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Basement 1st floor of Selen Dungeon, today I continue to level up my Growth Bullet together with Leia.
Having a complete halt on my usual routine, I focused strictly on leveling up the bullet, till the point where it had finally reached to level 10.
——You have learned the Drain ability.
[Oh?] (Ryouta)
[What’s wrong, Master.] (Leia)
[I think I just heard something about drain
.Is it coming from this.] (Ryouta)
I took out the Growth Bullet from the revolver and stared at it.
And the imprint that Selen has bestowed on the bullet, and it showed the level of 10.
[Did it evolve or something, or is it because it’s level 10.] (Ryouta)
[Is it a special effect?] (Leia)
[Seems like it. It did say that it learned drain.] (Ryouta)
[To suck. Is it an ability to suck something?] (Leia)
[There’s only that when it comes to the meaning of the ability, the problem is
.what kind of things does it suck? Leia, can you use your Revive skill?](Ryouta)
[I understand.] (Leia)
Leia seemingly done it so many times, smoothly went and pick up the drop from the ground, then used Revive where the drop turned back to the Rainbow Slime.
Then loading the Growth Bullet again, I fired at the Slime.
The power is finally around 90% of a normal bullet’s power, seems like it is starting to bear fruits.
Anyways.
[
..Fumu.] (Ryouta)
[What is it, Master.] (Leia)
[It is true that something was sucked in, though it was subtle coming from my body, but I can feel it.] (Ryouta)
[What could it be.] (Leia)
[That’s what I’m not sure as well. It wasn’t HP, nor was it MP.] (Ryouta)
After saying, I took out the Recovery Bullet and fired at myself.
Both my HP and MP was healed.
[Hm, the feeling is different then the drain ability.] (Ryouta)
[So it isn’t HP or MP.] (Leia)
[That’s right. Well, let’s test out some other different things. And also hit level 11 along the way.] (Ryouta)
[I understand, Master.] (Leia)
Leia silently nodded, then continued reviving the slimes.
Then repeating the same thing as we did.
Along the way we’re doing it, I could feel something weird being sipped into my body, but I just can’t tell what it was.
In the end, I didn’t find out and leveled the bullet to 11.
[How was it, Master?] (Leia)
[It’s no use. I have no idea what the effect is.] (Ryouta)
[Is that so.] (Leia)
[It isn’t a bad feeling that’s for sure. Let’s just ignore it for the time being. Let’s continue to level it up, and tomorrow I can visit Selen and ask about it.](Ryouta)
[Affirmative.] (Leia)
After leveling for a good few hours in the morning, I said it was a good use of our time.
Thus, we were about to return back to the mansion using the teleportation gate.
When suddenly.
[E, excuse me!]
[Hm?] (Ryouta)
Suddenly, someone called out to me from beside.
It was a girl in her teens staring at me with those serious eyes.
Did something absurd happen again?
While tightening my thoughts—–was what I was doing but instead.
[I like you!]
[

.Huuuh?] (Ryouta)
[You’re good looking, plus you’re strong, which made me love you—–Thank you so much!]
After a one sided conversation of the girl blurting out her feelings, she immediately ran away.
No wait, thank you

? Is it something you would normally say after confessing to someone?
But I didn’t even give an answer though.
[Uhmmm
..] (Ryouta)
[As expected of Master, such popularity.] (Leia)
[No no no, please don’t tease me.] (Ryouta)
[Tease?] (Leia)
Leia tilted her head.
Right, she doesn’t know what it is to tease something.
So she really did think that I’m that popular, which in return made me that more embarrassed. (TLN: or maybe she is teasing you by feigning ignorance ;))
What a weird accident. Well whatever it is, the person herself is gone, guess we should head—–
[Master.] (Leia)
[Yeah?] (Ryouta)
[You’re being watched.] (Leia)
[What, a stalker?] (Ryouta)
After hearing Leia saying that, I quickly surveyed my surrounding.
It’s as she said—–it (was Cell) was girls.
I can clearly see them standing out while staring at me.
Some of them had their faces dyed red, some had feverish eyes.
And out of the whole squad, the girl who confessed to me was mixed in as well was staring at me.
I have no idea what’s going on, but she was staring at me with those fox eyes.
Fortunately, no event has started, and I safely went back home using the gate.
As soon as I returned to the mansion, we bumped into Celeste.
[Yo, I’m back.] (Ryouta)
[Welcome back
..Eh?] (Celeste)
[What’s the matter Celeste.] (Ryouta)
I asked, but she didn’t answer back.
Instead, she was gazing at me with this surprised look on her face.
[What’s wrong? Is there something on my face?] (Ryouta)
When I asked her again, this time she went [Wow!] as she backed off.
[No-Nothing! Nothing’s wrong!] (Celeste)
After saying that, she abruptly ran away.
Saying nothing’s wrong, but with that reaction, there definitely is something.
What is going on—–
[I guess it’s because of the Growth Bullet.] (Ryouta)
The confession back at the dungeon, those intense gazes, and even Celeste.
Thinking back on what had happened, and the timing of it, I think it has something to do with the drain ability from the Growth Bullet.
I asked Leia to stay put, then using the Transportation Room, I went to Selen’s room.
A glamorous looking spirit wearing a super hot bikini, Selen.
[Ara, what a delicious guy.] (Selen)
Again with her seductive appearance that can make all teenage boys cross their legs, ignoring her words, I asked her directly.
[What is this drain?] (Ryouta)
[Heeh, so you’ve got that now. Amazing, it’s one of the most rare abilities. There is a certain percentage to getting it, and if the person doesn’t meet the requirements based on their quality, they won’t get it. But
..right right, drain huh.] (Selen)
Selen came close, extremely close where her face is next to mine, then was suddenly convinced.
[So it really is due to this drain ability, what does it do?] (Ryouta)
[Ufufu, this is just an example, but what if I were to suddenly lose my mind and went {Fuu~}, what do you think that might be?] (Selen)
[

Something like having sex?] (Ryouta)
[Co~rre~ct ] (Selen)
Pin Pon Pin Pon Pin Pon! Selen expresses using onomatopoeia by mouth.
[After you have sex, your mind would be blank, isn’t that right. Drain is similar to that. It isn’t your HP or MP, but your physical strength—-or Stamina to be exact, would be sucked and recovered. You should probably feel tired, but you aren’t right?] (Selen)
[Now that you mention, even after leveling for the entire day, I don’t feel exhausted at all.] (Ryouta)
[Isn’t it~, so that’s what it is.] (Selen)
[That’s good and all, but why would the surrounding look change when this happens?] (Ryouta)
[Ah what a delicious guy.] (Selen)
[Hm?] (Ryouta)
For some reason Selen answered out of context.
Then she repeated the word from when I came in.
Then thinking for it for a moment.
[

And incidentally, one of the other effects of Drain is

to see a perfect version of your type of guy?] (Ryouta)
[Pin Pon~] (Selen)
She made the sound again with her mouth, it’s interesting but it’s kinda obvious.
[So it has that sort of ability.] (Ryouta)
[I remember that you name your bullets right? How about changing it to Popular(mote) Bullet?] (Selen)
No no no no no, hell no.
☆
I went back to the mansion to the mansion using the gate.
Hearing that it would make your appearance look good, basically like [Being cool in front of a woman in love] kind of level.
I heard that, people who are in love would secrete a hormone which make them that way.
After being convinced that it wasn’t a bad effect, I returned
.However.
[
..]
[
..]
I could feel gazes when I came out of the room.
It was Celeste and Elza.
The two of them were at a slightly further place, blinking and gazing at me.
I was beyond embarrassed and was dyed in red.
It’s not like I don’t like this feeling, but the atmosphere is sort of troubling.
What should I do, when suddenly.
[Low level found.] (Eve)
Eve came out from the transportation room.
[I want carrots.] (Eve)
[
..] (Ryouta)
[Even though I was looking for you, don’t be conceited you low level. I’ll give you 10 seconds to give me your carrots.] (Eve)
[

Nothing happened to you?] (Ryouta)
[What is?] (Eve)
Eve tilted her small head.
Then I compared to the two women who was at a distance away from us and Eve.
[Eve really loves her carrots huh.] (Ryouta)
[My dream is to eat a poisoned carrot and fall into an eternal sleeping princess, and to break that curse, then a prince holding a carrot and feeding the carrot to me mouth to mouth in order to wake me up.] (Eve)
[What an incredibly concrete dream you have there.] (Ryouta)
Eve is as her usual, or more crazy than usual.
Then being influenced by the atmosphere, even Celeste and Elza who was still dyed in red, came close and finally talked to me.
To my friends who are living in the same home as me, I wish that you would be used to it as soon as possible.
By the way.
Since that day, the amount of times I was confessed to inside the dungeon was so much that the dungeon was packed.