Reject Humanity, Return to Monke

I had to metaphorically take the eyeballs out of my eye sockets and drench them in bleach, before wiping it clean with an antibacterial cloth, just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the obvious catfight between these two females.

And oh boy, what a catfight it is.

"You take zat back, old hag!" The insane loli shrieked with a vengeance as she butted heads with the seductive woman.

"Oho? And why would I do that, shrimpy?" Oshurkova sneered as she retaliated with a shove of her arms, causing the insane loli to get pushed back a few meters. "Isn't that what you are, shrimpy? Do I need to call Mama Doctor to get her good, little girl back in her crib?"

"Don't you dare bringkt mama into zis!" Odette all but shrieked once more, but this time, I saw a couple of tears threatening to spill from her eyes.

"And why should I?" The seductive woman looked down upon the tiny figure of the insane loli, her eyes gaining a dangerous glint. "Wasn't it you who made sure that Mama Doctor isn't a doctor no more?"

"SHUT UP!" Odette rushed towards Oshurkova, who was ready for the impending charge and grabbed the insane loli by the head, crushing it in her grip. "OW OW OW OW!!"

"You know, Odette…" Oshurkova's sneer and demeaning behavior vanished as soon as she got a good grip on the insane loli. "As much as I love interacting with you, your brand of crazy is just too draining for me. Come agitate me when we're back in the mortal realm."

Oshurkova then snorted as she knocked the insane loli out, and as soon as she did so, Odette turned into motes of light, before vanishing into thin air.

"Haah… I'm sorry you had to see that, Jionni." Oshurkova deeply sighed as she held a palm to her face. "My sister may be an insane doctor, but she means well, even if it reduces the guinea pigs into vegetables."

Oshurkova muttered that last sentence out, but my enhanced hearing was able to pick it up. I shivered at the thought of being braindead for the test of my life. I hadn't even lasted a month in my new life, and I suddenly became a vegetable because I got the attention of an insane loli doctor.

'Yeah, no… That's some next level unfairness if I ever thought of one…' I cringed as my eyes gazed towards the seductive vampire, whose sultry expression had seemingly disappeared.

"Wait, she's your sister?" I had a shocked expression the moment I processed the words she had said, specifically, the part about that insane loli being the sister of this seductive vampire.

"Yes, sisters by blood, in fact." Oshurkova stated a bit depressed. "Come on, follow me. A deal's a deal, I get your blood, I give you something in return, but not here. It's not safe."

I quickly clamped my mouth shut as I tensely followed Oshurkova through the dim forest. The only sound accompanying our travels was the burning of wood a few hundred meters behind us.

Yes, the forest fire has grown to that size while I was watching the two blood-related sisters have a catfight.

"You see," Oshurkova started to speak amidst the silence, garnering my attention as I shifted my gaze towards her back, "Currently, we aren't sisters by blood. Before, however, we were. Born to the same mother who had the profession of a doctor in charge of her own clinic."

She began to retell the tale with a gloomy atmosphere around her, and I couldn't help but be drawn to her voice.

"Little Odette was a genius in the medical field, being able to find cures to seemingly impossible diseases when she was just a teenager." Oshurkova stated proudly, her shoulders raised high, but then as fast as her pride in her sister arrived, it went away as fast as well. "But sometimes, being a genius could lead to some unsavory characters to enter and meddle with your lives."

Oshurkova hissed as she slammed her hand down on an obstructing branch in front of her. The branch landed on the ground with a loud crack as it splintered into a bunch of different parts. I stayed silent, however, intent on listening to the tale of these two sisters as I followed her along the dim path.

"Those damned royalty…" Oshurkova all but spat out, her hands balling into fists as her nails dug into her skin, but not enough to penetrate it. "They thought that if they controlled the country, they controlled the masses. Well, they were right…"

"They took my sister away from us and forced her into training with a bunch of medical courses. She excelled, of course, and was able to graduate the course with flying colors." By this time, Oshurkova had lost all emotion in her face, but still held onto her voice. "And then she was forced to find the cure to every seemingly impossible disease to cure that plagued the world."

"Now, you may be thinking that it was probably a good thing, right?" I had to stop my head from nodding at her question. She's not wrong, if that's what she was thinking. The fact that finding a cure to every disease was probably a great thing to celebrate, but I knew there was a catch. "It was a good thing, until they started to exploit her with the word 'For the greater good.' Greater good my fucking ass."

Oshurkova sighed once more and stopped, her head twisting around as her eyes gazed upon me, judging me with every move I made.

'What have I gotten myself into now… I thought this was just a quick 'I give you this, you give me that' kind of thing…?' I had to stop myself from wincing under the judgmental gaze of the vampire.

"You know, anyone ever told you you're a great listener…?" Oshurkova said, a hint of a smile creeping up her face before she turned around once more, opting to walk the rest of the way in silence.

Without much hesitation, I followed her, and this time, she didn't speak a thing about her and her sister's past.

'Okay… What the hell was that all about…?' My face was permanently locked into a stoic gaze, but internally, my mind was going haywire with the sudden tension in the air.

We continued like that in the dimly lit forest for an hour before we arrived at a clearing. At the center of a clearing, I could see a camp with a few figures inside, with one familiar-looking figure waving at me with a huge grin on his face.

"Oi! We've been waitin' fawr ya!" Arekhus greeted us as his jovial smile illuminated the dark, metaphorically speaking, that is. His bulging muscles glistened with sweat as he stood up from his chair a few meters away from the fire.

We walked towards the camp with a bunch of tents set up and a few other Dungeon Masters greeting the seductive vampire and the new member, me.

"Good ta see ya agayyn. Say, where's that lamiah who approached ya durin' the bloody feast 'n afder the bloody first event. 'Aven't seen hah much lately." Arekhus asked innocently, a confused expression on his face.

"Dead." If my scowl was any indication, I was still salty about the whole being betrayed thing.

"Shame, she was a lookah." Arekhus sighed into his palm before regarding me with a smile once more. "Don't wawrry yah sawrry little ass heah fawr any kind of betrayal. We heah tend ta our members with cahre, so don't think that we won't be takin' cahah of ya too durin' the bloody Dungeon Games mate."

And with that, I was unofficially invited to join this group of Dungeon Masters.