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I completely forgot to add this but pretend Hermes has been here this whole time.

"Alright, let us begin again," Cranel said.

Everyone quieted down, though most looked scared about what would happen to Bell and Ryuu next.

"So after I was healed me and Ryuu began to try and make our way back up, but we were blocked. We were forced to go further down into the dungeon, after fighting countless monsters and sustaining many injuries we were eventually forced into the White Coliseum." Cranel took a deep breath. Ryuu walked over and sat on his lap, she put her head in the crook of his neck, she was clearly shaking, and so was he.

What would come next was very traumatic and difficult for both of them. In most circumstances, everyone in that room would have begun jumping to conclusions about why Ryuu and Bell were like that, but only Riveria, Finn, Bell, and Artemis noticed.

Riviera narrowed her eyes, her protective motherly instinct taking over, 'Is he in love with Ryuu, no, he's in love with Aiz…THAT NO GOOD CHEATING BASTARD! He's cheating on Aiz, isn't he!' Riveria was screaming in her mind, 'Wait' She looked over at the other futures, and none of them even bat an eyelash at them, 'Ok, so maybe they're just really close? Or maybe, just maybe…No, Aiz isn't the sharing type. Ok, we'll figure this out'

Artemis smirked, 'I guess we could share, if it makes Bell happy, I'm not too opposed to the idea, it could even be fun.'

Bell narrowed his eyes in confusion and concern, 'Am I cheating on Aiz? Or on Artemis? Or both? Oh no, but I feel something for Ryuu, I don't know if it's quite love or just attraction. I suppose all I can do is wait and see.'

"We fought for hours, I launched fireballs, and Ryuu launched her attacks. Eventually, I had only one knife and no armor, Ryuu was down to her two swords. I accidentally launched a fireball at the floor and broke it. We fell through the floor and passed out.

We woke up a couple of hours later, it seemed as though we were in a safe zone. Ryuu was still unconscious. I checked both of our potions, we would only have enough for one of us, one and a half if used sparingly. I grabbed some of the potions and poured them over Ryuu's wounds since she had the more severe ones.

I looked down at my wounds and I remembered something Ryuu once told me when she was helping me in the dungeon. She once said, 'In some more severe cases, you will get hurt badly and not have potions or someone to heal you. So you will have to improvise, such as making a splint for a broken limb, or cauterizing a wound.' I remembered reading a book on how to cauterize a wound in the dungeon.

I knew before I did anything I had to move Ryuu. I picked up Ryuu and began to walk, I came to a waterfall with some trees with fruit.

I put down Ryuu and sat her head up gently with my cloak and covered her with what was left of hers. I grabbed some branches and leaves and made a fire. I put my knife, the Hestia knife, and got it superheated, I pressed it to my wounds after gently cleaning them with a piece of my cloak. I had to put the same piece of cloak in my mouth to keep from screaming out loud.

Finally, after nearly a half hour of agonizing pain, I finally finished and passed out. I woke up nearly three hours later, feeling pain, but also better from the sleep I got. I grabbed some fruit off the tree in time to see Ryuu slowly stirring awake. We chatted for a bit, though she was still tired and in pain, so I would feed her the fruit. We got to rest for another hour.

Suddenly monsters began to descend upon us. We were forced to fight again, scores of them came to attack us. We fought, sustained wounds, and then it was over. I braced Ryuu and helped her cauterize her wounds, then mine. I convinced her to save her mind for when the monsters returned.

We figured out that if we survived the waves of monsters the area would become a safe zone for about five hours. We took turns on who would stay up on the lookout for monsters. Eventually after about two days of enduring this, we ran out of food. We had to move, we had enough time to recover. We began our trek back to the surface. We began fighting through hordes of monsters. We got hurt badly. We finally reached a safe zone on the middle floors, it's an old Xenos village. When we finally reached there, I used what was left of the potions on Ryuu, and begged her to use some of her healing magic on herself instead of me-" Cranel was cut off by Lion.

"That's because you were gutted, you had your organs and intestinal tract hanging out of your stomach," Lion said.

The room looked horrified by what she said. Cranel cringed.

"So after she used the last of that magic she went into mind down. And I seared my stomach closed. After sleeping and taking a rest, me and Ryuu agreed that it was time to move. We stopped every two hours and took a breath. We began to shake and shiver from the cold. We had no choice, our clothes were in rags and tatters. So we had to keep warm somehow and couldn't make a fire. So we shared body heat, and we kind of had to cuddle…naked." Cranel trailed off toward the end.

Aiz's eyes were twitching as she considered whether to kill and maim the elf or just kill her.

Hestia and the other girls were screaming.

Hermes was grinning like a madman.

Artemis was smirking and looking suggestively at Ryuu and Aiz.

Ryuu was blushing up a storm, with a little bit of blood running down her face from her nose.

Bell was blushing down to his toes.

"We did nothing dirty, perverts! Looking at you Hermes!" Lion shouted.

Hermes looked mockingly offended, "Me?!" Lion gave him a look.

"So after that, we began to make our way back up. And after hours of fighting and struggling we finally reached where we were in the begging. The juggernaut was still around, and the battle began anew.

Thankfully it lost one arm in our last encounter so it was weakened, sadly we were also weakened. So we thought about doing the same thing we did last time to weaken it, we launched our attacks at its joints and blew off one of its legs. Ryuu used luminous wind and I launched a fireball, the wind caused the fire to grow a lot bigger and it caused the juggernaut to get thrown over the falls, it didn't have time to reflect the attack, but the armor absorbed it, thankfully the force of the attack knocked back the juggernaut and sent it over the falls. The juggernaut died after it ran out of time. We were forced to fight our way up to the higher floors. Ryuu got knocked out by a Lizardman after a few of them ganged up on her and one got the jump on her.

I picked up Ryuu and carried her as I ran through the floors, I was forced to use the Hestia knife in my teeth. I managed to carry her up to floor 18, where Mort found us and brought us to Rivera." Cranel finished.

"Word spread quickly about the Little Rookie being found on Floor 18, I came to watch as they were carried out of the dungeon. Bell-Bell had a sheet over his head so everyone assumed he was dead. We only found out later that it was because his wounds were so bad they had to cover them so people wouldn't be scared of what could have inflicted those wounds on a level 5." Wallenstein finished.

I'm finishing this chapter, I'm gonna cut my finger off if I have to keep typing.

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