"W-Who goes there?!" ［Soldier 1］

  A loud shout echoed throughout the byrinth and the sky as the soldier, along with his colleagues raised their guards and poiheir ons towards the byrinth's entrance as they heard the subtle sound of footsteps eg in the air.

  After a day of traversing the byrinth, Yuna and Grey were finally out of the byrinth. It was te afternoon, but the first thing that greeted them wasn't the gentle sunlight nor the rustling of the leaves, rather, they were sharp iron swords poiowards them by the soldiers.

  The byrinth was already dark after a day of inactivation. It was only normal for the soldiers to be alerted because as far as they kneartits had already go. After all, even before the byrinth became inactive, it was officially closed from entry about two days ago.

  "Sorry for startling you. We're just adventurers who happeo get lost while heading out of the byrinth." ［Grey］

  Of course, that was a lie, but Grey would rather say that thahem the truth. It would be troublesome if they found out that the reason why Grey and Yuna came out te was because we came all the way from the 9th floor.

  Hearing Grey's reasoning, the soldiers quickly rexed aracted their spears. Well, they were rexed until one of them figured out the identities of the two young folks before them.

  "On the behalf of the soldiers, I apologize for our rude duct, Your Excellencies! Please five our insolence!" ［Soldier 2］

  Seeing their colleague bow his head, the remaining soldiers followed suit. The first oo boas one of Eliza's escorts who resent when Grey and Yuna saved her.

  It has been more than a month since Grey and Yuna heard such lines, but both of them didn't miss them at all. All they could remember was how annoying it was to deal with the formalities.

  "Please raise your heads, we don't really mind it. Rather, it's good to see that you are doing your jobs well." ［Grey］

  "W-We don't deserve such praise. Like Your Excellency said, we were just doing our jobs so it's really nothing special." ［Soldier］

  "Then keep up the good work. We'll be heading out now." ［Grey］

  "Bye～." ［Yuna］

  After the soldiers did a final bow, Yuna and Grey headed baoterno. Anticipation was welling up in their hearts as it has been a while. In particur, they were looking forward to how much Eliza has grown.

  But on the way there, Grey couldn't help gng at Yuna from time to time. He was a little intrigued that Yuna had returo her usual character before they started dating. He couldn't help but feel a little dowed.

  "Is there something wrong, Grey?" ［Yuna］

  "Not really... I'm just a little sad that you aren't holding my hand anymore." ［Grey］

  Grey said teasingly as he g Yuna, but the tter took it a little seriously. Yuna suddenly halted her steps, making Grey stop too.

  Grey was about to bee worried that his joke was a little too much, but out of nowhere, Yuna hugged him tightly, burying her fa Grey's chest. Rather than flustered, Grey felt more fused to say the least.

  "Umm... Yunaー" ［Grey］

  "Dummy. That's because it's embarrassing to do it in public. Also... you're the only one I want to see that side of me..." ［Yuna］

  It was only at that moment that Grey's heart started to pound like mad. He wao kiss his adorable girlfriend so badly, but held himself back as they were still in broad daylight. He restricted himself to only patting Yuna's head gently.

  With both of them super embarrassed, Grey and Yuna tiraveling to the town. The first acquaintao greet their return were Hal and Gil who were stationed on the western gate.

  They first headed to the Adventurers' Guild to report their return to the Guildmaster. , they headed to the marketpce to buy a lot of ingredients and ents. Finally, they headed to the Landevar mansion to see Eliza

  "What arー Oh, Lrey, Lady Yuna, wele back!" ［Marcus］

  Whewo of them arrived at the gates, the first oo greet Grey and Yuna was Marcus. He was the head of the guards who escorted Elia when they first met her at the alleyways.

  "Good to see you too, Mister Marcus. Is Fritz busy right now?" ［Grey］

  "Ah, yes. His Lordship is currently dealing with some paperwork. But he ordered us whewo of you arrive, to let you in immediately." ［Marcus］

  Grey was about to ask Fritz for permission first, but it was not needed. Fritz had already given an order to the guards to treat Grey and Yuna respectfully ahem inside ohey arrived.

  "I'm sure Lady Eliza will be delighted." ［Marcus］

  "Liz? Did something happen to her?" ［Yuna］

  "No, well... Lady Eliza has beey worried when she heard that the two of you still haveed the byrinth. So I'm sure she'll be extremely delighted to see you two safe." ［Marcus］

  Marcus' words were familiar to Grey and Yuna. They still remembered the time the prison break occurred. Eliza was bawling her eyes out of worry for the two of them. They hoped that wouldn't be the case this time.

  Wanting to see the Lanvedar household's young dy once again, Grey and Yuna headed to where she was. Apparently, she was at the training grounds, practig and honing her skills every time she could.

  When they arrived there, Eliza was brandishing her swainst a practice dummy. Unlike a month ago where Eliza had just learhe basics, her movements have beore refined and had less gaps in them.

  Eliza swu and right, up and down, and diagonally, with all blows hitting the target. She then backed away from the dummy, and when she was some distance away, she fired a spell towards it.

  ??Geyser!?? ［Eliza］

  Water quickly surged from Eliza's palm like a surging current. It fired off towards the practice dummy like a powerful oroying the already tattered dummy into smithereens.

  Eliza was now able to use low-level magic. It arent that she wasn't just sg in the past month. Her efforts showed the moment the practice dummy was pletely destroyed.

  ??Appraisal?? ［Grey］

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  [Salferine]

  [Name] Eliza von Landevar

  [Race] Human

  [Sex] Female

  [Age] 10

  [Status] Healthy

  [Mana Capacity] 332  [Mana Quality] G

  [bat Power] 40  [Threat Level] G

  [Attribute] Water    [Magic Proficy] Low (11%)

  [Css] Swordsman  [on Proficy] Low (12%)

  [Physical Enha] 12%

  [Ability] Sharp Mind (2☆)

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  Eliza had reached G-rank. With her current strength, she has already beore powerful than your average adventurer. She is eveer than the elites the Royal Academy has to offer.

  "Li～z!" ［Yuna］

  When Eliza finished her training, Yuna immediately called out to her while waving her hahusiastically. Seeing Grey and Yuna, Eliza unsciously dropped her sword and then ran towards them.

  "Uuu... Elder Sister Yuna... Elder Brrey..." ［Eliza］

  Tears started trig down Eliza's face as she tightly embraced Yuna. Even wheried to trol herself, it only did the opposite and made her cry even more. She was now bawling in an urained manner.

  "I... hic... I... hic..." ［Eliza］

  "We know, we know... You were worried, right? It's fine now..." ［Yuna］

  Like a geher soling her child, Yuly caressed Eliza's head as she gently embraced her small figure. Eliza didn't utter any more words and just tio hug Yuna.

  On the sidelines, Grey just watched the two of them with warm eyes. It was hard to butt in with the current atmosphere. Well, Grey also enjoyed such a motherly side to Yuna.

  Eliza's bawling tinued for more than ten minutes, and when she finally calmed down, she let go of Yuna and then hugged Grey thereafter. Of course, Grey also soled her just like Yuna did, but needless to say, he didn't do as well as Yuna did.

  "Are you okay now, Liz?" ［Grey］

  "Un... But I'm still mad..." ［Eliza］

  "Then what we do so that you five us?" ［Grey］

  "... Pizza... I want to eat one..." ［Eliza］

  A smile formed on Grey's face as he heard Eliza's response. While it may be tal, it made it seem like Eliza and Yuna were peas of the same pod. Even their requests were the same.

  Grey was a little ed about eating pizza for dihinking whether it was a healthy thing to do or not, but he eventually abahe thought. What was important was Yuna and Eliza's happiness.

  There aren't any rules saying pizza could not be eaten during dinner, and even if there were, Grey was no longer oh, making it invalid. One could eat pizza wherever and whenever.

  "Then what meat topping do you two want?" ［Grey］

  "Umm... I... I 't decide..." ［Eliza］

  "For me, I'll have Bulldeer." ［Yuna］

  "Ah! Then I'll have the same as Elder Sister Yuna." ［Eliza］

  "Alright, Bulldeer it is." ［Grey］

  After deg on what meat to use in the pizza, Eliza grabbed her sword, sheathed it, and the three of them headed back to the mansion. They were chatting happily as they tried to catch up ohings they had missed.

  Their first destination the moment they arrived ihe mansion was the kit. There, with the help of excited Rhodes, Grey cooked the pizza that both Yuna and Eliza were craving for.

  With the chefs bringing the dishes, everyone headed to the dining room after the pizza was finished cooking. There, Grey and Yu Fritz aian again after a month, but sadly, Gustav wasn't there.

  "Looks like the two of you are safe. The byrinth closed about two days ago, where have you two been?" ［Fritz］

  "Ah, sorry... We were training so we didn't notice the byrinth closing." ［Grey］

  "Training, huh...? Well, I suppose you would lose track of time if you were focused on your training." ［Fritz］

  While they weren't lying, a few details have bee out for the sake of everyone. After all, Grey and Yuna couldn't just ht say that they were oh floor, risking their lives to get stronger.

  As Grey answered Fritz's question, Yuna oher hand was happily eating the pizza she was craving for along with Eliza. They were making very happy faces as if they had wotery.

  "Wele back, Your Excellencies." ［Sebastian］

  "Ah, thank you. It's good to see you as well, Mister Sebastian." ［Grey］

  "Un... I feel the same..." ［Yuna］

  Hurriedly, Yuna finished what she was chewing so that she could reply to Sebastian's words. While she didn't really o, she felt the o reply politely to such sincere greetings.

  "By the way... I don't see Sir Gustav. Did he leave already?" ［Grey］

  "They always depart right after the Labyrinth of Death's closing. It's so that they could arrive at the capital early as scheduled. They have traveled a couple hundred kilometers by now." ［Fritz］

  "Did they get a lot of treasures?" ［Grey］

  "Well... Including the drops and mana crystals they got, they should earn a little more than a billion kiels." ［Fritz］

  To the amount Fritz mentioned, Grey was amazed yet not amazed at the same time. Of course, it was a very rge amount already, it's just that Grey and Yuna mao accumute much more than that.

  If it were only the money alohey already have more than 3 billion kiels. If the treasure items, mana crystals, and monster drops are included, it would make a total of about 70 billion. They were pretty much loaded.

  Well, there was o divulge such facts. It will only cause trouble and there are no advao it. Grey decided to keep his mouth shut oter and just acted normal.

  "That's a lot of money..." ［Grey］

  "It is. Already enough to run the royal capital for a whole year... But enough about this and that. Why are Eliza and Yuing pizza? Is pizza something you eat for dinner?" ［Fritz］

  Fritz asked as his eyes swam towards the dire of Yuna and Eliza who were sav their pizza as if there was tomorrow. Fritz had noticed them long ago, but he could no longer hold back his curiosity.

  Frankly, Grey didn't know the ao his question. Grey never had pizza before for dinner, but he khat a lot of people oh did that, especially those from the western tries. He thought that there was no issue doing so.

  "Well, I promised Yuna to make her ohe moment we are out of the byrinth. As for Liz, I made one for her as a token of apology for ing back te." ［Grey］

  "I see... She was really worried about you two after all... Oh, speaking of pizza, the tomato sauade for it was really amazing! Rhodes has made a lot of dishes using it." ［Fritz］

  "Yeah, he told me a lot about them." ［Grey］

  Over the course of one month, Rhodes had utilized Grey's teags and tips as he cooked meals for the household. He had also experimented a lot with the ingredients Grey introduced to him, thus creating a multitude of new dishes.

  While Grey was the one who introduced the tomato sau, Rhodes' genius mind was the one responsible for the birth of new dishes in a field he had no prior knowledge of.

  The only problem with Rhodes was that the momearts talking about cooking, it's impossible to stop him. Grey, who was already tired from tinuously running ihe byrinth for a whole day, had beore exhausted after dealing with the overly excited Rhodes.

  "By any ce, would it be alright to sell them on the market? I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy using it." ［Fritz］

  "Introdug it to the market, huh... While I'd love it if more people get to use it, I'm not really capable of running a business." ［Grey］

  "If that's what's stopping you, you don't have to worry about that. If you want, I could request the Merts' Guild to ha for you. Of course, it would be patented under your name and you'll have a cut of the profit. What do you say, Grey?" ［Fritz］

  After jumping from topic to topic, Grey and Fritz's versation was now focused on a business-reted one as they eheir dinner. Fritz's eyes were now in business mode as he discussed things with Grey.

  With a few minutes of iation and formution of terms, Grey and Fritz were finally able to arrive at a clusion. The tomato sauce would be introduced into the market with the Landevar family's endorsement and the Merts' Guild would handle all transas.

  All Grey o do was sit bad rex as the money rolls in. Grey felt a little guilty about it, but Fritz retty adamant that he takes it. Now, although unpnned, Grey had gotten a source of passive ine.

  After talking about tomato sauce, Grey and Fritz talked some more about some things. Fritz also offered for them to stay in the mansion for the night, just like before which the two gdly accepted.

  Grey initially thought that he'll be sleeping in the same room as Yuna, like how they usually do in the byrinth, but...

  "Srey. Liz really wants to sleep together tonight, so I'll be staying over in her room." ［Yuna］

  ... Yuna had already made priements with Eliza. While Grey was a little disappointed, he didn't mind it too much.

  "Sure. But you don't have to ask for my permission, you know." ［Grey］

  "I know that... I just wao let you know... Also..." ［Yuna］

  Befrey realized, Yuna did yet another surprise attack. She ran up to him and when she was close enough, she stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheeks, taking Grey by surprise.

  "Good night." ［Yuna］

  Shyly, Yuna quickly ran away from Grey while hiding her embarrassed face. As frey, he was standing in a daze, still rec from her surprise attad just as red as Yuna was.

  "Seriously, that girl..." ［Grey］

  After that, Grey went inside his room and prepared the bed. It has been a while since he slept alone, so in order to get sleepy, he busied himself with anizing the items they acquired from the Labyrinth of Death.

  Grey first sorted the the crystals and s they acquired, and after which, he retrieved the items they gathered, filling the room full, even when he had only retrieved about 5% of them.

  "Looks like it's going to be a long night..." ［Grey］

  One by one, Grey appraised the items they collected, and one by one he ahem painstakingly. After that, he ahe monster drops and mana crystals from the mohey defeated.

  It took Grey more than 5 hours, but with perseverand effort, he finally finished anizing all of them. His eyes were spinning from appraising thousands upon thousands of items that he just wao head to bed already.

  Grey was about to lie down on bed because of tiredness and have his well-deserved rest wheiced an deep emerald-greeone sparkling by the er of the room.

  'Hm? Did I miss it?' ［Grey］

  Whilst asking himself that question, Grey walked over to the said er of the room and picked up the gemstone. Wheook a closer look at it, he was immediately captured by its beauty.

  It was the "Seed of Vitality" which Grey had promised to give to Yuna ohey exited the Labyrinth of Death. It was a very valuable item which could be incorporated into equipment and accessories.

  'Hm... Speaking of accessories, what would look good on Yuna?' ［Grey］

  Of course, Grey had settled on making an accessory out of it. They already had the best equipment and as Yuna's boyfriend, it would only be natural that he picks a suitable gift for his girlfriend.

  Of course, as it would be his first gift to her as her boyfriend, Grey wa to be special. After all, just like how special he wanted his gift to be, he also wanted Yuna to realize how special she was to him.

  Earings, bracelets, rings, neckces... Grey thought long and hard about what accessory he should make, and after a process of eliminatiotled on giving her a neckce.

  Giving it his all, Grey utilized his "Sanctuary" where he went inside and installed his fe. He poured all his might and decided to use the best of materials. It took him a long time but he was able to finish it.

  "It's done! Finally!" ［Grey］

  Grey was celebrating happily when he pleted his gift, but just as he was doing so, he remembered somethially fot to sider. It was already past 5 o'clod the sun was about to rise.

  "Ah..." ［Grey］

  CHAPTER 63 END