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Volume 9 Chapter 5 Part 5

Calm down, Roxanne!

I know that Roxanne’s magnificent things will pop out if she removes her clothes, and we are yet to even buy the ingredients for dinner.

I remember that last time, I ended up greedily savoring their taste immediately after they got their maid outfits, so I am the one who is at fault here

「Not now, after the dinner. It will be better to wash our bodies first.」

「Is that so?」

Somehow, I managed to calm myself down and went out to buy ingredients for dinner.

Afterwards, we had the dinner. We enjoyed it, and now it’s time for me to enjoy their maid outfits.

They’re wonderful.

「Now then, can I ask you something?」

As soon as the girls finished changing into their maid uniforms, I carried them all to the bedroom one by one. Part of me was wondering why they didn’t go to the bedroom first to change their clothes there, but it simply turned out like this.

Is that why Roxanne started to suddenly strip off her clothes in the living room earlier? Because she was hoping that if she does it there, then I will carry her to the bedroom in my arms?

Of course, even if it required a lot of effort on my part, I carried all of them there without once showing even a hint of tiredness or strife on my face. I also made sure not to let any of my inner worries show on my face while I was doing that.

I started with Roxanne, then Sherry, then Miria and then Vesta at the end. Even though Vesta is so large, I managed to carry her to the bedroom without any problems, just like the rest of the girls. Even though she was larger and heavier than the rest, I had no problems with lifting her due to all the training that I am doing in the Labyrinths. I really didn’t notice her weight at all, and there was no backlash against my waist, most probably because my waist gets even better exercise than the rest of my body.

Because I am training it together with the girls pretty much every day.

Buying clothes for them and having them wear them in bed for me is incredibly fun, and carrying the girls wearing maid uniforms into your bedroom is what every man dreams of, aside from indulging themselves in sex madness during cosplay sex.

The next day, after we were done with the breakfast, I went to Bode’s castle, just like I told the Duke that I would do.
「Hello.」

「Welcome. His excellency the Duke is waiting for you. Please, come after me.」

I touched the Knight in the lobby lightly on the shoulder, and he guided me inside.

Oh, I think this is the first time when something like that happened. Before, when I was coming to Bode’s castle, I was always left alone to go to the Duke’s office on my own.

「Haa….」

It seems that I have been taken to the usual office. That being said, a part of me was still worried that the Duke might still be mad at me for what happened before. I wonder if I am going to be okay?

「Your Excellency, Lord Michio is here.」

「Let him through.」

When the Knight knocked on the door of the Duke’s office, the Duke’s voice answered him back almost immediately.

「Pardon the intrusion…」

「Ahh, thank you so much for coming, Lord Michio. Please, sit over there.」

「Of course…」

I walked inside the Duke’s office and took a seat on the sofa.

「Thank you for your hard work. You may step down now.」

The Duke made the Knight who escorted me to his office go away, and then he sat down across from me, which is strange, since he usually sits in a chair behind his desk whenever he is speaking to me.

Maybe it’s because Gozer is not here with him today? Is that also why the Knight brought me here to him today even though that is now how it usually goes? But if Gozer is not around, then it might be wise of me to avoid getting myself into any kind of danger, which is why I should be careful about how I am going to respond to any of the questions he might have for me. I just hope that any of my usual responses are not going to be considered by him as offensive.

That may have been what he was thinking.

「Lord Michio. I don’t know if anyone else is going to come, so I’m going to start talking right away.」

「Okay.」

After telling me that, the Duke begins to speak

「To tell you the truth, I do not wish you to enter the Labyrinth of Nordselm.」

「Huh?」

Didn’t you wanted to talk to me about me going to that other Labyrinth? That is what I was thinking when I was coming here, but apparently that is not the case.

「I don’t have anything against you going to hunt Mabreams, be it on the twelfth floor or the twenty-second floor, but I want you to do it anywhere else except for the Labyrinth of Nordselm. I am sorry, but it doesn’t seem like there’s anything else that I can think of.」

「May I know the reason behind such a decision?」

「Just in case of preventing any kind of emergencies from happening.」
「Just in case, huh?」

Just in case of avoiding emergencies? Is that Labyrinth that kind of a dangerous place? Because if it is, then tell it to me right away without beating around the bush, because I would like to know if I am going in the jaws of certain death or not, or if this Labyrinth is different from all the others that I have been to so far.

「Yes, and I want you to understand that.」

I see. So he wants me to understand that he doesn’t want me to get anywhere near that Labyrinth, huh?

「Is that your personal opinion, or a private one?」

「It’s not my opinion, private or otherwise, but rather the statement of a fact. It is said that the twenty-second floor of the Labyrinth of Nordselm is extremely difficult.

「Oh?」

「Moreover, it’s going to be better for you to not know the detailed reason for why it is like that.」

「You don’t say?」

「I feel sorry for you. I’ll also think of a way of making it up to you.」

I can understand giving me a reward for exploring a dangerous Labyrinth, but this is a first time when I’m hearing about someone giving a reward for not entering a dangerous Labyrinth.

「Well, if you say so.」

「Yes, that is my opinion on this matter, so I would like you to comply with it.」

I don’t know why, but I feel like there’s something strange about that story of his.

「Does Gozer think so too?」

「I feel like he has an inkling about it, but I would like it if you could refrain from talking to him about it.」

「Hmm….」

So Gozer does not seem to know anything about it, huh? Well, he was always here whenever I was coming to visit, but he’s not here at the current moment, so there must definitely be something going on here.

I don’t know if he was literally kicked out, forced to do some other business of if he’s being intentionally kept out of the discussion to make sure that he wouldn’t try to do anything about it by himself, being a hardworking person like he is.

The fact remains that every time when I was coming here Gozer was here in the office together with the Duke, but since he’s not here right now then there is a possibility that the Duke might be trying to trick me.

Is my situation hopeless here?

「Above all else, if Cassia ever asked you about it, I would like you to tell her that you have entered the Labyrinth of Nordselm properly.」

「And if she asks me about it in more details, then what?」

「The Labyrinth there is located a little far away from the town in the nearby woods, so no one would ever see you going there, so there is going to be nothing to talk about, so as long as you don’t specifically say that did not enter the Labyrinth, there shouldn’t be any problems at all.」

「Uh-huh.」

Are you really telling me to hide something from Cassia?

Are you telling me to lie to her?

Are you asking me to get my own hands dirty?