[Brian POV]After they took down the va golem, it seemed that Christina’s group decided to return here. Perhaps fighting two golems in a row took a lot out of them.

  I made sure to look at the rooms between them and the core room, but there were just a few imps that had spawned by now. Those are nothing to worry about.

  I looked at Sana. She was looking relieved.

  “Sana, is something wrong?” I asked her. I do have an idea, but better to firm it anyway.

  “It’s just… I was worried. Lava golems are extremely dangerous. I thought Mother and Madam might get seriously hurt or … even … “ She answered.

  “Yeah. I uand. But they are fine.” I reassured her.

  “But it’s scary. If they didn’t have those summons, they would have died.” Sana said.

  “If they didn’t have the summons, they would have retreated.” I told her. At least I think they would have retreated. I would hope so. Not retreating when there is nothing you lose if you do is the best idea when in an ued situation.

  … not that I do that. I just go in. But then again, me and Christina have the differehat I have access to over 500 cards while she has two. And even those two cards are mine.

  Perhaps I really should give a few cards to everyoh Card Summoner. Something like Red Medie for healing, a monster or two for attag and proteg, perhaps a binding spell or trap for, well exactly that. A destru spell like Hammer Shot might be nice as well, but as it didn’t kill the A-rank monster, it might not be as reliable as I want it to be. And if I go with, what I assume to be, more powerful destructive cards like Raigeki or Dark Hole, well they are either too rare or too self-destructive. Aka. Something I would not hand over to someone else. At least not until I have many, many copies of them. And even then I wouldn’t give Dark Hole to anyone. Unless I want them to kill themselves. But at that point I just toss them into a Dimensional Fissure or something.

  “Wele back.” I said to Christina as her group walked back to the core room.

  “We are ba…” Christina began to say, but she was interrupted.

  “Master, did you see alnt fight?” St. Joan interrupted her as she rushed over to my side.

  “Yes, I did. You did great. Please keep up the great work.” I plimented her. But her as seem suspicious to me, so I had to ask Laura something.

  (Laura, you didn’t possess her or something, right?) I asked my main suspe the ‘Why is St. Joan ag strangely’ case.

  (No. This has nothing to do with me, Master.) Laura answered with ation.

  (Really? That answer makes you seem even more suspicious. Are you sure you didn’t do anything to St. Joan?) I pressured her more.

  (Master, I have already told you. I ’t do that. I ot even and Master’s monsters uhey were summoned by Master, so I literally could not do anything even if I wao.) Laura defended herself.

  (... then why? Is something else going on?) I wondered.

  (I don’t have enough information to ahat.) Laura said. (But this behavior isn’t bad for Master so we should let it go until we uand it better.)

  (Yeah, sure. Just make sure to keep it in mind.) I told Laura. (And if you e up with an idea, please tell me.)

  “Brian, about the golem.” Christina began talking to me. I snapped out of my thought as she did.

  “Yeah, what about it?” I asked.

  “We definitely need some sort of insuran case anolem like that appears ter. Having a golem evolve after it was seemingly defeated could lead to the death of many adventurers.” Christina said.

  “Perhaps. I almost came up there to help you when I saw the golem evolve.” I ented. “I could try installing another card or two, but they might not work out as well as we want.”

  I know I have at least Fissure and we could potentially use that. But at the same time, if the dungeon use it without our input, that could kill many more people than some va golems.

  Something like Cold Wave might work as well, but that could also backfire.

  “Actually, on sed thought, they would most certainly cause more problems than just warning adventurers about golems possibly evolving.” I told Christina.

  “I see. I suppose that might be for the best. Adding more features this quickly could lead to the dungeon being unstable and going out of trol.” Christina said.

  “It go out of trol?” I asked, legitimately worried about something like that happening.

  “Well, it wouldn’t be able to disobey you, as you are the founder, but it definitely go against the dungeon master. Do you remember the story I told you about Alexahe guild master?”

  “Yeah, something about him being trapped in a dungeon because the dungeon didn’t like the other dungeon master.” I recalled the story.

  “Dungeons will sometimes do things like that. It’s something I’ll have to look out for as the dungeon master.” Christina said.

  … could that mean? No. Would the dungeon really try it this quickly?

  “Could that mean that the va golem was the dungeon’s way to kill you?” I asked Christina.

  “... I suppose it could. But it could also have been a test from the dungeon.” She answered.

  “I’ll o make sure I leave suffitly powerful monsters with you, so you deal with any future surprises.” I told her.

  “That would be helpful.” She agreed.

  Christina and Aneesa decided to take a short nap after their hunt. Christina even leveled up twice, so sleep would help with that as well. Not that two levels cause level-up siess, but rest is still good.

  For me, that meant going through the setlists. I o check out for cards I could give to Christina. I think I should go with earth attribute mohat are humanoid, but sadly there isn’t a lot to choose from. I wah attribute so it matches with Christina, not that I know for sure if that gives her an advantage, and humanoid so they won’t look too out of pce.

  Sadly that leaves basically just Amazoness monsters. And I don’t have access to things like Amazoness Queen or the Arc-V era fusions, so they ck the numbers I’d like them to have.

  If I had access to The Lost Millennium I could get some A Gears and could use them as her ‘boss monsters’, but I don’t have it yet. But it should be the mai I open.

  I know it’s wrong to wish for something bad to happen so I swoop in and save the day and cim The Lost Millennium and perhaps even Cyberic Revolution as rewards, but I low key do want it. As long as no one dies because of it. I still only have one Monster Reborn after all. God. So many cards I want, so few daily tokens. … well I guess 14 is quite many already. But I could always use a few more. But Pot of Greed is only in Legend of Blue-Eyes and Magic Ruler. No, I guess it’s in Dark Beginning 1 as well. But it’s rare or super rare in all those sets. Well, one always dream of more pack tokens.

  (Master, how about you fusion summon another monster? Your other toploader polymerization just came off of cooldown.) Laura said to me as I was thinking about random things.

  (Sure. I do that. But I’m not going to fay bat, so isn’t it a bit of a waste?)

  (It’s also a waste not to use it on cooldown as Master does have a challeo summon different fusion monsters. And Master has materials for plenty of different ones.)

  (Oh yeah, I didn’t really sider that part. I’ll eve more cards for it. Like the Red-Eyes fusion monster.) I agreed with Laura. I really should summon something. (What do you reend? I think it should be something on the weaker side as we won’t be doing any fighting.)

  (Fusionist. It’s not that strong and most likely wouldn’t be useful in bat. But it seems to be cat-like so it might be o pet.) Laura told me.

  I pulled up Fusionist on my colle.

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  So a winged cat with something like a horse’s tail? Why would a cat have a tail like that? Well, I guess I’ll find out when I summon it. Maybe. At least it might be o brush a tail like that. Not that I have a good brush. Might o get one of those as well, if I’m going to summon more furry monsters. I should show my appreciation for my monsters more and brushing is one way of doing it.

  Petit Angel and Mystical Sheep #2. I pulled out the materials I needed for the fusion summon.

  Then I pulled out the toploader Poly that came off the cooldown and quietly activated it.

  “I activate Polymerization to fuse together Petit Angel and Mystical Sheep #2. I fusion summon Fusionist.” I quietly said to perform the summon. I wao be quiet so I wouldn’t interrupt the nap Christina was having.

  The blue whirlwind that always showed up when I fusion summoook iwo materials and from it a cat appeared. I was thinking of calling it small, but in all hoy, it’s probably a bit rger than yur house cat. My brain is just messed up in the size department from all of the giant monsters I saw yesterday. pared to Master of Oz and that sword-horn bull, a cat is tiny.

  “Meawster, thank you for summoning meow. Please, pet meow.” The cat said as it flew at me.

  Said? It talked? I have a talking cat that fly? And it talks in that infuriating meow-style. What yer of hell did this cat escape from?

  (I don’t think you should talk about your summons like that. Even if it is in your head.) Laura warned me.

  (... yeah, probably. But I just ’t deal with the cat-talk. It sounds so stupid.)

  I caught the cat flying at me and pced it down on my p. I theed it with my right hand.

  “Meawster’s petting feels sooo good. Meow. Please, harder.” The cat begged me.

  … Do you have to say it like that? It almost makes it seem like we are doing something naughty.

  Just as I thought about that, Sana came to me. She had been slightly away from the core as she was cooking a meal for us.

  “What are you doing? I heard a girl's voice saying something strange.” She asked. She couldn’t see Fusionist yet as she had approached me from behind.

  “I’m just petting a cat.” I told her holy.

  “That doesn’t expin what I heard.” She ented.

  “It’s a talking cat.” I said.

  “Cats ’t talk.” Sana said.

  Fusionist raised her head a bit and looked at Sana. “Do you doubt my Meawster?” The cat asked.

  “... did the cat just …?” Sana looked at Fusionist in surprise.

  “As I said, nothing strange is going on here. Just a guy petting his cat.” I said to Sana as I went back to petting the cat from hell. Does that make Fusionist a demon? Probably not. I think I’m the only ohat says this cat is from hell. And in Yugioh demons belong to the Archfiend archetype as the Oame of that archetype is ‘Demon’ or ‘Daemon’.

  Sana just stood there looking at me and my cat, before asking. “May I pet it as well?”

  “I don’t mind, but what do you think?” I asked the cat.

  “Meow will allow it if you swear loyalty to Meawster.” The cat said to Sana.

  “... I … I ’t do that. I’m loyal to Lord Wat and Madam Christina.” Sana responded. “ I really not pet her if I’m not loyal to Brian?” She asked. I think there might eveears in her eyes. And she didn’t even call me Lord Brian.

  “e on, it’s fine isn’t it. It’s not like I’m going to hand you over to her or something.” I tried to get Fusionist to agree. I’m not going to force the cat, but I’ll at least try to talk her into it.

  “Meow suppose if it is Meawster’s will.” She agreed with minimal pressure. “But Meawster better not let me go.”

  With the permission gotten, Sana sat dowo me and slowly brought her hand over to pet Fusionist.

  “It’s so soft and warm.” She said as she got the first feel of the cat.

  “It really is.” I agreed. I hadn't really thought about it before she mentio.

  She spent a little time petting Fusionist with me, until.

  “Meawster, I think something is burning.” The y p said.

  “Oh no. Our food. Mother is going to lecture me for so long if I burn it.” Sana immediately realized where the burning smell was ing from.

  “Thank you for pointing it out. I ’t even smell it yet.” I thanked Fusionist.

  “Anything for Meawster.” The cat responded as she snuggled on my p.

  Thankfully, the food got only slight surface burns so we were able to scrape off the burned bits and enjoy our meal.

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