New Nihonium, basement level 8.

'Oooh, cold!'

　As soon as I got downstairs, I had to shrug with a gesture of holding myself with both hands.
　I don't know if it's the first time I've been downstairs and the temperature has changed so much.
　It got so cold, my breath was white.

　It's suddenly about the same temperature as the dead of winter.

Is it because of the terrain effect?　Or ......

　I shrug and proceed through the dungeon, rubbing my palms together.
　I don't want to stay on this floor too long without being prepared for the cold.
　I thought I would just encircle the monster for once and bring back some information.

　And so I walk in circles.

　Unlike usual, to be able to retreat immediately, I was not walking around the stairs without a guess, I was walking in circles around the stairs.

　That's why it was difficult to meet the monster.

It's a good idea to go ...... a little farther afield (...). But then it would be hard to get back to ...... No, it's also said to hurry up and go around, but nevertheless ......

　This situation where the cold has become a more formidable foe than any monster.
　I whirled around the stairs, unable to make a decision.

''Huh?''

　Suddenly, I found a figure at the stairs.

　A figure that hadn't been there before.

When did it appear ......?　What does that mean, nihonium?

　It was Nihonium there.
　She wasn't wearing her usual kimono, but an all-white kimono.

'What's up with that outfit? For that matter, why are you here?

　I say, moving closer.

　Maybe it was the cold and I wasn't thinking straight.

　That's why I was slow to notice.

　Nifornium--the spirit of the dungeon is indeed the master of the dungeon, but under the "logic" of this world, it is an existence that cannot even walk freely in its own dungeon.

　By the time you feel a slight sense of discomfort at the fact that it is hereーーit is too late.
　The woman with the appearance of Nifongnium held the peace sign to her mouth and made a gesture of blowing something out.

　The white breath she blew out quickly turned into a blizzard and hit me.

　I jumped to my side as quickly as I could, but I didn't dodge it completely because I was too late in realizing it.

"d*mn!

　My left side of my body is frozen!

　Quickly, he launched a flameless bullet away.
　I rammed myself into the spot where I had swung it and melted my frozen body with the invisible flames.

　Your body will be burned to a crisp, and you'll take some damage.
　But because of that, the frozen part melted.

　I avoid it with my body, which has regained its freedom.

　Then I look again.
　It has the same appearance as Nihonium, it is wearing a white kimono, and its hair is fluffy and windless, and ice particles--diamond dust--spill out.

'...... snow woman!'

　I understood in an instant.
　A new nihonium, a new dungeon with monsters bound.
　A woman in a white kimono who controlled the ice that appeared there.

　It was the very characteristic of the youkai called the Snow Woman.

　I pointed a gun at her.
　It stopped with a jolt.

　Even though she is a youkai/snow woman, she looks exactly like a nihonium.

　It's a bit awkward to pull the trigger as it is.

'......'

　But I pulled the trigger.

　The flameless bullets flew out and hit the snow woman, setting her opponent on fire.

　The snow woman disappeared, somewhere between "burning" and "melting".

'Hmmm, not a pleasant thing to watch.

　I chuckled.
　Not as much as Zashiko, but he's a hesitant opponent to attack.

　The only difference is that they attacked me, you could say.

　The snow woman on the eighth floor is also a troublesome monster--only to me.