Making my way through the corridor, I encountered Lara once again reading from the manga in a rather.. lazy fashion. The moment she noticed me, however, she quickly placed the manga under the desk and greeted me with a hasty smile.

"J-Jionni! Where are the others?" Lara focused behind me, nothing but the empty halls greeting her sight. "Are they still tending to the dragonewt?"

"You could say that." I chuckled and approached the counter, my hand resting atop the surface. "The dragonewt woke up. Her name is Inziz.. And she has a rather.. peculiar organ system, specifically, the sexual reproduction system."

".. The what now?" Lara tilted her head, confused at the term that flew over her head. I looked at her with a confused gaze, before remembering that even if this world had the internet, its technology was still within the middle-ages. That, and their internet is like it was just released, only reaching up to 2 kilobits per second.

"The girl has breasts, a pussy, and a dick." That got Lara to blush bright red, her lips quivering as they opened and closed multiple times, trying to form a coherent response. Chuckling at her display of embarrassment, I removed my arm from the counter and grabbed something from my inventory. "Here, for doing your job, even if it isn't that much."

The clunking of metal snapped Lara out of her embarrassment as I tossed a leather sack from my inventory to the counter. She grabbed the sack and untied the knot that held it close, and once she got a good peek of what was inside, she beamed at me with a joyous smile.

"T-Thank you, Jionni!" She reached her hand into the sack and pulled out what seemed to be a knife for cooking. A really sharp knife for cooking. Inside were more cooking utensils professional chefs back on Earth use when they're cooking in gourmet restaurants, meaning that all of them were state of the art.

"No need to be so surprised. I always reward my subordinates, depending on their merits. Although.." My eyes held a sinister gaze as the color drained from Lara's face. "My punishments are just as harsh if you screw up big time."

"R-Roger.." Lara bowed her head, but nonetheless, was thankful for the gift I had given her. Patting her head like I would a child, she grumbled at the treatment, but leaned into my touch all the while. Noticing her action, she quickly retracted her head and a massive blush grew on her face.

Snickering at her display once more, I headed out of the hospital, my chuckle entering the ear of the embarrassed gnome who was manning the counter.

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Sitting on a bench outside of the hospital, I busied myself with calling Oshurkova. I waited for the call to connect, and lo and behold, my waiting was rewarded with a vampire lady looking as if she was going to die from exhaustion.

"Wow.. You look like shit." I commented, and she scowled.

"I feel like shit, blyat." She groaned and smacked her head on the desk. A pile of papers beside her was shaking slightly but stood strong, like a tower made of steel. "The paperwork just won't end.."

"Why not.. I don't know.. Hire some other guys to do that paperwork for you?"

"And risk igniting my Dungeon because they signed a piece of paper allowing one of the shops to test their self-made bombs in the testing ground without any safety precautions? Not a chance." She snorted and lifted her head from the table, thick eye-bags lining under her eyes.

"Yikes.. Just what kind of residents do you have inside your Dungeon?"

"Eh.. Normal ones, bloodthirsty ones, crazy ones, you name it, I have them." She chuckled and grabbed a glass of alcohol that was sitting on her desk. She took a huge gulp of alcohol like it was water and gave out a satisfied sigh as her cheeks blushed red, even though she was technically a corpse. "Wulfstan and his proteges are part of the normal ones."

"So it seems." The conversation died around there, and the both of us were just relishing in each other's comforts, even though we weren't physically near each other. "Anyway, I have to go. I still have some things to do, and by the looks of it, you do too."

I looked at the stack of papers and her, noticing where I directed my gaze, scowled and smacked her head on the table again. Smiling sheepishly at her display, I cut the call before she could rant more about her predicament than actually do some of her work.

Letting out a huge sigh, I leaned back on the bench, my eyes slowly closing as I felt the warm embrace of sleep take me.

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"-nni.. Jio-"

My eyes twitched as a voice entered my ears.

"Jionni.."

I then heard my name. Opening my eyes, I was greeted by a flash of light, temporarily blinding me as I let out a hiss. Once my eyes got adjusted to the light, I looked at the cause of my sudden departure from dreamland.

"Oh, I take it you two have finished tending to Inziz?" The twin elves nodded, and I stretched, my back making popping sounds in the process. "Anyway, now that you're here, let's go back to your house. I want to do this in private if possible."

Both of them nodded, and we went on our way back to their house, the trek being long and silent, unless we passed by another human or demi-human.

Once at the front of their house, Mariona approached the door and unlocked it with the key inside her pocket. The door slowly opened and the three of us entered without any delay and closed the door behind us.

"No need to make any kind of snacks or beverages, this won't take long." I told them, and the two of them made their way to the living area, me following behind them as they walked.

Once seated, I addressed them with a tiny smile on my lips.

"Before I start, I'm assuming your sister already told you what this was about?" Merethyl nodded, and I tapped on the table. "So basically, what I'm going to reward you for is something only Nicholas, Domino, or I can do, and that is accessing the Dungeon Market."

The two of them looked at me with visible confusion in their eyes. Chuckling at the scene, I brought up the menu in front of them, showing them what it entailed.

"The Dungeon Market is a place where you can buy anything with the right amount of currency. The currency we use is DP, and DP is gained every day depending on how many non-summoned monsters, humans, or demi-humans you have inside a Dungeon." I explained. Both of them seemed to get it, with them making humming noises as they paid attention to my words. "Now, as for you, I'm going to grant the both of you access to the Dungeon Market, albeit with some limitations, like Nicholas', for example. As for your DP, I will supply you with a daily allowance depending on your actions."

They both gave a nod, and I smiled in response.

"That said, there's another gift I have to give the both of you, and Merethyl, your sister suggested this." Realizing the 'gift' I was about to give them, Mariona blushed beet red while, Merethyl looked at her twin with a raised eyebrow.

Snickering to myself, I accessed my inventory, and haphazardly placed them all over the desk, various sex toys of differing colors spilling onto the desk and on the floor, shocking the two elves into speechlessness.

"Well, anyway, now that I'm done with my task, I'll be heading back to the Dungeon Core Room. Enjoy your gifts. Oh, and one last thing," I looked back at the two speechless twins with huge blushes on their faces, Mariona's lip slightly quivering to that of a smile and Merethy already starting to pant, a manic expression starting to form on her face, "To access the Dungeon Market, just think or call out 'Dungeon Market' and go nuts."

Laughing to myself as I headed out of the house, I prepared a Master's Path once more, leading into the Dungeon Core Room.

"Oh, wait, I still need to call Catalina." As I walked, I opened the Dungeon Menu once again and called Catalina. I didn't even need to wait for two seconds before the call was picked up.

"Jionni! I missed you!" If it wasn't for her not being physically in front of me, she would've lunged at me. "When can I visit you? I'm bored here! My residents are always talking about you and Drake. They want to meet with you again. Can you schedule a visit?"historical

Her machinegun talk notwithstanding, I nodded dumbly and she cheered brightly. A few more back and forth chats, and we both hung up.

'Well, at least I have something to do tomorrow..'