"Talk"

'Thought'

「It's Not My Fault」

"To think anyone would reject my accord…"

A young woman, who wore a black cloak over her body to hide her identity, sat near the edge at a cliff, and just looked at the fire she made in front of her

"That specific Tarnished was definitely unique, though without them, I cannot go to the Erdtree, how unfortunate…"

The mystery stranger than sighs softly to herself as she looks up at the sky, it was the afternoon and the sun was rising high in the center in the air

"Now I must wait until the Tarnished reconsider-"

Before she could continue her thoughts, the sound of stabbing and monstrous roar could be heard, which made her look behind herself and saw something that definitely interested her

"-Or until a new one shows up."

What she saw, was none other than Kumagawa Misogi, and he was in the middle of being grabbed and slammed around by a Giant Land Octopus, it's tentacles wrapped around and squeeze his body, definitely crushing multiple bones and organs, making him cough up some blood and intestines, but the Good Loser could care less about all the suffering and summon some large 'Screws' to stab into the many squid like arms that was attached to the monster, making it roar in pain and drop him, once he was let go and was back on ground, he wasted no time jumping back into action, summoning more of his signature weapons and started stabbing all over the creature body, which only frustrated and anger the beast, as it then attempted to reach out it's octopus beak and tried to bite into the Minus, and it was successful, chopping and ripping off his arm, unfortunately it was a useless endeavor, cause as soon as he lost his arm, it instantly reappear good as new and wasted no time using his fresh arm to hold onto his weapon and use it to both stabbed into and pin the creature mouth to the ground, the Giant Land Octopus let's out a gurgling cry and roar, before finally dying, which made the Crawling Chaos wear a satisfied smile

"「Even though I lost the bet of getting food in under one second, we're still gonna have some Takoyaki tonight, yay~」"

Before Kumagawa could bring the big squid beast back to the others, he heard footsteps nearby, which made him look away from his kill and towards a certain woman in a black cloak, who stood a few feet away from him

"Hello, Tarnished Traveler, my name is Melina."

The mystery stranger, who was now known as Melina, removed her hoodie, and revealed her lovely face, with one of her eyes closed shut and had marking over her eyelid and upper cheek

"Would you be interested in having a Maiden?"

When Melina asked this question, Kumagawa just blankly stared at her for a few moments

"「... I'm confused, are you hitting on me?」"

I'm doing some research on Elden Ring before I continue, so if you have any information that would be very useful to me, please tell me, twank u wuv u ~

(BTW, do you want normal Tarnished or Maxor Tarnished?)