Riev

For most of his childhood, Riev grew up pretty isolated. His family's home was a cottage located pretty far from town and into the forest, and he had no siblings to make him company as his father went out to hunt and his mother tended to their quaint plot of land. Seeking a playmate, he quickly bonded with the family dog, the stray cats, the chickens, and any other animals he could get close to.

His time alone in nature proved fruitful when it came to awakening his aptitude for magic. From a young age, he figured through trial and error how to come closer and closer to a crude healing spell he could use on his scraped and bruises.

Wanting to see how far he could take this spell, Riev began to experiment on worse injuries, first finding sick and hurt animals he could help, then later letting his morbid curiosity drive him to injure them himself to see how the spirits would mend them back.

His parents, after witnessing one such act, decided to send him away to a magic academy, not knowing how to deal with him themselves.

After years in the island's dungeon, feeding on blood and honey to saciate both his masters and his dependency on the sweet nectar, Riev was faced with a peculiar sight.

Some kind of monster, like him. One he hasn't seen before. A fierce-eyed young man with crimson eyes and amber scales. A beastman, perhaps? He can't help but be curious, but oh, this seems like a stubborn one. Riev would have to work a little harder than usual. That would be fine. Just fine.

The young beastman, Kal, "just Kal" as he introduced himself, reluctantly accepted Riev's offer to travel together for a while. It didn't seem like he was in any need of a healer, but perhaps the lack of travel companions was getting to him, and there weren't a lot of parties willing to take a beastman in for non-malicious reasons. Although Riev cannot deny that his initial intentions, too, were pretty deplorable.

The two slowly grew closer and closer, bonding over their shared status as outcasts between the life or death situations of the dungeon...

...And Riev found himself aching for far more than he bargained for.

After the events of the manga... (Dungeon Meshi spoilers ahead!)

With the destruction of the dungeon, and the monsters fleeing to the forests surrounding Melini, Kal and Riev too would make their home in the outskirts of the kingdom. After a harrowing period of withdrawals, a new colony of vampire bees managed to take hold of a cavern, Riev went right back to doing what he knew best in return for their product, and Kal put his hunting skills to use, much to the delight of the community around them.

...There's not much else to say. "They lived happily ever after"? Something sappy like that...

...Is pretty accurate, honestly.