“F%&ing beautiful women is the greatest part of life.”

“What is… I don’t even… I can’t…” I turned to Alysia. “Did I hear him right?”

She nodded dumbly. His words were vulgar. Actually, they weren’t vulgar, because whenever he spoke them there was a beep sound and his mouth blurred slightly. This guy who gave off such good vibes was a lewd potty mouth. This didn’t even get into the part about him wanting to bang my woman!

“Don’t act so surprised.” He chuckled. “No one does anything for free. I just like $^%#ing is all. I can’t wait to bend Miki over and stick my $^%& into her waiting %^$$& and pound her tight $%&% until she %^%s all over the place.”

“Stop talking… please.”

He shrugged. “Well, what I need are capable people. I need a Harem of sexy women to fight by my side.”

“Sexy…harem… woman…” I responded, feeling like this guy was too much.

He eyed Alysia and then winked. “I only need one more. Perhaps, you’ll join us?”

I felt extremely irritated. On the one hand, this guy was helping people and even wanting to protect Miki. I had expected had I found anyone in here, killing or defeating Lady Death would be their only goal. Somehow, I would have preferred to run into someone who just wanted Miki dead and was unwilling to see her beauty. Somehow, this was just so much worse.

“Do you know which direction Miki is?” I asked.

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“I do!” He nodded. “Ah, but I won’t tell anyone who isn’t in my party.”

“I want to go save her myself. If you tell me the direction, I can do it.”

“What are you saying?” He laughed. “Only I can save her. I’m the hero. What are you? Nobody! That’s who!”

Feeling my eye twitching, Alysia stroked my arm to calm me down. “Alright, in that case, how about I join your party.”

He gave me an awkward look. “Sorry, I don’t %&&% guys.”

“This $%&^! Huh? Even me?”

I glared at this guy who was quickly becoming my mortal enemy. He was the absolute worst pig I could imagine. I wanted to just beat him up and leave him in the dirt.

It wasn’t long following him in silence before we came out in an area overlooking a walled-off town. As he approached, people let out cries.

“It’s the hero! Master is here!”

The gate immediately opened, and Hero walked forward, his arms outstretched as various animalkin made a show of applause. We followed behind him, my attitude slowly growing bleaker and bleaker by the minute.

“Master! Master!”

As we were passing through the crowds, a familiar voice called out, immediately catching my attention. All three of us ended up turning to see a beautiful woman running toward us. When I saw her, I nearly cried out. I had already experienced one surprise after another. This was one I hadn’t expected at all. It was a familiar catgirl.

Lydia was running toward me, her familiar orange and black tail swishing as she moved. She looked just like I remembered. She was beautiful and strong and had an affectionate smile on her face. She had her hand up waving to me as she ran.

Lydia had her soul taken by Miki too? She was an animalkin. I supposed it wasn’t too unreasonable to believe that she ended up in Dioshin as well. Either her travels took her past Miki, or she had heard of the trouble and come of her own volition. That she ended up getting sucked into this as well, was truly surprising.

“Ah… here comes one of my party now!” Hero cried out.

“Wait, what?”

Before I could react, Lydia ran into his arms, wrapping them around him. I didn’t even have time to process that before she wrapped her arms around him, and then started kissing him.