「Yes, master.」
「Certainly, master.」
If they don’t become friends, it will be troublesome, since I want my harem life to be as peaceful as possible. I’m saying that for both their sake and the sake of my own mental health as well.「You are so big and beautiful, as expected of someone my master chose.」
「Roxanne-san is amazingly beautiful as well.」
「Thank you very much, that’s very kind of you.」Anyway, it seems that Vesta has successfully broken through the first hurdle on her way of befriending the other members of the harem, so if she manages to get along with Roxanne just fine, then she shouldn’t have any trouble getting along with Sherry and Miria.
「Excuse me. Master is an Explorer, right?」
While I was taking a short breather, Vesta asks Roxanne that in a hushed voice that was nevertheless loud enough for me to hear. Uhm, Vesta? If you’re curious about that, then why didn’t you ask me that directly?
「Apparently so.」
「But.... but he used what seemed to be 「Field Walker」when we came back here from the Merchants Guild’s building.」
「Ah... umm, please try not to think too much about it, okay? Just think of Master’s job as Master.」
That’s an absurd way to put it, and the one that’s definitely gonna cause her to have even more questions than she might already have.
「Is that... so?」
「Yes. Also, since you’re going to be living with us from now on, then you cannot be surprised by something of this extent. And of course, you cannot reveal anything that’s related to master to other people, so please keep everything that you’re going to learn about him a secret.」
Yeah, seeing how their conversation was progressing, I can definitely leave the rest to Roxanne, I guess.
「Uhm...」
Vesta’s eyes are looking at both of us and then she stopped at me for confirmation if what Roxanne said just now was true or not, and when I nodded at her she nodded back at me.
「Would I be able to get it if I went to the village where the Dragonkin tribe people live?」
「That is certainly a possibility... but I am sorry, master. I don’t know where Dragonkin tribe members live, so I don’t know where you could go in order to get it.」
「Is that so? That’s quite a shame. Is that perhaps because...?」
「Yes, that’s because both of my parents were slaves, so I was already born a slave as well.」
When Vesta’s finishes speaking, I can see tears in welling up in Roxanne’s eyes. Is that because she finds the situation where both of Vesta’s parents were slaves so heart-wrenching? Maybe because Roxanne is a slave, too, she can emphasize with her?
「Oh, is that so?」
「That’s right. As regrettable as it is, I don’t know where a Dragonkin can get a large shield from aside from the places where their communities are gathering.」
Vesta doesn’t seem to be worried about it, too, and continues to talk as if that previous topic never came up. I wonder if it is not all that rare for both the parents of a slave to be slaves as well, which automatically causes the child to be born as a slave as well?
Which reminds me, the Slave Merchant said that he bought her when she turned fifteen years old, but turning that information back around, does that mean that she was sold precisely because she just turned fifteen?
If my parents were slaves, would that make me a slave as well? Well, now that she has become mine, that frankly no longer matters. What matters is that this is her first year as a slave.
「Well, it can’t be helped, then.」
「It might not be exactly what master is looking for, but if I can if I can acquire my racial job, Dragon Knight, I will be able to wield a two-handed sword in one hand, and a tower shield in the other hand. There are also Dragon Knights who wield a two-handed sword in each hand.」
「So Dragon Knights can even dual wield two-handed weapons, huh?」
「Yes, if I remember correctly, the ability for them to do so is called Dual Wielding.」
As expected of a job that kids with chuunibyou would totally dig. It doesn’t look like they can ride a dragon or shoot with a gun, though, which is admittedly pretty unfortunate.
「Regarding the armor, since you prefer using brute force in combat, then can I assume that you’re going to be fine with wearing a chainmail?」
「Yes, I think I will be fine with it. Also, females of the Dragonkin tribe can also equip a plate mail, because wearing it does not seem to be tiring us at all, which makes us the same as the males of the Dragonkin tribe in that regard. I also heard that not many females outside the Dragonkin tribe can wear plate mail like that, so I guess it makes us pretty unique in that regard.」