Suzukis head, Dreamscape...
Suzuki POV:
I'm guessing this is a dream huh...
I'm currently standing naked, on what seems to be an infinite body of water. The clouds above are those that were on earth. Muddy, grimy and dirty. A couple meters away is a couch, with a man sitting on it. As I approach the man to ask him what this place is, I see that it's my couch. The one I spent many nights on, the one I watched tv on, the one I ate on, and the one I played video games on.
This man is similar to me. His head shape, hair color, and the markings on his hands. He wears a baggy gray sweatshirt, which is not uncommon for the year we live in, along with raggedy black sweat pants. On his face is what I recognize to be 'dive gear', which is used to play more advanced versions of vr.
I reach out to pull the gear off his head, and the scenery starts to crumble. The water begins to fall, and the man begins to disappear.
I'm falling.
I'm falling very far.
I can see something at the bottom of this bottomless hole.
Suzukis room, Shizus arms...
"AH!"
I attempt to jolt up, but Shizu-san still has her arms wrapped tight around me. What superhuman strength!
"Suzuki-sama, are you all right?"
"Huh?"
I'm still in a daze from waking up.
"Suzuki-sama, do you need any help?"
I come to my senses and notice that the speaker is Cixous, the one I had lunch with yesterday.
"No, No i'm fine."
I notice she has the biggest blush on her face. I wonder why?
"So, what time is it?"
"It's 8:23, Suzuki-sama."
That's an... acceptable time to get up. Once again, I attempt to free myself from Shizu's grip, but that only makes her squeeze tighter. She now flips over, and says,
"No... Suzuki... sama..."
She's still asleep huh?
"Well Cixous, im afraid you'll have to wait a little longer, it seems Shizu has plans of her own."
"I'm totally fine with that! Completely fine..."
I notice a bit of drool come out of the side of her mouth.
After a few minutes, Shizu begins to stir.
"Suzuki-sama."
"Yes, Shizu-san?"
"...Good morning."
"Yes, good morning. Would you mind letting go of me?"
She does, although reluctant.
"Now then, What will I do today Cixous?"
A look of understanding dons her face, and she wears a slight smile.
"Well, the first thing you let us do for you Suzuki-sama, is bathe you. Then we would dress you. Then we can feed you. Then we can escort you around Nazarick and your city, and-"
"OK! I'm going to stop you there. I'm not a child, I can do all of that myself."
"But Suzuki-sama, they did dress you. It would be unfair to the maids not to let them continue, as they find great joy in that. Their purpose for being created was to serve, and if you don't let them serve you in some way, they lose their reason for living."
I don't really understand that Shizu-san! And I never said I wouldn't let them serve me in some way, I just don't want to be bathed by them!
"Yes Suzuki-sama! Please let us dress you!"
Oka-san said there wouldn't be any perverts in my room...
"F-fine, but let me put my underwear on first! Is there a bathroom in this big room?"
"Yes, let me show you."
After taking a bath, brushing my teeth, and changing into a fresh pair of underwear, I walk to the gignormous closet, where Cixous and Shizu are waiting patiently.
"Suzuki-sama, is there anything in particular you want to wear?"
There's way to much in this closet, and most of them are clothes that look really stuffy and hard to move in.
"W-well... Something easy to run in?"
A fire lit in Cixous's eyes, her cheeks flushed, and she began to breathe heavily.
"Understood, Suzuki-sama!"
She ran off into the seeming endless rows of clothes, with a clear goal in mind.
"Are they all like that, Shizu-san?"
"Mhm."
After quite a while, Cixous finally brought back her choice. The under shirt was a white tank top, with purple stitching. What I wore on top was a long sleeved button up white shirt, with gold buttons. On the bottom were loose white sweatpants, held up with a dark purple belt. My shoes were white boots with purple lacing, and despite them being boots, they were quite easy to move around in. A white cloak went on top of it, with a white pauldron covering my neck, and was rounded around my shoulders. Despite it being rock hard, it didn't feel heavy at all. In fact, this whole outfit matched exactly what I told Cixous, my body feels extremely light, and I feel quite agile.
"The boots are enchanted with a leaping spell, and the clothes boosts your agility by a tiny bit, Suzuki-sama."
"Is that so?"
I twirl around a bit in front of the mirror, making cool poses and such.
"Thank you, Cixous."
She beams at my gratitude, and begins to shake in place.
After getting dressed, eating breakfast, and walking around a little bit, me and Shizu-san parted ways, and I made my way to the 6th floor. I was taught how to use the 'Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown', but I have to actually visit a place in the tomb before I can teleport to it.
It's still incomprehensible that this big Amphitheater is underground, but it's a fantasy world, anythings possible! In the middle of the Amphitheater is Aura Bella Flora, Mares sister. She's currently playing with a multitude of animals, like wolves and dinosaurs, and big snake like things. There's also a... A DRAGON?! I didn't expect to see one so soon...
I watch her evade and fight the animals for a while, it almost looks like a dance. The animals are cool looking too, although the dragon looks more lame than I thought it would, it's kinda fat. Although a dragon is still a dragon.
Looking at her like this, Aura is kinda pretty... Eventually, she stops, and starts to feed the animals. I hop down from my spectators seat, and begin to walk towards her. She notices me, and starts to run over.
"Hello, Suzuki-sama! Welcome to the 6th floor!"
"H-hi Aura... How are you today?"
"I'm doing quite well Suzuki-sama! Might I ask why you're here?"
"Well, I don't have much to do. I'm just wandering around right now..."
"I see... Well, there's lots of stuff to do on the 6th floor, but could you wait a little bit for me to feed the beasts?"
"Erm... Sure."
I kinda want to feed the dragon.
"A-actually Aura, can I help you feed them?"
"Ehh?! To trouble one such as yourself to do such a menial task Suzuki-sama, is-"
"No no, I don't mind at all! In fact, I want to help you!"
She becomes a bit flustered, and starts drawing circles in the sand with her shoes.
"W-well... Ok! Come on!"
We run over to the place the animals are waiting, and upon my arrival, they all bow their heads to me.
"This one is Fenrir! He's Quadracile, and she's Iris. And the fat one over there is Hejinmal. But he sometimes likes to pee out of nowhere, so be careful."
"Got it. So, what do we feed them?"
"Well, most like meat, but Quadracile likes vegetables. So which one do you want to feed?"
Looking at them up close, they all look pretty cool. Especially Fenrir, his fur looks so soft... But Quadracile is kinda creepy.
"Erm, can I start with Hejinmal?"
"Eh? Sure I guess..."
I pick up one of the heavier pieces of meat that was brought out, and drag it over to Hejinmal.
"Oh! Greetings Ainz-sama! It's been a while!"
"My name is Suzuki now."
"Ah, my apologies!"
"No, it's fine."
I feed him the chunks of meat, and he lets me rub his nose. His scales feel cool to the touch, and whenever he breathes, frost come out of his snout.
"So cool..."
He seems to get a blush on his face, and looks down bashfully.
I move on to feeding Iris, who resembles a 'T-rex' that I read about once.
After feeding all the beasts, me and Aura are left alone in the middle of the coliseum.
"So... What do we do now?"
"How about I give you a tour?"
"This is called the Gigantic tree, where me and Mare live!"
I've seen quite a bit in this tour, but this is by far the most impressive thing yet. A huge, gignormous, gargantuan, tree, that seemingly stretches all the way to the sky. At the bottom of it is a single, circular door.
I could only stare in disbelief. It should be impossible for something this... beautiful to exist.
"Hehe, Blue Planet-sama did a good job in making this huh?"
"It's... hard to believe all this was made, by human hands."
"What do you mean Suzuki-sama? Blue Planet-sama was a dryad!"
"He was?"
I find myself questioning my future selfs friend group.
"Mhm! Do you wanna come inside?"
She's looking at me with eyes that make it impossible to say no, not that I would anyway. Argh! How cute!
"S-sure..."
She opens the door to reveal the ground floor of this tree. In the middle is a wooden table with three chairs, on that table is a single lit candle, with lots of wax running down it. The room is lit up with floating balls of light, which is likely the product of magic. At the end of the room is a blue stream of light, that slowly floats up.
Aura runs into this stream of light, shouting 'C'mon Suzuki-sama!', and her body slowly begins to float up.
I follow behind her, and also jump into the light. I get the feeling of butterfly's in my stomach, and my feet lift off the ground. As I float up, I pass all the other floors in this tree. One floor houses various whips, arrows, training targets, and smaller beasts, while the next harbors a wide variety of staffs, smaller trees, and living plants.
I get off where Aura does, and this seems to be the Twins bedrooms.
"Mareeeee! Get up! It's 12 in the afternoon and Suzuki-sama's here!"
"Just a minute... *yawn*... Nee-san... Just... 5 more minutes..."
I notice Mare is sprawled out on a hammock on the left side, even though there is a perfectly good bed next to him.
"No, no, no! You must get up, we're showing Suzuki-sama around today!"
"Suzuki-sama... Can I sleep... For... Five more minutes...?" Mare says, whilst halfway opening his green eye at me.
"Erm... I don't see the problem."
Aura looks at me angrily and mumbles something under her breath about "being to kind", but I ignore it.
"Well, come on then Suzuki-sama."
We move towards the other door up here, that leads out to a patio. On this patio are uneven wooden banisters, that add little for support.
"A-a-aura!"
The winds up here are extremely fast, I feel as though I might fall off. As a precaution, I grab ahold of Auras arm.
"What is it Suzuki-sama?"
"Never mind..."
I finally take a proper look at this place, in the distance is a village with a field behind it. There's lots of jungle, and woodlands. In the middle of it all is a lake.
A lake?
A lake!
"Aura! Can we go swimming?!"
"Er, sure Suzuki-sama."
"Yahoo! I've never been swimming before though, so you might have to teach me..."
She dons a huge white smile, blushes, and says,
"Really? I can?! Let's go then! Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
We run inside, and she goes over to her side of the bedroom.
"I'm going to change Suzuki-sama, wake Mare up and have him find you some swim trunks!"
"Got it! Mare! Get upppppp!"
I start vigorously shaking him, and he starts to moan.
"Unghhhh... I'm getting up... I'm getting up..."
"We're going swimming Mare, hurry up!"
His ears perk up a little at that, and he slowly crawls out of bed.
"*Yawn*... S-Suzuki-sama... come h-here."
We walk over to Mare's changing room, and he starts to go through his closet. It's quite big, but not as big as mine.
"E-erm... How about this, S-Suzuki-sama?"
Mare holds out a frilly lavender one piece, that would not looks like it was meant for girls. In fact, everything in his closet looks like it was made for girls.
"Mare... Do you... Erm..."
Luckily, Aura saves me.
"Suzuki-sama, here!"
She holds out a red and white striped one piece, identical to the one she's wearing.
"Nee-san, I w-wanted to dress him..."
"Too bad! Maybe if you woke up earlier you would've gotten to him before me."
"Y-you're so m-mean Nee-s-san..."
Me and Mare go into separate rooms to change. I have on what Aura gave me, and Mare has on a green and blue 2 piece that covers everything from his knees up but his belly button.
"Alright! Mare, we're going to have to teach Suzuki-sama how to swim!"
"H-huh?! S-Suzuki-sama, you've never gone s-swimming before?"
"Most of the bodies of water on my world were polluted."
Aura gives me a look of pity.
We are standing at the lakes sandy edge, ready to go in.
"T-this looks alot bigger in person..."
"Fufufu! Im glad to see you're impressed, Suzuki-sama! Let's go in!"
All three of us wade into the water, with Mare going out considerable further than where me and Aura stop.
"So, swimming is quite easy." She begins.
"The first thing you need to be able to do is tread water. This requires you to move your arms back and forth, and you can move you legs in any way that you need to, in order to stay upright. I'll show you!"
She starts doing exactly what she told me, and I try to copy it, to some extent. After a few tries I sort of have it down, but it's hard for me to sustain.
"Next is the breaststroke. Observe."
She floats on her stomach in the water, and begins to use her arms to propel herself through the water, whilst kicking her legs rapidly.
"This is your main way of moving through the water, but since you might not be able to do this right away, you can doggy paddle as well."
She goes into a lesser difficulty paddle, which involves her quickly and sporadically moving her hands around to move forward.
I try the breaststroke, and fail miserably at it. I cant keep myself up long enough to even begin to start moving my arms. As I struggle back up to the surface, I take a deep breath and go underwater. When I open my eyes underwater, I notice the lake is quite clean. There's no dirt mixed up in the water, just some leaves and kelp at the base. The lake floor leads towards a giant hole at the middle, which has a red glow to it and seems to have bubbles coming up periodically.
I struggle to make it back up to the surface, but when I do, Aura is waiting there with her arms outstretched to catch me. I grab onto her, and we are now hugging in the water.
"S-s-s-suzuki-sama!"
"What?"
"Erm, ah, em err... nothing..."
I know exactly what she's talking about of course, I'm embarrassed too. It's a good thing she can't see my face.
"Aura, what's in that big hole underwater?"
"T-thats Gargantua, the area guardian here."
"Oh? Can we go see him?"
"Sure! Let me help you swim over there though..."
It seems she also wants to stay like this longer.
We swim over there, meeting up with Mare on the way.
"U-um Suzuki-sama, I-ill cast a w-water breathing s-spell on you."
He does so, and when I go underwater, a bubble appears around my head. I attempt to mimic what I've seen frogs do in old world documentaries, but it didn't work all that effectively. So, both Aura and Mare grab one of my hands, and all three of us swim down there.
As we approach the hole, I feel the water start to get slightly hotter. At this point, Mare taps my shoulder and hands me a ring. I put it on, and we continue swimming down there.
As we approach the source of the bubbles, I start to see a red light coming from the gigantic shape of something deep down, and upon swimming closer, I see it's eyes. Only it's dark, hot red eyes, with trail down and connect with more dark red lines, that make up a sort of face in this dark water. When we finally make it to our destination, Mare casts light spells, which are simple bright balls of white light, that illuminate our surroundings. The balls of light travel deeper than we already are, lighting up Gargantuas body under water. The name Gargantua, truly fits this things appearance. It has lumpy, tan, rocky arms, which match his gignormous torso. His legs are just like his arms, humongous, lumpy and rocky. His head is a half sphere, with only it's pulsing red face to signify that it's a living thing.
'So cool... Can it move?'
At this thought, it's forearm slowly tilts upwards.
'Ainz-sama, Gargantua can't think for itself. It follows your directions, and has no consciousness.' Auras voice rings in my head.
Is that so? I guess I think to control it?
'Move your arm up.'
He obeys, and moves his right hand all the up.
'Hmm... Lift the three of us out of the water!'
He rumbles in response.
He puts his left arm beneath the three of us, and uses his right arm to propel himself up, taking us with him. The three of us are sandwiched flat on his hand, due to how quick we're rising. I can see the surface of the water approaching fast, and Aura has the biggest smile on her face, whilst Mare is clutching Gargantuas finger with his eyes shut.
BOOM!!!
The sound of Gargantuas hand, and eventually body breaching the water rings out throughout the whole floor, making a loud sound as the water crashes down off his body, and reenters the lake.
Getting a good look at him, Gargantua looks super cool now that hes standing here like this, the sun glimmering off his body.
"Aura, Aura! Can we take him outside for real?! Like the real outside?!"
"Huh?! I don't know if that's a good idea Suzuki-sama..."
"Please?! I'll be good with him I swear! I won't order him to trample a city or anything!"
"If you say so Suzuki-sama..."
"Message. Hey Shalltear! Open a gate on my position, and make it big enough for Gargantua to fit through! I don't care where, somewhere with good scenery, Suzuki-sama wants to go out! No, he has me, Mare and Gargantua, he'll be fine!"
After a few seconds, a huge, swirling black abyss opens up in front of us.
'Alright Gargantua, step through!'
Plains in front of a city that shall not be named...
The world went black. And then, moments later, we appeared in huge grassy plains, where the sun shone brightly down. There wasn't much of a difference from the 6th floor actually, except the fact there was a huge city around a mile away. After squinting my eyes, I could see the city was jam packed full of buildings, and at the middle were 6 statues, but I couldn't make out the faces.
'Alright Gargantua, go for a walk.'
Gargantua slowly begins to put one foot forward, and then the other, and he continues to keep a slow and steady pace for a while.
"U-um, Suzuki-sama d-do you t-think it's a good i-idea to bring G-gargantua out i-in the open l-like this?"
"Why wouldn't it be?"
"W-well, no one e-except the l-lizardmen k-knows of his e-existance."
"Ah, it'll be fine! You worry too much Mare! Just enjoy the ride, leave the problems that come after to your later self! Also, Gargantua looks pretty cool, so the people of that city get to see something cool today!"
"L-leave the problem t-to your l-later self...? Thank you S-Suzuki-sama, for t-this piece of w-wisdom!"
"Eh? Er... Sure..."
We circle the city, and after our second time around, people have come out. They're prostrate in front of the city, and there are men in priest outfits in front of them. Suzuki recognized these outfits, as religion was a very impactful thing in the 22nd century due to the state of the world.
'Erm... Go somewhere else. Go... Around those hills.'
I don't want to be seen by a bunch of wackos who think Gargantua is a god.
Suzukis chambers, Cixous's fingers...
Fwaaa... What a cool trip. I'm currently in my room, letting Cixous brush and play with my shoulder length hair. My cloak lays on the bed, and I'm stripped down to my undershirt.
"Cixous, how am I?"
"What do you mean Suzuki-sama?"
"How am I compared to your other leader of this tomb?"
"You're the same, Suzuki-sama."
"Is that so?"
"You are a kind, thoughtful, intelligent, merciful, funny, proud, caring leader. I don't believe that will ever change, no matter what form you take. None of the other Supreme Beings were like you. They never stayed behind. Mine and my colleagues are also quite happy at your recent transformation. We can serve you like we couldn't when you were in your skeletal form. I heard Head Chef was estatic when he heard you liked the food. No matter what form you take Suzuki-sama, no matter what name you call yourself, our loyalty is unwavering, and unmatched."
Quite the speech. She dips my hair back in the water again, and I let myself enjoy this moment between the two of us.
"Thank you Cixous."
"Of course, Suzuki-sama!"
7th floor, Decrepit Chapel...
Demiurge POV:
Ahh... Suzuki-samas intelligence hasn't gone down in the least during his transformation! I'd really like to meet his Mother he spoke of, she deserves to be welcomed to Nazarick with open arms! I cant even imagine the pride she had when raising such a conniving demon.
Due to Suzuki-sama asking Shalltear to take himself, the Twins, and Gargantua out, the Slane Theocracy was intimated by our power. The few spies we put in the Theocracy reported that the citizens thought Gargantua was a messenger, sent by the God of Earth to reward them for their faith. We haven't put spies in their hierarchy yet, but I bet it's going wild. This is clearly all part of Suzuki-samas plan, and his dream of conquering the planet hasn't ceased either. Plus, no one outside of Nazarick knew of his transformation, but since the swimsuits they wore had the crest of the Sorcerer's Kingdom on it, the scrying they did when Gargantua appeared likely revealed Gargantua was owned by the Sorcerer's Kingdom. Since Suzuki-sama didn't put up anti-scrying measures, it's clear he wanted this to happen. Suzuki-sama likely read one of the reports of the Theocracy on his desk, and found out about the Earth God they worship, so decided to plot the Theocracies downfall as soon as he knew of Gargantuas existence.
Even as a child, I still cannot begin to predict what he'll do next, but I know it will be surprising. That's all I can know and fathom about his plans, is that I cannot know anything he has in mind.
Sasuga, Suzuki-sama!
Shorter chapter release, but I intend to release a short story about this soon, and this story sets up for the various antics Suzuki-chan has in store! So, this story will go back to normal guardian and Suzuki bonding in the next chapter, just wait!
