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Volume 13 Chapter 3 Part 6

「But I didn’t even know that you would be interested in it so much… 」

「Of course I would be. Any woman is bound to be interested in any kind of mirror, precisely because they are mirrors. 」

It seems that Cassia really likes mirrors as interior decorations. Well, it is a mirror after all, so there may be a lot of demand for it from women, and the Duke, who only thought of it as a mere gift, has demonstrated a glaring lack of understanding.

「I see. 」

「If it was known that you could provide such a fine item, how much demand would there be? And if you couldn’t give it to the receivers, how much resentment would there be? Just imagining it makes me tremble. You don’t understand such important matters at all! 」

「I, I see. 」

I can also sense the gap in my understanding with Cassia, who is really passionate about it.

「If it’s an item like this, we must not let anything happen to us when we get it. We must make sure that we can obtain it with our own power. 」

「Ah, I see. 」

I was the one who sold the mirror to the Duke. So you want me to sell more of them? Or you want me to become your subordinate? Please don’t do the latter. I have no intention of joining the Knight Order of Hartz Duchy.

「I hope you can understand that, Lord Michio. 」

「Uh, yeah. Well…. 」

I can’t help but shy away from it.

「So I would like you to allow us to obtain the mirrors on our own from Palmasque. 」

「I see. 」

So instead of selling it, she wants to get them on their own. That way, I won’t have to become their subordinate, so that’s a good deal for me.

「To meet the strong demand from all quarters, we need to be able to obtain mirrors at any time and any amount. It has to be that way. Can you understand that? That’s all there is to it. But still, it really is wonderful. 」

「Y-You might be right. 」

If I said it was just a mirror, I’d get beaten up for sure. It’s just a mirror to me.

「Yes. Thank you. 」

I’m being asked to say something, but it doesn’t matter unless I’d want to get conscripted to join the Knight Order of Hartz Duchy

「O-Okay. 」

「Yes. So we’re planning to have our subordinate Adventurers, who can move quickly, obtain it from now on. 」

Well, it can’t be helped. There may be times when you need it right away, and in this world communication is not easy because of the lack of phones or email.
Contacting me takes days, as Luke has to be contacted, and the message comes to me when there is something to be done, and I have to act the next day or so. Furthermore, if I had to come, place an order, go buy it, and bring it to Bode, the time wasted would increase by at least a full day.

Although that’s natural in this world, it can be a problem. If she’s really passionate about mirror crafts, I can understand her concerns. Even if she doesn’t want to lose profits by going through me, the same cannot be said about the Duke of Hartz himself.

No, maybe that’s not the case here as well. I’m sure that nobles would be willing to take a small cut from each transaction for themselves, and he’s a mass of middleman exploitation himself.

「I see. In that case, it can’t be helped. There may be times when we’ll need it urgently. 」

I should have given in here without complaining. In the first place, he was only being considerate and said he’d get it on his own because I came to sell the mirror in the first place. He doesn’t have exclusive rights to do it, and we haven’t signed a contract, so it’s not like I’ll get anything out of it if I complain.

I might be able to get some kind of penalty or compensation, but from their point of view, that would be the same as a severance payment. Leaving aside the idea that it might be better to break off ties with the Duke, if the job of delivering mirrors is going to be taken away from me anyway, I might as well just let it go. It’s not like I really want to do this job either, so it won’t be a big deal if it’s gone.

「Thank you. 」

「If necessary, I don’t mind taking your Adventurers to Palmasque. 」

I’ll do him a favor here.

「I can’t ask you to go that far. 」

「It’s okay, it’s fine. 」

「In that case, maybe tomorrow morning? Is that okay? 」

「Understood. 」

After all, they’re elves. Not knights, but Adventurers; but if they’re in Cassia’s or the Duke’s employment, they must be elves. There might be women among them as well. Or rather, if they’re one of those who’re crazy about mirrors, there’s a good chance of a woman being a part of the team.

Or maybe they’re all men who’re crazy about mirrors? No, if they’re Cassia’s subordinates, they’re probably women. If it’s a trusted subordinate sent by the mirror-crazed Cassia to obtain a mirror, it’s hard to believe it’d be a fat, ugly bastard.

A female elf crazy about mirrors, with an insatiable pursuit of beauty… a joyful journey with this beautiful female elf Adventurer would be an absolute win! I’ll have to teach her everything step by step. It’ll be a long road to Palmasque. The road to victory.The road to love and desire. After all, the person I’ll be teaching will be an elf. I’ll need to teach her carefully from start to finish.

The road to Palmasque. The road to love. The road to climax. A journey of love and emotion with a beautiful elf. A joyful journey, and a carnival of beautiful elves, and a feast of carnal desire and chaos!

………

I thought it’d be like that. It’s true that I had great ulterior motives and some ambition, but of course there was nothing of the sort happening. Nothing. The height of nothingness. We simply went there and came back. I merely served as the driver for the others.

It’s not that there were no female adventurers. There were. And all of them were beautiful. A variety of beautiful elf adventurers to choose from. But nothing happened.

I was worried about using the Warp Skill while disguising the muttering of the Field Walker Skill, but the female elf Adventurers didn’t come close enough to me to hear the soft murmuring of the spell.

It was impossible for us to touch each other, I couldn’t even smell them, and they were so far away that it was difficult to even recognize their presence. It ended with a hopeless sense of distance. There was absolutely nothing. Time just passed in vain.

「Welcome back. 」

「I’m back. 」

Roxanne came close to greet me simply because I returned home. I went to Bode, formed a Party with some female elven Adventurers, and went to each Adventurer’s guild on my way to Palmasque. It hadn’t taken more than thirty minutes. I was only away from home for ten or twenty minutes, I think. And yet I was greeted so warmly. I wanted to rest now, for about two hours or so, but…

「Then shall we go to Akishima’s Labyrinth? 」

「Yes. That’s right. Leave it to me. 」

Was that Roxanne’s ulterior motive in welcoming me? No way. If she had an ulterior motive, it wouldn’t have been strange for a female elven Adventurer to have one as well, like learning the secret to teleporting to Palmasque, or maybe they want to learn the Warp Skill from me? Anyway, I had no choice but to enter the Labyrinth now.

The female elven Adventurers are going to form a Party by themselves, and test whether they can actually go to Palmasque and return, and I was told to come back tomorrow. If they succeed, I’ll probably be relieved of my duties.

I think Sherry negotiated to buy the Palmasque Mirror a little cheaper, but there’s no need to inform them about that, because It could also lead to the question of why I was not in Palmasque personally.

Why was it, again? Oh yeah, because I wasn’t an Adventurer back then. I guess it’s best to keep quiet after all. I can’t explain such things. Today, I’ll obediently challenge Akishima’s Labyrinth.

What’s great about Akishima’s labyrinth is that there are no maps or information, so no matter how hard Roxanne tries, it’s not easy to climb upwards as fast as anywhere else. We need to explore steadily, little by little. That’s a good thing. It means there’s plenty of room for us to improve our skills.