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 At night, in the saloon of the mansion, after the day's work was done.
 I folded my arms and pondered.

'What's the matter, Mr. Yoda?'
Emily.

 Emily asked as she offered me another cup of tea, holding the tray to her chest.
 Just as well, I confided in her, asking for advice.

'Actually, I've run out of the minotaur dolls I got from Cell. We can't breed the other levels at this rate.
'Can't I just ask Mr. Cell to share again? It's not a bad thing, Mr. Sell would be happy to help you, Yoda.
I know, and I don't think...

 I looked around and chuckled.

'I'm at the stage where I'm saying this, and the next thing I know, the cell is going to be here.
Yes, sir.
But,

 I made the first move to keep the cell from coming.

'Don't rely on it too much. It's like when you're hiding in a dungeon, you don't rely on it, you just need to see how far you can go on your own.
I see.

 Just before, Cell could have shown up at any time, but once I say this, he refrains.

 That's why if I make it clear that I want to think about it and make a move, he'll go into watchful waiting mode.

 If you ask him, he can easily get you additional dolls this time, but if you keep repeating the same thing brain-dead, you won't be able to think straight, so I thought first.

"What about asking Calcium-san to do it?
To calcium?
'Yes, sir. Like Nihonium-san, you should be able to produce a dungeon master at will, Spirit.
I see. ...... You want me to do it again?

 I'm about to say it, and then I get an inspiration.
 I see a scene in my head.

"Thank you, Emily, that'll work.
Yes, sir!

 Emily nodded at me with a gentle, motherly smile, like the mother of the family.

     ☆

 The next day, the calcium room.

 I fly in using the transporter room, me and Eve.
 Calcium is a bit surprised to see us.

"Wow, it's really possible for you to come here normally. You're an amazing person!

 Calcium looked surprised and truly impressed.

'I did you a favor today,'
Please?

 'Oh,' he nodded, then.

'I need you to give her another power, the ability to call monsters in the dungeon at will. Can we do that?

 I told her of my request to be straightforward.

 Call the monsters in the dungeon at will.
 My main goal was to be a dungeon master, but I asked her to go with that one, saying it would be better if I could call ordinary monsters at will as well.

 Calcium stared at me.
 After a few moments, I thought about something.

'Yeah, fine.'
Are you sure?
If you do me one favor.
I'm at your service.

 It's a natural development.
 I don't think it's a buggy idea to get him to do what I say for free either.
 Equal value exchange and doing something in return is what I expected.

"A little bit more... I wish you could make me and everyone else different.
By everyone else, do you mean ...... taking other spirits?
It's more like a dungeon.
I see.

 I nodded, I got the story.
 Originally, the reason Eve was made/recognized with a genie was because I made Calcium look different(,) from the other dungeons.

 I liked the fact that it was the only one in the world that had all kinds of drop statuses, so Calcium did me a favor and made Eve with a genie.

 It's the same thing again this time.

 You want to be different, huh?
 I thought to myself, that's a very human genie.

'I don't know if I can...'
'You should love carrots. He's a genie who only eats carrots, and he's the only one.
Yeah, I think Eve needs to shut up for a minute.

 When I said that, Eve pouted her lips and chopped me, but it didn't hurt (、、、、) so I let her do what she wanted.

 I thought about it, after a bit of thought.

'Hold on a minute, I'm going to bring someone over.'
Okay.

 I used the transporter gate to get back to the mansion and went straight into town.

 In a sense, this is the only dungeon where you can't use the gate.
 No, a dungeon that is practically unusable.

 It's a relatively new dungeon that appeared in Sarfa and Ciclo.

 When you enter it, each adventurer is isolated from the others, so you can't use the transfer gate to fly to a pinpoint location.
 I came to the Sarfa and Ciclo suburbs and waited for a while in front of the dungeon.

 The adventurers come out one by one.
 It's a dungeon where you are forcibly ejected once per round.
 The adventurers will come out and enter the dungeon again.

 I watched them and waited for a while.

"Huh? Lyota, right?

 I was waiting, my mate Alice came out of the dungeon.
 Alice Wonderland.
 He also has a genie-laden name, Fosforus, my companion.

 He has a maximum level of 2 and has little to no combat ability, and is a summoner who lets his fellow monsters fight exclusively on his shoulder.

 He's often holed up here because he's virtually unaffected and compatible with Sulphur, which forces him to be level 1 every time he enters a dungeon.

'What's up, what's going on?'
I have a favor to ask Alice.
Say what you want.

 Alice responded immediately, looking happy.

 I told her about my interaction with Calcium.

'So, I'd like to ask Alice - Phosforus, to be precise. Could you be stationed over there?
Melasma?
Yeah, a dungeon with two spirits, and that's always the only one.
I see!

 Alice was convinced.
 From her shoulder, she placed her companion, Mela Mela, the spirit Phosforus, who looked like a human soul, in the palm of her hand and brought it in front of her face.

'I don't know, Melamela.'
"--

 The human spirit shakes and Alice nods, "Yeah, yeah.
 A conversation between the two seems to be taking place between them that no third party can understand.

'I see. ...... Mela Mela, she doesn't want to leave me.
I see.
I guess I'll just have to stay with the calcium.
I'm not so sure about that either.

 Keep Alice locked in the spirit room all the time to allow Eve to call the dungeon master at will.
 Then you should ask the cell to get a doll for a number of times.

'I hope it's only for the night, though.
Yeah?
You know, make my room a calcium room. You know, sleep in there at night.
...... Hmm.

 That may be the case.
 The question is whether the calcium will convince me--.

     ☆

Yay!

 As he spoke, Calcium's eyes narrowed in delight as he spoke, his tone loose.

'Are you sure? Only when I go to bed at night, though.
Yeah, but you're still the only one.
Okay.

 Part of me wonders if that's okay, but I guess it's okay because he looks happy.

It's good to see you.
Nice to meet you.

 Alice and Calcium happily facing each other, and Melamella (Phosphorus) pulsing in her human soul state.
 I think Calcium is going to be Alice's companion soon, like her name is Boingboin.

 Don't you have ......?

 Just as I was thinking about that nonsense, Calcium spoke to me.

I'll give you the power then! Yes, with this, you can call any monster anywhere in the dungeon at any time!
"I don't know, Eve.
"Kukuku.

 Eve held her mouth and laughed with a rare look of deviousness on her face.

'Dude, what's wrong?'
'Rabbit, I can feel the power. Now I can always call up that herbivore's face and torment it.
Oh, oh. Well, if you can call it that, so be it.

 That pretty much solves the calcium thing.

 If you can call it out at will, Eve can do the attribute changes on each floor without a problem, and I can do the adjustments afterwards without a problem.

 The calcium thing is almost as good as solved.

""--"

 Instantly, everyone present changed their blood color.

 Zunn!

 A strange feeling, hard to describe, the first time I've ever felt it, hit me all over.

'What is this?'
Ugh, that's disgusting.
......

 Me, Alice, and Eve.
 The three of us furrowed our brows tightly.

'Oh,'

 On the other hand, Calcium has the same troubled look on his face, but his expression and reaction are relatively loose.

'Shinnin' - no, no, you've been killed...'
Dead? Murdered?
Yeah.
Who?
Erythronium.
...... genie?

 Calcium nodding.

 A slain spirit.
 It was like something extraordinary was happening without our knowledge.