Chapter 2

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After talking some more, Ainz decided to tell Kazuki what he was thinking.

After looking into the eyes of Kazuki, Ainz could feel bloodlust, so he decided that this would be the best course of action. "Kazuki. You should go back home."

"...What?" He furrows his eyebrows angrily. "The fuck you mean?"

"It means that if something were to happen here, you'd not be in the right state of mind and would not make the right decision." Ainz replies calmly.

"And who said you could make decisions for me?"

"Everyone did. All of you said that I should be the guild master, didn't you?" He turns to look at him.

"You..." Kazuki shakes his head. "Tsk. Fine." He turns to Albedo. "Protect him with your life."

"Of course, Kazuki-sama." She bows.

Then Kazuki turns to Patski. "Come on, boy." He whistles. 

Patski happily runs to him; Kazuki opens GATE, and the master-subordinate pair enters. Once they are gone, Ainz audibly sighs. "I thought he'd take it worse."

******

Kazuki decides to visit the fifth floor, Snowball Earth, guarded by Cocytus. He walks around and finds the insect lord, but then his eyes catch something in the distance—not far.

She has black hair, tied in twin tails with white ribbons. She has diamond blue eyes with no irises. Her skin is pale purple-colored. She has elf-like ears and wears a white dress.

Kazuki quickly realizes that she's a Frost Virgin, a subordinate of Cocytus. He decides to go over to her and speak with her. You could say he's quite attracted to her.

"Kazuki-sama. I bid you welcome to Snowball Earth; is there any way I may be of use?" She asks, bowing.

"Hello there." He nods. "Uh...Where are the other bodyguards? There should be at least six."

"Lady Albedo and Cocytus-sama, following their orders to reinforce our defenses, dispatched some of us elsewhere on the fifth floor." The Frost Virgin says. "With a lower number, we take turns to guard Cocytus directly, but otherwise we focus on protecting the perimeter of this area." She continues.

Frost Virgins, as they are called, are quite high-level. In the game, they were all concentrated around Cocytus to add an extra layer of difficulty; however, they are no longer in the game. Protecting the area as a whole while being able to hold off an enemy before reinforcements can back them up is quite smart. 

Kazuki is not surprised they were able to devise such a good plan; surely Cocytus must have also had a way to quickly gather up a small army anywhere within this area.

Kazuki nods, impressed. "Keep up the good work,...Do you have a name?"

"A Supreme One should not worry about remembering the names of such lowly creatures as us." She replies swiftly. "My name is Jelori." She says it with a bright smile on her face.

Kazuki smiles lightly. "Jelori..."

"Yes!"

Kazuki hasn't spent that much time researching or watching videos regarding game lore, but he knows that the 'shitty devs' gave a lot of those to the NPCs in the game.

"Jelori. Why's your race called Frost Virgins?" Kazuki asks her.

"Virginity is purity, just like ice and its light colors. To guard such a holy place, where everything is pure, our bodies need to be just as pure." She replies. "We reflect that in our clothing as well."

"Oh! Interesting." Kazuki says. "What if you were to...lose your virginity?"

"A solid slab of ice is still ice, but it would have no place in a beautiful place like this." She says. "If I were to lose my purity, I would no longer be fit to guard this area." She says, a bit embarrassed. "Upon losing that duty, I would need to swear to protect the one who took me on their side. They would receive my full loyalty and certainty that I would give my own life to protect theirs. I would become their shield who carries their burdens and the eyes who can look at the darkest of the nights to spot and menace. In short, my new duty would become to guard the one that took my purity, as long as thay was done with love as that is also pure." She finishes her long explanation.

Basically, she would be a bodyguard wife.

"So, would new Frost Virgins appear?" Kazuki asks.

"No, upon death, we become one with ice, and after some time, new ones will be born from our shards. However, if we lose our purity, only our children will be able to take our place. We also have a life span of seven hundred years, and if I were to lose my purity but bear no child upon my death, in around five hundred and fifty years, a new Frost Virgin would take my place."

"Hm. Thanks for telling me, Jelori." He smiles and nods at her.

"My pleasure, Kazuki-sama." She smiles back.

After that, he chatted some with Cocytus and then decided to go back to his house. There, once again, he spent some time with Yumi, playing house.

Then Ainz called him via Message to head to the Throne Room, where he announced that he had changed his name to Ainz Ooal Gown. He also gave the order to make the name an eternal legend, which everyone gave an excited cheer to.

He teleports away from the Throne Room, sighing to himself. "Make it an eternal legend, huh?" He sighs once again. "Making me work again? Man...They are so devoted to us that even if I did nothing, they'd stay loyal even then. But I can't do that to Momonga or Ainz." I facepalm.

"Imma check on...who? Hmm...I'll check on...maybe CZ to. Because why not?"

Kazuki decides to use the ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, and teleport to the ninth floor, to CZ2128 Delta's Chamber. He knocks on the door.

"May I come in?" He asks, and he hears her reply.

"Yes."

He opens the door, but he didn't expect the sight he's seeing.

"....Huh?"

She is standing topless in front of him, her pretty breasts showing in front of him with no shame. Her expression did not change a bit; she was just staring straight into his eyes.

"Kazuki-sama?"

"Huh? Oh." Kazuki shakes his head, snapping his eyes away from her chest. "Oh, uh, what're you doing?" That was all he could say or ask.

"I just finished my chocolate drink, and I was in the process of changing into my gear." She replies bluntly. "I have halted the process for you, Kazuki-sama."

Kazuki can't help but admit that she's adorable. No wonder a lot of them—guilt members—were quite fond of her. Like the elf twins as well.

"And...you let me inside, even though you were changing? I could've waited for a bit, you know?" Kazuki says.

"Your and Ainz-sama's task takes priority over any other task." She replies.

"I can see your breasts." Kazkuki tells her straight up.

"I'm currently missing twenty eight percent of my gear."

"Okay....Uh, can you not let anyone inside again if you're changing?" Kazuki asks.

"Not even Ainz-sama and you?"

"Not even us."

"I will abide by your request then, Kazuki-sama." She nods.

"Thank you." He then waits, as if wanting to chat with her, but he can't, as she still hasn't started dressing up. "Then I'll leave. Take care for now."

"Bye, Kazuki-sama."

He wanders around, finding himself back on the third floor, on the Derelict Rope Bridge, and coming across Entoma as well.

"Hey, Entoma."

"Kazuki-sama." She bows.

At first, he was wondering what she was doing, but then he saw. "Enjoying your meal?"

"Yes. I have an extra stomach for snacks." She says this, holding a human arm in her hands. "When I heard of a prisoner we caught, I got excited...I have a thing for the arms of muscular men. But he wasn't muscular."

"Well...uh, sorry for the disappointment?"

"Though the food here is good, they're never alive. I prefer to hunt. I became hungrier from it. There are not many adventures here, though..." she says, disappointed.

"If I find some for your liking, then you can have them and hunt them down." I offer her.

"Some say not to play with food, but they are clearly not hunters. Thank you, Kazuki-sama." She bows gratefully.

Then he leaves her to keep snacking.

'Man, she was kind of weird. Though kind of cute too. What is wrong with me?' He thinks in his head. 'I need to relax. What should I do?'

Kazuki thinks for a few minutes, just standing about, looking at the ceiling. "Oh! The SPA!" He hits his fist in his palm.

He uses the ring to teleport inside the SPA Resort on the ninth floor. He gets naked, and he wraps a towel around his waist. Before going to relax, he admires his looks a bit in the mirror.

He's far from muscular, but his body is not bad at all. He doesn't have amazing muscles, but he did create his body to have chest muscles alongside the six packs. His arms, too, have something to show for. His old body had actually started to become overweight, which was something rare considering the condition people lived in. It turned out he had something wrong with his liver, or kidney, but he didn't care, so he just lived on. Okay, not that he didn't care, he just didn't have the money or time to treat it, so he left it alone.

He steps out, and he's greeted by someone he didn't expect to see.

"Oh, Solution."

"Greetings, Kazuki-sama."

"Uh, what're you doin here? Isn't this the male area?" He looks around. "By the way, where's Miyoshi?"

"Who?" She's confused.

"The...slime who helps us bathe." 

"Oh! He has a task right now! So he can't come. But I can help..." she trails off, twisting her hips left and right, while holding her two hands in front of her.

"Well...if you want, you can." He shrugs his shoulders, not knowing what to say. He didn't really want to be an asshole to reject her, since she's nice.

"I'd be really happy to perform such task!" She says enthusiastically.

"Okay. I'll be waiting in the water. Take your time."

While Solution made various noises of happiness, Kazuki took off his towel and sat inside the water.

"Haaa....this is just great." He leans his head back on the rock behind him.

Soon, he hears a small splashing noise. Solution steps closer and closer toward him. "Whoa..." he says in a small voice.

Her body is beautiful and fit. She's a slime, of course, her body would be perfect. It makes sense, just think about it.

"Is something wrong?" She asks.

"No...It's just that you're beautiful."

"Kazuki-sama...! It makes me happy to hear! Please, enjoy the view to your heart's content!" She says happily.

"Well...don't mind if I do." Kazuki says with a small smile.

"My pleasure."

He expected her to turn into slime, but only her forearms melted and started traveling on his body. It didn't take long for him to close his eyes and just enjoy the feeling. He also felt her lower lips brush against his skin, and his little brother as well. He thanked his new body, and his new mental fortitude; as he could will his dick to not get hard. She would undoubtedly want to fuck him, but he didn't want to take her like this.

Though he does feel burning lust and passion, he does his best not to act on it and to think about it. Bit by bit, the feelings go away, and it starts relaxing more and more.

"You're amazing, Solution." He says.

"Am I as good as him?"

"You're way better."

"Ah! Fantastic! And I am being praised by you! This might be the best day of my life!" She says happily. "Before I head off...truly an amazing gift!"

"Wait...head off?" He asks confused.

"Yes, a day ago Ainz-sama gave a mission to me and Sebas-sama to head into town and gather information."

"I see...days passed since I've wandering around in Nazarick? Damn..." My eyebrows shot up. "And that asshole didn't even tell me these things."

Soon, they will be finished. He gives her his thanks, and of course she says it was her pleasure, and that once her mission is done, she'll happily help him bathe.

Of course, he accepted. Thanks to his new body, he's been confident in himself.

******

After talking with Ainz, Kazuki and him decided that he'd become an adventurer.

Now, Ainz wanted to be the one to go, but Kazuki stared at him with a deadpan face and told him that he had all the fun for himself at the village, humiliating a dozen soldiers from a country called Slane Theocracy, so Kazuki deserves to be the one to have an adventure. Ainz, reluctantly agreed.

Then, Ainz assigned Lupesregina to guard the village, much to Kazuki's dislike, as he wanted to bring the cheerful Werewolf battle maid. But then he had three options:

1. Yuri

2. Albedo

3. Narberal

Now, he, of course, likes all three of them.

Yuri is like a sexy, level-headed teacher. 

Albedo is a sexy succubus, and is smart, but easily loses her head.

Narberal is a cute doppelganger, but she's like Albedo. Easily loses her head.

That leaves him with Yuri. And honestly, even if he had more choices, he still had her as a second option after Lupesregina. His third choice was CZ, and the fourth being Narberal. 

Not that he didn't want to bring Entoma, she's kind of cute, but she's...he doesn't know how to explain, but he had a feeling that he would certainly encounter big trouble with her.

And Albedo...well, Kazuki wants to have some bonding time with the companion he brings with him. Albedo, is now deeply in  love with his friend, Ainz. Not that he had a chance to do it, but he wanted to avoid the possibility of cucking his friend. That's also the reason he doesn't wanna do anything, Shalltear. Okay, not that he doesn't want to, but he's not an asshole. Knowing Shalltear, she would gladly have a threesome, with Kazuki and Ainz both pounding her hard.

Little Nympho.

Before heading down to the entrance of the tomb, he decides to head down to the third floor again, where his instinct was right. Someone was there. Entoma.

"Entoma. Are you eating corpses again?" Kazuki asks with a small, wry smile.

"No...Corpses are no good. I'm eating cockroaches." She says cutely.

Why is she so adorable?

"From where?" He asks. He knows that Nazarick is incredibly clean, probably too clean. There's no chance that cockroaches are there. Unless... "The second floor?"

"Yes." She nods.

"....Does he know?" He asks with a raised eyebrow.

"No..." She looks away a bit.

He rubs his forehead. "Okay...unless he reports it...well, do whatever you want."

"Thank you, Kazuki-sama. You're so nice." She bows.

"Well, I gotta go now. See you later, Entoma." He says, then teleports to the entrance of the tomb, meeting up with Yuri.

Once there, he switches his clothes.

He puts on a robe, made of velvet in deep shades of royal purple, trimmed in intricate emerald embroidery that shimmers in the light. A black shirt, a pair of navy suit pants, and black Oxford shoes. He also took off his rings, except for the ones that surpass his aura, and the ones that improve his physical defenses. Then, he puts on a ring, that hides his wolf ears, and a pair of human ears appear on his head.

"Okay, let's give myself another name...hmm....Ku-...Kan-Kando. Yeah, Kando isn't bad." He nods to himself.

As he was thinking about his name, and other details to hide his identity, Yuri arrived.

"Yuri." He nods to her with a smile.

"Greetings, Kazuki-sama." She greets him with a smile and a bow. Her hair is still tied up in a bun, but now she's wearing a black top with short sleeves, and grey pants. She also has her gauntlets on her hands. "I believe with outfit should be fine...I'm not used to wearing other ones."

"I think you look nice, Yuir." He compliments her with a smile. "Now, before we head out, let's get our story straight. I'm Kando, a fourth tier wizard. You're....Yue. A warrior, on the same level as I am. We good?"

"Yes, Kazuki-sama." She bows.

"When we are out there, just call me 'Kando'." He tells her.

"I understand." She nods. "But please allow me to call you Kazuki-sama when no one is around. I don't wish to be disrespectful." She says.

"That's fine." He nods with a smile. "Let's get going then! Let's have some fun!" He says, throws his hands up, and leaves the tomb, with Yuir following behind him.

They head to E-Rantel, and to say it's not impressive is an understatement. It's horrible. Compared to Nazarick, it's cowshit. It's dirty, there are poor people...and if he heard it right, then he heard a woman's cry to her husband to not beat their daughter. He had to try REAL hard to not burst inside the sad excuse of a 'house' and kill the man. As much as he wanted to do that, he can't bring attention to himself yet.

They head inside the adventurer's guild. 

Once inside, they are greeted with the sight of adventurers sitting around or looking at a board where quests are hung up.

Kazuki and Yuri make their way to the receptionist to sign up. As he looks around, he can't help but shake his head again. What a trashy place.

"Hello, how can I help you?" She asks the pair.

"Greetings. I'm Kando, and this is Yue." Kazuki introduces themselves to the woman.

"Greetings." Yue says with a nod.

"We'd like to join the guild." Kazuki says.

"So...Two new adventurers...Hmmmmm~" She hums something to herself while searching for something on her tidy desk. "Here you go." She puts down two papers on the desk.

Kazuki discreetly opens his inventory under his robe and fishes out a small, one-eyed glass. He lifts it to his eye, and the language on the paper immediately translates to his.

He needed to write his name. He wrote: Kando Swart. For his age, he was 28. His background....It was longer than he expected.

Yuri, on the other hand, wrote her name as Yue Guerma, and for her age, she wrote 25.

When that was done, they were a step away from becoming a guild member.

"That is all. All you need to do is pay two gold coins; one each." She says.

"That's fine." He says and puts two gold coins down on the table.

Then, she hands them each a copper plate that they can hang on their necks.

"Thank you." Yuri says to the woman: Then, Kazuki and Yuir grab the paper the woman is handing them. "What is this? A manual?"

"Yes. These are the rules, and things you need to know." She tells Yuri. Then she continues to tell the two new adventurers the ranking system and more important things, though those can be read in the manual.

"Alright. We'll be taking our leaves then." Kazuki says. "Good night." He nods.

"See you later." The woman says as they leave the guild. Then they head over to the nearest inn, which is, again, in a shitty shape.

Once inside, they paid seven coppers to the innkeeper, because he was an asshole, and then they were confronted by some generic punks.

Kazuki didn't have patience to play with them, but then they said something disgusting toward Yuri, so he grabbed one of them by their necks and threw them across the room.