bookpower Volume 5 - Ch 5.16
Volume 5 - Ch 5.16
Do not worry, master. I am perfectly fine with it.
What we are doing here, allowing Sherry to be attacked on purpose, is essentially different from being suddenly attacked while fighting seriously, so Sherry will not be able to feel the genuine shock of being attacked like that because she is already waiting for the opponents to attack her, so she is basically anticipating the damage that is going to be inflicted upon her by the opponents.
However, what is the most worrisome at the eleventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth is the possibility of being caught au in the Green Caterpillars sticky threads, because if she ends up getting immobilized by them, even if it was on purpose, then she is not going to be able to do shit to protect herself, and needlessly putting Sherrys life in danger is not what this experiment is all about.
A lot of the enemy groups now contain Green Caterpillars. It is starting to look pretty dangerous, so it is going to be a lot safer to go and try our experiment in a more convenient place without as much of these disgusting bugs as there are here.
Guided by Roxanne, we looked for a group of monsters to confront. The first handy group that we found consisted of a Green Caterpillar and two Escape Goats. Now, with these guys here, the experiment might just work out. Great job, Roxanne! That is what I have initially thought, but the Green Caterpillar did not use his thread spitting attack until the end.
That was a boring group of enemies.
Too weak.
And they did not even use any Skills.
Roxanne and Sherry looked at me strangely. It looks like the Japanese puns do not get translated all too well in Brahim. I should have expected as much. Maybe I should just drop any attempts at witty humor if they are just not going to work?
The next group of enemies consisted of three Green Caterpillars. Is this battle going to be just as easy as the previous one?
Then, do you want go to the eleventh floor of the Vale Labyrinth next?
I quickly changed the subject to defuse the situation that was about to head of in the exact direction where I thought that it was going to go.
Oh yes, we can definitely do that to see how are my new defenses going to fare against the monsters there instead. Good thinking, master!
It is not good thinking, but common sense! Anyway, since Sherry expressed her agreement, we went to the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth next. Fortunately, the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth was not as hard as the eleventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth, so we did not have as many problems traversing through it. As long as Vale is concerned, we should be doing pretty okay here. Now that Sherry had her equipment changed for a better one defense-wise, I feel like I can safely kick back and observe her battles here on the eleventh floor of Vales Labyrinth with the confidence that she is going to be fine and will safely pull her own weight around. That might sound as if I was worried about her performance, but trust me, I was not all that worried since the beginning, because I knew that she was going to make it work one way or another. We then fought our way through the Vale Labyrinths eleventh floor until the evening and then we went back home.
While I was in the middle of preparing dinner, Sherry continued to make dumplings from the broth of the dried-up Shrub Rose leaves. I have to say, the finished product looks quite big, definitely bigger than I have initially anticipated. Instead of being of the same size as the three-colored dango that you put together on a skewer, but instead it is as big as a peony rice cake.
There. It is all dried up nicely and cleanly. And since it is our first time ever making it, we are only going to mix in flour and sugar into it.
I see that you have also made it pretty big, huh?
That is because you do not actually need a lot of them in order to make this plan work. You can put one of them in the kitchen where you have last seen it, and then we can place the rest of them near the entrance to the house.
Sherry then set the dumplings.
Maybe it was only my own imagination, but in my opinion they looked pretty dignified on that table. They look pretty reliable, so I want them to live up to their reputation and prove to be as useful as Sherry describes them to be.