Chapter 148: An Unexpected Ally

"...Who is that?..." Nioh finally woke up, but to her surprise, she saw Nio sitting near a campfire roasting meat together with a strange girl.

"Oh...finally, you’re awake, Nioh. You took way too long...this one? She’s Prana-chan."

"Prana...chan?" Nioh becomes confused and a little jealous of the casual way Nio refers to the girl who is sitting on a rock eating the meat Nio is roasting and eating fruit as well.

"Hello!!! I’m Prana! Nio is really funny, she calls me Prana-chan! I don’t know what Chan means, but I like it." She gives Nioh a cheerful wave while biting into a purple fruit. Prana is a girl with extremely long dark gray hair that falls a little below her knees, nearly reaching the ground.

She has a small build and a cute appearance, while her eyes are completely covered by black bandages wrapped around them. She is a follower of the Goddess of the Void.

And although she is wearing clothes, it is only the top half, a cute white hoodie that leaves her entire lower body exposed. She never wears panties or underwear, so the choice is deliberate.

"Who are you?" Nioh stands up, questioning her suspiciously.

"I’m a follower of the Goddess of the Void! I’m a Lesser Goddess, and my name is Prana, as I already mentioned!"

"...Ohh...that makes sense. So that’s why you’re not wearing anything underneath...figures, she’d have to be a follower of that horny, lazy bitch." Nioh does not like the [Goddess of the Void] for various reasons.

"Hm? Nioh, you seem angry. Prana-chan here is really nice, guess what? Ever since we arrived on this floor, she had been following us. She’s level 150, so she’s stronger than both of us, and obviously, she could have done something to us if she wanted to, but apparently the goddess she serves likes Nightmare Dragons, so she revealed herself to help us. She even offered us food!! Real food that she took out of her inventory."

"We talked quite a bit, and she gave me the wonderful news that players also exist in Hell! So we might even find some players!" Nio says with a smile, having liked Prana’s personality.

"Of course you liked her. These damn followers all have personalities that look like they’re copy-pasted from one another! She’s a follower of the Goddess of the Void, it was obvious she’d try to copy her! These damn followers only know how to imitate the goddess they serve in everything."

"Nioh, why do you seem to hate this goddess so much?" Nio asks, giving Nioh a stern look, as she might be creating an enemy stronger than both of them at the moment.

"Nio, you only know the Goddess of the Void from what existed in your game, which was almost nothing, but I know her for real, and I have to say, she is, at the very least, a despicable woman!"

"To start with, she’s extremely horny, and once she died so she could come to Hell to be raped by beings from Floor 2 all the way to Floor 100 of Hell. That alone makes it clear that this woman is an insane slut who tried to use Hell as a toy."

"Second, she’s extremely lazy, and honestly, it’s rare to ever see her standing. Normally, someone is always carrying her, and she’s peaceful and friendly not because she’s good, but because she’s too lazy to be evil."

"Her servants just copy that without copying the laziness, and that’s because you can’t be that lazy without having immense power and servants to do everything for you!!"

"Third, that horny woman has not only fought Typhon over an extremely stupid reason, she also has an annoying fetish for me and every other Nightmare Dragon."

"All because of our ability to enter the dream realm and turn dreams into reality. Of course, that’s extremely difficult. Even when I had all my power, making the dream of a being like her a reality would be complete insanity!"

"And finally, that miserable woman always walks around without panties or anything covering her from the waist down, and that’s a pain in the ass, because mortals who worship certain deities take on aspects of them. So that miserable woman made half the universe I used to live in walk around without wearing anything on the lower half of their bodies."

"Because she was super famous and adored, seen as a benevolent goddess, when in reality she’s just a super horny masochist with absolutely no desire to move her huge ass out of bed...and the damn woman is beautiful too, so that just completes the package by making her painfully attractive." Nioh says in an extremely frustrated tone.

’This...seems more divine than it should...’ Nio thinks as she strangely manages to find real consistency in it, a god normally does not act by suddenly appearing out of nowhere and dominating planets or helping entire races.

The Goddess of the Void is too lazy to act, a god has an incomprehensible mind, the Goddess of the Void went to Hell to feel pleasure from torture, which already makes her incomprehensible enough, and a goddess influences races that believe in gods, and her existence caused cults and people to walk around without underwear because they worship her, literally a goddess in Nio’s eyes, just through a strange path.

’I guess Nioh may have exaggerated a little, but it is also a fact that this kind of thing doesn’t really take away from how divine a goddess is, right?’

"..." Nio looks at Prana, who does not react to any of this.

"Prana-chan, aren’t you angry?"

"No!! She’s right! Although she was pretty disrespectful! Our goddess really likes Nightmare Dragons, so I think you girls could be a little less harsh on her!! Anyway, you want help getting off this floor, right? I was trying to get out too! So we can all go together!" Prana says with a huge smile on her face.

"..." Nioh stands up and stops in front of Prana. She waits for a second and then slaps Prana extremely hard across the face, leaving Nio shocked.

"Hey! What the hell are you...doing..." Nio looks at Prana, who is left panting and blushing.

"I knew it. Obviously, she’s a follower of that horny woman...tsk...disgusting." Nioh gives Prana a look of pure contempt as she becomes aroused from being assaulted, just like the goddess she serves.

"Nio, you really are a magnet for bad things...let’s just go already...I want to get off this damn floor...how long was I asleep?" Nioh starts ignoring Prana as her wings close slightly and her tail impatiently slaps against the ground.

"Five whole days...besides that, I sensed something bad about four days ago. I think Typhon arrived on this floor. She’ll probably find us either on this floor or the next one. I’d rather it be the next one, because we still haven’t stopped to plan anything we can use against Typhon in the fight, and now that you’ve come out of me, we can’t communicate telepathically anymore." Nio murmurs while looking at Prana, who smiles sheepishly at having shown such an intimate side of herself.

"...Prana-chan, why did you come to Hell?" Nio asks curiously. She really found it strange since Prana was far too kind and good-natured.

"Oh!! In my family, there was a competition to see who would become a Lesser God!! The competition required many things...well, I committed murder, killed all my family members, massacred a region, messed with forbidden magic, and a whole bunch of other bad things!!"

"I totally deserve Hell! But I managed to become a Lesser Goddess!!...Unfortunately, I died the very next day...yeah...I was pretty unlucky..." Prana admits to her crimes without any intention of hiding them.

"...Haaa...Prana-chan, you are...well...never mind. Let’s go. We have to head to the next floor. We already know the location, so are you coming with us, or are you going to stay a little behind and follow us from a distance?" Nio asks while Nioh rolls her eyes in disapproval.

"I’ll go with you!! We can help each other. This floor is actually pretty easy for me to stay in good shape on, but the next floor will be difficult! So I can help you, and you can help me!"

"Great, an ally has joined the team. What do you think, Nioh? Even though, in reality, this ally had been secretly following us the whole time."

"As long as this masochist doesn’t touch me, fine. I don’t want to be touched by anyone who serves that horny woman, much less be touched by a masochist who blushes when she gets slapped in the face."

"Perfect, then we’re all leaving right now. Sorry, Nioh, but you’ve already slept too much, and we don’t have time to wait for you to fully wake up. I hope you understand." Nio puts out the fire and covers the tracks with dirt, not that it would make much difference when her scent is all over the place.

"I know. Let’s just go..."

"Great, everyone!! An adventure! I bet we’re going to get along really well!" Prana says with a smile as she approaches Nio, who is friendlier toward her.