'Huh?　Where's Sakura?

　After breakfast, I looked for Sakura, thinking that we should talk for a minute, but she was nowhere to be found.
　When I saw Eve, who missed Sakura, looking ecstatic and chewing on the sauteed carrots Emily had made, I asked her about her.

'I went to the dungeon,'
Again?
He said he had an idea and that he was going to try it out.
Well, I guess we're at that point.

　When you're at the stage where you're excited and want to try it right away, you'll come up with the same new things one after the other.
　They want to try every single thing they come up with, and as a result they get excited and come up with something new.

　There's a virtuous cycle that goes on inside of us, and Sakura is right in the middle of it.

　In that case, I'll let her do what she wants for a while.

　The level is up, and with this Ciclo, the cell has a variety of backup systems in place for adventurers, including a rest stop, thanks to the cell.

　Even if Sakura is new to this world, her life won't be in danger unless there's something wrong with her.

　　　　　☆

I heard about the magic fruit.

　Cyclodungeon Society, inside the president's office.

　Facing Cell, I opened my mouth and said so.

'As expected of Satou-sama, your ears are quick.
Are you sure they don't drop any more magic fruits?
For now.

　Cell replied with a straight face.

There has been a massive shift in the environment, which they are in the process of investigating, but we can't be sure of that yet.
I see.
It's just that with all that change, it's 'probably not going to happen'.
That's a shame.
'Let's buy it all up while we can, shall we?　If you say you have Master Satou, I will scrape up every magic fruit in existence.
No, that's fine.

　He scowls and chuckles.
　'I'm sure Cell is serious.

'I need more information than that. About the odd dungeon. There's no guarantee I won't need it sooner or later, I just want to get the information.'
Yeah, well, if that's the case.

　With a mysterious look on his face, Cell pulled something out.
　He puts it in front of me on the table.

"What's this?
A substitute for magic-- or should I say, magic itself.

　Unusually, Cell says this in a serious way (、、、、、) that doesn't boil down to a serious story (、、、、、).
　If it's figure-related, there's no limit to how much he can cheat or go off topic, but this is very unusual for him to do this with a serious story.

What's going on?
"It's a rare monster from the same hierarchy that was dropped. But at the moment I have no idea what it is or what it does.
I see. ......

　I nodded and picked it up.

　First of all, it was a stone.

　It was a stone with "cracks" here and there.
　The way it was cracked was different from the norm.

　Just as a diamond is characterized by that 'cut' shape, this stone has the appearance of being formed by 'cracks'.

　Other than that - I held it in my hand and stared at it closely, but it certainly doesn't have any of these characteristics.

'Incidentally, it was impossible to destroy.
Really--can I try?
Come on.

　Cell nodded clearly. You're at the point where you'd rather have me do it.

　I loaded the +10 growth bullet into the +10 gun and pulled the trigger at that stone that I grabbed tightly.

　Surprisingly, even the +10 growth bullets repelled it.

'That's amazing,'
"Master Sato, isn't that the bullet that opened the door to carbon?
'Oh?　...... Oh no.

　I tried it at Cell's suggestion, but soon found out that it was no good and gave a bitter smile.

　A +10 iron wall bullet that pried open the door of the carbon dimension.
　I shoot it at the crack stone, but while the iron wall bullet is going slowly, the crack stone is me grabbing it, but it's being pushed by it.

　I try to grab it firmly with the force SS and hold it back, but it still can't match the "straight ahead" performance of the +10 ironclad bullets.
　It's just that he's being pushed down as normal.

"This is not good enough.
Apparently so: ...... No!

　I went around the other side of the +10 ironclad bullets that were still slinking straight ahead.

　Then I fired another +10 ironclad into the first one's direct course.
　Two +10 rounds facing each other head-on.
　In the small gap between them, he inserted a stone of crack.

　The rock of the crack between the two +10 bullets.
　At first, I thought it was still a bad idea, but nothing happened.

"Satou-sama!
Yeah, it's creaking.

　Me and Cell nodding at each other.
　The stone of the crack caught between the two ironclad bullets like pliers began to make a creaking sound.

　＋The +10 steel bullets will only go straight forward no matter what, and their straight-line power is such that even I, a power SS, can't stop them.
　That's why nothing happens even if I press down on them.
　But if it's the +10 Iron Wall ammunition that's pressing down on it as well, that's a different story.

　The iron wall ammunition, which suppresses even a dimensional wall, sandwiches the stone of the crack and crushes it.

　The cracked stone that makes a creaking sound.
　It kept its original shape until the last second, but the moment it passed the limit--the moment it exceeded the limit.

Watch out!

　I quickly stepped in front of the cell and covered for him.
　"Pow! And with an explosion that ripped through his eardrums, a crack stone burst through the air.

　Debris flew in the air, but I brushed it away with my hands.

'Satou-sama!'
That's okay. The question is, is this what's in it?

　I picked it up from the ground (,) which had fallen to the ground.
　Amidst the scattered pieces that were the outside of the fissure stone, there is one thing that is clearly foreign to me.

'Some kind of ...... species?'
Looks like it.

　I put a little pressure on my hand to hold it.
　It seems that unlike the crack stone, this one is as hard as it looks.
　Even a non-adventurous, ordinary townie can break it if you put a little force into it.

　I decided not to put any more force into it.

　The fissure stone was incredibly hard, so I empirically thought "let's crack it".
　But this one was soft, and obviously "cracking" wasn't an obstacle.

'What am I supposed to do, drink it?'

　I held the seed like two fingers, trying to see inside through the light, but that didn't give me any idea what it was.

　It's not like a nihonium seed.

'Can you hold it?'
Hmm.

　I handed it to Cell and looked at it, and he could hold it normally and nothing happened.

'Either nothing happens or I'm afraid something does.
Agreed.

　Cell agreed with me.
　It's hard to think of anything that can be obtained by cracking open the outer shell that was so solid, nothing.
　That's not impossible that there could be "no": .......

'Hmmm, we're screwed,'
"...... would you be willing to let Mr. Sato take care of it?
Me?
Hmm.

　Cell nodded with a clear, unmistakable look on his face.

　If I have it, I'll figure it out eventually, at some point.
　I can see that he's thinking about it, and I can see that he's thinking about it.
　Because that's trust, and I don't feel bad about that per se.

'Okay, I'll keep it.'

　I've decided to keep the seeds.

　　　　　Star.

　Californium dungeon.
　I found out with Cell after that and came here.

　I don't know what the seeds are for, and Sakura is hiding in the dungeon in Sakura.
　So I went back to work.

　I decided to use the tickets I had collected with everyone at Fermium.
　I enter the dungeon and use the ticket.

　The ticket glows--that's when the light goes off.

"What?

　That species, too, was glowing together.