It was during the evening, after all my friends had gone back to their rooms.

　I'm on my way back to my room after getting out of the bath, and I walk by the salon and find Nifonium alone.

　She's all alone, looking out the window.
　She's sorrowful despite her back.

'What's the matter,'

　I walked into the salon, calling out to him.

'Lyota-san: ......'
You don't look so happy. What's going on with you?
I was thinking about ...... Tennessee.

　After a pause of a breath or so, Nihonium answers.

'Tennesin?'
I've heard it's great that you're here.
'I'm being tsundere, though. Today I received another year's worth of foie gras, 'It's not like I'm thanking you or anything. I don't know how it was calculated to be for a year.

　The only thing that doesn't bother me about getting a year's worth of anything at once is the mirror cakes, so both I, who received quite a bit of foie gras at once, and Emily, who actually cooks it, were in trouble.

Still, they look happy.
Thank you, .......
What?
'Thanks to Nihonium. If it wasn't for you, I might not have been able to give Tennysin what he wanted.
......
'It took the form of Margaret Tennysin, but it's really so much better to be Nikhonium Tennysin.

　I swallowed the words, "That would be a recitation of the periodic table, though," deep in my throat.

'Will you do that to me?'
I will. I would if Aulum hadn't stopped me now.
You can't go to .......

　Nihonium smiled sadly.
　A smile like that, like he was mocking himself.

'Why?'
"While I was stopping the Tenesin monster, I thought about a lot of things, and I realized...
......
"I want people to suffer. I want them to suffer. And I'm sure that won't change, no matter what.

　As he says it, Nihonium is slowly slumping down.
　Maybe he meant it, and I hate myself for thinking that.
　That's what it looked like.

...... For example, what happens if you try to make me suffer?
What?
'Let's try it. I can change the dungeon to some extent by myself, can't I? Then I'll come in from the ground floor and we'll try to make it harder for me.
Aren't you going to tell me to stop?
I'll get the girl.

　He said this, staring straight back at the curious Nifonium.
　Immediately after that, his expression changed, and he looked droll.

'There's a last minute example, when we actually get into the dungeon, you might get a serviceable point for being a tsundere.
Not really.
I'm sorry to hear that. But even if it is, you know.
"If so?
Me first.
You first?
If I'm the one being tormented, I have no problem with that.
......

　I shrug my shoulders and say in a frightening way.
　Nihonium looks at me for a moment, then.

'I don't know what's going to happen,'

　I said, "I don't care if I'm the only one who can suffer".

　Incidentally, his statement that "it wouldn't matter if I was the only one who could be tormented," was angered by Emily, who happened to be passing by and sentenced him to a make-believe sentence.

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　The next morning, the first floor of Nihonium.
　I followed Nihonium back to the dungeon first, and I didn't go into the transporter room, but out the front door and out of the city, entering the dungeon through the proper entrance.

'Mmm,'

　The air was different.
　Not the familiar nihonium air I was used to, different from the last time I was here.

　And my body was heavy.
　He opened and closed his hands and jerked them open and closed.
　I tried to figure out what the discomfort I was feeling in my body was.

　Punches, too late.
　I would do a boxing shadow, my movements were slow.

　He pulled out two pistols in a flash - and released them.

'There's no .......'

　I didn't have two guns that had become so familiar to me that they had become my buddy and were no longer a part of my body.
　No, it wasn't just the two guns.

　There were no bullets, either.
　There was no absolute rock and all the other equipment, either.

　Unarmed.

　There were none of the weapons or items I normally carry with me.

...... hello.

　Once I had my mind made up, I went outside.
　I had just entered, but I was soon outside the dungeon.

　The discomfort in my body was gone.
　Shush!　He punched so fast that he couldn't see, and when he moved as fast as he could, an afterimage formed.

　The two pistols, bullets, and other equipment were back before I knew it.

'A dungeon that initializes both abilities and items, or ......'

　I know a lot of people who are like that.
　As Nihonium declared, though, he's going to suffer so much that "I don't know what's going to happen.

That's worthwhile.

　I stepped into the dungeon once more.