My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

“Daughter!” King Diorite wore a big smile as he looked at her, holding his arms out, but she grabbed my sleeve and moved behind me nervously, acting a bit like the previous Sapphire, and causing him to stop. “What is this?”

“I… don’t know you,” Sapphire said.

“Geh!” He made a face. “What are you saying? I’m your father! I’m the king of the deep dwarves. What did you do to her?”

This time, his eyes shot to me. However, I didn’t feel anything but anger towards him.

“You’re a fool.”

“What did you say?” His expression turned angry.

“You let her die!”

He sneered. “And it brought back my true daughter? I see this as a win!”

I shook my head in disgust. “You don’t get it.”

“Get what?”

“Your daughter died a long time ago,” I responded.

His eyes narrowed. “What are you saying? She’s right in front of me.”

“H-he’s right,” Sapphire spoke up. “My soul was shattered. I was a soul shard born in a dungeon. I managed to collect and merge with the memories from other souls, and whatever pieces of my soul I could find. I’m probably the most complete version of myself, which is probably what you felt, but I don’t have any memory of you… or the deep…”

He took a step back, his expression filled with shock. “No… that… that can’t be right. My… my daughter has returned to me!”

“You’re right…” I responded, shaking slightly. “Your daughter did come back.”

“Do you know what made your daughter your daughter?” I asked. “Her lore… her memories. Her love for you, and her family. Nothing else but that mattered.”

“What are you saying?”

“There was a piece of her soul made it back down here.” I declared. “A piece that desperately loved her family, that loved you. She loved you all so much she returned to the Deep, braving certain destruction so that she could be by you.”

He shook his head as realization started to dawn on him. “No…”

I nodded, an ugly expression on my face. “The little girl contained what was left of her memories of you, and in the end, she gave herself up, for you.”

“Th-that’s… that’s impossible…” He took several steps back.

“In the end, Sapphire did what you couldn’t. She protected her family.”

I waved a hand, and then a woman appeared. If he had been startled before, he nearly fell over. The woman who had appeared looked to be about seventeen. She had fiery red hair, and in reality, she looked almost identical to Garnet.

“L-Lapis?”

“Diorite? My love?” The woman looked a bit confused.

“I-I know her…” Sapphire frowned, peeking out from behind me.

The woman named Lapis turned to Sapphire and then gasped. “Daughter?”

“M-mom?”

Lapis took a step forward and threw her arms around her daughter, tears falling down her eyes. As for King Diorite, he could only watch with his mouth flapping open. After a few moments, he finally got some words out.

“H-how?”

“She managed to connect their souls to their bodies… the deep dwarves that held out from Twilight’s unity,” I responded. “It comes out to about three hundred. They’re in my soul world right now. I just guessed the woman’s origins.”

“Twilight had tried to take my family to force me to complete the unity. Lapis sacrificed herself to save our daughter. That was when I decided we needed to flee. She attacked the city a short time later.”

As he said this, the ground started to rumble.

“Master! Something’s coming!” Terra warned.

I had hoped that the resurrection would have kept her away longer than that, but I was just being too hopeful. Twilight was starting her counterattack.