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Volume 12 Chapter 4 Part 9

「Yeah, we didn’t see anyone when we came here today, so it must be just like you said. 」

I certainly haven’t met you, or anyone else when we came here, because we warped straight into the Labyrinth. But putting that detail aside, it’s not a lie when I say that we didn’t see anyone when we came here, so there should be no problems with that.

I am not Schrödinger’s cat anymore, I am Schrödinger’s Adventurer.

「Is that so? Then I will record it as such. 」

It can’t be helped, so the next morning I brought us to the entrance of the Labyrinth properly instead of warping in there from the house, but…

「 Wait a minute, why is there no one here? 」

We came to the entrance of The Labyrinth Behind Nesco properly, but there was no one there.

Did the clan’s Explorers come later than us? But the surroundings are already bright.

Was the one at the entrance yesterday the only one that came to his post early? Well, whatever.
Since it can’t be helped once again, I entered the Labyrinth and recorded our progress before when we were leaving it right before breakfast

「Thank you for your hard work. 」

「Yeah, about that. I came a little late today, but no one was there at the entrance when we arrived. Did something happen? 」

「Well. Yesterday was special case, but normally it is always like this. Besides, you always seem to be active from quite early in the morning. 」

「Huh. Is that so? 」

That surprised me. So it must have happened by chance. But now that we know that this is when the Explorers usually arrive at the Labyrinth’s entrance, this means that we can start warping straight to the Labyrinth from home without worrying about it too much.

This is a rather unexpected result, but on the other hand, this is the power of Schrödinger’s Adventurer.

All that I ask now is that if you’re going to report it to Elder Cassandra, just make sure to do it properly, please.

After that encounter with the Explorer at the entrance where he explained to us how it all works, I started warping us directly to the Labyrinth in the early morning, and taking us back home directly from the Labyrinth in the evening, and we were only going back to the Labyrinth’s main entrance to report our progress with the Explorers there when it was time to eat a meal or we wanted to have a short rest.

At the very least, it looks like they are going to keep properly recording our progress no matter when we’re going to be seeing them, so at least I don’t need to worry about that and I can focus on doing the important thing: progressing further and further through The Labyrinth Behind Nesco.

Of course, once we enter the Labyrinth, we are proceeding with the strategy guide properly.

「And with this, we have now cleared this Labyrinth all the way up to the 42nd floor, which means that we’re going to start exploring on our own starting from the next floor, right? 」

「Yes, that’s right. Roxanne, please lead the way. 」

「Of course. Leave it to me, master. 」

Soon after that, we reached the 43rd floor in basically no time at all.

It’s a little bit too soon for my liking, but now that we have already reached it, there really isn’t much that can be done about it, so let’s just accept it and move on.

That being said, maybe we shouldn’t have used the information from the Explorers so much? If we didn’t choose to use them, then maybe we could have been advancing at the pace of one floor per day, just like we were doing it back in Quratar’s Labyrinth?

Of, but if we did that, then it is more than probable that Roxanne would have us go at a pace of one floor per one day all the way until we would have reached the 52nd floor of this Labyrinth, so at the end of they day, I actually feel glad that we didn’t choose to do that

「Huh? 」

Even so, we have arrived at the Boss Room of the 43rd floor on that same day.

「The Waiting Room should be right up ahead. 」

Roxanne spoke out the dreaded words as if it was the most obvious thing to do in the entire world.

No, no. Wait, wait, wait!

She must have seen the strategy information for the 43rd floor, because there’s no way that we would have gotten this far when we were supposed to proceed without relying on the information from the Explorers!

No matter how you look at it, it’s so blatant that it couldn’t be any more obvious than that!

She looked at Sherry, but she just shakes her head hard. Does that mean Sherry wasn’t the one who showed Roxanne the clues for how we should be moving on the 43rd floor?

And does that mean that we managed to reach this place so far purely by chance? Is it even possible to get to the Boss Room so quickly without any strategy information at all? Because I don’t think something like that should be possible.

Well, it can’t be helped now that we are already here, so we broke through the 43rd floor and moved to the 44th floor next.

As expected though, we did not break through to the 44th floor on that day, so I am safe for now.

「… Waiting Room already, huh? 」

However, on the next day we quickly arrived at the Boss Room on the 44th floor of The Labyrinth Behind Nesco

「Yes. The Labyrinth here is not all that wide, and that might be why getting here was relatively easy. 」

Roxanne says something like this. I will definitely look at the strategy information later to confirm if that is really the case or not.

「… I don’t think it’s particularly narrow though. 」

Sherry shook her head, indicating that she wasn’t agreeing with what Roxanne said.

But if Sherry was not the one who showed Roxanne the information on how to get to the Boss Rooms on the 43rd and 44th floors so quickly, then it must have happened back when the Explorer at the entrance showed us the strategy information for the very first time.

She must have memorized the clues to getting through every floor back then, and now these pieces of information stayed in her brain even if she is not trying to consciously remember any of them, thus causing her to guide us through the shortest possible route she remembered even though that is not our aim right now at all.

Now, even if we assume that this is the result of Roxanne’s obsession with the Labyrinths, then I still feel inclined to ask: just what kind of memory does she have in that head of hers?

This is horrible.

I definitely wouldn’t be able to remember so much information at once.

On the first floor, go straight and go right next, right? These were the instructions?

No, I think it was not it. I think it was actually to go the left and then straight all the way to the back.

Or is it that one is the first floor and the other is the second floor?

It’s no use, it’s all too vague!

That, and I knew that I won’t be able to remember even two things at once.

That’s just how it is with me.

「It’s simple, really. 」

「I think it’s amazing. 」

「If the labyrinth capture progresses and we get close to subjugation, then there’s nothing wrong with that, right? 」

These three are way too good-natured.

Finally, we came to the 45th floor.

We did it so fast.

I just hope that we won’t have such a tempo in the future.

「Y-You know, we have yet to break through the 45th floor back in the Labyrinth of Quratar, so how about going there first? 」

「I don’t think that any of the monsters there are going to be worthy opponents for us now though. 」

That is not what I am talking about right now, Roxanne.
She definitely remembered the instructions on how to get through the 45th floor and beyond, so if this keeps up, she will definitely want to continue pushing us forward until we reach the 52nd floor.

So, if this is destined to happen anyway, then I want to delay is by as much as possible, at the very least.

No, I have to delay it.

I will not let Carthage perish and its lands to be sprinkled with salt.

「No, no. Maybe you should give it at least some thought? 」

「Besides, the Labyrinth of Quratar came after the labyrinth of Vale. 」