'Fuck! Fuck! Why did I fucking do that!'

The girl had been dying, and he didn't want her too, so he begged to the System for a solution, and the only one within his prince range of 11DP was to assign a Dungeon Manager.

Now, instead of just having his dream ruined and being turned into a Dungeon Core, he was also now under the management of a young girl.

'Fuck! Fuck!'

He expressed his dissatisfaction by wasting Mana to flail around his Dungeon Altar.

His attention was caught when the girl began speaking again, having now lowered the stalagmite she had been swinging around.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Her eyes, a pair of dark green, looked around as she scrutinized the cave she had just insulted.

There wasn't really a point in ignoring her, and even if he was severely dissatisfied, he still needed her to offer things to his altar, so he needed to push past his negative emotions and attempt to communicate with her.

'What, did she not understand the deal from the system pop-up? What am I saying, I doubt that's even a concept here, or that a slave would've even read about it.'

He bumped his altar against her foot lightly.

She kicked him.

Her bare, mud blood covered, foot swung harshly against the edge of the altar. The white slab was sent flying across the cave.

'You bitch!'

He didn't feel pain, but it felt a little weird to be moved without inputs, and the disrespect struck hard at his mind. So, he utilized the momentum she had given him and swung back towards her feet.

She sidestepped his return strike with ease. "Whoa."

He maintained his speed and swung back, he was almost definitely wasting Mana but he didn't really care.

She continued to dodge until he lost a majority of his speed, and then she swung down the stalagmite she had broken off, which had also felt odd.

[Luna Eisenclaw offers a 'stalagmite club', would you like to accept?]

'Yes!'

Without a second thought, within the span of a moment, he accepted and watched as the stone club that had impacted him melted and was absorbed instantaneously.

[Gain 1 DP!] - [The offering wasn't worth much since the materials were from this Dungeon.]

'Ha! Fuck you!'

He traced the figure of an L in front of the stunned girl. Who, after a minute, knelt down and poked him. He zipped away.

'Watch it! Hands off!'

Even in his last life, he wasn't a fan of other people touching him, especially not little kids covered in mud and blood.

"A-are you alive?"

'Duh!'

He traced a circle, hopeful she would understand.

Luna stood up and pointed at a corner. "Go to that corner if you understand me!"

'Oh fuck you.'

He wasn't a fan of being bossed around, but still he went to the corner.

She swung her arm and pointed at the dungeon entrance. "Go to the back wall if you understand me!"

If he could sigh then he would have, but he was also a bit satisfied his manager wasn't completely dumb. Testing his awareness by using contrary body language and instructions seemed like an intelligent thing to test in his mind. So he went to the back.

"Wow." She seemed surprised, but she quickly regained her composure. "Do you know who healed me? Uh, return to the corner if you do."

He did.

"Are they still here? Stay there if no and move to another corner if yes."

'fuck why can't you just tell me to bob up and down or left to right?'

He moved to another corner.

"Are they invisible?" She didn't seem to give him some answering conditions as she eyed another stalagmite.

He moved away slightly before slamming into the corner, he successfully managed to catch her attention.

She blinked as he understood his answer. "Then where are they?"

He moved the white slab to the center of the dungeon, directly below his hazy exposed core.

The girl, Luna, took careful steps as she moved to the center, and her eyes wiped when she caught sight of his core, she reached out to him with amazement.

He bumped into her feet to keep her away.

A few minutes passed in silence.

"Why did you save me?" She asked his Core.

Again, he bumped into her feet and after she looked down, he zipped over to a stalagmite. He bounced between the two, using increasing force against the stone.

"Do you want me to break that?" She asked in confusion.

'At least you catch on quickly.'

He zipped over to the 'yes corner'.

"Uh, sure, I guess." Luna walked over and successfully kicked off another small stone spike.

As it flew through the air, he dragged the altar to land beneath it. And he was able to get another single DP from recycling his own material.

He zipped over to more stalagmites and her feet and continued to feed, and when the floor was clear, he moved on to the roof. Luna only had slightly difficulty breaking off the stalactites, but she did get them all.

In the end he was up to 19DP, he had actually managed to make up for the cost of saving her life.

Unfortunately, when the cave was cleared out, he only now realized the difficulty spike in communicating with his manager.

He slowly circled her feet and lightly bumped into her.

Luna sighed, then she stepped on top of him and closed her eyes.

[Luna Eisenclaw offers herself, would you like to accept?]

'Uh, not entirely?'

He didn't want to kill and absorb her, he was already putting up with touching her flirty flesh, he definitely didn't want to feel her corpse even for a moment. And he still needed her alive to offer things to him.

[Gain 140 DP!]

The filth covering her from the tip of her ears to ends of her toes was absorbed completely. Something vague within himself informed him that he received the most points from blood.

Luna opened her eyes after she was cleaned up, her hands reached for her neck and she failed to find the collar she had been wearing.

And after she got over that, she inspected her clear skin, and she appeared mesmerized by her sharp claws. She also played with her clear hair for a bit.

"Uh, thanks?" Her tone sounded odd as she looked at the altar beneath her feet.

'Get off!'

He yanked his altar out from beneath her and she stumbled before standing upright. Then he circled her feet again, and zipped over to the entrance before zipping to the center of the room.

Luna offered several interpretations of his actions, so he was able to familiarize himself with the 'no corner', until she finally found the answer. "You want… me to go outside… and come back… with more food?"

He raced over to the yes corner.

She sighed, and quietly walked out of the cave. She squinted harshly as her eyes took in the sunlight.

With her temporarily gone, he was able to shift his focus elsewhere.

'Okay System, what should I buy now?'

He had gotten over his grudge after his altar actually proved useful.

[DP can now only be spent by the Dungeon Manager.]

'…what?'

AN: A few hundred words short of my preferred chapter, but I'm satisfied with everything here, this is where the segment ends.