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

Volume 6 - Ch 5.5

Master, look, there was a Ring of Determination among one of the Bandits possessions.

There was a Ring of Determination in the Bandits equipment. Its an accessory with Skills that one of the Bandits had equipped on them. It might have some useful effects on it, but since its classified as an accessory, then does that not mean that it is going to be conflicting with our Sacrificial Misangas? Its a good thing that none of the enemies we fought against was wearing these, because then the battle might have ended very differently than how it did today.

I think it might be ne of the legendary items.

Sherry informs me. A legendary item, she says? In that case this is definitely going to be a good accessory.

As for weapons, there are two Steel Swords, and an Iron Sword. None of them had any Empty Skill Slots on it, so I immediately lost my interest with them, but I might keep the Steel Sword for now to have a spare just in case if we ever needed one.

Next is one Rapier, and one Steel Shield. This is the equipment that belonged to the Pirate Lv.67.

A Rapier, huh?

Yes, its a thrusting sword. Its a higher-level sword meant for stabbing instead of slashing. It uses a different combat style too.

Would it be good for Roxanne?

It would be. The rapiers also have a blade, so it can be used for slashing as well, if need arises.

Is the attack style for a rapier something akin to fencing? In that case, It should really be alright for Roxanne to use it.

Then the rapier goes to Roxanne, and the Scimitar with Iron Shield go to Miria.

I pass the Steel Shield and Rapier to Roxanne. She tells Miria something, and passes her the Iron Shield and Scimitar. Sherry receives the Dagger and a Wooden Shield from Miria, and puts it in her Item Box.

Next were the ten Magic Crystals. The Bandits seem to have had one each. When you sell Magic Crystals in the Guild, they dont check your Intelligence Card, and they mustve known that.

There was one yellow Magic Crystal. A Yellow Magic Crystal is quite precious, since more than one hundred thousand monsters need to be defeated to make it like that, so itmight be more valuable than the reward money for the Bandits.

Uhm. Even though its still early we should return to the house. You should wipe your body, and your clothes should be washed. The equipment needs to be given maintenance as well.

After weve picked up everything, Roxanne makes a suggestion. There is blood on my clothes indeed, and it possibly may also be on my face.

Should I return straight away? I cant fight with this bundle of hands. I dont need to take any Recovery Medicine anymore since I absorbed MP from the Bandits, so I have enough MP to do it.

We returned to the house. The eastern sky is getting brighter, meaning that the sun will rise soon. I take my clothes off at once, and wipe my body in the bathroom while Roxanne washed my clothes for me.

Roxanne, sorry for what happened today.

I was able to defeat the Bandits, but it was careless to have fought with them in the first place. I shouldve never fallen into their trap in the first place. I dont know how things would have gone if there were other strong Bandits as our opponents. Ill have to be more careful next time.

It would have been traumatic if I had just come to this world and went through something like this. I would have withdrawn from everything, and not spent all my time in the Labyrinths at all anymore. So why arent I doing that now? Its because of my past experiences.

I have grown quite used to fighting for a while now. It is not a foreign concept for me anymore, and since I know that fighting in the Labyrinths is pretty much the only thing that I can do right now in order to earn good money out of it, Im willing to fight to continue living they way that I am living now, and I can handle everything that come with fighting, be it physical pain from getting myself hurt by the monsters from the Labyrinths or the mental strain that comes with the realization that when youre fighting against Bandits, Thieves or other kinds of outlaws, youre not slaying just some random monsters generated by the Labyrinths, but actual human beings much like myself, Roxanne or Sherry.

It all boils down to pretty simple facts: these Bandits fought with me because they wanted to kill me so that they could sell my possessions and turn my female slaves into their own personal playthings, and I fought against them because I wanted to prevent them from doing all of that. In the end I was the one who emerged victorious from that battle in which the odds were all stacked heavily against me, so it means that I was in the right here, an they were the ones who were in the wrong.

Besides, ever since I first came to this new world, Ive made a decision that I am going to live in it now, and since Ive already decided that, it would not be bad to get myself as accustomed to combat and fighting as possible, since fighting seems be an integral part of the lives of pretty much anyone inhabiting the world of this game.

But still, getting myself accustomed to combat doesnt change the fact that fighting against Bandits or monsters with my life on the line in each and every encounter is still a frightening experience.

And while we are on the subject of fighting, it remains a fact that not everyone is going to be equally skilled at it. Different people are going to possess different kinds and degrees of battle potential, and it is my duty as the Party leader to judge that potential carefully in order to decide if the battle that we might get ourselves into is actually worth fighting or not. If Im not going to be capable of doing at least that, then at some point were definitely going to be caught off guard and pay the heavy price for my own ignorance.

The most important thing is that I won and that we all managed to survive that encounter without any losses on our side, so I might as well treat what happened today as a pretty harsh, but otherwise a very useful lesson for the future.

What do you mean? It was a splendid fight, and killing Bandits, Thieves and all the other kinds of lawless scum is the perfectly natural thing to be doing, so there is nothing for you to feel sorry about. If anything, you should be proud that you managed to defeat so many of them on your own!

What Roxanne said just now only proves that fighting is such a common element of the lives of even the ordinary people of this world that no one really sees it as something strange or out of place, and even though at the beginning it was a little hard for me to get used to it, then I think that enough time has passed that I slowly started assimilating the same mindset for myself.

After wiping my body thoroughly to ensure that not even a speck of the Bandits blood was going to be left on me, I left the bathroom and grabbed myself a change of fresh clothing.

Since I have a moment of spare time on my hands right now, I think it is going to be a good idea to go and reorganize my Item Box a little bit. I wouldnt exactly call it doing its spring cleaning, but I need to free some of its space up in order not to run out of it pretty soon.

Roxanne, Sherry and Miria are sitting together as theyre performing the maintenance work on their equipment, so I sat myself a little bit to the side of them and proceeded to see what exactly I can do in order for my Item Box to be less cluttered so that I could go on for a little while longer without the need to switch any of my current Jobs with Cook to increase the overall amount of the free space in it.

First things first, I am going to merge all of the Magic Crystals that the Bandits had on them into a single one so that it would only occupy a single space of my inventory.

Out of all the Magic Crystals that can be obtained by those delving into the Labyrinths, White Magic Crystal is the most valuable one of them all.