Inner Voice: All Heroines Hear My Inner Voice

Chapter 966: Game in the dungeon

Hermes Familia House.

Asfi had returned and told her god about the conversation she had with Eiji earlier. Of course, not everything was said.

She only said that Eiji agreed to help them, he even gave them information about the mastermind behind the strange things happening in the Dungeon.

Hermes was surprised of course.

"Enyo, huh? That’s obviously a pseudonym, and since he and the remnants of Evilus are hiding in Daedalus Street, he must be one of the gods living in that place! It’s a pity, Eiji doesn’t seem to want to tell us Enyo’s true identity, but it’s good that he’s willing to tell us such important information."

"Hahaha! He even agreed to help us because of you, Asfi. Good job, but... I’ll definitely miss you after you move to Seiya Familia! Asfi, do you really want to go and leave me?"

After saying all that cheerfully, he suddenly made a miserable expression.

However, Asfi did not change her expression and continued to stare at her god with a flat gaze.

She did not hesitate to answer, "Yes, becoming a member of the Seiya Familia seems like a good thing for me. There are many benefits that I don’t want to miss out on."

"How heartless, Asfi!" Hermes staggered back while clutching his chest, he pretended to be in pain from hearing her words.

Asfi sighed, "Stop being so dramatic, Hermes-sama. After all, you were the one who offered me to Eiji-sama, and wanted me to become a member of his familia. You sold me out."

"Cough! Cough!" Hermes coughed, and adjusted the position of his hat. He smiled awkwardly, "I’m sorry, Asfi. But as you said, having a good relationship with Eiji definitely allows us to gain a lot of benefits. For example in this case, he gave us valuable information. And I think you like Eiji so much, you’re not so reluctant to join his familia, right?"

"I... No, I really don’t mind joining Eiji-sama’s familia." Asfi said with a slight blush on her cheeks.

Hermes’ lips twitched.

Actually, he had hoped that Asfi would be a little reluctant to leave his familia.

He suddenly regretted letting Asfi go and giving her to Eiji so easily. After all, after Asfi became part of the Seiya Familia, his familia would lose a captain as good as her!

Hermes scratched the back of his head. Besides revealing Enyo’s true identity, and of course telling Ouranos about it. He also seemed to have to look for new seeds to increase the number of members of his familia.

There was still time before the Hermes Familia and Seiya Familia members gathered to enter the dungeon. At that time, Eiji decided to check his reward first.

[Ding! It was detected that the host had changed the plot of "Danmachi".]

[Successfully changed the plot by 36.6% by saving Artemis and destroying her death flag. You have also made her fall in love with you, and regard you as her Orion.]

Eiji glanced at Artemis who was watering the flowers in the backyard, as if sensing his gaze, she glanced at him and snorted with a blush in her ears.

Yare-yare.

That woman was obviously in love with him, but she was too shy.

His gaze returned to the system interface. A goddess like Artemis would definitely not make him receive a bad reward, right?

Miss System, give me a jackpot!

[I haven’t even finished my announcement yet, wait a moment.]

Okay.

"....." Eiji.

[Not only that, you’re very cunning. You made heroines like Ais, Lefiya, and Riveria voluntarily join your familia. It’s not just Bell who has earned many green hats, Loki is green too!]

Poor Loki.

She can only adapt to that feeling from now on.

[Because of the things you have done, Bell’s destiny has deviated a lot and gone in an unknown direction. Not a single woman is destined for him.]

"It’s okay, Bell still has Apollo. He won’t be single forever." Eiji said with a smile.

In his opinion, he had really done a good thing, because he didn’t let Bell provoke many women like in the original work.

In this life, he didn’t need to get involved with them including Ais, and focused on becoming strong while thinking of Apollo.

May you be happy, Bell-kun.

Miss System: Are you human? You’re not.

Leme: Ahahaha!

[Ding! Congratulations host, you got Gantz (Enhanced version)]

"Gantz? I remember it was... Wait, what does that mean I got Gantz?"

Eiji was surprised because compared to the rewards he had received so far, this was probably the strangest reward he had gotten.

He stopped leaning against the sofa, and leaned his face towards the system interface to read the description.

Immediately, he widened his eyes.

"This can’t be called a jackpot, but Artemis...! You’re my lucky goddess!" He shouted until Artemis heard him.

Artemis’ hands stopped moving, she glanced at Eiji in confusion.

It had been quite a while since the man had sat there, and continued to watch her which made her a little embarrassed.

But now, he suddenly said such a thing. Her face heated up and she asked, "Eiji, what nonsense are you saying?!"

"It’s nothing, you just need to know that I really like you."

"You, you... Stop saying that kind of thing so casually!"

Artemis’ face was already as red as Rias’ hair, Eiji loved teasing her and if you wonder how good a reward she got this time...

Let me explain.

Gantz is a manga and anime series in the genre of sci-fi, action, and horror thriller. The story focuses on people who have recently died, but are revived by a mysterious black sphere called "Gantz" to participate in a "game" of hunting aliens on earth.

The black ball has the ability to manipulate matter, teleportation, biological reconstruction, and the creation of cutting-edge weaponry as part of the game system.

In Eiji’s case, because he got an upgraded version of Gantz by Miss System, he could not only make dead people participate in a game he created. But, living people were no exception either, they could become participants!

As the owner of Gantz, he has full access to every mission the participants have to carry out, and even the enemies they can face. The game world is also not limited to the earth in the Gantz series, but the other worlds he has visited so far.

However, it clearly only served as entertainment for Eiji. It did not increase his power at all.

Even so, he thought he could use Gantz for fun.

’Can I also use this world as a game location? Then... Use it to woo the heroines while changing the plot at the same time.’

Eiji’s eyes lit up.

For your information, the game Gantz created was of course real and not a digital game.

The participants basically had to follow the rules of the game, they had to kill enemies to survive and earn points. Those points can be redeemed for various weapons, items, and even bringing the dead back to life.

People who have lost their loved ones are definitely interested in the last part. Many of them will do anything to earn points.

[Host, your head contains many evil and obscene ideas now.]

’Miss System, when do you plan to respect your host’s privacy?’

[Never.]

This woman is unreasonable!

Just admit that you are a yandere. Only a yandere would want to always know what their loved ones are thinking.

[I think you’re just narcissistic, host.]

Seeing Eiji again staring at her in silence, Artemis wondered what he was thinking?

Especially when his eyes seemed to sparkle, and his smile was rather wicked. He wasn’t thinking about perverted things and wanting to do something with her, right?

If that was the case...

Artemis was not sure if she could refuse. However, what made her both relieved and disappointed was that Eiji suddenly stood up, and informed her that he would soon be leaving for the dungeon with his familia members.

"Do you have to go with them too? You are a god, Eiji." She said anxiously to the man who was now standing right in front of her.

Eiji boldly wrapped his arms around Artemis’ slender waist, "Did you forget how strong I am? But just in case... why don’t you give me a lucky kiss?"

"What? K-Kiss? You want me to..."

Artemis stammered, but what surprised Lante and the rest of her familia who were peeping at them. Under their gaze, she stood on her tiptoes.

Her soft, warm lips slapped Eiji’s!

Her first kiss, which she had guarded for thousands of years, was gone!

Eiji’s eyes blinked, the kiss was innocent and only lasted for five seconds. Before he could say anything, Artemis immediately removed her hands from his waist and embarrassedly said, "Are you satisfied? You must be satisfied! I’ll wait for your return, Eiji. At that time... You, you can do whatever you want with me."

"Really?" Eiji was a little surprised.

While blushing, Artemis nodded. "Mhm."

Another one of Heaven’s famous Virgin Goddesses, had fallen!

Eiji rubbed his nose, and couldn’t help grinning. Seems like, he had to destroy Enyo/Dionysus’ plan quickly, and even reveal his true identity to everyone in Orario.

Then, he would have fun with Artemis and taste every inch of her body.

[Hehehe. That’s good motivation, our King. Do your best!]

Leme laughed and supported her king.

As for Miss System? She fell silent.

...

Inside a dark, majestic, yet very eerie giant temple hall-shaped room, with isolated ancient architecture.

Along the walls of the hall, stood giant-sized stone statues carrying weapons (such as swords, harps, and trumpets).

At the end of the room, there is a giant statue of a god sitting on a throne, wearing a robe, and having a creepy (sadistic, to be precise) expression.

Anyone who has watched Solo Leveling is familiar with that place. That’s because Eiji made the Gantz waiting room or lobby look like that!

But don’t get me wrong, they were all still in Danmachi.

"Where is this!?"

"Weren’t we on the first floor of the tower of Babel before, and waiting for the Seiya Familia members to arrive?"

"Why are we here now!?"

"This place gives me an unpleasant feeling."

"Especially that giant statue! Gosh, that’s creepy!"

"How do I get out of this place!?"

"Wait, that... isn’t that Eiji-sama!?"

One of the Harmes Familia members pointed at Eiji who was standing in the center of the altar. Beside him, they could also see a black sphere that was comparable in size to a human.

In addition to the Hermes Familia including Asfi, there were also members of the Seiya Familia among the crowd, and two elves who had put on their battle suits. One of them was Ryuu, and the last one, Filvis!

Just like the others, the two women were confused and wary as they were suddenly transported to an unfamiliar place.

Only Artoria, Scáthach, Morgan, and Medusa were not surprised because before this, they knew Eiji was planning to test his new toy.

"Eiji-sama, are you the one who moved us all here?" Asfi was smart enough to make such a guess.

Eiji smiled and nodded, "That’s right, I’m the one who brought you all here, although some of you were randomly selected to test the toy—Ahem, I mean, you see this black ball? This is an advanced technology that I’ve created, Gantz."

Hey, you were just about to say you wanted to test your new toy, right?

Asfi complained in her heart, but did not say what she was thinking.

She stared at the black ball called Gantz curiously. As a magic item maker, rather than the other people there, she had a great interest in such a thing.

Hearing what Eiji said, many people in the Hermes Familia exclaimed, and were relieved that they at least hadn’t been kidnapped by the enemy or anything like that.

Although it was true that Eiji had kidnapped them all. Knowing his identity, they didn’t dare to speak ill of him.

And since it was him, he wouldn’t do anything bad to them, right?

Ryuu raised one of her hands, since she was standing at the back of the crowd, she had to attract attention first. "Eiji-sama, may I ask you a question?"

"Sure, Ryuu... You were randomly transferred here, sorry about that." Eiji casually lied, his god-level acting skills had long been activated.

None of them doubted what he said.

"That’s fine... You said you wanted to test the technology you created, and you seem to need us to be your test subjects. Am I right?"

"Not only are you beautiful, you’re also quite smart, Ryuu."

Ryuu did not change her expression, but her ears twitched repeatedly. She was a little embarrassed though she did not show it clearly.

Asfi looked at Eiji flatly. This man... Could he not tease any beautiful woman casually?

Scáthach was amused.

"I wonder, do we have the option to refuse?" This time, the one who asked was Filvis. Just like Ryuu, she was an elf. But her hair was long black, her eyes were red and her figure could also be considered beautiful.

Before this, Eiji knew the woman was lurking around his familia’s house. Because of that, he had an idea and put her on the list of Gantz participants.

Dionysus must have sent her to get more information about his familia.

He would give that man what he wanted, but he had to be ready to pay the price.

Eiji certainly would not allow himself to be disadvantaged.

"Before I answer your question, could you introduce yourself? This is the first time I’m seeing you."

"Ah, sorry. My name is Filvis, captain of the Dionysus Familia, Eiji-sama." Filvis introduced herself politely enough, but her expression was colder than the other elf there, Ryuu.

Asfi frowned, this was also actually her first time seeing the captain of the Dionysus Familia.

"Filvis, to answer your question... I can only say no. You can’t refuse, but don’t worry–being my experimental subject certainly gives you many advantages, which you can’t get from other gods."

"Let me explain what Gantz’s abilities are to you all."

Eiji began to explain things about the Gantz, and the points they could get from killing enemies. Those points could be used for...

Except the Seiya Familia members—Asfi, Ryuu, Filvis, and the others were surprised.

"Really? Those points can be used to revive someone!? What if it’s more than one person?!" Ryuu asked excitedly. She remembered Eiji once saying he could bring dead people back to life in his inner voice.

She thought this was the ability he was referring to, and he offered it to her.

Although it wasn’t free and didn’t seem easy either, she didn’t mind giving it a try!

"To revive someone who is dead, you need 100 points. That is, depending on the number of people you want to revive, you only need to multiply that number of points."

"!!!" Ryuu.

Many of them were also amazed at Gantz’s ability.

Eiji enjoyed their gaze. He also told them the risk of losing their lives if their group was slaughtered. But if only one of them died, and the other members in the group managed to kill all the enemies, those who died in battle would be revived.

For the adventurers, risking their lives was commonplace, but they were relieved that Gantz gave them more comfort.

Filvis was dumbfounded, she was sure that if Dionysus or the other gods knew the technology Eiji had created, they would all want it too!

’Wait, can it also be used to revive yourself?’

Thinking of this, Filvis gulped. She couldn’t help but have the idea of betraying her own god.

Asfi wondered if this was the way Eiji had offered her to revive Lidith?

She could also revive some of the Hermes Familia members who had fallen into Evilus’ trap not long ago!

She excitedly asked, "Eiji-sama, I will gladly participate in this. But, what about our mission?"

"About that, we will of course still continue. Actually, we can do so while taking every Jewel Fetus that the remnants of Evilus have hidden, and destroying them. Not only certain monsters in the dungeon, I will also make the remnants of Evilus as enemies that can earn you points."

Eiji raised one of his fingers as he said that. With the giant God statue behind him, he looked majestic.

Ryuu’s blood boiled, she didn’t even have to bother finding an excuse to go to Eiji and ask him to tell her where the remnants of Evilus were. She could now participate in hunting down those bastards!

Among them, only Filvis felt a sense of panic.

Didn’t that mean she would be hunting down her own comrades? But, she couldn’t refuse, right!?