"Hragh!" Raphtalia yelled as her sword slashed the remaining abomination, the last of the large insects, reducing the pest to a viscous pile of goo resting on the stone ground.
"I think that was the last one" Naofumi said, lowering his shield as he examined the dungeon, finally cleared after what felt like hours of fighting the little crawlers, the exhaustion clear on his companions faces, Raphtalia barely able to hold her sword and Filo looking like she was about to collapse, "Good job, now let's see where's that treasure room and let's get out of here" he said as he started to examine the walls.
"Thank...you...Master....Naofumi" Raphtalia huffed as she sheeted her sword, those encouraging words giving her some vitality back.
"If I see another one of those creepy things I'm gonna puke!" Filo whined as she transformed back into her human form, holding her stomach with one hand and covering her hand with the other.
"I know I know, just think about all the berries you would eat once we're done with this task" Naofumi reminded her, glad to hear her immediately lighting her mood when food was brought up into the conversation, but he tried to focus on the task at hand, noticing that one of the stones on the wall had a slightly different texture, and almost matching the filolial's glee when he pushed the Stine and saw a passageway opening up.
"We found it" he said as he walked into the room, Filo and Raphtalia following behind.
As he saw the state of the treasure room Naofumi scowled, completely ransacked as the villagers had told him, and a huge dark vortex lay on the middle of it, a large spider popping out of it, quickly being slashed by Raphtalia's sword, unlike it's brethren this arachnid wasn't able to reach the vents on the upper side of walls that add lead the other spiders to the difrent places in this dungeon, am eventually to the village they had been terrorising before his arrival.
Naofumi let out a sigh as he shook his head, taking a hand to his backpack as he started to take out the golden statuettes that had been there before a certain gullible spear hero and his bitchy party loot them after clearing this dungeon for the first time, luckily Motoyasu had sold the statues in the village, giving Naofumi the slight comfort of not having to track them down, but he would have preferred not having to clean that idiot's mess in the first place.
Looking around the room, it was clear that the four golden statues originally rested on the four pedestal located on each corner of the room, so that's exactly what the shield hero proceeded to do, smiling as he saw the dark vortex disappearing.
RRRR
"Uhh?" Naofumi raised an eyebrow as he heard the sound of cogs turning, a mix of feeling rushing to his mind as he saw a small pedestal appearing where the vortex had been, with a golden chalice adorning it's tip.
"What's that?" Raphtalia asked as she blocked Filo's path, who was trying to rush towards the chalice, wanting to pick the shinny object so they could get out of this creepy place and she could pull her cart and eat berries.
"I don't know" the shield hero shrugged, he was curious to see if he could fetch a good price for it, but the memories of Motoyasu's failure, and the other heroes general incompetence made him doubt, they still thought this was some kind of game while he had clean their very real mess practically every place he went, but somehow people still saw him as the bad guy, the hated Shield Demon despite doing nothing but good deeds!
"Grrr" Naofumi grunted as he remembered his treatment since he came to this world, suddenly his worry for the people of the village disappeared as he remembered how they almost preferred the spiders to him! How he practically had to steal the golden statuettes from the village elder that had told him of the dungeon's curse, because they feqr d he had some nefarious motive behind his offer of help, HE just wanted to fix Motoyasu's mess and get paid for it!
"Fuck this people, they're the same kind of trash as everyone else in this rotten world!" he grunted as he picked up the chalice, already thinking where he could sell it, would Erhard be interested in it? He doubted it, maybe the slave trader would be interested, he was shady enough to not care where the chalice had come from.
His questions of who was worthy of trading with him was cut short when the the object in question vanished, the chalice that moments ago had been on his hands was now a few light sparkles, sparkles that grew in intensity to the point that it blinded him.
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When the light faded away and Naofumi was allowed to see once again he immediately noticed something was wrong, the clear light of the sun hit his face and a bunch of green trees greeted him, he was back on the surface.
"Uh? I was transported back here?" he asked himself, but this question only made more doubts appear on his mind as he heard his voice, it wasn't his own but he recognised it, feminine, beautiful but oh so wicked, a voice that had fooled him into a sense of safety only to cruelly backstab him, Malty's voice, but why was it coming out of his mouth?
The question was soon answered as he saw crimson locks of hair falling on the sides of his face, a chill went down his spine as he looked down.
Instead of his body, he found something different, a woman's body clad in a brown leather armor, that despite covering his chest and shoulders it show off a good bit of cleavage, momentarily making his face turn red, his embarrassment only growing as he saw the rest of this feminine figure, a thin waist and wide hips covered by a short purple skirt that allowed him to see two slim long legs that ended in a pair of heeled brown boots.
"N-no!" he shouted, both because he refused to see his current form, and because he immediately know to whom it belonged, he turned his head, doing his best to ignore the red stands falling on his face, but the image he saw didn't help him at all, the other reason of his misery, the king of brash idiots, Motoyasu.
"Hmmm?" Motoyasu himself didn't seem to be paying attention to Naofumi, he was instead looking at himself with a confused expression on his face, poking his chest and face, looking behind himself and examining his long ponytail as if he had never seen it before, then turning to his spear, seemingly not sure if he was holding it properly as he kept moving out from hand to hand, holding it in different positions, even pointing the spearhead towards the ground!
"Hey you!" Naofumi yelled, his anger only growing as he realised what had happened, he has somehow in that bitch's body in front of her favorite lackey, if this world really wanted to mess with him again the least he could do was telling Motoyasu what mess he had caused in that village, "You have any idea what your stupid dungeon crawling caused? You have any idea!? You left that village infested with giant spiders! Do you ever think what you're doing Motoyasu, or are you too busy checking out your floozies! And to make it all worse I always have to clean your mess!"
Motoyasu look at him, a scowl growing on his face as he saw 'Myne' yelling at him, immediately pointing his spear at 'her', "You! You're that bitch that betrayed Master Naofumi! You have any idea of all the pain you caused him! He's the kindest man I've ever known and you treated him like trash!"
"Uh?" Naofumi's eyes grew open as he heard 'Motoyasu' saying anything remotely positive about him, and calling him Master Naofumi? An idea sparked on his mind, if he was in Malty's body, could Raphtalia be in that idiot's body? "R-raphtalia, is that you? You also saw that chalice disappearing?"
"H-how do you know that!?" she asked, her eyes flinching and her spear shaking for a moment, "You were spying on us?"
"No, Raphtalia..." Naofumi couldn't believe what was going on, calling that idiot by her name was... disturbing, "I'm Naofumi, I...I know it's hard to believe but we seem to be on the same boat, I think that chalice-"
"Master!" she shouted, cutting him off and hugging him, making the Shield Hero want to puke as he saw how close Motoyasu's face was to his own, the red hair blocking his sight, his now round chest pressing it against Raphtalia's flat one, that height factor and also falling to the ground thanks to his heels was all a reminded of how much worse this situation was, he wasn't just being hugged by that idiot but was also on said idiot's bitch of a companion's body, "I-I thought it was a trap, when I saw the flash...I-I thought that you were-"
"Motoyasu-sama!" a high pitched shriek interrupted Raphtalia, he and Raphtalia turned to see the origin of it, seeing a two girls atop a filolial pushed cart, slowly making their way towards them, "We finally fixed the cart!" one of the girls yelled.
"M-master, what do we do?" Raphtalia whispered into his ear, doing her best to recompose herself as the cart got closer and closer.
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