D-Genesis: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 3] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Yoyogi Dungeon, First Floor

One Night Prior

“Think we could have packed more sprays?” I grumbled.

We’d dashed off to Yoyogi Dungeon right after Naruse had left, to prepare for our part in averting the worldwide crisis that had suddenly been laid at our feet.

First, we were going to need a way to deal with the slimes.

We decided to turn in a dungeon patent application for our slime-killing method to protect our financial interests when we made it public. But doing so meant another round of research to back our claims.

“It’d be really helpful if they just sold small sample sizes,” Miyoshi commented.

Surfactants were used across a wide range of scientific fields, and came in several different types. We’d spent hours transferring all the ones we could get our hands on into hundred-milliliter spray bottles.

“But, c’est la vie! We don’t know what exactly it is about the benzethonium chloride that produces the effect, so we couldn’t preemptively narrow our options down.” Miyoshi extracted a tablet from Storage. “Anyway, no time like the present! Let’s get testing!”

We had a mountain of surfactants to get through. Nothing to do but to just wander around spraying them on slimes one by one.

“First, anionic,” Miyoshi commanded.

“All the bottles labeled ‘anionic’ then? Got it.”

“Yep. Please go in order, one through six.”

I took out the trigger spray bottle labeled “Anionic #1,” and nodded. “Here goes! Anionic #1!”

“Fire in the hole!”

I gave a nearby slime three spurts. Each spurt measured about 0.3 milliliters, for a one-milliliter testing size total.

“Noting alkylbenzene sulfonate: no effect,” Miyoshi intoned.

“I feel like I’ve heard that compound name somewhere before.”

“It was one of the main substances blamed for causing toxic foam around wastewater a few years back. If dodecyl’s a bust too, we can probably write off all the alkylbenzene variants.”

“All right. Anionic #2! Take this!”

The bottle let out a quick hiss, the surfactant misting down to the slime.

The slime shook like a dog walking out of a bath, but showed no signs of damage.

“Aaand that’s top-shelf alcohol ruled out.” Miyoshi made a note on her tablet. “Go ahead and give #3 and #4 a try.”

“Shouldn’t I get a new slime? Probably not good to mix fluids.”

“True. If you could.”

“Roger.”

Keeping an eye out for any wandering explorers, we made our way through Anionic #6, ruling out all of the anionic samples.

“Shoot. I was hoping the olefin sulfonates would have some effect, given they’re an element of fish toxins, but...”

“Nothing at all,” I responded.

Though if the toxins had an effect, it might not show up right away.

“Okay, next, noniconic.”

“Not cationic?” Cationic was the category to which benzethonium chloride belonged.

“We know those should work, so let’s check the others first.”

“Good point.”

I extracted Nonionic #1 and pointed it at a new slime.

I squeezed the trigger and the compound mist descended onto the slime. No obvious change took place.

The same was true of #2 through #5. Taking Sample #6 out, something caught my eye.

“Why is this one not spray-type?” I asked.

“Oh, there’s a reason,” Miyoshi responded cryptically. “Just lather some on.

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