I know about it, what Boss is made of, what the Beast Queen is made of. Actually, everyone single one of us in the party knew what kind of monstrosity she is and we are glad that she is our ally.

“Hmph, so this is the boss of this floor? What a bore.”

Through the ceiling of the highest floor of the labyrinth bore a huge gap with the translucent blood dyed sky calling the setting of the sun in view. Despite the rocky interior of the room sparing no brittleness, the one standing in front of the large decapitated three meters chunk of armor easily performed a feat we, the party of Reminiscence can do in a matter of a lengthy battle.

With the Katana in her hand bursting with magical energy mixed with a misty flare of black power appealed together with her brilliant tails that seemingly appeared out of nowhere, she destroyed the boss of the labyrinth in one stroke of the blade.

Her powers are pure demonic that it gave us all the chills.

“How long did it take you guys to take it down?”

“About ten minutes…”

And that’s with our full effort staking teamwork at hand. Not only that, we are fully utilizing each other’s weakness and balancing our strength to accommodate the safety of our companion while maximizing our damage output.

But none of us is discouraged by this feat of Boss.

“That’s only natural of me, the Beast Queen.”

It is as she said, she is the Beast Queen and as one who holds the title, it is expected that she is strong and her power is uncommon to us living in the lower hierarchy of the society. I’m actually a noble but I know well that people like Boss, Miss Higanbana, are those who deviated from the norm.

“In the end, Asagao didn’t come. That’s good in itself but I feel a little lonely without seeing her, especially her reaction from me stealing their prey.”

“Uh, what are we going to do now, Boss?”

“What? I’m hungry so let’s go home.”

What I find about strong people is they always have some few loose screws in their head and this one is no exception. As much as most of my companion thirsts for a sweet intimacy with a man, our Boss holds so much affection with the girl called Asagao.

Despite being the same gender, she wanted to take her to bed, bound her in ropes and start doing kinky things with her. Whenever she gets swept in our drunken conversation, she just spills these fantasies inside her head about what she will do to that girl.

The worst was…impregnating her with some weird magical drug out of nowhere.

I don’t want to go deeper into the details but basically, she is quite a frivolous yet broken. I wouldn’t want to aggravate such person with deranged mentality. If it’s not for the generous reward for this mission, I wouldn’t accept it.

Since we are done for the day, we head back down merrily because we are loaded with loots. Even though this is a low-level labyrinth, we made a killing with the boss’ drops. We even have a proof of its subjugation that will fetch us quite a price.

Yeah, that’s what I need…

Money! It’s all I need for now!

Along the way, we didn’t meet with Asagao Lionheart’s party. Instead, there are some rumors saying that their party has retreated far earlier than we expected. Whether someone is injured or not is something we cannot confirm yet.

Boss tried to keep a calm demeanor but we can feel how anxious she is through her hollowed eyes.

Tonight’s going to be a bit horrid, huh?

Or so I thought…

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“HELL YEAH! BOTTOMS UP YOU MAGGOTS!”

Eleanora the Chanter and Neffi the Elven Archer are gulping down beer after beer. Out of us five, these two are the rowdiest bunch. When alcohol is involved, they start becoming hostile to everyone with no exception and they become excessively abusive with words.

“Hey, hey, Thryst, your mug is still half empty! This shan’t do!”

“Ah, wait, you moron! I want to take it easy today!”

“There’s no such thing as TAKING IT EASY WHEN IT COMES TO PARTYING!”

Neffi shoves the bottle of liquor in my mouth. Her somewhat frail arm possesses an extremely superior strength than mine. I offered no resistance from her assault and my throat is basked in an endless stream of alcohol.

“YO! Chug it down!”

“BLUruruguughuhu!”

Eleanora cheered viciously and I can feel the alcohol starts spilling from my nose and I’m actually choking on it. My eyes started rolling backward and my grip on Neffi’s hand flails desperately.

Lu immediately mediated as she grabs the bottle of wine from Neffi’s hand and took it away from her. I immediately cough everything that was forced into my mouth, albeit my head spins vigorously because of the influence of the booze.

“You’re going to kill her!”

“No, she won’t! Also, she deserved it because she’s flaring her a-bit-prettier-face! It damn pisses me off!”

“The issue is in your personalities…”

“Lu, you’re talking back?!”

“Derria, help!”

Lu the Tank immediately cried out for reinforcement! She called out to Derria the Enchanter, however, the person she was looking for was drinking peacefully in one side of the tavern, ignoring everything while serenading again in her olden memories.

Derria the Oni may not look like it but she is quite old.

I forgot to mention…

The shithole we are right now is called the Midforest Tavern. This is an establishment that both cater to a pub and for an inn in the border of the Dwarven Kingdom and the Demon Kingdom which is also close to the Elven Kingdom border.

It’s quite a large establishment in the midst of a forest with a visible pathway. There are ample amount of customers like us but it is mostly us making the racket.

Considering that our targets are royal lineages and rich girls, they wouldn’t want to sleep in this kind of shoddy place so we are confident of using this as our base.

They provide for both bed and booze.

As a precaution, we had Eleanora set up detection magic in the vicinity specially made to detect the princess group. We also keep someone up at night for a watch in intervals to make sure we won’t get detected or followed.

Since this tavern’s master is quite needy, we can bribe him to keep our identities a secret and confide him to not say any information to anyone who is investigating us.

“Thryst.”

“Hmm?! What is it, Derria?”

“Won’t you come here and accompany me?”

I vigorously shook my head from Derria’s offer!

Even though Neffi and Eleanora are the drunken bastards that love drinking, they cannot come close to Derria’s tolerance with liquors. However, Derria knew that even among us, I am the only one who can keep up with her long drinking streak.

For a human, I have a high tolerance but it doesn’t make me happy at all. Then among us, Lu has the lowest tolerance so that’s why she moderately drinks.

“Let’s drown all of our sorrows. The sadness seeping into our existence is nothing more than a sand in the desert, many grains of it but endless.”

“Lu entered melancholy mode!”

When Lu gets drunk, she becomes an extremely negative person that believes in nothing but despair awaits us, in the end, our life, a nihilistic believer. A person rode with despair and anxiety and that’s why we call her melancholic Lu.

“The world will eventually meet its end so why do we even try our best to live our lives? We will decay and becomes part of the world once again but it doesn’t bring us satisfaction over the fact that we are going to die anyway. People are always in pursuit of their desires that they can’t--!”

“Shut up! You are ruining the mood! Right?! Right?!”

Eleanora shouted while getting approval from other adventurers in the dining hall. They all nodded reluctantly while showing visible fear of Eleanora and Neffi’s actions.

“Oh, young man, you look free. Do you want to hang out with us big sis?”

“Eh?! Um, well we still got…things to do…”

A boy from another table has become a victim of Eleanora. The boy was shaking shoulder to knees from Eleanora’s aggressive approach and I am guessing he is extremely terrified from the leaking smell of the booze from that perverted woman’s mouth.

Not long after, the boy dashes upstairs.

“HUH?! You had an opportunity to take this nice big sis into your embrace!”

“You blew him away with your bad personality…”

“Who the fuck said that?!”

It’s actually Derria who muttered those words in a low voice, however, Eleanora caught her words but seems can’t detect who uttered it.

“Hey, who said that!? Is it you?!”

Eventually, Eleanora pointed her finger at Derria.

“Huh? Nah, it was her.”

“Huh?! Don’t drag me into this!”

The girl whom Derria pointed was none other than Boss, or rather, Beast Queen Higanbana. Right now, she is in her original form showing her beautiful fox ears and caramel hair. Upon Derria’s false accusation, Miss Higanbana jolts from her seat as she was eating in peace.

Derria’s face was painted with satisfaction as she broke into a faint smile while Miss Higanbana knitted her brows.

“Hey, hey, even if you are our employer, there are shits you can’t cross!”

“That’s why I’m telling you it’s not me! Get away from me! Your breath stinks!”

“Now, now, employer! You should start getting used to drinking while still young! Come on, drink up too, you bastard!”

“Don’t touch me!”

“DRINK! YOU AND YOUR PRIVILEGED PRETTY FACES THAT CAN EASILY ATTRACT PEOPLE NEEDS TO KNOW THE UGLINESS OF BEING DRUNK!”

“Stop this bitch!”

Our employer shouted in panic.

It seems she can’t hold a candle against drunkards and that’s fun to see considering she is pretty stoic and emotionless most of the time. Miss Aina who is our supplier of weapons and a blacksmith, is sleeping next to Miss Higanbana.

I tried looking at the head of the tavern.

“……”

“…Hey.”

He ignored my pleading gaze and pretends that he is cleaning some glass with a cloth. He clearly doesn’t want to get involved with us!

Every single night turns like this…

Chaotic and full of drinking…

Suddenly, the door of the tavern opens and a figure of a woman enters. She is fully garbed with a magician’s clothes with a purple motif.

“Lively as ever, huh.”

“Ah, you’re here. It’s time to reevaluate our plan, no?”

Miss Higanbana forcibly peeled Eleanora away from her to walk up to the new figure. Actually, we knew who this woman is.

She is Miss Higanbana’s collaborator in this mission and she brings us information every single day. It’s more like she is watching our enemy’s movement from a close proximity.

“Miss Violetta, shall we talk in private?”

“No, here is fine.”

This woman doesn’t just monitor the group of Asagao Lionheart, she is also giving us details of the technology the dwarves use and when is the optimal time to destroy it.

In other words, this woman and Miss Higanbana are collaborating on destroying this war with a roundabout means.