＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Ling Er, the bird

We sit on the bench next to a vending machine in the store, drinking juice and talking to the public.

It should be noted that the juice was luxurious from the general manager before I said anything.

"You were still doing Birth Ayle,"

"That's not all. Yu ○ Wang, MT0, Po mon, Wiku s, and so on..."

... There are so many things that bother me about doing it in parallel and the rules don't stick around, and how much money you spend in total, but this guy has been that way for a long time.

"Was the director at this university?"

"Yeah. Something close to home. It's enough to go to the city on an expedition. By the way, how's the university in Tokyo? Did you make any friends in college?

"Yes, with a personalized face inside..."

"Is there someone who soaked up the lecture from day one, or who wears Mohican sunglasses on face paint and maid clothes all the time?

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Asada...... did you ask the junior I spoke to yesterday?

But Asada and the general manager have been different for three years, so there should be no contact in high school.

- Card game fortune.

I'm sure he'd have been full of questions. That's what the department manager replied to my gaze.

"Chief, I think that's painful on the boulder."

A peek at the crystal balls instead of the card game won't come out that specifically.

Although I have long been a person trying to clean up all sorts of things with "deck building fortune" or "card game fortune" when I refer to them as Zubari.

Among the members, he said, "Aren't you actually a real predictor?" What a rumor.

"It doesn't matter. More than that, Reiji. I'd like to confirm one thing."

"Yes."

"Reiji is Ray Sterling from Infinite Dendrogram."

"... do you understand?

"What I used to use similar names in other games before"

... Well, you know what I mean.

Regardless of the qualifier, the name of the player in the mobile game we all played in the electronics research was also Ray.

"Ling Er, you and I, and then Deputy Director Left and Right don't have enough name twists."

Deputy Director Left and Right, Senior Elmo Left and Right.

That guy cut his last name and the end of his name and used the name 'left-right el'...... 'Zawell (...)' a lot. (Note that I get angry when I connect those who cut and call them tamo (...))

I checked it out and even in Dendro there was a gunman ranker of the same name in heaven and earth...... there was a person named Zawell Urgaul, so probably Deputy Director Left and Right.

Ulgaur is... but that's the name of the game's original gun that Deputy Director Left and Right used in the FPS warground.

Range distance and ballistics are dead. Instead it was both power and silence...... it was a bit of a physical law funny gun.

"By the way, is Starry Sky Manager doing Dendro too?

"Yeah. Sure."

"What's your name?

"Sky Academy Wing Kamiko (Yomiko)"

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Starry Sky Sky. Calendar - Koyomi - Yomiko. Does the hospital hang with in?

I see. The same level as us, indeed.

"It's easier to pass it on to you than to twist it too much."

…………

I didn't twist it, so the chairwoman even looked at me.

Maybe someone else is realizing by name that Ray is me.

"Where does the general manager belong?

"Legendary."

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"Stop the profound silence. I'm not HENTAI."

Well, indeed. It wouldn't make sense for everyone in Legendary to change.

... Although the Legendary natives I encountered were Mr. Figaro and the Demon King.

"By the way, why are you in Legendary?

"You can pull something good with chatter."

"............ yeah?

What's gacha... like it was in Mr. Alejandro's store?

"Oh. It's not like the item chatter. We're talking about a summons."

"Summon?"

"Yes, the Summoner System's Summoning Contract skill."

The director said the summoner system prepares what serves as a medium and signs a contract with shapeless summoning monsters in nature by dedicating costly MPs and items.

When the contract is concluded, a summoning monster will reside in the medium.

From now on, they will summon in a way that allows the soul in the medium to dwell by pouring MP in the skills of the summoner lineage to create a temporal first body with a time limit.

The postcontract behavior is pretty much the same as my "Princess".

"It's just that they're random."

I don't know what summoning monsters I can make a deal with until I call them.

The first time they apply to the Summoner Guild, they have generous rookie support that will provide them with items to replace the cost and MP for the rookie.

But after the second time, I have to prepare everything on my own.

And the cool-time of the Subpoena is pretty long with a month.

Therefore, they call it the "Moon One Summoning Contract Gacha".

... My clan also has a summoner system center that I'm taking, but I didn't know it was that kind of specification.

Incidentally, demon summonses, starting with [Demon General], are often referred to as' instant summonses' compared to summons contracts that require labor, including long cool-times.

I can definitely call what I aim for without randomness, but if that [Demon General (Logan)] doesn't use it, it seems to be significantly inferior in performance and cost than it usually is in summoning.

"And the contractor is random, but you can't go up (...)"

When you contract, the greater the cost you dedicate, the easier it is to come up with something good.

And even the more natural magic in the place to summon, the easier it seems to sign with a powerful summoning monster.

So it seems that the Legendary, rich in natural magic, is the land itself a booster for the summoner system.

It's an amplifier and a booster pack.

"Many people care about Jinx as well as the cost and the land."

"For example?"

"AM Zero, Fasting, Full Moon, Dancing, Skipping, PK, Level Up"

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I can somehow imagine when I ask your name...... is it chatter?

Legendary impressions finally chaos with HENTAI and nomination arrangements and chatter.

"Because unlike real chatter, you can't pull it off until you hit it. I'm trying to pull some good summoning monsters with a limited chance."

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I don't know, but I don't.

I was restricted to nemesis once a day.

"Though pulling a very strong summoning monster doesn't work properly. The stronger you are, the more MP you consume."

"Oh...... right"

My Gardranda ate a lot too.

The other day they also took the MP they were storing at the test of the Extreme Summon all at once.

... He won't even come out on the test when he uses the battlefield junction.

"What about the general manager?

"I'm normal. Teaching to pull in a rare place, something like that. Waterfront, water habitat, and high altitude, monsters with the nature of flight are comparable and easy to develop."

"I see."

It's called a cha-cha, but it's a subpoena ritual.

If you want to pull at the top of the mountain or something, look fantastic...

"When I pulled on the Legendary Throne, I was thrilled with the boulder, too."

"What are you doing!?

That's not a good place to use it for chatter!?

Not more disrespectful than kidnapping if you do poorly!?

Which mouth are you talking about 'normal' or something!?

"... did you get anything good out of that?

"Jinx is nothing but Jinx, Reiji."

"Even if they said 'I couldn't' with a crisp face..."

What happened after the contract chatter......

"... Well, I know very well that the Director hasn't changed two years after graduation"

"Yeah. I'm me. So Ling Er, is it true that the kingdom wasn't going to be a war soon?

"Yes."

"Ready... oh, I wonder if it's marked the Empire"

"Looks like..."

One reason I don't log in often right now is to avoid prior trouble.

I was leveling at the Labyrinth to avoid contact and engagement with the Empire, but apparently I'm marked from the Empire in circles.

As Patriot said, I have been wary of a lot of engagements with < super > on the Imperial side... and some people are trying to desperate before the awkward start.

So it is better not to be in a very public place... or unnecessarily log in before starting.

"Engagement with the Empire began in mid-March. Daimyo, as soon as I finished my exams and entered my new life, I ran into a case. And you've been sticking your neck in it ever since, haven't you?

"As you can guess..."

'Involved', not 'stuck in the neck'.

The difference in that nuance must be your understanding of a human being named me.

"Ling Er, you're no different."

She felt the same way about me, just like she said I wouldn't change the director.

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Unexpectedly, the General Manager was silently staring into the universe.

Is it some kind of habit, this guy has always had this happen from time to time.

"Shall I?"

And you decided something, that's what you were whining about.

"Can I ask you one question?

"What?

"Ling Er, you don't really want to overthrow the kingdom from the inside."

..................... what question?

"I'm not so sure I don't know why I'm being asked."

"Yes. Then I guess I'll keep it on that side (...)"

It is unclear what that side means.

But has the general manager been making statements that I and the deputy general manager don't understand for a long time? Apparently the rest of the crew didn't know any better though.

"You mean coming to the kingdom from Legendary?

"That's hard. I'm in the desert right now."

"Desert?"

"I was just going to go see the deputy director. Cross the great desert of Cardina from the Yellow River to the path of heaven and earth. There are so many things going on that my companion has gone home and is a solo. And on foot."

... walking alone in the desert is dying even in Dendro.

"I pulled the desert crap, and I think it's time to get to the Yellow River. So when you find a way to get around (...), decide to ride"

"... eh?

It seems that ships running on the sand are prevalent in Cardina, but is that the story?

The general manager doesn't tell me what it means to talk in a way that he teases off quite often.

Because that's the way it is, inside and out. "Actually, aren't you the director of divination research?" or something like that... "

The card this guy uses is TCG, not Tarot.

"You don't have to worry about it. I'm sure it's a different match than yours."

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Thoughtful, words as if to foresee the future.

Speaking of which, even in the memory I remembered the other day, the manager was talking to me like this.

A statement by the head of the department three years ago, as if he had implied what had happened on the first day of the "tournament".

Is that a coincidence, or is it really... No, because I have so many thought-provoking remarks, I may have just interpreted them as applying.

... Well, I know 'there's something strange in the world' under my sister's influence.

"You seem to have a lot on your mind. That doesn't change my habit of suddenly concentrating on thinking."

"Oh, excuse me..."

"Is that cliché still the same?

"... you say it once in a while"

Upon hearing my response, the manager laughed at the scratch.

"Yes. Then the next war...... Good luck if it was Tri Flags"

"Yes."

"... at first I thought I'd give you one of my advice, but should I stop? Because Ling Er, who is no different from the old days, won't have to be told."

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"I'm sure Reiji won't get lost then."

That's what he said. The manager stood up from the bench and dumped the empty can he had in the trash.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you. I'll see you around. There or here."

"Yes."

I'll call you when I go on an expedition to Tokyo.

That's what the chief said, he turned his heel back and left before me.

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After that, there was nothing particularly significant.

I played a new arcade game that I played most often in high school to change my mood, and my mother asked me on the phone to book tomorrow's birthcake and buy a Par II feed on my way home.

Then, curious, I logged in to Dendro just a little bit at Necafe... that's about what happened on May 4th.

So the fourth day of May ends, and the fifth day of May (my sister's birthday) comes.

To be continued