Chapter 286: …O, Ou

Training time ended. I headed for Fearea dorm with Roy and Hilbyid.

I thought I would drink with Roy and Hilbyid for a change and called to the two of them myself.

There was also Erika lightly patting my back, posu posu. "Please show your face now and then."

Roy nodded happily. Hilbyid looked a little troubled and worried, but in the end Roy invited him, he smiled wryly, and nodded.

As an aside Maya had business and went home, but we promised I would go see her at the church tomorrow so I was not lonely.

I noticed I was feeling lonely myself and smiled with a troubled face without meaning to.

We went through Filim Academy’s main gate and outside. Students’ backs heading the same way as us, looking happy, came into view.

Today we did not train, but in this heat you sweat even a little.

And other than Roy the students are women. I understand wanting to head to the bath at once.

Hilbyid walking on my left put on a troubled face, turned this way, and spoke.

"I want to get in right away too. But I want to get in ’alone’... selfish, though."

"Hmm... then how about going in last? Hang a sign on the changing room door that you are in and no one else will come in. Right, Roy?"

"That is so. The only ones who go in the men’s bath are me or Instructor, so if you put a sign I do not think anyone will come in."

I turned to Roy walking on my right as if seeking agreement and asked. He acted like he thought a little, then smiled and answered.

Hearing Roy, Hilbyid muttered, "Hmm. Last, huh..." put on a hard face, folded his arms, and started thinking.

In Hilbyid’s case the surroundings must not notice he is a woman, so he has to be extra wary. Hard.

...Or I could watch the entrance.

I do not know how big a bath he usually gets in, but I want Hilbyid to experience it too.

Someday I want to make an environment where he does not have to hide being a woman from the surroundings, but thinking of the abundant country Yurural it is hard.

That country, if you show even a little gap, immediately uses it as a threat and sets a trap... you cannot drop your guard.

I put my left hand on Hilbyid’s right shoulder meaning do not think too deep. He tilted his head a little, smiled, and nodded.

The three of us made small talk and went into Fearea dorm as if following the girl students’ backs. Inside, students and adventurer older sisters were already relaxing. Here and there children waved one hand the instant they saw me.

Listen, older sisters? Wear your clothes a little more properly... I can see, I can see it.

Especially the one waving hard is Win, but maybe because students are in front she does not jump on me.

I waved back at the students and older sisters, then briefly explained to Hilbyid what kind of place it is.

I told Hilbyid to take off his shoes and come up, took mine off and went up too, and watched Roy’s back heading to the counter first.

He seems to be ordering so we can drink at once... Roy is truly a handsome man.

Looking at that figure reminds me he is a main character after all.

"Amazing... is this a dorm only for students?"

"Nn...? Aah. I bought and remodeled Filim Fountain, but this Fearea dorm is Erika’s idea. Well~. My lovers said it is odd not to have a place to bathe and relax."

"Hmm. I do want one, true. But this scale is amazing. ...I am envious. Having a place where you can drop your guard this much prepared for you..."

Hilbyid smiled with an envious face, looked over the first floor, and muttered. I smiled with a troubled face and put one hand on Hilbyid’s shoulder again.

I want to do something for him very much, but when it becomes a country’s scale I cannot do anything. All I can do is offer a place where the heart can rest.

’Now’ that is all I can do, but if I can meet the duke’s daughter Hilbyid is protecting... it is not that I have no plan.

He must have guessed my feeling from my face. Hilbyid smiled happily and murmured "Thank you" in a woman’s voice only I could hear.

Who am I to say it, but that is the part. Please, do it so the surroundings do not notice.

Having him show me only a woman’s face makes me very glad, but I get nervous so I want him to hold back when people are around.

I rubbed the back of my neck with one hand and smiled wryly. We walked toward Roy beckoning us at the counter.

Hmm... it has been a while since I drank among men. I will forget hard things and enjoy myself too.

The Chancellor

"It is done..."

How many tens of hours have I been shut in the office.

I leaned into the chair backrest and looked at the mountain of piled documents with an exhausted face.

I glanced out the window. Outside was dark. I let out a big sigh like I regretted checking.

The paving plan was finished. At last I could drop my guard and felt the strength leave my body.

When it is a national plan, a plan only until the experiment succeeds is no good.

If it succeeds, a training plan for the knight order, and as an aside a proposal plan for the training place.

And with that, explanations to nearby towns and villages and nobles, plans.

To say more, explanation drafts to other countries, plans, you have to write them in detail.

Not only this. Laying the next plan if it fails is my work too.

That is included in this mountain of documents. Making this is not the end. This is only a plan.

Yes, a plan... I muttered that in my heart, put one hand to my forehead, and let out a tired breath.

The country does not move on my sole judgment.

We hold a meeting, convince King Adom and the nobles and the knight order captains, get agreement, then we can carry it out.

For that I put all I had into the plan... fuhaha. Today I can rest already, right?

I submitted tomorrow’s leave request just now too.

The next to check the plan I worked so hard to make is King Adom. Imagining his tired face makes laughter well up.

I checked the time. It was long past eighteen. My throat was dry and I was hungry.

Fuha, fuhahaha. Raide... you said you would treat me to drink, I am sure?

I stood from the chair with a happy smile when the office door opened without a knock and one person showed his face.

"Galt, how is... what is it, such 「Good timing, Adom」 ...o, ou."

I put on a full smile at King Adom who showed himself and called his name the off-duty way.

He must have guessed various things from my state. He came in, closed the door at once, and approached.

To him smiling wryly I opened my mouth still with a full smile.

"Let us go drink at Raide’s."

Galt this day was exhausted too, and quite broken.

After all he forgot Sanai would be beside King Adom, and he had not checked that Rude Tavern’s regular day off.

As an aside, the one who goes along with a Galt like this in high spirits is King Adom.