Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World (LN)

Should be easy enough to do. What about the depth? Is normal-sized enough or should that also be custom-tailored?

I think something about as deep as this one should be enough.

I said, pointing towards the biggest and deepest basin that was in the store. Since its going to be for the purpose of bathing, I should pick something that would allow us to sink into it just enough to have a nice, long, relaxing soak, but not something that would seem too extravagant or downright weird. I am already making quite a number of specific demands for this order, so it would not surprised me if the shopkeeper was already suspicious of my intentions behind making something like that, so I have to make sure to keep those suspicions of his to a bare minimum by sticking to the standards of something that he already has here in store as much as possible. Judging by my rough estimates, the actual depth of the deepest basin in this shop should be around 50 centimeters or something a little bit beneath that if we assume that the bottom of the basin has to be thicker than the rest of it, but I think that it should be enough to fulfill its ultimate purpose, which is to have a bath, but more importantly, to enter it together with Roxanne and have enough space left in it so that we could get a little frisky whenever the mood strikes us.

Hmm, in that case, how about 2000 Nars for it?

The wood craftsman though about it for a while and finally gave me the price. I have to say, thats way cheaper than I originally expected. I thought that for such a specific custom order I would have to pay at least twice as much as the price he offered, so that is a pleasant surprise.

Ill take it, please.

Because its a build-to-order, it will take around five days to make. Once it will be finished, I will send a messenger who will let you now about it.

All right, got it.

Its great that we will be notified when it is finished instead of having to come here again of our own accord, even though its probably going to mean that we will have to pay some additional costs for the transportation of the finished tub.

We will be looking forward to hearing from you in a few days then.

By the way, even though this world is operating in a medieval setting, there seems to be a proper way of addressing the residences of the citizens in the big cities. The address of our rented house is the 6thDistrict, 7thchome, 123rdresidence

Roxanne, you found anything interesting?

Yes, I think this is going to be good.

When I was having my conversation with the shopkeeper about the custom-made bath, in the meantime Roxanne found a tub that she deemed to be appropriate for the job of doing our laundry in it. Having a brief glance at it I concluded that her keen eyes allowed her to truly make the best selection possible. She handed the tub to me and I in turn showed it to the shopkeeper.

Okay, got it. For now, can we take this?

Yes, of course. Thank you for your patronage.

We will be taking it as it is, theres no need for transportation.

As you wish. That will be 50 Nars.

Since the Job of this guy is a Villager, my 30% discount did not work on him. We just paid the full price and left the store.

If I may ask, master, what do we need such a large washbasin for if we already bought this one?

Its for something that you definitely can look forward to. Trust me, youre going to love it.

Now that all of our shopping was finally done, we returned home with the washbasin in hand, and once we arrived back at our place, we changed into our new sets of clothing we bought today.

We should wash our clothes early in the day so that they could dry as soon as possible, but are we going to be entering the Labyrinth today?

Hmm thats right. All that shopping took us way more time than I anticipated you know what? Lets take a break from going there today.

We have already went to the Labyrinth before breakfast today, so I think we can have the rest of the day off for a change. Weve been making steady runs through both Veils and Quratars Labyrinths for the past few days, so taking it easy for one day should not hurt us nor our purses.

Understood. In that case I will start washing our clothes, and once thats done I will continue with the cleaning.

Of course, feel free to do that, but first how are you feeling with the new clothes? Do you find them all right?

Yes, they feel really nice, thank you very much, master.

Well isnt that nice? If thats how it is then maybe we should check how it feels to take these clothes off? After all, we wouldnt want them feeling all uncomfortable or taking too long to get out of them now, do we?

Oh Y-Yes, of course right away.

We are entering the Labyrinths practically every day, so having a day off like that feels like a much-needed change of pace, and it feels good to have one of these every once in a while. Yeah, once in a while such breaks feel super nice. Once in a while.

Later, when we were finished with checking the clothes comfortability when being taken off, I used my Water magic to get us enough water for washing our dirty clothes, making dinner and bathing. As a result of all that water-making, even though I said that we should have today free from going to the Labyrinth, we still had to go there for a quick MP recovering trip. Its great that currently my level is high enough so that I can get us all the water we need, but I should raise it even more to avoid needing to go the Labyrinth every time Im filling a bathtub altogether. I know that if its just for the purpose of recovering my MP then all we need is to go to the lower floors and slay some low-level monsters, but no matter how fast I can go about it, it still consumes precious time that could be spend on doing literally anything else.

Now then. I will take care of the main dish for dinner. The menu for today will be white stew.

White stew is it?

Have you ever eaten it before?

No, I cant say that I have. This is the first time I have heard such a name before.

Roxanne seems to have never eaten White Stew before. Either that, or the equivalent of White Stew does not exist in this world. Maybe I should have called it a white soup instead and see if that changes anything? Nah.

Well, if you have never tried White Stew before, then please look forward to it.

With the ingredients available in this world I should be able to make White Stew without any particular problems.

First, put the meat, wine and water into a large pot and boil for 30 minutes to extract all the juices from the meat, making them mix with wine and water. You can also add milk to make it thicker if you prefer your stew to be that way. By the way, in this world things like milk and wine that are available in stores are held in jars, so after they are used we will have additional containers to hold other things in it. Its a complete deposit system, kinda like PET bottles or paper bags that you hold bread in so that it wont go stale as fast.

Next, you add in the vegetables, the same ones that Roxanne used while she was making her Pot-au-feu and simmer them all over low flame. I thrown some green onions in there to mask the smell of the meat. Although I read somewhere once that green onions are poisonous to dogs, Roxanne claims that there is no vegetable that she cant eat. I guess that means that even though she has dog features, that particular quirk is not among the ones she inherited from them. Besides, if those are the vegetables that Roxanne used herself, then there shouldnt be no problems.

While all of the ingredients are boiling, be sure to add wheat flour and some butter to the wok and fry it.