“Cy…?”

It was all a lot to take in, this gigantic lady the master of this dungeon, her now forced position as a guest at this dining hall, all of it. She did not know if she should get out of here or stay, but with her load she saw no reason not to till this truly got too much to handle.

“Yes, Cy, and due to my misstep you are now privy to be in a position most do not find themselves in.” the women snaked around the table, snapping her fingers “especially dressed in that sorry state, I am reaching my tolerance limit. I hold standards.”

Mia’s eyes drifted to the other guests, now motionless and sitting in their seats. “the clothes…”

“That’s good you are following along…” she huffed, “I have taken notice you have refused my gifts before, given how I had mistakenly mistook you for someone else, I let it slide under the assumed ploy.”

The main door opened; two figures of opposite gender entered the room gracefully cradling clothes in their hands. The two stopping at the foot of Mia’s chair.

“Now now, usually I like to give my guests more of an option for their first outfit, but since you have been such an unruly little rat-“

“Fox.”

“…” The women knelt down, pinching Mia’s cheeks and forcing her too look her in the eye “A rat. A filthy, little, unruly, underdressed, rude, little rat.” She let go “Choose.”

Rubbing her sore cheeks, Mia watched the two unfold the clothes and present them. Two outfits, the first being a sleevless blue dress with a purple over coat, the other a more formal white dress with a black trim.

She compared the two, before her eyes drifted to the other seated people “...cursed?”

“What?” the women snapped towards her “You think my pain stacking works of art are cursed?!”

Mia nodded, pointing towards the other guests “Weird, clothes do that?”

The dungeon master’s face turned red, fuming in anger “those things!? Dolls! The lot of them!” she snaked around the table, stopping behind one of the women and took ahold of her head “Custom made with the finest materials.” She lifted the women out of the chair, stretching her arms out “The finest silk, feathers, cloth… plush skin kept smooth with hours upon hours of care-“

As Cy rambled on, Mia stopped paying attention, instead drawing her attention to the two set of clothes in front of her ‘maybe they are not cursed?’ she thought, but regardless, she was not a fan of either of the two dresses in front of her. ‘Something lighter…’

Mia glanced back towards Cy, who was still rambling about her dolls ‘I don’t think they bled either… so they were all fake?’ she remembered hitting one in the head earlier, it not bleeding…she sneaked a peak towards Cy once more, seeing how she had moved on from the women and was now gushing over a beastkin and their fur.

‘Just to check…’

She sat up, making a small knife she approached the doll in front of her, inspecting it from side to side ‘looks real.’ She poked it, unable to tell anything from it as the area around where she poked chilled over. She sighed, carefully going under the doll’s outstretched arm and cutting a small bit with her knife. Sighing in relief when it didn’t bleed.

“And what are you doing?”

Mia jumped, stumbling away from the doll and looking up at Cy, who was towering directly above her “…checking clothes?”

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“Ah! So you are convinced!” Cy clapped happily, moving behind the two dolls “So, do not keep me waiting in anticipation any longer, which one?”

“I…” was she really doing this? Sure Cy was…strange… but she couldn’t think of a reason not too. These things were dolls, not human nor beastmen, so the clothes were safe…right?

She gave up, and pointed towards the blue dress “Tha-?”

“Oh good choice!” the women flew passed the doll, grabbing the dress as she passed it “Now we just need to get you in a dressing room and…little girl?”

Mia had crooked her head to the side, confused at what she was looking at. ‘The doll is…crying?’ she sprung up from her seat, approaching the doll while staring at its watery eyes “Crying?”

Cy rushed in front of her “Don’t be silly! As realistic as they are, dolls do no-Gwagasd?!”

Mia blasted a stream of ice magic at her face “is cursed” she spat, hating herself for even considering it.

“Rude!” the women raised herself out of the stream, notably unaffected “They are not cursed! But like it matters now! You ra- woah now.” The women swayed, dodging an ice spear.

“Fox.”

“Like! It! Matters!” the women shook, rattling filling the room as the other dolls standing and moving to the walls “Move now my dears, don’t want more harm to be caused by this rude thing. Always with being difficult” she then raised herself up, more of her elongated form entering the room.

“hmmn…” this was going to be a pain. Mia started by freezing the room, spreading her ice magic around herself and freezing the floor.

“oh what did I just say!” Cy slammed herself down, coiling around Mia in a wide circle, cutting off her ice from spreading “Out! Out of the room! Safe yourselves!” she waved frantically.

Mia blasted more spears towards her, them notably bouncing off her surprisingly hard body ‘…’ it was at this point Mia had realized that at some point, she had forgotten to continue to point her stats…

[Way to go.]

‘Do you ever want to remind me of things before they come up?’ Mia leaped up as Cy swung her massive body around, attempting to roll her over.

[Noted for future reference.]

‘great.’ She continued to pelt the lady, who rolled up her body to protect her upper half.

“all gone? Good.” She coiled her body that she was using for protection, launching it forward into Mia’s attacks.

“?!” with the wall of massive hard flesh rushing towards her, Mia slowed down time, grabbing onto her body and pulling around it, the whole time pouring power into one spell she thrust towards the surprised Cy’s face.

“You were tha-“ a giant sickle of ice slashed in Cy’s face, causing her to recoil back “My face!” She screamed, her body flailing about in the room “My beautiful face!”

Mia sighed in relief, this was doable if she could keep that up, hopefully. Mana might be an issue but…

“My face! My face…my faaace…” Cy turned around, clutching her face as her previously shrill voice grew deeper, a gurgling sound accompanying it as a low laughter reverberated the room.

“…Cy?” Mia took a step back ‘what is going…?’

“hehehe, you really are a rat…invading my home and biting the hand…”

Mia gulped, not bothering with correcting her, instead she looked towards the exit only to find it missing.

“Always, they never accept my gifts, but few manage to catch me off guard like that.” She turned around, revealing her face had been cut clean in half, being held together by what ever had managed to stick to the bone as it sagged. “to hurt me, in this way.”

“G-gross…”

One half of her face slumped off, falling and landing in the water below “oh well, It was time for a new face, I suppose.” The other half followed suit, leaving nothing but a stump “Not yours. Too young. But I will be sure to add you to my…special..collection…”

Mia helplessly watched as the body shook, hallow clanging ringing out, her body swelling under the long dress before finally a series of cloth ripping rung out.

Chitinous claws burst out from under the dress at every segment, ripping the dress apart to reveal a spiked chitin exoskeleton. Two more loud splashes were heard as Cy’s hands fell into the water, showing the large mandibles that impaled themselves into the dress, several elongated teeth and claws joining in from under the dress to aid in the process.

“Giant bug…”

Where the upper body used to be was now replaced with two giant mandibles and a series of serrated teeth and inverted flared teeth, a tangled mess of claws littered its underside “You, little rat, will have a – ow, hey- stop, quit it.”

“AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaaaaAAAaaaaaaaaa-!!!!” Mia screamed, throwing everything she had at the thing with reckless abandonment, spears, icicles, hard snowballs, haphazardly made weapons, everything, fearing for her life ‘whatisitwhatisitwhatisitwhatisit?!!?’

“stop, I sa-stop-would you for a secon-“ Cy flinched at every hit, until finally it lost it’s patience “ENOUGH!” it slammed itself into the ground, the quake launching Mia up into the air and hurdling down onto her butt. “Good! Little shit. Now stay still as I add you to my-“

“AAaaaaaaAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA-!” After recovering she continued, making a more desperate attempt at tossing rampant magic at the monster, who had curled part of it’s body as a shield to protect itself.