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Volume 13 Chapter 2 Part 6

Adventurers’ [Field Walk] Skills take them anywhere they visited previously in the overworld, so monsters are often lurking around when they go near a Labyrinth. To counter this, Roxanne was the first to go there. But this time, we used Warp. With Warp, we could travel directly into the Labyrinth.

On the surface, you can see a wide area, so monsters are likely to be found somewhere in places where people don’t go, but inside the narrow and complicated Labyrinth, monsters can’t be found so easily. It’s possible, but there’s no chance that you’ll Warp into the labyrinth and find a monster there and be attacked first.

A labyrinth is a den of monsters, but thanks to how it’s structured it’s actually harder for monsters to attack you.

「Oh, is that so? 」

「I forgot you could travel inside the labyrinth. 」

「Putting that aside, can we start looking around? 」

「I understand. 」

In any case, I can rely on Roxanne to guide me in the Labyrinths. In that regard, I’m better off doing as Roxanne says. We have no maps or information on how to conquer this Labyrinth, but I’m sure we’ll be fine. I’m not sure how fine, but we’ll be fine nonetheless. I want to believe we’ll be fine.

With Roxanne leading the way, we explored the new Labyrinth. Even with Roxanne, if we have no information, we must explore steadily, one step at a time, putting one foot in front of the other. That’s what they call the punishment of deception.

Questioning is the basis of investigation. Even if we’re going to be charging into hordes of monsters every now and then, I’ll allow it. There’s no point falling behind on the forty-sixth floor when it isn’t even a Floor Boss battle.

However, even though we explored until the evening, we still couldn’t find the Boss Room. Thank goodness. What a relief. With this, if we could just go up one floor a day, we’d be able to manage it somehow, and I won’t have to get angry at Roxanne for pushing us too far.

One floor a day should be fine. Since it’s a new Labyrinth, going up one floor a day would not be an outrageous pace. Judging from today’s situation, it should be fine. In fact, the next morning also passed without any problems, so in a good mood, I headed to the shop in the Imperial Capital – although it was still unclear whether it was even a shop.

「Oh, welcome. Your order is ready. 」

The woman from yesterday was inside today as well and helped us right away, although it was still as bleak as ever, and her service was perfunctory. Well, it wasn’t a shop, it was a warehouse, so maybe it was asking too much for her to be polite. They probably don’t have a 「customer is king」 mentality here. That is a norm in Japan, and it would do wonders in this world as well.

「Thank you. 」

「Yes. Here you go. Try it on when you get home. If it doesn’t fit, we can exchange it for a different size today or tomorrow. 」

「I see. 」

The woman handed out bags to Roxanne and the others. She was a little brusque. She was unfriendly, even. But despite that, all the pairs of socks were in the bags, carefully packed. So you can’t try it on here; but at least they offer a size exchange service, which is nice. After all, they know the old hag’s clan, so maybe it’s a high-end store that no one knows about?

No. They’re unfriendly. They’re located in a warehouse. I’m not even sure if it’s a store, so that cannot be the case.

「It’ll be 5,000 Nars. 」

The staff aren’t Merchants, so there’s no discount. Oh well, that can’t be helped. Everyone received their socks, so we paid and left the store.

「We need you to try them on. Let’s go home right away. 」

「Yes. 」

We returned home from the warehouse.

「Well, what’s it like? 」

「Uhm. Well, we’re going to get changed and see. 」

Just as I was thinking about getting a look at what it was like, everyone except me moved to the next room.

They were so sexy just now, they should have just changed here. It would have been better if they’d just taken it off in front of me without worrying about it. Or is that a bit awkward, I wonder? Well, being shy isn’t a bad thing.

「Well, Rutina, let’s take off our equipment first. 」

「Y-Yes. 」

Every time Rutina puts on or takes off her equipment, she holds back her voice in embarrassment. I can’t tell you how arousing that is.

「There, there. 」

「Hnn…! 」

This is it. This is it! I remove Rutina’s equipment and send her off to get changed.

「Oh! 」

After waiting for a while, the girls came in again. They’ve changed into the camisoles they wear to bed!

On her feet are black socks… no, they’re actually stockings!!! Sensual and seductive! The smooth, sheer black fabric covers their thighs! Oh wow! Amazing! This sheerness, amazing! This smoothness, amazing! This texture, amazing! Black stockings, amazing!

My vocabulary hasn’t been working for me for a while now. Amazing, amazing, wonderful… those are the only words I can speak now.

「What do you think? 」

What do you mean? What do I think? Amazing! Amazing! Oh lawd, just look at dem legs!

「Hmm. It’s just wonderful! 」

That’s all there is to it.

「T-Thank you. 」

I’m the one who should be thanking you. All that’s left is to set my Job to Sex Maniac…

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After getting ready a while later I announced,「Okay, let’s go to the new Labyrinth. 」

「Yes. That’s right. 」

「Oh. Before that… 」I said to distract Roxanne-sensei from her enthusiasm.

「Yes? 」

「Sto… the woman at the shop said there were other colors for socks, right? 」

「Yes, White and pale pink. 」Sherry told me.

「White is good. Pale pink is also good. 」 I wonder a little, but don’t doubt myself. I think black would be the best after all. But I have to say this, because colors other than black would be good too. Pale pink stockings under the mysterious candlelight after dark? That would be irresistible.

「Is that so? 」

「After all, we should battle the Floor Boss on the 44th floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth some more. No, how about not going all the way there, but doing it in parallel? 」

I thought Roxanne’s expression changed for a moment, so I hurriedly changed my suggestion. Maybe I was paranoid, but I can’t just go ahead and do whatever Roxanne wants.

「That’s true. I don’t mind if we drop in every now and then. 」

I want to make it my main goal, not just every now and then. The 44th floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth would be the main goal, and the 46th floor of the new Labyrinth would be the secondary goal.

Well, even if it’s only a part of it, once I get them to accept it, the rest will just follow.

「Let’s get started then. 」

We’ll start with the Quratar’s Labyrinth.

We kept fighting the Floor Boss battles until a Mithril Thread dropped. It feels good. No. I could definitely go around some more.

「It’s a Mithril Thread. Shall we move on now? 」

It can’t be helped if even Sherry was asking me that now. Now I wish Mithril Threads were harder to obtain – though that’d be a bit of a tricky one. If they didn’t come out at all, I might not be allowed to keep going in search of Mithril Threads anymore. In that case, it’s not so bad. I shouldn’t be too greedy. I should be satisfied with my current environment.

If they had at least dropped a little earlier though, I could have suggested waiting until I got one more. Oh well. I can just stop by on my way home. I can just do a round trip of Boss battles on the 44th floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth every time we take a break.

If I’m going back and forth, it’s no exaggeration to say that the 44th floor of Quratar’s Labyrinth will be our main focus.

In the evening, we made a detour to the 44th floor of Quratar on our way home again. Then we went home, had dinner and a bath, and then went to inspect the stockings.

「Well, put them on. 」

「Um, but we tried them on during the day. 」

「That’s okay. No problem. 」

That was just a taste. Full-scale inspection is going to be right now. Let’s see… the performance of Rutina’s clan’s stockings!