"Mn... "
She didn't remember the last time she felt so weak, and something about it made her feel relaxed as she opened her eyes after a long sleep.
"If you are awake, then eat the fruits from the basket."
The voice of this man snapped her eyes open; the humiliation she felt at his hands came into her mind, making her jump off the bed in rage.
Her boobs fought against gravity, bouncing up, down, up, down, up, down...
Slap!
Annoyed, she slapped them to stop the bouncing.
She pointed her fist at Leo, who was sitting on a wooden chair and reading a book on agriculture. An oil lamp was hanging a little left above his head on the wall with a hook.
A knife morphed from solid sand formed in midair between the invisible line of her fist and his head. It would give him a slow, painful death.
"Because of me, you are free from the curse of the dungeon. I don't know what kind of person you are, but you shouldn't harm your savior at the very least. " Leo was very calm on the surface, but he had to act cool to fool her. "Don't forget I have power equal to you, given by the dungeon. Fighting will cost both of us. You are free to leave. But your aura and appearance might make you enemies of the Warland Kingdom who have escaped from your dungeon in the past."
"You peasant... You... You..."
She struggled to control her rage when his words blew away her anger with logical reasoning. She hated the dungeon, which had treated her like a prisoner all these years. So she believed that Leo really got power to rival her upon victory over her.
But it was also true that she had no clue about her future.
Lifting his head, his eyes found the beautiful Vivi. Even in nighttime, under a weak radiance of an oil lamp, she was a national beauty. Maybe global level too.
He spoke to her without any lie in his words, "We are man and woman. What happened before between us was the call of circumstances without control. I had to do it for my survival."
"You can leave, but given how old your dungeon was, I doubt your family and friends are still around. Your strength and unverified identity can make you a threat to any nation unless you become their pawn."
"I don't think you will do that. My advice is that you become my wife and get official recognition as a human. I am sure you can control your power to do that."
"If that sounds too burdensome, then we can be friends too. But I am not a generous guy; you will have to pay with your body for my service. So what do you think you should do now?"
Vivi was at a loss for words. She could feel that her spiritual power wasn't as strong as before. If she had freedom now, then she would like to return to her kingdom, to her throne. But as he said, she couldn't do that because so many things must have happened after her disappearance.
The Warland Kingdom was like an alien world to her. She had tried to investigate the people of this kingdom and found she was on a different land, a different island.
The knife in the air pointed at Leo vanished into the air as she retracted her power and sat down on the bed with eyes that had no hope.
"You look tired. Just as I have expected, your strength is on a reset period. It will come back after a specific time. But you know what, sometimes, you need to do nothing to find a new path. Rest here for a few days. I won't touch you again. When you feel like it, you can leave. I won't stop you."
He closed the book and stepped outside the house with the oil lamp.
The Warland Kingdom had electricity, but outside it was just wilderness.
He walked hundreds of meters away from the house while staring at the seemingly endless horizon and starry sky above.
"Hey, TT, this timeline sucks. I am getting flashes of the life Leo Yeager lived. The kingdom is unstable; a civil war or revolution can happen anytime."
Leo began to list the troubles he was facing.
"And this time I have a girlfriend who is apparently a doppelganger of Mikasa and a noble lady. Her family hates me, her admirers want me dead, and her mother, who looks like a milf version of Mikasa, is my secret girlfriend."
"Not that I am complaining about tasting Mikasa with different personalities. What is more bizarre is the fact that they are rescued residents of different dungeons. So they are not real mother and daughter. I mean, WHAT THE OYAKODON!"
(Note: If you don't understand this pun, you can watch Pump Up The Healthy Love kdrama. The gym director curse like in the drama which is very funny.)
He cursed the last words. He liked to play with women not being played by them.
(TT: Calm down. The people aren't aware of multiple timelines like things. They think they are just humans from different worlds. Your girlfriend and future mother-in-law like you because you got eyes like Eren, who was their love interest in their worlds.)
He complained, "Ugh... I don't have the mental power to deal with these problems. I can't even think of getting hard. No wonder guys who work hard get cheated."
(TT: You are feeling this because of your lack of power. Once you get stronger than average folks, you will have a lot of fun.)
Leo sighed with an upset face. He stared at the sky and horizon for a while, then returned to the cottage.
But his face was making a strange expression.
Vivi was standing naked with her hands crossed under her huge breasts. She was too used to it.
"I admit you are my savior, but you are too weak to be my royal consort without that dungeon artifact. So I will take you under my wing as my royal slave."
She said as if Leo was waiting to hear that. She wouldn't feel good unless she had someone to dominate now that she had returned to a free world.
"Okay! Eat this to form the contract." he took out a blueberry and handed her.
"Really? Do you think I will submit to you?" She wasn't a fool.
"It is called Thirsty Heart Berry. It works both ways. Let me explain: for example, you give me an errand to run. Once I am finished with it, you will reward me with what I want from you; it can be money or sex or some other service. The same goes for me; doing my work will allow you to demand something from me. Your only loss is that you can't reject my wishes, but I can reject your wishes. With this contractual relationship, we can borrow strength from each other. It only works if we borrow strength from the other party."
He explained in great detail before adding, "My objective isn't to stay in this dying land. Just like you, I have a king personality and dream to create my harem full of beautiful girls like you. To do so, I need a lot of power. If you are not honest enough to work with me, then please leave right now quietly from my life. I am not kind of traitors."
His words sounded like a humiliating provocation to Vivi, making her a bit angry. She tossed the berry up and efficiently gobbled it from her mouth. Without any hesitation, she gulped it down.
Why? She didn't really have any interest in being his slave, but as a dungeon boss, she had seen that everything had a limit. For now, she might have to rely on his strength, but she was sure that the moment to get free from enslavement would come one day.
Leo wasn't surprised because he knew she wasn't one with noobs but no brain. She definitely knew what he was up to, yet she chose it, which meant that she would try to kill him in the future.
He scoffed lightly, 'Damn my luck! The other protagonist has plot armour thicker than the thighs of Lexi Luna. Cheat abilities to charm the women, but I have to watch my every step—'
He stopped his train of thought at the shaking of the earth, "Earthquake?"
It was light but in a rhythm without any intention to stop.
If it was not an earthquake, then...
His eyes darkened with terror, and a word came out of his mouth—
"Rumbling... "