The Fallen Prince’s Pleasure Dungeon: I Won’t Let the Female Adventurers Leave ~ I Was Reincarnated as the Villain in an Eroge, and Even Though I Just Want to Live a Quiet Slow Life, Beautiful Girls Keep Gathering Around Me!?~ - 3

Chapter 3: Medi Is Strong

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“Well then. I guess it’s about time…”

Suppressing my reluctance to leave, I got up from the bed.

“Medi, put your clothes on too.”

“Yes!”

That was a good reply.

“Nn, sho, nsho…?”

She still seemed unused to human clothes. She had taken them off so easily earlier, though.

“Here, put your arm through here—”

“Nuuu~~~…?”

With my help, Medi somehow managed to put her original clothes back on. I pulled myself together. Time for 《Create》. I had placed a full set of furniture in the room, but it was still far from enough. I didn’t need anything too eccentric, but plain and ordinary would also be boring. I wanted to add more flair through decoration, and also improve the convenience.

…Or rather…While I was in the middle of making it, ‘I’m a genius, aren’t I? This feels great!’ I had been in that kind of excited mood. But after I had cooled down (in more ways than one) and looked around again, it was nowhere near good enough.

“Damn it, it’s still not there yet!?”

“…not there yet!?”

Medi also ruffled her fluffy hair messily, imitating me. I took out another energy drink (recovery potion) and said to her.

“All right, I’m switching into full construction mode from now on! Medi, you can relax on the sofa!”

“?? No.”

She shook her head and said,

“Medi… will go get food.”

“Food?”

“Meal. Eat meal with Alto-sama. Outside.”

“Outside the dungeon?”

There was food inside this dungeon too. I could also create it with my Dungeon Master abilities. However, that alone would cause a lack of nutrients. Or rather, a lack of magic essence. Things made with the same magic power could be eaten normally, but the quality of the magic power apparently became biased. Therefore, whenever possible, it was best to obtain ingredients from “outside.” Probably the same reason the dungeon lured humans in. In other words, to take magic power from humans as food.

However, for a certain reason, I didn’t want to let humans into my dungeon if possible. Medi seemed to understand that policy on instinct, which was probably why she was trying to go “outside” to gather food.

“Going outside.”

“Thanks. But be careful, okay?”

“Medi is strong.”

Medi puffed out her chest as she spoke. It was true. A Medusa was not originally a monster that belonged in such a shallow floor. Right now I had brought her up from the deep layers, but in game terms she was a high-level monster classified as 【Mythical Grade】.

By the way, the ranks went like this:

【Copper Grade】

【Silver Grade】

【Gold Grade】

【Platinum Grade】

【Mythical Grade】 ← Here

【Transcendent Grade】

A monster that appeared in myths. Almost no humans could defeat Medi. That said, from an eroge perspective, Medusas were difficult to handle because they would petrify female adventurers without question. It made the “fufufu” scenes impossible.

…Well, apparently there were also perverted gentlemen and ladies in the world with a “petrification fetish,” so there was demand in that direction too. Incidentally, this ranking also applied to humans and equipment. For humans it included non-combatants as well, so one more rank was added at the very bottom:

【Plain】 Villager

【Copper Grade】 Thief

【Silver Grade】 Stray Adventurer

【Gold Grade】 Guild Adventurer

【Platinum Grade】 Knight

【Mythical Grade】 Hero

【Transcendent Grade】 ???

And so on.

In the scenario and setting of this game 【The Fallen Prince’s Pleasure Dungeon】, the stronger the dungeon’s defense became, the higher-level humans would come to attack. I had wanted to see a 【Mythical Grade】 monster with my own eyes. That was why I had casually visited the deep layers using the Dungeon Master’s privileges and met her there. Originally, Medi’s appearance was supposed to be in the late game.

In human terms, she was on the same level as the “Heroes” — beings so rare that only one existed in every 100,000 people. And one of the features of 《Character Creation》, for better or worse, was that even if the appearance changed, the strength remained the same. She probably still had her petrification ability too, so worrying about her was unnecessary.

“Still, be careful. I’ll finish this place perfectly while you’re gone!”

Dressed in my demon lord-like outfit, I rolled up my sleeves and waved my hand.

“Have a safe trip, Medi.”

“Going… and coming back…”

Medi was once again carefully tasting my words.

“What’s wrong?”

“Home, here. Going… and coming back!”

“Are you happy that we have a house?”

“House with Alto-sama! Like! Going and coming back!”

Showing a smile with her charming fangs, Medi headed off to gather food with light, bouncy steps. I watched her back as she left and let out an impressed sigh.

“The game【Fallen Prince】 had high freedom, but when you actually get ‘inside,’ the freedom is insane.”

This doujin game, The Fallen Prince’s Sadistic Dungeon, had gained massive popularity online thanks to its incredible level of detail. Because it was an eroge, the erotic aspects received high praise, but the detailed character customization and the high degree of freedom in dungeon building were also hugely popular.

On the other hand, there were also points of criticism. One was the lack of a “status display,” which was common in other games. For both monsters and female adventurers, there were no comparison metrics besides the ranking I mentioned earlier, so it was hard to predict who would win until you actually made them fight. Many players felt stressed that strength couldn’t be measured in numbers, and for a while the game was almost labeled as trash.

However, the tide turned once it was discovered that the game had numerous 【hidden elements】 and 【hidden stats】 that weren’t visible from the player’s perspective. Even though players couldn’t see them, it seemed detailed numerical values were set behind the scenes. After that information spread, the game gained popularity for trying to uncover the hidden settings, and active discussions took place on online bulletin boards.

…Well. As a corporate slave, I didn’t have the energy to hunt for those little details, so my playstyle was just mindlessly continuing to build and do character customization bit by bit. Even so, there was one piece of spoiler information that even I knew.

It was the heartbreaking spoiler that 【this game only has bad endings】. The system where the more you defended, the stronger the invaders became. From an eroge perspective, the variety of female adventurers and female knights increased, and as a Dungeon Master, the types of brutal traps you could use increased, along with monsters that fulfilled special fetishes.

However… When a 【Transcendent Grade】 human eventually arrived, the dungeon you had worked so hard to build up — the carefully raised architecture, traps, and monsters — would be easily trampled underfoot. That was the brutal specification.

In the strength ranking, it was displayed as:

【Transcendent Grade】 ???

When spoiled, it was revealed to be:

【Transcendent Grade】 ✞ Harbinger of End ✞

Its violence was completely one-sided. It didn’t just announce the end, it was the end itself. The player could only watch helplessly as it destroyed the dungeon, and in the end the Dungeon Master himself was defeated and captured. Then he was dragged to the place of the brother princes who had exiled the protagonist Alto, and executed in front of the public.

The fallen prince who had violated female adventurers as he pleased would lose consciousness while being showered with curses and hatred from the entire nation. It was self-inflicted, sure, but it was an ending with almost no salvation. The number of people who labeled it a trash game doubled because of this, but on the other hand, a mysterious group of extreme masochist fans who got excited by “the feeling of a destruction ending” also increased.

“I absolutely don’t want an ending like that.”

I had already suffered through corporate slave life and life on the run. On top of that, ending with a bad end would be the worst.

…The way to avoid that probably came back to my own playstyle, didn’t it? In other words, I had to prevent advancing the main scenario of 【invader level-up】. I had to just stay holed up in the dungeon, pretend to be a harmless dungeon even if intruders came, avoid violating anyone, and quietly live in peace.

“A slow life… I never could have imagined that back in my corporate slave days.”

To break the scenario, there were options like attacking the kingdom that had exiled me, but causing trouble myself sounded like a pain. I didn’t want to get involved with humans any more than necessary. Rather than that, using 《Character Creation》 to interact with pure monster girls and obtaining a comfortable life with 《Create》 suited me much better.

I had vaguely thought about it since my days on the run, but after seeing Medi’s happy appearance and enjoying real building, my policy inside had solidified.

Yeah. Once I decided that, there was only one thing to do!

“All right, let’s do this~!”

I resumed the construction work in high spirits.

…………That said…

(It’s not like I just want to do building and character customization while ignoring everything else, okay?)

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