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Volume 12 Chapter 1 Part 3

I was about to start enjoying them all to the fullest… but maybe I should stop before things get too heated?

Thinking like that, all I did to reciprocate the girl’s kisses was to poke their tongues lightly with my own tongue.

When it comes to today, I should exercise moderation, and save the fun for tonight? Yes, that might be the better thing to do, so I am going to look forward to tonight’s fun.

「For the time being, put this on, Rutina. I am sorry for giving you a leftover, but that is all that we have in terms of spares for the moment.」

「Yes, thank you very much.」

I handed the spare equipment that we had to Rutina as we were making our usual morning preparations.

From the armor pieces, I have her one of our spare Leather Helmets and Leather Gloves.

Sacrificial Misanga was the only piece of equipment where I insisted on putting it on her leg myself. This piece of equipment is not a spare of course.

While I am tying the Misanga’s strings on Rutina’s leg, I can feel the softness of her silky-smooth skin on my fingertips, which is causing me to want to rub my cheeks against it.

So soft. And so smooth.

I can’t stand this wonderful sensation!

But I can’t indulge myself in it just yet. I need to save it all for tonight.

「As for your weapon, you’re going to be using this for the time being.」

I said as I handed the Holy Spear over to Rutina.

Aside from Durandal, this is the best weapon that have had the chance of using up until now, but I think I’m not going to be using it until I manage to acquire more various new Skills for myself, so she can hold onto it for now.

If I am going to need one for myself, I can always try getting another one. There is little sense in counting my chickens before they’ve hatched, after all.Or maybe I should have said count the tanuki’s pelts before they are caught?

Anyway, it looks like I’m going to have a lot of things to enjoy tonight.

「Thank you very much. Uhm… so, is it going to be fine if I poke the monsters with this spear?」

「Ah. That reminds me. Rutina, have you ever entered the Labyrinth before?」

「I am sorry to say this, but I have never done that before.」

「Huh? Oh, is that so? Alright then.」

Rutina is a Villager Lv.1, but she also has Explorer Lv.1 Job available on her list of Jobs, so she must have entered the labyrinth before but she doesn’t remember it, or she was brought there without her knowing about it.

Or maybe she passed by it for a bit when she and her family were travelling around their territories? Is it even possible to do something like that? To go into the Labyrinth by accident, I mean?

No, that is most likely not the case here, since it is impossible to enter the Labyrinth directly by using the simple 「Field Walker」.

「My father was always saying that the Labyrinth are dangerous places, and that is why I should not enter them under any circumstances.」

Well, I an definitely agree with him on the danger part.

The Villager, which is set as Rutina’s First Job is Lv.1, so it would seem that she really haven’t done anything in the Labyrinths by herself.

In this world, it is a pretty common custom among the nobility to have their children form Parties with the guards, who would then enter the Labyrinth so that the child could start accumulating EXP points without doing anything from a very early age, but in Rutina’s case, it looks like they didn’t even do that?

Maybe there was another coup d’etat in the Earl’s territory in the past?

「Is that so?」

「Well, since you’ll be entering them with us from now on, I’d like to encourage you to try to gradually change your mind about them.」

Well, if there was ever a coup d’état in the Earl’s territory before, it would be more than likely that Rutina wouldn’t even be around today and we would’ve never met each other, so the most probably scenario here is most likely that she was simply never taken to the Labyrinth before, but that doesn’t really matter all that much now, since she’ll increase her levels pretty fast once she starts going in there with us.

「You don’t have to be worried about it too much. At the beginning, there’ll be no need for you to push yourself too hard, so it’s going to be enough if you just watch us fighting the monsters in there and occasionally give us a hand if you’ll feel like it. That’s why I gave you that spear, after all.」

「Yes, I understand. I am sorry for not being of more help to you, Lord Michio.」

「Oh come on now, don’t sweat it. Just relax and it’ll be fine.」

You really don’t have to worry about it. Your levels will increase in no time, so you’ll be able ti fight together with us sooner than you think.

「It should be okay, master. If she’s willing to fight together with us, then there should be no problems with letting her do that.」

And there goes Roxanne, proposing something truly outrageous again.

「For the time being, let’s just have her have a tour of the 44th floor with us.」

「Yes. That should be perfectly fine as well.」

In the past, whenever we had newcomers join the Party, we would have their first trip to the Labyrinths with us start from us going upwards all the way from the first floor, but I don’t think that it’s going to be necessary for us to go that far back this time.
Is it not too careless of us? Perhaps, but with our current strength, I really think we should be fine. If there will ever come a time when she needs it, I can always switch one of my Jobs to Alchemist and cover Rutina with its 「Plating」Skill, but I really don’t think we’re going to be encountering any life-threatening pinches like that.

And if it’s meant to be a tour to show Rutina how we fight and what we’re capable of, then it’s better to have her experience the 44th floor as soon as possible I guess.

Roxanne also agreed to such an approach, so with her blessing, I warped us to the 44th floor.

We shall now see if that endorsement of hers was unreasonable or not.

On the 44th floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth, I was quickly exterminating the White Caterpillars with Thunder Magic and Water Magic.

Well, I guess normally it wouldn’t be so easy. On the contrary, it would be rather hard, but it’s just that it’s easy for me personally, since thanks to my multiple Jobs I can chain Water Magic attacks and Thunder Magic attacks together.

Those in the vanguard are the ones who really have it rough though.

「Amazing. To think that you would be able to fight like this…」

When the current battle ended, Rutina was clearly impressed by what she saw.

「Yes, you can say that again.」

「I thought that you were supposed to be using Water Magic, but then you used that other, shining one as well…」

「Ah, that.」

Haven’t Rutina been taught that she can still shoot multiple Spells? Or better yet, did she not saw how I was using both Water Magic and Fire Magic in order to fill the bathtub and then heat the water inside of it yesterday?

Maybe she did not see it after all?

「No, wait. The monster stopped moving all of a sudden, and I heard what makes such a thing possible. That was not Water Magic, but Thunder Magic, right? Yes, tat must have been it, since it is not possible for Water Magic to have such an effect on its targets.」

Did she almost get it right all on her own?

Excellent deduction.
「Because it’s master, something like that is only to be expected of him!」

「W-Well, it’s something that I can simply do, so there’s no need for you to be thinking about it too hard.」

And now explaining it to Rutina became that much more difficult, because Roxanne simply had to butt in with one of her strange comments.

Not that I care about it all that much anyway.

After that, we went straight towards the Boss Room while cleaning up every group of monsters we encountered along the way.

Rutina also participated in the battles with her Holy Spear.