Volume 1 - CH 12

"I'm motivated, but I lose motivation when I see the wall."

"Don't say that. As long as you can't pay the entrance fee to the lower levels, this is the only way. Let's work hard and save up."

"I have a trick up my sleeve, though. It's too early."

"Backdoor trick?"

Looking at the brown scenery, Mars could feel his motivation fading.

He felt like going back to his room and flirting with Lilia.

As Mars gives up and digs at the wall, he sees Hazuki wandering alone in the distance.

She seemed to be looking for something.

"Eh, Isn;t that Hazuki-chan?"

"Yes, it is. She's the lascivious woman."

"You still call her a lascivious woman. ...... I see. She's such a serious, plain girl, but now she's wearing scantily clad black pants. ...... she's Erotic."

He could guess that Hazuki was looking for Xerius.

Considering that it was a large floor, it was not surprising that she could not join them.

Mars thought about talking to her, but it would be troublesome if she asked him to look for Xerius with her.

As for himself, he still hadn't forgiven Xerius for making fun of Lilia. It would be different if there was at least an apology.

――Why didn't she just come over here instead of that guy?

Maybe it has something to do with their age. Hazuki and Mars look about the same age.

Xerius is about the age of a college student. Mars is seventeen, about the age of a high school student.

When Mars was a high school student in Japan, the girls in his class would brag about their older boyfriends.

The disparity in knowledge, income, and affordability that comes from the difference in age creates a certain charm. It's almost like a dumb magic that will be broken when he get older.

He guess it's the same for young girls, even if the world is different, that they yearn for such things.

"I'm wearing a similar to Mars favorite. They are much more extreme than the pervert ones. It's called "Ro-Raizu", isn't it? I'm a little nervous because they're only long enough to barely cover my cleft. But when I wore it before, Master was very excited, aren't you? You're looked straight at me. ――Do you want to see it?"

"Will you show me?"

"Of course. Because I am Master's faithful sex slave."

*Gulp*, Mars gulped.

When you see it when it's nothing but before the act, it's a different kind of excitement.

"H-Hey, let's go to the shadows for a minute. ......―― I sound like a pervert, the way I say that."

"G-geez, I've already made it so big outside that it looks like it's going to burst. ...... Shall I give you the breast pinching that Master taught me before? It's called 'Paizuri'. You were very happy last time. You ejaculated a lot. It's easy to do in this dress. I don't know why it has a hole at the bottom. ――Is it possible that the dress was made for that purpose from the start?"

"Paizuri!, That's nice! I'm getting excited!"

When they were about to move, Hazuki spotted them from a distance and ran up to them.

As expected when someone calls out to you, you can't ignore it.

――I wanted to see the extreme panties: .......

And the paizuri. ......!

Even though she's wearing a dress with a hole in it for a paizure.

The impatience on Hazuki's face as she approaches is obvious.

"Aagh, I'm in trouble," Mars swears in his mind. He doesn't show it on his face. but, He doesn't stop his bright boy face.

"Hey, Both of you!"

"Ah, yeah. Hazuki-chan. What's wrong? Did you get separated?"

"Y-yes! But, it's different! Xerius and the others probably went to the lower levels on their own!"

Hazuki looked impatient and rushed. It was no wonder; Hazuki was in Xerius' party and knew their strength and the supplies they were preparing. She knows very well that the current situation is not enough.

"It's really annoying, a pervert. I wish you could at least read the air like a wind spirit. That man is a termite, and he knows how to break in."

"Y-Yes, ...... I'm sure he sneaks in in the middle of the night when there's no surveillance on the lower levels. ......"

Mars chuckled, "As expected of Lilia, how harsh."

――If I were told the same thing, I'd cry.

"The surveillance is also random. Some people just let you walk by because it's too much trouble. They'll never come back alive anyway. Lilia, this is the back-up plan. ――It's a pay-as-you-go strategy. It's the kind of thing you don't think about until you've gone through it."

"They're not coming back alive. ......"

"I-it's not like I'm talking about him or anything. It's just impossible if you think normally."

From Mars's point of view, Xerius and his team seemed to be unprepared.

There were only a few of them, and Xerius was probably the only one who was capable. Besides, how many of them knew what a dungeon was?

In the extreme world of dungeons, knowledge can be directly translated into power.

The lower you go, the more demons there are, and the more traps there are.

The place they were in was only safe because there were so many people coming and going.

Hazuki is confused.

There was nothing she could do on her own.

Can she leave the man she once had her heart set on to die?

The only way to save him was to ask Mars and the others to help him, but even that was doubtful.

Not only do she need their help, but she doesn't even know if Mars and the others are capable of reaching the lower levels.

"So, what do we do now, Hazuki-chan? For the record, I have no obligation to help that guy. He made a fool of Lilia, and I don't like him either."

"I thought you are going to say, 'Let's go help them so they don't abandon us with that garbage.' Considering what Master usually does."

Lilia looked surprised at Mars beside her.

Lilia's expectations and reality were different.

"There's a difference between not abandoning them and trying to help them with everything. He didn't ask me to do it. Besides, he did it of his own free will. It's not like he had some unreasonable misfortune. It's just that I didn't think he could do it, but he might be able to do it. In that case, I'm just being nosy."

"Y-You're so cold. ...... Somehow I thought you were a kinder person, Mars. ......"

"I'm cold people. It's not about others, it's about me."

The face of Mars that Lilia saw was the face of the other Mars that came out every once in a while.

His eyes were narrowed and his mouth was tightly closed.

He was not the bright, goofy, good-natured boy, but the shadowy face of a man.

"But, Hazuki-chan, it's up to you. If you want me to help you, I will. Then I won't abandon you."

"I-I'm not sure if it's safe for us to go to the lower levels, Master. ......? N-no, I will go if you order me to. But ......"

"Don't worry. I'll protect you. ――Since we're here, why don't I just use my backstabbing skills and go for it? I really wanted to get Lilia used to the atmosphere of the dungeon a little more, but..."

He says it as if it's so obvious that the air outside of Mars freezes.

It was too abrupt to make sense.

However, Lilia had a premonition of what she was about to be told.

A question that she had been feeling for a long, long time. The answer.

The reason for Mars' confidence.

"T-That's not so easy.……Mars-san might die, too!?"

"Aah, no, no. In fact, I'm well prepared with food and stuff, and to be more specific, I can conquer it by myself, really. But I wanted to have fun with everyone, so I wanted to have friends."

Like a magician revealing a trick, Mars was revealing part of his true nature.

It was a different face from the Mars Lilia knew.

"W-What do you mean?"

"Well, I'll explain as we walk through the lower levels, but I'm is the one who conquered [Ganymede] a year ago. Xerius is just making a fuss about it, taking credit for it. I didn't promote it at all."

The foundation of Hazuki is overturned.

If what Mars said was true, then there was no point in being with Xerius.

"――What? Mars-san is the real [Thunder]?"

"Let me show you the proof. ――Open, [Treasure House of Dreams]."

A vaguely black hole opens up in the space as Mars puts his hand to his side.

Putting his hand in there, Mars pulled out one of Lilia's costumes.

An erotic costume that was slightly uncomfortable to wear in this situation. It was a custom-made sailor suit, a hobby of Mars.

Lilia almost laughs at the fact that it is so Mars-like, even if it is ...... she dressed up.

"This is the magic of the [Book of Abominations] that I obtained in [Ganymede]. You can even go inside it. I've been using it by connecting it to my bag until now. So Lilia doesn't know either."

"I tried to think that the master was a good storing. ...... But to be honest, I was not surprised to hear that you was a breaker. I had a feeling that you would be."

――I knew Lilia suspected me.

Mars had known that Lilia had noticed, but had continued to ignore it.

He hadn't thought to tell her until the moment came.

"Eh, Eh!?"

Hazuki was dismayed and looked at both Mars and Lilia again and again.

Lilia was concerned about the price he had paid for her. There were too many other things to worry about.

Elves were relatively cheap, even for slaves, but it was still too much money for an ordinary person to have.

And a seventeen year old boy with no background was holding it. It seemed too inexplicable.

So did Mars' familiarity with the dungeon.

He didn't seem to be nervous at all.

When she sorted through all the information, it made the most sense to her to think that Mars was a breaker.

The reason she didn't ask was because she thought that Mars would not want to say anything about it.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you, Lilia. I was afraid that you might change your mind about me. I didn't want you to expect something from me. It's not always good to be special or stand out."

"I understand, because people who are different are ostracized. ――But please don't underestimate me. I will not change my view of my master, Mars, no matter who you are. You're the one and only supreme master for me."

"Lilia: ......"

"Mars: ......"

They leaned closer together, creating an atmosphere that suggested they were about to start kissing.

Hazuki intervened from the side and tore the air between them.

"E-Excuse me for a second! I didn't mean to disturb your good atmosphere!?

"You're still here, pervert. We are going to go back to our room and make love even more, so it would be nice if you could read the air and go somewhere else. How about in the ground there? The soil is soft and easy to dig in."

Lilia threw the pickaxe she was holding towards Hazuki.

Unlike Mars, Lilia really had no reason to go help Xerius.

She was insulted. Her first impressions of him were the worst.

Now that she knew that he was trying to snatch Mars' achievements, her second impression was even worse.

It would obviously be more meaningful to go back to our room and make out with Mars than to go help such a person.

"R-rather than that!, If you're telling the truth, please come with me! We might still be able to bring him back now!"

"――Rather than this? I don't want to hear that word. To us, that man is like a termite nesting in a tree. The world would be a much better place if he were gone. Right, master?"

"I wouldn't go that far. ...... ――Hey, Hazuki-chan, do you like that guy?"

"I-is that relevant to do with want to save him. ......?

"It's Motivation. It's not that I wouldn't help him if you liked him. That's one thing, that's another."

Not that it was in his nature to want other people's things, but it was a factor that excited him a little.

The fact that Hazuki was more pervert than he thought was another factor that bothered him.

He feel like he want to make her fall in love with him.

In addition to that, he also think that Hazuki should not be with Xerius, thinking calmly.

If she follow a man who is recklessly going forward without thinking ahead, she's sure to lose her life sooner or later.

The fact that they met in a local world without the internet is definitely a sign of fate.

――Then maybe she should stay with me.

Mars knows that it's not right to judge people's choices by his own yardstick. Still, he feels the need to stop the girl who seems to be going down a bad path.

"I've been in a relationship with him for a while and I thought I liked him a little bit, but now I'm not so sure ...... anymore, But I do have some feelings for him, and if I think he might die ...."

"I understand. But I'm going to help Hazuki-chan. He's on the sideline.――Is that okay with you?"

Lilia looked down and grinned a little.

――He's a real bitch. ...... But it seems to work for this woman.

When Hazuki nodded with a big smile, Lilia felt a little depressed that she would have to teach her the pecking order from now on. Mars is first, and next to him is her place.