Passion fruit.

　Sweet and sour is sweet and sour, but it's slightly, I guess, more sour.
　I felt that it was difficult to be edible as it was - but.

I'm curious to see what Emily does with these things.

　I mumbled, naturally smiling.

　My mother, Emily, my mother.
　The girl who maintains a bright but warm space and cooks food that tastes good, but more than that, makes me happy to eat.

　I was extremely interested in what she does with these "difficult" ingredients.

　I was interested in how she would do this.
　If I found out that she did, I would hunt for more guns and take them home.

　I took a frozen bullet out of the Grand Eater's pocket to counteract the rokuro neck - that?

You don't have ...... anymore?

　I rummaged through my pockets to find them.

　There are all sorts of special bullets, but there's no frozen bullets.
　I'll fill up your pockets--

I--

　I just figured that out.

　Frozen Bullets.
　The skeleton on the first floor of the old Nihonium, a special bullet dropped by that haggler.

　It doesn't exist anymore.
　The old Nihonium dungeon and the skeletons don't exist either.

　The current Nifonium has changed from Western-style undead monsters such as skeletons, zombies and mammies to purely Japanese style youkai.

'What does ...... end up dropping?'

　I turned back for a moment, because it bothered me.

　I walked out of Nihonium.
　I smiled at the gatekeepers who wondered at me as I came out from inside and passed them, coming to an unpopular spot far away from them.

　So I put the green apple on the ground and keep my distance.

　After a while, the green apple turned into a haunted umbrella haggle.

　I shot it as fast as I could and took it down.
　Then a bullet drops.

　It's a bullet I've never seen before.

　The warhead, the jacket, everything is bright blue, and it's a bullet.

　I pick it up and look at it carefully.
　I'm convinced that it's the first bullet I've ever seen, and then I put it in the gun.

　Then I shoot it into the empty space.

　Before using it on the monster, I first checked the effects before the actual battle.

　The bullet hit a rock ten meters away and produced a blue effect.

"Ice, huh?

　It was a gut feeling, an effect that felt like that, but unlike the previous freezing bullet, the rock didn't freeze or anything.
　The rock that was shot bounced off and sent debris flying, but that was it.

　I waited for a while and that didn't change.
　I guess that means it's not a frozen bullet. ...... I'll have to try again.

　With that in mind, I took out another green apple and moved to put it away - at that moment.

''Huh?''

　It was a subtle sensation.
　I knew that(,) because I had only recently experienced an "upswing" of power, losing it and then returning to it all at once.

　I looked at my hands.
　I jiggled and opened and closed my palms.

　I knew it was a no-brainer.

　I turned back and went to the entrance of the Nihonium - yeah.

'Are they there now?'

　There was a good chance it would cause an unnecessary disturbance if it was seen.
　I decided against it, so I took the portable now board out of the grand eater's pocket and used it.

---1/2---
Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Power SS
Strength SSS (+1)
Intelligence SS
Spirit SS
Speed SS
Dexterous SS
Luck SS
--------- ...

　I knew it.

　My ability, was buffed.

　Similarly, I haggle the rokuro neck from the passion fruit.
　This time, a red bullet comes out, and I try shooting it.

---1/2---
Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Power SSS (+1)
Strength SSS (+1)
Intelligence SS
Spirit SS
Speed SS
Dexterous SS
Luck SS
--------- ...

　The power was up, too.

　A buffed bullet - is that what you're saying?