Now what do we do with this thing?
Have Neptune and the others ever fought a bicorn?
No, I don't.
I didn't expect that.
I didn't like the name.
Your name?

　What do you mean?　I turned my head to look at Neptune.
　Then he replied with his usual smiling face.

'The alias.'
The alias ...... 'The Defiler of Purity'?
Yeah, that's it. Fighting a guy with a name like that makes you feel like a cuckold, doesn't it?
I hadn't thought of that.

　I was rather dismayed.
　Not going to happen, he thought.

　Neptune was smiling as he spoke, and Ran and Lil were staring at him, their cheeks blushing and their faces enraptured.

　I mean, it's flirting.
　If I left them alone, they might start making out with even more advanced flirting, so I decided to proceed with the conversation.

'Right. If I'd known, I'd have asked your opinion and compared the differences between you and the original.
...... That sounds like something you could do.
What?

　Neptune turned his gaze towards the day after tomorrow.
　Looking in the same direction, a new individual appears.
　A black sludge appears and turns into something else.

'I see.'
Well, one thing is clear to me anyway.
'Yeah, we can't copy it down to the Dungeon Master's peculiarities.

　He turned to the restraining bicorn and put the gun to its head and shot it with a growth bullet.
　Bicorn--Dungeon Master.
　The ability to prevent monsters in a dungeon from appearing when they are present.

　The 'Bicorn of Carbon' can't make the monsters of Carbon disappear.
　At least, that has been confirmed.

　On the other hand, the transformation of a new individual was completed.

　The giant dragon, which looked extremely cramped in the dungeon, looked up at the ceiling and roared.

'This is ......'
You are a master dragon.
Master ...... gawgaw.
You know, an original.

　Smiling, Neptune smiled.
　He nodded clearly and replied, knowing full well that Alice was dungeon-born and capable of bringing monsters into the fold.

'Oh yeah, I've never seen that one before over here.
I've fought this guy a few times. A very nasty one.
Is that so?
"And I just noticed. I noticed earlier that your head was glowing vaguely pale.
You weren't imagining it. Yeah, that was you glowing.

　Me and Neptune nodding at each other.
　It was the same pale light that the dungeon itself emitted, and I'm starting to think it might be my imagination, even though the same phenomenon has been happening since a while ago.

　When the bicorn was glowing, I was glowing, and when the master dragon was glowing, Neptune was glowing.

'And one prediction can be made,'

　Neptune glancing at me.
　A look as if he wanted an answer.

　I looked up at the fake Master Dragon, the still remaining W ironclad bullets that held the bicorn in place, and the ceiling.

'Upstairs is a trusted companion, and here is a strong enemy I've fought - a strong enemy I've fought - and I'm pulling it out of my memory, I guess.
I think so.

　Neptune nodded. Apparently we've come to the same conclusion.
　Then you're in big trouble.

"Well, I'll see what I can do. "Ran, Lil.
Only when it suits you.
You're happy.

　Lil is complaining, and Ran is teasing him about it.
　And Neptune, smiling and ready to fight.
　It's an interesting relationship, I thought to myself.

　Ran and Lil started to sing.
　Their song, like magic, turned into a rush of visualized power and clung to Neptune's body.
　The power transformed into a pair of wings and Neptune leapt at the master dragon.

　At first, he put his hand on his gun and braced himself to enter the fray at any moment, but he quickly dropped his hand.

　The dungeon itself could be called cramped for the Master Dragon's massive body, but Neptune was overwhelmed by his power in the first place.
　In terms of power and speed, Neptune is superior in both.
　Master Dragon was tossed around at the mercy of, and in the end, his neck was twisted off and he was knocked down.

''Feng ...... hey, is the drop the same as this one?''

　Neptune came back with the master dragon fake dropped.
　I pick up the bicorn fake dropped as well and head towards him.

'Same thing,'
Oh, the mangoes.
It's a pretty expensive one, but it doesn't look like it's worth it: ......
'...... No, some adventurers have only been to the same dungeon their entire lives. That's the kind of thing that keeps you holed up on the first floor of the tellurian.

　For example, with Emily when we met.

'I see, if I only knew one kind of person, I'd be able to make some easy money here.
'The first floor was the same, and it's a pretty selective dungeon for people. Maybe.
'Yeah, as a normal adventurer, you're going to be tied to one level more than any other dungeon.

　Me and Neptune exchanging ideas with each other.
　Neptune, of course, and I've been in this world for a long time now, and I've come to understand the characteristics of the adventurers and what they want.

　Adventurers in this world do a puzzle thing in a way.

　The absolute requirement is to bring home a steady and sustained drop.
　That's why there aren't many adventurers who break through by brute force.

　It's like a game where you need multiple magic and items to attack, and the order in which you use them is fixed.
　If the order is right, you can get through, but if you get even one of the steps wrong, you will fail.
　There are many adventurers of that type.

''Now, shall we dive down another floor?　I think if we had three layers of information, we'd have a clearer picture of the trend.
Yeah.

　I was about to nod my head in agreement.
　A monster appeared a short distance away.
　A black sludge, beginning to transform.

　I looked around at the group, wondering whose it was this time.

''--Hah!　Repetition!!!!

　I used magic on that guy in the middle of his transformation and killed him instantly.
　Even if it's a fake bicorn, it's still treated as the monster it was before it transformed.
　That's why I was able to defeat it before it could transform.

Let's go to ......

　He said this to Neptune and turned back the way he had come, holding the stunned Vanadium's hand.

　Neptune and the others followed me.

'What's the matter with you, you are in such a hurry.
That's the vanadium in the glow.
There's this girl at ......

　As expected of an intelligent Neptune, he understood the situation in an instant.

　The monster in the Carbon basement floor that turns into a troublesome enemy.
　For Vanadium - probably the one who killed her.

　It would be the one who killed her in a previous life and left her traumatized.
　That's what I thought, and I killed her instantly before I transformed.

　Thanks to that, I didn't provoke Vanadium's trauma.

'I got one more thing going for me. And it's huge.
What?

　As if he read my mind, Neptune smiled as if he had read my mind.

'If you defeat it before it transforms, it won't drop. This is super important.
Ah, .......

　While withdrawing, I turned around and looked at the spot where the monster had been.
　There was definitely no drop.

　Surely Neptune was right, that was big.

''It!''

　On the way back to the first floor, he reappeared, and this time I defeated him before Neptune could transform.
　There was no drop.

'I knew it,'

　Smiling Neptune, a satisfied look on his face.

　Under normal circumstances, that would be fine.
　But I'm a drop S.

　So I don't drop .......

　A new question arose in my mind.