After disposing of the bodies, we ended up returning to the inn with a direct portal. By that point, it was past midnight and my portals had been restored. I took a glance at the mural on the wall. It looked like a Cinderella story. A woman who was a servant fell for her prince. The last image showed the pair kissing. So, the man and woman who got married were a servant and a prince? I guess that meant there would be more complications when he died. Perhaps, no one wanted to see her as a legitimate noble. I’d need to reach level 9 to see more.
The next morning, I knocked on the door next to ours and opened it up. There is a groggy wolf girl standing there with her ears lowered and her tail out. She’s in nothing but her underwear though, giving off a somewhat erotic feel. Her breasts were comparable to Miki’s, which is to say about a handful. Yet, where Miki had a delicate and fragile appearance, she was more rugged and fit. If Miki was soft and dreamy, then Raissa was more sleek and energetic.
“Eeeek!’ She screamed and a pillow hit me in the face.
I had been so used to the girls and their seemingly unconcerned atmosphere whether I saw them naked or not, that it had slipped my mind that normal people needed privacy. I only knocked out of instinct, but I hadn’t bothered to wait for an answer. The result was a very angry and flustered Raissa, who tossed increasingly larger things the longer I stood at the door.
“Sorry.” I managed to close the door just before something large hit it with a thump.
“Master…” Lydia said in an admonishing voice. “You must marry her before you do those kinds of things.”
“I do those kinds of things with you!”
That wasn’t the words I meant to say, but they slipped out before I could help myself. I really wanted to know where she got the idea our relationship was heading in that direction!
“Master, we’re slaves. That’s why Master can play with us all night.”
I blinked at her logic, but the other girls behind her were also nodding as if this was obvious.
“Mm… that’s why even after Master gets married, he can play with us all he wants!” Miki added. “It doesn’t count!”
“I-i-in fact, it’s proper that Master uses us more than his wife!” Terra declared.
“Shhh… you’re pushing it!” Lydia and Miki grab Terra and cover her mouth.
Why did I feel that recently the girls had become exceptionally mischievous? I’d need to weave the boy who cried wolf into my next dungeon curse tale. They needed to learn to not fib or mislead, as it’s bad for their master’s health.
Raissa finally came out, now in her ninja… I mean adventurer’s garb. She looks up at me with her head down and her hand holding her other arm.
“You saw…” She said shyly, giving off a dangerous cute vibe.
“I didn’t!” I denied everything.
The only bit of advice I remembered my old man ever telling me before he left was, when you get caught, deny everything. Actually, upon reflection, the man who abandoned me as a child was probably not the best person to take this kind of advice from.
“You saw nothing…” She said that while looking almost disappointed.
Wait! She believed me? Isn’t that a bit too easy! Did I unlock a lying spell since I had last leveled up? I even went so far as to check my skillsets again. Nope, nothing yet.
“Ah… well… we should move quickly so we don’t run into those knights again…” Raissa said, trying to hide her own fear from her attackers behind her bravado.
As a Dungeon Diver, she was used to risking her life. Apparently, she was good at pushing this kind of stuff behind her and moving on.
“It won’t be a problem,” I announced.
“Eh?” Raissa blinked.
I decided it was better if we didn’t tell her what happened last night. She apparently slept as the rest of us snuck out and then returned. Well, I returned with a portal, so no one would have seen us return.
I made sure we were all seen in the commons room, and then made a sigh about how we’ll head back to the city. I muttered something about the city being expensive and us needing money first. After that, we headed to the adventurer’s guild.