“Bullying! any!” The kid wailed, still not satiated by the witch turned mother figure. “You killed my family!”
Wait. Don’t tell . The witch was his mother, the knight was his father, and the ghost was… I don’t know, his dog? It looked like a traditional blob ghost, so who knew what it was in its forr life. It didn’t appear very bright though. So, we barged into his ho, killed his dad and his dog, and now he was crying.
“Can’t you just bring them back?” I responded stiffly, realizing for the first ti I wasn’t that great with crying children.
“Bring them back?” He sniffled. “How if you’re just going to kill too? I didn’t even do anything to you!”
“Master should apologize.” Celeste frowned at .
“What? Wait! You said that you killed Miki! She’s my family! You’re not going to turn this on !” I responded angrily.
“And you believed him?” The witch asked.
“Geh!” I stumbled back.
I an, I didn’t believe him. If I believed she was dead, I would have just used resurrection first. Had her soul been in the dungeon, she would have resurrected.
“Bad master…”
Celeste was not helping…
“If Master is so bloodthirsty, he’ll even slaughter crying children, I must harden my heart.”
Alysia wasn’t helping either!
“Whether I believed him or not, that is what he said.”
“Why wouldn’t he say that! A big scary person breaks into our dungeon starts breaking stuff. It’s just bravado!” The witch declared.
“Bravado! He tried to kill !”
“He’s just a child!”
“He’s a dungeon master, this dungeon is 50 years old!”
“Hmph! A dungeon master is what a dungeon master is… you cannot change that.” The woman sniffed. “Our dungeon master is a child. No matter how much ti passed, he’d still be a child.”
My mouth opened and then closed a few tis. I didn’t know how to argue with such logic. This kid sets up death traps, approaches all arrogantly, traps in a boss room, and then sicks his minions on , and dares to act like it was all my fault.
His crying had finally diminished to sniffles. I took a breath to calm myself and then tried to take a new thod. I put a gentle smile on my face and then kneeled to his level while keeping enough distance between us that I wouldn’t appear threatening or be in danger.
“Look… little boy,” I said through my teeth as I smiled. “I’m sorry I ca into your dungeon. However, I’m missing soone very close to . That fox girl that ca in here was my friend. I won’t poke holes into who is at fault here, but if you could just tell your big brother here what happened to her, I will be on my way.”
“B-big brother?” He finally looked up from the witch’s arms.
An idea struck , so I decided to go with it. “Exactly, your big brother. You said you lost your family. Well, I’m a nearby dungeon master and my dungeon is stronger, so I’m like your big brother in a way, right?”
The boy seed to be pondering my words for a bit. I had gotten through. This would make everything a lot easier for . He took a step forward, looking innocent.
“Big brother is a poopoo head!”
“Pfft!”
I shot a look at Celeste, who had suddenly made a noise before turning away. Her shoulders were shaking. anwhile, I was feeling irritated. I was the bad guy then? Fine! I’d be the bad guy!
“Look, kid, either you tell what happened or-“
“You’ll kill ?” He responded hatefully, the witch stepping in front of him defensively.
I pulled out a glowing orb in my hand. “Or I’ll take your dungeon lore!”
When I had opened up the floor to this level, that was also in the ceiling of the boss room, the place where the lore always descended from. As I jumped down, I had just seen it so I grabbed it just in case. The boy’s face turned white and he fell to his knees. His appearance was more satisfying than I cared to admit.
{You have tad the Dungeon Master Mathew. You have Conquered Matty’s Maze of Mysteries!}
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