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 81: Progress (1)

Chapter 81: Progress (1)

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“This is the inside of the Luvankrum Empire’s military frontline base… The outside looked nice too, but the interior is really beautiful.”

“I was really surprised the first time I came in as well.”

I nodded and said that in response to the white-haired woman’s first words after entering the base.

To be honest, since I had hardly ever been in a building with such luxurious decorations, it felt more like I was overwhelmed.

It would be a lie to say that feeling has completely gone away now.

But these days I live here with everyone, so I hardly feel the tension I did back then.

Instead, remembering the days spent living with everyone makes my heart feel warm.

After that, we each put the things we were carrying in our own rooms and then gathered in the living room to have dinner.

Since I had not bought anything in town, I arrived in the living room fairly early.

“…Hm?”

In the middle of that,

I suddenly felt someone looking at me and turned in that direction.

“…”

There was Elena, staring at me.

What is it…?

Worried, I walked over and spoke to her.

“Elena, is something wrong?”

“Eh!? W-What do you mean!?”

I had just spoken to her normally, but for some reason Elena’s cheeks flushed red and she looked very startled.

A little confused by that, I opened my mouth again.

“No… You were looking at me, so I thought maybe you needed something. Was I wrong?”

“Ah, ah—! N-No! It’s not like that! It’s nothing, so don’t worry—”

She started to say that,

but then Elena stopped mid-sentence.

She looked down and muttered something in a voice too small for me to hear.

“No, that won’t do… If things stay like this, nothing will ever move forward… So…”

“…Elena?”

When I called her name, Elena looked up and said.

“Sorry, Finn-kun! Actually, it’s not nothing…”

Her cheeks still red, Elena spoke the next words with a tense look.

“Um, I want to talk alone with you… and there are various things I want to do… so is it okay if I come to your room tonight?”

“Of course it’s okay!”

“…! Th-Thank you…!”

Hearing my answer, Elena looked happy but also somehow shy.

Just as that caught my attention, I heard voices approaching from the spiral stairs.

“I truly didn’t expect you to give me a room too. Is it really all right to treat someone who isn’t a frontline unit member this well?”

“That room was empty, so please don’t worry about it. Besides, giving good treatment to someone we’re cooperating with is only natural.”

Talking like that as they came into the living room were Sephia and the white-haired woman.

After that, everyone else gradually gathered in the living room.

The people in charge of cooking today headed to the kitchen, while the rest took their seats and chatted with each other.

I was no exception—

“So that’s how it works! Being able to control magic that precisely in an instant is really amazing!”

“I’m happy to hear the boy say that. But I also think the boy’s strength is amazing—he defeated an enemy commander while still a trainee.”

“Th-Thank you… But that was also thanks to everyone—”

As I spent time talking with the white-haired woman, starting with guns and branching into other topics,

“Dinner’s ready~!”

The people cooking seemed to have finished, and plates of delicious-looking food were lined up one after another on the table.

Once the food was placed in front of everyone, we started eating.

I immediately took the first bite.

“!!”

The food I had in town restaurants and inns was delicious too, but the food made by the people in this unit is still really delicious.

As I savored the taste,

“Not only are their combat abilities outstanding, but their cooking is this good too… Boy—!?”

The white-haired woman nearby turned toward me and froze.

“W-What is that face… Now that I think about it, this is the first time I’m eating with the boy… It’s just too cute… He’s always cute, but when he’s eating there’s a different kind of cuteness—”

“What is it?”

“…!”

When I spoke to her, the woman’s eyes widened for a moment before she answered.

“No… I was just feeling how delicious the food is.”

“I see! I feel the same way! Everyone’s cooking is really so good, right!”

“B-Boy…! If you turn such a cute face toward me from this close—”

The white-haired woman said something else in a small voice.

Then,

“I just heard Teraward-kun say our cooking is delicious…!?”

“I heard it!”

“He always tells us, but no matter how many times I hear it, it makes me way too happy…”

“We have to keep making lots of delicious things for Tera-kun from now on…!”

The others in the living room started talking with slightly louder voices.

I could not tell exactly what everyone was saying because the voices overlapped, but there was no doubt the atmosphere was very lively.

I spent dinner time savoring the happiness of being able to eat in this place, along with the taste of the food.

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On the way from town to the frontline base, Sephia had decided to stay calm until they arrived.

After that, there had been the reunion with the assassin and other things, so she had managed to keep her heart settled for a while.

But once dinner began and she saw Finn’s bright expression, emotions welled up from deep inside her chest.

(Why do I… keep thinking about Finn-san this much, all the time…?)

She muttered that in her heart, but there was no need to even ask herself—the answer was already there inside Sephia.

(He is of course extremely kind, and he told me—no one else—that he wants to learn swordsmanship from me, and he cherishes the sword I gave him and my feelings about swords very much…)

There were countless other reasons, but right now Sephia’s head was full of Finn.

(But… I never thought he would end up buying something like that… Just how much do I…)

Remembering it made her feel her face grow even hotter, but Sephia did not stop her thoughts there—she faced her own feelings.

(Given our current relationship, something like that probably won’t happen suddenly… Even so. As a woman, toward Finn-san who is a man, I…)

In order to move her relationship with Finn forward even a little,

Sephia decided to take one action tonight—.