Is It Wrong To Devour Monsters In The Dungeon - Chapter 11.2 (Patreon)

"You know…Lili is kind of surprised."

"By what?" I asked, glancing out of the corner of my eye at the small girl who was currently reclining on our crappy threadbare couch. She'd divested herself of the full body white cloak she wore, leaving her in nothing more than a tiny belly baring red hoodie and short red skirt that barely came down over her thighs, and left unbuttoned at the top, even though she had a belt and black torn thigh highs.

It was…I'm not gonna lie, kind of an erotic looking outfit. I know for a fact she could replace her clothes without problem, that's just how she likes dressing, I think.

And it stands out all the more because of how curvaceous she is for a pallum. And this is her with poor living conditions.

She's not even four feet tall and has tits big enough to fill my palms.

"Where you and Hestia-sama are living," she replied, idly casting a glance to one corner of the room where a cobweb had begun to form on the corner of the ceiling, "With how much you made today and with what you told Lili about your skill, Lili thinks Mr. Caelan could easily afford a new place."

"Probably, but I'm waiting a bit till we can afford an actual big place," I replied as I idly worked my fingers gently into the back of the short stack goddess below me, whom I was currently straddling the back of, "And I've kind of been too busy to look into how much property costs.

"I see…while Lili doesn't know too much herself, she has looked into it briefly," the pallum girl admitted, "The higher end homes that higher end Familia purchase or get built generally start at around ten million valis."

…Hmm. That was cheaper than I thought. But, if I wanted to make sure I got a good one, with all I wanted in it, I'd need to gather at least three times that. Especially if I wanted it in a good area.

That could take a while considering I literally eat the magic stones I get. Though, if I didn't and focused on earning and went a little deeper into the dungeon. I could probably gather thirty million in a couple weeks, if even that going by my earnings today.

…Though that was with Lili backing me up and doing the looting for me, so maybe not.

"Good to know, I'll have to look into it a bit more once I get my business set up," I mused and that did bring something to mind, I looked away from Hestia who was murmuring happily underneath me to Lili, "Which reminds me, I said I wanted you, buy if you don't want to be a supporter or anything anymore, you're definitely cute enough to draw eyes and you can work in my new shop if you want."

"….You would be fine with that, even though you said Lili being a supporter is why you picked me?" she asked, biting her lip and giving me an odd look.

I didn't know what she was thinking.

"Yeah, it'd slow me down a ton in the dungeon, cuz you're awesome as a supporter, but I'd rather you be happy," I explained, "Besides, you know a lot more about business and things in this city than me, you'd be able to run the business better than me."

"…No," Lili denied after a moment, "Lili is Mr. Caelan's supporter. So I want to stay as Mr. Caelan's supporter, but Lili can help out there when needed." her words were firm.

I grinned, "Brilliant, I was hoping you'd rather stick with me in the dungeon, I get things done so much faster with you around to deal with the bodies," I replied, otherwise I was probably going to have to drag a huge cart down into the dungeon with me to load everything on to and lug around, "We'll just need to get you a disguise or something for now until I'm ready to go kick the Soma Familia's doors in and force them to let you go."

"No need to worry Mr. Caelan, Lili already has that covered," she shook her head and then brought her hands up to her head, "Your wound is mine. My wound is mine. Echoing message of midnight." she chanted.

And before my eyes, a shimmer of light surrounded her and a moment later she changed. Furry brown dog ears formed atop her head while a bushy brown canine tail sprouted from her backside as she became a chienthrope.

Cinder Ella, her own personal magic spell. Which I already knew she had. Though, I made a show of widening my eyes in surprise, "Transformation magic?" I 'gaped'.

"Yes, it's how Lili has been able to survive up until now," she admitted, the ears on her head twitching lightly and lowering, akin to an ashamed dog being given into trouble, "Cinder Ella let's Lili transform into anything around her size and even change her race into chienthrope or an elf, even an amazon."

"See, I knew you were special, that's a pretty amazing spell," I shook my head, "And you have one of those supporter skills right, that let's you carry more? I'd love to get my hands on a skill like that."

"…Yes, Lili has the Artel Assist skill, a quite common skill among supporters," she admitted, giving him another queer look, "Lili doesn't understand why Mr. Caelan who is so amazing would want such a useless skill though."

"That's not useless, that's an amazing skill," I rebuffed, "Imagine this Lili. I have a massive heavy sword that weighs multiple hundred pounds. Because of that skill, most of the weight is held by the skill and makes it feel light to me, but anything I hit with it, will still feel all the weight behind it. I could dual wield giant buster swords or huge clubs the size of my body easily with that skill and swing them around easily, hell I actually wanted to ask you how I' unlock that skill myself because of how useful it seems to me."

Her confirmation that it was a common skill amongst supporters though, makes it seem that it is possible to earn the skill and that it isn't unique. Just like how the Amazon sisters in the Loki Familia both have a Berserker skill.

Lili blinked, "…I see, Lili did not think of that," she admitted, "Lili can see how it would be useful in Mr. Caelans hands, but not in hers. Lili is still just a small, weak pallum in the end and Artel Assist can only go so far."

"You're not a pallum right now though," I pointed out, "Unless that transformation is just an illusion and not physical?"

I know it is not.

"…No, it's physical, while transformed like this Lili has the senses of a chienthrope," she admitted, brows furrowing, "But again, that only goes so far with Lili, I'm just too small."

"Big things come in small packages, look at your chest after all." I grinned at her.

Her cheeks burned and she brought her arms up to hide her breasts from my gaze, "…Mr. Caelan truly is a lustful beast at heart, just like you said earlier." she pouted at him.

But, despite her words, I couldn't see any disproval in her gaze. In fact, if I wasn't wrong, her voice sounded a little pleased.

Yeah, as I expected. Lili's experiences in life had torn her down. I just had to build her back up. She was weak to honest flattery, because she'd never had it before.

"Hey, you're a beautiful girl, can you blame me?" I snorted, "Besides, I think you're looking at this a little wrong. You can do so much with what you have. Like, you could transform into a werewolf at night and get stronger under the moon or even a boaz to use their beastification, and even without that you'd be stronger than normal because of their race being physically superior to pallums. With that and your Artel Assist skill, you'd be able to wield something like a big spear easily and out hit most low level adventures even with your height. And it doesn't end there, you could transform into a bird to fly around, into a snake to bite and poison your enemies. Between your transformation spell and your skill, you could totally become a strong adventurer if you want."

Lili's eyes widened in shock, so much so she looked a bit like a deer caught in headlights, "…A boaz using beastification is said to double all their physical abilities a werewolf under the moon even more so," she idly said, more to her self than anything, "A bird…Lili could have flown far away as one, why did she never think of that?"

…Yeah, why didn't she? She could have literally flown all the way to another kingdom and lived there easily with the Soma Familia being unable to find her ever again.

"Obviously, it's clearly destiny," I joked, "Cuz' if you flew the coop I'd never have got to meet you. A total tragedy."

Lili's lips tugged up at his words, "…Mr. Caelan is very corny."

I thought I heard a snort of agreement from beneath me, but that couldn't be true. Because, I'm pretty sure Hestia has already fallen asleep. My magic super healing powder massage technique was clearly amazing.

…It also helped a lot that my voice had changed a bit since I got my status updated. While my voice was already pretty deep, it had deepened a bit further and an odd, almost alluring timber had entered my tone.

My voice was pretty sexy now. I bet I could actually sing worth a damn now thanks to it.

"A little bit," I admitted, but mostly because things that wouldn't translate well in my old world, actually did here, I'm just seeing what sticks, "And you know, there's nothing wrong with being small." I assured her.

"…You're just saying that." she shook her head.

Gently, I rose up off of Hestia's back and slipped onto the floor, "Nah," I denied, making my way over to take a seat beside her and casually placing my hand on her head and ruffling the girls hair, "I mean, did you know? That once upon a time before this world, this universe itself came into being that it was no bigger than a peach."

"…That's totally made up." Lili replied bluntly, but that did not stop her from leaning into his touch, tail idly wagging behind her almost on instinct.

"I'm not joking," I replied with a laugh, holding up a single hand and cupping my fingers in a circular shape, "No bigger than this. And all it was back then, was fire. And then, the heat and density of that flame became so great, it exploded and expanded outwards and from it, everything came into existence. I don't know what created it, but that was how we were created. We're stardust Lili, bigger people just have a little bit more. And that's why Hestia is the best goddess, she's the goddess of the divine flame where we all came from. You might be a pallum right now Lili, but don't ever forget where you really came from. Just like me, you're bright and powerful stardust that was formed in the crucible of divine cosmic fire." I was half rambling at this point, drawing from scientific and philosophic quotes both and half paraphrasing at that.

I don't think Lili will understand what a singularity is after all.

"…Lili…has no idea where you're going with this Mr. Caelan." she replied blankly and totally lost.

I couldn't help but chuckle, "I mean that the universe itself was once only a fraction of your size and look at it now," I explained, "If the universe can start out smaller than you and become great enough to contain even the amazing me and everyone else, then you can become strong, you've got all the talent, abilities and intelligence needed, you're special enough. You just need to believe in yourself like I do. Or at the very least, put your belief in the me that believes in you."

"…Where did you come from Mr. Caelan? You have only known Lili for a day, two at best," she replied, "Why are you so confident in Lili? you said you want everything the world has to offer, what does that mean?"

"I come from Scotland, a place you'll probably have never heard about and probably never will beyond me, I'm the only one alive from there in this world now after all," I decided on as an explanation, "I'm the only one of my race left in this world and the closest analogy I can give you of us, is think of Amazon's, only both male and female, and vastly more intelligent and learned. We're basically very very smart and progressed barbarians."

Or at the very least that was general image people had of the Scottish. And well, my race was human and my human race was clearly different from the one in this world. We were vastly ahead in civilization and knowledge after all.

"And as far as everything the world has to offer goes," I shrugged, "I'm just too greedy to settle. Like I said, I want money, power, influence, women and more."

"…Then…what makes Lili special if you want even more women? Lili is sure you soon many women more beautiful than Lili will come to you." she asked in a small voice.

"Because there's only one Lili," I replied, then snorted, "Don't think just because I want women, that I'm going to go after every single one I see. Let me tell you, less than one percent of the women in this city can measure up to you. Even a bunch of the goddesses don't measure up."

"….Mmm, as expected," Lili surprised me by slumping into my side, "Lili doesn't understand at all, but it Mr. Caelan's words does make Lili feel warm inside."

Before I knew it, her breathing evened out and she fell asleep. It seemed, everything that had went on today and all the bombs I'd dropped on her, had totally exhausted her.

"…You really are way too corny for your own good," the familiar voice of my patron goddess made me look over to see Hestia, awake and giving me a dry gaze, "That was embarrassing to listen to."

"Yeah, I'm not that emotional a guy, I can only draw on the wisdom of others in that regard," I felt my cheeks warm up, "Sadly telling Lili to shut the fuck up, she's special because I said so, wouldn't really be a valid explanation."

"…Soma really has damaged her," Hestia's gaze softened as she looked at the girl sleeping by my side, "Though, I'm surprised, so that's where you come from? I admit, I've never heard of a Scotland or any race named after it, even up in Tenkai."

"It was a pretty small place." I admitted, which was true, Scotland despite having the natural resources to be a superpower, was a rather small country.

"It does explain a lot though, you're a lot different than most mortals I've met," Hestia mused, "And you weren't kidding about being an intelligent race, I didn't know any mortals knew of the creation of this world, we tend to keep a tight lip on that. Unless you guys had another deity that told you?"

"Nah, we figured it out ourselves, though to be exact, we can trace up to when and what the universe began as, just not what really caused it initially," I replied, "Though. it's just an assumption that you deities were behind it."

"…We…helped a bit I suppose," Hestia admitted, "The divine flame I watch over played a big part in it though."

…Wait seriously? I was just bullshitting on that part. "Cool," I grinned, "Hestia is Bestia after all." I'm not sure if it was the same for my universe, but at least as far as this one goes, I have been gifted the answer my people longed after for thousands upon thousands of years.

Neat.

"Mou, you shouldn't say stuff like that, you make me want to kiss you," Hestia pouted at him, "But we can't because Lili is here, stupid dumb idiotic moronic loser Soma."

"Yeah…I had other plans for tonight initially." I admitted.

"Oh?" Hestia gave me an eager, interested look, prompting me with her deep sapphire blue gaze to continue, "You're such a dirty boy Caelan."

"That I am, I wanted to try out some new positions with you tonight on the bed," my grin widened, "I wanted to try doing you from behind tonight now that you've adjusted to me and pull n your twin tails."

"…Oh my," her cheeks blazed and she looked away, "Stupid Soma." she griped again.

I laughed again and gently eased my way out of Lili's grip, grabbing the sheet over the back of it and laying it over her, "I guess since that's not an option right now, I'm gonna head out for a bit and test out my new abilities," I mused, "That and fill those barrels upstairs."

"Of course you are, just don't over do it, we've gotta go check out that store tomorrow and get things ready to go for business," she sighed, turning back to me, "….Hey…" she started up as I got ready to leave.

"Yeah?" I paused, giving her my attention.

"The reason you want a bunch of girls….it isn't because you want to revive your race is it?" she asked, biting her lip.

Did…I?

I hadn't been thinking along those lines until now. But, now that I think about it, I can't deny the appeal of siring an all new Scottish race, stronger than all the rest in this world.

"Well…it's not only that." I admitted.

"Alright." was all Hestia said in reply.