THE BRIDE OF THE WATER CAPITAL HAS A FONDNESS FOR WHITE RABBITS
“I’m back, Mari!”
“Welcome back, Rei!”
The Xenos returned to their hidden village on the twenty-seventh floor, where the mermaid girl awaited them. She was the Xenos’s designated lookout for this village, just as the Green Dragon was for the one on the twentieth floor.
The other Xenos had just carried out Fels’s request and chose to drop in on their way back home.
“Let’s sing another song together!” cried Mari with joy, embracing the siren girl.
“Okay,” said Rei with markedly less enthusiasm. “But…we’ll have to be quiet, or the adventurers will hear us, okay?”
As fellow monsters who enjoyed singing, Rei and Mari were close friends. The source of the “Dungeon Song” adventurers often spoke about was none other than them.
“Did anything happen since we last spoke, Mari?”
“Yeah! I met Bell!” replied Mari, beaming.
Rei’s face stiffened. “Bell? You mean…the human?”
“Yeah! He’s cute and soft and cool! He’s my hero! I love him!”
Rei was astonished enough to hear that Mari had even met the boy, but the other things she said were even more shocking yet, and Rei couldn’t let them slide. But before she could even speak, the lamia and harpy girls rushed to Mari’s side in a frenzy.
“What did you do with Bell?! Soft?? Did you touch him?! Tell me!!”
“Did you get all lovey-dovey with that surface-dweller?! Well?? Did you?!”
“Tell me everything!” “Tell me everything!!”
“WRAAAAAAAAGH!”
“Laura! Fia! Everyone! Settle down! I’m sure Bell didn’t do anything like th-th-th-th-th-that!”
Rei calmed down her overexcited compatriots, but the trepidation in her own voice was all too obvious.
“I made him eat a part of me,” said Mari. “It felt so warm and fuzzy!”
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!”
Her easily misinterpreted remark made the entire horde of Xenos go wild.
“Lido? Gros? Are they talking about Bell? I thought I heard his name…”
“You’re imagining things, Wiene.”
“Stay right here. If you join in, it’ll only make things worse.”
The vouivre girl curiously glanced back at the crowd. Gros and Lido placed their hands over her ears and let out a pair of deep sighs.
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