My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

There were more questions I wanted to ask, but I didn't feel like Marina was the right person to ask. I wanted to know more about the lords and how to deal with them. I still didn't have a great understanding of the power structure here. Was I supposed to treat them each like a king? Was the lord from the largest district, and the one who had the most deciding votes, the leader? Were there any taboo things that would cause an international incident?

"You shouldn't worry so much. This is a cultural exchange. They already see us as uncultured and uncivilized." Mary stepped next to me and spoke, seeming to guess why I had a worried look on my face. "I don't believe they'll be quick to anger. If anything, they'd find such displays of ignorance amusing."

"Hmph! They are treating us like performers at a circus. They're lucky that the church preaches humbleness and modesty."

"Humble and modest?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Well, half of our church does." She shot Mary's exposed chest a scathing look.

"Perhaps sister should add clandestine to her list of traits," Mary spoke up, shooting her sister a warning look. "I had hoped to be able to speak to the citizens freely, but every encounter is watched very carefully."

"I've noticed." Anne frowned. "They're quite something to both think less of us and to act so paranoid around us."

"Huh? What do you mean?" I frowned.

"Have you not noticed?" Mary asked. "We've been carefully watched. Every encounter wasn't just monitored, but rehearsed. That restaurant had been cleared out before we came. Even the waitress was not an employee, but someone like Marina."

"Is that true? The mall was pretty busy though."

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"Yet, not a single one of them would speak more than a polite word to us before scurrying off," Anne spoke up. "Every shop owner seemed afraid to say anything. Your girls draw every eye. The sailors certainly stared, but since we landed, no one has given them even a single look."

"Really?" I had been focused on other things, so I hadn't noticed.

"You should be more aware of your surroundings!" Anne accused.

I didn't have any excuse. I had never developed such a skill as telling if someone was watching me. If I felt danger, I'd react immediately. If there were red dots on my map, I knew about them. However, when it came to just being watched without any killing intent, I had no awareness. It was a hole in my development I had never even considered.

"Celeste…" I called her over, as she had been lingering behind to look at a water fountain display in the hotel's lobby.

"Yes, Master!"

I dropped a gold coin, which rolled down the carpet before landing next to a group of young men who were speaking to each other in the lobby. "Can you get that for me?"

"I'm on it!" She ran over and then bent over in front of them.

Since she was wearing a somewhat short dress, her entire backside was exposed in their direction. Yet, despite this, the men refused to look her way.

"It is that way…"

"You pig!" Anne glared at me.

"Ahh… Master… my boob popped out!" Celeste cried out.

They still didn't look. A moment later, Anne stomped on my foot.

"Ahhh! What?"

"Hmph, you deserve more!" She spun away and walked off.

Mary let out a gentle laugh. "It's always fun around Deek. I look forward to spending the rest of the week by your side."

"Huh?"

She didn't say anything else, following after Anne quietly. I stared after the pair, not sure what to say.

"M-master… I need help…"

I looked back at Celeste, who rather than having picked up the coin, had somehow tangled herself up. Her butt was in the air and her head seemed to be stuck between her legs.

"What did you do?" I cried out, running up to her.

"I failed!" She whined.

This was the alleged air goddess who dominated the skies and made lesser fairies tremble in her wake. She could decimate an army with pinpoint air blade accuracy, but she was so clumsy she couldn't pick up a coin without tripping over herself. I let out a sigh as I helped her get back up. However, I noticed that during that entire time, no one looked at us directly. It was a creepy feeling.