First floor of Tennessee at night.

　I was working overtime, a rare occurrence in the Lyota family.

　Joining us was me, Emily, Celeste, Eve, and Alice.
　We're a group of adventurers, earning our jobs in dungeons.

'Sorry to keep you company at this hour,'

　I apologized to my friends, especially Emily.
　I'd made a promise to her not to work at night and go home, but instead of breaking it, I'd gotten everyone involved.

'Sometimes it's nice to do that, right, Emily?'
'Yes, sir. I know it's not allowed during the daytime because of the construction.
And it's been a long time since we've been together, so it's fun. Because of Lyota, I can go through the dungeon by myself.
Thank you.

　Celeste winking at me, Emily with a smiling face.
　She thanks them both again and then turns around, this time turning to Eve and Alice.

'You two are bad too,'
'Rabbits are no problem. We got a lot of fat, hard, sweet stuff from the low levels.
"How to say it.
Sounds like a fun field trip!

　Both Eve and Alice told me in their own words that they didn't care.
　I'm very ...... grateful.

''Well, let's just do it quickly and go home. After we take out one or two of them, we should have enough to know what's going on.
Yes, sir.

　Emily complied, and all of her friends were in a combat stance.

　Emily with her trademark giant hammer.
　Celeste is increasing her magic power while lining up her bicorn horns, which are even more numerous.
　Alice is summoning all of her fellow monsters into battle-ready status.
　Eve is chewing on a carrot.

'Let's go.'

　I went towards the shadow that was far away, which I had stocked in advance with restraining bullets, and deliberately ate the attack.
　The shadow transformed into a shade of me.

''Nah!''

　Almost at the same time I took a step back, Emily jumped at me, swinging her hammer.
　At the same time, Eve also put a carrot in her mouth and pounced on it with her cheeks puffed up like a squirrel.

　Hammer and hand sword, the two vanguards' attacks hit.
　I guard, the blast diffuses.

'Go ahead, guys!'

　At Alice's command, Honehone and the other monsters all jumped on me at once.
　With Emily and Eve swapping places with me, all the monsters beat me to a pulp.

　In the air, Eve was looking at Emily with a surprised look on her face.
　I thought she mumbled to herself that she was getting stronger.

　On the other hand, I'm going to brush away the monsters who were about to make an all-out attack.
　Then, without a second thought, Celeste's bicorn horn shot and

"Inferno Heat Floor!

　A great magic burst forth.
　The ground of the dungeon was widely engulfed in flames, and the temperature of the entire area rose.
　There was no escape at all, it was a relentless great magic.

　The wave of my friends' attacks pushed me to the ground.
　The last time it was Emily and Celeste, it was like a back-and-forth turn-based system, but this time it was completely pushed by me.

　Everyone's attacks were cutting down on my strength.

　But there comes a time when any strong wave is cut off.
　This time especially so.

　As Eve looked at Emily, in a sense, it was all about a showcase for her friends to show themselves stronger, an impromptu collaboration.
　The linkage itself is easy to break.

'Repetition.'

　When I saw that I was going to counterattack, I hit the strongest round-robin magic to quickly defeat it.

　I'm gone, and everyone does a cooldown.
　And six matsutake mushrooms were dropped.

"Oh, six of them means--we did it, Ryota!
Yeah.

　He nodded to Alice.

　There are five people over here.
　After they all attacked and took them all down, what dropped was six matsutake mushrooms.

''This is going to go viral, the party attack.
It's safer, and that's a good thing.
I wish the carrots were like this.

　My companions each said their impressions.

　A party of five, a drop for six.
　I was relieved and satisfied to see that Tennesin had made my proposal come true.

　　　　　Stars.

　A few days later, one morning.
　Before I went to Prumbum's place, Cell paid me a visit.

'What's going on?'

　Cell comes to visit me first thing in the morning.
　I asked him as I stood in the doorway, having imagined all sorts of bad things.

'Mmm,'
...... What happened to you?
I would like Mr. Sato's permission to do one thing.
My permission?
Mm. I'd like to have a Tennessee license issued from the ground floor.
Yeah?

　I nodded my head.
　Half shrugged, half wondered.

"It's not something I'd allow, but ...... yeah, it might upset Tennysin. Yeah, I'll take care of that.
Thank God.
That's fine, but what the hell happened?
It's too much.
What?
'Satou-sama moved and made it a party drop. After word got out, the number of adventurers who wanted to transfer to Tennesin exploded.
Explosively ...... how long is it?
'The multiplier for the lottery is ...... ten times as high as it would be at the moment. I can't even imagine how far it would stretch.
......

　I was speechless.
　I had expected the number to increase, but it was that much more.

'So that's how you control all levels of licensing and numbers.
"Mm.

　I finally understand the situation.
　If that's the case, we need to manage something.
　Since we're building a city in a dungeon this time, there is a clearer than usual capacity problem.
　It's the part we need to get right.

　And if we do that, that's what ...... cell expects.
　Tennesin's license will be a platinum ticket, no doubt about it.

'I'm still underestimating the effect of Master Sato's move, sorry.

　Cell made an apology that didn't have to be made.