Stealing Heroines' Affections Is My Job as the Villain

Chapter 110 Young Master is Dead?

Hours went by, and the dungeon floors seemed endless. Continue your saga on empire

Yet somehow, the group couldn't shake the feeling they were close to the end.

Maybe it was wishful thinking, or maybe it was the fact that they hadn't seen a single monster or trap for what felt like ages. To most of them, this dungeon seemed like the dullest of all—so ancient that the traps had probably stopped working long ago, and most of the monsters had likely died out.

Luciana, Ghislaine, Rosemarie, and Esmeralda were all starting to look exhausted.

Seeing this, Vritra decided to use his [Plasma Magic] to wrap them in powerful energy spheres. These spheres would not only destroy anything that tried to approach but would also keep the women safe inside.

However, Sadim wasn't too thrilled about it at first.

He'd wanted to stay with Rosemarie himself and didn't like the idea of someone else protecting her. But after realizing he was coming across as uncooperative, he reluctantly agreed.

But, what really pushed him over the edge was what God Vritra had whispered to him just moments after suggesting the idea.

"You've been acting very much like a spoiled brat as of late, Sadim. That's not very hero-like. If you love Rosemarie, then shouldn't you be fine with the idea of her being safe even if you're not the one to protect her?"

That was exactly what he told Sadim, and with such a straight face that no one even believed he was mocking the young hero.

The only person who could tell this was mockery of the highest order was Sadim, who was on the receiving end of such a disguised insult.

But the salt on his wound wasn't enough.

Rosemarie also went on to say:

"Yeah, it's not like he's going to kidnap me or anything. The young lord is a nice person, and he's been really lenient with you throughout our exploration, you know? I don't want to be unsupportive, Sadim, but you're really acting a bit ungrateful, especially if you recall all he knows about us."

She was very serious when she told him this.

And while Sadim took some offense from her words, that didn't stop them from being the truth. He didn't act like Vritra was his superior in any sense. Rather, he acted like they were enemies, and while they weren't exactly enemies, there was just something about this young lord that made Sadim's blood boil with pure anger.

This ancient god knew almost every secret about him, and yet he barely knew a thing about Vritra aside from the fact that he was lying specifically to Rosemarie, pretending to be God Dionysus rather than God Vritra.

『What does he want with her? What does he want with me? I just can't tell!』

The more the hero thought on it, the deeper his anger became and the more his hand reached for his sword.

Sure, he couldn't defeat this man, but that didn't stop him from wanting to stab him in the heart.

『I feel so... so helpless!』

That realization left Sadim simmering with frustration.

Disregarding Sadim's frustration completely, Vritra simply encased all the delicate women in plasma spheres while he, Sadim, and Sophia kept walking.

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Soon, they arrived at a strange door, and the design looked exclusively grand. It was far grander than the entrance to all other floors they'd been to.

This one was, in fact, more special.

Vritra looked back and smiled at Sadim.

"Is this the final floor?"

Sadim's face went sour. "How exactly would I know?"

"Oh? I just had a feeling..."

"Well, I know nothing." Sadim looked away angrily.

From within her sphere, Luciana gently banged on the surface as she watched Vritra make contact with the door.

"Be careful, honey!"

Her face became very worried.

"We don't know what that door is, and it looks very strange. I don't have a good feeling about it either..."

She was greatly worried because, for almost an entire day that they'd been walking through every twist and turn in this dungeon, there were no longer any traps. While that would usually be a good thing, it also had Luciana believing that maybe these traps and monsters were being saved for something bigger and more dangerous.

『He's immortal, I know... but that doesn't stop me from worrying about him...』

"VRITRA!

"VRITRA!

"PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!!"

Each time she struck the boulders, her hands cut and bled mercilessly, but she didn't feel the pain in the slightest.

"Honey, please answer me!"

She smashed the sword against the boulder again, and more blood sprayed from her delicate hands.

Ghislaine rose to her feet and marched over to her.

"Stop this, you dumb blonde!"

She was infuriated with how the princess was overreacting, as if she couldn't live without the young lord.

"He's going to be fine. He's immort──!!"

"SHUT UP!"

Luciana fired back at Ghislaine, pointing the sword at her with hands trembling purely with fear.

"Just because he's immortal or all-powerful doesn't mean I shouldn't worry about my husband! Maybe you don't care enough about him to worry... but just because he's a force to be feared doesn't mean he doesn't have weaknesses! It doesn't mean I shouldn't treat him like I would treat anyone who has my heart and deserves my worries! I love God Vritra, so I won't sit here and hope that he's fine simply because he's an ancient god! I'm better than that!"

Ghislaine couldn't say a word in response.

She felt ashamed that she wasn't the one saying this about the young lord.

"I also can't live without him... because the young master is the one who gave my life meaning..."

That was all she could mumble to herself.

The princess didn't even regard Ghislaine in that moment and focused entirely on slamming her sword against the boulders blocking the entrance to the dungeon.

... clang! CLANG! CLANG!!

Each strike caused her hands to bleed more.

Esmeralda saw this, and tears streamed down her pallid cheeks, but she knew there was no stopping the princess whenever she got like this. All she could do was hope for the best.

『Please, God Vritra, be safe...』

She clasped her hands together and prayed.

Meanwhile, Rosemarie watched in silence.

... thump! THUMP!

Went the sound of her heart.

『God Dionysus... is Vritra... as in the same Fiendcelestial that almost destroyed the Sacred Kingdom ages ago...』

Her body started to vibrate heavily with fear.

[Ding! The heroine's affection for the host has dropped by a massive 300 points!]

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Meanwhile...

Vritra yawned tiredly as he sat relaxed on a massive golden throne, casually eating grapes as he stared at the pale corpse of Sadim resting in an ancient golden coffin.

"Ah, jeez. These women sometimes..."

His eyes shifted to the spatial rift where he watched his women cry and panic.

"Luciana really needs to take a chill pill."

He sighed as he popped another grape into his mouth.

Looking around the grand throne room at the dead bottom of the Gold Rock Dungeon, only one thought came to the young lord's mind:

『Hm, I wonder if this place has some AC.』