After the snow woman disappeared, the fruit was dropped, as usual.

''Is this ......?''

　I pick it up from its fall and observe it seriously.
　A jagged leaf and a piece of fruit that looked like a pine cone.

　It was a fruit I hadn't seen before.

　Since the renovation of the Nihonium, I've found many fruits I've never seen before, one after the other.
　They're all unfamiliar fruits, including the Miracle Fruit on the fourth floor.
　Some I know, some I'll find out by asking Sakura.

　Maybe it's because I don't know them - that is to say, they're not very common in Japan - or maybe it's because of the pattern of their names: "It's a different world, and it's dragon fruit.

It's a different world, maybe it's dragon fruit.

　I mumbled something like that to myself.
　The dragon fruit is a fruit that existed in the original world as well.
　It is a kind of fruit of the cactus, which becomes even better looking when written in Chinese characters as "fire dragon fruit".

　I'm sure you'll find that in this other world, the name "dragon fruit" would be something else.
　If you eat like this ...... you will be able to wipe the fire or something like that.

　I examine the dropped fruit while thinking about such other things.
　The jagged leaves look completely inedible.
　I wondered if the leaves and the pine cone part of the fruit might be something that grows in the ground because it looks like a radish and its leaves.
　The pine cone-like part is very hard, with a thorny and defensive look to it, so I had a feeling.
　In this case, I could easily predict that the pine cone-like exterior would be peeled off and the fruit would be inside.

　I broke it in half lengthwise.
　It's a hard, thorny fruit, but helpless in front of the force SS.
　I was able to easily break it in half.

　Immediately, the fragrance of the fruit drifted out.
　It's a sweet and sour taste, a delicious aroma that I can't imagine from its appearance.

''Hey, that's a pineapple!

　I gently touched the yellow flesh of the cross section and brought the juice to my mouth.
　I knew it was a pineapple.

　The pineapple itself is not that unfamiliar to me.
　You can see cut pineapple on pizza, and it is quite common to see pineapple served with juice or pub sours.

　By the way, I'm not going to allow them in my sweet and sour pork, no matter what.

'Heh ...... pineapple is like this ......'

　I had no idea it looked like a pine cone.
　But, well, I guess it makes sense somehow.

　And this pineapple....

"Yeah, it's sweet and sour.

　It was a sour fruit, as has been the case in the past.

　The renewed New Nihonium has been dropped with fruits that are almost entirely sour, with the exception of Miracle Fruit.
　The same goes for this pineapple.

''Could it be that the sourness depends on the ...... drop status?

　Somehow I thought that might be a possibility.
　I'll get my friends to help me out next time to verify that, too.

　With that in mind, I defeated a few more snow women.
　It looks a lot like a nihonium, but it's a snow woman monster, and it's an attacker, so I was able to defeat it without mercy.

　Picking up the dropped pineapples, I proceeded through the dungeon, found the stairs, and went down.

　New Nihonium, ninth floor underground.
　The same old, pulsating, visceral dungeon.

“--!

　The next moment I realized that it hadn't changed, I was so surprised that my eyes widened into a flutter.

　My ability, still in its infancy, a backwards-compatible ability of Alice's.
　The ability to only grasp the structure of the dungeon.

　It was lacking in some areas to use on a daily basis, and I needed to work on a lot of things, but I knew that's all I could do for now.

　The structure of the dungeon as it feels projected into my brain is where I'm standing, the overall structure of the dungeon, and the two staircases.

　A staircase that comes down from the top and a staircase that goes down.

　A staircase that goes down.
　If it exists from the beginning, that would be the stairs that lead to the tenth floor.

　Nihonium -- the tenth floor.

　Even in the new Nihonium, special bullets had something to do with combat status, so I thought it was only up to the ninth floor.

　The possibility of the tenth floor, which came up to it, was both surprising and exciting.