Is it wrong to have a quiet life as a Minotaur in the Dungeon? 2 (Danmachi, Minotaur SI)
Dear diary,
It's Day 12, probably.
Apparently, no internal alarm clocks were packaged with my monster instincts. I can count the seconds just fine, thank you very much, but that isn't a very good way of keeping track of time.
Anyways, just like me, the adventurers were pussying out of fighting the Goliath. As such, I am still stuck on the middle floors. All I have to pass the time is training, masturbating, killing, masturbating, experimenting on other monsters and... you guessed it!
Reciting the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise.
"-could even keep the ones he cared about from dying."
"Grrrrrraaaao!"
"Shut it!"
I slapped the Lygerfang on the head.
Unfortunately, it died.
"... Ironic, I can save myself from death, but not others. Fuck this shit. I wish I had more memes to keep myself occupied with."
I used up all my Fate and Prequel memes already. What's next on the list? Fuck, I had no idea. If only I browsed the internet more before I choked on my steak.
I pocketed the Lygerfang fur and magic stone, placing it in my little "bag" made out of the same monster's fur. Well, it was less like a bag, and more like a rancid makeshift, furry garbage bag... thing.
"Aw man..." Wait, it's coming back to me.
I took out one of my Minotaur horns and proceed to walk around the empty room, humming a tune as I walked towards the wall.
"So we back in the mine, got our pickaxe swingin' from side to side, side, side to side." I happily swung my horn weapon at the wall as if I was mining, then proceed to do some funky moves to the music, "This task a grueling one, hope to find some diamonds tonight, night, night, diamonds tonight."
Hmm, did I just hear something? I paused awhile and only found silence in return.
Ah well.
"Heads up. You hear a sound, turn around and look up."
Then the walls and ceiling cracked all at once.
Oh, joy. Monsters spawning all around me. Even so, my "danger sense" isn't telling me that there was a monster among them that posed a significant threat to me if I act too careless, that is.
"... Total shock fills your body." I continued and turned around to stare at the newly born Infant Dragon that looked at me with an incredulous look, I acted as if I was shocked to see it, "Oh no it's you again, I can never forget those eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes." I could see that I was weirding it out, a lot.
It was at this moment that it attempted to swipe at me, but at this point, it's speed and strength was nothing I couldn't handle. Easily jumping over the attack and towards the cracked wall, I pushed myself against the wall to perform a wall jump, back-flipping over the monsters and quickly took stock of the situation with my eyes in the brief moment I could see them, then landed on the ground next to my bag of loot.
Hmm, this might be a good chance to try a new experiment. I shouldn't need to use the ability I got from consuming several Infant Dragon magic stones at once to achieve my goals, which is good, as it meant that I can use that ability later should I be "too successful".
I focused and drowned out the deafening roars and cries of the monsters in this room, then charged at the nearest Minotaur, using a one-two punch combo to knock the wind out of it's lungs before grabbing it's horns, pulled down harshly so that its head would collide with my knee strike with additional force.
The impact of the attack crushed its brain, I could sense it somehow, trusting my instincts I moved on the next monster at high speeds, repeating various bare-handed lethal strikes while dodging the fire breath from the Infant Dragon.
By the end of the one-sided slaughter, I managed to force-feed magic stones to a crippled Infant Dragon and Minotaur, and once again observed the evolution to the rank of Enhanced Species. I didn't discount the possibility that they might mutate far beyond my expectations and hence, badly crippled their limbs before I initiated the double mutation process.
Both monsters unleashed roars and growls, filled with fury and animalistic hungry. I jumped up onto the Infant Dragon's back as it got up, and shot fire balls at the enhanced Minotaur rapidly, catching it off guard and burning it significantly.
The dragon was focusing on the Minotaur and paid me no heed for some reason.
"Good dragon gooooood... now kill it, kill it now!"
And then it flipped itself in an attempt to crush me with its weight. I was, thankfully, quick on the uptake and managed to avoid the suicidal (when there was another enemy in the room) move.
"Not me you idiot! Kill that Minotaur!"
"Roooooooar!"
"Urgh, fine. You will pay for your lack of vision."
He could have been my dragon buddy. But unfortunately, Operation "How to train your dragon" was a no-go.
After killing them both with ease, I piled up their darkened magic crystals to the side of the room, and thought about what to do next.
I have been exploring the middle floors, only moving between them when I was sure that I wouldn't encounter any adventurers, running and hiding at the far-off parts of the floor whenever I sensed anyone coming anywhere close to me.
It's been tiresome. I'm so sick of it.
While I had no intentions of dying any time soon, I knew that at the very least I would want to see the warm, bright sun, just one last time before being put to rest.
... I miss them... I've been distracting myself with all sorts of monstrous acts and rubbish to stop thinking about my death, about how I was separated from everyone else.
Why was I the only one to get brought to this world? I wonder, if my family and friends died, would they reincarnate as monsters too? Heh... fat chance.
And even then. I had to be honest with myself. Would I even recognize them? They could have arrived before I did or would only arrive far off into the future, would I have tried to speak with every monster to see if they recognized my mannerisms? No, I won't lie to myself. I didn't have that kind of blind, deluded optimism.
There was no way for me to ever reunite with them. And if I upped and died now? The chances of me being in the same afterlife as them... were close to zero.
What's the point of me even being here?
"... and it's really quiet."
What was that?
That wasn't my voice. It sounded like a woman's voice.
I jumped right on to my feet. I didn't have the time to ruminate on my feelings. I needed to survive!
Which meant that I needed to employ the Joestar family's secret technique...
Nigenrundayo!
I ran towards the wrong passageway and almost got a punched in the dick by an oncoming fist, which I narrowly dodged by leaping back to the other side of the large room.
That was close! While I may have evolved a "pouch"-like skin layer that I could retract my dick into for combat efficiency (nut shots hurt, a lot), my danger senses gave me a rough estimate on the damage it would have done to my little furry friend.
It would have been bad, as in, really really bad.
"Woah! That's a first! Looks like the middle floors aren't a total bore."
It was a teenage girl with medium length brown hair and matching eyes dressed in some kind of fighter's garb with an impractical scarf around her neck. Did I just end up in Disgaea?
I wanted to say something but quickly bit back the comment, it wouldn't do to give away my capability for greater thought at this point in time, "Grrr..."
I tried to growl convincingly, umu... I totally forgot to practice Minotaur sounds. Whoops.
"Huh? You have some survival instincts after all... all the other dumb cows would have charged at me about now."
If she expected me to somehow understand that her provocation, or at least be enraged by it, then she had another thing coming.
For I too, agreed that cows were pretty dumb.
I got into my stance, something that I learned from a few self-defense classes and adapted to suit this body's build, even then, I was an utter amateur at actual hand-to-hand combat.
I only got by with this way of fighting through my superior stats and the lack of skill present in most monsters.
Escape was too difficult at the moment since the only other passageway out of this room was close to where the adventurer was standing at. I would leave myself open if I went for it. If I was to escape, then I would have to lead her away from the exits first.
And that meant I had to survive a short fight with her, to think my first fight with an adventurer would be one of the higher-level ones.
"So you wanna fight properly huh... well, I'll take it. After failing my first mission in Orario I've been itching to win a proper challenge for myself this time around." She dropped a bag of potions near one of the exits, readying herself for a serious fight, "You better not disappoint me!"
Fast!
I was only able to think back on how anime-like that response was after barely dodging her strike as she rocketed at me. As I had been standing next to the wall when I had side-stepped her blow, her fist impacted the bedrock-like walls and cracked them further!
Holy shit! I'm so boned if she gets a direct hit.
My counter-attack was fast, but not fast enough, allowing her to dodge around my fist and close the distance. I managed to avoid the first two strikes in her combo, but the last kick forced me back a few meters and would have knocked me down if I hadn't reflexively retreated after my failed counter-attack.
While I had the advantage in reach, it was clear that the girl had a significant edge in strength and speed, and she was still only giving this fight about... 70% of her effort.
My attempt to make a run for the exit was cut short when she realized my intent and blocked my way.
"Nuh-uh! You ain't going anywhere. I wasn't able to kill my target last time and I don't intend to let another one get away, monster or otherwise."
"Grrr..."
How chatty.
Is she lonely or something?
Talking to a monster makes her sound desperate, kinda like me...
Anyways, it looks like I have no choice. I had to go all out and try to kill her.
Some part of me still recoiled at the idea of killing a human, but if it's for something like my own survival then I could put it aside, at least for now. Using my ability was the only way I would have a change of surviving, I could worry about her well-being later on if I manage to outlast her.
Gaining some distance from her, if only because she allowed me to do so, I concentrated on the core of my power and conjured an image of flames scorching my body. I felt the heat almost instantly, then I focused on it, drawing that heat to the confines of my flesh.
I had five minutes. Time to make it count.
"HEAT RISER!"
My body burned brightly for a brief moment, my skin began to darken as the magical heat began to suffuse my being, allowing me to go pass my limits by supercharging myself with mystic heat.
Just as a Kirin supercharges itself with lightning, I was doing the same with fiery heat.
In this state, all my parameters increase by about an entire level's worth, at the cost of being weakened by about 40% temporarily once the time limit has been reached.
"What in the worl-"
I rocketed right at her and scored a clean at her chest. My burning fist sent her flying!
She crashed into the wall, her skin was burnt and bruised, but otherwise, she hadn't taken serious damage.
"Gah! This is-"
"GruuuuUUUOH!"
For once, my beastly cry came out naturally.
I wasn't going to ever win in a battle of human fighting skill. I had to break out the beast and fight like a monster.
From the tibbits that I have heard, she had suggested that she was unfamiliar with the Dungeon despite her current level of strength, which likely could carry her all the way to the Deep Floors. This meant that she was from outside Orario and had less experience in fighting monsters.
Also, she spoke about missions, and the few types that came to Orario on missions with her power level tended to be either Assassins or Bounty Hunters.
Those types of people trained to fight men, not monsters. I wouldn't be able to survive if I fought like a human, this was the only way.
"-the power of a second-class adventurer. Didn't think... kuh, I would fight something on that level so soon."
The dumb bitch was still talking, by then, I had began building up speed by using the Juggernaut method of jumping with powerful bursts from the legs.
She was ready to block my attack as if she was intercepting a human's attack, with her level of power, it wasn't likely that her targets had the strength to actually hurt her significantly, so she defaulted to blocking rather than attempting to evade.
This worked to my benefit.
She went all out after failing to adjust her approach for my second attack.
I lost track of time as we both traded hits. Her ability to pulverize material was greater than my own and my body had suffered for it. On the other hand, the immense heat that I was outputting was damaging and weakening her the longer she fought with me. Every strike that she landed would also cause her to burn herself further.
It was apparent to us both that we were at our limit. With one last all out-strike, we lashed out at one another and I...
... didn't fall.
She missed. The pain, the heat, and many other factors must have screwed up her perception just enough so that she misjudged the distance she needed to close in order to strike me.
My eyes were hurting but they still worked fine. Combined with my longer reach, I was able to knock her down before she could recover from her failed attack.
I felt the fire within me splutter out into tiny embers, I was running on fumes now, but that would be enough. I had won... I had survived.
"Haa... haa... Is she... she's still alive."
She was badly hurt, but she would live.
I wanted to sit down and let my enhanced recovery do it's job, I was just so tired, but I couldn't... not now, not when there was still a high risk of our injuries being worse than we thought.
Our? We? Since when did I consider her to be... affiliated with myself? How odd, is it something to do with my instincts?
Is that why my dick is out of it's protective pouch?
"Down, down I say... okay, fine. Be that way."
A strong sense of need within me was growing by the minute. After seeing her battered, defeated, near-naked body on the ground my dick simply wouldn't be any less erect than it was.
And somehow, the idea of claiming my prize felt right in my mind.
I went to her bag of potions, that miraculously, had remained intact and looted it.
I didn't know how strong they were so I randomly drunk and applied the potion directly on me, then repeating the process on the unconscious girl. Thankfully, she hadn't stirred from her current state at all, even as her wounds began to heal.
I ate my magic stones while applying the rest of her potions on her body. I would be able to heal from most injuries through the evolution process anyways, no sense in wasting the potions on myself when I could use it on her.
It occurred to me that I had made a mistake, as I had evolved recently and wouldn't be able to evolve so soon despite having two enhanced magic stones. Even so, I felt the power well up within me, waiting to be directed.
Perhaps my evolution also worked like a Falna? In that a serious accomplishment like surviving a life and death battle counted as some serious EXP points for my body? Ah well, I'll take it.
Strangely enough, a whole slew of physical enhancements came cheaply, my body evolving towards a stronger state without much of the power being used up. It was likely due to "natural" adaptation playing a bigger role in this process than my usual artificial "eat lots of magic stones for power-ups" process.
What was I going to use the power for? On my dick?
... Eh? I can? Why are there so many options?
Oh whatever. I'll take it. Let's see, the nutritious cum options won't work well unless my body is self-sustainable so I will shelve that for now.
While I would like to keep my prize forever, it seems that I would have to let her go... for now, at least, until I have enough upgrades to take care of my future breeding cows permanently in a proper manner.
... What a strange thought. But I always had that kink so I think I will accept that now and aim to breed these female adventurers.
"Whoa what? Friendship cum? That's kinda cheap... add in some permanency, addictiveness and this and that..."
I had to put my plans to turn her into a cock-addicted slutty cow on hold for now. I didn't have enough power for that, but at the very least, I would be able to "befriend" her with my dick and hopefully, wrangle out some information from her.
Not being able to wait any longer, I tore off her half-burnt shorts and underwear, then proceeded to stuck my dick in her pussy.
"Ah~"
"Woah! Holy shit, magical Minotaur cock is the best!"
I can't believe the first penetration elicited an erotic moan! What kind of hentai bullshit is this?! Actually, who the fuck cares, my dick just got even harder and oh my god I can't stop my hips-!
"Raaaaah! Get pregnant you bitch!"
"Nn! Ah! Ahn~ What the... huh!?"
She finally woke up just before I pumped my sixth shot into her womb!
"OOOOOOH!"
"Noooo! Don't-! Not inside!"
"Hahaha! Your resistance only makes my penis harder!"
"Wait what?! YOU CAN TALK!"
"Oh yeah... I was going to keep quiet but... Fuck that, I mean, FUCK YOU!"
"Ahn~! No, not inside! Ooh gods, why is this happening-! Hn!"
Her teary fucked silly face was so beautiful. Would all female adventurers be this beautiful? I sure hoped so. Though... I think she will be very special to me, what a nice face.
I got some of the dungeon water, the "sap", and then used a limited form of my ability to boil it within a stone "jar" (that I made through lots of carving with a horn) with powerful heat. It will take away a lot of nutrients from it, but the end result was a decent amount of clean water.
Lifting her head up, I helped her to drink some of the water, she had almost choked when she finally caught up with what was happening.
"What, what was that!?"
"Water. The people above the surface need such things to survive, don't they?"
"How do... wait you... I'll kill you!"
She briefly recalled that she wasn't supposed to be friendly towards me, but I was able to force her back to the ground and face fuck her. Thankfully, most of her skills laid in her fists, not her teeth. She wasn't able to hurt my supernaturally tough dick after I evolved once again.
The girl was a bit standoffish after the swallowing my cum, but nonetheless, she didn't try attacking me again. I considered that an absolute win.
"So anyway, what was that about a failed mission? Want to talk about it?"
"You heard... of course you did. Haaa... I feel like an idiot. You actually understood it all?"
"Pretty much. So, first time in the Dungeon? Orario in general?"
"Guh... yeah. I mean, I came to Orario about two weeks ago, for a job that went south real quick... by the gods, I will never look at Pallums the same way."
"Pallums?"
"First class adventurers. The Gulliver Brothers. Heard of them?"
"Freya's little hobbits, yeah."
"Pft! Hobbits!? I don't know what that means but that's pretty funny!"
"Well, it's a reference from home."
"Wait, isn't this your home? You have entertainment here?"
"Fuck no! I was bored as fuck. The only thing I could do was kill monsters and try singing uh... some songs that just popped into my head."
"A singing Minotaur? Singing monsters? Ganesha Familia would be all over you if you weren't a rapist asshole."
"You were enjoying it. It's not rape if the "victim" enjoys it."
"How would a monster even know what rape is? Much less think that? You are strange."
"Guess I am. You're strange too for chatting with a monster like me."
I think the "friendship cum" was a bit too effective, but I wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. I needed this, gods, I needed this kind of "normal" conversation with someone other than myself.
Wait a minute... Gulliver brothers? Wasn't there a bounty hunter that survived an attempted hit on them that eventually worked at the Hostess of Fertility?
"So what brought you to Orario? Land of crazy madmen diving into some godforsaken pit of monsters, which happened to be my home."
Her backstory of being a poor child learning how to survive and kill pretty much confirmed her identity. She eventually introduced herself as Lunoire Faust, as expected. And since Lunoire had just arrived, it must have been about 7-8 years prior to canon.
I just went with something generic like Minos since I had to think off the top of my head. Besides, that was the name of that "Lord of Thunder" the King gave to the Minotaur masquerading as the kingdom's protector, in that Argonaut story within Memoria Freese.
It seemed fitting, all things considered.
I gave the girl some of the Lygerfang furs I collected so that she could cover herself.
"You seem happy." She pointed out, I guess even my monster face was able to emote pretty well.
"Well yeah. For once, since I was born from the walls, I stopped feeling so... alone, I guess?"
Lunoire frowned a bit, "Ah, I see. I know what you mean. To be alone... is like poison."
She didn't have any family, coworkers, friends or a "real" Familia she could get along with. She was only technically in the Demeter Familia s after getting a contract for Demeter's falna updates.
"And the longer you live in a city as big as Orario, the greater the isolation you will feel. Doesn't help that it's utter chaos up there..."
"I guess it's kinda similar, yet different down here. It's quiet most of the time, makes you feel unsafe and... well, it's pretty chaotic in it's own way."
We continued to bond a bit before she eventually left.
As much as I would like to have remained her friend and gave her an address or something, I was too much of a coward to commit to stay at one place for the time being, should she decide to go against all reason and come to "visit" or something... with "friends". I really didn't need to get ganked by people waiting to kill a talking monster.
A week passed by and I found myself pleasantly surprised when Lunoire came back in an attempt to "kill" me... alone.
She was pretty much asking for it.
"Really? Did you really expect to win? After I kinda you know... forced you down with superior strength, I thought you would have realized I got a lot stronger since our fight."
I ribbed at her for coming up with such a lame excuse for losing. We didn't fight that seriously since I could defeat her quickly with my improved Heat Riser mode, allowing me to knock her out quickly with minimum injuries all around.
She was on the ground naked, her eyes were fixated on my upgraded penis, her clothes had been gently removed and placed to the side where they wouldn't get too dirty in what was to come.
"S-shut up! What was I supposed to do?! I could barely pull off my other jobs, I almost screwed up again because of what... of what you did!"
"And what did I do? Hmm? What were you thinking about all this time, I wonder?"
I asked her as I pressed my dick against her face.
"Ah... I was thinking of... this."
Lunoire greedily began rubbing her face with my shaft as she stroked it with her strong hands, her mouth was instinctively reaching for the tip, to my great pleasure.
Perhaps getting some good breeding cows were going to be easier than I thought?
"I thought as much."