Chapter 2

Back before my... I don't know, call it transference, I had been working on managing the Everyman-3 sleep cycle. At the time, I'd been going for a 4h45m main sleep, and three 30 minute naps littered throughout the day. Slowly but surely I'd been ticking down the time of the main sleep, trying to bring it down to the three hours I knew it could get to.

It was either being a Sidereal Exalted, or else just the little Body Talent perk I'd picked up, but apparently my body was much more flexible, and actually hit the mark I had been aiming for without even needing to set an alarm, so I woke up only three hours later, the darkness of night completely enveloping us. Unfortunately, I was covered in cuddlers. Erza's strong arms were wrapped around me from behind; Noriko clung to my arm with all the sweet intensity she could manage; and Cass was almost as bad. The only one I wasn't too worried about disturbing was the nude dark-skinned girl currently wrapped around my feet, mostly because I was sure I could kick her in the face from this position and she would be fine with it.

Still, I wasn't going to lie there inert for four hours, as pleasant as the four girls were. I gingerly, slowly, delicately, started to extricate myself from Noriko's grasp first. Unlike Cass, I was quite sure I could out-grapple the cutie, and I managed to do so without even rousing her, leaving her to simply drool on the bed wantonly. With one free hand, I could peel Erza's fingers back from my stomach one by one. I was just glad she wasn't having some kind of possessive dream where she needed to hug her teddy bear extra hard.

Once I was free of her, well... Cass was a very well trained grappler, and I didn't want to set off her instincts. She wasn't good with English, so I didn't want to whisper in her ear. I needed to signal to her that she should let me go, in such a way that she would get it quickly and not attack me.

So, I slipped my free hand under her arm and wiggled my fingers. That is to say, I tickled her. She let out some cute sleepy laughing noises, mumbled as she rubbed against my upper arm, and finally released when I tried to pull away.

Julia I just got out of without the slightest hesitation. She mumbled and twisted under the blanket as I got up and out of the bed, but eventually decided, "Goshujinsama is so cruel... he won't even let me cuddle at his feet like the bitch I am..."

"You can cuddle at Erza's feet," I told her, though I knew she'd rather cuddle mine. I gave the area her head was a quick pat, then got myself dressed and set about looking through the Twilight Manor.

It wasn't so much born of anything in particular that I was looking for, so much as boredom. Were I back on Earth, I would have just gone to my computer and started browsing away, watching videos on writing or history, or reading on the subjects, or just getting some work done by writing on my own. But, this was a medieval fantasy world, with the occasional modern accoutrement like an elevator or street lamps. There weren't any computers here at all.

There was a library in the Twilight Manor, and that was where I ultimately decided to settle in to while away some time, finding an interesting-looking book on the subject of the world's monsters - supposedly, every goblin or kobold on the surface supposedly traced its line of descent all the way right back to the very Dungeon we were going to be diving into for a living. They also seemed not to be particularly intelligent, despite their humanoid appearance, basically just growing by mitosis from their crystalline hearts, called "magic stones." The division between "people" and "monster," then, wasn't political or subjective, despite how it may have seemed at first glance: if you had a magic stone, you were a monster, if you didn't, you were a person. And monsters were pretty much your classic fantasy monster, just being dicks to humans and demihumans for the heck of it.

I yawned as I read, the dawn just approaching, so I headed back to the bedroom, flopping down on Erza and just kicking up my legs on Julia's face. She let out a sleepy moan of delight. "Stay down there for twenty minutes," I mumbled down to her, and I felt her nod, as I drifted off to sleep.

* * *

I woke up pretty much exactly twenty minutes later - I wondered if she was counting out the seconds, or just somehow had a really good time sense - with Julia's naked body in between my legs, on hands and knees, staring at my hard cock as if hypnotized by it, her body serving to raise the blanket and give my dick the space it needed to point up at the ceiling.

It was a fraction of a second before she noticed I was conscious, her blue eyes instantly flicking up to meet mine, an intensity in them. "Goshujinsama," she breathed out, her husky breaths teasing my cock in the process, "I waited for twenty minutes. Rape my face with your cock," she said, practically salivating in desire.

My arms by that point had wound up being the subject of cuddle-grapples by Noriko and Cass, so I didn't want to actually move them. I decided to go for the simple solution: "Rape it yourself, Bitch," I ordered.

"Yes, goshujinsama," she said, licking her lips wet and then simply diving right down my cock. Once again, she gagged on my dick, her throat having not yet gotten accustomed to such things. It felt good, the way her saliva speckled my thighs, the lewd look in her eyes - not so much determination as wanton lust. Her hand was down in between her thighs, and the faint noises of pleasure occasionally bubbling up from her position down there told me she was enjoying herself. The wet, repetitive noises of her choking, as she ground herself down on my cock, eventually caused both Cass and Noriko to rouse - Cass first, just staring down at Julia with a pink color to her cheeks, then Noriko a bit later, her large eyes blinking owlishly as she stared first up at me, then down at Julia.

There was the tiniest tremble of her lower lip, perhaps some hint of jealousy written on Noriko's features. I spoke up, then. "Why don't you take control of her pace?" I suggested to Noriko.

"Very well," Noriko said, quietly rising from her position alongside me, shifting herself behind me, grasping the back of Julia's head, and just immediately beginning to grind her face against my cock. I could smell her arousal as she mistreated the other girl like that, see the faint trickle of her juices down her thighs as she stared down at Julia, as she pressed her ever further down my cock. "The Prettiest Princess calls you goshujinsama," she said, blinking as she spoke without the slightest care for Julia, despite the way that, inch-by-inch, Julia was being forced back down my dick, moaning and rolling up her eyes in pleasure as she was so worked. "What does goshujinsama mean?"

"Ah. It can mean, husband, or Master. She uses it to mean Master, though," I explained, my breath catching a bit as I spoke from the intense feeling of Julia choking on my cock, the way her entire body vibrated around my dick.

"Should I call you goshujinsama?" Noriko asked, tilting her head. My cock faintly twitched in Julia's throat at that thought, and I could feel the heat radiating from Cass. Erza, somehow, remained blissfully asleep the whole time, her soft breaths not changing one lick.

"No," I said. In the original story, Noriko had called her lover Nanashi, or Nanashi-san. But... I had a better idea than that. "You can call me darling, instead."

"Very well. I will go along with this, darling," she said, and my cock twitched in Julia's throat again, as Noriko continued to choke her on my cock. She had been down there long enough that her eyes had begun to roll up. "Is that to your liking, darling?" Cass quietly nodded from next to me, not even giving me the chance to speak, but her gaze was mostly transfixed on Julia as she sputtered and jerked around my cock. "I was speaking to darling, not to you, Cassandra," Noriko noted.

"Cass can tell how I feel really well, and she's right. I really like hearing you, nnn, fuck," I panted, bucking my hips up against Julia's face, at least insofar as was possible, my balls slapping her chin. "Please, let my bitch breathe," I said, and Noriko dutifully peeled Julia up off my cock, the girl having a wild look in her eyes, saliva dribbling lewdly out of her half-open mouth.

"Ah, goshujinsama, you're making me submit to the tiny weak little girl," she half-moaned, her blue eyes rolling a bit in her skull as she recovered, clearly liking it. "You're treating me like I can be loaned out to whoever you please, even a girl like her, who's as weak as a Level One adventurer comes."

Something about the situation sparked an old memory in me, and I grinned as I realized the perfect thing for both of them. Noriko was as close to a genuine dominant as there was among the four of them, and the only one who was actually bisexual; and wasn't there a name that Julia had once used, for a woman who held a position above her on the totem pole, whose pussy she'd be forced to eat out? "Don't call her names like that," I said. "Instead, call her joousama." I turned my attention back up to Noriko. "That means queen, or mistress," I explained to her.

She smiled at that, a tiny, petite little thing, and she slammed the beautiful ebony beauty right back down on my cock before she could even speak. "In other words, you are stating that you believe I should be in a superior position to the Prettiest Princess, as her queen and mistress," she said, and I nodded. "Do you agree with his appraisal, The Prettiest Princess?" She asked, and I could see her hands shift to force Julia to nod. I wasn't even sure if she could actually have forced Julia to nod - neither of them was muscular, and Noriko was the smaller, but Noriko was a Hentalian, and their women were about as strong as an equivalent man. In any case, it definitely didn't matter, since Julia was clearly not fighting against her.

To my side, Cass continued to watch as Julia came in that position for the first time, saliva splattering out of her mouth as she was chokefucked on my cock. Her lovely green eyes watched with awe, her cheeks having by this point turned a delightful shade of red. Her naked body pressed that little bit further against me, more to keep her safe from the absurdly horny pervert that was Julia than out of arousal of her own.

Still, it was enough to push me over the edge, and I came at that point, groaning softly as my hips bucked up against Julia's face, the feeling of her choking, gagging throat serving to intensify my pleasure. It was only once I was completely spent that Noriko peeled her off my cock, leaving Julia to lewdly drool, a stupid expression on her beautiful face. "Thank you for raping my throat with goshujinsama's cock, joousama," she said, with absolute, perfect sincerity.

"I am aroused from this show, darling," Noriko declared, pushing Julia to one side, as if unconcerned about her satisfaction, either because she concluded that Julia was satisfied, or just because she had sex. "As you are now my husband, darling, it is your responsibility to ensure that my sexual needs are met," she explained, as she shifted her body so that her wet sex teased at my cock. I slipped my arm out from where Cass held it, and grasped Noriko by the hips, beginning to fuck her up and down on my cock, her dark hair bouncing freely around, her cheeks slowly growing pink with arousal as she got furiously fucked like that, her first orgasm hitting her in no time at all, squirting her cherry-strawberry juices all over my stomach.

"Fuck, you're tight," I breathed out, holding her down on me as her pussy convulsed frantically. Cass watched the whole show with heated cheeks; Erza absently snored from behind us. "God, damn," I breathed out, just losing my words from the warmth and wetness that now tightly enveloped my cock, squeezing and milking my whole length. I jerked faintly in place, as the twitching force of it drove me half-crazy. When her orgasm left her, I went right back to furiously fucking away, enjoying the way that her dark, shaggy hair bounced around freely.

In the end, I managed to make her come fourteen times before I finally let go inside her, Cass blushing furiously from my side at the ridiculous show of ecstasy that Noriko displayed. Erza managed to sleep through the whole thing.

* * *

After we had all washed up and gotten dressed, Noriko had begun to review the books in the Loki familia's library on the subject of upper floor monsters. The plan was that she would play the role of Supporter, since she lacked any particular superpowers or combat ability, unlike the rest of us. When I'd been selecting benefits for us to enjoy, I had put a good number of points into ensuring that any member of our party would be able to use magic, at least with practice, so I was hopeful on that front.

She had only had the opportunity for a small amount of study when we were taken to the dungeon for the first time, following after Finn, a blonde "pallum," which meant he looked like a little boy and was under four feet tall, despite being over forty years old and a Level Six veteran adventurer, as well as the captain of the Loki familia.

He was also being followed by Tione, who wandered after him like a little lost puppy. She was a long-haired amazon, with light chocolate skin and black hair. She was a bit taller than Julia, so around 5'5", if I had to take a guess, but it was pretty obvious that she was deeply infatuated with Finn. "You're looking cute as always today, General," Tione offered at one point.

"Thank you," Finn said, in an awkward fashion that made it clear that while he appreciated the compliment, and cared for the girl, he had no romantic interest in Tione herself. She didn't seem to really pick up on that, simply humming happily in response, a certain smug look to her face.

"There sure are a lot of them," Tione offered, as if remembering our presence. I thought I noticed Julia lick her lips out of the corner of my eye, but I tried my best not to wonder what ridiculous things she was thinking about at the moment. It was either about me fucking Tione, me fucking Finn, or me fucking both of them at the same time somehow, given what I knew about her tastes. That was too much thinking about it already, so I focused instead on Tione and Finn's conversation. "Did Loki only let them in because of how hot some of them are?" She asked Finn, her voice faux-conspiratorial. With an adventurer's enhanced senses, well, it wasn't too hard for me to pick up on it.

Finn sighed. "No. I saw the red-haired one in action myself - she's at least as strong as a Level One."

"Well, she is one," Tione said, with a quizzical note to her voice.

"Before she got her falna," Finn corrected. "And I said at least." He shifted his weight to one side, rubbing at his neck. "Maybe a Two, or a Three. It's hard to tell."

"Wow, that's strong," Tione said, twisting around to face the group of us, just walking backwards next to Finn. "And you guys have never been in the Dungeon before now?" We shook our heads. "Don't take it lightly just because we're here. Finn needs to see what you can do, got it? We're just here in case you screw up on your first time."

"I understand," Erza said. "I promise, I will strive my hardest to leave you with no work to do!"

Tione let out a pleasant little laugh at that, clearly taken with Erza's earnestness. "I'm glad to hear that, but what about the rest of you?"

"I..." Cass began, then paused. "Will work hard..." she decided.

"I am planning to be what is called a 'Supporter,' and therefore will not be involved in any fights, unless the other party members fail to adequately protect me," Noriko noted.

"I'm just looking forward to killing goblins," Julia said, making Tione laugh at that. "I have things I have to be strong to do," she added, with a wet lick of her lips that made me suddenly a tad concerned for the sanctity of my familia members' chastities. But, no. Julia would only rape (well, help her lover rape) or kill people who did really, truly bad things. I knew that about her.

"Ooo, but you're already married?" Tione asked, like it was a bit of gossip, leaning forward even as she kept backwards-walking. Finn clearly had decided to just politely ignore her behavior, even though it put her shapely ass only a foot or so from his face.

"Goshujinsama has denied me defloration," Julia said, without missing a beat.

I let out a sharp sigh as Tione turned her gaze to me, suspicion in it. "Any bedroom things are not premised on what level she is. And don't talk about our bedroom life with strangers, bitch."

Tione's expression instantly darkened at that last word. Even Finn slowed his pace a bit, glancing back over his shoulder at us, though I'm not sure it wasn't just to make sure that Tione wasn't about to cut my head off. I really wished that I hadn't somehow already gotten used to calling Julia 'bitch.' "What was that?"

"Yes, goshujinsama," Julia said, seeming not to quite realize what situation we were in, or perhaps just thinking it was funnier not to. "How can you call Tione a stranger, when she's part of our familia?"

"That's not what I was talking about," Tione said.

Fortunately, Erza spoke up then. "I understand your concern," she said, "but in truth, The Prettiest Princess enjoys being called by many names, among them Bitch."

"Oh, I'm so sorry, goshujinsama, I'm so used to being your onahole bitch who exists to get fucked and thrown away, but even so, I can't believe that I didn't realize that's what Tione meant!" Julia pressed her hand against her chest in faux-apology.

"What a coincidence, I can't believe it either," I told Julia, scowling at her, then turning my attention back to Tione. "She has a tendency to... act out. She doesn't think that social conventions are important and thinks it's funny to thumb her nose at them. Which includes calling herself an onahole bitch in a public space."

"What's an onahole?" Tione asked.

"You don't-" was as far as I got before Julia jumped in with an even louder voice.

"It's a sex toy, it's squishy and flexible and you put your man's cock in it to jerk him off," Julia explained quickly.

"Then it makes sense to call you one," Noriko agreed.

"Thank you, joousama," Julia said, hefting up and hugging the petite girl to her chest.

Tione appeared to consider us for a long couple seconds, then just shook her head and decided conversation with Finn would be a better use of her time, twisting back around to face forward and talk to him.

* * *

————— idly twirled the anti-materiel rifle in her hand, spinning it round and round, her enhanced strength as a Level One making it fairly easy to do. Finn had watched Erza trivially dispatch dozens of kobolds and goblins at this point, and had wound up demanding that the rest of their party try fighting with Erza as their backup. She understood why perfectly well. A falna only got stronger at a significant pace if the person was actually straining, and with Erza stomping all over the monsters, they certainly weren't.

They had destroyed the latest batch of goblins and kobolds, or at least, she and Cass had. Drake and Noriko didn't have quite the same skill at it. Drake had been trying, but it was obvious he'd never fought or killed anybody before, and whatever new power had flooded his body, it hadn't fully compensated. Noriko just quietly hid behind her, and ————— didn't mind protecting her at all, since she was going to be their Supporter and eventual mage, according to Drake.

She wondered what Noriko was from. She didn't recognize the dark-haired anime autist from anything, but there was no doubt in her mind she was from some delicious waifubait show that she had lamentably missed. It was either slice of life, or some kind of secret death game or supernatural world type deal, like Gantz or Persona, since she didn't have anything too exceptional about her. She'd ask Drake about her later.

—————'s real concern, though, was Finn. He watched them fight with a workman's gaze, just making sure that nobody died as they made their way through the first floor of the dungeon. But she didn't care about that. She cared about how, later on in the Danmachi plot, he would wind up trying to kill the Xenos - monsters who were actually people, unlike the ones they were killing, that were just death-dealing automatons - to the point that Loki herself didn't think she could get him to stop. She couldn't just assume that people here were exactly like they were in the anime, light novel, or manga - after all, they could be from any! They could even be from some crappy fanfiction where Hestia was written as a cinnamon roll instead of the adorkable spaz she was in canon! Or this could be an alternate universe, or there could be reincarnators mixed into the standard cast, or something else ridiculous.

But... Finn did seem like Finn. Serious and hard-working, it was easy to see why Tione had fallen for him. Especially since he was so cute! She just wanted to see Drake bend him over his desk and rail him to high heaven. The cutie could even fuck Tione in turn, that would be so hot... she could rim Drake while he did it, making sure he stayed hard as he fucked the legal shota... she licked her lips again at the thought.

"Something the matter?" Finn asked, refusing to even call her The Prettiest Princess. It was cute, the way that Erza and Noriko both obliviously called her that.

"Ah... I was just thinking about a story from my homeland," she explained, having an idea. "It's from a grand epic called The Promised Neverland, but you'll never read it, so I don't have to worry about spoiling it for you."

He let out a small laugh at that. "Spoiling it?"

"Oh, I guess you wouldn't have that idea here," she said, with a hum. It wasn't as if anybody worried about spoiling Dante's Inferno or Medea. "Let me tell you the tale, of Duke Leuvis and Goldy Pond and Emma." She took in a deep breath. "Leuvis was a demon, you see, a kind of monster that eats humans, but has a human intelligence, and culture, and language. They had taken control of a whole great land, and some of them kept humans to eat them. Goldy Pond had once been meant as a refuge for the humans of that land, but had been turned into a hunting ground by the demons. Emma had arrived, and he had realized she was no ordinary human. She was smart. The richest of the demons wanted to eat specifically smart humans."

"And what can this Duke Leuvis do?" Finn asked, at least a bit interested.

"Oh, he can jump around fast, and regenerate, and is a centuries-old fighter," ————— said, waving her hand. That wasn't the important part of the story. "But that's not what's important. You see, Goldy Pond was maintained by a demon named Bayon, and among the demons, it was illegal. Leuvis and Bayon had both been among the five demons out there hunting the humans for sport - but, at the moment of the confrontation between Leuvis and Emma, Bayon had already been killed. So had the other three demons. Only Leuvis remained, but he was very strong, and Emma's allies had been wounded in the fighting."

"So how did she beat him?"

"Ah, that's the really clever part, the part that shows just how smart of a person Emma was. You see," ————— leaned forward to emphasize her next words, "Leuvis had tried to ensure that Emma hated him, by killing two people just for that purpose. And he had succeeded. But Emma stood before him - he was the sort to like the thrill of an honorable fight, you know the type - and she told him:" she took a deep breath, since this was the true lesson of the story, at least as far as she was concerned, "Bayon is dead. Goldy Pond will stop existing no matter what happens here. You have nothing to gain by continuing to fight; let's both go our separate ways."

Finn actually furrowed his brow at that. "What kind of ending is that?"

"The smartest!" ————— explained. "It would be so easy to lose sight of the question, for what purpose am I fighting? Emma was fighting to live! Leuvis was fighting for fun! But his fun was all over, and they'd already showed their strength, so he would be better served by retreating. Emma wouldn't gain anything by killing him, since Goldy Pond was going to stop existing soon, and you can't bring back the dead with more dead. If he had walked away then, she would be just as well off as if they had fought to the death and she'd triumphed. But," ————— waved her finger in the air pointedly, "how many wars have continued, to great tragedy, because everyone ignored that simple question, of why to keep fighting in the first place?"

Finn didn't seem to really get it, just letting out a small noise of acknowledgement. "I get it. What is that thing, anyway?" He gestured to the weapon in her hand. "You called it a gun?"

"Oh. It's a Barrett M107," ————— explained, knowing perfectly well it didn't explain anything at all. "It's made to shoot through the heaviest of armor, and it's so heavy. I never could have wielded it before my falna, but now, it's pretty light!"

"I mean-" Finn cut himself off. "What is a gun? Other than a ranged weapon that's obnoxiously loud."

"That's what a gun is!" ————— proudly proclaimed. The little sigh that Finn let out in response was music to her ears.

"Are they common in your homeland?"

"Yes, I used to steal them all the time," she explained, fluttering her eyelashes, and he stared at it. "Smaller guns, obviously," she added, hefting the weapon up. "Let's get back to work, goshujinsama needs to practice too." Drake had just woken up from his little cat-nap, but he was pretending to still be asleep, or else struggling to force himself to actually rise. Fortunately, she had just the thing. She pointed her gun at the ceiling and fired off a round, the explosive noise making everybody cover their ears in pain.

She couldn't help but grin. Gunfire always made her smile. She had so many good memories associated with it.