The Phoenix Arises Chapter 9 Part1

Translator: Jay_Samuel, Editor: Krizzeir

Interlude: We Equally Privileged Heroines, Part 2

「Cleaning is the most important job in this dungeon. You know why, rookie?! 」

It was Lasara, the a.s.sistant head maid who made the inquiry oppressively while hoisting the mop like a spear.
She is a tall beautiful woman whose hair is rounded up in the back of her head, and her sharp-eyed and snappy conduct seemed more suited to wearing armor than maid clothes.

「Um………… I don't know……」
「Yea, being honest is good! 」

After pondering about it for a while she couldn't think of anything so Bell replied, and then Lasara laughed out loudly.

「The correct answer is, because I'm the one in charge of this! 」
「Eh. For such a stupid reason? 」

It was such an unexpected response, that Belle involuntarily asked away.

「You, even for being honest that's out of line! ?」
「Pa, pardon me, it just slipped」

Even Bell had to shrink and apologize to Lasara who was finding finding fault with her.

「Well, it's alright. That just now, half of it was kind of a joke. The real reason is this」

Saying that, Lasara sent the mop flying.

What a splendid thrust, thus Belle was lost in admiration.

The movement of the pull back and start out at any rate was fast. And yet, there is no single flashy sound.

It was a thrust of a genuine warrior with proficiency that could only have been attained after many years of training.
Once such a level of mental state has been attained, wielding a spear with a blade attached or a mop make no difference.
Once it's in the shape of a person, the life will undoubtedly be taken away.

「How about it. Do you understand」

「Yes!　The height of the martial arts that Ms. Lasara has attained left me in admiration!

When she displayed her overflowing emotions honestly, Lasara said, 「Hah?」and frowned.

「What are you talking about? I was telling you that, the dirt here is gone right」

　After showing her, after seeing them one after the other, the places that she polished have certainly become clean and sparkly.

「It differentiates an ordinary underground labyrinth and a dungeon. That's what cleaning is all about. It is easy to acc.u.mulate dirt in the dungeon because it is underground, but if it is well cleaned and cared for, the elegance which exceeds that of a king's castle is obtained」
「But I've heard that this dungeon is now on the sky……」

　Lasara's movement stopped completely at Bell's point.

「Yees, shut up!　It's relatively fairly recent that we took to the sky! 」

　She shouted readily as if she had just snapped.

「Quit the idle talk and let's get to work!　Follow me, rookie! 」

　As Lasara p.r.o.nounces that, she swings the mop.
　It was nothing but a splendid martial arts demonstration.
　Thrusting, striking, clearing, it whacking, and even while swinging downwards, the dirts are accurately being polished down.

　(Amazing……or not)

　Belle had a different kind of impression on those movements.

　(What wasteful movements……)

　If you see it as an offensive move, then it was a movement without any wasted efforts.
　However, if it was seen as cleaning moves, most of the movements were useless.

　It was a useless move devised after many years of rigorous training and studies and then refined into a move without any wasted movements.

「Haaa, haaa, haaa……Ar, aren't you quite adept……to think you would be able to keep up with me on the first day……」
「Haa……」

　Belle gave a half-hearted reply to Lasara who was praising her while breathing roughly.
　It is only natural as Belle was repet.i.tively polis.h.i.+ng it properly.
　Or rather, Lasara is probably the amazing one, to be able to advance at about the same speed as Belle even with all her wasted movements, so she doesn't feel like being praised, Bell for some reason started feeling murky.

「I used to be the deputy leader of the Dragon Knights order in a country called Ravana」

　Suddenly, Lasara said that even though she did not ask.

「I've heard of it」

　The Dragon Knights of Ravana are still famous even now.
　The rulers of the Skies who soar in the sky on flying dragons.

　—————however, with the exception of the Demon Lord of the Beasts of the Demon Lord Army.

　That story of the Dragon Knights who were defeated in an instant by the Demon Lord of the Beasts who rode the true dragon like a horse much less the flying dragon and is capable of seizing any beast without exception as long as it falls under the Beast category, is a well talked about story in the epic concerning the Demon Lord Army.

「The Knights were annihilated, and we suffered the humiliation of getting captured, and just as you see, me who was lowered to serve as a maid and such, can you imagine what it is that I am thinking?」

　Lasara's keen gaze pierce through Belle.

「If your purpose is the same as mine, I don't mind us joining forces」
「That's……true. then, would you lend me your strength?」

　As Belle says so, Lasara's eyes were drawn sharply.

「I love cleaning too after all」
「Hm? Cleaning?」

　By the time she noticed, the tip of the mop was pointed towards her nose.
　She could not see the movements at all. Belle felt a chill run along her back.
　If she had been later for even a moment, her head would have been shattered to smithereens.

「Is that it? Those that lives in the dungeon are garbage, and are to be eradicated or something like that?」
「Wrong. In a pure sense, it is cleaning. The same as Ms. Lasara」
「Mm……」

　Lasara groaned at Belle's words.

「If you really abhor a grudge against the Demon Lord, you wouldn't clean looking so happy」

　Whether she gave in unwillingly because she liked cleaning, or she was acting so as not to give herself away, the zeal with which she talked about cleaning was genuine.
　A work that differentiates an ordinary underground labyrinth and dungeon. In order words it is out of consideration to the people who live there.
　There is no way a person who holds such zeal will abhor the spirit of rebellion.

「Wait……by saying that you make it sound like I love the Demon Lord! 」
「Yes, that's why it's just as I thought」

　While giggling and laughing, Belle answered.

「I also love the Demon Lord like Ms. Lasara—— so please be sure to lend me you power okay」