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

Volume 6 - Ch 2.04

It is bathed in the light coming in through window, which makes it look even more enchanting. And now that I think about it, seeing the outline of her body peeking through her clothes in the light has its own unique charm, as if I was looking at something that I should not normally be seeing.

I subconsciously extend my hand out to stroke it while looking at her face to see what her reaction to it is going to be. Is she going to be mad at me? Happy? Will she allow me to do it, or maybe she will take her leg away from me while looking at me with an expression of pure disgust on her face? N-No, I cannot think like that! It is going to be okay. It is going to be all right, because I have not done anything wrong.

She is not stopping me, which means that I am not doing anything that she does not like or finds distasteful. Now that I know that what I am doing is nothing wrong, I can easily go all the way. I am wracking every last cell of my brain thinking of how to turn tying the Misanga on her ankle intogoing all the waywith her, but unfortunately nothing really comes to my mind. Ah well, I guess there is no helping it then. I suppress my urge to stroke it, rub my cheeks on it and kiss it, and tie the Sacrificial Misanga on Roxannes ankle like a good boy that I am.

It is fine. I am going to have my fair share of fun with it later tonight. When it comes to these kinds of things, I am the kind of man who is fine with waiting patiently, because I know that the reward that I am going to be receiving at the end of it is going to be that much greater because of it, and now that I have set my eyes on my prey, I am going to be as persistent as I an going to need to be in order not to let that prey get out of my sights.

Thank you very much, master.

Is it not too tightly done? Because I can always loosen it up a little bit if you want.

Thank you, but that is not going to be necessary. It is tied just right.

Roxanne expresses her gratitude after I tie the Sacrificial Misanga for her. Let us see if you will be saying the same things later tonight when I get to have my fun with these lovely feet of yours!

It was only a few days later when I was informed that the Kobold Skill Crystal has actually become available for purchase. The message informing us about it has been delivered to us through exactly the same means as the previous message: when we came back home from the hard day of exploring the Labyrinths, we found a door stuck onto the door of our house, and Roxanne, who could read the letters written in the Brahim language, picked the note up and scanned it with her eyes immediately after she has seen it and then proceeded to relate the notes contents to me. And by the way, I have to make a confession here: due to everything that has been happening lately, I have neglected the process of learning how to read the Brahim letters and how to write in Brahim as well, so I should really try to come back to it as soon as I get the chance. After all, I cannot rely on Roxanne and Sherry to read everything for me forever, can I not?

Master, this is another message from Mr. Luke. Apparently he has made a successful bid for the Kobold Skill Crystal for fifty four hundred Nars.

I told him that he should only go for it for the price was going to be fifty four hundred Nars or lower, and there he went for exactly fifty four hundred, huh? I am just curious how did he managed to obtain it so fast?

Well, is that now obvious? Everybody knows that the middlemen and brokers are a bunch of dirty sleezebags who exchange information with one another at every chance that they get, so it must have been like that this time as well. True, he managed to obtain the Kobold Skill Crystal rather fast, but probably only because he promised a part of what he is going to earn to whoever it was that collaborated with him on this, and so he must have upped the price sufficiently to suit his own needs. How despicable.

At this point, this is pretty much that kind of a secret that everybody and their mother knows about huh? If two or more brokers know exactly how much they are going to be bidding, it will become possible for them to rig the auctions in such a way that no matter which one of them actually ends up winning the item that they have been competing for, they are both going to make a profit out of it, one way or another. Just like Sherry said, it is a dirty and unfair tactic, but it is probably also a one that is commonplace in the world of middlemen, and if that is the case for all the middlemen, and they are all utilizing that tactic and incorporated it as part of their official business model

it will be very difficult to rebel against it, because if it turns out that only one person would try to go against the others and be faithful to the client, they would end up getting completely and utterly crushed by the rest of the competition that would just ganged up on them in order to teach them a lesson and not try to be a nail that is sticking out. Anyway, even though I was hoping that some of the customers would just the Kobold Skill Crystal for less than five thousand Nars, it looks like this is not my lucky day in that regard, but oh well, it cannot be helped I guess.

Now that Luke managed to make a successful bid for the Kobold Skill Crystal, I would like Sherry to fuse that Kobold Skill Crystal together with my new Rod that is also going to be infused with a Goat Skill Crystal. If everything goes well and the fusion turns out to be a successful one, then my battle strength should be improved considerably, and I think we all know that we are going to need as much firepower as we can possibly get if we want to go and venture beyond the twelfth and thirteenth floors of the Labyrinth, right?

Y-Yes, of course! I will do my best!

I explained why I wanted to infuse new Rod with both Kobold and Goat Skill Crystals, but even so, Sherry was still visibly nervous, probably because that is going to be her very first time fusing anything with a Kobold Skill Crystal. If she is going to fail, then it is going to be the same as if she just took those fifty four hundred Nars and flushed them down the drain, and I think that it is that knowledge and the realization of how big of a responsibility is resting upon her shoulders that were making her act up like that.

You do not have to worry about anything, Sherry. I am sure that you are going to do just fine. And, I am sorry for planning something like that out of the blue when I said that we were going to focus on giving your Club Chant Interruption. I promise that we are going to take care of it as soon as you are going to be done with this fusion, so just bear with me for a little while longer, okay?

Of course, master. And please, do not worry yourself about it.

Thanks, Sherry. And while we are already on the topic getting stronger in order to break through the Labyrinth Floors above the twelfth one, there is no doubt that the enemies are only going to get stronger and stronger as time and the Labyrinth floors go, and since it is indispensable for us to keep on increasing our strength and battle potential, then I would like to obtain yet another Party member for ourselves.

Yes, as long as we are talking about expanding our battle potential, there is no matter that would be more important than getting a new harem uhm, I mean Party member for myself. Yeah, that is it, Party member for battle purposes, nothing more.