There was only silence that followed after the dungeon core said this.
Then as if it was scared that it had been rejected, the dungeon core asked, "Papa, is something wrong?"
Lin Fan's lips couldn't help twitching when he heard this.
He had thought that it was a mistake, but it seemed that he hadn't heard wrong.
The dungeon core had actually called him 'papa'...
But the creator of the dungeon cores was Weiss, so if he were to accept this title, then wouldn't it mean taking the position of a god?
That was definitely not something that he could do.
So after giving a cough to calm himself down, Lin Fan said, "I'm not your papa, you can call me big brother instead."
"You don't want to be my papa?" The dungeon core completely ignored the latter half of what he said and just focused on the first part. It seemed that no matter what, it had already decided to take him as its 'papa'...
Lin Fan really didn't know what to say.
The only good thing was that he could see that the new dungeon core had been registered in the Dungeon Master System. So at the very least, it meant that he had accomplished what he had wanted to accomplish here.
Was it because of the Dungeon Master System's influence that this dungeon core was calling him 'papa'?
Or was it something else?
Regardless, he didn't want to deal with it.
So for now, he would just let the dungeon core call him whatever it wanted to call him.
When he brought it to meet Weiss, which he was sure would happen since Weiss was the one that had sent him to pick up the dungeon core, then he would be able to let the dungeon core see who its real father was.
When that happened, then it would stop calling him papa.
So Lin Fan said with a sigh, "Just call me whatever you want."
The dungeon core said in a happy voice, "Then papa, I want to eat that now."
The thing that the dungeon core was referring to was the treat that Lin Fan had used to bait it into letting him approach.
Since he had already registered the new dungeon core into his Dungeon Master System, the DP that the dungeon core gained actually benefited him. So it was like taking money from one pocket and putting it in the other.
So Lin Fan didn't care as he tossed the thing over to the dungeon core.
When the dungeon core finished swallowing it, it gave a burp and said, "Thank you, papa!"
Lin Fan really didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this.
Taking a moment to gather his thoughts, Lin Fan then said, "Alright, let's get ready to go."
"Go?" The dungeon core said in a confused voice, "Where are we going?"
Lin Fan replied, "I'm taking you to a safer place. Eventually someone will find you if you stay here and it'll be dangerous for you."
But now...there was a chance to have a child with Lin Fan, even though it really wasn't a child...
Still, this was better than nothing.
All of the girls looked at each other before coming forward with sweet smiles.
All of them tried using different methods to coax the dungeon core into accepting them as its mother, but...all they did was scare it.
"Come, come, have some candy. Mama has a lot of it for you."
"No, no, come and play with this toy that mama has prepared for you."
"You should come with mama to play with the pets."
All of them were using different bribes to get the dungeon core to become closer to them, but it was too much for them to come all at once. With how forward they were being, they actually scared the dungeon core into hiding in Lin Fan's hand again.
Lin Fan just shook his head with a bitter smile before saying, "Alright, alright, let's not overwhelm it. Let's go slow here and let it choose what it wants."
The girls all had sad looks on their faces, but they still took a step back.
Though those sad looks quickly disappeared as they tried to coax the dungeon core from a distance.
The dungeon core slowly got used to this and started to observe the ones that were trying to coax it.
Finally, the dungeon core said, "Mama, my mama is here."
All of them suddenly stopped when they heard this and waited to see who the dungeon core would point out.
Lin Fan was also surprised when he heard this, but he waited to see who the dungeon core would pick. Though there was a part of him that already had an idea of who it would pick in the end.
After a moment of silence, the dungeon core started pulling Lin Fan forward.
It couldn't move much on its own, so it could only pull Lin Fan forward to move.
Lin Fan stepped forward in the direction that it pulled in, moving closer to the girls.
All of them had expectant looks on their faces, but those that were passed by him immediately looked sad.
Lin Fan moved past most of them until he stopped in front of a certain one.
"Mama!"
The dungeon core suddenly called out before jumping out of Lin Fan's hand towards that person.
Rokuko was caught off guard by this, but she quickly caught the new dungeon core in her hand with a smile on her face.
The two of them started to bond after this, but Rokuko made sure to look at the other girls with a triumphant smile on her face.
Though the other girls were envious of her, they didn't do anything.
Though in their minds, they were also planning on how to convince the dungeon core to accept them as its mother.
Lin Fan wasn't surprised to see this since Rokuko was a dungeon core just like this kid dungeon core. There must be some kind of resonance between the two of them that made it see her as a mother.
Though if he thought about it, shouldn't it be sister instead of mother?