A White Haired Bunny Boy

Bell Cranel was not having a good day. He was an adventurer who had come to Orario with dreams of heroism, and earning the love of a harem of women, spurred on by the words of his Grandfather. But had found very little. Every door he tried had turned him away, no God wanting someone with so little to recommend himself within their Familia, especially not after they heard of his dream.

And then he had met her, Hestia-Sama. She had been a Goddess just as lonely as he had been. On that day, they had met, and he had become the very first member of her Familia. She liked to say that they saved each other on that day, though he always thought that she had done far more for him than he had for her.

And now he was going to die and leave her all alone again.

The Minotaur was relentless, attacking wildly, desperately trying to end his life, and it was everything he could do to evade it, even as he ran for his life. He was so stupid. Fascinated by the idea of finally meeting a cute girl like his Grandfather had promised, he had descended to the 5th Floor of the Dungeon, thinking that his mere few weeks of experience in the Dungeon would be enough to let him survive here.

He had been so, so wrong. Maybe not about being prepared for the 5th Floor and its monsters, but he had underestimated the Dungeon, and now it was going to slaughter him like the little lost lamb he was. Minotaurs were 2nd Level Monsters, and some of the most powerful ones at that. Traditionally they only began to appear on the 15th floor, not all the way up here on the 5th. How could he ever have know that one would be 10 floors above where it should be?

But this was all his fault in the end. His own arrogance and selfish wish for a girlfriend like in the stories his grandfather had used to tell him, had led him like a lemming, straight to his ****.

And now he was in a dead end. Turning around, the Minotaur was right on top of him, ready to destroy him with a single mighty punch, and there was nothing he could do anymore.

'I'm sorry Hestia-Sama, for leaving you all alone again'

A flash of silver crossed his vision, and suddenly he was being drenched in a deluge of wet, sticky red fluid. Blood. There was a tinkling sound as two tiny metal objects hit the ground besides him, perhaps a drop item from the Minotaur? But that would mean the Minotaur was dead right?

Wiping the blood out of his eyes, he stared up to find an Adventurer there, swinging her sword in an arc to her side to flick off the blood from the Monster she had just bisected in one clean swing. It took a moment for him to recognise her.

Aiz Wallenstein, the Sword Princess of Loki Familia.

She was a Level 5 adventurer, making her one of the strongest people in all of Orario. And she had come to rescue him from the Minotaur, because he was too weak to save himself. Staring at her right now, she seemed like the most beautiful woman in the world.

And he was a failure, unworthy to be in her presence for how weak he was.

"I-I-I-I." He tried to say something, but found himself unable to. His hands clenched at his side, and he felt something slip into them, but paid it no mind. "Aieee!!!!!" He cried, rolling away as a bloodsoaked mess, fleeing the Dungeon and Aiz Wallenstein, the woman who had saved him and captured his heart in the same moment.

He was halfway to the Guild, still covered in a thick and stinking layer of Minotaur blood, when he finally recalled the thing in his hand, and opened it to reveal a pair of shining metal earrings. These were the drop item from that Minotaur? Then that meant they belonged to Aiz, not him. She was the one who slew it.

But he was just a lowly level 1. How would he ever be able to give them to her?