Chapter 14

Having made a deal with 'his goddess' for her to mediate the situation of his mistakes, Wilhelm returns to his room in the familia home where majority of his belongings are to ensure people at last think his storage space is limited, because otherwise he'd just carry everything on him right?

Tossing his destroyed and bloodied outfits from his time while in the dungeon to a pile aside for him to manage later, he assorts a few fresher outfits into his storage space while changing into a different outfit as well but not before blow drying his body for about a minute with weight sensitive runes he's placed.

He decides to go straight to his workshop for a little while so he can set a up a few rune systems and things will start progressing more while he's out, he'd prefer at least the materials he's going to use to make experimental runic magic guns be prepped for when he wants to start working on them after all. So he focuses his effort on the 'mining' level and the questionable idea of growing his own materials and veins of resources underground at such a fast rate.

Returning to the surface he mostly speeds up the following conversation with his familia captain Finn who expresses concern over his lack of working with the rest of the familia and his inconsistency in demeanor.

"Getting used to fighting with me or expecting me to perform certain way on expeditions likely won't happen, I don't intend to join on many expeditions but the money I make will mostly be going to the familia, I'll probably join a few but they're somewhat likely to be few and far between." Wilhelm gives Finn a meaningful smile and he turns his head to the short phallum, "I'm not going to pretend to be a good person, I usually can't take things seriously and it's a detrimental aspect of my character that's probably going to hurt the people I spend time around when they have actual inspiration, I shouldn't have things expected of me positively in general because I'll probably disappoint." Finishing his tangent, Wilhelm turns his face back to the sky, looking up and seemingly getting lost in the shifting clouds and their shapes.

Finn meanwhile frowns while entering his own thought process. Considering his familia member's potential and abilities it definitely would end up being demoralizing if someone who wasn't trying was just naturally better, that negativity can hurt the younger familia members especially when they're growing and trying get stronger in the dungeon. The self destructive manner he fights in could also give his younger allies trauma and would likely distract or disturb even the older familia members… with a sigh he mentally agrees with Wilhelm, it's probably indeed the best for the man to work on his own, at least he does a lot to support the familia without really trying it would seem considering their income is doing phenomenally due to the sudden partnership they learned of with god Miach's familia.

"Alright , we'll be asking you to join us probably on deeper dives and expeditions however due to your storage ability and versatility." Finn states his own sort of requirements while Wilhelm breaks his attention from the sky with a bright smile.

"Sure." Wilhelm simply answers the demand and begins walking away from Finn, "In the upcoming months I'll probably decide to end up living in the dungeon for a while." To which Finn sighs as this was part of the problem with Wilhelm, especially since the man disappeared essentially for five weeks without saying a thing.

But Finn doesn't respond, instead he starts walking back to the familia mansion while looking through a few papers from applicants to the familia that he's carried with him. While Wilhelm has started traveling back to the dungeon, having already forgotten to do anything else and simply decided if he remembers anything else he has to do he'll come back to the surface.

Fast forwarding a few days Wilhelm has been slaying monsters around floors 13-17, loosing limbs, organs, blood, generally a lot of his body with every fight he commits to with monsters, considering he fights without worry of his own body still as they regenerate or come back by the end of the fight. His sense of pain also dulled down heavily with the use of his computerized mind unless he'd prefer his consciousness to break. Notably 3-4 days in he finds a few members of the Miach family on a dungeon dive together while he shifts through the same 4 floors.

Their circumstances are dire- well… Naaza's are… the rest of the familia members within the party are dead or dying due to lethal attacks- The Chienthrope doing her best while in denial to try and 'save' her familia members which starts coming at a cost, due to her being the only one left she's quickly getting overrun by monsters which is the point at which Wilhelm sees the current situation and of course intervenes without hesitation while Naaza is in left in a state of shock as despite her best efforts the familia she was accompanied with currently lay dead in various grotesque ways while having to endure the pain of bite and claw related wounds across her body and mostly her limbs with one of her arms having taken the most damage as a monster tried to rip it off for a mean before a weird man interrupted the monsters…

Naaza remains in a state of shock and despair, her pupils dilating and beginning to hyperventilate, signs of her panic apparent. While Wilhelm has started to brutally go about eliminating the monsters, his actions being violent and loud to ensure the attention of the monsters is drawn away from Naaza and the corpses of the dead.

Roughly 10 minutes and a small monster horde later, some adventurers that were going on a familia expedition managed to find the site. Wilhelm camped out with them for a while, hoping that the time they were given would ease her mind out of shock so they could go back up, However not much seemed to be doable in that regard. It seemed she was more traumatized of being in the dungeon than monsters themselves- though it was apparent she was traumatized by both when the dungeon spawned a few more.

While they weren't particularly safe they couldn't have made it to the 18th floor because the Goliath should've respawned though the familia members on an expedition were planning to kill the Goliath themselves they intended to take a break before doing so to be at their full potential so stopping a little early wasn't to bad. As they claimed per their own words however.

Though he didn't remember that he could've used a teleport rune of sorts to return to his familia's house and then didn't want to expose his ability to teleport in and out of the dungeon to those who were temporarily help him and Naaza.

Having his valuable abilities and capabilities exposed publicly would fucking suck. The guild or presently somewhat influential familias would probably try to justify taking him and making a sort of public porter or transportation service.

It's ok to be an idiot or forgetful sometimes right?

He sighed while turning to the side and looking at the wrecked girl, at the very least to pass the time he could start stitching up her wounds including the bandaged stub of an arm. It's unfortunate that he's setting up the Miach familia for the same thing which broke them apart in the story but he'll just fix it later. A little manipulation if it's for mutual benefit wouldn't hurt, he gets to further cement their business relationship by being the prospect that keeps the Miach family out of most of their future debt and ensure their stability.

Even if the results of Naaza getting that prosthetic and draining the familia's funds for the most part causes quite a few people of the familia to leave due to the them not really having a choice before their familia's budget gets drained for one person. A few people would probably stay though.

For the thread he's used his mana like energy to condense multiple threads of fabric from his clothing down and clean them extensively.

Using the makeshift thread he begins stitching the wounds closed, as considering it's the cheaper option and he doesn't carry healing potions with him it's the best at the moment. Even if the people that helped him out as well seem nice, they could end up also charging him a lot to use one of their potions on the grounds of it being an emergency.

After having finished with the makeshift stitches on Naaza he sets her down on the ground with her head propped up from a small pillow he stuffed in his inventory previously from his bedroom at his familia's mansion.

Roughly 30 minutes later~

Naaza grumbles and groans as she seems to wake slowly, still in pain.

"Oh, so you do wake, I was a little worried I'd have to carry you back to the surface." Wilhelm mentions in a jovial voice. "But because you're awake now, if you want a ride of me carrying you I'll cost me being able to stroke your tail or scratch behind your ears."

Naaza however, doesn't find much of what's mentioned amusing and tries to ignore the comments before seemingly trying to get her bearings on the situation and sit up before she's interrupted with a hand on her shoulder keeping her down.

"Don't move to fast, or preferably don't move at all, I didn't used potions and instead used a sort of thread to close your wounds, you move to abruptly and some of the wounds are sure to rip open because I also didn't have the proper material for the thread so I had to make a substitute." He explains, his voice having shifted from a sort of playful to a seriousness.

Naaza just nods her head in understanding, not because she probably wants to listen but because she doesn't have the physical means to resist. She then speaks however with her voice quivering, "wh-where's my p-party?"

Wilhelm just sighs, "Don't think about stuff like that until you're back on the surface and healed up next to your god, you can talk to him about it and he can help you out."

Naaza frowns in response at his deviation of the question, she can't sit up or go around to check for herself if they're around because he's holding her down and she hasn't heard a single one of their voices… reasonably she's somewhat panicked and begins to pale while thinking of the worst.

"Stop that, I told you not to think about it, if I see more negative reactions like this I'm gonna start making sex jokes with you and try to seduce you." Wilhelm says with an absolutely neutral face and tone.

Naaza just looks absolutely shocked as she turns her head to see his face with a look of utter confusion, "What is wrong with you?"

"Horny and high libido but I don't have any partners." He chuckles softly, "I also had to fix a girl's wounds after stripping her, by extension I ended up seeing her naked, so I could close each wound properly and clean it, though there's others in the party currently accompanying us I don't trust others who I don't have significant reason to trust, at all."

Naaza looks dumbfounded for a moment as she processes what he just said as her face gets a heavy red toned blush, "So you did it yourself?!"

"Yes." Wilhelm just responds with an even tone and neutral face like he's done nothing out of the ordinary.

Dumbfounded once again Naaza stammers for a moment trying to find a response before she moves on, not presently knowing what to think. "Whatever, just help me get back to the surface?"

"Huh, what makes you think I'm helping you that much?" Wilhelm questions.

A few veins seem to bulge in Naaza's forehead like her blood pressure is rising as she takes a moment. "You said the cost for carrying me back is to stroke my tail or scratch behind my ears? I say the price for getting to look at me naked is AT LEAST helping me and any of my remaining party members back to the surface."

Wilhelm sighs but nods his head in understanding, "I'm taking that you agree to my offer then because I'm not letting you walk or run with the wounds at risk of opening then." He responds with a big grin, "Thanks for letting me pet your tail or scratch your ears when we reach the surface, such is non-negotiable." He proceeds to pick Naaza up in a sort of princess carry while the pillow she was using drops back into his storage space while he suddenly has a revelation mentally, 'FUCK, this would have been such a good time to learn and practice healing magic for others, I really need to list these things and remember them.'

And he begins running off with the cute girl in his arms who is only cute in his mind, because she's yelling and screaming at him to put her down from the embarrassing position as she also doesn't want the man to touch her tail or ears like he repeatedly suggested he would quite soon while her face continues to redden with a deeper and deeper blush, due to his actions she also unfortunately forgot that he still hasn't answered her questions regarding her party, being to worried about the… intimate demands made regarding her animalistic features.

(A/N: probably not a satisfactory chapter considering how long you all had to wait, but I must say sorry, not because of the wait, but because I don't feel sorry.

Don't hate me.)