Leon Greyrat: The Second Son - Mushoku Tensei OC

Chapter 65 - The Teleportation Labyrinth

— Leon Greyrat —

With Roxy's awakening, and our relationship somewhat settled, we then both made our way downstairs to the main room, where the rest of the group was resting.

"Ah! She's up!" Lina said, getting up from her chair and walking over to us. "Do you feel alright, Roxy? Do you need-?"

Her words were cut off as she looked between us.

More specifically, Lina was looking at the lack of distance between our bodies.

Ever since we had left the room, Roxy had positioned herself at my side, leaning against me as her hand loosely held my sleeve.

It was really hard to not immediately put a ring on her and take her to bed when she was acting like this, but I remained firm in my decision to wait nonetheless.

Plus, this way, it acted as another motivator to get my Mama's as soon as possible.

"...It seems you two have grown closer," Lina said as a proud smile graced her lips, reminding me a bit of how Mama would look at me when I was with Sylphy and Eris. "Did anything particular happen?"

My eyes unconsciously drifted to Roxy's face, or rather, towards her thin, kissable lips.

Remembering the soft texture of them, even when they were chapped in the labyrinth, I felt an instinctual pull that I had to force myself to fight off.

Still, I persevered.

Looking away to distract myself from those thoughts, I glanced up to see Roxy staring at me with a blush.

But her eyes weren't exactly meeting mine, rather a little lower...

Oh, she was staring at my lips too.

"Oh my? I guess you showed quite a bit of urgency, Leon," Lina said, nodding approvingly as I looked back at her. "...I'm impressed."

And there was that feeling of embarrassment again...

Paul then made his way over, looking between us for a moment before shaking his head with a resigned smile.

"Well, it's good to see you back, Roxy," he said, giving her an apologetic smile. "Sorry you had to wait so long. You were just too damn useful to our progress."

"Ah, thank you, Paul," Roxy said, waving her hand. "I appreciate the sentiment enough. And as for being useful... well, I think we have some better replacements now."

Paul looked at her for a moment before nodding, "I don't think you should sell yourself short like that, but you aren't wrong. We were just talking about that, so how about you come join us."

We then went over to the large table, where Geese and Talhand were looking over a sprawl of maps and the book on the teleportation labyrinth.

"Ah, Roxy! Glad to have you back!" Geese said, turning her head. "And now that you're here... I guess there's another reason to head back into that place right away. Aside from rescuing Zenith and Lilia quicker, that is."

Hm?

What did that mean?

"Not that I mind rushing to clear the labyrinth, but... why would that concern Roxy?" I asked.

"Well, it's a common thing you see," Geese said, shrugging. "After someone deals with a bad situation like Roxy was in, they often can't return to adventuring."

Is that so?

"Unless they go back into the place right away," Lina said, joining in. "So we need to have Roxy enter the labyrinth after such an unpleasant experience."