Five months had passed since Dan and Charlie left the small village. Occasionally they would go back to the village via the use of the portal Dan had set up. Anytime that Dan was feeling hungry or for some reason needed to take Dante Jr for a walk he would go back.
Dan sat on a rock thinking about something. They had gone up 10 floors since they left. What Hum and the others failed to tell Dan was that the gravity would only get stronger the higher up they went. It got stronger by twice or thrice each floor but most of the times it was an extra g.
Dan speculated that had the gravity not been as strong they would have already left. They had to spend some time adapting to the gravity.
"You can't just sit there and run away, sooner or later your going to have to accept it." Charlie said to Dan. Charlie had just finished his workout. Every day he would slash his gigantic sword 10,000 times and thrust it 10,000 times. He reached a point where he could casually swing his sword faster than a master swordsman with a katana like the swordsman statue they faced a few days ago.
"Shut up, I don't need relationship advice from a virgin like you." Dan said.
"I may be a virgin but if I can figure it out then so can you." Charlie swung his sword to keep himself busy. "Look at it from his or her perspective, they would definitely want to have a father. I know I definitely did so what do you think about them?"
The problem that Dan was currently dealing with was that Yuna was pregnant. Dan could not remember how that was possible because he knew his pull out game was strong except when it came to succubus's but beyond them he knew he could pull out quickly with other species.
"I don't know why I'm discussing grown up issues with a child but you don't understa-"
Charlie cut of Dan. "I do understand, your a coward, your scared of your own child, your scared that they will ruin your dreams and aspirations. You don't want to take responsibilty. If you did not want a child then you should have used a condom."
"A what?"
"A condom, do you not know what that is? It doesn't matter but the point is there are consequences to the actions you take and whether you like it or not they will come back to bite you in the ass." Charlie had a smug look on his face as if he had said something he was proud of.
Dan stood up and chopped Charlie in the head.
"Owwww!"
"Don't ever use my own words against me, for a minute I thought that you thought of that until I remembered the little speech I gave you. Things are not as simple as you think Charlie especially for a person like me."
"A... person... like you?" Charlie asked.
"Yes a person like me, a murderer, a killer, an agent of chaos, destruction and death, I take great joy in taking a life but for some reason creating life, it just feels strange."
"A being that walks, talks, has a conscience of it's own, a being that will develop it's own opinions, do I deserve to lead it? Do I deserve to hold it and stain the little pure thing with my blood stained hands? I'm afraid that I might do something to it, I'm afraid that it will be as fucked up as I am."
Charlie sat down on the rock and looked at Dan who was telling him his thoughts. Normally Dan would keep his thoughts to himself unless he was criticising him. 'Is this how my father felt? Did he think like this?' Chaie asked himself.
"I think you do," Charlie's words surprised Dan. "You brought that child into this world, you gave it life, you deserve to be in his life and him or hers in your life, because when that child grows older when they are at the their lowest point they will hate themselves, they will think it's their fault that they were abandoned," Charlie's words of wisdom was surprising Dan even more and more. The final question that Charlie asked was the final nail in the coffin. "Can you take responsibility for your child's actions when they fuck up in the future?"
Having said that Charlie left leaving his sword behind to have a swim in the river. Dan watched as he drove into the river and started swimming.
'Wow! I really did not expect him to be that deep, did he smoke marijuana?' Dan thought to himself.
Dan decided to sit back down, what he did not notice was the person in the shadows watching him.
He also seemed to fail to notice the several centipedes crawling up the rock. They slithered up the rock and as soon as they saw Dan they jumped on him and bite him.
"Ouch!" Dan said as he jumped up in shock. He shook the centipedes of his arm and right side of the body. When they fell on the floor they were greeted by Dan's foot leaving only a nasty green fluid on the floor.
"Tch, I can't get any rest from you bastards, how many of you are there?" Dan said. For the past few days these poisonous centipedes had been going after him. They would bite him and him only. Even if he and Charlie were sitting side by side they would completely ignore Charlie and go straight for Dan as if drawn by his blood like blood sucking pests.
Dan managed to smash the gigantic centipedes. They were approximately 1 meter long and had a tough exterior shell. But not tough enough to protect them from Dan's stomps.
Dan breathed in the air. He had to sit down if he was going to get the poison out of his body. The store had stopped giving him potions of any kind. It even stopped selling them in the store except for the mana regeneration potion which was pointless to Dan.
"At least I have the revitalising breath to take care of this poison." Dan said. He looked at his hand. It was swollen and purple just like all the other places he had been bit. Dan frowned.
The poison from the centipedes were not this powerful usually. Usually it would take a few minutes to kick and by then Dan had used the revitalising breath to get rid of the poison.
The poison as of now was much stronger to the point where it was showing effect in a matter of 30 seconds. Dan's vision blurred and so did his breathing. He quickly activated the revitalising breath while still standing.
POOOOOFFFF!
A bright white light blinded Dan. Once he was able to regain his vision he was able to see who it was. Two woman and a man. A giant breasted elf, a small pink haired girl.
A twisted smile crawled on Dan's profusely sweating face once he saw the long pointy ears on the giant breasted lady. It was time for some happy hunting.