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Volume 12 Chapter 3 Part 8

The door itself looks exceedingly heavy. But more importantly, does that mean that there is still a whole other room or more of them hidden in this one?

「Both this door and all of the walls in this room are made out of Shield Cement. This means that even though you are an Adventurer, you won’t be able to escape from here if I or any of the guards deemed you as a threat. 」

So that’s why it all looks so heavy; because Shield Cement has been used to make all of it, and because the special characteristics of the Shield Cement are its ability to block Movement Magic such as Adventurer’s 「Field Walker」, it means that no Adventurer can invade this room or escape out of it if they somehow made their way here.

However, these restrictions do not apply to the Bonus Skill 「Warp」.

Also, even though Elder Cassandra said those words in the most friendly tone that she could possibly muster, the hidden meaning of her words did not go over my head, but it’s not like I’m going to retort to her just because I knew what she really meant by that.

「Hou hou? 」

「Hmpf. Well, come on in. The back of this room contains the treasury. And of course it should go without saying that this room is made entirely out of Shield Cement as well. 」

With that, Elder Cassandra opened the door leading to the back room. Contrary to what I was expecting, the room itself was rather small, so it would probably be better to call it a storage room rather than the treasury. However, it definitely had some equipment placed within, like the Misericorde or The Warhammer of Napping, for example.

The Misericorde looks like a one-handed sword, and it looks like it could be better than Miria’s Estoc of Petrification in terms of physical damage, but from what I am seeing, it doesn’t look like it has any Empty Skill Slots in it, so in that regard, Estoc of Petrification is still superior to it.

On the other hand, Warhammer of Napping has a Skill that has a chance of putting the enemy that’s getting hit with it to sleep, but other than that, it doesn’t have any more Empty Skill Slots in it as well.

If I wanted to steal any of these things from her, I guess I could technically come back here by using 「Warp」, but would that really be worth all the trouble associated with it?

No, I wouldn’t do that even if I could. I absolutely will not do it. If there is even a shred of a chance that by doing that I would annoy this old lady, then such an undertaking is absolutely not worth it.

I will not do it. I will not do it.

I repeated it in my mind twice just now in order to drive the point of how important not pulling a stunt like that is going to be.

In the first place, even if we were to steal that equipment, then as long as it could be put to use, some of us would have to use it, since there is no point in having good equipment on you if you’re not going to put it to actual use and just keep it in your inventory so it could gather dust in there.

That being said, I never seen or heard about many Elves using Misericordes or Warhammers, so it wouldn’t be good to give them to Rutina. Besides, if she or the other girls were to start using these new weapons, it would probably increase our odds of being defeated and killed on the higher floors of the Labyrinths, but if it turned out to be good enough equipment, than maybe it could actually decrease the risk of us getting defeated and killed?
In the end, I guess what is more valuable than the equipment itself are the human resources who will use that equipment to fight the monsters of the Labyrinths with it.

Elder Cassandra entered the treasury and opened the drawer in one of the shelves instead of heading towards one of the pieces of equipment that was placed on display here.

Ah!

That’s right, the money! This is probably where she is going to be placing Rutina’s gold coin.

I see. She said it herself that this is a treasury, and if this is a treasury, then that means that there might be platinum coins hidden somewhere in here.

If that turned out to be the case, then that would definitely be something worth coming back here so that we could steal it.

No. I won’t do it. I will absolutely not be doing it.

「What is this? 」

Elder Cassandra took out something from the small shelf and handed it over to Rutina.

「This is one of the secret treasures that have been handed down from one generation of our clan to another. No one from the clan had a chance to actually put it to use before, but my gut feeling is telling me that if it is you, Rutina, then passing it onto you now might be the best choice, so I want you to take this with you. Not for free of course. In exchange for your one gold coin, just like we talked about. Just like sweat cannot return inside of the body, the word of an emperor cannot be unsaid. 」
Just like sweat cannot return inside of the body, the word of an emperor cannot be unsaid… this is a Japanese proverb that basically says that no matter who someone might be, one should never go back on the word that they’ve given someone, right?

Does that mean that Elder Cassandra really is that great of a person? Or perhaps that she just considers herself to be one?

Well, she is the head of an entire Elven clan after all, so I guess that does entitle her to at least think of herself as someone important in her community… but anyway, is it okay for me to interpret her words as such that she will never lie to the members of her clan?

「Of course, Aunt Cassandra. 」

「Rutina, with enough proper training, you should be able to become a Mage in the future. This secret treasure of our clan is said to be capable of enhancing the magical powers of whoever is wearing it, so I am sure that it is going to be of use to you one day. 」

「……..Yes. I will make sure to treasure it until that day comes. 」

Rutina hesitated for a moment, but in the end she accepted the item that Cassandra handed to her with gratitude.

She said that this item is going to be of use to her one day when she will be able to become a Mage in the future, but since Rutina already managed to become a Mage, this means that this treasure is going to become of use to her immediately, and there’ll be no need for her to wait god knows how long.

It’s great that Rutina already unlocked the Mage Job for herself, because otherwise this item would have just gone to waste.

In that case, maybe I should just brag about it to Elder Cassandra in an attempt to score myself some additional points with her?

On second thought though, it might be better if I keep quiet about it. If I went and said something like that out of the blue, there is a possibility that not only she could start looking at me strangely, but she would also probably start asking a lot of questions, like how did that happen or when exactly did that happen, and if it came to that, I might have been forced to reveal some of my own abilities, and that is something that I absolutely cannot allow myself to do.

「Well, that is not important right now. You have your whole life ahead of you, so if you wait long enough, good things will start coming to you on their own. 」

「Yes! 」
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Elder Cassandra then left the treasury, and Rutina and I followed closely after her, but before we did that, I made sure to remember the location of that treasury thoroughly.

No, it’s not because I want to come back here.

I won’t come back here. I will not be coming back here!

Come to think of it, at the current moment money is not even a problem for me, so there’s really no need for me to be resorting to stealing.

The money that we can get by selling the items we are getting from the monsters in the Labyrinths are more than enough for us to have ends meet, so coming back here for any nefarious purposes would be useless.