Pet Inn’s Familiar Boarding House.
The morning sun, dazzling in its scarlet hue.
The Queen Ant, oh no—
“I can’t take her on today’s expedition.”
Is Keke-san awake?
“♥～～u”
She has no eyelids, but there’s no light in her eyes.
Without waking the Queen Ant.
I’ll head to Keke-san’s room to see if she’s awake.
I knock and call out.
…No reply.
“She must be asleep.”
I tell the inn staff that if my companion wakes up, there’s something they need to convey.
“So, your familiar can’t move, which is why you’re taking today off from your exploration, right?”
“That’s right, please.”
I give the staff a tip.
This much should be enough for the guy (silver coins).
If it were a woman, I would have paid with gold coins and hit on her, pretending to be rich.
I leave the inn.
I had a light breakfast at a stall outside, and then went to gather the equipment needed to imitate Keke-san’s professional skills.
“First, maybe medicine.”
For now, this town is filled with Apothecaries due to the Labyrinth of Medicinal Herbs.
Naturally, there are good and bad ones.
“…Oh, welcome. It’s rare to have a customer this early in the morning.”
“Ahaha, I just need a medicine I need to make quickly. And I was in such a hurry that I broke my tools.”
“You broke your business tools? Ah, you’re from out of town! You got too excited about the medicinal herbs from this town’s labyrinth, didn’t you?”
Hey, old man.
You’re a good person.
I don’t know about fair prices, but I got all the tools I needed to make medicine.
The money I earned in the labyrinth vanished quite a bit.
(I’ll have to earn it back solo in the labyrinth later.)
“Come back again, young man!”
“Could you give me a bit of a discount?”
“That depends on you, young man.”
Hmph, what a skilled merchant.
At the Labyrinth Management Bureau, built in front of the entrance to the Labyrinth of Medicinal Herbs, I accept requests for monster and magical beast materials from specific floors—requests from the Adventurer’s Guild.
“Now, which floor shall I go to?
The numbers of all the floors I’ve visited float in my mind.
It even allows me to choose the entrance for that floor, which is quite helpful.
I had left the spells to Keke-san.
So this is what it’s like to do it myself. My Lair doesn’t have such convenient functions. What an enviable labyrinth.
“
From the entrance of the Labyrinth’s 1st Floor.
I fly to the 16th Floor.
A Mountain Turtle’s shell, 4600 Caramels each (4 copper coins, 6 small copper coins).
“It’s time to earn!”
My anger still remains. Just looking at its perfectly round body fuels this feeling.
“Kuwa—”
“You’re too straight! !”
“Gwa—. !!”
“You’re too slow!”
Even if it tries to roll into me, I know its sides are weak.
If I deliver even a slight blow. It deviates from its course and crashes into the wall.
It breaks free from the wall, and the its turn is slow.
It’s enough to pierce one of its limbs.
If one of its limbs is injured and it can’t retract it.
Its rolling balance will be thrown off, and your rolling is no longer a threat.
“Become money—!”
19th Floor.
“Quwaaaaa—”
Roll, roll, roll, roll!!!!
“Ah, there were three here. Earth, cave in!”
“???!”
Garter. Out pocket.
Well, if three of them are in a pitfall trap.
They can’t move.
“Fufufu. I’m on top of a shell that can’t roll, you know?”
“Gwa—, Gwa—”
Three turtles are clamoring, “Get me out of here,” “Don’t stand on my shell.”
“If it were a vibration-based attack, a Protagonist would say something like that.”
I place my hand on the shell.
I activate Water Magic, imagining shaking the body within the shell—the water.
Blood pours from the turtle’s mouth and eyes as it struggles to throw me off the shell, but—
Unfortunately, the two unharmed ones are in the way, so you can’t move!
“Gulp, Guava—”
“Gwa—, Gwa—”
“Fuhahaha, tremble, tremble!”
I’ll send the remaining two back to the cycle of reincarnation.
If I master Space Magic.
I can use the Protagonist’s item box.
But mine is a Summon spell where I mark an item and call it.
However, in this labyrinth, no matter how many I mark.
They can only be summoned on the same floor.
So carrying these idiotic shells is a pain.
Outside the exit, I chant the spell.
Carry materials for three turtles to the 1st Floor.
And then huff and puff to the Labyrinth Management Bureau outside.
After cashing in, I return to the entrance of the 1st Floor, chant the spell, and fly to the 19th Floor.
“Gwa—!!”
As I appear in front of the entrance, a large black mist materializes before my eyes.
The turtles are rolling towards me, intending to crush both me and the exit.
“Yes, yes, earth, cave in.”
“???!”
Repeatedly.
I earned more money than I lost at the apothecary, so I had a hearty lunch.
I returned to the inn to see how Keke-san was doing.
“That person you were with has gone out.”
I confirmed this at the inn’s reception counter.
Next, I’ll go check if the Queen Ant has recovered.
“Kishaaaaan♡ (You’re backkkk♡)”
“Whaaat?!”
I was suddenly pinned. I was surprised.
If she were to humanize, her chest, like this armor, would surely, definitely become a magical breast filled with our dreams of softness!
Since the Queen Ant begged, we had sex.
I satisfied the Queen Ant (this girl) until my legs gave out again.
It was past noon, and there were few familiars and animals boarding.
The Queen Ant, with fewer spectators around, let loose even more than last night.
After it was over, I couldn’t feel my knees.
My Vessel Body is strengthened daily by the monsters and magical beasts of the labyrinth.
But this event drains me.
It was dusk, but I asked the staff to convey Keke-san’s message.
Then I hunted again in the labyrinth.
This time I went to the 23rd Floor. I dived in to obtain the flesh and blood of strong beings.
