「It definitely exist. However, it’s just that not many people know how it actually looks.」
「People don’t even know how it looks like?」
「Yes. It also seems like even butchers don’t tend to buy it just so that they could avoid the trouble related to it. That is why regular people didn’t even see it and tend to think that it doesn’t exist at all.」
According to Sherry, the Triangular Boneless Ribs really do exist. And if she says that they are real, then it has to mean that they are truly real. However, even though we challenged the same Floor Boss many times on that day, it didn’t drop the Triangular Boneless Ribs or Zabuton even once.
Just how long are we going to keep missing it?
「Master, it is almost evening.」
「I understand. Let’s wrap things up here then.」
Roxanne tells me the time, and I declare that its time to end the hinting for today.
「It’s a shame that we tried so many times today, but ultimately didn’t get a single Triangular Boneless Ribs or Zabuton.」
「Indeed. It would seem that these ingredients are really difficult to obtain. Well, there’s nothing that we can do about it though.」
Sherry tried comforting me.
「That is also why I would like to continue fighting against the Floor Boss of the twenty-ninth floor tomorrow, but what do you all think about it?」
I asked everyone else for suggestions.
「Mumumu... tomorrow as well, huh?」
「At this rate, doesn’t it feel like we’ve lost in a way?」
「Un. And losing is not a good thing.」
Oh?
Is this going to work? Am I going to force them into accepting it?
I asked Sherry while trying to sound as confused as possible. I wonder if Sherry is going to be able to tell the difference between the Triangular Boneless Ribs and the regular Boneless Ribs.
「Are you able to tell?」
「No. Uhm... I only know that if it’s really a Triangular Boneless Ribs, then it shouldn’t fit into the Item Box space containing the regular Boneless Ribs.」
I see. So that is one way of differentiating between the two. It makes sense, since you can put multiple copies of the same item in the same Item Box Slot, but you cannot put two different Items in the same Item Box slot.
Therefore, Triangular Boneless Ribs and Boneless Ribs should be treated as separate items, and when I tried fitting the Triangular Boneless Ribs into the Boneless Ribs slot, it really couldn’t fit in there at all, but it fit when I moved it into a free space in another row.
「Ohh, is that how it is?」
「Looks that way.」
Damn! I should have told them that these are Triangular Boneless Ribs from the start. If I did that, then I could appeal to them by showing how smart I actually am.
No, even if I could appeal how smart I am, then there’s no reason for me to pretend to be smart. I am genuinely smart, and I don’t have to disguise or hide it in any way. Perhaps.
Sherry must’ve also seen that I was confused because I couldn’t place the Triangular Boneless Ribs in my Item Box. In her eyes, I must be looking like an idiot who didn’t noticed that he managed to obtain the Triangular Boneless Ribs, and so she was looking at me with somewhat cold eyes.
No, I am sure that this is just my imagination. I want to believe that this is nothing but my imagination.
Damn, now that just makes me feel bad about myself. However, now that I have it in my Item Box an be able to find it in there, I should be able to sell it at the butcher’s shop. However, this might end up not working, since not all of the customers have access to Item Boxes, and we cannot just go and sell things that would be limited only to Explorers or Adventurers. Even if you have an Item Box, it would be useless if you don’t already have the Boneless Ribs in it.
After putting the Triangular Boneless Ribs into my Item Box and dispatching the Floor Boss that has become petrified with magic, it turned into smoke, and once the smoke disappeared, I saw that if left a meat item behind when it died.
Ara? It’s Zabuton. After we obtained the Triangular Boneless Ribs, that was the only item left, but we managed to obtain it in this Floor Boss battle.
「Oh, looks like we managed to get Zabuton this time. This makes two rare ingredients in succession.」
We really are on a roll with these ingredients right now. Or maybe its just a matter of luck? Or maybe the Triangular Boneless Ribs and Zabuton have set dates of appearances that are really close to one another?Normally it is said that these things are so rare that people think they don’t exist, but yesterday we managed to get one of these things, and the other thing today.
I wonder if there is a pattern to it? Although that does not seem very likely.
People usually tend to think that if it is said that once in a hundred years disaster is going to occur every one hundred years, but in reality, disasters like that tend to happen once every several years. I have heard that this is more natural in terms of probability. Large earthquakes are excluded from this equation because they are inevitably periodic happenings due to the need to store energy. In other words, even if I gotten my hands on Triangular Boneless Ribs and Zabuton in a row, that does not mean anything special.