Dungeon Overlord: Monster Girl Harem!-Chapter 54: Do You Want To Follow Me?

Leonhardt and Asuka perched at the edge of the embankment, leaning back. The flickering azure embers burned most of the surrounding forest.

"I never expected you to be so special, Leo!"

Asuka joked, while pushing against Leon's arm, her lips pressing together as she stroked his smooth skin.

"Special? I am just a monster… you know that now, right?"

"You're not a mon—"

Her words stopped midway because he blocked her soft lips with his rough fingertips.

He closed his eyes, realising that, even compared to Erina and Sylvie, or even the humans he called Inferior, it didn't change his origins—a monster couldn't become human.

'Nor do I wish to.'

"But, without you, wouldn't we have died together?"

Asuka's fiery aura, like a dazzling light, remained even after awakening her non-human bloodline.

He couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile as her warm body pressed against him, almost a physical display of her insecurities. Leon's hand wrapped around her waist while he gazed at the information left on his flickering panel.

[◊ Asuka has slain the Drakefang Salamander! ◊]

• Drakefang Salamander

Gained 500 XP

Gained 200 EP

Gained 500 DP

• Drakefang Salamander (Awakened)

Gained 1000 XP

Gained 400 EP

Gained 1000 DP

◊ Evolution Points Maximum—Please Prepare for the Evolutionary Phase!

The information telling him he defeated the salamander gave Leon a breath of fresh air. However, because he needed to spend over 8000 dungeon points, this alone caused him to become frustrated. Almost enough to revive the monster and kill it again.

In the end, he survived and the bloodline of Asuka awakened… though not fully.

"Asuka, do you regret accepting that kiss and becoming a monster?"

Leonhardt couldn't help but wonder what someone who was neither human nor monster would think if forced to choose one side.

His hands clenched, uncertain about her answer, which caused a tightness in his chest with a swirling heat radiating through his abdomen.

An unpleasant and irritating sensation.

"I…"

He turned to gaze at the beautiful woman.

Her creamy brown skin shimmered in the moonlight, thin drops of sweet-scented sweat dripped down her cheek. Asuka's plump lips pressed together before sliding her tongue over them and cleared her throat.

"I don't really care!"

Leon's eyes widened, taken aback by Asuka's response as she gazed at him with her golden eyes, with the thin black slit pupils focused on his figure.

She lowered her gaze, while her scales turned a darker red, a blush crossing her cheeks.

"Because now we're closer, right?"

"What?"

"Eh?"

"Are we not closer?" Asuka's voice quivered, a low, uncertain plea that sought his affirmation.

She turned and pressed her body against his chest, her hands wrapped around his shoulders and gripped him tight. Asuka couldn't accept his reaction, the desires, and instincts of her monster blood driving her to follow these feelings without care.

In reality, Leon didn't ignore or deny her, rather her answer was just shocking.

'This woman can accept it so easily, but what if her people hunted her?'

For the first time, he couldn't control his instincts and emotions. He responded by gripping Asuka's face with both hands, his thumbs brushing along her smooth, silky lips while squashing and distorting them under his grasp.

"Do you truly realise what it means to be a monster?"

He understood the changes wouldn't be so obvious right now, but eventually, the things she enjoyed or did with the others might become dull. The vibrant emotions and relationships she built with humans, or those morals and thoughts that brought her this far, might shatter.

'I never had them in the first place, but Asuka.'

Asuka's eyes blinked as her lashes fluttered.

The warmth of his hands and the gentle, yet aggressive touch of his thumbs sent a tingle down her spine.

Asuka could sense his unrest.

Leon's brilliant ruby eyes stared into her face, revealing his intense emotions and feelings, staring with a bewildered expression.

It was almost like he was scared, but she couldn't understand why.

Her arms slowly rose and touched his face.

She felt his firm jawline and moved up along his cheeks, stroking his smooth skin. She could feel the pulse of his beating heart through her fingertips.

Ba-Dump

Ba-Dump

Two hearts beat in an alternating rhythm, causing her fingers to jolt to a stop.

Her gaze lifted, locking with Leon's gem-like eyes. Unexpected heat radiated through her body and pooled at the base of her stomach, growing and intensity the more she gazed at him.

"Leo, I don't mind becoming a monster because I've always been treated strangely because of my body."

"What?"

His confusion showed on his face, giving her an encouraging nod.

"My family… well, you can see we Dragonoid's might seem human. However, the kingdom only accepts our existence because we are forced to fight on the front lines by law and oath when danger appears in the kingdom," Asuka whispered.

Her golden eyes dimmed while her lips parted and touched his thumbs with a gentle peck.

"Isn't it ironic?"

Darkness loomed in her expression as she threaded her fingertips through Leon's hair.

"The humans only desire us when it's beneficial to them, but when it's over they confine us to that small, suffocating village, like breeding mares."

She leaned closer, and felt his hot breath blowing against her nose, the soft caress of him brushing her scales sending tingles and pleasure through her body.

Asuka pushed closer, her lips parted from his. The sweet taste of his velvety, soft lips spread through her mouth as her tongue brushed against his.

Unable to stop, she kissed him again, and again.

The silky texture of his lips was addictive and filled an emptiness within her.

"Mhm."

Her soft moan echoed out.

A pleasurable sound which caused her insides to heat up and squirm, the muscles in her body tensing.

Their tongues twisted and intertwined with a wet slurp before they separated, with a thin trail of saliva still connected between them.

"You don't have to be so worried—even if I become hated by the world. You, Erina and Sylvie will never forsake me, right?"

'I never expected her to react this way.'

Without the guidance of Ifrit and only the Dungeon system, he struggled and searched for the path forward. Leon only found a breakthrough after he stopped his charade of being a human.

"Then can you accept me, who is a pure monster? I have killed many humans, and will continue to kill and use them until my life ends."

Leonhardt's hands pulled Asuka's face closer. This time he kissed her, letting his tongue slip past her velvety soft lips. Her hesitant tongue flicked his, becoming eager, a sticky heat spreading through his mouth the moment his tongue brushed against hers.

It was divine, delicious, and maddening.

"Can you accept that future, that fate?"

He tilted her head, gazing down at her dreamy, wet eyes before his tongue pushed past her trembling lips, tasting her answer.

Asuka responded like someone trapped in a desert, desperate for moisture. Her kisses were deep and passionate. She pressed tightly against him as he took hold of her hair—the strands entwining in his fingers.

Their bodies fell back, and they lay on the embankment, feet splashing in the warm pool.

"Mmmm."

Her throat released an unconscious murmur, which seemed like a beast's purr. The sound set him on fire. When their lips parted, trails of saliva hung between them.

"There's no going—"

Before Leon could finish, her palm covered his lips, her finger scooping the strands of saliva as she sucked them into her mouth.

After swallowing them, her eyes started glowing with a dark, golden light. Her nostrils flared with a hot sigh, and she blew her sweet breath against Leon's cheeks.

"I don't want to go back, return or forget, do you understand, Leonhardt." A low, feverish growl whispered into his ear.

The moment she did, the fire in his abdomen surged, flowing to every limb in his body and turned Leonhardt's mind white.

Unable to control his wild and instinctive desires, he noticed a single line flashing in his vision and hurriedly, without thought, clicked yes.

◊ Will you perform a dual evolution with Asuka — Red Dragon?

There was no going back. Leon pressed her against the soft dirt, a warmth remaining from the blue flames of her cinder blast.

He gazed down at her with his narrowed eyes and deep breaths.

She glanced back, her lips curled into a wide smile, and her arms spread, about to wrap around his body.

"It's okay. I want it too."

"Make me into a monster just like you, show me your true nature."

Her words were a sweet poison that Leonhardt couldn't and had no desire to resist or reject, instead he drank from her poisoned chalice.

It was no longer about evolution.

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Leonhardt simply wanted her to join him, to form a bond through his own actions, rather than the dungeon system or something handed to him.

He truly felt that he earned this bond with Asuka as the individual named Leonhardt.