437. Unique Monster Again




Come on, let's get out of here!

 I came to pick up Carbon in the evening on this day as well.
 Carbon took out a monster and transformed it into his own form.
 Even if it's a spirit, Carbon's monster that can be made to have that ability.

 I stare at that monster = Carbon for a long time.

''What's wrong?'' What about that?
Hmm, that's kind of inspiring to me.
'Inspired? What? Hey, hey, what?

 Carbon suddenly became very excited.
 It's obvious that he responded to my word "inspiration".
 It also means he's expecting me to do something for him, and I had to respond to that, so I wracked my brain and tried to scoop up what I thought might be inspiration from the sea of thoughts in my head.

'Anyway, Ryota-sama, why don't we do this when we get home?

 Meeke, who was waiting, told me so.
 Carbon, Aulum, and Nihonium.

 In order for these three spirits to return home - that is, to leave his own dungeon - they need the ability of Meeke, the unique monster, to leave the dungeon.
 As such, Meeke is busiest in the morning and evening.

...... Meeke.
Yes, what is it?
You're a unique monster, aren't you?
'Yes, Master Lyota did it for me: ...... so what is it?'
...... Carbon.
What is it? Did you see that flash of inspiration?
Yeah, I just need help with the test.
Yeah!

 Carbon nodded with all his might and high intensity.

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 Outside the Vanadium Dungeon.
 Night has fallen, and the city is beginning to show a different kind of buzz than it does during the day.

 There, I was alone with Carbon.
 Outside the vanadium, the garden of the mansion, including the newly bought land.

'What should we do?'
First, we have to make this a hugely successful one.

 I said, and placed the first thing I got from defeating the monster when I first came to this world - a sprout on the ground.

 Putting it down, I beckoned to Carbon to take a distance with me.
 After waiting for a while, the sprouts hatched into a slime.

 I shot a restraining round at that slime.
 The newly hatched, slightly vicious haglemono slime would be bound by the restraining bullets and unable to move at all.

''Good. I'll take care of it.
Just do what I told you to do, right?
Yeah.
Okay!

 Carbon said, and summoned a monster beside the restrained slime.

 Unique to the Carbon dungeon, it was a black mass of monsters that looked almost identical before the transformation.

 That's eight of them.
 They surrounded the slime as if they were forming a circle around it.

 Immediately after, the black masses began to transform all at once.
 After they grumbled, all eight of them took on the form of me.

''Now what? Do you want to take him down? But with so many of them, it's overkill, right?
We don't have to take him down. We can just let it surround us.
Is that all you have to do?
Yeah. Please.
Okay, I'm on it.

 Carbon happily slapped his own chest.
 The eight me's didn't move at all.

 The monsters in the Carbon dungeon transformed into human forms, but even if they transformed into the same human, their abilities differed depending on the original monster.
 There are those that transform into the same me, but are much weaker than me, those that are almost as strong as me, and those that take on the form of me but use the power of my friends.

 I've got a wide variety of them.

 I asked Carbon to create that monster that she uses in her spirit room "just for being".

 I'll make that target me, and let the slime surround me.

 I wait for a while, no change.

'Let's add a few more, shall we?'
Okay. Well, double it anyway.

 Simply saying that, Carbon summons eight more black shadows and makes them all me.

 From the side, it's an incredible sight.

 A total of 16 monsters in my form.
 They didn't move a fraction of a second and surrounded the restrained slime.

 The monsters didn't move at all under Carbon's control, and perhaps that's why, from the side, there were 16 wax figures of me.
 It was such a bit of a horror story.

 But then it hit me.

 The slime that had been restrained and left there for so long glowed for a moment, and when it subsided, it took on a completely different appearance.

 As it had always been, but with a more charming face.

''Huh? I'm ...... why? Yikes! What is this, this is scary!

 The slime that was able to speak drew grandly as he looked around him (,).

''Is that right?''
Yeah, it looks like a success.

 Unique Monster.

 The former is a monster that changes if you've been around haggle-heads for years and have been subjected to their human vibrations for a long time.

 I learned this before when my dog Cerberus became one, and when I learned it from Clayman and his friends.
 My vibrations are apparently stronger than those of other humans.

 If I could take those strong vibrations of mine and make a number of monsters that Carbon would copy for the spirit room, I could easily create unique monsters, right? -- and I had an inspiration.

 And it worked, and a unique slime monster was born in front of us.

'This! It's your first time working together!

 The success had put Carbon in a good mood, with all his might.