Volume 12 Chapter 2 Part 3
「Yes, desu!」
As soon as I thought that, another one of the monsters started to move after its paralysis was lifted.
What the hell is wrong with this timing? Is it a comedy skit or what?
「Ah. Shit. Miria, come back here and get rid of the monsters over here. If it’s just one, then I’ll deal with the monster from the 45th floors.」
I promptly managed to eliminate one of them, but I shouldn’t aim for the second one unless it’s going to be absolutely necessary.
By the time Milia returned to my side, one of the front liners had also started to move again, but Roxanne stands in front of it and toys with the monster. As long as she is the one standing at the front of the vanguard, the monster’s attacks are likely not going to hit her at all.
Even on the 45th floor, it looks like the monsters here still can’t even begin to hold a candle to Roxanne.
Well, not that the same was not the case with the monsters from the 44th floor as well, but you know what I mean.
Miria attacked one of the paralyzed monsters from behind, Vesta did the same thing from the front and Rutina from the side.
As the three of them were mercilessly sitting it from every side, it became apparent that neither of them was holding any sort of sympathy for the enemies that we were facing.
Sherry was also helping with the White Caterpillar Floor Boss that Roxanne was fighting.
She stares at it incessantly, and when she gets a chance, she turns into a monster that attacks the monsters that remained paralyzed.
The way she is thrusting her spear, is the one that would leave no one with any chance of escaping her.
「I did it, desu!」
We really left them with no chances at all. When the White Caterpillar was paralyzed again, everyone just beat it up together and that was the end of it.
「In this case, can we delegate Miria to fight the Nepenthes again?」
「No, let’s not do it. I want you all to defeat all of the enemies other than the Nepthenes. I will be the one to take care of them, since I want to see how these enemies from the 45th floor actually fight.」
「Oh, oh…. Okay.」
Since Roxanne said so much, I ended up inadvertently agreeing with what she had to say without even actually thinking about what she said.
Well, watching the Nepenthes’s so that we could figure out how to fight them effectively sounds like a good strategy, at the very least, since that is what it was originally intendeing to do anyway.
If Roxanne wants to do it, then I’m going to allow her to do it from scratch and simply watch how she’s going to perform against the monsters of the 45th floor.
「Miria, you go and take care of that monster…」
「I did it, desu!」
「Next is the White Caterpillar over there.」
Miria is neutralizing the paralyzed monsters one after another under Roxanne’s careful instructions. When she was done, the only monsters that remained on the battlefield were the Neptheneses that were paralyzed at the beginning of the battle.
「Just in case something happens, let’s get rid of all but Nepenthes. We can fight the monsters from the 45th floor after that.」
「I understand.」
With Roxanne’s consent, the four monsters other than Nepenthes were eliminated. I was the one who took care of all of them with my AoE magic and Durandal.
Now that the Neptheneses became petrified thanks to Miria’s Estoc of Petrification, they became weak against magic attacks.
I should be able to defeat them first because of it, but I won’t go that far.
Of course, it may not work exactly as I expect it to work, and there is always a chance that even if I aimed to defeat the Neptheneses with my magic, they may still end up with having a little bit of HP left.
Some of the people in my Party might be dissatisfied if the battle ends too quickly, if it ends like that, then that’s just how it is and I see no reason to complain at all.
Everyone gathers around the paralyzed Nepenthes and surrounded it without feeling the least bit of alertness.
Even though this guy was the first to drop out of the battle due to paralysis, the paralysis itself still hasn’t faded away from it. That’s because even if we’re dealing with a monster from the 45th floor, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going t have a high resistance against getting paralyzed.
After everyone surrounds it and stands ready for a while, Nepenthes starts to move. It’s timing in shaking the paralysis off was exactly just as planned.
But even after we all started attacking it, I noticed that Miria’s tempo of launching her own attacks was a little bit slower than the attacks of the other girls.
You realize it as well, don’t you, Miria? You also know that someone in the Party will not be satisfied if the battle is going to end too soon.
Vesta was not holding her punches at all and was hitting it with her two swords without hesitation from the side, and as I watched her I began to wonder what we’re going to do if the battle does end up being cut short, which was like putting the cart ahead of the horse.
As per the usual, even when Roxanne was attacked by the Nepthenes, she always managed to avoid its attacks at just the last possible moment. And as always, that is something that I couldn’t have done even if I tried.
She also doesn’t look like she’s fully satisfied with the 45th floor yet. Or at least I think that she is not satisfied, judging by the subtle changes to her expression that I was able to barely, barely see.
I wonder if it’s really like that, or am I just seeing things?
Putting aside whether that really is the case or not, I also attack the monster with my Rod diagonally from behind, since it’s good for me to personally experience what monsters from the 45th floor are like.
「I did it, desu!」
Oops. Miria ended the battle already.
Well, I saw that she was doing her best to delay the entire encounter from the start as much as possible, so it’s not really Miria’s fault, so let’s just wave goodbye to the defeated monsters and move on.
「W-Well, we have now seen what the monsters from the 45th floor are capable off, but it doesn’t mean that we should keep going while letting our guards down.
I can only say something like this in order to sum up that entire situation.
「Yes. It felt like the monsters from the 45th floor are definitely getting stronger in comparison to the ones from the floors below.」
Oh? Now that was something exceptionally well said. Has Roxanne finally started to recognize that the monsters are getting too strong for us to be breezing through the floors as fast as we were going that until now?
「Hou? I see.」
「If this is how things are going to be from now on, then I think I might just raise my expectations about the monsters that we’re going to be encountering on the 46th floor!」
「Oh, oh, is that so?」
What do you mean 46th floor? Have you said 46th floor by mistake, Roxanne?
No, even if she did mention the 46th floor just now, it should still be okay.
Since Roxanne mentioned the 46th floor just now, then she must probably be talking about the next group of monsters where the ones from the 46th floor might appear.
Is her consciousness already flying towards the monsters that we might be encountering on the fifty-sixth floor?
Moreover, I think that it might actually be better to lower your expectations. Don’t expect a lot, but instead expect a little so that you won’t get disappointed when push comes to shove.
Will there ever be a day when Roxanne will be satisfied before we die?
「Uhm… I’m glad it doesn’t seem like the enemies here are too strong for us to fight them.」
Sherry, I’m not asking for that kind of calm opinion from you right now.
「Let’s do it, desu!」
「I think that we’re going to be all right.」
I’m not asking for your crude opinions either, Miria and Vesta.
「I do not know about that yet, but I will make sure to do my very best.」
You have been poisoned. You have been poisoned without even realizing it, Rutina.
Let’s go back to Japan together to fix you.
NEXT CHAPTER
RELEASE RATE
Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon
Speed up schedule by 10 hours
Current schedule: Every 50 hours
Michio, you damn hen-pecked moose, who’s whose slave? Get your shit together and put your feet down. Or at least talk to them…