The Kappa on the third floor didn't have any special features, so we went through it and headed to the fourth floor.

　I wish the Kappa had dropped a cucumber, or something.

　New Nihonium seems to have been reborn as a fruit-dropping dungeon, so there were no cucumbers to drop.
　That's why it doesn't drop cucumbers - but I think cucumbers are fruits.

　Cucumbers are very much related to watermelons, just as there is a debate over whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables.

　Watermelon is Chinese characters for "watermelon" and cucumber for "cucumber".

　Both of them are "gourd" and also "cucumber".
　In ancient China, the word "Hu" means the people of the west, and both the watermelon and the cucumber mean the melon that came from the west through the Silk Road.

　So cucumbers are the same fruit as watermelons!

I remember when I was in school, I insisted on going to ...... and getting blank stares.

　I smiled bitterly and remembered the memories of those days.
　By the way, I heard that cucumbers and watermelons are sometimes classified as "fruits and vegetables".
　I smiled more and more bitterly as I remembered which one it was.

　We bit into the star-shaped fruit that Kappa had dropped and headed down.

　It's a bit sour, after all.

　All the fruits that the new Nifongnium has dropped so far have been somewhat sweet and sour.

　This star-shaped one was the same, and it was sour.
　While I was wondering if there was something there, I arrived at the fourth floor.

　The usual visceral dungeon, a monster immediately appeared.

'A skeleton!　No, no?

　For a moment, I thought so about the monster that appeared in front of me, but there was one thing that was very different from the skeleton.

　The one that appeared was a giant skeleton monster.

　It's so huge that it can't stand in the dungeon, it's crawling and moving around.
　The size of it - its head alone is bigger than my entire body.

'It's a gaffer's block ......, right?

　So far, the new Nihonium has been replaced by only yokai.
　I remembered that there was a skeletal monster called Gashadokuro.

　The skeleton-fresh critter crawled toward me and grabbed me with his arms, which were bigger than mine.

　Coming at me from both sides, white bone hands like a wall.

　I kicked the ground and flew backwards to see what was going on with my usual normal bullets.
　I dodged the javelin.

　Because of its huge size, it's scant compared to the skeleton.
　It moved just a little bit and dodged the bullets - I let them slip through the bones.

　He chuckled again, and this time he shot a tracking bullet.
　The tracking bullets tracked it even as the jerks dodged and hit it.

　When I realized it worked, I fired continuously.
　Countless bullets ripped through the crunching skull, sending bone fragments flying.
　I needed to fire more bullets because of its size, but the jammed ducked before it could fire again.

　And then - poof.

　A small, brown fruit dropped.

　A tiny fruit, about to the first joint of his little finger.

　I pick it up, look closely at it.

　It's a fruit I'm going to try.
　Fearfully I bring it to my mouth and bite into it.

...... Huh?

　I didn't taste it.

　I was expecting something sour, so I shrugged off the fact that I couldn't taste it.

　It didn't taste too good, so I thought my tongue had gone crazy and bit into the star-shaped fruit from earlier.

''--!　Sweet, you say?

　I was astonished.
　What I had found to be sour earlier had turned into the exact opposite, a very sweet fruit.