519 519.119th spirit?




 I thought about it at night, in my room, lying on my bed.

 Elsa told me that, but it's still not enough, I have to earn twice as much as I do now.
 Today's earnings, which I earned today after putting on the slime invalidation ring and abandoning it to the fullest, is practically my current limit.

 My ability is the lowest, and my limit covered by weapons and items is 2.3 million.
 Knowing that makes sense.

 But in reality, I need to make at least 4 million piro every day.
 What do I have to do to achieve that, and what do I lack?
 I thought about it.

'More weapons, items, I suppose,'

 You can't expect levels, there are items in this world that lower the level limit, but not items that raise it.

 After transitioning to this world and talking to and researching various people, I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't exist.

 Likewise, there is no such thing as a drop S ever.

 In that sense, the item that raises the level is probably not entirely out of the realm of possibility, but it would take as much of a miracle for another drop S to show up.
 There's no hope for that one.

 Then the ability.
 There's a lot of work to be done over here.

 For example, the Quicksilver I have.
 If you layer on top of each other for an extended period of time, you can elevate all of your abilities to the next level.

 I hadn't looked into this one.
 Until now, I had Nihonium.
 I didn't need to look into it because if I had gone through the Nifonium, I could see the All S at first and then the All SS after that.

 Yeah, let's check this out.

 And the bullets.

 We didn't have to rely on Nifonium to get all sorts of special bullets.
 Let's find more of those.

 So, we earn our keep, and we keep finding abilities and bullets.
 I'll look for these two and investigate.

 This is how we set our sights on our next target.

 At this time, I was only looking at the possibilities, and I had completely overlooked the things I'd done so far.

     ☆

...... (giggle)

 The next morning, as I left my room and headed for the bathroom, my sleeve was tugged on.
 I stopped at the familiar touch and turned around to see Vanadium standing there.

'What's up?'

 Vanadium doesn't answer and walks away, tugging on my sleeve.
 I wonder what's going on.
 I obediently follow him.

 Vanadium brings me to the entrance of the mansion, the entrance to the dungeon.
 Then he points outside.

'Visitors?'
...... (nationally)

 Okay, I nodded and went outside.
 Vanadium dungeons don't let strangers in, so I make sure to go outside when guests come in.

 This time was no different, and when I got outside, Clayman was standing there.

 He's one of the unique monsters that I'm "formally kept" by, and he's the head of the Hagrete village, Lyota.

 He paid me a rare visit.

I'm not sure what's the matter with you, coming here. What's going on?
I've heard about Master Lyota.
Me?
I hear you're having financial difficulties.
Uh, who's that?
Meeke and Cerberus.
I see.

 I smiled.
 The entire family knows almost exactly what my situation is, from the evening's banter in the saloon.
 Meeke and Cerberus are treated as friends, but they're also unique monsters.
 They're connected to Clayman, and they've talked to him.

'So we thought we'd raise the amount we pay.
'What? Oh, come to think of it, that kind of thing.

 I completely forgot about it.
 Lyota's village is now thriving on garbage disposal.
 The trash in this world, if left unchecked, will become hagrete - monsters, so it must be disposed of properly.

 I've set it up as a way for these unique "monsters" to take advantage of their power and help themselves.
 There was talk of them paying me a portion of what they earn as a contribution - I had forgotten about it.

 I had forgotten all about it.

''No, you don't have to do that--''
"Now - some people say 'Lyota' is the 119th dungeon.
"Huh?
That dungeon-like building Ryota-sama built for us to live in.
Yeah.

 I've seen that happen.

Some people say it's a dungeon if it's dungeon-like and all it takes is a monster. Some say it's a dungeon, Lyota, and Master Lyota is the 119th spirit, at the very least.
'That's kind of funny that they said that,'

 Regardless of the money, yeah, it's kind of funny.

If this Lyota-sama is in trouble, please let me help you.
No.
'We would not have been in this world long ago without Lord Lyota. Let me help you.
......

 I chuckled a bit.

 I cleaned out my room and found the money from behind the dresser.
 I felt like that.