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Volume 8 Chapter 5 Part 7

「Yes, master.」

「Certainly, master.」

If they don’t become friends, it will be troublesome, since I want my harem life to be as peaceful as possible. I’m saying that for both their sake and the sake of my own mental health as well.
「You are so big and beautiful, as expected of someone my master chose.」

「Roxanne-san is amazingly beautiful as well.」

「Thank you very much, that’s very kind of you.」
Anyway, it seems that Vesta has successfully broken through the first hurdle on her way of befriending the other members of the harem, so if she manages to get along with Roxanne just fine, then she shouldn’t have any trouble getting along with Sherry and Miria.

「Excuse me. Master is an Explorer, right?」

While I was taking a short breather, Vesta asks Roxanne that in a hushed voice that was nevertheless loud enough for me to hear. Uhm, Vesta? If you’re curious about that, then why didn’t you ask me that directly?

「Apparently so.」

「But…. but he used what seemed to be 「Field Walker」when we came back here from the Merchants Guild’s building.」

「Ah… umm, please try not to think too much about it, okay? Just think of Master’s job as Master.」

That’s an absurd way to put it, and the one that’s definitely gonna cause her to have even more questions than she might already have.

「Is that… so?」

「Yes. Also, since you’re going to be living with us from now on, then you cannot be surprised by something of this extent. And of course, you cannot reveal anything that’s related to master to other people, so please keep everything that you’re going to learn about him a secret.」

Yeah, seeing how their conversation was progressing, I can definitely leave the rest to Roxanne, I guess.

「Uhm…」

Vesta’s eyes are looking at both of us and then she stopped at me for confirmation if what Roxanne said just now was true or not, and when I nodded at her she nodded back at me.

「Y-Yes, of course. I promise that my lips are going to be sealed around others.」

「Alright then, so now that that’s taken care of, how about the three of us go buy whatever daily necessities that you might need, Vesta?]

「I think that’s a good idea.」

Roxanne agrees with my suggestion. Although, if I were to be completely honest with you, then I would very much like to skip that boring step and move straight into taking her to the bedroom, but if we were to do it now, it might be problematic since Sherry and Miria are not around and they might start protesting that Roxanne and the new girl got more of my affection while they didn’t.

「Understood.」

「Great. Now tell me Vesta, what type of weapon do you use for combat?」

「Since I am not that skilled of a fighter yet, there isn’t any weapon that I prefer to use. But people of my Dragonkin tribe usually wield any kind of weapon that can be swung at the enemy with just brute force alone.」

Brute force, huh? Actually, when I heard the words 「brute force」 coming down from the top towards me, she did give off that feeling like she could crush or cleave any kind of enemy in half if only she wanted to do so. What I am trying to say is that Vesta certainly looks like she’s strong.

「Any kind of weapon, you say?」

「It depends on the level of the floor and other equipment, but people of the Dragonkin tribe often use a sword and a shield. A powerful Dragonkin tribe warrior can even equip a two-handed sword in one hand, and a shield in the other one. By equipping the shield, one can increase their defensive capability. Even though I am not that strong yet, I can do that to some extent, too.」

「I see. A sword, then?」

It looks like Vesta’s offensive power isn’t actually that high. Well, you don’t need to have high offensive power to be a vanguard in our Party. Taking EXP points and Magic Crystal into account, it is more advantageous for me to kill the monsters and have others simply stall the monsters long enough so that I could finish them all off with my magic.

「Or perhaps, I can wield a one-handed sword in one hand and a large shield in the other? I feel like that might be a valuable strategy to properly utilize me in battle.」

「I have never seen a tower shield before, so that might be interesting to see. What about you, Roxanne? Have you ever seen such a shield?」

「I have seen a member of the Dragonkin tribe with a large shield before. Perhaps that was a tower shield?」

「Yes, that might have been it. After all, the large shields are only used by people of Dragonkin tribe, so they are not all that widely known outside of our communities.」

As for me, I’ve never seen such a shield in any of the Quratar’s Armor Shops before. Could it be that they really don’t have shields like that in their stock, or perhaps that they simply didn’t place them on display properly?
If it’s a regular piece of equipment, then I wonder if Sherry would be able to make it with her 「Item Fusion」? Well, I guess I won’t know the answer to that unless I go and ask her, so I should do that when I go pick her back up from the library.

「Would I be able to get it if I went to the village where the Dragonkin tribe people live?」

「That is certainly a possibility… but I am sorry, master. I don’t know where Dragonkin tribe members live, so I don’t know where you could go in order to get it.」

「Is that so? That’s quite a shame. Is that perhaps because…?」

「Yes, that’s because both of my parents were slaves, so I was already born a slave as well.」

When Vesta’s finishes speaking, I can see tears in welling up in Roxanne’s eyes. Is that because she finds the situation where both of Vesta’s parents were slaves so heart-wrenching? Maybe because Roxanne is a slave, too, she can emphasize with her?

「Oh, is that so?」

「That’s right. As regrettable as it is, I don’t know where a Dragonkin can get a large shield from aside from the places where their communities are gathering.」

Vesta doesn’t seem to be worried about it, too, and continues to talk as if that previous topic never came up. I wonder if it is not all that rare for both the parents of a slave to be slaves as well, which automatically causes the child to be born as a slave as well?

Which reminds me, the Slave Merchant said that he bought her when she turned fifteen years old, but turning that information back around, does that mean that she was sold precisely because she just turned fifteen?

If my parents were slaves, would that make me a slave as well? Well, now that she has become mine, that frankly no longer matters. What matters is that this is her first year as a slave.

「Well, it can’t be helped, then.」

「It might not be exactly what master is looking for, but if I can if I can acquire my racial job, Dragon Knight, I will be able to wield a two-handed sword in one hand, and a tower shield in the other hand. There are also Dragon Knights who wield a two-handed sword in each hand.」

「So Dragon Knights can even dual wield two-handed weapons, huh?」

「Yes, if I remember correctly, the ability for them to do so is called Dual Wielding.」

As expected of a job that kids with chuunibyou would totally dig. It doesn’t look like they can ride a dragon or shoot with a gun, though, which is admittedly pretty unfortunate.

「Regarding the armor, since you prefer using brute force in combat, then can I assume that you’re going to be fine with wearing a chainmail?」

「Yes, I think I will be fine with it. Also, females of the Dragonkin tribe can also equip a plate mail, because wearing it does not seem to be tiring us at all, which makes us the same as the males of the Dragonkin tribe in that regard. I also heard that not many females outside the Dragonkin tribe can wear plate mail like that, so I guess it makes us pretty unique in that regard.」