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 7: Frontline Base (2)

Chapter 7: Frontline Base (2)

“…Ugh… I can’t do it.”

“Huh?”

In a place where conversations unique to women are happening so casually…

Or rather, before even that…!

“I can’t do it! Taking a bath with everyone… That’s way too embarrassing for me…!”

Just imagining it was enough to make my face heat up.
But bathing together with such beautiful people…

If someone said that to me, this reaction was only natural.

“Cute— I mean! Uh… It might be embarrassing at first, but just like the decorations in this base, you’ll get used to it over time, so it’ll be fine!”

“T-That’s totally different from decorations!”

Even if I conceded a hundred steps, after living here for a long time, I could just barely imagine getting used to the luxurious decorations and blending them into the background.
But picturing myself being so accustomed to bathing with everyone that I wouldn’t feel anything at all…

That was something I couldn’t even begin to imagine.

“And besides… it’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that I’m embarrassed. But wouldn’t it be more likely that everyone else wouldn’t want to bathe with me?”

Everyone had welcomed me into the squad.

I already knew they were all incredibly kind people.

But whether that meant they were okay with sharing a bath with me…

That was a completely different matter.

“If it were some other guy, then yeah, I’d hate it— no, it’d be something even worse than that. But if it’s you, Finn, I’d actually be happy because we’d get to spend more time together!”

“…Even if you feel that way, Elena, the others might—”

“They all feel the same way! If you want, I can go check with them right now!”

“Wait!? E-Elena!?”

Cheerfully saying that, Elena went to open the door without hesitation, despite the fact that she could see straight into the changing room.

Panicking, I turned toward the spiral staircase behind me.

Then, at the same time the door shut, voices came from beyond it.

“Oh? Elena-senpai? What’s up?”

“I was just showing Finn around the bath. This is the only bath in the base, right? So I told him he’d have to bathe with everyone, but he’s worried that everyone wouldn’t want to bathe with him.”

“What?! No way! It sounds like it’d be so much fun!”

“Honestly, I think it’s great.”

“Taking a bath with Teraward… I wanna do that!!”

…Huh…!?

As I stood there, stunned by their unexpected reaction, another voice followed.

“Wait, if you’re showing him the bath right now… does that mean Teraward is standing in front of the bathhouse right now?”

“Yep! He’s right here!”

“No way…! Then, I should hurry and—”

“E-Elena…! I’ll be waiting upstairs!”

“Wait!? Finn!?”

I felt bad for Elena and the others.

But I didn’t have the mental strength to go through with bathing with everyone right now.

…Bathing with everyone.

“…Ugh…”

I had never even imagined bathing with women before.

As I climbed the stairs, I carried emotions I had never felt before.

Then—

“Huh? Teraward!”

“Eh!? Tera!?”

“Teraward-san! Welcome!”

“E-Everyone…?”

There were so many people that I was taken aback.

But when I looked closely, I saw a table filled with food, and everyone was eating.

In other words…

“This is… like a living room?”

“Yeah, we eat here, and sometimes people play cards or chess. There are sofas too, so some people even nap here.”

“I see…”

It didn’t sound like a military frontline base at all, 

But…

Thinking about spending time here with everyone made me truly happy.

“I thought Elena-senpai was showing you around. Are you alone now? Where is she?”

“She was with me just now…”

She was showing me the bath.

I was about to say that when I suddenly remembered that I had imagined bathing with everyone.

My face became red, and I stopped mid-sentence.

“Huh…?”

“Teraward…?”

“Could it be…”

As everyone watched me fall silent, the room suddenly grew quiet.

And then, the next moment, they all rushed over to me.

“Teraward! Did you do something with Elena-senpai!?”

“If you did, what was it!?”

“Did she do anything weird to you? Are you okay?”

“Eh? W-Wait…”

While I was flustered by their sudden commotion, Elena appeared from the staircase I had just climbed.

“Ah! Finn! Geez, I was showing you around, so you can’t just run off on your own—”

But before she could finish, everyone who had rushed to me now turned toward her.

Interrupting her, they all started speaking at once.

“Elena-senpai! What did you do to Teraward!?”

“Huh…? What are you talking about—”

“Just because you were alone with him doesn’t mean you can do weird things!”

“Weird things…? Wait, what? What are you guys even talking about?”

“Teraward is blushing so much. You can’t talk your way out of this!”

“Blushing…? Ah—! No, no! It’s not like I did anything! Finn just got embarrassed!”

“So, you have indeed done something to make Teraward embarrassed!”

As they took another step toward her, Elena frantically shook her head.

“I told you, it’s not like that! I was just showing him the bath, but since there’s only one, I told him he’d be bathing with everyone. And that made him more embarrassed than he expected!”

“Huh…?”

“Oh, so that’s what it was…?”

“…Wait, but that means…”

Hearing Elena’s explanation, everyone turned toward me.

And then, once again, they rushed toward me.

“So cute~!”

“Seriously, this is so refreshing…”

“Teraward-kun, you imagined taking a bath with us and got embarrassed, didn’t you?”

“…! S-Sorry.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for!”

Ugh… this is so embarrassing.

But I’m really glad that everyone here is so kind.

As I took a moment to reflect on that while exchanging a few words with them, Elena-san clapped her hands together, making a sharp sound.

“Alright, alright! There are still places I want to show Finn-kun, so let’s wrap it up for today!”

As she called out, everyone said, “See you later,” to me before returning to where they were.

“Did you already hear from them what this place is?”

“Yes, I was told it’s the living area where people eat and play cards.”

“Yep, that’s right! Then, before we head upstairs, can we go down for a bit first?”

“Alright, understood.”

I wasn’t sure why, but since Elena-san wanted to go downstairs, I had no reason to refuse.

As we descended together, we arrived at the highest floor among the private rooms, where four doors lined the hallway.

“This is where the four of us have our rooms.”

By “the four of us,” she must mean herself, Sephia-san, and the other two members of the Luvankrum Empire’s strongest force.

“The reason I brought you here is that since we’re already here, I wanted to introduce you to at least one more of us today.”

“…!”

One of the top four in the Luvankrum Empire’s military, just like Elena-san and Sephia-san… I’m going to meet them now…!

“It’s not urgent, so if you’d rather wait until tomorrow, that’s fine too. What do you think?”

“Today is fine!”

“Alright! Then—”

Elena-san started walking, and I followed her, wondering what kind of person they might be.

She stopped in front of one of the doors and knocked.

“Hmm? Who is it?”

From inside the room came a smooth, mature-sounding female voice.

When the door opened from the inside, the person who appeared was a woman with pink hair.

As her voice suggested, her face and overall appearance were quite mature. Her gently drooping bangs and glossy lips stood out.

“Oh, Elena-chan? Wait… You brought a boy to my room, so that must mean you want to extract some information from him, right?”

The pink-haired woman raised her hand toward me.

…Information?

“Wait! That’s not—”

“Charm.”

The moment she spoke, magical energy was released from her hand toward me.

Elena-san’s voice overlapped with hers, so I couldn’t hear exactly what she was saying, but… what kind of spell is this?

“Wait… I got it wrong?”

“Yes! This boy just joined our unit as a provisional member today!”

“Oh, is that so?”

“Yes! And—wait, of all people, Finn-kun—! Hurry up, undo it! Right now!”

Elena-san spoke in a panicked tone.

So far, I didn’t feel any different physically, but… was I hit by something really dangerous?

“Alright, alright, I—wait… huh?”

Up until now, the pink-haired woman had been speaking with a mature and composed demeanor.

But now, as she looked into my eyes, she let out a confused sound.

“What’s wrong…?”

“…!?”

When I asked, she let out a gasp of shock.

What’s going on…?

As I wondered about that, Elena-san, standing next to me, also looked surprised and said:

“Finn-kun… could it be… that the Charm spell isn’t working on you?”