episode_0102

The next day after a hot night.

I woke up with Lexi looking into each other’s eyes.

“…”

“…Well, what are you looking at.”

The first words Lexi uttered, with her long ears turning red, were quite powerful.

After that, the two of us got dressed and came down in silence.

We were hungry after all the hard work, so we sat down at the restaurant and had breakfast.

There wasn’t much conversation while eating, but as we were finishing eating, Lexi said something.

“… Do you want to have a drink together next time…?”

“…Of course.”

Our conversation returned again.

We decided to bury what happened last night.

…Until next time we drink together.

I guided Lexi to the Black Knights’ dormitory.

Thanks to walking around often, I now felt like I had a general idea of the geography of this street.

The roads weren’t that complicated, and there were buildings that represented each street, so it was easy to memorize the route by focusing on those.

Perhaps because it was early in the morning, the front of the knights’ dormitory was a bit empty.

Only Leader Dana, who woke up early, looked at the training scarecrow.

I was demonstrating to Ethan the scarecrow whose head I had blown off.

Lexi and I approached the leader.

“Captain.”

“Huh? Are you awake? …Next to that…?”

The leader turned to me and immediately asked about Lexi next to him.

Lexi received attention and answered as if she had been waiting.

“This is Lexi, who came to support me this time in relation to the dungeon.”

“Ah… yes, nice to meet you.”

Although Director Dana flinched when he saw Lexi’s long ears, he slowly held Lexi’s hand out and accepted the greeting.

In the original, Director Dana reluctantly extended his hand to shake first, but Lexi must have remembered what I said, and reached out first.

Leader Dana also looked a little surprised, as if he didn’t know that the elf would appear like this.

“Those ears are indeed elf…?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm, for an elf… no, that’s a slip of the tongue. I apologize.”

“No. I hear that often.”

Softer words were exchanged than in the original.

Perhaps because she was thinking of me, Lexi responded quietly to the leader’s somewhat rude words and actions.

He looked calm.

The two went into the conference room to talk about support, and I headed to my room, which I hadn’t seen in a long time.

When I opened the door, I smelled flowers and saw Cecil wearing my clothes.

“…”

“…”

The clothes must have been a little big, so her cleavage was visible through the gaps in the loose clothes.

The two of us faced each other, and Cecil spoke with her lips pursed.

“…He said I wanted a massage…”

“…”

With a slightly resentful tone.

Unable to answer that question, I just smiled awkwardly.

And instead, he slowly handed Cecil the perfume he had promised.

It was a new item that came to mind while I was shopping this time.

“…Was it a bit wrong to give it at this timing?”

When I imagined it in my head, I thought it wasn’t bad timing.

When I gave it to him at this time, it looked a little strange because it seemed like he was giving perfume in return for massaging his body to his heart’s content.

“…Phew.”

Cecile, who said she couldn’t spit on a smiling face, looked back and forth between the perfume I gave her and the awkwardly smiling me, then smiled a little.

And he spoke grumblingly.

“…Really, I feel refreshed…”

As if the massage using internal energy had been effective, Cecil looked amazed as her tense body had loosened up.

Cecil said she had to go to her room now and left a comment as she passed by me.

“Next time again…”

I didn’t say anything after that, but I said it with a smile.

“Yes.”

I stretched out and took out the things I bought yesterday and decorated my room.

Lights, blankets, towels.

And even extra perfume.

I was a little tired, perhaps because I had a lot to do yesterday, so I changed that much and went to bed.

Ethan would come to wake me up again anyway, so I thought I would sleep for at least an hour.

***

“Umm…”

Toss and turn.

I slowly opened my eyes.

The sky was so bright that the light coming through the window felt warm.

Other than that, there wasn’t much that had changed since before I went to sleep.

But why?

For some reason, a part of my heart felt uneasy.

“…What time is it?”

I bought all kinds of things, but I didn’t have a watch, so I slowly got up from the bed and looked out the window.

There was no one outside.

“It’s strange…”

No one?

Is it possible that no one has woken up yet?

It wasn’t like I had slept that briefly.

Rather, it feels like I’m sleeping soundly.

“…Ha! Sum!”

When I opened the window, I heard an unknown noise.

I wanted to look in the direction where the sound came from, but unfortunately I couldn’t because it was in the opposite direction from the window.

“…perhaps?”

One possibility came to mind.

I quickly changed into the armor hanging on the rack and went outside.

The direction from which the sound came was clearly an empty lot in front of the lodgings where there was a training scarecrow.

And, of course, there was Ethan, swinging a huge sword while shedding a lot of sweat.

“Hwaap! Ha!”

That’s pretty fast too.

It was a scary growth rate.

“…Does this make sense?”

When I attended a martial arts school in the martial arts world, I was treated as a genius, but Ethan was on a different level.

In the original work, even though no one taught Ethan, he grew to the point where he was able to become a knight commander in just one year.

In the original, Commander Dana wanted to teach Ethan and ordered one of the knights to teach Ethan, but the knight did not teach Ethan.

Now that I think about it, I can see why the knights stay away from Ethan.

Ethan became a knight, a job that many people wanted and envied, simply because he was in a village that was attacked.

He could have been the object of jealousy and envy.

Other knights wouldn’t have even thought that Ethan had this much talent.

“…Stop.”

“Ah, are you awake?”

“Thank you.”

I don’t know why, but Ethan didn’t wake me up.

When asked why, Ethan brought up one person’s story.

“The wizard who came to support must be tired…”

It seems like it was Lexi’s consideration.

Ethan, who devoted himself to training from morning until late lunch without waking me up, already looked very tired.

It was a time when other help was needed rather than help with the training itself.

“Okay, wipe off your sweat and follow me. Let’s go to the adventurer’s town.”

“Yes? Why are you there…”

“I need to supplement my nutrition.”

Ethan hurriedly followed me out, wiping his sweat with his collar.

When I was looking for lodgings in Adventurer’s Street before, the only thing I saw more than lodgings was restaurants.

From the moment I saw that restaurant, I thought of Ethan.

Even in the knights’ lodgings, breakfast and dinner were provided.

However, it was difficult to say that it was delicious or rich.

Just bread and soup, plus sausages and processed vegetables.

I thought that was enough, but Ethan’s case was a little different.

That amount of food would not have been of any benefit to Ethan, who worked harder and sweated more than anyone else in the knights’ order.

Worst of all, there was no food for lunch when the knights went out to subdue monsters.

Ethan, who was still growing, needed more nutrition than others.

“This is-”

Ethan opened his mouth as he looked at the large dining room.

It was the largest and most luxurious restaurant on Adventurer’s Street.

Nevertheless, seeing as the restaurant was filled with people, it seemed to be very popular.

Even the employees’ attire was luxurious.

The employees were moving smoothly in neat, uncluttered clothes and appropriate movements.

The female waiter who approached us gave us something like a menu, so I passed the menu to Ethan.

“Order whatever you want.”

“Yes? Is it true?”

“Then.”

I glanced at the prices on the menu, but there was no problem at all.

Even though I spent a lot of money buying various things, I still had enough money left over.

There it is.

Being nice to Ethan also became my own atonement.

Ethan hesitated and eventually chose two menu items.

I ordered one more meat dish along with my meal.

I feel like I ordered a little too much, but I guess I’ll just leave it behind.

“This is the dish you ordered.”

The food came out quickly and Ethan was waiting for me to give permission.

“Why don’t you eat?”

After I said that, Ethan almost swallowed his food.

It was a pity that a guy like that couldn’t even say he was hungry because his position in the knights was ambiguous.

So I said it without realizing it.

“Hmm, if you just build up your body, many women will swear by it, right?”

It was my honest thought.

Because he had good looks, appearance, and personality.

Of course, there was a hidden meaning to these words.

It meant that many women would like you, so don’t be too obsessed with the leader.

But Ethan’s answer was consistent.

“…Then maybe the leader…”

“…”

This consistent mind was also an element that women liked.

But that made me feel uncomfortable.

someday.

Because I had to be the one to steal my first student’s first love.

And that too in the not-so-distant future.

And deeper in my heart, my twisted sexual desire that I could not control boiled over.

One way or another, I liked being the one taking.

“I don’t know…”

I avoided answering, and instead held out the meat dish I had ordered in front of Ethan.

Ethan was grateful for my consideration and ate the meat.

That sight lessened my guilt a little.