Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 4

She said that with absolute conviction in her voice.

「Absolutely. 」

Even Rutina agrees with her on that part.

「Was it a mistake not to object to Cassia’s wedding after all? 」

「Maybe we can expect a little more from the next generation? 」

I do have to say that I agree with their judgement of the current Duke of Hartz. He is lighthearted and frivolous, and his randomness and spontaneity are often causing people like Gozer to have a needlessly hard time.

To put it as simply as possible: her really is a nuisance to deal with.

「Well, you can think like that. 」

However, with the expectations for the next generation, I feel like the law of regression towards the mean should be coming into play here.

Things tend to settle down to about the average, so statistically, the more trials you do, the closer you get to the average. If we collect those who showed extreme results in the first trial and give them a second trial, the results in the second trial are closer to average than in the first trial, which means that the children of incompetent parents are going to be closer to the average than the children of exceptional parents.

If the two generations were truly excellent, their children and grandchildren would be statistically closer to normal, in other words, they would be mediocre, and if their grandchildren were really incompetent, their grandchildren would tend to be closer to normal.

「Because the blood of the clan is going to be thickened… Huh? But does the Duke of Hartz even has the blood of the clan in his veins in the first place? 」

There, I went and said the exact thing that was on my mind the entire time.

「Hmph. Don’t make fun of the clan. There is a difference in the quality of the blood between the snot-nosed Brocken brat and the excellent Cassia. Comparing the two of them would be like comparing the main stream to a side stream. 」

「Well, Rutina is pretty excellent, so there should not be any issues with her. 」

I drew attention to something that should be pretty obvious.

「If that’s the case, then you should really be able to accomplish what I am requesting of you even while continuing your efforts with the subjugation of the Labyrinths. 」

And then a stray bullet flew right past me.

「I believe that Lord Michio will definitely be able to achieve it. 」

「Hmm. If you say so. 」

Whoa. Rutina once again protected me with her words, with which the old lady was obviously unhappy.

Having a common enemy like the old lady against whom we could unite like that was a great way to shrink the distance between me and Rutina.

If I am going to be more hostile in my interactions with Elder Cassandra, then by doing that I should be able to score some affection points with Rutina and possibly get along with her better.

Or did the old lady managed to see through that as well?

No, that shouldn’t have been the case. I don’t think it’s such a special pattern.

In the first place, Rutina and I are still on good terms even now, mainly because I am putting her equipment on and taking it off many times a day, so you could call our friendship the ultimate one.

「Well, before that, I have to settle a troublesome request. 」

「If you really are an excellent Adventurer, then taking care of that request shouldn’t take you that many years. 」

「I am sure that Lord Michio’s subjugation of the Labyrinths is not going to take many years. 」

「Oh Rutina, if you can say such funny jokes already after being entrusted to this man, then that is ineed a sign that he is an excellent Adventurer. 」

It looks like these two will continue bantering like that forever if they are going to be left alone, so let’s do something to put an end to this pointless discussion now, shall we?

「Well then, for the time being, we’re going to start by trying to look for some more information about Grineer. 」

「Hmph. I would be much obliged. Now, I am quite busy, so you are free to go. 」

「We will be sure to do just that. 」

But in spite of that, Elder Cassandra still had to argue with Rutina that one last time.

Thankfully, neither of them said anything else after that, so we just left.

「Welcome back, master. 」

When I get back home, Roxanne greets me, which makes me feel relieved. Roxanne’s presence does seem to have such a wondrous healing effect on me.

「Roxanne, everyone, listen up. I decided that we are now going to see if we can go to a place called Grineer. 」

「Grineer? I have never heard of such a place. 」

Roxanne doesn’t seem to know about it, which is not surprising.
「Hee…. Grineer, you say? 」

Does Sherry know anything about it?

「Do you know anything about it, Sherry? 」

「I don’t know the details, but Grineer was supposedly once part of the Empire. I heard that people could n0 longer live there because a Labyrinth has appeared somewhere in the vicinity of the stopover at some point in time, and after it grew in size, there was no longer any way of contacting the people who were still living there. It’s actually a pretty common and well-known story. 」

It’s a common story, huh?

「I see. 」

「Other than that, there were also other stopover points, one of which was Tatsukawa… or was it perhaps Tachikawa? I remember those stories pretty well, because they were the ones that my grandfather was telling me about when I was still a child and he was taking care of me, since he was one of the people who hailed from there.」

Tachikawa, you say? Then it might be the same one as the stopover on the way to Hachioji and Ome.

「Hee… Well, that’s really interesting. However, for the time being Elder Cassandra from Rutina’s clan has only asked us to go to Grineer and see exactly what is going on there. As for the Labyrinth there, well, it’s not like I think that we shouldn’t go and enter it at all, but we might ignore it for a while, because I want to put a brief pause on advancing to the higher levels. 」

This is the main thing that we are going to be focusing on for the time being.

That is what I want to do.

That’s right. At the current moment, advancing to the higher floors of the Labyrinths is the last thing that I want to be doing.

「Mumu…」

「No. It’s okay. We can enter the other Labyrinths properly. 」

「If that’s the case, then we can continue advancing to the higher floors like we were doing up until now. 」

「We could do that, however, the time that I want us to be spending in the Labyrinth will definitely decrease. 」

Persuading Roxanne that we should stop going to the Labyrinths for the time being might be quite a difficult thing to pull off though.

「I agree with master. If this is what the Elder of the Elven clan herself wants us to do, then focusing on finishing her request may be more important than us going to the Labyrinths. 」

Whoa! Sherry is with me on this one as well?

I-I mean sure, if you were to think about it rationally, than that is the perfectly obvious thing to do.

「Being too greedy about anything is never a good thing. We were requested to do it, so that is what I think we should be focusing on. Also, at the current pace that we are proceeding, it’s not going to be good if we end up progressing through the Labyrinths too fast. I want us to be as cautious about this as possible. 」

First and foremost, I want to live carefully.

「Umu. I see. 」

「It would be nice to clean it up one by one in order. 」

「Understood. That might really be the best approach here. 」

All right. I somehow managed to obtain even Roxanne’s consent, and it was all possible mainly because Sherry was here by my side.

Without her, it probably wouldn’t have been possible at all.

No. I am sure that it must be because my opinion has become much more reasonable, and that is why it has turned out this way.

That’s right.

Proceeding to the higher floors of the Labyrinths without even something as essential as a map just for the sake of going higher is the height of stupidity.

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  1. ranomeinon

    Thanks for the chapter.

    Is this foreshadown on Michio’s future domain?

    If we collect those who showed extreme results in the first trial and give them a second trial, the results in the second trial are closer to average than in the first trial, which means that the children of incompetent parents are going to be closer to the average than the children of exceptional parents.
    ^-that’s not how it works?

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