I Paired Up With a Woman From an Adventurer Matchmaking App, She Had Perfect Compatibility, But the Worst Personality. When Our Erotic Compatibility Exceeded 200%, She Became the Most Obedient Team Member at Night. - Chapter 4

“Let’s camp here for the night.”

Cordelia, walking beside me, made a clearly displeased face.

“What’s with that expression?”

“Could you stop using such a pretentious term like ‘wilderness camping’?”

“I’m not trying to sound pretentious.”

“You make ‘wilderness camping’ sound so fancy, but it’s just roughing it in the wild, isn’t it?”

“Roughing it… Well, yeah, I guess so.”

“If we push on a bit further, we’ll reach the nearest town.”

“No. Even so, it’s still quite a distance. Even for us, monsters become more aggressive at night, and if we trip in the dark, we’ll be in trouble. It’s better to be cautious.”

“Do you really want to rough it that badly?”

“It’s not ‘roughing it,’ it’s wilderness camping… no, I don’t particularly want to.”

“Ah, if only we’d left the tower a little earlier, we could have reached a village before sunset.”

Cordelia continued to grumble incessantly, clearly not fond of camping… or rather, night camp.
We were on our way back to town after successfully defeating the Slime Queen.
The infamous “Slime Queen’s Tower” was located far from our base town.
To reach it, Cordelia and I had traveled for seven days and seven nights, moving from town to town.
…By the way, Susie stayed behind at Cordelia’s house to keep watch, insisting she was “just a housemaid.”
I thought she was far stronger than most adventurers, but if that was her pride, there was no reason to force her to come with us.
For most adventurers with a clear destination, stopping at towns along the way is unnecessary. It’s faster to cut straight through forests and mountains, camping overnight to keep moving.
However, in our case, Cordelia, a true-born noble lady, strongly objected to this approach.
She declared that sleeping outdoors was utterly unacceptable.
She insisted on bathing daily to keep herself clean.
And she flatly refused to eat packed rations for dinner.
Thus, we’ve been halting our journey early each day to reach nearby towns, securing lodging for the night, and repeating this pattern as we make our way toward the Slime Queen’s Tower.
It’s a leisurely plan that would likely earn us scornful laughter from other adventurers.
Cordelia had gone to great lengths to avoid camping overnight, but now, her plan had finally fallen apart.
The Slime Queen’s Tower was quite a distance from the nearest human settlement.
To reach it, we had left the town early in the morning and confronted the Slime Queen.
As you all know, the battle was a resounding success, which was wonderful… but an unforeseen event occurred when we defeated the Slime Queen.
This incident delayed our departure from the tower, and as a result, night fell before we could reach the town, forcing us to camp overnight.

“It’s not so bad, There’s a lake nearby where we can wash, and a decent-looking cave where we can sleep. It’s not a bad place at all.”

“You’re just seeing it in a favorable light because you’re so eager to camp out. Let me tell you something: lakes aren’t for bathing.”

“I’d think it’s pretty common for commoners to bathe in lakes…”

“Hmph. Since when have I been categorized as a commoner?”

Cordelia retorted haughtily, glaring at me.

“Besides, this whole mess is ultimately your fault.”

“How so?”

“Because you were so stingy about collecting every last drop item, it took way longer than it should have.”

Cordelia said, pointing at the backpack I was carrying. Inside it were dropped items… slime mucus that had lost its shape after the Slime Queen died, divided into several bottles.

“Easy for you to say. Slime mucus fetches a pretty good price, you know. And if it’s from the Slime Queen, it’ll be worth a fortune.”

“Besides, the reward for defeating the Slime Queen is enormous. Why bother fussing over such a trivial difference?”

“That ‘enormous reward’ will probably end up donated to some charity you’re involved with, and you’ll start spouting ‘Noblesse Oblige’ or something. That’s why I have to scramble for pocket money!”

“Are you perhaps referring to ‘Noblesse Oblige’?”

“That’s it! It’s a phrase commoners like us never encounter in our lives, so it just won’t stick in my head!”

“Or maybe you just have a bad memory?”

Cordelia sighed and reached into my backpack. She casually pulled out one of the many bottles crammed inside.
Inside a palm-sized bottle, the viscous liquid that once formed the Slime Queen’s body sloshed with a plop.

“Seriously, do you think this stuff will actually sell? This gross, dark purple slime?”

“The color’s a bit off, I admit, but it’s surprisingly useful. Slime secretions have self-cleaning properties, apparently, so it works as liquid soap. And since it’s originally a monster secretion, it’ll naturally decompose if you flush it down the drain.”

“So it’s actually useful…”

Cordelia wore a complicated expression as she stared at the slime in the bottle.
She sighed again, still looking disgusted, then shook her head with a resigned shrug.

“Fine, whatever. Since we’re being forced to camp out anyway, and the lake’s our only bath… might as well try this slime soap, since we went through all the trouble to get it.”