‘~~♪’
‘Gyogyo…!’
The Man-Faced Fishman is pierced by Seren’s tentacle and turns to smoke, which lingers.
It looks ridiculous, and its level 35 isn’t much, but it has Super Strength, Physical Strengthening Lv1, Spear Techniques Lv2, Swimming Lv1, and Water Magic Lv2, so it’s pretty opulent in terms of skills.
It’s pretty good, if you block your ears to its annoying noises. And we’ve confirmed from the base monsters that the ones Seren and the others take down also have their drops multiplied.
I can expect good drops. I wonder what will be doubled…
“What a gross monster…”
“It’s the type to show up in dreams.”
“I agree about this one, but the regular men faced fish are more, you know…”
“Big brother, Izumi is scary.☆”
Izumi looks up at me and speaks with a soft voice. It’s supposed to be a joke, but if you do that with that level of aura, you’ll knock out someone who doesn’t have any resistance.
“Making that face won’t work. If I mess with other monsters, I might erase the powered up one’s flag. Let’s push through the creepy fish.”
“Buh.”
‘~~♪’
“Ah, good job, Seren. Thanks for bringing it here.”
‘~~♪’
Seren rubs its cheek against me, and Izumi frowns.
“Mumu, don’t you look happier when Seren is being sweet with you than when we hold you?”
“I guess I do.”
Isn’t it obvious?
“You’re confirming it!?”
“Izumi, if you quantify the relationship, isn’t it normal?”
“Yes. We are just getting started.”
“Ah, Izumi. Stop competing with Enki, Seren, and the others. Shouta is happy when me and Maki hug him, but I don’t think we can beat them.”
“Really!?”
“Really. After all, Shouta has a bond with them that goes beyond family.”
“It’s like they’re children that received darling’s power. It’s natural that he cares so much!”
“Hoe, I see…”
“It’s a form of love too…!”
“Mu, we’re no match for his children…”
I only gave them magic energy and skills, but well, they’re kids. They were supposed to be pets when I made them, but they’re like sons now. Not that I think they have genders.
I don’t feel that way as much with the ones I gave Aki and the others, but that has a lot to do with the fact that they take care of them and give them love.
As we talk, the smoke in front of us swells, and a rare monster I recognize emerges from within it.
＊＊＊＊＊
Name: Merman
Level: 65
Physical Strength: 600
Dexterity: 600
Constitution: 300
Agility: 750
Magic Energy: 300
Intelligence: 600
Luck: None
Boost skills: Great Strength, Super Strength
Passive skills: Spear Techniques Lv1, Swimming Lv2
Magic skills: Water Current Control Lv1
Equipment: Merman spear
Drops: Random equipment
Magic stone: Large
＊＊＊＊＊
‘Ummm!!’
“Uwa, so it’s you. And with these stats and skills too, are you the same as the ones in the stampede?”
“Those appeared as rares, but this one is rare II. Well, we blew away a few of them.”
“I wonder how hard it would have been if it appeared on our last date.”
“But now it’s easy for darling!”
“We recorded plenty during the stampede, so we don’t need more footage, right?”
‘Ummm!!’
‘~~♪’
Seren dodges a thrust from the Merman, and binds it with its tentacles.
“Well, we’re fighting on land, so maybe they would want footage on its original habitat?”
‘~~?’
“It’s fine Seren, constrict it and kill it.”
‘~~♪’
Crack!
Seren’s tentacles wrap around the struggling Merman, and twist it.
Gruesome.
【Level up】
【Leveled up from seventy-eight to seventy-nine】
“Maybe we’ll film the second or third.”
“Understood. Ah, but can you do it, Izumi and Irina?”
“Yes. We are substitutes. It is an important job.”
“Yes, I’ll do my best.☆”
“I will give it my best effort!”
Maki and Ayane hand over the cameras, and as I watch them explain how to operate them, and Aki motions for me to come closer like she thought of something.
“What is it?”
“Shouta, do you want to map out this dungeon again? Now you have Pocket Atlas, so it can re-check hidden information in areas that have been explored. Especially on the first two floors. Since we thought they’d been completely explored, we didn’t think to do it again.”
“…Ah, yes, we didn’t do that. I completely forgot.”
“I think you want to look for things for yourself, and unconsciously avoided it.”
“…Maybe.”
“So?”
“Yes… I used it on the mountain to check the feature, but starting from the third floor, I don’t want to use it more than necessary. But let’s use it on the first two floors. I want to compare answers.”
“Okay.”
“I wonder what we’ll find.”
I open the map and use that function. Thankfully, nothing really appears on the first floor, but there is a small update to the second.
“…Eh. You can move to another area from the sea.”
“Didn’t you look into that before?”
“Yes, but not much. It looks like it’s pretty deep, and the hole is only big enough for one. It’d be hard to find this on my own.”
“Ah, listen. Can’t we use that hole to get to the safe zone to the north without anyone seeing us?”
“Oh, that’s good.”
We have plans to hunt in the south and east, but the unopened treasure chests are in the west, which we have to ourselves. I need to spawn more rares too for the powered up one, so it would be better to do it in the west. But if we pass through the south with its many monsters, they’re going to come at us no matter where we pass.
That said, going through the north on the surface would mean everyone seeing them in swimsuits, which I want to avoid.
“Then should we go through there?”
“Our darling is so possessive. You don’t have to care that much about others, we’re yours.”
Says Aki, leaning over with a grin.
I know that, but swimsuits… Some picked ones with a lot of exposure for my sake, and I don’t like it anyway. They held back their jealousy enough to get a reserve unit, but I just can’t.
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