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 35: A Request

“I understand.”

As she asked, I sat down next to Elena-san on the bed.

Since she invited me to talk, she probably wanted to say something to me.

Thinking so, I quietly waited.

Then, Elena-san opened her mouth and said,

“When I said ‘talk,’ it’s not like I came to have fun talking like usual… Today, I came to apologize to you, Finn-kun.”

“Huh…? To apologize to me…?”

“Yes.”

There are many things I should thank Elena-san for, not things I should be apologized to for.

“I have nothing to be apologized for by Elena-san.”

I was sure of that and said it immediately.

But Elena-san shook her head.

“No… I have to apologize… Because I broke the promise I made with you, Finn-kun…”

Right after saying that,

Elena-san hugged me and spoke in a tearful voice full of emotion.

“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry, Finn-kun. I promised I would definitely protect you… but I scared you by letting you be targeted by an assassin. I’m truly sorry…”

“…!?”

I wondered what she meant by breaking the promise with me, but it was that kind of meaning…

If that was the case,

I understood why Elena-san was so upset, and hurried to speak.

“As Sephia-san said, we made peace with the assassin, and I have no wounds at all, so about that—”

“That only happened as a result!”

Elena-san said strongly, then continued with overflowing emotion.

“What if Sephia-chan couldn’t stop that attack? What if Sephia-chan wasn’t there? Just thinking about it… I promised to protect you, Finn-kun, but I almost let you… such an important you, die without me knowing…”

“Elena-san…”

“I’m really sorry… After breaking my promise, I don’t even deserve to hug you like this anymore.”

While saying that, Elena-san started to loosen her arms around me.

“No… It’s not just that, I don’t deserve to be with you anymore either—!?”

I put my arms around Elena-san’s back before she finished and hugged her.

“Fi-Finn-kun…!?”

Elena-san called my name in surprise, but I didn’t care now.

I couldn’t help but say what I felt.

“Elena-san! Don’t say you can’t be by my side! Please don’t say that! I want to be with you forever!!”

“…! But I… I made a promise with you, Finn-kun—”

“That doesn’t matter! I don’t even feel like you broke the promise, but from the start, I never wanted to be protected by you or anyone else. I want to protect you and everyone someday! So really, none of that matters!!”

“Finn-kun… Is it really okay? Will you really stay with me from now on…?”

“Of course! If anything, I want to ask you! Please stay with me forever from now on!!”

“Finn-kun…!!”

After I said everything I felt,

Elena-san hugged me strongly with tears flowing and said,

“Yes… yes…! Then, we will be together forever! This time for sure… this time for sure, I will properly protect you, Finn-kun!”

“Elena-san…”

After that, while we quietly held each other,

When the tears started to calm, Elena-san spoke gently.

“You look like you just got out of the bath, but I didn’t feel like taking a bath with everyone today, so I bathed earlier than you. I could just go to sleep now… but I feel lonely to go back to my room and sleep alone—”

Then Elena-san hugged me tighter and said,

“Tonight… I want to sleep with you, Finn-kun.”

“…!”

Elena-san and I, together…!

I understood that this was different from the time she watched over me until I fell asleep recently.

Normally, I would have been more surprised or shaken by those words.

But maybe because we just had an important talk,

“I understand… Let’s sleep together tonight.”

I said naturally without embarrassment.

“Really!?”

“Yes. I want to sleep with you tonight, too.”

“Finn-kun…! Then come here!”

She said that and got under the blanket, inviting me in.

I did as she said and got under the blanket too.

“Finn-kun…”

Then Elena-san hugged me from the front and touched my right cheek with her lips.

Being hugged by Elena-san, I felt a sense of relief.

I suddenly started feeling sleepy, which I didn’t feel while we were talking earlier.

“Elena-san…”

Really… someday,

I want to be able to protect Elena-san, and all of you, too────

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(Oh no, I did it…! I thought maybe it was okay because of the moment, and I kissed Finn-kun’s cheek…!!)

Whispering in her heart, she continued.

(W-what do I do…? Even though it was just a kiss on the cheek, that means I should do it all the way, right!? But we haven’t gone out to the town yet, so I’m not ready… And anyway, how would this even lead to that────)

“Finn-kun… are you already asleep?”

“…”

From his breathing and no response, Elena confirmed that Finn was asleep.

“Geez. When a girl says she wants to sleep together, there’s usually another meaning, but you really just fall asleep like that… But with such a cute sleeping face, I can’t complain.”

She smiled quietly while looking at Finn’s sleeping face.

────About the assassin incident.

Norn could only say for sure that the person who sent the assassin was someone from the Luvankrum Empire.

Beyond that, it was still uncertain, so she couldn’t tell more.

Still, it was surprising that it was someone from her own country.

Elena guessed it was someone who held hostility toward the Luvankrum Empire’s military.

“But now, it doesn’t matter who it is… Anyone who tries to hurt Finn-kun, I will defeat them all. This time for sure, I will protect Finn-kun.”

She whispered that while hugging Finn tighter.

Then, feeling her body heat rising every time she thought of Finn,

“Maybe… it’s okay now.”

They ate together.

Took a bath.

Watched the battle.

Did training.

Hugged each other.

Now, they were lying on the bed together.

And finally, she even kissed his right cheek.

“I’ve followed the steps properly, haven’t I?”

(Yes, you have.)

“Then, I don’t have to hold back, right?”

(Yes, you don’t have to.)

“So far, only girls have been in this base, so there’s no preparation… but it’s okay to do it without that, right?”

(Yes, it’s okay.)

“Right… wait! No, that’s not okay! My reason! Do your job properly!!”

“Mmm…”

“Ah… s-sorry, Finn-kun…”

Elena shouted, and Finn made a small sound, but it seemed he didn’t wake up because his breathing soon returned to normal.

“Even though he looks this cute, Finn-kun is still a boy. …Finn-kun is a boy…!!”

Thinking that, Elena remembered how in the bath Finn’s important part touched her back even through the towel, and how Finn had reacted a little when imagining her body.

Feeling embarrassed alone, she couldn’t do anything to sleeping Finn.

She spent a restless time, unable to sleep for a while────