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Volume 12 Chapter 2 Part 2

Let’s take it one step at a time.

If I hit the nail on the head like that, then it should stop Roxanne from asking for it all the time. I must make sure that I won’t make her forget that our main training ground is still to be 44th floor.

「If it turns out that we can fight on the 45th floor, then I think we could go straight to the 45th floor without staying on the 44th floor.」

Even so, Sherry also began to rush us on.

Why you….!

Certainly, if it turns out that we can fight on the 45th floor, then we could move on to the 45th floor, but come on, it doesn’t mean that we should go to the 45th floor.

「Well, personally speaking, I don’t think that the 45th floor is going to be hard enough to cause us any sort of real difficulty. As for whether we’ll be able to fight there effectively or not, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. That’s why I think that we should go there. Still, it might be a good idea to gradually get used to it.」

「Un. That makes sense.」

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

If we continue going to the higher floors with our only criterium being whether we can fight on that floor or not, then no matter how far we are going to go and how tough the enemies will get, I will never be able to stop Roxanne from forcing us to go higher and higher, which is going to cause us to take damage and die pathetically somewhere down the line.

And the one to blame for that would be none other than Roxanne.

「Understood. We’re going to carefully select our opponents to make sure that we’re going to have the best fight possible today.」

「Y-Yeah, you do that.」

I feel like y understanding of the phrase 「carefully select our opponents」is different than Roxanne’s understanding of it, but at this point, there is nothing that I can really do about it.

Because I won’t be able to do anything without Roxanne’s cooperation.

In any case, looks like it’s going to be necessary for us to fight on the 45th floor in the near future.

I knew that this day would come and we’d have to go there someday. And now that it has come to this, maybe we should do it sooner rather than later to avoid Roxanne’s frustration from exploding when we least expect it.

After we were done talking about this we finished eating breakfast, and then we went back to the Labyrinth and continued fighting against the monsters there.

Whether Roxanne was choosing our enemies carefully or not, it didn’t take long before we cleared the Boss battle against the Floor Boss of the 44th floor and we were on our way to the 45th floor.

Truth to be told, this isn’t all that different from what we did yesterday.

Well, I guess it is also true that this is something that I have chosen for us.

「There are quite a few enemies over there, but they are all monsters from the 45th floor, among which is one or two Nepenthes’s. This might be our chance.」

The group of monsters that Roxanne has chosen was a reasonable one.

I see. So this is what you were looking for, huh? A group that has one or two monsters from the 45th floor in it. The rest are the monsters against whom we have already fought on the 44th floor, so we should have no problems with dealing with those ones.

Certainly, if we fought against these monsters on the 44th floor while they were Lv.44 and we had no problems, then we should also have no problems with them when they are going to be Lv.45 on the 45th floor, so maybe fighting against them is not going to be as fatal as I thought it was going to be?

「Ehhh…」

No, no, no.

In that case, we should go and find ourselves a group of monsters that will have no enemies from the 45th floor in it whatsoever.

If only we could fight only the monsters from the 44th floor even after coming all the way here to the 45th floor, then the girls should understand that such a strategy would allow us to fight more effectively and for much longer due to how familiar we already are with these enemies.

Because that should be pretty easy to understand.

Well, since we’re already here, then we might as well give it a try, right? Especially since it might not be possible for us to find a second group enemies that is going to be as convenient to fight against as this one right here.

If there is going to be a monster strictly from the 45th floor in the group, I cannot just stand around and nod my head. Also, Roxanne said that in this current group ahead of us there might be one or two such enemies, but I have a feeling that it’s going to be two after all.
「Is it no good?」

Stop talking as if I was the bad guy here. Maybe my request was the wrong one to begin with? On the other hand, I cannot proceed forward without Roxanne’s cooperation.

「N-No, it’s fine. Shall we give it a try?」

「Yes! This way then!」

Fuck…!!!

There I go, making concessions once again!

Well, there’s nothing I can do about it, so I just follow after Roxanne as she guided us.

I have to challenge myself at some point.

In the place where Roxanne has taken us to, there was a large army of monsters waiting for us.

Ah…!

I see. So there are six of them here after all.

I said that I wanted to face a reasonable number of enemies, but of course you had to go and bring us to a place where there are six of them because you just couldn’t help yourself, couldn’t you, Roxanne?

I see how it is.

Well, if there’s one thing to be happy about in this situation, it’s the fact that there really are only two Nepthenesses in this group.

No, Roxanne Said one or two, but I feel like two is enough… or is it, really? Or am I just under the illusion that makes me think that it would be better if there were two of them? Now I feel deceived.

For some reason, I feel like more and more hurdles are being thrown my way.

Roxanne and the others started running as soon as they confirmed the presence of the monsters.
I also use Thunder Magic twice in a row and then follow it up with a shot of Fire Magic, and with the two 「Thunder Storms」 that I fired, four of the enemies before became instantly paralyzed.

Good start, if I do say so myself.

However, it was even better, because both of the Nepenthes’s were included in that paralyzed four.

It looks like even the monsters from the 45th floor are not especially resistant to paralysis, so with that piece of knowledge gained, I decided to use the next two shots of my Thunder Magic to ensure that the other two monsters will also become paralyzed.

「Miria, can you ignore the other monsters and aim for Nepentheses?」

「Yes, desu!」

「Go and do it then!」

I gave precise instructions to Miria.

If we don’t defeat the monsters that are native to the 45th floor at the very least, then even if they are paralyzed by my Thunder Magic now it might be possible for them to get back up, so leaving them alive would be too dangerous to do.

It can’t be helped, but the Nepentheses should be prioritized this time, and it’s all because Roxanne chose the opponents for us recklessly this time.
Milia slips past the paralyzed two monsters and heads for Nepentheses. Roxanne and the others also took positions in front of the other two and surrounded them. They swing their weapons at will and slam them into the monsters.

Good thing they’re paralyzed. If Vesta hits them with her two swords right now, it’s dfinitely going to hurt them.

They say that the sword is a striking weapon, not a cutting weapon, but I wonder if that’s actually true or not?

Personally, I don’t think so.

「I did it, desu!」

While doing so, one of the monsters got petrified as well.

「Come back.」
「Yes, desu!」

The paralysis of one of the first paralyzed monsters was about to go away, so I called Miria back. Safety first, after all.

It would be bad if Miria was to be surrounded away from us.
Then, the monster that started moving got paralyzed with my next shot of Thunder Magic and stiffened again.

Is this all?

「Sorry. After all the Nepenthes…」