Chapter 53 – Floor 9. So Incredibly Rude There Are No Words!

BOOOOOM!!!

A sudden roar accompanied by the sensation of my body floating upward.

“Wha, whaaat?!”

CRACK- The sound of wood being shattered.

Simultaneously, my body was flung away with tremendous force, and I was gloriously soaring through the air.

SPLAT─!

With a face-plant worthy of a perfect score of 10 from all judges if I were in an athletic competition, I gave myself a natural mud pack and then popped my head out of the mud with a plop.

“KHUUUGH!!! Ptooey ptooey! Khungh─!”

Drip drip-

After returning the mud that had fully invaded my mouth and nose back to nature, I wiped my face and finally opened my eyes to see broken wooden pieces floating on the water around me, and strangely, everything felt dark.

It felt as if I were standing in a shadow.

I had definitely fallen asleep in a safe tree room!

Seeing the Nepenthes still fixed on my cock, I knew this wasn’t a dream.

“Shit, what the hell… Oh.”

As I raised my head, I saw it was a gigantic flower.

Massive pink petals large enough to fit two or three of me. Numerous green vines squirming like snakes. And atop the flower, like a Buddha sitting on a lotus in a Buddhist painting I had seen somewhere, was a figure looking down at me from that enormous plant.

But signaling that it wasn’t human was its vivid plant-like green skin and small white and pink flowers decorating its head like ornaments.

With this combination of mystical elements, perhaps attempting to mimic a woman’s appearance, there were breasts and a slender waist with a navel, all dripping with transparent light honey. As it smiled seductively, I gulped.

Its beauty was remarkable, but I knew what this creature was.

“Holy mother.”

『Alraune』Level: 15☆

Health: 276/276 ■■■■■■■■■■

【The queen of plants born from the concentration of unusually pervasive magic in this tropical rainforest. Normally, it doesn’t move much from where it has rooted.】

The mini-boss of the 9th floor, Alraune.

In my current state, this was absolutely an opponent I should not encounter.

“FUCK THIS!!!”

Splash! Splash! Splash!

The sound of forcefully pushing through water and mud as I ran.

CRASH-CRASH-CRASHHHHH!

The sound of something smashing through all the trees in its path, not caring about anything else.

Unfortunately, I was the former being chased by the latter.

And to make matters worse, I was completely naked without a single piece of armor.

“SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!! At least let me put on some equipment?!”

“Uhuhuhu.”

“Don’t laugh! Stop it!!!”

I screamed at the Alraune, which was relentlessly pursuing me with no intention of letting me escape, committing acts that would put it on a blacklist for maze navigation games.

Running naked through this godforsaken place was already quite torturous, but I didn’t care about that!

I have no shame about my body! Everyone look at me!

SWOOSH─ WHOOOOSH!!!

“KEEEEEEEEEEK!!!”

I dodge a playfully swung vine by turning my head so sharply I could have broken my neck.

When the vine, having missed its target and flying through the air, collided with a tree trunk, there was a sound like an explosion, and the trunk shattered into pieces.

The real problem was that I had absolutely no means to counter such attacks.

Slime, Severa, Kali? All left behind there.

The plentiful consumables in my backpack and the goblin’s backpack? All left behind there.

All I had now were my two balls and my body. How on earth could I face such a monster with just these!

No, wait.

I do have a means to face it right now!

STOP-

I ceased running, turned around, and faced the Alraune.

The creature that had been terrifyingly pursuing me also stopped, seemingly wondering what was going on, and began squirming its vines in preparation to counter, as if on guard.

“Ha… I just realized I didn’t need to run! Come forth, my strongest servant!”

The Ultimate Predatory Vine!

The onahole that had been clinging so well to my dangling cock disappeared, and in its place, the Ultimate Predatory Vine emerged, threatening the Alraune by waving its three tubes.

The toughness of its thick stem would be difficult even for the Alraune to handle!

The Alraune looked down at the predatory vine with what seemed like an interested expression.

WHACK-

The predatory vine received the Alraune’s attack and fell.

“Hmm…”

“..?”

It seemed that the predatory vine and the Alraune had a complete hierarchical relationship after all. With things as they were, there was only one path left.

“FUCK THIS!!!!!”

***

The headless beast and the human entirely wrapped in thick cloth, waiting for explorers according to their given instructions.

The so-called Suspicious Merchant was peacefully spending time organizing items to sell to customers who reached this floor.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!”

Noise and a piercing scream coming from far away.

Since it sounded like the voice of a customer they had heard before, the Suspicious Merchant turned their masked face in that direction.

The dark, ominous magic of the giant master and the faint but sparkling magic of the customer being chased.

‘If it’s the resident of this floor, it must be Alraune. Customer, you’re working hard.’

A customer with a somewhat different, heterogeneous atmosphere compared to other explorers.

Quite likable, to the point where they had given an unauthorized gift, this customer was one of the many explorers who had slain all the residents encountered so far.

All of them, to a greater or lesser extent, had received magic and influence from the master.

Somehow, some were even directly connected to the master to some degree, yet this customer easily severed those connections and even put some under his command.

‘Previous customers called heroes also had extraordinary aspects, but this customer is even more unique.’

Perhaps they could reach the end?

The Suspicious Merchant thought about lowering the prices of the items they would offer the customer, as if somewhat excited, but unfortunately, the customer appeared faster than expected.

A happy reunion with a welcome customer.

But the customer’s appearance was a bit different from usual.

A customer running straight toward them, not wearing a single piece of clothing, with his male organ dangling, and sweating profusely.

Moreover, it was erect.

The Suspicious Merchant’s gaze slightly lowered at the burdensome movement of that male organ, but fortunately, they didn’t forget to greet the customer.

“…Customer, this reunion was faster than expected. You seem to be in a hurry, do you need my child?”

“Huff, hah… hah… Wha, whatever, give me something quick. It’s urgent!”

Guuuck-

The head of the phallus touching the lower abdomen.

The customer, in a state of excitement, seemed unaware, but even through the thick clothing, the Suspicious Merchant couldn’t help but be flustered when that steel-hard, excellently erect male organ pressed firmly against the bulging flesh of their lower abdomen.

“Customer, the merchant won’t run away. It looks like you should calm down a bit.”

Due to the height difference, the Suspicious Merchant had to look up at the customer, and to calm him down, they pushed him slightly, but instead, they were roughly grabbed by the shoulders.

“Calm down?! There’s no time for that! I don’t care if it’s a fire potion or a staff, just give me something! I barely managed to get this much distance, and I almost died!”

“…Customer, it’s touching. If you want me to introduce my children, at least let me move.”

With no effect from the push, the customer closed the distance again, and his large male organ poked the merchant’s navel, going past their lower abdomen.

At the sudden whiff of masculine scent, the merchant felt their eyes narrow behind the mask.

‘Does the customer not realize how dangerous what he’s doing is? But I’ll endure. I have expectations for this customer.’

The reason the merchant obsessively hides their identity is due to a racial issue.

A dream demon, known as a succubus.

This thick clothing and cloak are precautions to prevent exposure of the pheromones and bodily fluids that succubi inherently possess, which would be too harsh for an ordinary human to withstand.

If they were in comfortable attire, explorers would become enchanted and either become invalids for life or die with their brains bursting.

Furthermore, the male organ that the customer was pressing and rubbing against their body was no less than an unbearable temptation for the merchant, who was a succubus.

Of course, they could ignore it if they forcibly tried to endure, but like the reflexive salivation when thinking of a lemon, their body involuntarily prepared itself to receive the male.

“Customer, do you know how much special treatment I’m giving you? Patience is not an infinitely gushing resource.”

“NO!!! It’s coming!!!”

BOOOOOOOM─!!!

Smashing through the narrow wooden passage, a massive plant life appeared.

The Alraune, ruler of all flowers, exhaled an alluring scent to tempt its prey, wearing a deliberately seductive expression as it dragged its enormous body.

“IT’S HEREEEE!!! You bitch, I told you to give me something quickly!!!”

“No, that’s the customer’s…”

FLASH-

Before they could make any excuse, the merchant felt their body being lifted, and when they came to their senses, they were tucked under the customer’s arm like luggage.

“Kidnapping is bad, customer. If you turn yourself in now, I might be willing to overlook it.”

“Bull! This isn’t a lowly and inhumane criminal act like kidnapping, it’s more like a rescue operation for a vacationer about to be eaten by a shark! If you’re thinking of filing a complaint, I’ll really kidnap you?!”

“I don’t have a child called a complaint in my backpack, but still, customer.”

The customer and the merchant thus escaped from the rampaging Alraune.

Who knows how far they ran. Although the large sounds of something following were no longer heard from behind, the customer was breathing heavily as if exhausted.

The sound from his throat was hoarse due to dryness, and the skin of the frail human, unclothed, was covered in numerous wounds.

“Hiyek, huk, sh-shit… I almost died…”

“By the way, customer, when I saw you before, you had many more children with you, but now you’re completely empty-handed. Gambling is bad.”

Of course, they knew there was no place for a human customer to gamble in this tropical rainforest, but they teased him a little for making them lose their stall.

“Damn… If I had lost everything to gambling, at least I wouldn’t feel so wronged. That crazy plant ambushed me while I was sleeping!”

“Sometimes I don’t understand what you’re saying, customer.”

“That happens, kiddo. Just filter out what you need to hear.”

Fortunately, since they still had the backpack they were carrying, they could fulfill their role, but the customer clutched his head in despair.

“Argh..! What can I do without them? What can I do without a single weapon? Why are humans so pathetic without tools?”

Now seemingly calmed down, the customer’s male organ, which had been enormous enough to pierce through a body, had become soft and flaccid.

The merchant, being an unavoidable dream demon, couldn’t prevent their gaze from being drawn there, but they thought that since they were wearing a mask, the customer wouldn’t notice.

They unconsciously wiped their mouth with their sleeve as saliva dripped from the scent of that fruit possessed only by males, but of course, it couldn’t be wiped due to the mask.

‘Customer, the one you should be most careful of right now isn’t the likes of Alraune.’

Though their luster had faded since the emergence of the master who transcends all beings, demons were still superior beings that mere humans could not match.

Even with the potential of a hero, intercourse with a dream demon would endanger the life of the customer who had not yet fully bloomed.

Therefore, the merchant decided to endure. They had always had strong self-control, uncharacteristic for a demon.

“I still have children that seem necessary for you in this backpack… Do you need them?”

“…I’m seriously contemplating. Even though we’ve shaken off the Alraune, we’re too far from where I left my bag.”

“Thanks to that, I’m in the same situation. Headless gets very lonely.”

“Is that cow-like thing without a head called Headless?”

“It’s not a ‘cow-like thing without a head.’ It’s a nightmare steed with a pedigree.”

The merchant wanted to lecture the customer about the 108 good qualities of the pedigreed nightmare steed, Headless, but unfortunately, someone discovered them before that could happen.

“Human? And human. You two… what are you doing here!”

Brown-ish green hard scales, vertically split pupils, a large, swollen elongated tail, sharp claws holding a spear, and rough hands.

It was a lizard.

A Lizardman, native to the 9th floor.

The two-legged lizard pointed its spear at the customer and the merchant.