「How is it, Miria? Did you manage to catch anything good while I was gone?」
「Yes, desu.」
Miria responds joyfully. It looks like she got herself a great catch. Is that why she attracted so much attention to herself? That being said, her clothes don’t seem to be wet at all, so it doesn’t look like she entered the sea.
「Miria, we are about to go enter the Labyrinth with our newest companion. Are you going with us or not?」
「Yes, desu. I’ll go, desu. But...」
「She is saying that she managed to catch more fish than she needs for us, and so she would like to share some of the fish that she caught with the other fishermen from the village since they’ve offered her a lot of assistance when she was just beginning.」
Miria says something that I didn’t understand, so Roxanne hurried up with an explanation of what she said. She wants to share the fish that she caught with the others? That is very thoughtful and kind-hearted of her. Miria seems to have grown up as a person, if only for a little bit.
「It is Miria’s catch, so she can do whatever she wants with it. Personally, I don’t mind if she shares it with the others.」
「Okay, desu.」
「I am planning on making tempura, the dish we made the other day. I thought you should know, so you can share the fish that won’t be of our use.」
「Will do, desu.」
Miria lifts her rod out of the water, and heads toward the basket. She is planning on eating them, after all. Moderate number of fish were inside the basket. There are several kinds of fishes inside, ranging from big to small, which proves that the concept of 「catch and release」is apparently a foreign one to her.「It looks like Miria can see and understand the movement of the fish. They are saying that she is an amazing fisherman, and that watching her go at it was quite a sight to behold.」
「Understand the feeling of the fish is the key to catching it, desu.」
Miria says while she is distributing the fish among the other fishermen. At the same time, she is receiving a lot of appreciation from the people surrounding her, to the point where I think that she is being treated like some kind of fishing grandmaster. Well, her attachment to the fish is extreme, after all, so it’s not all that surprising that it brings good results like that.
When they had all received the fish from her, the people surrounding her left. So with that out of the way, it’s time to introduce her to Vesta.
「Miria, this is Vesta. From now on, she is going to be our new companion.」
「Please take care of me.」
Vesta bows her head to Miria with respect.
「Miria, desu.」
Miria says while pointing at herself, but I introduce her back just in case.
「Yes, we can. With the five of us going, we shouldn’t have any trouble clearing the eighteenth floor right now. As expected of master, you really thought this through.」
「That’s right. I also think that we should be okay now. After all, a Party of five is definitely going to be stronger than a Party of just four.」
All of the girls are saying that they’re okay with us going to the Labyrinth now, but I wonder if they are really okay with it, or are they just saying that in order to comply with my own wish of going to the Labyrinth while placing their own feelings on the backburner?
Well, whatever. Now that the number of people in the Party has increased to five, we should really be okay on the eighteenth floor and manage to clear it without any major difficulties.
With that, we moved on to the eighteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth. Just to be on the safe side I chose Alchemist as one of my Jobs so that I could use 「Plating」if there was ever the need for that.
「Roxanne, go on ahead and find a place with as few of the enemies as possible, alright?」
「As you wish, master.」
With smaller numbers of monsters, I can take them out with Durandal and allow Vesta to just observe my greatness and enjoy the show that I’m putting up.
「Oh, so we can actually go inside of the Labyrinth directly without having to go to the entrance first? That’s pretty convenient.」
「Well, yeah.」
Unfortunately, instead of looking at how cool I was, Vesta was more amazed by the properties of my 「Warp」.
「It’s all thanks to master. He’s the only one who can do that.」
That’s right, Roxanne. Educate her properly on how amazing I am.
「There seems to be just one monster that way.」
Roxanne pointed out, and we followed her with Roxanne at the front, Miria behind her, then Vesta, then Sherry and me at the back. Since Roxanne has such a good nose, it’s unlikely that we’re going to be victims of a surprise attack.
Even so, in the narrow corridors of the Labyrinth, Vesta’s height is standing out even more than in the outside world.
Fortunately, the ceiling is not so low for her to bump her head on it, but she’s definitely filling up most of the corridor.
I wonder if monsters are going to feel intimidated by her height, even the flying ones like the Hat Bat? In any case, having Vesta in front of ma makes me feel secure.... No, no, no, this is Vesta’s first outing into the Labyrinth with us, so I cannot have her act like a shield right from the get-go, even if it feel that with a proper shield she’d become a wall that no monster would be able to break.
Just one more person to go, and a full Party is finally going to be complete.
〈To be continued in『A Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon Volume 9』〉