Ero Dungeon Online: My Desires!-Chapter 13: Comfortable (2)

"Why not ask me, darling?"

"Didn't you say you have small boobs in real life?" I asked.

"Small, yes, but I would still know of realistic breast buoyancy. I am not flat. Moving past this topic, I have yet to introduce myself properly. My name is Therdaesi, or as darling likes to call me, Thera. You may call me such as well if you are a friend of his."

"It – it is nice to meet you, Th-Thera! My name is – umm, my name is Lily. I – I apologize if I do not speak English that well."

"You speak it more than well enough for us to easily understand you. Foreign speakers have an interesting habit of apologizing for not speaking English well when they tend to perform better than native speakers."

"You're not wrong," I cut in. "The people who are native speakers don't take it as seriously. They get lazy and forget the rules. When you're not a native speaker, you have to put a lot more care into learning and maintaining that ability."

"Yes. Stick to the basics and you will be fine, Lily. So, may I ask how you and my darling met?"

I wanted to answer for Lily, but it was clear who Thera was asking.

To my surprise, Lily honestly answered Thera's question with just enough detail to give her an idea of what happened without getting too specific.

"I see. Congratulations on being the dungeon's first intruder and giving darling something better to do than talking about monster sex," Thera said.

"Trust me, we've been doing that, too," I replied.

"Of course you have."

"And dinosaur sex."

"I will not be surprised if this dungeon has dinosaurs in it by the end of the month."

"The end of the month? Why not the end of the week?"

"Because it will be a challenge for you to find a group to do that content with."

She had a point. There was a zone and dungeon inside of it both full of dinosaurs and dinosaur-themed monsters. It was always one of my favorite zones, so go figure that it was also one of the least bothered zones. No updates came to it, the difficulty of the content inside of it was unbalanced and too difficult for the rewards that it offered, and there was not a single safe area anywhere in the zone to log out at or to take a break in. Even the player-owned areas there were all but abandoned with the players only occasionally visiting their land to make sure that they wouldn't automatically lose it.

In other words, actually getting dinosaurs into my dungeon was going to be difficult.

"Your first job as my keeper will be to figure out a plan for acquiring dinosaurs," I told Thera.

"You would be wise to assign me as your dungeon's keeper in that case."

She had a point. She tended to have many good points and few bad points. In fact, there was not a single bad point that I could ever think of her having.

Her intelligence was as overpowered as her combat abilities and her looks.

Opening up the dungeon management window, I went to the empty "Dungeon Keeper" slot and clicked on the "invite" option. Next, of course, I sent that invite to Thera.

A couple of seconds later and that empty slot got filled by her name. A prompt showed up asking for me to assign permissions to her role.

I trusted Thera and knew that she had no interest in screwing people over, so I gave her full permissions to everything that I could. She had permission to do everything but to relinquish the very land that the dungeon was built on.

She could change its name, summon or remove monsters, modify the layout – she was basically a second dungeon master in all but name.

"I receive boons while within the dungeon's territory? That is simply not fair to those who wish to intrude," she said.

Once again, she had a point. She was already one of the top player killers. With passive buffs boosting her combat capabilities for as long as she is inside of the dungeon's territory, anybody but talented PvPers working together would be nothing against her. It was likely that not even the best PvPers in the game could defeat her one-on-one if they fought within the dungeon.

Not only was she a second dungeon master, but she was a second boss even more powerful than the dungeon's real boss.

And that was exactly what I needed her for the most.

It would only be a matter of time before players not interested in having any fun wished to destroy and kill everything and everybody inside of my dungeon. Thera would put a quick stop to all but the greatest threats. For the greatest threats, I'd need to prepare the dungeon and its monsters for that.

"Interesting," Thera said. "There are plenty of options for me to use here." She must have been looking through the dungeon options. "I will have to research the meta to ensure that we do not make any mistakes."

"There you go again about the meta."

"You wish for a prosperous dungeon, do you not? You may not worrying about what is meta and what is not, hence why I will not advise you to research it, but I do enjoy such matters. That is why I will make sure that this dungeon is prepared to survive the worst that is thrown at it."

"I know you're right, but I still don't like it."

"A man who admits he is wrong while disliking it is much more entertaining than a man who enjoys being wrong."

"You've got some weird kinks, Thera."

"I do not want to hear that from you."

Next to me, Lily giggled.

"You two – you are both like siblings," Lily said.

Thera and I looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

Speaking of Thera's eyebrows, she only had them above her "main" eyes. Her extra eyes did not have any additional eyebrows. That would have looked extremely silly.

Back to being like siblings, neither of us understood how.

"Truthfully, I would rather not be compared to a sibling of his," Thera said. "Such a thought is... off-putting."

"Come on, Thera. The family that sleeps together stays together."

"It – it is not incest, it is wincest," Lily joked and then laughed at her own joke.

She acted so embarrassed at first, both around me and then around Thera, but she was quick to warm up to us.

Maybe it helped that me and Thera were both so casual about everything. Even if Thera wasn't as much of a degenerate pervert as Lily and I were, she was never judgmental, offensive, nor impolite. She was, to the surprise of many, a very kind spider for how much of a ruthless killer she was in-game.

The ruthless killer decided it was time for a change of subject.

It was safe for us to assume that incest wasn't a kink of hers.

"Darling, a certain tank of the floor already misses you. Will you be accompanying the run tonight?"

"What time are you heading off?" I asked Lily.

"A-ah, umm... I should – I should probably go to sleep soon. An hour or two?"

"What time is the run at?" I asked Thera.

"That will be four hours from now."

"Then yeah, I'll attend."

"Already making plans around her, are you? You did not waste any time bending yourself around her finger."

"What can I say? Wrapping around girls' fingers is my fetish."

"I – I! I-if anything, I – I am the one wrapped around mon maître's finger!"

Thera cocked her head and smile at Lily's explanation. "Darling does have that effect, does he not?"

"Sounds like this is a good build up to a threesome," I proposed.

Unfortunately, it was not meant to be.

Thera wouldn't allow that yet.

"You know the deal, darling. Not until you are able to defeat me in a duel."

"That's going to be never."

"Then I suppose that you will never taste that which you crave so."

"Lily, I'm being bullied," I playfully whined.

Something that always bothered me when it came to dominants was that they maintained the whole "dominant" thing at all times of every day. So many thought that being a proper "dominant" meant pretending to be a stereotypical "alpha male" who never showed emotions around girls, always being serious, and so on.

I hated that. If I wanted to be playful and act like a kid sometimes, then I would. If I wanted to open up and just be myself, then I would.

I wasn't so insecure in my masculinity that I had to pretend to be somebody who I wasn't at all times. While I did occasionally play up the dominance and macho masculinity thing for sex, there was no point in that outside of sex.

"Are you a boy or a man, darling?"

"He – he is mon maître."

Thera might have continued bullying me, but at least Lily played along and comforted me by patting the top of my head as I leaned against her.