked away.
　The speed and weight were both considerable, not as strong as Neptune's, but both were still strong enough to have an A.

　Even with the same notation, there is a difference in the fine numbers - is not something people in this world are very aware of, but I know that I've been raising them by 1 in Nifonium.

　I shoot a growth round and shake off the slime monster.
　Once it got far enough away, it jumped up to the height of a person's head, sucked in a breath, and its body swelled up like a balloon nearly twice as high.

　Immediately afterwards, the slime pseudo blew fire.
　Like a dragon, it coughed out a flame breath from its mouth.

''Kook!''

　Two pistols quickly fire a series of frozen bullets, and the cold air prevents the flame breath.
　Flames and ice collide, and water vapor spreads explosively.

　Anticipating this, I kicked the ground and rushed forward, fleshing out the water vapor into a smokescreen of slime.
　I knew the power and speed, I wanted to figure out the defense.
　I clenched my fist instead of my gun and struck the slime monster. To feel it in my skin.

　It was hard, the original slime would have burst apart with a single blow, and the slime worm was just blown up and kelchy from the punch that would have sent it flying apart.

　It's like hitting a hard rubber ball.

I'd give it a B strength, but it's tricky.

　The slime pseudo-slime that landed on the ground was dented where it had been hit, but it was covered in a glittering light and began to recover.

　Being able to recover is a frightening thing for a slime to be able to do.
　Well, it's no surprise to me that a slime would become stronger if it grew to its limit, since it's a commonplace story in my mind.

　After I finished looking at all the abilities, I got serious.

　I used two pistols to put up a barrage of bullets with normal bullets, while using them as a cover for a rush.
　I got close to the slime and fired scrap bullets simultaneously from eight directions at close range.

　The way I found it a while ago.
　The slime pseudo-slime, which was hardened by the scrap bullets from all directions, couldn't move, and its body gradually crumpled up.

　It takes a lot of work, but it's a higher level version of a straitjacket.
　The straitjacket has been torn off before, but the advance of the scrap bullets has never been stopped.

　It's like crucifixion with eight nails that never come off.

　Its duration of effect is shorter than that of a straitjacket, but it's definitely more effective.

　I defeated the restrained slime monster with ease.

　The drop item is a lump of something white.
　With the battle over, Meeke slowly approached.

''What is that?''
What is it: ...... Oh, the truffles.

　I've only seen it online, and I've never seen the original (...) shape in the first place, so I didn't recognize it for a moment.
　I guessed it was a white, fragrant mushroom, plus a high-grade food dungeon.

''What about the stars?''
There's one down.
Okay, you can follow me from here.
I understand!

　I took Meeke and walked around the fifth floor of Tennesin.
　We used Repetition to kill the encumbering slime monster.
　As known here, every time I killed one of them, the number of Stars decreased by one.

　After defeating 11 of them smoothly, I was down to the last one.

'Repetition.

　I defeated the last slime pseudo-slime with a repetition of the last number of targets and got zero slime stars.

......
......

　I was prepared for what was going to happen, but nothing happened.
　I waited and waited, but nothing happened, and then another slime monster came along, which I defeated with a repetition, but still nothing happened.

...... Bluff, was it?
I guess so.
Hmmm, it's not like nothing is going to happen.

　It's a little hard to believe that there's nothing over the top about this.

　Meaningful number of 12, the number decreases by 1 for every one beaten, and the phenomenon that it counts down further when the progress is stopped by the passage of days.

　It's unbelievable that there's nothing even if it becomes 0 when the situation is so well arranged.
　There's something, I'm sure of it.

　I thought so strongly.

"Nothing's going to change. Meeke, let go of that slime.
I understand.

　The slime, away from Meeke, attacks me with an angry look on its face.
　I guard it, my attack power remains the same, I'm still a tellurian slime.

'What's going on?'
Um, what do we do about this slime-- oh.

　The slime took advantage of Meeke's momentary gap to get at me and ran away.

''Wait!''

　Meeke hurried after him. I followed him too.

　As I followed Meeke and Slime, the two bodies, there was a staircase that led down to the fourth floor, and Slime was hitting the body there.

　They hit the body over and over again, and then bounced back.

　It would bounce back at the stairs leading down, as if there was an invisible wall.

　Meeke is surprised at the sight, and I catch up with him, but I decide to watch without catching him.

'Could it be ......?'
What?
When all the stars disappear, the original becomes a dungeon's captive princess: ...... or something?

　I guessed that when I saw the slime I couldn't get out.