Silver Mansion, Lia's room.
"Can you not leave for now?..."
Rio caressed Lia's cute face at her sadness-filled question.
Despite being together for the entire way here, Lia still hadn't had enough; she wanted to spend a while longer with Rio and was reluctant to let him go.
The main reason why all awakeners are taught not to make much contact with any self-conscious entity inside the dungeons as long as it's not necessary is exactly to prevent this kind of situation from happening.
Dungeons are not just about monsters and violence; some of them hold entire ecosystems inside them.
Not all monsters inside them are completely evil, not all opponents want to fight, and not every boss monster is out for your life.
In quite a few cases, high-rank dungeons often have massive ecosystems inside them, and there are many intelligent individuals living inside in peace and harmony.
