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!?~ - 5

Chapter 5: I’ll Protect This Life No Matter What…!

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After finishing our passionate first experience, Medi and I spent our time lounging and sleeping in bed. Having satisfied both our sexual desires and our need for sleep, immediately after waking up, we…

Grumble~

Our stomachs growled at the same time.

“Shall we have a meal?”

Medi went through the trouble of catching those fish for me. I should gratefully cook them before the freshness fades. We straightened our clothes and went to the kitchen together.

“Yeah, these are definitely good fish.”

They looked like char. I placed them on the cutting board, and as I inserted the knife into the belly to remove the internal organs, Medi stared intently from the side with great interest.

“Is this unusual to see?”

“(Nod, nod)”

“I was trained pretty thoroughly in this when I was a kid.”

My mother went through repeated divorces, and each time she would drown her sorrows in booze with her new husband, hardly working or doing housework at all. I was taught how to cook by my grandpa, who was a fisherman, so that I could be independent.

Mind you, after I ran away from home, I had absolutely no time to cook for myself during my days as a corporate drone. In fact, I begrudged even the time spent commuting, to the point where I would lay down cardboard in a meeting room just to take a nap. However, during my days as a fugitive after coming to this world, I realized painfully that even that was a luxury. I ate weeds, huddled on the bare ground at night, trembling in fear of assassins…

“Uugh, I’m going to protect this lifestyle no matter what…!”

“Alto-sama, you are burning with passion.”

Of course I was. The 《Create》 ability I could use in the dungeon was more versatile than I had imagined. You could even call it abnormal. I could create as many items as I wanted beyond the varieties available in the game, and at this rate, I could advance our life inside the dungeon to be as comfortable as I liked. Knives, cutting boards, even an induction cooktop. Plates, too. Though I would have to rely on other sources for food ingredients.

I intended to grill these char-like fish whole for today, but…

“Ah, salt.”

I realized I didn’t have any seasoning.

“No, wait, inside the rock blocks… there it is!”

I used 《Create》 to produce a white mass of rock and scraped the surface vigorously.

“Alto-sama, eating rock?”

“This is rock salt. It’s salty. Want to try a lick?”

When I placed some rock salt on my index finger and offered it, Medi popped my whole finger into her mouth and tasted it with her long tongue.

“―! Salty!”

“Right. But in the right amount, it makes for a good spice.”

I sprinkled it over the grilled char and sat down at the dining table with Medi.

“Fish!”

“It’s fresh salt-grilled char. Let’s eat, Medi. Down the hatch.”

“? Hatch.”

Following my lead, Medi put her hands together. She tried to go for it with her bare hands, so…

“Wait. Try using these. They’re called chopsticks.”

“…Difficult.”

“They’re convenient once you get used to them.”

As expected, the difficulty level was too high.

“In that case, a fork.”

With a quick motion, I used 《Create》 to take out a silver fork and handed it to Medi. Medi used it to thwack into the grilled char and stuffed her cheeks full.

“…………!? Tasty!? This, fish!?”

“It’s different once you apply heat, right?”

“Salty, just right! Delicious!”

“No need to rush. Medi caught plenty of them, after all.”

“Munch munch.”

Watching her eat so single-mindedly made me feel happy as well. The two of us made short work of the eight char she had caught.

“Thank you for the meal.”

“Thank for meal.”

(I’ll need to think of various things in order to keep feeding Medi delicious food from now on.)

Even for food, couldn’t I bring things in from “outside” and grow them “inside”? My 《Create》 was in top form, so I might even be able to make a field. It would be good if I could do animal husbandry, and fish farming sounded fun, too. In that case, as I thought…

“Construction!”

“Construction!”

After cleaning up after the meal, I resumed the construction work I had interrupted and remained absorbed in it until I was satisfied, all while Medi watched over me.

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Around the time Alto and Medi finished building their home and were once again sleeping peacefully together in the double bed…

“What should I do… Which way is the village?”

A single village girl was wandering through the deep forest. Proceeding with only the moonlight to rely on seemed dangerous, but camping out in a forest like this was also extremely perilous. There were beasts and monsters, but the girl was at a vulnerable age. There was also the risk of being attacked by indecent bandits and meeting a terrible fate. Above all, she wanted to go home so badly that she was simply wandering around frantically.

“I want to go home…”

The faces of her family and childhood friend floated before her eyes. Her kind parents, her gentle grandparents. Her cute younger sister. And then, the boy from the same village she had grown up with since they were little. A sixteen-year-old, the same age as her.

…Though they harbored feelings for each other, they were in a relationship where they hadn’t even held hands yet. However… If she were to have a lover, if she were to get married, and if she were to give her first time… it would be no one but him. She had always felt that way, and that would never change.

Ah. If only he were to appear in this place and take her hand, how happy she would be.

“Sigh…”

But reality wouldn’t go that way. Her body was already exhausted, and her legs felt like lead. Suddenly, her field of vision opened up. Had she finally come out to a human settlement? That hope lasted only a moment. Before her eyes, there was…

“…What is this, a cave?”

A large hole sat wide open in the mountainside. While the surroundings were illuminated by moonlight, the light did not reach into the hollow hole, and only deep darkness opened its mouth. At that moment, a strong wind blew from out of nowhere, and…

“Uugh…!?”

The village girl wrapped her arms around her shoulders and shivered.

“It’s cold… Maybe I’ll rest just a little bit―”

She didn’t know what might be lurking inside the cave, but at this hour when the temperature had dropped sharply, it was too painful to continue wandering under the night sky. If she could shield herself from the wind, then just for a little while…

She would leave immediately and definitely reach the village then… That village where the people she loved were waiting. And so, she set foot into the demonic territory she should never have involved herself with—the dungeon.

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