Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World (LN)

Volume 4 - Ch 2.11

At the same time on my right side, Roxanne was dodging the attacks of the other Cheap Sheep that engaged her in combat and she was alternating between dodges and counterattacks of her Scimitar. She was doing great, but because of the difference in the strength of our weapons, she could not have possibly hoped to defeat her opponent with a single strike as I did.

That is right. Are you watching me, Sherry? Are you registering my swift sword arts in all of their magnificence with your beautiful eyes? Behold my magnificence and be stunned speechless as the second Cheap Sheep that I was fighting got cleaved in half and disappeared into oblivion while leaving its Drop Item behind.

Wow. I cannot believe this! That was so amazing!!!

I know, right? My magnificent performance just now was so cool that it cannot be described as anything other than amazing, right? So come on, Sherry. Praise me more! Shower me with more compliments!

How did you manage to avoid all of the monsters attacks like it was nothing like that?! Are you some kind of evasion genius, Miss Roxanne?!

What the hell, Sherry?! You were supposed to be looking at me and the amazing display of my prowess with my sword, not at Roxanne and her godly dodging skills, goddamn it!!!

I mean, okay, to be perfectly fair, Roxannes ability to dodge literally everything that comes her way is more than just a little amazing, so I guess there is no point in holding it against Sherry that she was so enraptured with Roxannes movements that her eyes were glued to her the entire time. Because come on, this is Roxanne we are talking about here.

I am happy to hear such wonderful words of praise, Sherry, but that was nothing all that special. Actually, with enough practice and training, I am sure that you could have done something like that as well. The exact process differs slightly from monster to monster, but as a general rule, once you observe the monsters for long enough to learn all of its patterns of movements and attacks, dodging all of them will be nothing more than just a matter of timing your dodges properly. In case of those Cheap Sheep we just fought, the right moment would be when they are moving their heads with a *fuuuu*, and that is a signal for you that you should be moving your body away with a *haaaaa* and then. . .

Even though she did not ask for it, Roxanne began giving Sherry a lecture in regards to how a perfect evasive manuevers should have been performed. I do not know why she keeps on being so enthusiastic about making everyone around her learn to do the same thing that she is doing, because I myself should have been a good indicator that not everyone has the aptitude to be as skillful of an artful dodger as she is, but apparently that did nothing to dissuade her from her goal of spreading the glory of the dodges even further. Personally, I stopped trying to mimic her way of evading enemies after a few tries because no matter how hard I tried, I could not replicate any of the movements and motions she was talking about, but who knows, maybe as a fellow girl, Sherry will be able to understand her instructions from beginning and use them to. . . . uh-huh, okay, nevermind what I just said.

After listening to Roxannes ramblings for a few minutes without any pause, Sherry looked at me with a look that was clearly saying: I do not understand what in the hell is she going on about.. Sherry, look. I definitely understand how you are feeling, but please, do not look to me for help with deciphering what Roxanne is saying, because I have no clue aboit it either!

Okay, now that this group of monsters is done for, maybe we should get going and move on to the next one? The criteria are the same as before, by the way.

Ah, yes, right this way, master.

Since it did not look like Roxanne was about to stop monologuing anytime soon, I decided that it would be better if I gave Sherry a helping hand that would drag her out from the barrage of explanations that she obviously did not want to interrupt thinking that it would be rude towards Roxanne. However, her reaction explained to me the one thing that I was not all that sure about up until now: Roxannes ability to perform such skillful dodges each and every time definitely is something that can be considered as abnormal. Up until now I always considered that everyone can do what Roxanne does if they have high enough combat ad gymnastic prowess, but apparently that was not the case at all, which made me feel kind of glad, because that means that Roxanne is the odd one here, and not that something is clearly wrong with me. Good. That is very good to know indeed.

The looks that I exchanged with Sherry after that could have been translated as a following conversation:

See? I have been partnered with someone like that all this time

That must have been pretty rough, huh?

Ahh, it is so good to know that on top of being an intellectual type, Sherry is also a person who sticks to the good old common sense in her daily life. A typically normal girl. My companion in normalcy.

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Roxanne looked at the both of us with a lot of question marks popping up above her head. Understandable, since she could not possibly grasp the gravity of the non-verbal conversation that we were having with each other just now, but that is not really all that important right now. What really matters now is that Sherry and I have reached a universal understanding over this particular matter, meaning that our feelings have become one.

After that, we hunted for a few more groups of monsters until my MP has been fully recovered.

Okay, that should be enough for now. Shall we go back home for the time being?

Yes, whenever you are ready, master.

Yes, let us!

With the approval from both Sherry and Roxanne, there was little else for me to do but to summon a Warp portal on the wall in the entrance room of the Vales Labyrinths fifth floor so that we could all go straight back home.

I will let you guys know when we will have to do it again, so please be ready should the need for that arises, okay?

After informing the two of them that we might have to do it again, I wanted to go straight to the bathroom to resume the process of filling the bathtub, but I was stopped by Sherry, who obviously looked as if she wanted to ask me about something else, but was too shy to actually go through with it.

Uhm. . . well. . .

Yes? What is it, Sherry? If you want to ask me about something, then do not hesitate to do so.

T-Then. . . Is Warp the kind of Movement Magic that allows you to go straight inside of the Labyrinth from anywhere outside of it?!

Oh my, how her attitude has changed in about a split second. She might be more level-leaded and reasonable than Roxanne is, but when it comes to the things that pick her curiosity, it looks like she can be just as hopeless as Roxanne is with the explanations of her dodging techniques. Right now, her eyes are both shining with the kind of light that only those belonging to the intellectual faction can produce. However, since she is rather short, the impact of it was somewhat lessened, and she looked cute rather than anything else just now. If anyone else saw her just now, they would have definitely taken her for a curious kid, and not someone who is going to be coming along to the Labyrinths to defeat monsters with us.

T-Thats right. That is basically how it is.

Ehh? So you really can use magic without speaking the spells chants? But, how can such a thing even be possible?

How can such a thing be possible? W-Well, that is pretty mysterious, I will give you that.

Speaking of which, now that I think about it, I have been only using magic without their chants (or while pretending to be doing so in order to fool everyone around me). I have been mainly doing that while in the Adventurers Guild to make it look like I was using Field Walker while in reality I was casting Warp, but it was all thanks to my Chant Omission Bonus Skill.