CH 125

「Are you ready??」

「Of course!」

「Okay! Then let’s go! To the Great Labyrinth of Formana!!」

「「「Yes, yes, yes~!」」」

A departure ritual (?) is held in the new house that Suzu bought. Despite her enthusiasm, Iris is resting in my inventory until we reach the labyrinth.

「Come to think of it, I still haven’t gone to the Adventurer’s Guild and Blacksmith’s Guild to say hello…」

「Well, can’t it wait until we get back?」

「Okay」

And so we set off for the Great Labyrinth of Formana.

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───Supa…

「─── !?」

「Hey, Suzu. Are there only slimes around here?」

「I guess so. But there are also slimes that you can’t find anywhere else, so you won’t be bored」

「… But it’s not enough…」

Perhaps it was because I had defeated the Hellslime in the Tower of Trials before, but the slimes around here were not enough. At best, the slimes around here are long slimes that evolved from slimes, or twin slimes that were born from mutations. The Long Slime is just as the name implies: the slime looks like a snake. A Twin Slime born from a mutation. I had a bit of a hard time fighting this one. After all, it uses 2 different attributes, so it’s a nuisance. For example, a Twin Slime that has both light and dark attributes. They dazzle you with light magic and darken your surroundings with dark magic. After fighting them, my eyes started to sting…

「We’re finally here!」

「That’s right. But still, there are so many people…」

「Yeah. I think I told you before that the Great Labyrinth of Formana is very popular. This is still a small number, I imagine」

That being said, I look at the crowd of people gathered in the Great Labyrinth of Formana… There must be a 1000 people here… Is this the smallest number? On the other hand, I’d like to see when there are the most people…

「! A- Ayane-tan… !?」

「What!? Uwa! This is serious!!」

「Haa… Ayane-tan is so cute… I want to pet her…」

「… Yuri is the best… I want to watch them forever… Everything that happened in high school will be forgotten…」

「… There’s something weird going on around me…」

「Suzuka-taaaan!! Look over hereeeee!!!!」

「Uwa… There’s a weird guy on the other side… Why am I being squeezed?」

「「…」」

I take back what I said before…you never know when there will be more of them… Everyone who had been waiting quietly in line suddenly started shouting, a maddening sight. I wonder when we became so famous…

「Ayane-sama. I’ve been waiting for you. Please come this way. Of course, please come as well, Suzuka-sama」

「「…………… Eh?」」

Seeing everyone’s excitement, we were slightly taken back, but then one person appeared in front of us… A maid? Why is there a maid here? And why is she addressing us as “sama”… ??

「We’ll talk about it later…」

「Ah, yes」

We followed the maid who started walking ahead of us, about 5 meters away.

「… Hey, Aya. When did you hire a maid…? (whisper)」

「… I have no idea either…! (whisper)」

「I’m not hired」

「「!?」」

You could hear us from that distance… !? Isn’t that too much for a maid!?

「No. 1 is waiting for you just ahead」

「Eh… This place…」

「Yes. It is the Great Labyrinth of Formana」

「「Ehhhhhhhhh!?!!?!?!??!?」」

No no no no!!! There must have been about a 1000 people lined up!! Hmm? Come to think of it, it seemed like everyone was avoiding us like the sea that Moses had opened… I wonder why they let us through… ? Is this person that great?

『Would you like to enter the Great Labyrinth of Formana? Yes/No』

「「Yes」」

「Then, have a good day. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that the top… No. 0 is you. Ayane-sama」

「Ha!? Eh, wait a min─── !!!」

『───Transferring───』