Published: September 9, 2025
※2014/08/26 Typo corrections made
※2014/09/12 Some revisions made.
This is Satou. Illegal dumping has been an issue in Japan, and it seems it's a problem in another world as well. Among them, there are some cases of illegal dumping that are no laughing matter...
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“D-Do you mean to say that you had an outside contractor dispose of the demonic enhancement potion?!”
A subordinate of the Prime Minister thundered at the director of the Royal Research Institute.
Standing beside them, I was left speechless.
From the next morning, I, disguised as Kuro, joined the Prime Minister’s subordinate who came to inspect the Royal Research Institute to observe the proceedings.
“N-No, what we were entrusted with disposing of was the expired Morale Boosting Potion. There’s no way we would have entrusted something as dangerous as the demonic enhancement potion to an outsider…”
The director wiped the sweat from his brow, clearly unaware that it was the demonic enhancement potion.
However, the woman standing behind him, who appeared to be his secretary, looked pale. I directed the Prime Minister’s subordinate’s attention to her.
“You there, lady, you seem to know something. If you’re honest, I might speak to the Prime Minister to prevent charges of rebellion.”
“…Rebellion?! T-That’s absurd!”
The secretary sank to her knees pale as a sheet.
Through interrogation by the specialist the Prime Minister’s subordinate brought, we succeeded in extracting the truth from the director and secretary.
To my astonishment, due to a mistake by the secretary, the paperwork for disposing of the “Morale Boosting Potion” and the “demonic enhancement potion” had been switched.
Originally, the potion should have been mixed with acid to break down its components before being flushed into the sewer, but because it was mistaken for the Morale Boosting Potion, it was simply dissolved in water and dumped down the drain.
“—However, even if flushed into the sewer, it’s unlikely that it could reach quantities sufficient to cause transformation into monsters. Oral ingestion of the demonic enhancement potion requires dozens of doses before symptoms of monster transformation begin. I suspect there is another cause for the recent monster incident…”
“Nonsense. —Take them away.”
The director insisted vehemently, but the Prime Minister’s subordinate dismissed him without mercy and ordered the palace guards to take them both away. They said specialists would handle further questioning.
The low-ranking official accompanying the Prime Minister’s subordinate was ordered to inspect the actual disposal site, so I decided to tag along.
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“The way they dispose of trash? That’s not something high-ranking civil servants or noble lords should worry about.”
“Answer the questions asked.”
The low-ranking official grilled a servant in tattered clothes.
This man wasn’t a staff member but one of the men brought in from the slums of the downtown area to handle disposal of experimental animals and waste.
Accompanied by the servant, we were led to the dumping site.
It was a cylindrical room with a smooth, concrete-like texture.
In the center of the room’s floor was a circular hole about five meters in diameter, leading straight down about ten meters to a water surface.
“It’s dangerous to get too close. Before, a rookie fell in while disposing of potion and became slime food…”
—Slime?
There’s an underground passage nearby, but apparently none directly below here.
“Oh? Are you here first? Mind if I dump some trash?”
“Sir, may I?”
“Later—”
“Wait, it’s fine, let him dump it.”
The low-ranking official interrupted and let the man who just arrived dump the trash.
...It was the corpse after dissecting the monster in question.
Hmm? The rodent-type monster’s corpse was missing hind legs. The back and chest meat also seemed heavily shaved as if for sampling.
The low-ranking official frowned from the foul smell as I watched the disposal.
When the monster’s blood hit the water surface, slimes in the nearby underground passage gathered.