79. Triple score




 The next morning after Celeste and Emily had successfully obtained their licenses.
 Thanks to Emily's care, all of my friends gathered in the warm, friendly living room.

 As we were all savoring the breakfast Emily had prepared, she asked me, "Yoda, what do you have planned for today?

'Yoda, do you have any plans for today?'
Plans? I don't have anything in particular, so I'm going to go around the dungeon. There's been a lot going on with the Harvest Festival in between, so I should start earning some money soon.

 I cocked my head and looked up at the ceiling.

 There was a lot going on over the Harvest Festival.
 I'd met Alice, beaten the dungeon master in Nifonium, leveled up Margaret, canned Emily and Celeste, and gone along to get my license.
 Come to think of it, I may not have done a normal dungeon lap for over a week now.

 In the meantime, my income has been interrupted, as it should be.
 I'm not a businessman anymore. Even though I was in a black company, a hundred thousand or so a month would come in handy even if I didn't tell them.
 But now it's gone. In the past week, my income has been equal to almost nothing.

 Still, it's perfectly fine with me ...... me now, but I've got to start earning money.

All right, I'll get ready to go to the eighth basement floor of the tellurium.
It's been a long time since we've hunted together. I'm looking forward to it.
It's my first time.
The rabbit needs a bento (carrot).

 My friends were excited.
 The breakfast table is lively and happy, and there is an air of comfort just by being there.

 In the midst of this atmosphere, I thought for a moment and suggested, "Why don't we split up for the day?

Why don't we split up for the day?
Yoda, are you sure you need something?
No, it's not. We're all stronger now. Of course they'll still be strong, though.
You will? I'm not going to level up anymore, okay?
''I will, with the magic fruits that Lyota-san has modified, I can learn two of them, and I'll continue to get a variety of equipment.
And I can still hear the monster calling me.
As long as there are carrots in the world that we haven't seen yet

 Celeste and everyone else gives Emily a reason to be strong - I think it's just Eve's.

'Yes, we'll still be strong. But we've all leveled out, right? What can we do once around here and how much money can we make once we get around for a day? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
I see.
That's important.

 His friends nodded, and there seemed to be no objection.

'Then I'm going to the eighth floor, and Steel Slime can do what Arsenik did.
Come to think of it, even though it's hard, its speed is a bit lower than normal slime. I see.
So, Mr. Yoda, I'm here to ask for the drop 1 potion.
Are you sure it's one?
'Yes, sir, one and a ring will be a B. With a B, we can go around and it's cheaper.'

 Okay.
 I bring two kinds of drop-up potions.
 One is a +3 potion you can get from the note haggler and the other is a +1 potion you can get from the coin haggler.
 One bill is 1000piro, but coins are 1piro.
 +The +3 is expensive, but the +1 costs practically nothing.

 If you can level up and get a B for +1, that's certainly better for getting around.

'Alright. I'd like to get some +2 equipment sooner or later. That'll give me an A.
Yes, sir.

I'm ....... Alice, will you come with me?
Me? Good, but ...... Oh, Honestly Purrrrrrrrr.

 The two SD-sized monsters hid in Alice's bosom.

''Gah! Gohon. No, I'm serious. The Guts Slime on the seventh floor of the basement, I need to get those kids' help for that one. Me and those kids can handle the laps and rare monsters.
I see.
If Celeste says so, it must be true.
Okay, I'll go.
Yeah.

 Celeste nodded quietly, and I didn't miss the fact that she was secretly gutted under the table.
 I guess it's a personal thing, but I guess it's okay.

'Where's Eve?'
"Dust to dust, rabbit to carrot.
You can have the +3 portion. Just count for me.
I loved you!

 Eve's eyes widened and she opened them.

 A lot of things were decided at the breakfast table, and we were each separated for the day.

     Stars

 I decided to go around the levels that my friends didn't go to.
 First, I went to the ground floor of the tellurium, where the monster was a slime.
 I pushed the magic cart and walked around.

 The slime I encountered attacked, I caught it with one hand and held it in my hand, and then I put the gun on the magic cart-- it was like I was walking down the stairs.

No,

 On second thought, I just squeezed it.

 I felt a purr, and the slime disappeared, turning into sprouts and going into the magic cart.
 The slime felt weaker than it did at the beginning, or even before the Harvest Festival.

 Maybe it was because of the dungeon master in Nifonium.
 That one was strong, normal attacks didn't work, and it hurt when they attacked me, so I struggled a lot.
 After that one, I could take down slimes, no joke, even while snorting at them.

 I would push the magic cart forward, catch the slime that attacked me and grip it, and the ones that didn't attack me would walk towards me, pick them up and grip them on the magic cart.

'~♪'

 It's humming and moving like you're shopping at the grocery store.

 After a while, the magic cart's ability to burst the selling price told me 40,000 piro.
 Return to the city with the cart full of sprouts and bring them back to the town to return the favor of the buyer, Yan.

 Return to the dungeon.
 I was going to go through...... the second basement floor, but Eve grabbed me, so I gave her one of the S-drop Lyota carrots to replace the toll.

 Third basement level, cocrosstime.
 A slime that is Emily's natural enemy, glowing black and crawling on the ground in a crunchy manner.

 A while ago, I used to go to the lower level, but at that time I had to cover Emily's eyes and ears, and we all had to escort her forward.
 Incidentally, since Alice became my companion, she was able to read exactly where the monsters were, so we took a route that was a bit circuitous but didn't even hear footsteps, which made it even safer (...).

 On that third basement floor, Cochros Lime drops a pumpkin.
 I'm not scared of it, so I pick up the one that's clattering towards me and squash it in the same way.

 With a pop, the cocrosstime turned into a pumpkin in the palm of my hand, just like popcorn.
 The volume grew all at once, and my hand popped.

 I was a little numb.

'You're doing no damage to the monster, but you're going to drop it?

 It was kind of fun.
 The cocrosstime itself isn't that strong.
 But if I grabbed it, smashed it, or stomped on it, the pumpkin popcorn would get me, so I used my gun and regular ammo to take it down.

 Four pumpkins dropped and I got 42,000 piro, so I sold them to repay the swallow's favor.
 That's about 80,000 piro.

 Further back in the dungeon, I paid the carrots to Kanjo Eve for the toll.
 We came to the fourth basement level, the monster was a bat-slime.
 It flies around aimlessly and sometimes hangs on the ceiling like a bat without getting close, so I swatted at it with regular bullets as soon as I found it.
 It would drop at a distance, but I equipped a pouch to suck it up and then put it in the magic cart.

 I used a triple combo of normal ammo, pouch and magic cart to proceed.
 It's four floors below ground, but it's still weak, I ran through it with no damage and filled up the magic cart.

 The amount of money the magic cart spits out is 220,000 piro.
 That's about 300,000 piro.
 Thanks to Gourmet, branded Lyota bamboo shoots can be sold for this much money for the same amount.
 It's branded, so if we overdo it, we'll have a crash, but that's only for today.

 After getting them bought and paying the toll again, we came to the fifth basement floor.
 I encountered a hebislime with a number of slimes connected to it.
 First, I defeated one of them using the Pandora box I had prepared.
 A drop watermelon was sucked into the box, and my face was printed on the box.

 It's the one I'm going to deliver to Ena's parents' grocery store.
 After that was done, I took it down like normal.
 The hebislime was coming closer, so I either picked it up or grabbed it to dodge the attack and tore it off on the magic cart.

 Poof, a large ball of watermelon dropped and went into the magic cart.
 I pushed the cart around, the hebislime was nothing particularly strong, and it went around with ease.

 The cart full of watermelons turned into 50,000 piro, and the watermelons with faces to deliver turned into 50,000 piro in one because they have a fixed customer.
 They were the same, but the producer's markings made a big difference in price. It's limited to one a day, but it's good.

 We made 400,000 piro from circling the tiers that our friends hadn't turned in.

'Well, here's the deal.

 I rolled up my arms as we left the swallow's debt.
 We've come full circle, now it's time to get going.

     ☆

 In the evening, I waited for everyone to join us in the living room of Emily House, being soothed.
 When the last Eve came back, we started the debriefing session.

'Rabbit earned, 120,000 worth. Self new.
Is it self-reinventing?
We've had low vegetable drops in the past.
'Well, you dared to come to Cyclo for the high meat drop.
What do you mean, considerably?

 Alice questioned.

'Because I ate them all,'
All 120,000 pirouette carrots!

 I had to plunge in.
 Piro and yen are worth about the same, which means Eve ate 120,000 yen worth of carrots in one day at a wholesale price of 120,000 yen.

'I'm 160,000 piro, it's a new record after all.
'That's great, Emily. I beat Eve.
The reason I lost is because Eve was eating. If I had to hold off eating until the end, I would have lost.
Rabbit, that's twice as good.
You took your time.

"We are 215,123 Piro.
A little over 100,000 apiece.

 Celeste and Alice reported, and Celeste, perhaps because of her personality, was the only one to report in detail.

 After they all caught up on their reports, they looked at me. I'm curious about the numbers.

 I cleared my throat and pulled out the last itemized statement Elsa gave me, truncating it to the nearest whole number.

"1.56 million piro.
""Oh,"
It's a week's worth of carrots. ......

 The three of them cheered and Eve made a strange calculation.

'It's amazing, Yoda, you're better than everyone else combined.
Triple score. That's impressive.
Ryota, you're a millionaire.

 My friends have been saying good things about it.
 I'm just happy.

'If the whole family is together, that means we can make two million pirouette per day.
I see.
If you're making this kind of money, do you have a problem spending it in a flash?
Do you use it?
Yeah.

 I looked around from Emily to Alice and her friends.

'We've been putting it off, let's buy a magic cart for all of them.

 We took a breath and everyone agreed with the idea.