「How is it, Miria? Did you manage to catch anything good while I was gone?」
「Yes, desu.」
Miria responds joyfully. It looks like she got herself a great catch. Is that why she attracted so much attention to herself? That being said, her clothes don’t seem to be wet at all, so it doesn’t look like she entered the sea.
「Miria, we are about to go enter the Labyrinth with our newest companion. Are you going with us or not?」
「Yes, desu. I’ll go, desu. But…」
「She is saying that she managed to catch more fish than she needs for us, and so she would like to share so of the fish that she caught with the other fishern from the village since they’ve offered her a lot of assistance when she was just beginning.」
Miria says sothing that I didn’t understand, so Roxanne hurried up with an explanation of what she said. She wants to share the fish that she caught with the others? That is very thoughtful and kind-hearted of her. Miria seems to have grown up as a person, if only for a little bit.
「It is Miria’s catch, so she can do whatever she wants with it. Personally, I don’t mind if she shares it with the others.」
「Okay, desu.」
「I am planning on making tempura, the dish we made the other day. I thought you should know, so you can share the fish that won’t be of our use.」
「Will do, desu.」
Miria lifts her rod out of the water, and heads toward the basket. She is planning on eating them, after all. Moderate number of fish were inside the basket. There are several kinds of fishes inside, ranging from big to small, which proves that the concept of 「catch and release」is apparently a foreign one to her.
「It looks like Miria can see and understand the movent of the fish. They are saying that she is an amazing fisherman, and that watching her go at it was quite a sight to behold.」
「Understand the feeling of the fish is the key to catching it, desu.」
Miria says while she is distributing the fish among the other fishern. At the sa ti, she is receiving a lot of appreciation from the people surrounding her, to the point where I think that she is being treated like so kind of fishing grandmaster. Well, her attachnt to the fish is extre, after all, so it’s not all that surprising that it brings good results like that.
When they had all received the fish from her, the people surrounding her left. So with that out of the way, it’s ti to introduce her to Vesta.
「Miria, this is Vesta. From now on, she is going to be our new companion.」
「Please take care of .」
Vesta bows her head to Miria with respect.
「Miria, desu.」
Miria says while pointing at herself, but I introduce her back just in case.
「Vesta, she is Miria. She is another one of my slaves and your companion from this day forward.」
「Big Sister, desu.」
Miria sticks her chest out proudly while pointing towards herself once more. Or perhaps she stuck her chest out to buff her upper body, so that Vesta would look up to her? But anyway, she is supposed to be Vesta’s Older Sister? Well, I did tell her to treat Roxanne as her older sister, but I never said that she should keep that dynamic going with all the other slaves that would be joining my harem.
「Call Big Sister, desu.」
「Big Sister Miria.」
「Vesta, desu.」
Miria stretches her hand out and pats Vesta’s head.
It’s not like her hand didn’t reach her, because it did, but she had to stand on the tips of her toes to do that, and that was quite the comical sight to behold. But Miria tiptoeing and trying her best to stretch out looked heartwarming as well.
Sherry probably would not reach, though, even if she tried, simply because she is too short to do so. I also tried to pat her head gently to comfort her earlier, but I couldn’t do it, unfortunately.
「For the ti being, the five of us are the current Party mbers. In the future, however, this number will increase even further, since we’re going to need a full Party of six people in order to properly tackle even tougher floors of the Labyrinths.」
I declare my intention to expand the harem even further, so that Vesta knows about my plans as well. I had to do it, since now that Vesta joined, I have to build up her proper ntality so that she wouldn’t even think about trying to oppose my harem expansion dreams in the future. Letting the newest harem mbers know about your plans at the very beginning is the most critical step that needs to be taken.
The other three hear it as well.
「Okay.」
「Yes, master.」
「Understood!」
「Good. Shall we go to the Labyrinth now, then?」
Seeing Vesta nod her head, I decide to head back ho. We first wait for Miria to tidy up her fishing tools and then head to the forest where I cast 「Warp」without having to worry about anyone seeing .
Vesta is carrying the basket while Sherry is holding the colander. It is also worth noting that I didn’t ask her to do that. She is doing that out of her own volition, and that is sothing that just scored her a lot of points with .
Once we get back ho, I have Miria put the fishing gear back in the storeroom.
「I have left it there as instructed.」
「Very good, Miria. Very good indeed. Now then, Shall we get going to the Labyrinth already?」
「Yes, we can. With the five of us going, we shouldn’t have any trouble clearing the eighteenth floor right now. As expected of master, you really thought this through.」
「That’s right. I also think that we should be okay now. After all, a Party of five is definitely going to be stronger than a Party of just four.」
All of the girls are saying that they’re okay with us going to the Labyrinth now, but I wonder if they are really okay with it, or are they just saying that in order to comply with my own wish of going to the Labyrinth while placing their own feelings on the backburner?
Well, whatever. Now that the number of people in the Party has increased to five, we should really be okay on the eighteenth floor and manage to clear it without any major difficulties.
With that, we moved on to the eighteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth. Just to be on the safe side I chose Alchemist as one of my Jobs so that I could use 「Plating」if there was ever the need for that.
「Roxanne, go on ahead and find a place with as few of the enemies as possible, alright?」
「As you wish, master.」
With smaller numbers of monsters, I can take them out with Durandal and allow Vesta to just observe my greatness and enjoy the show that I’m putting up.
「Oh, so we can actually go inside of the Labyrinth directly without having to go to the entrance first? That’s pretty convenient.」
「Well, yeah.」
Unfortunately, instead of looking at how cool I was, Vesta was more amazed by the properties of my 「Warp」.
「It’s all thanks to master. He’s the only one who can do that.」
That’s right, Roxanne. Educate her properly on how amazing I am.
「There seems to be just one monster that way.」
Roxanne pointed out, and we followed her with Roxanne at the front, Miria behind her, then Vesta, then Sherry and at the back. Since Roxanne has such a good nose, it’s unlikely that we’re going to be victims of a surprise attack.
Even so, in the narrow corridors of the Labyrinth, Vesta’s height is standing out even more than in the outside world.
Fortunately, the ceiling is not so low for her to bump her head on it, but she’s definitely filling up most of the corridor.
I wonder if monsters are going to feel intimidated by her height, even the flying ones like the Hat Bat? In any case, having Vesta in front of ma makes feel secure…. No, no, no, this is Vesta’s first outing into the Labyrinth with us, so I cannot have her act like a shield right from the get-go, even if it feel that with a proper shield she’d beco a wall that no monster would be able to break.
Just one more person to go, and a full Party is finally going to be complete.
〈To be continued in『A Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon Volu 9』〉
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