Chapter 58 - Volume 8 (1/2)

Overlord Volume 8 Side 2 (1/2)

A day in Nazarick

Translators: Rockgolle: Skythewood, Nael, Ferro, NoirX, Zack Tan, SifaV6

Special thanks to Anon

5:14 Nazarick Tiathered at the end of the golden faucet, and it sloelled, until at last it was pulled down by gravity and splashed onto the floor of the bathroo facilities within the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, and this was one of them

Soh to accommodate several people at once

Blue water dripped off a slippery white body This blue color was not a literary allusion, but an actual blue color, as though it had been produced through a deliberate application of dye

A blue-colored liquid licked at the porcelain-like body, starting froravity and crawled upwards, unlike the water which flowed in all directions

“…Fuaahhhh…”

The bathroom was very echo-friendly, and the thus words which had unconsciously slipped out were unexpectedly loud within its confines

Perhaps it was ashaed from the blue liquid The expected sound of water droplets and ripples in the water’s surface were nowhere to be found That was because this liquid was abnormally viscous

The upraised hand caressed a face which many had praised for its beauty

“Haa~”

The person in question sighed softly, then let itself fall backwards into the liquid However, that person’s body did not sink into the water Rather, the blue liquid slowly caught that person’s slender frame The softness resembled a waterbed

The liquid was clearly sapient

That point was proan to writhe, extruding several tentacles that were the thickness of one or two fingers each These tentacles began to h to e within the blue liquid as well

It touched the face, the chest, the belly, the ar its prey, the liquid began squirh satisfied In truth, it was a Sapphire Slih-level sli, thin tentacles which wrapped the body

The tentacles infiltrated the tiny crevices of the groin

“─Ahhhhhh…”

The cry rang out once more While it was louder than before, that person did not think about lowering their voice this ti around and writhing within their body

The sound of soh the bathrooood for words”

The person within the bathtub ─ Ainz ─ muttered to himself as he took a slime bath

He scooped up a handful of slime and poured it onto his head The sli out the crevices of his pelvis seemed to sense where itsaround on his head

“Huu, this is paradise”

Ainz’s undead body was composed entirely of bones

He had no metabolism, so his body would not stink or become dirty from bodily wastes However, this did not mean he did not need to bathe After all, dust and soot still accumulated on him, and sometimes he would be splashed by his eneet dirty

Besides, as a japanese person, he felt very unco

“I could only take steainal world) So once I knew I could bathe here, I wanted to soak rained practice for japanese people”

He went through thewhile he sank further into the slime The slippery sensation received and accepted his body

It would not feel strange if he treated it as a viscous liquid

Nor is very troublesome

Ainz lowered his head to look at the most troublesome part of his body

The rows of his ribs ca each rib one by one was very troublesole frohed ─ despite the fact that he did not need to breathe

That was not the only troubleso

His spine was the saed his towel, and he could not clean theo He had to slowly clean each individual vertebra

At the beginning, Ainz had taken great care in bathing hian to find it tiresome, despite his supposed mental resilience It took at least half an hour to bathe, and he could not help but think “Are you kidding me?”

After that, he decided to soak into soapy water and turn around inside it like a washi+ng ood idea The problem was that he did not feel clean If he did not scrub hiotten all the dirt off hi that, he used a handled brush to scrub himself That was quite effective

Granted, the soap and foah Ainz was the one cleaning it anyway Cleaning was the hted at the chance to show their stuff It was truly a in situation

However, even this good idea was flawed

That flaas not knowing if he had really scrubbed hi a cavity despite carefully brushi+ng one’s teeth; though he thought he had scrubbed himself from head to toe, he was still worried that he hadsome part of himself

In the end, Ainz hit on this solution, which was to let a sliht, it’s truly revolutionary and unique, a perfect technique that can’t be faulted,” heall over himself

Ainz nodded happily, satisfied by theFor all he knew, this ht up since he came to this world

“Well done, me!”

As Ainz praised himself once more, he looked to the slime which industriously oozed all over him

How cute…

Monsters like these were extremely vicious; they could dissolve their eneh to bend iron bars with ease Yet to Ainz, they were his bathhouse attendants, who helped get him clean To some extent, they felt like pets

Still, while sliular bath sometime

There were all sorts of facilities on the 9th Floor of Nazarick One of the sub-facilities theo bathe there and see what it’s like…”

That said, bathing by hiht! I’ll get the Guardians to go with ood if there’s a tiood idea

7:14 Nazarick Time

There were two types of roup was the combat ular maids who had no combat abilities The latter were homunculi, with a combined racial and job level of 1, and they were responsible for various jobs in the 10th and 9th floor of Nazarick In particular, cleaning the various Supres’ rooms was a task of utularthe corridor, for she was in a rush This was a si ─ and it carried her to the cafeteria

There was only one reason to go to the cafeteria at this tiues had already gathered for breakfast and started eating

The cafeteria was predominantly white in color, with sparse decoration The echo of the girls’ cheerful chatter echoed off the walls like ripples in water It would not have been much of a problem if there was only one person, but since there were , their voices blended into one inco tableware added to the din

The roups

The first three groups were sorted according to their creators There were 41 regularhad created their own ular maids were created by the trirumvirate of Whitebri, the last group was not a proper group by itself It was composed of those roups in order to eat in silence, to eat while reading or to talk to s

Sixth, who had arrived late at the cafeteria, belonged to the last group

She waved to theas herself —they were her sisters, in a sense— and then headed to her usual place

“GoodAnd yes, we’ve already eaten Breakfast was so good~ so crea that deadpan reply was called Foire She was bad at lying, but lied anyway She had short hair and her etic appearance

Contrasting her was Luleam in her blonde hair, which sparkled like there were stars in it

“Good─Foire, since you shouldn’t need seconds, you can wait here for us I haven’t had breakfast yet, so I’o”

Lumiere stood, trailed closely by Foire, as frantically saying, “I was just kidding, really~”

After concluding their usual dialogue, the three of them went over to the self-service buffet counter Naturally, they had thea book beside the Sixth took at the buffet bar was a serving of crispy bacon As a member of the faction which believed that “soft bacon is the devil”, she alent for that first Next, she helped herself to some soup Of the three flavours today —soup of the day, corn and onion— she selected the last After that were sausages, french fries and danishes Her other plate was piled high with onion salad, al Finally, Sixth placed an order with a masked manservant

“Um, I’ll have triple cheese, double onions, and extrathe omelette

Sixth returned to her seat to put down her dishes, and then poured herself a glass ofwith her freshly-prepared omelette

“Thank you very much”

The flawless oe mark on it, and she returned to her place just as her friends did

“Then, let’s eat!”

“Let’s eat~”

“Let’s eat”

The three of them had their breakfast in silence Slowly but steadily, they transferred the irl would consume — from their plates into their bellies It was because they all possessed increased appetites, as a racial penalty

Because of that, even though they were a

Foire chehile her cheeks were bulging with food, Luantly, but her fork moved at a ferocious speed, and Sixth ate at a rate in between the two

Soon, their plates had e swiftness, and the three of thelasses after that

“Huuu…”

The three of them exhaled, the scent of milk heavy on their breath, and then looked at each other

“Seconds?”

“Sounds good, but let’s take a break first”

“I approve~ Feeling kinda stuffed now, anyway Say, Sixth, isn’t it your turn to serve Ainz-sama today? You seem more determined than usual today”

Foire smiled mischievously, and so did Sixth

“Lucky you, how er will it be until it’s ers

The rooms of Nazarick’s supreme rulers were massive in scale, so much so that one person would need half a day or more to clean one of them carefully While the maids had the raw numbers to clean them all on a daily basis, even with Albedo’s spare room factored in, that would require a lot of people to work all day without any rest

However, this was not a problem to the round To that they should work their fingers to the bone for the their Gods

And then, these fanatical workers had been told to stop by the God-like being, Ainz Ooal Gown

Ainz knew the hardshi+ps of working under unethical coirls, ere like his friends’ daughters, suffer like that

He had told them, “Don’t clean the unused rooms so frequently”, and then “You ork and rest ion shi+fts”

Thus, the regular anized into two shi+fts; the day shi+ft and the night shi+ft The former had 30 people and the latter had 10, while the one re days for the maids, the announcement that they would have a break every 41 days was met with complaints

It was not that there were too few days off, but the opposite They requested that the day off be cancelled

Ultis was the reason for their existence Telling theed their sense of self-worth and er needed

As such, the maids decided to discuss the matter with Ainz They said, “Please don’t take our jobs”, “We want to do it all day and night”, and so on

Ainz shot the suggestion down on the spot The concept of fatigue existed in YGGDRASIL and while it could be easily reue would be healed as easily in this world Even with rade their ability to function, like a cogwheel losing its teeth

Yet, the maids adaave in and proposed a new type of work for them

They would have to personally serve Ainz

That task entailed staying by Ainz’s side to attend to his every need and whi that role

This offer was as tereatest joy in life was to serve the Supreht, along with the order that “you need to take care of yourselves and rest well the day before, so you can serve with all your strength when it’s your turn”

“We need our nutrients so we can work hard, you know Plus, depending on the circuht need to skip a meal too”

“Of course, when you serve Ainz-saet”

“I want soirls nodded in unison Incidentally, all the maids carried several meals’ worth of candy and other such treats on them They would snack on the Ainz However, be it fortunate or not, they si meal was very important to the to cook using ingredients fro”

The other two gasped at Sixth’s stateht

Few of the ht well of the outside world — the world that lay beyond Nazarick Some of them felt that the outside world was inferior to Nazarick, but ht above their home, the 8th floor, had once been invaded by people fro the tasting? Or will only a few of us be allowed to go?”

Just as Sixth was about to answer Foire’s question, the ated The air itself seemed to heat up

As the newcoht

“shi+zu-chan!”

“It’s shi+zu-chan!”

The person who had just entered the cafeteria was one of the Pleiades, CZ

The battle ular maids, and CZ was the les to sit next to her

“Ah, the penguin’s here too”

CZ held a penguin under her ar behind her It was the assistant Butler, Eclair He flapped his wings with all his strength, but there was no way he could escape with the strength of a level 1 Birdor as the uin ran out of strength and went limp, like a real stuffed doll

““shi+zu-chan! Over here, over here! Come eat with us!”

“No, come over here! shi+zu-chaaaan~”

“Just throw that butler away! Over there would be fine!”

“Send that useless bird to the head chef, at least he’ll contribute to Nazarick that way!”

There was a marked difference in the reception that the assistant Butler and CZ received from the maids, but that could not be helped He was disliked because he loudly proclai a mere assistant butler Even if he had been created that way by the Supres, his frequent announcements of those ords h the co for someone The adorable way in which she did so, like she were a child who did not knohere to sit, made many of the maids’ hearts beat faster

“Even that bird looks cute when shi+zu-chan holds hi pillow Albedo-sama seems to kno to make those, I wonder if she’ll teach ree Why don’t you try asking her next ti with an audible thud came from the next table over, and when Sixth turned to look, her eyesnoisy, so I’ to Ainz-sama today, you should probably finish breakfast quickly and head over to him Anysaid her piece, Incre for a reply As she watched her fellow maid leave, Sixth took out her pocket watch Fortunately, she still had so up, she should be just in tirab some more stuff to eat while everyone’s focused on shi+zu-chan!”

Foire and Lumiere nodded at Sixth’s idea

“Oh~ that’s a nice idea~su”

The sudden answer froina-san!”

With hands clasped over her lurching heart, Sixth turned to face the source of the voice There had been nobody there just a ina had appeared out of nowhere while everyone was distracted by shi+zu and looking away She sat sideways on a chair with her legs up on the table and even had a share of her own food

“Please don’t scare us like that, honestly~”

Foire was still clinging tightly to Lumiere, her eyebrows pressed into a / shape

“My heart almost jumped out of my mouth~”

Lu to her She spoke quietly, like she had been scared out of her wits

The three of theina, yet they were actually just a little happy inside That was because Lupusregina was the only one of the battle h her actions were hard to predict She spent her ti approached by her was a sign of good fortune The best proof was how soroup with envious eyes

“Nishi+shi+, seeo to waste, you three gave ina supported her face with her arrin on her face, made her look a little like a cat out of the storybooks Although her sly char Sixth watched the battle maid smile for a while, utterly fascinated by her

The other two seemed to feel the same way, but the first to recover was Foire

“The village?”

Foire tilted her head, which ainst Lue to sneeze and shoved Foire away, and then she rearranged herself so she was looking Lupusregina straight in the face

“Lupusregina-san, you work outside, right?”

“Yup, in the huh”

Luina with sy like that! Since Ainz-sah, I have to say, it’s kind of boring How should I put this… it would be so much more fun to squish them beneath my feet”

Sixth had no particular opinion about that statees and whatnot were unimportant to her Whether they prospered or were destroyed, the only thing that mattered was if they were useful to Nazarick

“Coe was very valuable, but I don’t see it~su”

“Given Ainz-sama’s personality, he must have said so because he pitied the miserable little humans there”

“No, no, Ainz-sa for the right ht?”

“What are you saying? Don’t you know Ainz-saenius? All this must be part of his plan”

“Ara, I can’t pretend I didn’t hear that Isn’t Ainz-sama’s power the best part of hiirls stared at each other, none of the to back down

“Ainz-sama is a beautiful, compassionate person”

“Ainz-sama is Death, come for this world”

“Ainz-sama is an incomparable hero”

“Oh, looks like everyone has a different impression of Ainz-sama Then, let’s have a competition We’ll see who can pick out the most suitable title for Ainz-saina earing her usual se’s qualities and was unwilling to admit defeat However, Sixth and her two friends felt the sas, but their respect and adoration of their master was no less than that of anyone else’s

“Then, the three of you may start off ~su”

“In that case… “

Lumiere was the first to speak

“Then, as I said earlier, I wish to praise Ainz-saure of beautiful porcelain, shi+ning and flawless, the gentle lord of oing to praise Ainz-saht! As a ruler of death, what could bethan ‘Memento Mori’?”

The third was Sixth

“Ainz-sas, so his ’”

Although everyone’s naht that their own choices was the best

Lupusregina coughed gently as Sixth, Foire and Lumiere looked at her With a proud look on her face, she said,

“In the end, we shi+uld call hiest and most—”

“…There you are”

The source of the calm voice was CZ The assistant butler Eclair she had been holding under her ar invisibility all the time”

“Soz~ it’s a habit ~su”

“…And you started eating”

A sun-hot anger burned under CZ’s e that she should not be here any longer

“…Ah, I-I have to go to Ainz-sao too”

“I’ll send you along~”

Sixth and the others quietly vacated their seats, though they did feel a little bad ignoring Lupusregina’s pleading looks toward theet seconds It was a bit of a shaether now

Sixth paid no heed to the danger in the air behind thehtly slapped her cheeks to focus herself Her face had the stern, brave expression of a soldier heading off to a war, but her footsteps were light and fast

9:20 Nazarick Tiround Tomb of Nazarick

The undead which roaical beasts ─ such as the controlled by Aura ─ defended this location in place of POP monsters This area ─ known as the round Toely covered by dense forest, to the point where it could be described as a sea of trees

That said, the past uild Ainz Ooal Goere very meticulous about details They certainly would not paint this area green and be done with it

There was a Colosseue which had been sed up by the jungle, a lake, a venorove forest and a bottomless swamp, all of which added variety to the Sea of Trees Recently, they had even built a se to receive new residents

In the center of this sea of trees was a big lake ─ that said, it was still sround lake area on the 4th Floor ─ which was surrounded not by forest, but by grassland While the grassland and lake were fairly small when coe enough for their purposes

Their ─ the first of “theantic ith jet-black fur, and just a glance was enough to tell that she was an old hand at this

However, that was only to be expected After all, when she patrolled this large area, she preferred to do so while riding thewould have been easy enough, given her preternatural physical abilities

There were two other people

One of the her usual, beautiful white dress, but the black full plate ar her weapon or shi+eld

The other was Shalltear She looked the sae look which was less of interest than enjoyin ─ come, my mount”

The skill Albedo used was called [Sued out of nowhere, as black as the armor she wore

This beast had a white mane and tail, and it rese, and it was fitted with reins and a saddle

It was slightly smaller than a horse However, its presence was far more oppressive than that of an ordinary horse Thedifference could be found on its head There, one would find two horns that protruded straight outwards

The first response to the ical beast which had suddenly appeared came from Aura, who knew the most about such creatures

“Oh! It’s not like an ordinary Bicorn! Its horns are strong and it looks really beefy too”

“Fufu,” Albedo laughed “That’s right This Bicorn has been strengthened by my abilities into a War Bicorn Lord… well, it’s actually a level 100 Bicorn”

“Can it fly?”

“No, it can’t It’s fundaular Bicorn; it doesn’t have any special abilities, just ith and dexterity”

“Looks like you can’t really strengthen your mount without rider-type skills ─ in that case, since its special abilities are too weak, it et in the way if it took part in our level 100 battles”

“Indeed However, I caner periods”

“But doesn’t thathassle in coear? I hearand horseshoes and so on”

“Indeed You can change the equiph skills It’s related to the question asked just now, Aura; for instance, I could equip it with horseshoes that grant flight, and it would be able to fly However, I’ve already given it h decision”

Albedo lightly patted the flank of the ical beast Perhaps she had used too much force, but the Bicorn shuddered

There was no way a ical beast she had summoned would be thrown off balance by just thata fool of her, Aura asked a question

“Say, does it have a naht? Didn’t you just say so yourself?”

“No, I don’t mean the name of its species, I mean its name as an individual”

“Does it need one?”

She looked to Shalltear for her reaction The Vaed

“Surely it needs one, right? Isn’t it your pet, Albedo?”

“Well, it’s not really a pet… besides, do I really summon the same one each time?”

As she heard Albedo’s question, Shalltear careat idea, which she decided to share

“How about asking Kyouhukou? He excels at suht to know a lot about this sort of thing”

“…Give me a break He’s a fellow member of Nazarick, and I shouldn’t hate him, but…”

“Ah ─ indeed They don’t mean ill, but they crawl into your clothes all the same However, Entoross~ stop talking about things that make me feel all itchy… that place really is a house of horrors I e of that Floor, but I honestly do not wish to go in there”

“…Shalltear, did you know? Entoeeeh─! Seriously? Seriously? Uwah ─ I don’t want to go near Entoain”

Albedo felt the same way She did not wish to approach anyone who could call that sort of thing a snack Just as the mood started to turn queer, Aura decided to raise her voice and clear the air:

“Anyhy don’t you na it is better, then I shall”

Albedo muttered to herself as she fell into conte to naive it a naht of various words and phrases, and then a flash of inspiration struck her as a song played in her head

“What are you ies,” Albedo said, as though she had just woken froive it a name that represents how I feel; ‘Top of the World’”

“Hood naht?”

Albedo smiled, but did not answer

Shalltear’s eyebrows quirked up at a dangerous angle

As the tension built in the air, it was Aura who had to break the will happen Anyway, since you’ve called out your Bicorn, let’s perform the next experi been treated as a child throwing a tantrulared at Albedo as she turned to the bicorn and put a greaved foot on the stirrups Albedo race that did not see armor The moment she touched the saddle, she could feel the Bicorn’s body quivering through the point of contact

“What’s wrong?!”

Albedo could not help exclai She could not think of any reason why this level 100 Bicorn would be unsteady on its feet Suddenly, she recalled what had happened when she had patted the BicornCould it be that some problem had occurred then? If that were the case, then as the cause?

“Aura! Shalltear! So on with my Bicorn Could you help an to wobble It looked like it could no longer stand up The two of the abnoret off first, Albedo!”

“Al… alright”

After hearing Aura say so, Albedo finally responded by ju Bicorn pro heavily and its coat was covered in a fine sheen of sweat

“…Albedo, did you get fat?”

Shalltear was not saying that to ht the saht because I’ve got more muscle than most!”

“Then, could it be that its ularly? By the way, I raise allaround the 6th Floor”

“Eh? How could that be… speaking of which, [Summon Mount] ─ isn’t it just like a noret weaker”

“Would you like me to ride it?”

“I’m sorry, but it won’t work This is my mount, and nobody else can ride it If anyone tries, it’ll auto the ?”

Aura asked it a question It was not that Aura could speak with horses, but ence, so Aura hoped that it would understand human speech Of course, the Bicorn could not speak, so all it could do was neigh like a horse

“It can’t speak… don’t tell me it can’t write either?”

The Bicorn whinnied in the affirmative

The three of them looked at each other

“Aura, can you use your skills to do so?”

“I can’t Besides, what do you ? Didn’t you asktiot that too, Guardian Overseer-dono!”

“Ara… how do you usually communicate with Fenrir, then?”

“I just tell hiht? So if you try, you should be able to communicate with this Bicorn, am I correct?”

“Just because I can communicate with the beasts I control doesn’t mean I can speak to all beasts And besides, I already tried The Lizardht? I don’t knohy, but I just can’t get through to him”

The three of them looked at each other once more

“…If we’re stuck, the only one we can turn to is Dee is noorking abroad on Ainz-sama’s orders He hasn’t spent much time in Nazarick recently I can contact hi, I don’t really want to consult to him if it’s not related to work”

A look of jealousy appeared in Shalltear and Aura’s eyes De for their master ─ was the object of the Guardians’ envy

“Ah~ I really do envy him I know that the defense of Nazarick is an important job, but if nobody invades, then on’t have a chance to show our stuff, and it o outside and acco so I can work hard for Ainz-sama”

“All I’ve done recently is make mistakes…”

“Don’t worry, Shalltear I think that you’ll have the chance to work for Ainz-sama soon ─ no, I’m sure you’ll have the chance to do so But you need to be a bit sht be a bit tricky”

“Don’t you think that’s… a little harsh?”

“Ahhh, the fact is, you did mess up You need to produce results worthy of a Guardian”

Shalltear grit her teeth, and then suddenly her face brightened up, as though a light bulb had just switched itself on above her head

“Ku, ku, ku, nohy are you all talking bad about e wasn’t around and we couldn’t ask hi hand instead Well, since it can’t be helped, I’ll look it up for you!”

Shalltear took out a book It appeared thick and heavy, like it had a thousand pages at the very least However, to Shalltear ─ who looked like a girl on the outside but as anything but on the inside ─ its weight was nothing much

“Ohhh─! Don’t tell , a treasure bestowed upon you by Ainz-sama!”

It was not just Aura; even Albedo looked upon Shalltear with jealousy in her eyes

“Indeed! This is the Encyclopedia Peroroncino-sa Ainz-sama’s orders!”

While this was more of a consolation prize cum appreciation award, to Shalltear it was instead the best form of praise, and she smiled in satisfaction No, that was only natural An iteement

This book was called the Encyclopedia It was an iteame, and it could not be stolen or lost unless its owner chose to dispose of it In addition, it was unique

YGGDRASIL was a ga the unknown, and this item could be said to be a physical expression of the developers’ desire for players to transform the unknown into the known

This was because the Encyclopedia recorded the visual data of all the monsters a player had ever encountered However, it did not display statistics ─ the monsters’ ability scores ─ but only its typical appearance and nay, it would also display the relevant contents from the myth in question and other relevant information

In order to make effective use of this book-shaped item, one would need to personally enter the inforathered into the book Such information included a monster’s special abilities or its weaknesses and so on

The Encyclopedia that Shalltear possessed had once belonged to the man called Peroroncino, and he was the one who entered the data within that book Ainz remembered that he had left this iteame, and so he handed it to Shalltear

However, a lot of the content which Peroroncino added had been erased It was as though Peroroncino were afraid of leaving it behind and deleted it

As a result, the item was not very useful, but Shalltear did not mind This was an ite

“B ─ Bi ─ Bicorn,” Shalltear es

Aura and Albedo leaned in to take a look, but Shalltear used her body to cover up the book and then backed up, before fixing the two of thelare

“Hifted to ently caressed her silver wristband Sier However, she had not been the only one to receive that ring

I want a special reward for me and me alone I want a special ite her abdoe she was looking for

“Bicorn! Got it, let me see…”

Shalltear suddenly froze and looked up in shock, then stared at Albedo

“Wh-what is it? Is so?”

Albedo nervously questioned Shalltear as she looked at the book again and read the entry

“…a mutant species of Unicorn Just as Unicorns are supposed to be associated with purity, Bicorns are associated with impurity Unicorns will only allow pure maidens to ride them, but conversely, Bicorns will never allow pure maidenss to ride them… haaah?!”

As Shalltear read that part, Aura’s eyes went so wide it seeh they would fall out of their sockets

“No way… don’t tell me Albedo’s a…?”

“What do you mean ‘no way’? What do you take me for?”

“Eh, but aren’t you a Succubus, Albedo?”

“S ─ Su ─ Succ ─ Succubus…”

Shalltear see for the Succubus entry

“That’s right, I’m a Succubus! But I don’t have any experience with men, sorry about that! But what can I do about it? I’m the Guardian Overseer, so I’et to meet anyone else! Besides, Ainz-sama has never calledlike that withher head, and then she suddenly jerked it up again

“Since you put it that way…”

Albedo glanced at Aura, then shook her head If Aura was not like that, there would be a huge problem

“How about you, Shalltear?”

“…I don’t have any experience with men Noomen are a different matter…”

Aura did not understand for a et it, because she wrinkled her brow and went “Uwah~” as her face seized up and wordlessly said “no, thank you”

“Ahhh! It’s because there aren’t any good ht? Right?”

“Don’t look to me for approval, Shalltear Your fetishes are just too weird and I can’t understand them”

The three of them looked at each other, then sireed to end this topic here

“…Alright, so at least we knohy I can’t ride a Bicorn now… I can’t believe that was the reason”

Albedo’s face twisted in unhappiness The Bicorn thought it had been scolded and curled up into a ball

“Hth”

“Still, it’s not like you’re really good at mounted coht? If you can’t ride your Bicorn, then how about one of Aura’s beasts? Maybe a Unicorn h I want one”

“Isn’t there a better way? It’ll be fine if Ainz-saht?”

Albedo’s smile seemed to tell the other two that there was no better way than that

“That’s sly!”

“Hmph!” Albedo hmphed at Shalltear “How rude, Shalltear This is necessary in order for me to make full use of my powers as Guardian Overseer of Nazarick for Ainz-saet Ainz-sa your official duties as an excuse… That’s just too sad for a woman It means you can’t win it with your charlared at each other Aura could not bear them any more and said:

“I say, you two seem to have wandered off into a weird topic; would youabout these pointless things Besides, it’s not like it’s going to cause a probleht away Can’t you suic item which can suh? There’s no probleic iteear or take out the ite apower…”

“Then have the Bicorn take your ene to summon a mount! That’s a basic tactic for a beast tamer”

“It seems that’s the only way it can be used”

“That would mean you’ve become weaker, Albedo”

“Could you not speak like you’re laughing at others’ ht intoo, Albedo?”

“Do not” “Do too” Both sides went back and forth

“Honestly, I’ve had it with the two of you… eh, stop glaring at each other already How about going elsewhere? Ainz-saht” Albedo ith that, and Shalltear ─ who had been arguing with her ─ nodded as well However ─

“…He asked us to take time off, but what should we do? We were round Tos Working is our life…”

“Even so, when Ainz-sama wants us to rest, we have to rest”

The three of theathered here because their master had told them, “You all work hard every day Since free time like this is hard to coo out and have fun together”

“We’ve had fun, so does thisto disperse? Does this really count as fun?”

“I have my doubts about that Granted, we had soht, what do you usually do?”

“I patrol between the 1st to the 3rd Floor Then I collect feedback from the Area Guardians, or I check on the readiness of the entire floor If I have tiet a facial…?”

“I’”

“What do you … how about you, Aura?”

“Hm~ When Mare stays in the Colosseum, I patrol the forest A bunch of newcoo houess”

“That’s it!”

Aura and Shalltear’s faces were filled with surprise

“That’s it, that’s it The newcoe which was just built on this Floor, right? I haven’t been there yet Let’s go together”

“Eh? Really? Shalltear, you’ve been there before, right?”

“I have”

“Really?” As she saw the puzzled look on Albedo’s face, Aura explained:

“Actually, the other guardians have all been here too First was Cocytus, for the Lizarde came round too, to check on the situation The others also drop by froo take a look Besides, it’s not all that far away

9:38 Nazarick Tie built in the 6th Floor of Nazarick was littlehouses It barely qualified as a settlee, and on the left was an orchard that was several tier than the crop field

Naturally, it was surrounded by forest, and when one looked down froht resemble a hole in the forest; or a Green Hole The trees here had been felled and then dug up by the roots, so by right the ground ought to have been uneven However, the ground in the village was unnaturally level That was the effect of Mare’shard in the orchard

The first person they saas a hu female, whose skin was as lustrous as tree bark Beside her was a creature which could only be described as a walking tree

The former was a Dryad, while the latter was a monster known as a Treant

The Treant placed the Dryad on its branch-like hands and raised her to the upper reaches of a fruit tree

“There’s also ten or so Lizardo to the north ─ to the lake where we just visited ─ to have fun It’s not like they live in the water anyway How strange”

“The village is bigger than the last time I came There seeht That’s because we found a few species ere allowed to enter Nazarick after we conquered the Great Forest of Tob”

“Species ere allowed to enter Nazarick… I recall the conditions were: they have to be heteroood-natured, right?”

“Mh, the ‘must not need food’ condition is more of ‘must be self-sufficient’… the Dryads and Treants absorb nutrients froh, it’ll be bad if the earth’s nutrients run out, or if it doesn’t rain”

“Ohh ─ does Mare ic? Or is it an item?”

“That’s basically Mare’s job Sa the earth’s nutrients So harvests, and I heard those spells can fully restore the earth’s nutrients The Dryads and Treants all say it’s so delicious that they’ll get fat… but I don’t know about the taste”

As Shalltear chatted with Aura, Albedo slowly surveyed the village with a cold, clinical gaze reserved for exa experimental test subjects Then, a hint of emotion crept into her eyes for the first tiht to be Sous-Chef in the fields, right? What’s he doing?”

They looked along her line of sight, and there, within a patch of fenced-off land ─ see all over it ─ was aaround At a closer look, he earing clothes which he did notdirty as he picked the red fruits

“It’s just like what you saw They sorow their own plants Let’s go take a look”

Albedo and Shalltear looked at each other After verifying that neither of the as they did not interfere with their colleagues’ work, they went over to take a look

“Hi~ Working up a sweat as always, I see!”

As he heard Aura’s cheerful voice, Sous-Chef raised its head to look at the three of them

“Well, runted like an old h he was hunched over in a posture of working the fields, the fact that he had no waist ─ his body was the same thickness from top to bottom, so there was no part of him that was quickly identifiable as a waist ─ meant that they could not tell if his back really ached or if he had done so to change his mood

After that, Sous-Chef rotated his neck, like someone with shoulder aches His head was like a toadstool’s cap, coated with soht drip off at any time, but the fact was that it was as solid and lue, so there was no way it would drip off or splash around

“Say, are those tomatoes?”

Albedo see, and so she asked hiled his head in bafflement

“Indeed, they are tomatoes They are tomatoes as everyone knows theht, attack people, or radiate golden light when you cut them open; they are ordinary tomatoes”

“In other words, they’re edible, coht?”

“Indeed I do not have the special skills needed to grow vegetables that can produce special effects Given your interest in these tomatoes, does that mean you are interested in tomato dishes? Unfortunately, I can onlyout of curiosity I believe Shalltear’s the one ants to eat tomato dishes”

“…Why does everyone think Va, they won’t gain any buffs from it”

“A lot of people in Nazarick don’t need to eat”

Thanks to certain iteer needed to eat or drink

“There’s nothing to be done about it Food and drink only add to the expenses of sustaining Nazarick We’d have to spend a lot of ical beasts”

“Ah, wouldn’t it be better for o outside to make some money?”

“There’s no need for that That’s because Ainz-sasthis to”

“Oh, so that’s why he decreed that only self-sufficient species could enter here That way, no matter how many came in, the income balance would remain intact”

“Indeed… eh, didn’t you know about this?” Albedo looked to each of the three others present

“How vexing Not understanding the very place you were protect is a very big proble to you in detail”

Albedo sighed, then casually regarded the fields It was then that she noticed that she had seen the leaves of a row of certain plants before

“Those are carrots… no, are they ic carrots?”

“No, they are not Have you not heard of them before, Overseer-dono?”

“What do you mean?”

Sous-Chef’s eyes turned to Aura

“Ah, she did not… I see, she did not tell you about them Then, what shall we do, Aura-sama? Will you call them, Aura-sama? Surely you must have trained them by now?”

“I already filed a report on it─” Aura smiled wickedly Then, she took a deep breath, then bellowed “─Long live Ainz Ooal Gown!”