'Okay, Uncle, you'll partner up with Emily and Celeste. We'll go with the rest of you.

　Sakura roughly divided the teams.

''Is that division correct?''
I mean, how could Alice be different from her uncle?
Yeah, I've got a very good friend in there.

　As long as the strategy is based on the premise of defeating monsters at the same time, me, who has the "exact same power" and Alice, who has an All Might that can summon a copy of me, will be on a different team.

So, in terms of knowledge, me and my uncle are separated.
Yeah.

　It's also for the same reason, the same otherworldly people, the same otherworldly people, the same dungeons we've never seen before and the events of those dungeons, there's no good reason for me and Sakura to be frozen in place with a little groundwork to deal with.

''The rest is purely divided by strength, Uncle, Emily, Celeste, me, Alice and Usagi.
I see.

　I gave a small nod.
　Indeed, it might be a good balance.

　With the exception of me and Chochin, this one is Emily and Celeste, the strongest combination of physics and magic.
　The other side is Eve, the vanguard, and Alice and Sakura, the all-around good and responsive Alice and Sakura.

It's a good idea to try this one for now, and if it doesn't work, then we'll regroup.
Okay.

　I nodded and looked around at everyone again.

'Nice to meet you all.'
Hi.
I'll do my best.
I'm on it.
If you can keep up with the higher levels, you'll be fine.

　Everyone, with a peek at Sakura, responded.
　Then, following Sakura's formation, we split up and went down the stairs in two groups.

　We watched everyone else go down the other staircase, then we went down a little later too.

　Emily carried her hammer, which was far bigger than her height, as lightly as ever.
　Celeste is already holding her bicorn horn in her dress and is ready for battle.

''It's been a long time,''
What?
It's been a long time since Yoda and I have been in a dungeon together.
Oh, yeah.

　It was a casual word, a normal exchange, but it thrilled me.
　I had just had such a conversation with Sakura right before, and I felt as if she had seen everything deep inside me.

'It's certainly been a while. I'll show you where you've grown up again.
Me too.
I'm looking forward to it.

　I nodded deeply.
　I genuinely thought that, without any other intentions at all.

　Out of all my friends, Emily and Celeste are the most 'grown up'.
　Due to my insistence on soloing, I rarely team up with the two of them to go to dungeons, but that's why I'm amazed at how much they've improved when I go occasionally.

　When we met, Emily would dare to take a slime attack because she wasn't fast enough and counterattack where she deflected the momentum.
　On the other hand, Celeste, who was just busting out the great magic of incineration (...) against a completely motionless garbage.

　They both became stronger.
　Emily has not only gained power, but also speed and technique.
　The way she used the weight and inertia of the hammer well, the way she closed the distance and the way she chased after it, it's a love story to watch.

　It's exhilarating, like watching a superhero battle like in Draen Ball.

　On the other hand, Celeste, who was just a stick-up turret, has also become insanely mobile.
　He holds multiple bicorn horns that can spit out fireballs indefinitely, and manipulates them with strings to restrict his opponents' actions in all directions, while also slamming his massive magic into halt enemies when necessary.

　Their movements are exciting, as if they were watching a high-mobility robot battle, like a gunsmith.

　The two of them are said to have grown up even more.

　They were both staring at me as they descended the stairs.
　It's as if their eyes are telling me to "watch you grow up" and then "compliment me on that".

　That made me kind of happy and excited.

'Well, let's let the two of you do it alone first, shall we?
Are we alone?
Why is that?
I'm not going to send Mukai's bat out, so we'll start with just the two of us to get the same strength.
Oh, I see. I see.
Okay.

　The two of them easily convinced by my words.

　I'm glad Sakura isn't there.
　If she was here, this is the scene where she'd be rushing in and saying, "You're afraid to push the blackness on me, aren't you?

　That's not true.
　...... I can say with an oath that I would never say no.

　That's not what I'm talking about, but right now I want to see them both grow up first.
　I told the two of them to go ahead and fight, just to see how much they move around and show us high level combat.

　Then I went down to the fifteenth floor of the Nihonium.