I Was Sent to an All-Female Frontline Unit to Get Rid of Some of the Trouble, but the Most Beautiful Girls Who Are Rumored to Hate Men Love Me So Much That I Have a Hard Time at Night - Chapter 25: Finn Is Also a Boy (3)

Chapter 25: Finn Is Also a Boy (3)

“Elena!? A-Are you okay!?”

Her face and ears turning red could just be from the heat of the bath…
That was one possibility. But her breathing had gotten heavier too.

Maybe she’s not feeling well…

Worried, I called out to her, and after a short delay, Elena responded.

“I’m… I-I’m okay, really? Yeah, I’m fine, I’m fine… Um, F-Finn, are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable or anything…?”

Me… uncomfortable?

I didn’t know why she was worried about me, but I didn’t want to make Elena worry for no reason, so I quickly answered.

“I feel great, so I’m totally fine!”

“Great…!?”

“Huh…?”

“Ah…! N-No, that’s not what I meant! I mean, it’s good that you’re feeling great, Finn, really! Just, um, hearing that you’re ‘great’ right now makes me imagine all kinds of things…”

…Yeah, something’s definitely off about Elena.

At first, I thought she might just not be feeling well.

But from the way she’s acting, that doesn’t seem to be it.

“Um… hey? Finn… this is all because I forgot that you’re also a boy and asked you to wash my back, and I’m not saying I didn’t like it or anything—in fact, I was hap—wait, no, um… anyway, I just want you to know I didn’t feel bad about it or anything, so… will you promise not to run away when I tell you what I’m about to say?”

Promise not to run away from Elena…?

It was a strange promise, but if Elena had something she wanted to tell me, of course I had no reason not to listen.

“I understand. I promise.”

“Thank you… Then I’ll say it—actually, since a little while ago… your important part has been touching me.”

“My important part has been… touching you?”

“Yeah… um… your important part, as a boy, Finn…”

My important part… as a boy.

As she said that, I instinctively looked down.

And there—

“!?”

Maybe it was because I had gotten closer to wash Elena’s body.

And because I was too focused on trying to repay her that I didn’t notice it at all.

But through the towel, my…

My…

My dick… was… against Elena’s back—

“I-I-I’m so sorry!!”

The moment I realized that,

I backed away from Elena and, overwhelmed with embarrassment and, more than anything, guilt about being in the same space with her, I ran to get out to the changing room.

“Finn!!”

Then, Elena called out my name loudly.

When I stopped and turned around,

Elena was holding a bath towel to cover the front of her body, and she continued.

“You promised just now, didn’t you? That you wouldn’t run away from me.”

“Ugh… Y-Yes, I did promise… but… I can’t believe I touched your body with that…”

“It’s not something to call that.”

As she said that, Elena walked over to me with a gentle smile and softly patted my hair.

“That’s an important part of your body, Finn. And since you’re important to me, it’s important to me too… Besides, I know you were trying hard to wash me even though it was really embarrassing, so you don’t have to worry about anything.”

“Elena… thank you very much.”

I’d been so focused on washing Elena’s body that I completely neglected everything else.

Feeling regretful about that, I still gave her my sincere thanks for her kind words.

Eventually, Elena stopped stroking my hair.

Her cheeks turned red, and she looked away.

“…I can tell that you weren’t thinking anything weird and were just doing it for me. I mean, if you look at how your size didn’t change from when you’re usually in the bath… But, maybe… does that also mean I don’t have any appeal as a girl?”

“Huh…?”

“W-Well… I know that you respect me, Finn. I really do. But that respect might just be… you know, just that—respect. It’s different from a boy-girl kind of thing… Like, for example—”

As she spoke, Elena slightly pulled down the towel around her chest.

“If it had nothing to do with washing bodies and I just took off my towel like this,
and you saw my body—what do you think you’d feel?”

“!?”

If I saw Elena-san’s body like this, regardless of washing her…!?

That means, including the tips of her breasts she told me earlier to be careful with, her chest, her waist that was obvious even from behind, her stomach, and… all of that──!

“You might not feel anything from my body… or so I thought, but… huh? Finn-kun. Just now, inside the towel, your────”

“I’m sorry! About washing your body, can we do that another time!? I’ll go wash my body by myself!!”

With my face burning up, I hurriedly said that, then tried to head toward the place opposite this one, where I could wash myself──but I stopped once.

“Elena-san, um… about what you said earlier… as I told you the first time we met, I think you’re very lovely!”

“…!”

“So, um… well… sorry, that’s all!”

Too embarrassed to put my words together well, I just told her what I wanted to say, then walked away.

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As Finn’s back disappeared from view, Elena suddenly dropped to her knees like her strength had left her.

“…Haa… haa… Finn-kun… that’s not fair… I’m already trying really hard to hold back in ways he doesn’t know, and now he called me lovely… and also──”

Blushing, Elena remembered the movement at the end of Finn’s towel just earlier.

“That… does that mean… he imagined my body? I see… so that’s what it was… Finn-kun really is a boy after all…”

Of course, she had always known Finn was a male, but just earlier, even though it was through the towel, his part that she didn’t have as a girl touched her back.

And seeing him blush as he became conscious of her body, and also seeing, even just for a moment, that his towel had reacted…

That awareness inside Elena had grown even stronger.

“I’m happy, Finn-kun… I also think of you as a boy…”

Whispering up to that point, Elena quickly came to her senses, returned to her spot, and began washing her body.

Then, after finishing washing up, they both got into the bath together. At first, they both seemed a bit different from usual, but…

As they talked about the magic they used during the short fight they had together earlier, they quickly returned to their normal selves.

The two of them enjoyed their bath time happily.

After getting out of the bath and changing into their clothes in the changing room, they left and went down the spiral staircase together.

“Finn-kun, are you going back to your room to sleep now?”

“No. Norn-san said she wants to talk to me tonight, so I’m heading to her room.”

“I see, then on the same floo──wait, huh!? N-Norn’s room!? Just the two of you!?”

Hearing something unbelievable, Elena shouted in a panic.

“No, Finn-kun! You can’t! You must not be alone in Norn’s room!”

“Huh? But──”

“I’ll explain things to Norn later, so Finn-kun, just go back to your room!”

Thinking she absolutely couldn’t let Finn be alone in Norn’s room for his own safety, Elena firmly pushed on his back and took him all the way to his room.

After exchanging goodnight words with the confused Finn, Elena quickly headed toward Norn’s room and knocked on the door.

“Yes~”

She heard a voice from inside, then the door opened, and Norn peeked her face out.

“Finn-kun, I’m glad you──wait, Elena-chan…?”

“That’s right! And hey, Norn! What were you planning to do, calling Finn-kun to your room at night!?”

Even though Elena spoke emotionally and loudly, Norn answered in her usual tone.

“What do you mean, I just had something I wanted to ask~”

“That’s definitely a lie! You were trying to do something weird to Finn-kun again, weren’t you!?”

“It’s not a lie though… anyway, before I ask Finn-kun directly, since you’ve been with him the most since he came to this front line, Elena-chan, can I ask you something about him?”

“Fine, but if it’s something weird, I’m going to be mad!”

“Okay~ Then I’ll ask right away──”

Until that point, Norn had been acting like usual, but her next words came out with a serious expression and a serious tone.

“Has Finn-kun ever, even once, said in front of you that his life doesn’t matter… or no, that he might as well die?”