Anomalous Dungeon
A.N: Harem wins, overwhelmingly, max 4 members.
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Few days have passed since then, his relation with Ryuu improved, nowadays she would cling to him for emotional support. Suzuki would be lying if he said that he didn't enjoy such luxury. Passing his everyday with a stable job and bed to sleep.
To him, Ryuu became a part of his family, someone he would care for in this world.
The eatery felt like home, no longer making him feel like an outsider. The structure of the hostess of fertility felt akin to every fantasy guild bar, people came and left, leaving behind a different tale with every new encounter. Surrounding him, adventurers of various different species drank forgetting the woes of the world. Even gods entered this lowly place, on one of the tables stood Ganesha boasting on about his Familia while in a different table some other gods were happily gushing over their children.
It was then he felt eyes on him,
'So, you're the kid, Ryuu picked up' goddess Loki crouched looking at him face to face.
Dressed up in tomboyish or male attire, mainly jeans and a shirt that shows off her stomach, tying her hair back in a simple pony-tail.
Her eyes had a unique glint at them, looking at him as a piece of meat, a lamb to be feasted on, it actually terrified(aroused?) him, to gain interest of this god.
'Y-you have the wrong person' curse this pubescent body.
'Is that so, you why don't you join me' saying so she picked him up without his permission and left for her table, others behind her didn't even spare a glance towards him, busy getting to their table first. This was another Familia booking the entire section of this place, the Loki Familia known to be the strongest Familia in this city were currently busy loosening down with beers, apparently one of their children leveled up.
Currently sitting on her lap as if a rare animal, all other member of her Famila watched him curiously.
'You shouldn't disturb the boy when he's busy working, loki' said a mature fantasy elf.
Loki looking indignant in her expression ignored her fully and instead,
"Open your mouth, child" she started feeding him...a service this place now provides to anyone willing to pay.
Suzuki decided to follow the script that Mia gave her previously and roleplay his part to the paper.
"Onee-chan...please feed me. Ah..." and failed as a human being, at least the pays good.
Other member in her Familia watched amusedly as he performed his act, after a while two amazoness decided to join Loki as well.
After Loki Familia left, Mia gave Suzuki a little extra valis today for going along with the goddesses shenanigan's for the rest of the night.
Ainz POV:
Little by little he felt something inside his other self changing, the overlord did not like that. The core personality was getting soft with each passing day, something that would lead both of them to their death.
However, he still stayed his hand, in fear of the murky thing living within threatening to sever their connection.
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It was yet another day, adventurer's should be going their way, into the dungeon to make ends meet, after all it was the end of the month and their Familia raking in heavy bills.
He walked over the stone carpeted streets, passing through many different buildings made with Victorian architecture. The cloudy sky spoke of rain later in time, birds rushed to homes with food to feed their infants. While people too frantically ran along towards their destination, without paying heed to his existence.
In the corner of his eyes, he saw Syr standing in the same place, waiting for bell to pass by. While he also heard the rowdy voices in the inn, members of Loki Familia eating their breakfasts. It was supposed to be yet another day happily spent working in the establishment.
However, something was different, there weren't any adventurer's going towards dungeon. Most seem to be running from it.
Curious he decided to erase his presence, soon coming across two adventurers with a rather loose mouth,
Both lower levels as he knew through their aura, one dragging the other to an empty alley,
"Did you hear?" spoke the adventurers with an ill gotten smirk on his face.
"what?" replied the other in annoyance.
"Well, Loki Familia failed on their latest expedition"
"...No way. Aren't they supposedly the strongest, in Orario" shocked stood the man listening on this grave news.
"That's why the dungeons seemed busy for a few days. Monsters, were spotted recently in the entrance as well. Higher ups fear that dungeon may have become sentient"
"What?!"
"Shh! This news is currently circulating in the black market, bought it for a hefty price however, There something else" the adventurer's turned somber
"what more"
"The sword princess is dead. During the recent expedition, Loki Familia got cornered by the monster parade, in the end the sword princess decided to stay, letting her Familia escape with their life"
Hearing of her unlikely demise of such a strong adventurer struck Suzuki's heart with sadness making the unwanted resident twitch even more, the overlord within saw this as his chance.
'What happened to her, with the way you are behaving may as well happen to us as well' using the ability ['Fear'] the overlord spoke to Suzuki in a grave tone. Something, that he normally would never do.
'What are you talking about?'
'Oblivious, are you? Have you not noticed or is it that you ignore it even now? Currently, your mind has regressed to a child'
'...'
'If this goes on, slowly you would lose your previous identity entirely to this naive resident' said the overlord pointing at the third person, cowering at the corner in fear. Half of that person's self was Suzuki while the other half was the person's whose body they snatched.
'I am scared-no that wasn't what I wanted to say'
'It seems you have lost a good part of your self. Was it your weak mind that let itself get corroded, hm...It seems there remains only one way...however you wouldn't like it'
'speak...' suzuki spoke with great difficulty, the conscious of this world trying to silence him.
'let yourself be devoured to me. I am already you, our previous connection would make as us whole, destroying the intruder here' the cold cynical overlord looked with eyes blazing in anger, towards the being that tried possessing his old self.
'It is up to you on what choice to make, to become a puppet of earthly flesh filled with desire that resemble not your own or strode forth in your own path while retaining your old self'
Suzuki or what ever conscious remained of him closed him eyes thinking deeply on the path to chose, to gamble his fate with his new self or retain his past and strive for glory.
"I..."
and so the die was cast.