I was in a dream... dreaming about creating cursed legendary weapons and gear that turn the minds and desires of their compatible users into the ones of famous anime characters and spreading it through the world making a surge of real chunni cossplayers, then the dream changed...
The dream had become a slow reading... of Danmachi.
~~~Lili and Bell conversation~~~
"Liliruca-san you don't need to address me with -sama"
"Bell-sama."
"Just call me Lili. No "-san" please."
"Why are you so worried about the formalities..."
"Can't you see, Bell-sama...?, the label support brings to mind an image of an indispensable resource, but the job is, in fact, more similar to a porter's."
"In the eyes of honorable adventurers who risk their lives to fight monsters, we supporters are only parasites trying to suck them dry while doing nothing."
"I may be forcing an unfamiliar philosophy upon you, but would you please accept it as a favor to me Bell-sama?"
"Actually Lili once yearned for her own death. If once she came back to the gods, she wonders if Lili in the next life would be better off... than Lili now"
Then... It becomes
~~~Lili "final moments"~~~
"O GOD why... did you create Lili...?"
'supporter: a vocation for those who can't do anything alone-Lili's calling.' "It literally describes Lili herself. Lili hater Lili more Than anyone. Having relied on nobody, having nobody rely on her, and being alone has been..."
"I've been lonely..."
"Lili can finally die. she can finally return to Heaven. Lili can finally start over the worthless Lili the little Lili whom no one helps, the lonely Lili."
~~~waking up~~~
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO." It was me now... maybe Zeus was correct... adventures are only worth it if your adventure is for a bishoujo (biyöjo in that case).
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Welcome to Brazil paragraph:
It's like the words of the great philosopher Piton... As the philosopher, Piton used to say, whose disciple was none other than Karl Marx. Everything in life depends on how much you want to eat someone. You work to eat someone, you study to eat someone, you use drugs to eat someone, you work out, take poison, do all the misfortune to eat someone, you go to a show with the intention of leaving there to eat someone, I could continue the quote but it would be very unpleasant...
That's a meme btw.
End of the lame.
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Anyway.
Liliruca Arde, someone who reminds me of myself, well less the Soma's part.
It was another day in the dungeon, in the last days I trained dexterity mastering some weapons like rapiers, sabers, and polearms. Because I know from the series(from the manga and novel) that mastering weapons was one of the ways to gain dexterity status faster by training since the more significant the act to the person and gods the greater is the progress of the Falna, leveling up when reaching a considerable feat.
Baiting trip... :
This time I was prepared... for a fishing adventure, equipped with my newest cosplay-cough set, gear that screamed "I'm a rich rookie", a perfect bait for a newborn thief who steals rookies.
I even had twice come out of the dungeon covered in blood complaining about how difficult it was to collect magic stones and kill monsters Solo when passing near a certain group of "experienced" levels 1 with a cute little girl carrying Supporter equipment, a loot bag in my hands and dropping some War Shadow magic stones from a waist pack, I even went to a nobs bar to put on an act that no support wanted to follow me because I hunted alone on the sixth floor.
Unfortunately, my target looked undecided, but I was sure she would fall for good.
In those days I used my disguise, Martel'o Martelon, to walk around the workshop section of babel and analyze more items and equipment while getting witnesses to my existence. I also created two second-class weapons, an ax and a greatsword, the less profitable type, but luckily adding fire elemental damage to the ax, and magic nullification to the sword also carving pretty runes on them made the job.
It was enough to increase the value in some hundreds of thousands of varis that I used to buy some stores and hire some cooks, seamstresses, and book makers, all in favor of a better and more cultural world...
back to the point, I was baiting one more day when.
"Mister adventurer, Mr.adventurer-sama" A sweet voice spoke.
"green-haired adventurer-sama" yes it sure is the girl.
"Hello?" I replied
"Nice to meet you Adventurer-sama oni-chan," Liliruca Arde said smiling, half genuinely and half falsely.
"The pleasure is mine, my beautiful miss-chan (biyöjo-chan)" I said interrupting her of asking my name as I bowed slightly.
"Huh! eeh?" She tried to articulate something.
"What's the problem?" I asked confused as I got closer and looked her in the eye.
"Y-you... This might be sudden, but are you looking for support?" she spoke after recovering.
"Yes! cough, I'm in need of a supporter, why?" I spoke with eyes shining (literally).
"..." lili.exe does not work
"..." my patience.
"..." lili.exe restarted
"Ms?" I sent a command to Lili.exe
"What do you think about having a supporter?"
'sigh she's losing it'
"I would love to have one, unfortunately, none of them seem to want to be my partner," I said imitating the lonely smiling face that Lili usually does...
"really? so would you take Lili with you oni-chan?" Lili said smiling with her hands together as I said "I'd love to have one" just to mimic my lonely smile imitation listening to the ending.
'Yes, poor Lili that nobody helps, I see your tears wanting to come out'
"Yes, I would love to take 'Lili-chan' with me" I said as she grabbed her hands together with her eyes shining brighter than ever conveying more than words because of my [psionic] skill.
(blushhhhhhhhh) Lili almost lost consciousness. (he totally not used the cursed hand of passion on her, you saw nothing here...)
"Hey, hey! are you okay? Lili!" I said worriedly as I held her from falling.
"Uh... Lili is fine, Lili was just surprised by adventurer-sama"
"Are you sure? You seem to be out of energy, come sit in the shade of the tree" I asked as I supported her to the shade.
"unhum" She said bowing her head
So I took a cake and water out of my backpack and offered it to her.
"Here, eat, you look like you're out of sugar"
"..., why?"
"what?"
"Why, are you helping Lili?" she spoke with doubts.
'I want your soul little girl muhahahaha!'
"Lili-san won't be my supporter?, how does Lili-san plan to be my teammate if I don't help Lili?" I said smiling.
I took a piece of the cake and ate it making an "Hmmm Umee" (delicious) sound.
"here, don't let it fall" I said putting the rest of the cake in her hands.
When she finally sniffed it and then started to devour the cake I finally relaxed.
'it was all worth it' I thought with tears of joy.
"huh?, woaaaa I'm sorry adventurer-sama, Lili made you give her your cake" She said looking desperate after she saw my tears(she's afraid/feigning).
"Calm down, I'm just glad Lili-san liked the cake I made"
"See if you want more I have another one" I said showing my second package.
"Lili doesn't dare ask for more adventurer-sama" she said hesitantly
"don't call me adventurer-sama, call me Sinn oni-chan or at least Sinn-kun, I'm not much older than you right?, I bet you know more about adventure than I do, you wouldn't like me to call you Lili-sama right? " I spoke seriously.
"No Sinn-sama, I'm just a weak and useless supporter, I'm only good for carrying and collecting items" she spoke to that face again.
"No, Lili-sama, I'm just a rookie adventurer, if you were useless what would I be? I can barely train on the sixth floor even though I have good equipment"
"Lili-sama?" she said amazed.
"Yes, Lili-sama!, no wait, my name is Sinns Kreiger I'm from the Hephaestus family, what's your name Lili?"
"Lili's name is Liliruca Arde, I'm from the Soma Familia... Wait, you're that pallum blacksmith with glowing purple eyes who came out of nowhere who makes enchanted items?" she spoke in surprise in the second part.
"I think so, my eyes shine don't they?" I said pointing to them.
"Yes they shine a lot" She said lost in my soul mirror.
"They glow even brighter when I see an interesting person, it's like my special pallum ability" I said as I smiled at her making my eyes magically sparkle even more.
"wah?, what are you saying, Lili isn't interesting!" she said in realization blushing and making me think 'tsun tsun'.
"Lili is wrong, Sinn's eyes have never been deceived before, so it means Sinn is right and Lili-sama is an amazing person" I said imitating her tone and expression.
"grrrrrr, Stop teasing Lili Sinn-sama"
"Okay, Liliruca-chan"
"Huh, it better be"
"but..."
"but?"
"Lili, why do you want to join me in the dungeon? you have a family, right? I remember reading that Soma-sama encouraged his family members to help each other no?" I asked confused.
"Ehehe... Soma family members don't leave a weak burden like Lili in..."
"Nani?" I said with surprise.
"Besides, Lili feels uncomfortable at home, that's why she keeps moving from one inn to another, but...she's broke now" she said the last part shaking her head.
"What?"
"That's why Sinn-sama, please let me be your supporter in the dungeon! Lili wants to go with you" she said grabbing me.
"Are you sure? We just met, would you trust a rookie like me?"
"Lili who says that Sinn-sama, would you trust the Lili you just met?"
"Yes I would trust Lili with my life, Please join my party" I said getting on my knees and holding her hands.
"Y-your li-ife?"
"Yes please take care of me Liliruca"
"..."
"So you accept?" I asked.
"Yes, (cries and sobs)" she says wiping her tears away.
"don't cry Liliruca I won't treat you badly, I don't know why you're crying but let me help you, if you need money you can keep our loot today"
"Huh, really?" she recovered a bit by hearing about booty.
"Yes, and we will share everything as 50/50 in the future too! We will be the best duo and share adventures, joys, and sorrows!" I spoke completely intentionally.
"Huh?... Ahh" She sighed and passed out.
I totally got a up hand in this battle by using my knowledge of her fantasies...
It's not like they aren't mine too soo it's fine right?
'Maybe I should wait more and put our lives in danger before that? Nah that's for "low-minded" kids...'
'Well it looks like I'll have to take care of that' I thought while carrying her princess ride, with her backpack on mine back...