Well, I think that it actually might be my only option available here. So it looks like the moment has finally come for me to graduate from the stage of wanting to obtain everything that I want while being as stingy with my money as possible. That time is over. From now on, if I want to obtain the things that I want, I will have to cough up the dough.

That being said, even if it ends up costing me a lot more money than usual, the undisputed appeal of the auctions is that there should be, at least theoretically, a lot more slaves to choose from in comparison to the regular Slave Shops.

I guess I can try finding a good member for my party at the auction.

Indeed you can. So now that you have decided to participate after all, I will be looking forward to meeting you at the auction venue when the day of the auction finally arrives.

With the conversation about the slave auctions sufficiently wrapped up, there was nothing more for me to discuss with Alan-san, so I decided to go back home.

It would seem that there is going to be a slave auction on the upcoming holiday, so we are going to go attend it in order to search for the newest member of our Party, since it is important to keep expanding our ranks and increase our fighting potential.

After I returned back home, I talked to the girls about my plans for the near future, since I concluded that its going to be better for me to inform them about my intentions ahead of time to allow them to make up their own minds about it instead of forcing it upon them a day or two before the auction itself.

That, and once more, I absolutely need to keep hammering the idea of increasing the ranks of my slaves to them so that they wouldnt try to say no to it out of the blue.

Understood, master.

Since you decided to go to the auction, then we will definitely be able to find some good candidates for the potential members of our Party.

Miria wants to be elder sister now, desu!

Just like I thought, Sherry seems to know her fair share of information about slave auctions, but as for Mirias request. That is really not something that I can promise her, since I have no way of knowing whether the slave that I am potentially going to choose as the next member of my Party is going to be younger than her or not. Well, she might not be an elder sister, but at the very least shes going to be the new slaves senior in slavery, so that should be good enough for her, or at least I hope so.

Miria, you cannot ask master to make you an elder sister, because he cannot do anything about the age of the new Party Member.

Okay, desu!

After that, all of us lied down on the new bed that has just arrived in order to see how it would feel.

Master, promise that youre going to cherish us a lot until the new members of our Party arrive, okay?

How far has the exploration progressed?

The twelfth floor has just been reached recently.

We drop by Bodes Labyrinth around noon, and asked the Explorer at

the entrance to give us a status update.

And what kind of monsters can we expect to encounter on the twelfth floor?

Mabream.

Mabream, desu?!

I have no idea why she did that, but for some inexplicable reason, Miria went and repeated the words that the Explorer has spoken just now and she looked at me with incredibly serious eyes.

However, those very same eyes of hers that were looking so serious just a second ago have now began sparkling with excitement, and she looked as if she desperately wanted to tell us something.

I wonder what that might be? Something important, perhaps?

Mabream is a fish-type monster. The Drop Item that it leaves behind when it dies is White Fish.

Sherry explained to me the reason why Miria was feeling so excited. So once again its all about fish with her, huh?

Miria is still staring at me with those giant eyes of hers, but right now, rather than sparkling, I think it would be more appropriate to say that her eyes are burning with appetite.

W-Well, in that case can I ask you to take all of us to the twelfth floor?

Now thar Miria has gotten fired up like that, there is nothing that I will be able to do about her aside from satiating her appetite for the fish, so I sighed heavily and took the emblem of Hartz Duchy out of my backpack, showing it to the Explorer and adding him to my Party so that he could teleport all of us to our new destination.

All right then. Follow after me, please.