「Wah! Is... is it really okay for me to do that?!」
「It’s fine, because it’s master that we’re talking about.」
Is Roxanne really trying to persuade her like this? Because I don’t even have the energy to follow her up anymore.
「Since we enter the Labyrinth pretty much every day, we need to take care of our health and always have all the energy that we can, so you’re expected to do the same. Taking the proper care of your own health is important for a healthy and long life, after all.」
To escape from this matter before it grows needlessly complicated, I go inside the Adventurers Guild, cast Warp, and return home.
「All right then. Since we’re already back home, then why don’t we go to the Labyrinth for a little while?」
「Go to the Labyrinth? Right now?」
Roxanne asks me when we arrived at home.
「Yes. I know that it might be a bit soon, but I think that Vesta should experience it as soon as possible.」
Since we ended up concluding our shopping for clothes and cooking ingredients faster than I have expected, we still have some time left before I have to go pick Sherry and Miria up, so we might as well use that time productively.
「All right.」
「Uhm, actually, I think...」
「Don’t worry, Vesta. Even if we were to go to the eighteenth floor, then we can deal with the monsters there without any issues, and since master is going to go with us, then it’s going to be a really smooth sailing.」
Whoa there, Roxanne, hold your goddamn horses! The eighteenth floors of the Labyrinths are the highest one that we are able to explore right now, but going there with just the three of us, and with low-levelled Vesta at that might be too much for us to swallow right now!
Well, I mean, Roxanne would probably be fine even on her own, but since she’s the only one who can do that, she would just create more unnecessary problems for the two of us if she really wanted to go through with that plan of action.
After all, as a responsible Party Leader, I have to make sure to pick the floor that’s going to be comfortable for Vesta to be in and that would have monsters that would serve as a good demonstration of mine and Roxanne’s abilities...
「It’s alright, master. I want to go to the Labyrinth with you and Roxanne, no matter which floor we’re going to choose as our destination.」
I wanted to protest some more, but if Vesta herself says that she wants to go and that she should be all right, then I guess it should be fine?
I don’t know why, but Sherry’s attitude became a lot softer and gentler all of a sudden.
It would be a good thing, though, if both of them were to have a good relationship, just like Vesta has with Roxanne.
「Vesta. This faint smell of liquor is coming from Sherry.」
「Okay, master.」
「Sooo... what’s up with you coming here with her, master?」
「Roxanne suggested that we should take Vesta to the eighteenth floor of the Labyrinth, and I decided to agree to that suggestion. That being said, are you going to go there with us, Sherry. You know, since that is the eighteenth floor and is therefore very dangerous?」
I decided to paint Roxanne as the one responsible for the current Labyrinth outing, but Sherry looks like she’s dead-drunk this time, so even if she goes there with us, is she going to be of any use?
「I understand. I just finished reading a book anyway and I was thinking about what I should do next since I was running out of time, but now that you came here I guess I can go with you.」
「I see.」
So Sherry is also going to go with us. That’s great to hear. However, even if she might be somewhat resistant to the harmful effects of alcohol, I should still remind her that while she’s in a drunken state, she’s prohibited from acting overconfidently.
「Here is the deposit money, master.」
Sherry passes the gold coin to me while looking at me with strange eyes. Is she really that drunk?
「I ask of you to take care of Vesta, okay?」
「Okay, master. If you ask so nicely, then I’m going to comply.」
「Well then, let’s go to Hafen and pick up Miria?」
「Yes, let’s go.」
I didn’t warp us right inside of the Hafen village, but rather to the forest which is close to theSeashore where I left Miria at.
As expected, she was still fishing on the reef, and there seem to be other people nearby her, too. She seems to have attracted a lot of attention to herself.