The mage, Celeste, insists on continuing working so Ryota puts her to sleep and allows the trash to spawn monsters so he can gather more homing bullets. Celeste recovers and explains drops from Selen are temporarily tax exempt until Selen’s owner is determined, so hundreds of adventurers are there taking advantage and generating extra trash. Haruto learns from Duke, Secro’s representative, that adventurers will capture vegetable monsters for him to kill to increase the S level vegetable drops. Harvard, Hetero’s representative, hires F rank adventurer Eugene to kill as many vegetable monsters as possible that will then only drop worthless F rank vegetables, sabotaging Haruto’s efforts. Haruto buys Emily an expensive jewelled ring she admired earlier, which increases the value of all her dropped items by one level. Haruto encounters trouble when Harvard manipulates a powerful meat dropping monster to attack them. If Haruto kills it it will drop S level meat, ruining Secro’s claim to Selen. Fortunately Emily is able to kill it and receive an F rank meat instead. Harvard hires triple the number of Hetero adventurers so Haruto is forced to hunt only the rarest monsters with the best drops. Harvard fires Eugene and his adventurers who try to ambush Haruto for costing them their jobs. After defeating then healing them Eugene realises he misjudged Haruto.