It was nighttime and a strong wind was blowing.

　As my companions and I walked down the road at night, heading towards Villadièche, I was checking my newly awakened powers.

　As I walked, I jotted down the map of the city that came to my mind in the notepad Celeste offered me.
　The image of the after-image after seeing the strong light was superimposed on the paper and then written down.

　After writing it all down, Alice looked into it.

'Wow, I can really tell,'
Would you rather know Alice?
'Yes!　Because here.

　Alice pointed to the one empty spot on my map.

It was only torn down yesterday. It's not on any map and Lyota was busy, so you don't know about it.
Well, you've got an update.
Rather, how do you know that?

　Celeste questioned.

'You walk Kel every day, right?

　Kel-chan - Cerberus.
　He's a monster haggler called Cerberus, a girl who has become a unique monster and is now my family dog.

'You've been taking a walk?'
Yeah!
He goes to Lyota's village every day. I'm sure he gets enough exercise.

　So I wasn't thinking about the walk.

'Chitty-chitty, that's sweet, Lyota.
What's with the tone?

　I'll smirk and poke at it in an oyakshoku way.

'A walk with your dog has nothing to do with a lack of exercise. Walking with your dog has a positive effect on your dog's mental well-being.

　There was that weird way of saying it again, though.

'I see, so that's how it works.
It's just the way it is.
I think so, too.

　From the side, Emily agreed with Alice.

'Do you want to go for a walk, even if it's right after you come back from Yoda's village?　They get very excited when I ask them if they are interested. It's not their bodies, it's their minds.
I see.
'Back to the point, it turns out that this is the latest, current map of the city that Lyota wrote, but the only thing I can see is the city?
Yeah, just the city.

　I nodded towards Celeste, who organized the conversation.

'Can Alice write out a map like this, too?
Can you do that?
What about the monster?
I can write well.
Yeah. I guess I don't recognize the monsters. But there aren't any monsters in town, so that's when I was in the dungeon.
No, it's not.
What?
There's something wrong with the house. Look at the house.

　Alice pointed to the spot on my map where the house is supposed to be.

'There's a slime haggler here.
Really?
'Yeah. I don't know if they're still around today, but ...... there are quite a few hagglers with owners in the first place, right?
That's what I thought.

　From the beginning, there were people who had hagrems.
　That increased more and more after I got Cerberus.

　Cyclo is a pretty big city, and a human with a haglemono can't fit in the fingers of both hands.

'Yeah, I still don't get it.'
We'll see, won't we?
Yeah.

　In the meantime, we arrived at the familiar tavern, Villadièche.
　We went in and had a party and a good time as usual at our usual table.

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　I'm on my way home, feeling tipsy.
　All my buddies are fluffy in their steps and Vanadium is sleeping soundly on my back.

　My friends are all smiling.
　Emily, Celeste, and Alice are all smiling.

　Even Eve, who has been chewing on a carrot by herself since we left the store, seems to have enjoyed it somehow.

　When I was in my former world, I hated drinking parties because my boss's lectures & bragging rights were so annoying, so I didn't realize how much fun it was to drink with people who were on the same page.

'Hey, neeee Ryota,'
What?
Can you feel this?

　Alice came smiling and came over and summoned and changed Honehone into her original form.

　A skeleton that was original in size, but deformed and lovable.
　It stood in front of me, facing backwards and walking at the same speed as me.

'I see, so it's a continuation of what we were talking about before we went into the shop.
Yeah. They're not like normal monsters, are they?
''Sure, if you get knocked down, you can revive it right away, and you can go in and out of dungeons and cross tiers, right?
Shit. I know what's going on and I can tell the difference.
Is that so?
It's like a regular monster is a red dot and everyone else is a blue dot?
I see.

　It's an understandable and unintelligible story.

'But yeah, I'll try.

　I closed my eyes and focused my attention on my new ability.
　I closed my eyes because I could feel them more clearly when I did so than when they were open.

　If you open your eyes, you can see things through your eyes too, so your concentration is inevitably dispersed.

　So I closed my eyes and tried to do it with the image of copying a map onto the back of my retina.
　I didn't feel a hint of a honk - but.

'Huh?'
What's going on?

　I stopped.
　Alice and Honehone, who were talking, stopped first, and soon after, Emily, Celeste, and Eve, who I noticed, stopped and turned around as well.

　They all came together and said, "What's up? He looked at me with a look of "I'm sorry.

　I was looking at the map through everyone's figure.
　An uncomfortable feeling, like a small bone caught in my throat, and it's slowly growing.

'The vacant lot from earlier,'
That's it?
They were being torn down yesterday?
Yeah, there's something in that vacant lot.
What do you mean by "something"?
I don't know, but it's something. Not a monster, but something very familiar.
Could it be: carrots?
Not at all.

　I chuckle.
　It shouldn't be such a pinpoint perception.

'Let's go to ......,'

　Thinking for a moment, Celeste suggested.

'I'm curious about Lyota's 'something very familiar'
All right, let's go.

　Alice agreed with Celeste's opinion first, and she was the first to walk away.
　Without any other objections, they all followed Alice's lead.

　They circled around the night road and followed Alice's lead.
　After a while, we saw an open clearing at the end of the road - and then we saw a clearing.

''Look at that!''

　Suddenly, Celeste let out a loud cry.
　The impatient voice, when I looked into the clearing she was pointing at to see what was going on, I saw a fallen bonsai tree there, and the bonsai tree was in the midst of being hatched into a hagre-monster.

　A stone giant about ten meters long and wide in size and wide in width.

''It's a golem!''
Oh, shit, I'm about to burst.
I'll stop!

　Celeste goes into a magic chant.
　At the same time, Eve also pounces on her with a carrot in her mouth, holding a bishitsu-aligned hand sword at the ready.
　Alice summons her fellow monsters all at once and first surrounds the golem, surrounding it so that the attack doesn't cause any damage to the city.

　In the midst of all this, Emily, who left her weapon at home, approaches me.

'Yoda-san, is this what you felt?'
Not exactly. It was that, but it wasn't that.
What's going on here?
"I think it was strictly 'haggler's about to hatch',

　I closed my eyes for a moment, sensing a presence, and then answered Emily.
　There was no sign of the golem in front of her, but she could feel the residue.

　The sign that felt familiar was the sign of a haggler hatching.
　Perhaps it's because I'm the best witness to the moment of the haggler's hatching in this world. ...... I thought to myself.

　In the meantime, the three friends defeated the golem.

　It was pretty strong, but it felt like it was pushed aside by the three of them in a quick attack.
　Still, because of the rampage, the ground in the clearing was battered.

''With Yoda-san's strength, there was no damage to the surroundings.

　Emily said, and Alice came back.

'What? You're noticing that it's this guy?　That's great, Ryota.
There's a difference, though.

　I chuckle and explain to my friends when they come back.
　I explain to them that it's not Hagremonog itself, but a hint of the moment it hatches.

　And Alice says.

"That's getting more and more amazing!

　His eyes lit up.