What was the crystal, by the way?　Could it be that this is what you hear rumors about, selling experience?

　After the excitement subsided, Margaret asked the obvious question.
　Experience sales ...... Ah, like the plated mouse I saw at the harvest festival.

　Monster experience is incredibly expensive, but the drop items are inexplicably undemanding and cheap.
　It's the experience value that is used to turn them back into hagremonts.

　It's a completely different story from the crystal I gave her in the sense that I'm going to return it to Haguremono and beat it again, but I guess she only knows that it's an experience sale and doesn't know much about its contents.

''It's a little different from that. With this ring's ability, I can turn the experience value into crystals like that after the level has been canned and give it to others.
So that's what happened.
More than that.

　I looked straight at Margaret. She looked at me and she blushed, and she felt depressed.

"I want to raise your bar.
Me?
If I'm not mistaken, you're going to be a big hitter when you hit the next level.
?

　Margaret nodded her head as hard as she could.
　Didn't he realize that he was the one who saw that?
　Is common sense getting in the way, or did he get used to that because the period of unhappiness with the all-F's was too long?

　Drop all A at level 99.

　She doesn't even seem to have imagined the prediction I made that she might do so with a super-late growth type.

　Now, how could I raise it most efficiently?
　That was the question.

　　　　　☆

　An hour or so later, there was a huge pile of sprouts in front of me.
　A small pile of sprouts piled up there, still outside of Nihonium.

　The equivalent of a million piles of bean sprouts.

　It would be a spectacular sight to see that many bean sprouts piled up.
　Incidentally, I had the idea for the sprouts, but Margaret gave me the money.
　She seemed to have a lot of money, and the more bean sprouts she had, the better, so she said, "I'll get you a million piro for now," and that's what happened.
　By the way, the amount of bean sprouts we had now was equivalent to the entire stock of bean sprouts in Cyclo.

I'm sorry to make you pay for it.
No. More importantly, what are you going to do with this?
Watch.

　I left the pile of sprouts with Margaret.
　We waited for a while, and then a slime hatched from the sprouts.
　In the middle of a deserted field, the slime came toward us as soon as it was born.

　I shot the slime, shooting it out with my gun with a conventional round.
　The slime disappears with a single shot.

　More slime hatches, and this time I take care of it with a regular bullet before it starts moving.

　At this point, Margaret has an accomplished look on her face.

"So this is how you turn sprouts into experience!
'Yeah, this is what is commonly known as an experience sale. It's usually done with an experience-efficient plated mouse, but Cyclo doesn't have that.

　And that merchant probably would have pulled up to the city he was from.

　The slime hatches one by one.
　He shoots them all out of the way as they hatch with a single blow.

''It's amazing, there are a hundred of them. I can't believe I didn't move and beat the monsters one after another. ......

　Margaret looked at me with respect.

　I chose slime (or sprouts) for two reasons: first, it's easy to kill them as soon as they hatch, and second, there's a 99% chance that they'll be killed in a single blow, even if they're not moving.

　The first is that they're easy to defeat as soon as they hatch, and there's a 99% chance you'll be able to kill a slime with a single blow if you can see it without moving.
　And the other reason--.

　I took out a regular round from the pouch on my hip and loaded it into the empty gun.

　A pouch that sucks in the drops.
　I used it to replenish the regular bullets from killing the haglemono slime without moving.

　Defeating the slime with regular bullets, and if you defeat it, the pouch is replenished with regular bullets.
　The composition of the game was such that I continued to hunt with a permanent engine to the point of infinite boiling.

　Slimes are the same as skeletons, one crystal will appear for every ten slimes.
　I give it to Margaret as soon as it comes out.

　I take them down, refill their ammunition automatically, and give her the experience.

　I repeat the process.
　Every once in a while, an adventurer passes by at a distance.
　The adventurers craned their necks and wondered, or the corners of their mouths quirked up in laughter.

　Those who didn't know why they were defeating slime as a haggler wondered, and those who knew it was for experience laughed.
　In this world, it's common knowledge that levels are raised as you go around, and before you know it, you're going to have to do it.

　After doing this for a while, my eyes started to sweat.
　I fluttered my eyes and tried to drive the sweat away. It's a little bit tiring to do that for so long, as expected.

　That's when a nice scent wafted up from the side.
　What happened was that Margaret wiped my sweat off with her handkerchief.

　Is this scent from a handkerchief?　Or is it hers?
　I don't know, but ...... smells good, like fruit or flowers anyway.

Thank you.
'No, it's me who should be thanking you. I've never experienced anything like this so quickly.
Is that so?
I'm so powerless that I can't even defeat a single slime by myself.
...... Oh, you'll have to have them scrape off some slime to take it down.

　Margaret nodded.

'I'm always hoping my MP will at least get a boost.
Why is that?
I've learned some amazing magic along the way as I level up. Like the life-stopping spell 'Eternal' and the ultimate divine flame spell 'Phoenix'.
You remember some great stuff!

　That's not at all what you think of Margaret.

There are at least a dozen such magics.
More and more awesome!
But none of them can be used, and I can't fire a single shot until I'm at about D MP.
d*mn, not enough MP. State?

　It's similar, with Celeste.

　He continued to hunt the slime while chatting with Margaret.
　A million pounds of sprouts, the pile of them getting smaller and smaller.

　I keep hunting from my initial position.
　Hagremonos and slime, the perpetual motion engine that hunts with it, so I was rather conscious of not moving.
　The perpetual motion engine worked perfectly until the end.
　As the sun was setting in the twilight, I shot the last of the slime.

　The crystals came out, and I gave them to Margaret.

"Well?
I'm still a little overwhelmed.
Isn't it enough for a million pirouettes? It's level 95 to 96, so what can we do?
You're ordering now: ...... I see you don't have it in stock anymore.
It's not much more efficient to go there, though.

　I can't help it, the leveling up is going to carry over.
　And that's what I was thinking.

'Mr. Yoda,'

　I turned around when I heard a voice calling for me and saw Emily, Celeste, Eve, Alice and their friends.
　The girls were coming towards us, carrying a pile of sprouts.

'What's going on, guys?'
Low-level liar.

　Eve chopped me up out of the blue.

'What?'
I skipped carrots this afternoon.
'Oh, I'm sorry!　I was obsessed with this one.

　Eve is miffed. When I'm dungeon-diving with the others in the afternoon, I make sure to drop a carrot for her while I'm in the basement level I'm passing through.

'Obsessed!　I'm infatuated with her. No, no, Lyota, you don't do that kind of obsession. I'm sure she's the same as I was - which is even worse!
What's the matter with you, Celeste, you can't just talk yourself out of it?
It's nothing. I've come to deliver some bean sprouts to Yoda.
Thank you. ...... What's that about?
An adventurer told me what Mr. Yoda is doing here.
'That's great, Lyota!　Everyone was talking about 'the leader of that Lyota family'. I didn't know Ryota was that famous!

　Alice is excited.
　Rumors ......?　Oh, a bunch of adventurers are back in town talking about it by accident.

Yes, that's what I heard, and I have some more for you.

　Smiling Emily.
　What the four of them brought with them was a rather large amount of sprouts.
　It's not much less than the first, but it's still 200,000 piro's worth of sprouts by my rough estimate.

''You all gathered them together?

　Emily held up her hammer, Celeste held up her bicorn horn, Alice turned her hone-hones and pulls back to monster size, and Eve took out a carrot.

'That has nothing to do with me!

　I plunged into Eve as hard as I could and then looked at my four friends again.

'Thank you,'

　I said.
　The four of them smiled back at me.

　　　　　☆

　At night, we returned to the Nifongnium table.

　Margaret approaches the Nowboard and operates it.

---1/2---
Level: 96/99
HP F
MP F
Power F
Strength F
Intelligence F
Spirit F
Speed F
Dexterous F
Luck F
--------- ...

　Her friends cheered.
　Thanks to everyone's help, her level was successfully raised to 96.

'......'

　She turns around and looks at me.
　I'm getting a little nervous.

　Are you sure that's a good idea?　Or was that all there was to it?
　Her heart fluttered.

　Nodding back to Margaret, she takes a deep breath and manipulates the Nowboard further.

　Gokuri...... and a fresh spit.

---2/2---
Plants D
Animals D
Minerals D
Magic D
Characteristic D
--------- ...

　Level 96, drop all D. I was almost certain to get all A's as expected.
　I was almost certain it was going to be all A.

　I got more cheers from my buddies, which I explained beforehand.

"Thank you!

　Margaret hugged me, her thin arms around me, holding me close.
　I could tell she was happy to see me.
　I'm tired of continuing to take down the slime with tremendous density, but I think the effort was worth it.