I Was Summoned As A Hero, But I Became The Demon Lord Instead

(POV Chi Kaban)

It's been two weeks since that crossdresser joined the two of us down here. Occasionally I'd notice her staring at me strangely, however, I had no time for her at the moment.

I was presently still trying to find my brain after it was tossed somewhere far off into the abyss. Unluckily for me, a certain terrifying monster stumbled upon my brain was running around with it everywhere. If it just ate my brain all would be good and fine, but for some reason this damn monster took a liking to it and just took it around all over the place. It's really been quite bothersome trying to catch this monster.

With its large white body, little twitchy nose and its long white ears that prop itself up above its head the moment it senses danger. This damn level 20 demonic fluffy bunny has really been nothing but a nightmare since it first bore its little head out of the ground. At first I managed to find my brain just fine, but the moment I was about to pick it up this little vermin popped out of the ground and ran off with it.

No matter what type of trap I planned out or created, it always fled at lightning speed at the slightest sign of something being awry.

I truly never knew the fearsomeness of rabbits until I met this one. Of course, during this time, there were no breaks for me as Yueliang continued to find me every day to pass the time which made it even more difficult to find my brain. It actually looked like she was really enjoying this new form of harassment.

Really, I need to make her fall for me as soon as possible if I want to be able to regain a bit of peace and quiet. Since there's no way for me to beat her or overpower her in the short term, I'd opted to capture her heart instead to get her to lay off with the harassment. However, it really felt like it backfired as her forms of harassment were growing more and more by the day.

It was not long before I really started to wonder whether it was a mistake. Had I misjudged her? Was she actually the type whose harassment increased the more she liked a guy?

Recently she's even changed up where she draws blood from me. Apparently it somehow tastes different depending on where it's drawn from. Initially she always drew blood from behind me on the right side of my neck. It was apparently a realization she came to after she licked the blood off of my face two weeks ago.

At first she tested it by moving to the left side of my neck from behind, then she moved to my front and tried both sides of my neck. Her eyes were wide when she backed away from me like she was shocked at the revelation of a whole new world. Apparently even changing the position of our bodies affected how it tasted to her.

I was of course shocked as well by her next experiment as well. She took my hand and bit one of my fingers and drained me of my blood again. She showed a euphoric look when she pulled away her lips leaving a string of saliva connecting between my finger and her lips. Damn it! There was a perfect feast before my eyes but all I could do was be eaten instead of eating.

Haaah. That's besides the point right now though. My real problem was catching that stupid rabbit that had my brain.

But shouldn't there be an easier way to go about this? To start with, why must the body part be destroyed before it can regenerate anyways? I don't really get that part, but I'd always wondered whether there was a way to remotely detonate a part of my body. If there was, wouldn't I be able to regrow my brain instead of having to search for it like this?

Thankfully after all the brutal torture over my first month here I'd developed a useful skill called pain resistance. When I asked the former hero about resistances she explained it to me in detail. By continually training your body, if certain conditions were met it was possible to build your resistances up. For example for fire, you could build up your resistance through tempering your body through flames or areas of extreme heat. By raising your resistance to fire, you could prevent your body from getting burnt or even being turned to cinders. It was a simple enough concept to grasp.

In my case, my physical pain resistance had already reached 100% thanks to what Yueliang put me through all the time. However this is just for pain, just because I won't feel physical pain from being burnt by fire, that does not mean I'm resistant to fire. One might not feel it, but their body would still be turned to cinders and rendered useless if they bathed in fire.

I could more or less understand why Yueliang treated me the way she did at the start. An immortal has their own way to fight, physical pain was something an immortal does not need. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, she did assist me with raising my resistance to it. She's actually pretty kind in her own way, I bet she just doesn't want to blatantly show it because of her pride as a noble vampire.

As cruel and uncaring as she seems on the surface, she's definitely not a bad woman. Although for some reason that 100% physical pain resistance strangely enough does nothing about a man's Achilles heel for some reason.

It's possible it may have just been the mischief of the so called gods in this world playing pranks on the little mortals down below though.

Thinking up to here, I returned to my original train of thought with regards to detonating portions of my body and I realized that this may be another form of guidance from Yueliang in terms of how an immortal should develop themselves.

As an immortal can discard parts of their body at will and grow them back, can an immortal not use those very discarded body parts as a means of attack? Now that I think about it, that rabbit is actually too smart to just be a random mob, isn't it? How could it possibly avoid all the traps and schemes I made to capture it so easily? Could that monster be under her direct control? Actually, aren't all monsters in the dungeon under her control?

Once I realized that she'd been toying with me the entire time, rather than anger, I felt slightly amused. She can't beat me in shogi since the playing field is equal, but inside her dungeon the playing fields are completely unbalanced. It's like playing shogi where I only have a pawn, but the opponent has a full board of pieces to use. It's really like she's using a dragon to bully a weak little pawn.

Yeah, fluffy bunnies are damn dragons, okay? Don't look down on them just because they're freaking adorable, they are vicious little buggers who'll steal and run away with your brain and never give it back.

With my thoughts directed towards remotely detonating portions of my body, I went to find the former crossdressing hero. It wasn't hard considering the area the three of us stayed in was completely flat and barren with next to nothing inside when compared to the floors above us inside the dungeon. The rabbit had recently escaped from the 100th floor where we were and was presently hiding and scurrying about on the 99th floor which was a gigantic maze making it impossible for me to find it in a short period of time.

It was far too dangerous for me up there, but I did need to admit that I was amazed how the rabbit could survive with all the high level monsters on the 99th floor. I couldn't scratch those monsters let alone flee from them. When I did go up there for the first time, I had gone with the former crossdressing hero. Both she and I were at a loss since we couldn't do anything to the monsters on the floor above us. Figuring out what level they were at was definitely out of the question. Even with her at level 40, when she tried to check their levels, similar to Yueliang, their levels showed up as "???". If such powerful monsters were released, how would humanity ever stand a chance? Wouldn't humanity easily be wiped off the face of the earth?

When I asked Yueliang about it she put on a frown and grumbled, "if that happened then the stupid gods would intervene and mess around. They would bestow absurdly powerful weapons to the stupid heroes to balance the playing field. Therefore, to keep my position secure and live peacefully myself in the future, when I escape I've opted to reign in the monsters I brought up and just use them to train demon lords up to a certain degree to avoid making things more troublesome for myself in the future."

She actually sounded pretty lazy when she put it like that. She felt like the type of person who preferred easy mode over impossible mode, but she was right, the gods really sounded like a pain in the a.s.s if they'd casually interfere when one side was losing too one sidedly.

When I found the crossdressing hero, I immediately got to the point.

"Hey, help me out with something."

"Help you out with what?"

"Rip my arm off."

"What? Why? Do it yourself. No actually, where is this even coming from out of nowhere? You better not have developed any kind of weird detached limb fetishes."

"I don't have enough strength to rip it off myself. You're level 45, right? You should be able to do that much, right? Also, I have no such fetishes."

"Why me? Why don't you just ask Yueliang, I'm sure she would enjoy helping you out with something like this."

"If I ask her she'll just destroy the arm right away and it will grow back. If I asked her to not destroy it, do you think she'll listen to my request obediently? I don't want it to grow back right away because I want to experiment a bit."

"Are you suddenly some kind of perverted m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t who gets off to women ripping your arm off?"

"Although I do have to admit that definitely may have some sort of forbidden appeal to certain individuals, that's not the reason why."

"Gross."

"You're calling me gross? I don't want to hear that from a crossdressing chick."

She glared daggers into my body and as requested she ripped my arm off, threw it to the ground and spit to the side.

"Peh. Meeting you again really is unpleasant after all."

"Meeting again? You knew me from before? I don't remember ever meeting you before though."

"Like I thought, you didn't even know I existed did you?"

"Sorry, I've met a lot of people throughout the course of my life, unless you were someone who stood out or made a deep impression on me I might have forgotten if we met before."

"What are you talking about? We were in the same high school you jerk!"

"Eh, really? Which one?"

"What do you mean which one?! We spent three years together in the same high school!"

I was troubled, of course I was troubled. Do you have any idea how many times I've gone through high school over the last two thousand years? I've attended quite a few you know, universities as well.

"Uh, what era… no time period… no I mean what year was that exactly?"

"Hah?! Since 2017 you jerk! Because of you I was always second place! I was hoping it was just my inferiority complex back then, but you're really telling me you didn't even know I existed?"

I honestly didn't, I didn't pay attention to things like academic standing. They put tests in front of me, so in my boredom I just answered all the questions to pass a bit of time.

Wait, but this doesn't really make sense though time wise. It was still 2019 when I was in our world, but she's been a hero for five years. Unless time doesn't flow at the same rate it doesn't really add up.