Raising Slaves on the Other World While on a Journey Chapter 14

「Haa」

Sara finished off the remaining muscle mushroom.
With this, all of the monsters in this room have been subjugated.

「Good job」

I put the corpses of the scattered enemies around the room into the item box.
After the battle, although everyone is dead tired, they are all smiling joyfully after hearing my words.

It’s been 3 days since we left the Town of Aranda. Currently, we’re located about 60 kilometers east of the town, in a rank 4 dungeon.

This dungeon is based on clearing rooms of monsters. After you enter a room, you have to kill all the monsters there, and then the door to the next room will open. It’s a different room every time.

Currently, we are in the 8th room. So far, as a result of continuous fighting, the girls have accumulated a lot of fatigue.

You have to enter the next room within 3 minutes of completing the current room, or you will be thrown out of the dungeon. After conquering the 5th floor, the girls experienced this phenomena on their own. They took a break because of the fatigue, and were thrown out of the dungeon. They had to start all over from the beginning again.

「Should I do the next room?」

「I don’t need your help with a dungeon of this rank!」

Muu, these past few days nobody has relied on me. I feel lonely.

Ever since we entered this dungeon, all I’ve been doing is collecting the corpses.
Everyone is fighting desperately, and I’m just picking up corpses. I feel a little empty inside.

「Ano, Maika-san… Maika-san can use alchemy, right? Can you make some potions that recover stamina by any chance?」
「Wait a minute」

After Mira’s question, I opened the system screen and looked at the list of potions I could create.

In addition, this is the first time I’m being relied on in a while. I must be useful.

I look, look some more, and look even more… I don’t have enough material.

「P-please don’t be depressed!」

「Un, thank you」

Aa, my heart is touched by the kindness of Celica and Mira.

「Oi, how long are you going to stay like that. If we don’t hurry, we’ll be thrown out again」

Oh yes, that’s right. I can’t be depressed forever.

Waiting for us in the next room we enter, there are 4 lizardmen.

Is it finally my turn?

「Alright, it’s my tur…」
「Maika-san please stay there」

What caused this I wonder. I feel like over these last few days everyone has lost their hesitation towards me. In particular, it looks like Mira, who was the most afraid of me at first, had just been acting scared the entire time.

I want them to depend on me more though, but eventually they’ll be able to live without me. If everyone wished for their freedom I don’t know what I’d do. Let’s lock these feelings deep within my chest.

「Onee-chan, you take on the right one. Celica-san, you take the left one. Charlotte-chan, please support them with you magic」

「I understand」
「Roger that」

Just like Mira commanded, Sara attacks the lizardman on the right, while Celica attacks the one on the left.

「Nightmare!」

Tentacles appear from their shadows and restrict the movement of the 2 lizardmen.
At that same moment, Mira shoots an arrow towards the head of the imobilized lizardman.

「This lady is also heading to the front!」
「Yes, please do so」

One of the remaining lizardmen was killed by Mira’s arrow, while Charlotte punches the head of the second one. Charlotte then surprises the lizardman Sara was fighting against from behind.

After finishing off three of the lizardmen, the girls rally with Celica. The lizardman’s sword breaks, and Celica deals the finishing blow.

It was an overwhelming victory.

Everyone is growing faster than I had expected.

If that’s the case, what will I do?

We open the door to the next room.

The last time we were here, the 4 were disappointed because they weren’t able to defeat this enemy.

I thought it would finally be my time to shine, but the girls don’t seem to have given up yet.

Looking at this scene, I decided that I’ll refrain from entering this battle.

「Let’s go. Celica-san, you’re the vanguard. Onee-chan use [Wind Cutter]. Charlotte-chan please use [Nightmare]」

After Mira finishes giving her orders, Celica steps to the front with her large sword, Sara starts to concentrate on her magic, and Charlotte starts chanting.

「Yaa」

Celica attacks the golem. She doesn’t lose to it in strength like the last time they clashed. Actually, Celica now has even more strength than the golem does.

「Nightmare!」

「Mirage」

Charlotte’s, Sara’s, and Mira’s magic flies towards the golem. The tentacles produced by Charlotte’s magic stops the movements of the golem’s lower half. The golem tries to avoid Sara’s magic, but Mira’s Mirage magic hides the Wind Cutter, and its movements have already been sealed by Nightmare anyway.

Celica took this chance to swing her sword at the core, and completely destroys it.
To defeat the golem this easily, I’m surprised.

「Everyone has become really strong」

After the battle, I told them my honest opinion, and the girls flushed red in embarrassed from my praise.

「After that time Maika-san fell unconscious, we decided on this together. We can’t save the world if we are merely baggage to Maika-san. We wanted to show you that we can capture a dungeon on our own, but we are still weak」

「We know that Maika-san does a lot for us. We also want to help Maika-san, but the only thing we can do is to get stronger ourselves」
「Maa, that’s why. You’re the only one who can defeat something like that stupid big troll from before. You’re strong, so you can leave the small fries to us. Maa, I will soon overtake you though」

After hearing the words of Sara, Celica, Mira, and Charlotte, my chest becomes hot.

That’s dangerous. Honestly, I want them to follow me from behind for a while. That way I can protect them directly.

Then, the things I must do consist of reducing the danger these girls will face, offering them the most support I can, and destroying any enemies the girls can’t take on by themselves.

「I understand. But promise me this one thing. Never overdo it」

「Ou」

With that decided, once we leave this dungeon, let’s learn some production skills with everyone.

It will be busier from now on.

Since we defeated the golem, we entered the next room. The room was quite small, and it had a blue shining crystal in the centre of it.

When I collect the core, the dungeon starts to disintegrate into light particles and fades away.

That reminds me, did the dungeon disappear when I took the troll with me? Let’s ask Maria later.
I was thinking about such things while watching this scene.

Chapter end