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Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 7

「No problem. He’s going to use his experience from the past. 」

「I see. 」

I really want the things to not be as bad as they sound right now.

Rather than worrying about whether my remarks are going to e taken seriously or not, I think we should be worrying about whether he still remembers how to get to the Labyrinth or not.

Are we really going to be okay with him being the person who is supposed to get us there? Because even if the others say that it should be fine, I still have my doubts about that.

「Let us be on our way then. There might be monsters out there, so you should be going in first. 」

The Adventurer said while he created the 「Field Walker」 portal for us.

Well, looks like we have no choice but to go now.

Even if he’s going to do a really sloppy job, at the very least he should deliver us at least somewhat close to where we need to go.

As expected, there is no direct way to hell.

He even said that we might encounter monsters there, which is logical, since they are supposed to be the reason why the stopover was abandoned in the first place.

In other words, I think that we are definitely going to encounter monsters on the other side.

「Well then, I shall be the one to go first. 」

Taking the initiative, Roxanne walks forward and bravely steps through the 「Field Walker’s」portal that has now appeared.

Well, this is Roxanne we are talking about, so I was expecting nothing less from her.

Even if there are going to be monsters present on the other side, they won’t be a problem for us as long as we won’t give them a chance to attack us first by standing around and waiting until they’re going to come to us.

And even if they will get the chance to approach us, we should be fine just as long as we won’t allow any of them to actually hit us.

We waited for a moment to see if Roxanne would be coming back through the portal in a hurry, but once we have seen that no such thing happened, we followed after her.

That said, I still have Durandal ready to strike in my hand.

Whoa!

When we emerged on the other side, the first thing that we have seen was that Roxanne was fighting against two Pig Hogs.

She looked as if she was dancing around the two of them happily, which couldn’t be further away from the truth, because she was not dancing. She was dodging their attacks. But since this is Roxanne we’re talking about, she really might be dancing with them.

I don’t know why I was expecting that she was going to go back through the portal even if she encounters monsters, since Roxanne has no danger sense whatsoever.

Oh well, it can’t be helped now, I guess.

Even now, she is perfectly capable of dodging the Pighog’s attacks, even if they are coming at her from behind. How does she even do that? Does she have eyes in the back of her head?

While Roxanne was keeping both of the Pig Hog’s busy with her dodges, I defeated one of the monsters with Durandal.

One down, one to go.

Looks like we are going to be eating Pork Bellies for dinner tonight.

「Was that all? 」

「Yes, it would seem that it was all when it comes to the monsters for now. 」

Roxanne seems to be dissatisfied that she could only fight two monsters for the time being. Personally, I am glad that there is no more of them, because if we can avoid fighting them, I want us to do that.

We are here for free after all, so there’s no need for us to push ourselves too hard. You hear that guys? Don’t push yourself too hard, and most importantly, don’t expect me to push myself too hard.

「Nothing has changed around here. This is where the Labyrinth of South Tarikau lies. 」

The old Advanturer, who came out from the portal as the very last one walked to us leisurely and smiled, even though we were the ones who did all of the work with fighting the monsters for him.

Thankfully, we had more than enough time to deal with them because Roxanne was keeping them all occupied.

However, that does not seem to be nearly enough for Roxanne.

「The Labyrinth of South Tarikau…」

Since the Adventurer explicitly said that this is the Labyrinth of South Tarikau, that has to mean that there are at least several more of them nearby, which is more or less what I was expecting, since it would be unreasonable to go and abandon an entire region if it was only a single Labyrinth here.

「Should we try going to the highest possible floor that we can? 」

「Might as well. 」
Nodding at the suggestion, the Adventurer proceeded to quickly enter the Labyrinth.

Is such a service even going to be available to us now? I think not, because there should not be any Explorer stationed at the entrance to this abandoned Labyrinth, and you cannot go into the Labyrinth with just 「Field Walker」.

And come to think of it, we didn’t even talk about how much money this guy is going to charge us for taking us here.

Yeah, exactly. How much are we going to have to pay him?

We are going to have to pay him not only for bringing us right to the Labyrinth’s entrance, but also for taking us to this Labyrinth’s top floor, right?

I don’t think there are that many Adventurers who are capable of coming to this place, so in the worst-case scenario, it might even be possible for him to charge as much as one gold coin per person, which would definitely be more than the current market price.

Are we going to be alright?

Well, if it comes down to that, then I can always use 「Warp」so that we could escape. But since we didn’t negotiate the price for the travel in advance, then maybe we will be able to somehow salvage this situation still.

Are we really going to be okay?

After chasing him for a bit, we went closer to the Labyrinth, and then he immediately made a U-turn.

「The Labyrinth of Tarikau is going to be next. I don’t really want to go there, so you go on ahead. 」

「Yes. 」

I don’t want to go there either since we don’t even know if it’s going to be dangerous or not, but despite that, Roxanne rushes in without any hesitation.
We chased after her immediately, and once we caught up to her, we saw that she was surrounded by three Mabreams, so I immediately rushed over to her side and killed one of them.

「Mabream, desu! 」

After killing that one Mabream, I moved on to the next one, and Miria started taking care of the other one.

I am really glad that I brought a Party Member with the Assassin Job along for this trip.

Miria’s Estoc of Petrification makes short work of that other Mabream, and I defeated the other one by slashing it with Durandal.

As long as they are monsters walking on the ground and there is not that many of them, I can continue dispatching them with Durandal, but we’re going to be in trouble if there’s going to be so many of them that they’re going to surround us.

「Are you alright? 」

「Yes. I think that we can increase the number of monsters a little more. 」

「I-I see. 」

So Roxanne is still dissatisfied, huh?

「Even though they were monsters outside of the Labyrinth. 」

But no one was listening to my silent mumblings. In the meantime, Durandal returned the Mabream, which Miria managed to pertify with her Estoc of Petrification, back to a puff of green smoke.

「White Meat, desu! 」

Of course, since we were fighting against fish monsters, Miria jumped at their Drop Items immediately when the battle was over, and the she brought them over to me with sparkling eyes.

Yeah, it really look like we already have all the ingredients that we are going to be using to make dinner today.

「U-Umu. I am going to make mayonnaise today, so we will make them for dinner tomorrow, okay? 」

「Make it, desu! 」

Miria was happy when she heard me declare that. In that case, I might just go and force Vesta, who is not here at the moment, to make that mayonnaise for me.

「Haa… 」

Contrary to Miria’s delight, the old Adventurer who arrived late sighed deeply.