A Commonplace Story Of Overpowered Sorcerer

Rio and Liselotte blinked at the sudden brightness. They waited for a moment until they adapted. Rio then pushed open the door. Simultaneously, Liselotte was on guard as she peered into the room, clearly on the lookout for any trap.

The room on the other side of the door was pitch black, with not a single light source to be found. However, a combination of their Night Vision and the light spilling in from the room outside was enough for them to dimly make out their surroundings.

The interior of the room was composed of the same marble-like substance that Rio had first seen in the church cathedral when he got resurrected. Two rows of thick pillars, spaced out at regular intervals, extended all the way to the end of the room. In the very center of the room stood a huge cubical slab of rock. Its surface was glossy, and it shone from the reflected light coming in from the room behind.

Rio and Liselotte took a closer look at the cube, noticing there was something that glowed faintly jutting out from the center of its front face. It looked almost as if it was sprouting out of the rock. At that sight, they had a different reaction; Rio was full of expectation and anticipation because he knew what it was while Liselotte just increased her guard.

Wanting to get a closer look, Rio threw the doors open wide, and looked for something to hold them in place. He didn't want to make the classic horror movie mistake and enter only to find the door shut behind him. However, before he could fix them in place, whatever was in the center of the cube stirred.

"...Who goes there?"

Rio and Liselotte heard a faint, hoarse, female voice. Rio realized it was Aletia because the voice sounded like her VA in the anime adaptation. Meanwhile, Liselotte was startled and readied herself for another confrontation against a ridiculous monster. Rio ignored Liselotte's paranoid behavior and looked over to the center of the room again. The 'something' they had seen earlier was squirming slightly. The light pouring in from the other room revealed that something's true form.

"A... person? No, a girl. Is there really a girl inside a dungeon?" Liselotte mumbled in shock. The something sprouting from the rock was indeed a person.

The girl was buried in the rock from the neck down, and her golden-blonde hair dangled limply in front of her face, much like the ghost from a certain famous horror movie in Japan. Eyes as red as the blood moon peeked out from between gaps in her hair. She looked to be rather young. Still, despite her haggard appearance and her hair covering the better part of her face, it was still clear she was quite beautiful.

Liselotte stiffened in surprise; she hadn't expected to see another person so deep in the labyrinth. It seemed the girl was just as surprised to see Liselotte and Rio too, as she was staring at them in dumbfounded shock. Meanwhile, Rio was still calm as ever because he already knew about this. After a moment of silence, Rio took some deep breaths to steady himself, and then resolutely said...

"Liselotte, I win the bet."

His words woke up Liselotte from her stupor. She turned at Rio, wide-eyed. The next moment, she forgot her early guard and protested strongly.

"Wait! Wait for a second, Rio! You just can pick up a random girl you find in a dungeon! Furthermore, she's sealed in this place for who knows how long! What if she's a dangerous individual?!"

"Then, let's ask that girl why she's here, shall we?"

"Wait! Rio!"

Rio ignored Liselotte and walked up towards the golden-haired girl who was watching their shenanigans with a dumbfounded look. Liselotte couldn't help but follow after Rio while keeping up her guard. They finally arrived before the golden-haired girl and Rio soon asked her a question.

"So, tell us who are you and how are you in here. And please, make it short!"

The golden-haired girl blinked her red eyes, waking up from her stupor. Her red eyes shone with hope and she started mulling over her answer. After a few seconds, the girl came back to her senses with a start and quickly began speaking with a hoarse voice.

"I am one of the original, atavistic vampires... because of the extraordinary power I was gifted with... I worked hard for the sake of my country and my people..."

"Alright! Stop for a moment!"

"Huh?"

"Eh?"

The golden-haired girl and Liselotte were taken aback when Rio told the golden-haired girl to stop her story. They turned at him in confusion, and desperation in the golden-haired girl's case, and saw his hand entered a platinum circular portal in the air. Liselotte knew that Rio was searching for something in his pocket dimension, but the golden-haired girl didn't know about that yet. The golden-haired girl had a dumbfounded look as she watched Rio.

A few seconds later, Rio pulled out his hands. The two girls saw a pitcher and a glass in his hands. Rio then poured water into the glass and offered it to the golden-haired girl with a soft smile. He then said to her, "Your throat must be very painful. I can imagine how long you haven't had any meals or water since you're sealed for who knows how long."

The golden-haired girl stared at Rio with glittering eyes as if he was a saint and a halo of light would appear at any moment above his head. She was touched by his thoughtfulness and nodded shortly. Afterward, Rio helped the golden-haired girl drink from the glass. At the sideline, Liselotte watched the procession silently. Her guard on the golden-haired girl's existence had lowered unintentionally.

"Now, continue!" Rio told the golden-haired girl kindly while storing the pitcher and the empty glass. After the golden-haired girl heard that, she nodded strongly, making Rio and Liselotte felt worried for her small, fragile-looking neck.

"So, as I've stated before. I'm one of the rare atavistic vampires with extraordinary power. I work hard for my country and my people. But then, one day, my retainers all said I wasn't needed anymore. My uncle said that he would be king in my place. I...was fine with that, but because I had so much power everyone was afraid of me, they thought I was dangerous. They couldn't kill me... so they decided to seal me here instead. That's why I'm here..."

Rio and Liselotte sighed as they heard her tale. For a different reason. Rio knew about Aletia's background story, but it was as a character in a fictional story. When he heard that from a real living human, or a vampire, in this case, he felt pity for her. She had certainly suffered a cruel fate. Liselotte, meanwhile, felt crushing sadness from the tale. However, during the course of the golden-haired girl's tale, she heard some things that nagged at her. She felt an inexplicable, complicated feeling well up within her, so she asked the following:

"So does that mean you were some kind of royalty?" the golden-haired girl nodded shortly at Liselotte words. When she saw the golden-haired girl's reaction, she was speechless because it was different from her eager reaction towards Rio. She felt a complicated feeling well up inside her but pushed that aside and continued on.

"What do you mean they couldn't kill you?"

"...I heal automatically. No matter what kind of injury it is, it'll just heal by itself. Even if you cut my head off I'll regenerate eventually."

"Th-That's quite the ability... So that's the power everyone was afraid of?"

"That too, but... the main thing was that I could control mana... directly, without a magic circle."

Liselotte nodded and replied with a simple, "I see."

After consuming monster flesh she had become capable of freely manipulating her mana as well. She needed no chants or magic circles to enhance her body, or use the special magic she'd acquired despite she had a bad aptitude for magic.

"...please, save me..." the golden-haired girl begged pitifully and turned at Rio. But, she, as well as Liselotte, was dumbfounded when they discovered that Rio had moved away. He was walking around the dark room before stopping on a spot for a moment.

"Rio! The hell are you doing! Return, quick!" Liselotte hollered at him in annoyance, and Rio turned his head around to face in her direction. He gave them a nod and returned back with a leisure pace.

"Hey..." the golden-haired girl's soft call grabbed Liselotte's attention. "Are you two... a couple?" She asked Liselotte blankly.

"Yeah. We have been a couple for almost a month now."

"I see." Although the golden-haired girl had a blank expression, Liselotte could feel her disappointment. Liselotte smiled wryly at that. She didn't think that the golden-haired girl was an easy girl, but any girl in the golden-haired girl's position would latch on her opposite s.e.x who helped her out of her despair. What is more, Rio was eye candy and was an exceptional person with seemingly bottomless power. Liselotte suddenly remembered the bet she'd made with Rio and felt cheated. She wondered if Rio knew that this vampire girl was on the other side when they were outside of this sealing room.

'Well, a loss is a loss. And I must accept her as my little sister huh?' Liselotte's wry smile deepened, garnering a confusion of the golden-haired girl.

"Hey, vampire girl. Listen..." the golden-haired girl looked up and met Liselotte's red eyes with hers.

As Rio approached them, Liselotte decided to build a foundation for their future relationship. In other words, a pecking order between them.