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Bella and Setsuko were back in the Dungeon, killing goblins, with Drake (a Level Four adventurer!) helping them out by just picking up the goblin corpses and popping out the magic stones, letting the rest of the thing evaporate into ash. It was crazy to be able to just... kill goblins like this. She'd been a scared little girl back home, when she'd met a goblin, but now she was a cool adventurer!

Drake seemed a little scary today, though. He was quieter than usual, and curter too. It didn't feel like he was mad at her, but it still bothered her. Setsuko would occasionally give him a worried look or a smile that was obviously trying to get one back, and he'd remember to smile at her. It wasn't a really heartfelt smile, though. It was definitely weird, since normally Drake was really nice.

She didn't really know what to do about it. When they'd pause for a moment in their exploration, to catch a breath in between fights, Drake wouldn't say anything, when normally at least he'd say something nice to Setsuko. Should she ask about it? How would that help, though? Plus, he was a Level Four, she couldn't help with anything he was going through...

"Are you okay?" Her mouth blurted out, her brain's perfectly logical thought processes completely overridden. Gah! Her cheeks turned red the moment she said it.

He sighed. "I'm fine, Bella. Thank you for your concern. Something bad happened, and there's not really anything I can do about it."

"Are you sure?" No, mouth! "I mean, you're a Level Four!"

He let out a small chuckle at that, reaching out to pat her head in a patronizing fashion. "Even Level Fours can't do everything."

"What happened?"

He let out a really long sigh, seeming to seriously consider if he even wanted to talk to her. "Rei died," he said. She blinked at that. Rei?! The Human Rex?! The woman who once ate a god?!? She was dead?! No wonder that Drake was upset!

"Oh," Bella said, not really knowing what else to say. "Sorry."

"It's not your fault," Drake replied. "Oh, and to be clear, it was Rei #11 who died." Bella had absolutely no idea what that meant, and she must have made a very ridiculous face in response to the statement, because he let out a much more sincere laugh in response to her face. "Sorry. Rei has the ability to split off copies of herself. They can recombine, but if they don't, and they die, then that's it. They're dead."

"Oh," Bella said. "Sorry." He let out a tiny little laugh at that, probably because she'd already said sorry earlier. Agh! She'd totally just been a downer for him when he was already down! Why did she always get so dumb around him?!

* * *

Erza worried about her co-wife, Rei. She was normally a lazy girl, interested mostly in earning some quick cash, stat points, and then returning to the surface - now, she seemed to want to dive as far down into the Dungeon as possible, moving with an eagerness to collect magic stones for Alipheese Fateburn the Sixteenth, and to acquire new forms for an increasing menagerie.

When she did find a monster that was new to her, she made Erza simply stand back, the Reis mobbing over it, adopting first a variety of lesser forms, and then, when she had the creature weakened or vulnerable, one or more of the Reis would take on the form of a Goliath, ripping, tearing, and eating at the flesh of whatever monster she'd eaten. Her expression would be grave each time she finished, like this was just one more step on a long journey.

"Rei," she said, after the petite girl finished eating a troll. "I cannot help but worry that you are pushing yourself hard. You have always been slow in your exploration of the Dungeon in the past, but now, you rush on ahead, heedless of danger."

The Reis all looked at her for a second, their eyes seeming matched despite the fact that they belonged to nine different bodies. "I have things I have to do, Erza," she said.

"Tell me," Erza said. "I am your friend, and your co-wife, Rei. It is my duty to help you with things like this."

The Reis glanced among themselves for a moment. "This is something you can't help with. Sorry, Erza. If you could, I'd ask, don't worry," one replied, and it seemed like it spoke for the rest. "Although..." One chimed in, making the others look at it. "If you want to make me feel better, you do have great boobs."

"Thank you," Erza said. Rei did compliment her on her breasts quite frequently, and she understood it was in part because she lusted after Erza. "I am afraid I cannot reciprocate your feelings, much as it pains me! I know you, Noriko, Julia, Ganko, and now Loki, all share a bond among each other I cannot hope to match!" She brought a fist up towards her chest. "Next time I model sexy outfits for Drake, I will at least tell you as much, so you can enjoy."

"Yeah, I saw the last time," that one said. That was strange. Erza didn't remember seeing her present. She must have been invisible, in the form of a small animal, or riding Drake's senses, and simply not told her at the time for fear of it becoming awkward. "It's fine," she replied, letting out a sigh.

"See? She's straight."

"What? I can ask."

"The rest of us didn't ask."

"Yeah, because you're pussies."

"No, because we're smart, and know it's pointless."

"Now!" Erza interrupted. "It is never pointless to ask for help from a friend. I understand that I cannot help you in this way, but I truly wish I could."

"It really is fine."

"She's going to do the 'hit me' thing next. Good job, idiot."

"I'm not an idiot! I'm just as smart as you!"

"Look," one of the Reis said, "let's just get back to hunting monsters, kay? I wanna get as many new forms as possible. Plus I want to get extra-deep, so we can find another Monster Rex. Just going Goliath mode on everybody is cool but also it's only equivalent to a Level Four, so we're almost there as a normie."

Erza nodded gravely. She did wish that Rei trusted her enough to tell her what she planned to do with all these forms, but whatever it was - she was sure it was important.

* * *

Bella was panting as she dodged around the third goblin's attack. Five of them had come at them this time, and she and Setsuko were left to fight them on their own, Drake just quietly watching overhead. The goblins ignored him, probably because when they didn't, he just killed them with a flick of his wrist, a knife jamming in their heads and killing them instantly. Her heart was pounding in her ears as she jumped to one side from a wild lunge by the goblin, the monster just belly-flopping onto the ground beyond where she'd been standing.

She grinned, jumping on it and slamming her own dagger right into the back of its neck, killing it, then hurriedly pulling her weapon out. After checking to make sure Setsuko had killed her monsters, she looked around to make sure that the Dungeon hadn't spawned any more monsters - then she saw them, a group of adventurers running. Her eyes widened as her brain processed what she was seeing, and then she and Setsuko both got yanked up off the ground by that weird Skill of Drake's, feeling like a hook had been placed in her shirt and she'd been pulled up by it. He held the pair of them under his arms as the three of them looked down at the scene, the adventurers glancing up at them for a moment before just continuing on. Several War Shadows followed in their wake - dangerous monsters that might have killed a first level adventurer like her. She'd heard they were called the 'newbie killers' from Setsuko.

Once the War Shadows had passed them, Drake settled them back down on the ground, then turned around and with a sigh, hurled four knives out in quick succession, his wrist flicking so fast it seemed to move only once. When it arrived at its targets, most of them fell, and the ones that didn't got yanked back by Drake, sending them skidding across the ground before he just stomped their heads in with one foot, quick stamps that left the creatures dead on the ground.

She felt her heart pumping in her chest a little faster as she watched him work. So that was the difference between a Level Four and a Level One! He then just treated the corpses of the War Shadows like they were fish, reeling them up, removing the knives, popping out their magic stones with a cold efficiency.

She definitely wanted to be as strong as him one day. She dragged her hand into a tight fist as she made that mental resolution.

* * *

As they packed up their things to leave the Dungeon, Bella asked a question of Drake that she'd started to wonder. "Why didn't you go after those guys?"

"Those guys?" Drake asked.

"The ones who tried to, um, pass parade us," she explained.

"Oh." Drake shrugged. "Why do you think they tried to pass parade you?" He asked, looking at Bella seriously. He felt omega-tall when he had that expression on his face.

"Um." Bella hesitated a moment. "Because they got scared?"

"Right. They were scared of being killed. Very scared," he explained. "So, I could go after them and... kill them?" Bella felt a bit queasy at that thought, and shook her head quickly. It didn't feel right to just jump to killing somebody. "What would I do, then? Tell them that when they pass paraded you, they put your life in danger? They knew that. That I'd hurt them if they tried it again? It'd be an empty threat." Bella looked down at the ground. "Besides, even if they believed it, well - better to risk me beating them up, than definitely get killed by monsters."

"I get it," Bella said, nodding along with his words. It made sense. He gave her hair a companionable ruffle, which felt less patronizing than last time.

"It's - when your life is in danger, really in danger, how you think changes," he told her. She looked up at him, hanging on every word. "It's all... cold calculations. It's panic, too, but most things get pushed to the side in the moment. I doubt they relished pass parading you, but they probably thought something like, If they have to die so that I can live, then... okay. And if they're thinking that way, what threat could possibly persuade them otherwise?"

She nodded. She remembered back when that goblin had been about to kill her, way back in her home village. No opportunities to push somebody else in front of them had been present, but if they had been... would she have? She didn't think so. But she didn't know.

"You're a good kid, Bella. Not everybody thinks like that," he added. "Julia, Cass, Kori, I know they'd never make that kind of calculation. I hope that I'm... mature enough, that I've trained myself enough, that I wouldn't make it myself."

"Trained yourself?" What did that mean?

He let out a small laugh. "There's sort of... two theories of morality, you could say it. On the one hand, people say morality comes from within. That you're a good person or a bad person. On the other hand, people say that morality comes from without. That you're in a good situation or a bad one." She nodded along, though she didn't see how that related to her question at all, but Drake definitely had an enchanting way of talking, and a really nice voice. "I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Probably most people do. But I also think that a lot of being a good person, is not thinking about it. Not considering your situation. Say that there's a burning building, every logical bit of information in your brain should tell you not to rush in to save people, because you'll probably just die and not save anybody. The only way that you can rush inside is if you don't think, just act. And how do you make it so your response to a situation like that is to act? The same way you adjust any other instinctive response: you train yourself to do it."

"Oh." Drake was definitely cool and mature. She gave him a little smile. "So how do you train it?"

"Do things that are good, until you don't even think about it any more. Some people have further to go than others. I doubt you have that far to go." He gave her a smile with that line, and she thought he really meant it - not just in some vague way either, like, he'd used his Level Four powers to see deep inside her and concluded that!

She felt her cheeks turn beet red. "Th-thanks!" Luckily for her, they were almost out of the Dungeon, so she just dashed on ahead, running right for the staircase, speed-saying some goodbye that wasn't coherent even to her, much less to Drake or Setsuko.

* * *

Setsuko smiled as she saw Drake wear a sincere smile at Bella's antics. He'd been in a terrible mood, and she couldn't blame him - even if she wasn't that close to Rei, she understood that the girl was close to Drake's heart. Even if the circumstances were strange, she had died. She reached over for Drake's hand, giving it a squeeze. He looked back at her, then surprised her by just pulling her into him, kissing her fiercely on the lips. She practically melted at his touch - then he broke off the kiss to throw a knife at a goblin.

"I'm glad you're feeling better," she said, hoping that wasn't the wrong thing to say.

"Yeah," he agreed simply. "Bella is a pretty cute kid, huh?" He asked.

Setsuko just smiled at that, leaning in to kiss him on the cheek. "You're really nice to her. Goro would..." She trailed off. Memories of Goro with Noriko were not the most pleasant memories of either of them. "Well, I'm sure you'll be an excellent father." Her hand went to her belly.

He chuckled at that. "Here's hoping," he told her, giving her own hand a squeeze right back.

* * *

The roar of the Amphisbaena seemed to echo in Rei #12's ears. It was a monster as strong as a Level Five - more like a Six, in the water. She had a few amphibious forms now, but there weren't any that were anywhere close to as strong as a Goliath. Her and Erza were both "just" Level Threes, though they fought way outside their weight class. "Do you think we can take it on?" She asked Erza. Despite how goofy the big-titty redhead could be, she knew her stuff in a fight.

Erza requipped into the Sea Empress Armor, looking like some kind of weird sexy Zora cosplay, but not as the hottest Zora (Ruto), or the second hottest (Mipha), but the kind from the original Zelda, with the ugly lizard faces. Erza seriously considered the creature, and Rei #12 looked back at it. They were well away from the water, and the critter hadn't even noticed them just yet.

The creature itself looked like a gargantuan dragon with two heads. The twist? Yeah, one of the heads was on its tail. Rei #1 was ready with the healing potions for sure, but Rei #12 wasn't sure that they'd help. It did have fire breath, after all, that was pretty nasty.

"I believe that we can do it, Rei," Erza said, her voice serious. "We will have to give it our all, however," she declared.

"We'll need a top-tier strat," Rei #8 chimed in. "Not just rushing in."

"That is a good idea," Erza agreed.

"Here's what I'm thinking - you take it head on, distract it, keep it busy. We get up close to it with Merman forms, then switch to Goliath forms to pin it. Then we just rip and tear and kill, until it's done."

"That isn't much of a plan," Erza noted.

"Yeah, well, you're the one with an entire library of Requips I don't know. You've seen all my monster forms. Any better ideas?"

Erza seriously considered the question, staring up at the Amphisbaena. At last, she shook her head. "No," she agreed. "Are you quite sure you want to do this, Rei?" She asked.

"Yeah," Rei #3 said. Erza nodded. The Reis scattered to either side - #2-6 to the left, #8-12 to the right - and Erza darted forward. The monster roared at her, lazily splashing out with a huge slice of water - Erza just brought up her sword and cut at the air, the water splitting to either side of her.

"Scared to face me on solid ground?" Erza demanded of the creature, her roar almost as loud as the Amphisbaena (okay, not really, but it felt like it). It seemed to consider the question, its four eyes peering down at her closely. Then it just belched blue fire down, scarring across the solid ground, and Erza darted to one side.

At that point, Rei #12 was close - and so were the rest of them. She adopted the form of a Merman, leaping into the giant waterfall that the Amphisbaena was currently using to loom over the field of battle, and once she was there, she instead took on the form of an Aqua Serpent. For her, it was a powerful current, beating down on her, even in this body - but for the Amphisbaena, it seemed to just float.

The Aqua Serpent felt unusually natural, compared to most of her forms. A skin like it was made for her. Her 'totem form' was a snake, so that made some sense, she mused, as she slithered up towards the Amphisbaena, which was roaring and trying to belch more breath weapons down at Erza. God it was so fucking hot how she just dodged and leapt and swung her sword at the creature's more perilous attacks, pissing it off. She slithered up towards the upper neck of the creature - 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were on the lower neck - and when she reached up near the tip, she morphed into a Goliath, the thrum of the argent engine in her chest seeming to grow louder in the process.

Everyone else's would, too, and they all soon adopted the form of the Goliath, grabbing the creature's necks in both arms, wrapping their legs around it too. It roared in anger and fury, as she pinned its necks like that, its short arms and legs clawing at #6 and #8, the ones closest to the core. Flesh got torn off in nasty chunks, pain completely blinding her for a moment, before Rei #1 poured healing potions all over her. The Amphisbaena lost its balance in the waterfall, and Erza leapt forward while it was distracted, slamming into it with the full weight of her rocking body, slamming her sword directly into its chest, a plume of red blood flying out and coating her as it lost its balance and then fell to the ground.

It tried to breathe at Erza, but it had no real ability to twist its neck at this point, and all the Reis put their mouths to good work, making the creature roar ever more piteously as flesh got torn out. Bile and sputters of flame almost got her, and presumably there was some similar problem at the other mouth, but Erza was on its chest, digging into the flesh of it deep, the creature's cries becoming weaker, more pained, more pathetic. It only urged Rei onward, mauling its neck, until the creature fell still on the cool ground, wet with blood (and also water, because it was aquatic). When it laid completely dead on the ground, she finally disentangled herself, feeling aches and burns from where it had thrashed and smacked her this way and that, pain bothering her.

Not as much as the rush of power, though. A fresh new form. Another Monster Rex! She could feel the intense burning in her chest, though, realizing now that she'd probably spent way too long in Goliath form for it to safe, quickly switching back. She was aglow - they all were - nine bodies surrounded by blue glow and countless floating, alien eyes, bouncing and bounding around them in a badass looking chorus. This was apparently called an 'anima banner,' and it was pretty fucking cool honestly. It meant she was guttering on power, though, and it made it impossible for her to turn invisible, so she avoided triggering it.

"Excellent work, Rei," Erza said, looking down at Rei #12, specifically, planting one hand on her shoulder. "We have slain a monster far beyond our Level, thanks to the power of friendship."

Rei #12 heard some snorts from the other Reis, but they were just jealous, because she wasn't snorting. She was smiling. "Yeah. Friendship," she said, reaching over for Erza, then just pulling her into a hug, her hands wandering down towards Erza's butt, the oblivious redhead obviously just thought she was enjoying a hug and skinship with her. It was really hot, though it would be hotter if they could actually have sex, but Erza wasn't that oblivious. Maybe she'd make Julia do some 'oblivious play' with her when they got home. Or Noriko? The autistic girl deffo had the right vibe for that, and her tits were really starting to come in. God, breeding girls was stupid hot.

Of course, the other Reis noticed what they were doing, and soon the pair were mobbed by other Reis, all trying to grope Erza 'subtly' themselves, earning a smile and laughter from Erza.

Well. Anyway, once she could get out of this mob, they should grab the magic stone and head on back up to the surface. It was probably worth a lot of sweet, sweet cash. Maybe she should start trying to get her own personal whore - it'd have to not be an amazon. Well, making a straight girl eat you out was hot, as Julia consistently proved. Well, Julia was straight-with-an-exception as far as Rei was concerned, but not with Noriko, which meant every time she went muff-diving on the cute autist she had this frisson of disgust along with the arousal and submission, which was hot. (Not hot enough Rei #12 wanted it all the time, but still.)

* * *

Bella felt so dumb about running off from Drake. She wanted to just bonk her head against the wall until the memory fell out! Grandpa said that could happen sometimes, but that could've just been another stupid story he was telling her, like how he totally had a whole harem of adventurers back in the day, all of whom were clawing over one another to get at him. Uh huh. Maybe if they were clawing over each other to beat him up for perving out or something.

It was obvious now that she thought about it: she had totally fallen for Drake. It was totally natural! Grandpa did talk about romance blooming in the Dungeon, and who's hotter than a guy who's tall, muscular, saves you from certain death, is kind, thinks you're a good person - her cheeks warmed at that thought. She really didn't want to face him! Was he trying to seduce her? Was that why he was so nice? Or was he the kind of guy who just effortlessly attracted tons of women to him? Well... she guessed being a Level Four who saved lives and protected cute girls was probably not 'effortless'. But, you know, without intending to!

Plus he had a pretty good dick, she thought, and Setsuko definitely came a lot when they had sex by how much she'd been moaning... No, now she was thinking like a total pervert! Guys didn't like girls like that! They wanted girls like Setsuko, who were sweet and nice! Especially a guy like Drake, who was literally married to Setsuko! She didn't have a chance! Even her own brain was betraying her! Plus she was pretty much flat up top. Though, she was still growing so maybe later she'd get some? Grandpa said her mom was pretty much flat, but her aunt was big-boobed, so she had a chance! She looked down at her boobs as if hoping that they would suddenly become amazingly big like Setsuko or Hestia's.

Predictably, they failed to do so.

She sighed, the sun setting in the sky now. She'd showered off. Wandered around the city, looking at all sorts of different places, then showered off again to waste time so she didn't have to go back to Setsuko's house, because Setsuko had seen her totally embarrassing freakout, and also was Drake's wife. She was starting to feel tired, and not in the exhausted-from-the-Dungeon sense, in the I-have-to-sleep sense. And... she didn't have any place else in the city she could stay.

She headed back to the house. It was huge. It was crazy to think that it was all for just three people. Even back in the village, that would've been crazy! Out here, in the middle of a city?! Setsuko had to be super rich!

She decided to go to Hestia to get her falna updated. The little power boost would probably make her feel a little better, and plus, Drake and Hestia mostly avoided each other. She closed the door, like Hestia always insisted, and took off her shirt. She didn't think Drake was the kind to peek, but Hestia was absolutely adamant that he "absolutely was! A total pervert like him, he'd definitely peek!" (Part of her kind of wanted him to peek. Then she could pretend to be all upset by it, and make him apologize, and...! No! This was Grandpa thinking!) She didn't really want to argue with the goddess about it. She'd learned fast that arguing with Hestia was pointless, because even if you won, it wouldn't change anything.

"Alright, here goes!" Hestia said, humming happily to herself. "I'm glad I got you, Bella! Setsuko's great, but she's married to that total pervert harem-monger," she said, her voice taking on a conspiratorial tone as she pricked her finger, then let a droplet of blood fall on Bella's back.

Bella let out a sigh as she felt her status rise. It took her a couple seconds to realize Hestia had stilled. "Goddess?" She asked, turning her head around to look at Hestia.

"Eh?" Hestia said, blinking. "Eh?"

"What?" Bella asked, starting to get worried.

"Did - did you meet a guy while you were out wandering around?" Hestia asked, her voice trembling.

"No," Bella said.

"In the Dungeon?"

"No."

"At any point since your last status update?!" She demanded.

Her last status update was yesterday, so... "No. Honestly..." She scratched her cheek. "The only guy I've even met here is the guy who makes my armor, Welf. He seems pretty good at it!"

Hestia let out a sigh of relief at that. "Ah. Good. Good to hear," she said, smiling and nodding along, which just confused Bella more. "So you like this Welf guy, huh?" She had this ridiculous expression as she spoke, like she was a twelve year old discussing crushes with another twelve year old, instead of a ten thousand year old goddess. It had to be a joke, and Bella just laughed at her goddess's antics. "E-eh?" Hestia sputtered.

"What?" Bella asked, concerned.

"You don't like Welf? Tell me you like Welf! Tell me Welf's the guy you like!" She grabbed Bella's shoulder and started shaking her. "Please! Come on!"

"I- I mean, um, he s-seems nice?" He was tall, and decently muscular. Not as tall as Drake, though.

"No... no! No!" She bonked her head against Bella's back. "No, come on, Bella, come on... not you too!"

"Not me too, what?" She asked.

Hestia just moaned. "Ah... forget it," she said at last. She sighed. "You have a Skill, it doesn't have a description, though," she explained. "It's called 'Liaris Freeze.'"

"Oh. Neat." She hoped it was a good Skill.

* * *

Rei was ready to let Loki just get in one (one!) free grope, as a tiny reward for eating her out that time, but Loki seemed to distracted by what was on her back. "Holy crap, it's been, what, a week since you Leveled and your stats are already past 700?!" Loki was obviously bewildered. "Don't push yourself too hard, Rei!"

"I'm not, I just laze around all day," Rei said, even though that was only technically true - the best kind of true, when dealing with a god or goddess.

"You just-! You have like nine clones doing Dungeon delves!"

"Yeah, and?"

"Ugh! So annoying when you do this," Loki said. "If you die in the Dungeon, then I won't get to grope these huge boobs any more," Loki said, her hands 'surprising' her with a sudden grope. Rei let out a soft moan - fuck, she hadn't set the sensitivity all the way back to normal after her last time fucking Drake. "Oh, wow, these boobs are pretty sensitive, huh?" Loki demanded, getting manic as her fingers just went at her tits. "Yeah, big fat tits like this are the best," she said, while Rei squirmed in place, trying not to come from the groping. She was undecided if she was letting Loki grope her like this to be nice, or because it felt good - really, it was all the same, though, because it felt nice for Rei, who was the most important person in the room.

"So, if I Leveled up again-"

"What?! You're already planning on Leveling?"

"Yeah. The Amphisbaena didn't count, did it? I was kinda hoping it would."

"The Amphisbaena-! What?!" Loki bonked her on the head. "Are you stupid? A Goliath is weaker than an Amphisbaena! That's your strongest form, isn't it?"

"Not anymore," Rei replied with a smug grin. "Now my strongest form is the Amphisbaena."

"You... you stupid child!" Loki grabbed a book from her table and began bonking her in the head with it, over and over. Of course it was utterly ineffectual, but it surprised Rei that she was willing to abandon the boob groping. "Everybody cares about you, and you go on a suicide run like that, for what? Another monster form?"

"Erza was there."

"Erza's a Level Three! Stop leading her astray! She's pregnant, too, also!"

"No worries," Rei said, smiling. "If my stats are high enough to Level, then that's all I needed."

Loki's expression turned dark. "You'd better not be planning to do something stupid with Knossos."

"Oh, absolutely not. Finn's taking the lead on that one."

Loki just squinted at her. "Promise not to do this kind of stupid suicide grinding again, and I won't ask what your actual plan is."

Rei shrugged. "Sure. Next time I go for a big pile of excelia, I'll do it alongside your top-tiers."

"Say you promise."

"I promise," Rei said.

"Say what you promise."

"I promise not to tell everybody in your familia that I peed on your face."

"Gah! No, that was squirting!"

"Squirting's pee," Rei said. Loki was fun to tease, especially now that she'd actually eaten her out. She guessed it wasn't a top-tier seduction technique, but then again, was Loki really in any place to complain?

"No, don't distract me! Say the actual promise!"

"Fine, fine," Rei said. "I promise that next time I go on a mad grind, it'll be alongside your high-rankers."

"Good. Good girl." Loki groped her boobs, and Rei turned into a snake. "Noooo!"

* * *

Phryne sighed, looking down at her supporter. He had been so cute, she just couldn't resist the urge to eat him all up, but he was just like all the others - too intimidated by her beauty! Now that they'd made love, he looked almost dead as he lay there, having had his balls completely drained! She was just too good at sex, really. Men couldn't handle it.

Ever since her stupid goddess had gotten their whole familia disbanded like an idiot, Phryne had been looking for another familia to join. Freya was obviously too jealous of her beauty to let her in. The Rohini familia, the one most of the Ishtar familia had joined, refused to allow her in, because those bitches were also jealous of her. Hephaistos said she didn't have any relevant skills. Loki said only cute girls were allowed in - probably just jealous, or blind. So she was left to be, in effect, a familia-less adventurer, until she found some god who was willing to take her in. Hermes had rejected her! He probably just knew she would have wrung him out and then been pretty much running his familia... yeah. That made the most sense.

She sighed again, pulling back on her pants, fastening them in place. She knew by experience that her supporter - she couldn't even remember his name - wouldn't be able to walk for hours. Maybe she should just leave him here for a while? Ugh. Then she'd have to find a new one, plus, he was cute. Once men had her, they never looked away ever again. She pulled on his pants, and he just trembled at her touch, anticipating a second round. "Heh, don't get too horny," Phryne said with a grin.

"So considerate!" The voice was female, and Phryne whipped her head around, raising her axe. Oh. It was that stupid Level Three bitch from the Loki familia. The dark skinned one. What did they call her? Ebony Agony? Something like that. Anyway, she was one of the ones at that stupid incident that had resulted in her familia being disbanded, and obviously, Phryne was nursing a grudge over that.

"You really shouldn't be this deep in the Dungeon," Phryne said, rolling her shoulders, cracking her fingers. "Something terrible could happen to you, and nobody'd know."

"So true!" She raised that weird ranged weapon of hers up, and shot it right at Phryne's eye, but Phryne was already dodging as she started to shoot. "My!" Phryne smashed her axe head down into the girl's scalp, cleaving straight through her body, bisecting her down the middle. Bitch probably thought she was prettier than her, too. Girls like her always did.

Was that gonna be enough to kill her? She was about ready to make sure to finish the job, cut her up into teeny-tiny pieces, when a loud noise came from behind her. She recognized the noise, but she turned around anyway - the Amphisbaena?! But they were only on the 23rd floor! It shouldn't have come up this high! It roared, blue flame forming in its maw, and she decided it was better to just abandon the annoying bitch and the cute supporter behind, running the opposite direction. It could eat them, and she could get to safety. Made sense to her. She was more important than them, plus, the Amphisbaena would definitely take care of that bitch without wasting her effort.

Only a few turns later, though, the Amphisbaena suddenly appeared in front of her, as if from nowhere, and this time, its blue flames washed right over her, burning her skin. She had no choice. She'd have to fight through it, and - it disappeared? More blue flames, this time from behind her, and she spun around. What the hell?! Could it teleport?! It burned, agonizing pain racing across every nerve, but she fought through it, roaring as she lunged at the creature, leaping at its mouth, axe in hand - and it disappeared again, leaving her to slam into the ground noisily.

This reminded her of something. A roar from behind her. Her skin still cooked under the unending flame, the pain agonizing, but she could fight through it. She lunged at it again, but this time, as she came up on the creature, she was ready: when it disappeared, she spun around to hurl her axe backwards at it - but it hadn't appeared? She landed with a thump on the ground. What the hell-? Another burst of fire, again from behind her, but past where the first Amphisbaena had been, belched over her body with precision targeting.

"Fuck youuu!" She shouted, the pain overwhelming, distracting, debilitating. She tried to jump, and her leg buckled under her, sending her careening face first into the ground. Her axe spilled out of her hands, her flesh seeming to just melt off her. "Fucking - teleporting - Amphisbaena," she growled, crawling forward, staring at the creature. One of her eyeballs seemed to just pop from the ever-burning flame, and the creature just quietly watched her, seeming to have more intelligence than normal for such a monster.

"That's for Rei #7, bitch. I didn't fucking forget," were the last words she heard.

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The girl without a name smacked both of her ears, trying to make sure that her body would stay together. Boy, were her clothes ruined by that! She'd pretty much have no choice but to wander back to the Loki familia half-naked through the streets, being leered at by whoever...

Is what she would have thought, if she couldn't turn invisible and basically fly. She sighed. She wished Drake would do more exhibitionist things with her, but he just wasn't comfortable with it. She understood. He'd gone a long way for her already, and she knew she was so kinky she'd have to deal down with any guy she got with! Even Brighton, her literal soulmate, wouldn't have blown a hole in her head and then fucked the hole!

She shook her head. What was she thinking about sex right now for?! Okay, yes, she had seen Phryne get burnt alive and then torn to ribbons by her soulmate, which was incredibly sexy, but there was a person in need, right there! She gently squatted down, taking his hand in hers. "Hello. I'm..." she couldn't use her name, or her title. "...an adventurer. Phryne, that terrible woman who raped you, got eaten by an Amphisbaena." That was even true! Though, the man in question didn't even seem cognizant of anything going on around him. Rape was so terrible! "It's okay. You don't have to talk. I'll carry you back up to Orario, if you don't mind? I'm having a bit of a wardrobe malfunction right now, but I promise, I won't do any nasty things like that nasty woman did. I only have sex with consenting partners." Well, and the Ishtar onahole. But that was different. Ishtar deserved that.

He just swallowed, and gave the tiniest bit of a nod - or maybe she was just imagining it. Either way, she gently lifted him up, putting him on her back and drawing his arms together around her neck. He could grope her at any time, and she couldn't even complain! Even Drake wouldn't complain, understanding that what the man had been through would naturally mean he might do something like that to try to reclaim control of his sexuality! What an awful bunch of things she was thinking about a rape victim! He hadn't done anything, even talked, and she could tell he wasn't physically aroused, since his groin was pushed into her back! She was definitely way too horny right now! She gently took hold of his thighs, hefting him up by them, and starting to carry him back to the first floor of the Dungeon.

The only reward she got when she arrived at the first floor was a bunch of male adventurers staring at her, since her clothes had pretty much completely evaporated around her groin, even if the two halves of her dress sort of hid her breasts. You'd almost think the serial rapist psychopath was inconsiderate! "Please don't peep too much, this man was just brutally raped by the notorious rapist Phryne Jamil, who then got eaten by an Amphisbaena," she said, which was all true. "He needs some help. I don't know what familia he's from..." Oh, right. Adventurers in Danmachi could be total jerks. "I have money!"

That got people moving.

She'd also give the poor rape victim some money too, of course! He'd definitely need help getting back on his feet! She'd have offered him her body, again so he could reestablish control over his own sexuality, except that Drake was her pimp, so he got to decide who she had sex with. But she would note that he could probably hire a prostitute! It might help! Or it might not, of course, since he might just not want to have sex with anybody! That was all up to him, she wouldn't judge him even a little bit.

He'd been through a lot, and she and Rei hadn't been able to help, on account of the Amphisbaena was too big to really be effective in melee in those caverns, and she couldn't use her fire breath around a rape victim.

Watching a man be raped... that was really disgusting! It wasn't sexy at all!

"Come on, babe, let's get you home," one of the Reis said, laying a smack on her bare ass.

"Ah, goshujinsama won't like me showing off any more," the girl without a name said, and Rei sighed as she disappeared into nothingness. "Don't worry," she whispered. "I'm really horny right now."

"Hell yeah!" Rei was so simple, it was too cute.

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