Yumiko was walking backwards with her hands behind her as she looked around the dungeon, then turned around. Tanaka was in front and Sumay behind.
"Tanaka, what spells do you specialise in?" Asked Yumiko.
"Hmm," Tanaka's finger was on his chin, "All, I can do all kinds of magic," he said after turning his head to Yumiko.
"You know all magic?" That's so cool! That means he specialises in all the elements and is good against most monsters! Talk about O.P.
"Yeah, I'm a magician after all," Tanaka said with a smile and his hands on his hips, looking proud of himself.
"I thought you were a sorcerer"
"No. I'm a magician, the greatest you will ever meet!" Tanaka said with a big smile.
He ran ahead, stopped, and turned around to Yumiko. Tanaka put his left hand to his face and spread his finger out then pushed his hand out with his right hand on his hip.
He snapped his finger and then small fires appeared in the air between him and Yumiko. The flames were a beautiful mixture of blue, orange and red, she stopped walking and looked in awe. Sumay stopped behind her but still looked blank-faced.
"Beautiful," said Yumiko.
"That is what I do. I'm Tanaka Noel, the great magician, the bringer and protector of beauty!" Tanaka said with a smile.
The fires then suddenly went down and his eyes closed, Yumeiko looked confused.
"Hmm, is something-" she said as she started walking to him.
He opened his eyes, turned to the wall, looked around then turned his head to Yumiko and smiled as he saw her.
"Hello, greetings, and you are?" He asked.
"Ah, Yumiko? We just went through greetings" Yumiko said with an awkward smile.
"Oh, yes. You must be our new master. It is a pleasure to meet you, I am Lanus, and may I just say you are gorgeous M'lady"
"Um, the pleasure is all mine," Yumiko said with her heart-warming smile and her hand on her chest.
She looked puzzled for a moment but was back to her charming self.
Ah, okay, weird. But get yourself back together, something is wrong. Is my new pet trying to make a joke? I don't get it.
"Where are we, M'lady? Tanaka didn't get to tell us what was happening. It is awfully dirty, I don't think it's the right place for someone as beautiful as M'lady" Lanus said as he smiled at Yumiko.
He stood straight, legs together and his shoulders back as he looked around the dungeon.
Is he talking in the third person about himself? And did he say "Tanaka didn't tell us"? His whole posture changed, and he's talking differently too… Maybe I'm reading too into this, but it doesn't really matter.
"We're in the dungeon. Are you okay, Tanaka or Lanus?" Yumiko asked as she walked to him.
"Lanus. Tanaka isn't here right now, M'lady," he said, turning to her.
"He's not here? Where did he go?" What is going on with my new pet, is he defective or something? Well then again as long as he can fight well, it doesn't matter all too much.
"I'm not sure actually but he'll be back, eventually. Don't worry, M'lady, this just happens" he said with a smile while looking down.
"What just happens?" Yumiko asked with her eyebrow raised.
"Me, Tanaka, Aurora, and Lalon all live together. This is always the hard part, and Tanaka always waits till I come out to try and explain to our masters even though he's the one they call for" Lanus said.
He put his head to rest on his right hand as his left held it, looking slightly annoyed.
Oh, I know what this is. Does Tanaka have DID or something? That would make sense, well it's either that or he's just crazy. Then again, I'm no doctor, so I can't really diagnose but I was the smartest person in my school. And I'm pretty, well, aren't I just perfect!
"Sorry, M'lady. To put it simply, different people are living in this body, you must not understand" he said, lifting his head from his hand.
"No, I understand. And I would love to meet Tanaka's other alters" she said with a smile.
"Alters?" Lanus asked, looking confused as he put his hand down.
"Alters are the other people you live with, they're like your roommates"
"The people I live with, Aurora, and Lalon"
"Yeah, do you not know what DID is?" Yumiko asked, tilting her head.
"No, M'lady. What does it mean?"
"Dissociative identity disorder, it's pretty much what you said. It's like someone, Tanaka in this case, has different people living with him in his body, you, Aurora, and Lalon, you are all his alters" she said.
DID is a whole thing and I didn't read much into it in my past life, looks like this one doesn't know about it but I know the gist of it.
"I see, I'll have to tell the others. Thank you, M'lady, you are so wise" Lanus said with a smile and his hand on his chin.
I know but can we do this later? I was really looking forward to fighting in this dungeon!
"M'lady, something is approaching," Lanus said.
He then turned around to face the hall they were going down, with his hands behind his back.
Finally! Something interesting, this has been the most boring dungeon quest I've ever been to. There hasn't been a single monster this whole time. So, what are we fighting?! Is it a group of zombies or-or skeletons?! Those are normally the type of monsters that spawn in dungeons! Yumiko thought excitedly on the inside but looked serious on the outside.
Something came bouncing down the hall to them, it was a clear blue slime. Lanus was blocking her from seeing what it was, so she tilted her body and as she peeked out from the side of him, she saw the slime.
Seriously? Was Yumiko's first thought as she disappointingly looked at it, then walked to the side of Lanus.
You have got to be kidding me, that was so anticlimactic!
"I'll take care of this, M'lady," Lanus said.
He lifted his right hand and pointed it at the little slime, then ice cubes shot from his hand at the slime, killing it.
I would say impressive but it's just a slime. I could kill those in my sleep. "Thank you, Lanus, you're so helpful," Yumiko said with a smile as she walked to the slime, and then kneeled down to it.
The dungeon started to rumble and then a wave of slimes came crashing down the hall. Sumay rush to Yumiko and grabbed her by raping her hand around her belly then jumped back in a matter of seconds.
"O heavens above protect me and my allies from evil, holy barrier," she said then her golden barrier appeared as a half circle in front of them.
Her barrier blocked off the rest of the hall's walkway from the wave of slimes that now covered all of the hall on the other side of them. Lanus stood behind them with his hands behind his back then walked to them. Sumay stood up, still holding Yumiko by her belly with her hand, then put her down.
"Are you alright, master?"
"Yeah," she said as she looked at the slimes in aw.
"Sorry to grab you like that, master, it was an urgent matter"
"Ah, yeah, it's fine" This is why I said Sumay is all I need in this dungeon. Talk about quick reflexes but why are there so many slimes? Where did they come from, I knew slimes travelled in packs but this is a bit much.
"Where did all the slimes come from all of a sudden?" Yumiko asked.
"Slimes in dungeons like this one often don't move altogether, unless there's a more powerful monster skating them off," Lanus said, who was behind Yumiko, she turned her hand to listen.
More… powerful monster? Let's go! All I heard was a powerful monster, so cool! Now this has to be good. "Let's go find it then. Sumay," she said then turned back to the slime on the other side of the barrier.
"Yes, master. Light from the heavens came down to earth and help me destroy my enemies," The holy barrier fell down and the slime came crashing again, "holy flames" Sumay said then put her hand out, pointing at the slimes.
Golden fire with a bit of orange came from her hand and covered the hall, burning all the slimes blocking the way.
"Aren't you just a dear? Let's go" Yumiko said as she smiled at Suamy.
She then started walking, Sumay walked behind her and Lanus followed. Sometime later, as they walked through the dungeon, Lanus stopped for a second, closing his eyes.
"I'm back! Did you miss me?" Asked Tanaka.
"Tanaka?" Yumiko stopped and turned to him then asked.
"The one and only great magician," he said with a smile and his hands behind him as he leaned forward then walked to Yumiko.