Chapter 31: Suddenly the chairman
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As the light shining into the forest began to take on a reddish hue, we began to prepare for the encampment.
We find a spot on the side of the road with a stream running through it, so we decide on this as our sleeping spot for the night.
To speed up the set up and take-down process, we only need to put up one tent.
Originally, in this world, five men is one unit, so the military tent is for five men.
''I mean, hey, there are six of us, can you sleep?
Oh, I see, I've said I won't be returning to the lodge today.
Well, it's only one night, and you can sleep in a small fish tank, right?
My plan is still not as good as it should be when Yagi tells me and I realize for the first time that I didn't count myself in it.
Well, it's big enough for an adult knight's size, so it's fine for about one night like Nitta said, and if anything, I'll sleep in the shadow world, so it's fine.
Anyway, why are Nitta and Furuta doing sit-ups? And you're going to do it too, Sakurai-san!
They say that the autumn sunset is like dropping a fishing bottle, but it seems to be the same in our world, where the sun is just starting to set and it seems to get dark in the blink of an eye.
It seems to get dark in an instant.
There are light magic tools hanging inside the tent, so everyone seems to be fine, but they are afraid to go outside.
''Ew... it's really dark, it's kind of bad...''
What? You're the one who's pissed off. Hence........
Kobayashi-san is cha-cha-cha to Yagi, who looks out of the tent and mutters.
'Ugh, so you can go piss in the middle of the night without a light?'
What, that's not... no, it's impossible...
Mr. Kobayashi looked out from the entrance of the tent that Yagi unfurled, and he gave up easily.
From the point of view of someone who is blind at night, it's like true pitch blackness.
''I'll hang some lights outside as well, so you'll be fine.
Oh, thank you........is Kokubun okay?
'Yeah, it's more of a dark attribute privilege, but I can see in the dark, so it doesn't matter.
''What's that, seriously.......I wish I had the dark attribute too.......''
'Right, I think so too... but if I didn't have the Darkness attribute, the goblins would have eaten me and I'd be out...'
What is that, a goblin attacked you?
After being summoned to the wasteland, I told them the story of how I was attacked by goblins and dragged out to my intestines and eaten, and if I wasn't good at it, I was eaten by orcs during the day, and they all turned blue.
'Wait a minute, they ate you up to your intestines, how are you still alive?'
Oh, you've noticed a good point, Kobayashi-san, we haven't told you that you can use the light attribute as well, have we?
''Wait....Kokubun, don't tell me you're a zombie...''
Oh no...
I wonder what both Yagi and Sakurai-san are saying, I know you say you live in Volzard, but there's no way a zombie can register with the guild... right?
But it sounds kind of interesting, so I guess I'll just go along with the story.
'Oh I didn't tell you guys that I'm still alive...'
Wait.... are you serious...?
'Oh it's okay, it's okay, I really want everyone to survive and...'
Let's create a bit of atmosphere, hold yourself with both hands and shake.
"Hey, Kokubun-kun........
''Oh ... Sakurai-san, it's okay, it's really okay ... it's just ...''
It's just, what...?
'I wonder what it is that makes me want to eat people's brains inexplicably sometimes!
'No!'
Yes, good evening everyone, this is Kent.
I'm in the middle of a rave sermon, sitting on my ass.
"Hey, you're in way over your head!
'Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...'
When I pretended to be a zombie, Mr. Sakurai freaked out and burst into tears.
Naturally, it was natural for Kobayashi-san to be upset.
I was annoyed that even Yagi got carried away and was trying to lecture me.
He said, "No matter how much I tried to scare you, you're talking too much about getting your intestines eaten,
"Well, it's true, he bit me in the gut like this and pulled my intestines out of my gut like this... wow, I remember now...
So how come you're still alive and being eaten up to your gut?
Yeah, I can do light magic too.
Ehhh!
Wow, that's a really nice response from all of us. I've been waiting for this.
Wait, are you serious? Hey?
''Yeah, seriously, maybe, because I can use both the dark and light attributes, the crystal ball in the example didn't react.
'You can use the light attribute too, seriously...'
Uh....Yagi, give me your knife.
The new and old duo left their knives and the other three left their swords for disguise at the spot where the orcs attacked them.
They all seemed to agree when I borrowed Yagi's knife and cut the fingertips of his left hand and showed them how to heal it with healing magic right away.
''What, so you've thrown away the rarest drawn Kokubun then?
Wow, those guys are such idiots, well, it's the only thing that saved us.
Like Yagi and Kobayashi-san said, I'll make Camilla regret it a lot for cutting me off as unnecessary.
''Well, I'm going to go report to Volzard's guild for a bit, but I'll have Reinhardt and Basten stay behind, so it'll be fine.
You can really move around in the shadows?
Yagi... otherwise, how would I have gotten to the place where I was attacked by the orcs?
Ugh ... that's right.
Okay, Reinhardt, Basten, take care of everyone.
Copy that.
"You can count on me, Mr. Kent.
If you go outside the tent and hide in the shadows, you'll soon arrive at the guild.
Good evening, Donovan-san.
Mmmm... how's Kent?
I called out to him again tonight and then went out to the front of the nulls to greet him.
'Yes, all is well, we should be able to get over here tomorrow night.
Yeah, that's pretty fast.
Actually, we were attacked by a pack of orcs when we were rescuing them, so I think they all want to get out of the forest as soon as possible.
How many orcs were there in that herd?
Well it's 14 heads.
'Hmmm ... a little big, but still in the normal range ... but we can't be too careful ...'
Are there going to be a lot of orcs this time?
''I don't know about that, but once a mass outbreak occurs, the Demon Forest tends to become more active for a while, so we can't be too careful.''
'Well then I'll keep an eye out for anything unusual while we go through the forest.
Oh, yes, please.
Okay, well, I'll be back.
Um....
I hid in the shadow in front of Mr. Donovan's eyes, but as expected of Mr. Donovan, he had a delicate expression.
While I was hiding in the shadows, I wondered if I should take a peek at Rastock.
''Fred, I'd like to take a peek at Rastock as well, but...''
Copy that.
At this time, I think it's time for everyone to be in the dormitories, so I took a look at the men's dormitory first, but it seems to be completely dark inside the room, with only the nightlight on in the corridor.
However, it doesn't look like everyone is asleep, and I can hear whispering and talking from all over the place.
"Oh no....how are we going to survive this?
You'll have to do what they do, and that includes Funayama and the old and new duo...
'I mean, orcs are so strong........'
I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing it's at least two meters long.
No, that's harder than fighting a bear with a sword.
'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die...'
Stop it! Yuck!
Apparently, five people are already thought to be dead.
It seems that some of them are pretty much cornered, can't we manage to get the information out?
Next, I took a look at the girls' quarters, but the situation here is even more serious.
The lights are off, just like the boys' quarters, but I can hear sobbing from everywhere.
The Bumpy Sisters are on the side of the girls, so it's no wonder they're in this situation if they're told those two are dead.
Is it too much to ask the chairman of the committee to successfully heal this desperate atmosphere?
I looked into the medical office in search of the chairman, but the lights are already out here.
I looked towards the lodgings and found that he was there.
The chairman of the committee was already in bed, but he was looking around for some reason.
Oh, I wonder if Erna went to Camilla's to report to her.
Hence, let's report to the committee chair as well.
'Chairman.........'
Wow, Mr. Chairman, I jumped out of bed.
"Kokubun-kun where are you?
I'll be right out...
Just like yesterday, when I stepped out from the shadows of the window, the chairman rushed towards me.
''Phew........Chairman, it's dangerous.......''
I'm sorry, I was just...
The fact that Kokubun-kun came means that everyone is safe, right?
But of course he's in a tent in the middle of the woods, right?
Isn't that the Devil's Forest?
Don't worry, he'll be there to protect you.
'Huh ... good ...'
Hey, Mr. Chairman, you'll catch a cold...
Yeah, well, I'll just...
''I-I-I, chairman, I need to ask you a favor...''
What, please...?
Uh, yes please.
I was going to ask for everyone's mental health care, but what happened, the chairman of the committee started to mope.
'Well if you'll do me a favor too, fine...'
Sure, anything I can do to help!
So, you can call me by my name and not by my chairman...
'What? Let's see........Asakawa-san.......
Mmm.....call me by my name....Yuuka...
Yeah, well, Yui Yui, Yu.
You don't need to call me Yuuka.
Yuuka...
Yes, Kenjin-kun.
Whoa ... I want to take it home! I want to take this adorable creature home to Volzard!
So what is your request, Kenjin-kun?
'The takeaway... it wasn't... it's about everyone else...'
I told him about the quarters I had peeked into before I came here and asked him if he could take care of his mind.
'If possible, could we not encourage everyone to keep me and the five of us alive today and not let the Riesenburg side find out that we are alive...'
'Yes, I heard about it from Kento-kun, so I can get away with acting it out, but everyone else is seriously shocked.
Commissioner... no, Yu, I'm going to put the burden on you, but somehow...
Yes, Kento-kun, I'll do my best.
The chairperson holds my left arm in her arms, tilts her head back and stares at me intently, looking a little upward.
Wrapped in one blanket, at a distance where we can feel not only each other's body heat, but also each other's breath and heartbeats, I've never had the experience of touching a girl before, so my heart feels like it's going to burst with a heartbeat.
Copy that.
Yuka.........Erna is coming back, so I'll be back too.......
As I told him this, the chairman tightened his grip on my arm.
It's bad, I don't want to go home.
''Tadaka........I will definitely come to save you.......''
What.... uh... your lips... kissed my cheek... and...
I promise, I promise...
'Uh, yeah ... yeah ...'
"Mr. Kent please hurry...
'Yeah ... yeah ...'
She literally heard the living room door open just as Fred dragged her into the shadows.
Erna crossed the living room and put her ear to the chairperson's bedroom door and, after peering inside for any sign of life, she walked noiselessly into her room and walked over to the side of the bed.
To her surprise, Erna's room had a hole drilled in it that looked into the chairman's bedroom.
My fuzzy, peachy mood was blown away with a single shot.
Since the committee chair is already in bed and staying still and motionless, there's no problem, but if she's scurrying around like I was when I arrived, she might get suspicious.
This is poorly done if I don't tell them before I leave.
After checking the chairman's room, Erna let out one sigh and began to prepare herself for sleep as well.
While I finished dressing and went to the bathroom, I told the committee chairman about the peephole.
''Yuka you have to be careful because the next room is peeking in on you.
I knew there were a few times when I felt the odd look.
Oh, that could be me........but let's keep it quiet.
'I'll come back to you, tomorrow might be a bit of a challenge, but I'll be here as soon as I can...'
'Yeah, I'm sure.......waiting.......'
I reached out from the shadows and curiously grabbed his hand, and the chairman was surprised for a moment before squeezing it back.
I shook off the thought that it was hard to leave and returned to the Demon Forest tent.
''I'm back........''
The lights were still on in the tent, but I called out to them and then opened the entrance.
They were all wrapped up in sleeping bags and seemed to be sitting in gym class talking.
'Oh, welcome back, you took quite a while,'
Is there a problem?
'Volzard's was fine, it's just that everyone in the Rustock garrison seemed pretty shocked.
Hey, you've been to Rastock?
I told you it's easy to move around in the shadows.
He's a bit of a goth.
However, it seems that Kobayashi-san's concern is for the girls.
Did you see how the girls are doing?
'Yeah a lot of kids were crying, the Bumpy Sisters are on the girls' side.
Wow I feel kind of awesome guilty about it.
Hey, Kokubun-kun, how's Asakawa-san and the rest of them...?
'Oh, I contacted the chairman of the committee yesterday, so don't worry, I hope you performed well.'
'Thank goodness.......Asakawa-san was helping me with my treatment, and I was worried because he seemed so desperate.
Everyone else seemed to agree with Mr. Sakurai's words and nodded their heads in relief.
'I also told them that we rescued everyone safely and asked them to take care of everyone else's mental health,'
Isn't that too much of a burden for Asakawa-san to bear?
Yeah, I think I'll take care of the chairman.
That's right, now that he's kissed me, I have to do my best.
"Wait a minute, why the hell are you a Kokubun?
'What? Because Yagi and the others can't come back, and we have to keep our lives as secret as possible, and then I'll have to do it.
You're not trying to get to Mr. Asakawa by talking like that, are you?
Well, it's not... not for nothing, but...
No, or is it more of a target for me? And it's not hard to say.
''Hmm........Kokubun is also aiming for Tadaka.......heh......''
'No, I don't think this is the time to talk about aiming or not aiming,'
I don't know what it was, but the bumpy sisters were giving me grinning glances, but there was no way they could tell that I was being kissed, right?
But just when I was thinking that, the fake glasses still got involved.
'Kokubun, you said you contacted Asakawa-san, how did you get in touch with him?
'Well, that's ... while the caretaker went to report to Camilla, I approached the chairman of the committee.
In the doctor's office...?
No, it's a quarters room.
You came into Asakawa-san's room?
No, because I can't help it.
I mean, I thought you were asleep at this hour.
'No, I was in bed, but I was still awake.
'You're so far into the bedroom!
No, so you can't blame them, otherwise the caretakers will be watching you.
When I tell them I've entered the bedroom, the Bumpy Sisters whisper and repeatedly whisper in my ear and then give me more grimaces.
And even the old and new duo have joined the conversation, you know.
''Let's hear more about that story, shall we? Hey, I think so, don't you, Tatsuya?
Of course, Kazuki, this needs to be investigated, hey Yagi?
'Of course, since you've invaded Asakawa-san's bedroom, you'll have to throw up all over the place.......'
I mean, it's totally in the school trip groove, isn't it?
'No, I'm not throwing up or anything, we've just been talking, and look, we all have to walk tomorrow, so it's time to go to bed.......'
What are you hiding?
Nitta, do you have a wild guess?
What? I mean, I don't have anything to hide. Hey...
What did he look like?
Huh? Ka, look...?
Is it pajamas, a negligee, or....
'Huh, a normal nightgown? It's not like a negligee, it's more like this...fluffy, I think it's silk...silky to the touch.
What's that silky smooth feeling you get when you touch it?
I didn't mean that I touched you...
So you're saying Asakawa-san touched you?
'No ... you see, I was supposed to be dead, so I'm glad I'm alive ... and then the flow was like ... sigh ...'
Ssshhh? Gyu?
"No, no, I'll just, um, put your hand on the chairman's...
Speak up...
No, I'm not going to tell you to throw up...
Did you hug him?
Ew..............................The new and old duo and the color of Yagi's eyes are unusual.
''No, it's like........that's good.......''
Are you sure...?
The truth is... that's... but I won't tell anyone!
Sweet, Kokubun, you don't have the right to remain silent in another world.
"No, no ... wrongful arrest! False accusations! Please get me a lawyer!
I succumbed to the unfair interrogation that extended into the middle of the night and the matter of being hugged was exposed, but the matter of Chuu was not known.
Huh........no matter how much I've been freed from my position as a slave, people are too excited about it.
Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!
As the light shining into the forest began to take on a reddish hue, we began to prepare for the encampment.
We find a spot on the side of the road with a stream running through it, so we decide on this as our sleeping spot for the night.
To speed up the set up and take-down process, we only need to put up one tent.
Originally, in this world, five men is one unit, so the military tent is for five men.
''I mean, hey, there are six of us, can you sleep?
Oh, I see, I've said I won't be returning to the lodge today.
Well, it's only one night, and you can sleep in a small fish tank, right?
My plan is still not as good as it should be when Yagi tells me and I realize for the first time that I didn't count myself in it.
Well, it's big enough for an adult knight's size, so it's fine for about one night like Nitta said, and if anything, I'll sleep in the shadow world, so it's fine.
Anyway, why are Nitta and Furuta doing sit-ups? And you're going to do it too, Sakurai-san!
They say that the autumn sunset is like dropping a fishing bottle, but it seems to be the same in our world, where the sun is just starting to set and it seems to get dark in the blink of an eye.
It seems to get dark in an instant.
There are light magic tools hanging inside the tent, so everyone seems to be fine, but they are afraid to go outside.
''Ew... it's really dark, it's kind of bad...''
What? You're the one who's pissed off. Hence........
Kobayashi-san is cha-cha-cha to Yagi, who looks out of the tent and mutters.
'Ugh, so you can go piss in the middle of the night without a light?'
What, that's not... no, it's impossible...
Mr. Kobayashi looked out from the entrance of the tent that Yagi unfurled, and he gave up easily.
From the point of view of someone who is blind at night, it's like true pitch blackness.
''I'll hang some lights outside as well, so you'll be fine.
Oh, thank you........is Kokubun okay?
'Yeah, it's more of a dark attribute privilege, but I can see in the dark, so it doesn't matter.
''What's that, seriously.......I wish I had the dark attribute too.......''
'Right, I think so too... but if I didn't have the Darkness attribute, the goblins would have eaten me and I'd be out...'
What is that, a goblin attacked you?
After being summoned to the wasteland, I told them the story of how I was attacked by goblins and dragged out to my intestines and eaten, and if I wasn't good at it, I was eaten by orcs during the day, and they all turned blue.
'Wait a minute, they ate you up to your intestines, how are you still alive?'
Oh, you've noticed a good point, Kobayashi-san, we haven't told you that you can use the light attribute as well, have we?
''Wait....Kokubun, don't tell me you're a zombie...''
Oh no...
I wonder what both Yagi and Sakurai-san are saying, I know you say you live in Volzard, but there's no way a zombie can register with the guild... right?
But it sounds kind of interesting, so I guess I'll just go along with the story.
'Oh I didn't tell you guys that I'm still alive...'
Wait.... are you serious...?
'Oh it's okay, it's okay, I really want everyone to survive and...'
Let's create a bit of atmosphere, hold yourself with both hands and shake.
"Hey, Kokubun-kun........
''Oh ... Sakurai-san, it's okay, it's really okay ... it's just ...''
It's just, what...?
'I wonder what it is that makes me want to eat people's brains inexplicably sometimes!
'No!'
Yes, good evening everyone, this is Kent.
I'm in the middle of a rave sermon, sitting on my ass.
"Hey, you're in way over your head!
'Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...'
When I pretended to be a zombie, Mr. Sakurai freaked out and burst into tears.
Naturally, it was natural for Kobayashi-san to be upset.
I was annoyed that even Yagi got carried away and was trying to lecture me.
He said, "No matter how much I tried to scare you, you're talking too much about getting your intestines eaten,
"Well, it's true, he bit me in the gut like this and pulled my intestines out of my gut like this... wow, I remember now...
So how come you're still alive and being eaten up to your gut?
Yeah, I can do light magic too.
Ehhh!
Wow, that's a really nice response from all of us. I've been waiting for this.
Wait, are you serious? Hey?
''Yeah, seriously, maybe, because I can use both the dark and light attributes, the crystal ball in the example didn't react.
'You can use the light attribute too, seriously...'
Uh....Yagi, give me your knife.
The new and old duo left their knives and the other three left their swords for disguise at the spot where the orcs attacked them.
They all seemed to agree when I borrowed Yagi's knife and cut the fingertips of his left hand and showed them how to heal it with healing magic right away.
''What, so you've thrown away the rarest drawn Kokubun then?
Wow, those guys are such idiots, well, it's the only thing that saved us.
Like Yagi and Kobayashi-san said, I'll make Camilla regret it a lot for cutting me off as unnecessary.
''Well, I'm going to go report to Volzard's guild for a bit, but I'll have Reinhardt and Basten stay behind, so it'll be fine.
You can really move around in the shadows?
Yagi... otherwise, how would I have gotten to the place where I was attacked by the orcs?
Ugh ... that's right.
Okay, Reinhardt, Basten, take care of everyone.
Copy that.
"You can count on me, Mr. Kent.
If you go outside the tent and hide in the shadows, you'll soon arrive at the guild.
Good evening, Donovan-san.
Mmmm... how's Kent?
I called out to him again tonight and then went out to the front of the nulls to greet him.
'Yes, all is well, we should be able to get over here tomorrow night.
Yeah, that's pretty fast.
Actually, we were attacked by a pack of orcs when we were rescuing them, so I think they all want to get out of the forest as soon as possible.
How many orcs were there in that herd?
Well it's 14 heads.
'Hmmm ... a little big, but still in the normal range ... but we can't be too careful ...'
Are there going to be a lot of orcs this time?
''I don't know about that, but once a mass outbreak occurs, the Demon Forest tends to become more active for a while, so we can't be too careful.''
'Well then I'll keep an eye out for anything unusual while we go through the forest.
Oh, yes, please.
Okay, well, I'll be back.
Um....
I hid in the shadow in front of Mr. Donovan's eyes, but as expected of Mr. Donovan, he had a delicate expression.
While I was hiding in the shadows, I wondered if I should take a peek at Rastock.
''Fred, I'd like to take a peek at Rastock as well, but...''
Copy that.
At this time, I think it's time for everyone to be in the dormitories, so I took a look at the men's dormitory first, but it seems to be completely dark inside the room, with only the nightlight on in the corridor.
However, it doesn't look like everyone is asleep, and I can hear whispering and talking from all over the place.
"Oh no....how are we going to survive this?
You'll have to do what they do, and that includes Funayama and the old and new duo...
'I mean, orcs are so strong........'
I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing it's at least two meters long.
No, that's harder than fighting a bear with a sword.
'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die...'
Stop it! Yuck!
Apparently, five people are already thought to be dead.
It seems that some of them are pretty much cornered, can't we manage to get the information out?
Next, I took a look at the girls' quarters, but the situation here is even more serious.
The lights are off, just like the boys' quarters, but I can hear sobbing from everywhere.
The Bumpy Sisters are on the side of the girls, so it's no wonder they're in this situation if they're told those two are dead.
Is it too much to ask the chairman of the committee to successfully heal this desperate atmosphere?
I looked into the medical office in search of the chairman, but the lights are already out here.
I looked towards the lodgings and found that he was there.
The chairman of the committee was already in bed, but he was looking around for some reason.
Oh, I wonder if Erna went to Camilla's to report to her.
Hence, let's report to the committee chair as well.
'Chairman.........'
Wow, Mr. Chairman, I jumped out of bed.
"Kokubun-kun where are you?
I'll be right out...
Just like yesterday, when I stepped out from the shadows of the window, the chairman rushed towards me.
''Phew........Chairman, it's dangerous.......''
I'm sorry, I was just...
The fact that Kokubun-kun came means that everyone is safe, right?
But of course he's in a tent in the middle of the woods, right?
Isn't that the Devil's Forest?
Don't worry, he'll be there to protect you.
'Huh ... good ...'
Hey, Mr. Chairman, you'll catch a cold...
Yeah, well, I'll just...
''I-I-I, chairman, I need to ask you a favor...''
What, please...?
Uh, yes please.
I was going to ask for everyone's mental health care, but what happened, the chairman of the committee started to mope.
'Well if you'll do me a favor too, fine...'
Sure, anything I can do to help!
So, you can call me by my name and not by my chairman...
'What? Let's see........Asakawa-san.......
Mmm.....call me by my name....Yuuka...
Yeah, well, Yui Yui, Yu.
You don't need to call me Yuuka.
Yuuka...
Yes, Kenjin-kun.
Whoa ... I want to take it home! I want to take this adorable creature home to Volzard!
So what is your request, Kenjin-kun?
'The takeaway... it wasn't... it's about everyone else...'
I told him about the quarters I had peeked into before I came here and asked him if he could take care of his mind.
'If possible, could we not encourage everyone to keep me and the five of us alive today and not let the Riesenburg side find out that we are alive...'
'Yes, I heard about it from Kento-kun, so I can get away with acting it out, but everyone else is seriously shocked.
Commissioner... no, Yu, I'm going to put the burden on you, but somehow...
Yes, Kento-kun, I'll do my best.
The chairperson holds my left arm in her arms, tilts her head back and stares at me intently, looking a little upward.
Wrapped in one blanket, at a distance where we can feel not only each other's body heat, but also each other's breath and heartbeats, I've never had the experience of touching a girl before, so my heart feels like it's going to burst with a heartbeat.
Copy that.
Yuka.........Erna is coming back, so I'll be back too.......
As I told him this, the chairman tightened his grip on my arm.
It's bad, I don't want to go home.
''Tadaka........I will definitely come to save you.......''
What.... uh... your lips... kissed my cheek... and...
I promise, I promise...
'Uh, yeah ... yeah ...'
"Mr. Kent please hurry...
'Yeah ... yeah ...'
She literally heard the living room door open just as Fred dragged her into the shadows.
Erna crossed the living room and put her ear to the chairperson's bedroom door and, after peering inside for any sign of life, she walked noiselessly into her room and walked over to the side of the bed.
To her surprise, Erna's room had a hole drilled in it that looked into the chairman's bedroom.
My fuzzy, peachy mood was blown away with a single shot.
Since the committee chair is already in bed and staying still and motionless, there's no problem, but if she's scurrying around like I was when I arrived, she might get suspicious.
This is poorly done if I don't tell them before I leave.
After checking the chairman's room, Erna let out one sigh and began to prepare herself for sleep as well.
While I finished dressing and went to the bathroom, I told the committee chairman about the peephole.
''Yuka you have to be careful because the next room is peeking in on you.
I knew there were a few times when I felt the odd look.
Oh, that could be me........but let's keep it quiet.
'I'll come back to you, tomorrow might be a bit of a challenge, but I'll be here as soon as I can...'
'Yeah, I'm sure.......waiting.......'
I reached out from the shadows and curiously grabbed his hand, and the chairman was surprised for a moment before squeezing it back.
I shook off the thought that it was hard to leave and returned to the Demon Forest tent.
''I'm back........''
The lights were still on in the tent, but I called out to them and then opened the entrance.
They were all wrapped up in sleeping bags and seemed to be sitting in gym class talking.
'Oh, welcome back, you took quite a while,'
Is there a problem?
'Volzard's was fine, it's just that everyone in the Rustock garrison seemed pretty shocked.
Hey, you've been to Rastock?
I told you it's easy to move around in the shadows.
He's a bit of a goth.
However, it seems that Kobayashi-san's concern is for the girls.
Did you see how the girls are doing?
'Yeah a lot of kids were crying, the Bumpy Sisters are on the girls' side.
Wow I feel kind of awesome guilty about it.
Hey, Kokubun-kun, how's Asakawa-san and the rest of them...?
'Oh, I contacted the chairman of the committee yesterday, so don't worry, I hope you performed well.'
'Thank goodness.......Asakawa-san was helping me with my treatment, and I was worried because he seemed so desperate.
Everyone else seemed to agree with Mr. Sakurai's words and nodded their heads in relief.
'I also told them that we rescued everyone safely and asked them to take care of everyone else's mental health,'
Isn't that too much of a burden for Asakawa-san to bear?
Yeah, I think I'll take care of the chairman.
That's right, now that he's kissed me, I have to do my best.
"Wait a minute, why the hell are you a Kokubun?
'What? Because Yagi and the others can't come back, and we have to keep our lives as secret as possible, and then I'll have to do it.
You're not trying to get to Mr. Asakawa by talking like that, are you?
Well, it's not... not for nothing, but...
No, or is it more of a target for me? And it's not hard to say.
''Hmm........Kokubun is also aiming for Tadaka.......heh......''
'No, I don't think this is the time to talk about aiming or not aiming,'
I don't know what it was, but the bumpy sisters were giving me grinning glances, but there was no way they could tell that I was being kissed, right?
But just when I was thinking that, the fake glasses still got involved.
'Kokubun, you said you contacted Asakawa-san, how did you get in touch with him?
'Well, that's ... while the caretaker went to report to Camilla, I approached the chairman of the committee.
In the doctor's office...?
No, it's a quarters room.
You came into Asakawa-san's room?
No, because I can't help it.
I mean, I thought you were asleep at this hour.
'No, I was in bed, but I was still awake.
'You're so far into the bedroom!
No, so you can't blame them, otherwise the caretakers will be watching you.
When I tell them I've entered the bedroom, the Bumpy Sisters whisper and repeatedly whisper in my ear and then give me more grimaces.
And even the old and new duo have joined the conversation, you know.
''Let's hear more about that story, shall we? Hey, I think so, don't you, Tatsuya?
Of course, Kazuki, this needs to be investigated, hey Yagi?
'Of course, since you've invaded Asakawa-san's bedroom, you'll have to throw up all over the place.......'
I mean, it's totally in the school trip groove, isn't it?
'No, I'm not throwing up or anything, we've just been talking, and look, we all have to walk tomorrow, so it's time to go to bed.......'
What are you hiding?
Nitta, do you have a wild guess?
What? I mean, I don't have anything to hide. Hey...
What did he look like?
Huh? Ka, look...?
Is it pajamas, a negligee, or....
'Huh, a normal nightgown? It's not like a negligee, it's more like this...fluffy, I think it's silk...silky to the touch.
What's that silky smooth feeling you get when you touch it?
I didn't mean that I touched you...
So you're saying Asakawa-san touched you?
'No ... you see, I was supposed to be dead, so I'm glad I'm alive ... and then the flow was like ... sigh ...'
Ssshhh? Gyu?
"No, no, I'll just, um, put your hand on the chairman's...
Speak up...
No, I'm not going to tell you to throw up...
Did you hug him?
Ew..............................The new and old duo and the color of Yagi's eyes are unusual.
''No, it's like........that's good.......''
Are you sure...?
The truth is... that's... but I won't tell anyone!
Sweet, Kokubun, you don't have the right to remain silent in another world.
"No, no ... wrongful arrest! False accusations! Please get me a lawyer!
I succumbed to the unfair interrogation that extended into the middle of the night and the matter of being hugged was exposed, but the matter of Chuu was not known.
Huh........no matter how much I've been freed from my position as a slave, people are too excited about it.
As the light shining into the forest began to take on a reddish hue, we began to prepare for the encampment.We find a spot on the side of the road with a stream running through it, so we decide on this as our sleeping spot for the night.To speed up the set up and take-down process, we only need to put up one tent.Originally, in this world, five men is one unit, so the military tent is for five men.''I mean, hey, there are six of us, can you sleep?Oh, I see, I've said I won't be returning to the lodge today.Well, it's only one night, and you can sleep in a small fish tank, right?My plan is still not as good as it should be when Yagi tells me and I realize for the first time that I didn't count myself in it.Well, it's big enough for an adult knight's size, so it's fine for about one night like Nitta said, and if anything, I'll sleep in the shadow world, so it's fine.Anyway, why are Nitta and Furuta doing sit-ups? And you're going to do it too, Sakurai-san!They say that the autumn sunset is like dropping a fishing bottle, but it seems to be the same in our world, where the sun is just starting to set and it seems to get dark in the blink of an eye.It seems to get dark in an instant.There are light magic tools hanging inside the tent, so everyone seems to be fine, but they are afraid to go outside.''Ew... it's really dark, it's kind of bad...''What? You're the one who's pissed off. Hence........Kobayashi-san is cha-cha-cha to Yagi, who looks out of the tent and mutters.'Ugh, so you can go piss in the middle of the night without a light?'What, that's not... no, it's impossible...Mr. Kobayashi looked out from the entrance of the tent that Yagi unfurled, and he gave up easily.From the point of view of someone who is blind at night, it's like true pitch blackness.''I'll hang some lights outside as well, so you'll be fine.Oh, thank you........is Kokubun okay?'Yeah, it's more of a dark attribute privilege, but I can see in the dark, so it doesn't matter.''What's that, seriously.......I wish I had the dark attribute too.......'''Right, I think so too... but if I didn't have the Darkness attribute, the goblins would have eaten me and I'd be out...'What is that, a goblin attacked you?After being summoned to the wasteland, I told them the story of how I was attacked by goblins and dragged out to my intestines and eaten, and if I wasn't good at it, I was eaten by orcs during the day, and they all turned blue.'Wait a minute, they ate you up to your intestines, how are you still alive?'Oh, you've noticed a good point, Kobayashi-san, we haven't told you that you can use the light attribute as well, have we?''Wait....Kokubun, don't tell me you're a zombie...''Oh no...I wonder what both Yagi and Sakurai-san are saying, I know you say you live in Volzard, but there's no way a zombie can register with the guild... right?But it sounds kind of interesting, so I guess I'll just go along with the story.'Oh I didn't tell you guys that I'm still alive...'Wait.... are you serious...?'Oh it's okay, it's okay, I really want everyone to survive and...'Let's create a bit of atmosphere, hold yourself with both hands and shake."Hey, Kokubun-kun........''Oh ... Sakurai-san, it's okay, it's really okay ... it's just ...''It's just, what...?'I wonder what it is that makes me want to eat people's brains inexplicably sometimes!'No!'Yes, good evening everyone, this is Kent.I'm in the middle of a rave sermon, sitting on my ass."Hey, you're in way over your head!'Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...'When I pretended to be a zombie, Mr. Sakurai freaked out and burst into tears.Naturally, it was natural for Kobayashi-san to be upset.I was annoyed that even Yagi got carried away and was trying to lecture me.He said, "No matter how much I tried to scare you, you're talking too much about getting your intestines eaten,"Well, it's true, he bit me in the gut like this and pulled my intestines out of my gut like this... wow, I remember now...So how come you're still alive and being eaten up to your gut?Yeah, I can do light magic too.Ehhh!Wow, that's a really nice response from all of us. I've been waiting for this.Wait, are you serious? Hey?''Yeah, seriously, maybe, because I can use both the dark and light attributes, the crystal ball in the example didn't react.'You can use the light attribute too, seriously...'Uh....Yagi, give me your knife.The new and old duo left their knives and the other three left their swords for disguise at the spot where the orcs attacked them.They all seemed to agree when I borrowed Yagi's knife and cut the fingertips of his left hand and showed them how to heal it with healing magic right away.''What, so you've thrown away the rarest drawn Kokubun then?Wow, those guys are such idiots, well, it's the only thing that saved us.Like Yagi and Kobayashi-san said, I'll make Camilla regret it a lot for cutting me off as unnecessary.''Well, I'm going to go report to Volzard's guild for a bit, but I'll have Reinhardt and Basten stay behind, so it'll be fine.You can really move around in the shadows?Yagi... otherwise, how would I have gotten to the place where I was attacked by the orcs?Ugh ... that's right.Okay, Reinhardt, Basten, take care of everyone.Copy that."You can count on me, Mr. Kent.If you go outside the tent and hide in the shadows, you'll soon arrive at the guild.Good evening, Donovan-san.Mmmm... how's Kent?I called out to him again tonight and then went out to the front of the nulls to greet him.'Yes, all is well, we should be able to get over here tomorrow night.Yeah, that's pretty fast.Actually, we were attacked by a pack of orcs when we were rescuing them, so I think they all want to get out of the forest as soon as possible.How many orcs were there in that herd?Well it's 14 heads.'Hmmm ... a little big, but still in the normal range ... but we can't be too careful ...'Are there going to be a lot of orcs this time?''I don't know about that, but once a mass outbreak occurs, the Demon Forest tends to become more active for a while, so we can't be too careful.'''Well then I'll keep an eye out for anything unusual while we go through the forest.Oh, yes, please.Okay, well, I'll be back.Um....I hid in the shadow in front of Mr. Donovan's eyes, but as expected of Mr. Donovan, he had a delicate expression.While I was hiding in the shadows, I wondered if I should take a peek at Rastock.''Fred, I'd like to take a peek at Rastock as well, but...''Copy that.At this time, I think it's time for everyone to be in the dormitories, so I took a look at the men's dormitory first, but it seems to be completely dark inside the room, with only the nightlight on in the corridor.However, it doesn't look like everyone is asleep, and I can hear whispering and talking from all over the place."Oh no....how are we going to survive this?You'll have to do what they do, and that includes Funayama and the old and new duo...'I mean, orcs are so strong........'I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing it's at least two meters long.No, that's harder than fighting a bear with a sword.'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die...'Stop it! Yuck!Apparently, five people are already thought to be dead.It seems that some of them are pretty much cornered, can't we manage to get the information out?Next, I took a look at the girls' quarters, but the situation here is even more serious.The lights are off, just like the boys' quarters, but I can hear sobbing from everywhere.The Bumpy Sisters are on the side of the girls, so it's no wonder they're in this situation if they're told those two are dead.Is it too much to ask the chairman of the committee to successfully heal this desperate atmosphere?I looked into the medical office in search of the chairman, but the lights are already out here.I looked towards the lodgings and found that he was there.The chairman of the committee was already in bed, but he was looking around for some reason.Oh, I wonder if Erna went to Camilla's to report to her.Hence, let's report to the committee chair as well.'Chairman.........'Wow, Mr. Chairman, I jumped out of bed."Kokubun-kun where are you?I'll be right out...Just like yesterday, when I stepped out from the shadows of the window, the chairman rushed towards me.''Phew........Chairman, it's dangerous.......''I'm sorry, I was just...The fact that Kokubun-kun came means that everyone is safe, right?But of course he's in a tent in the middle of the woods, right?Isn't that the Devil's Forest?Don't worry, he'll be there to protect you.'Huh ... good ...'Hey, Mr. Chairman, you'll catch a cold...Yeah, well, I'll just...''I-I-I, chairman, I need to ask you a favor...''What, please...?Uh, yes please.I was going to ask for everyone's mental health care, but what happened, the chairman of the committee started to mope.'Well if you'll do me a favor too, fine...'Sure, anything I can do to help!So, you can call me by my name and not by my chairman...'What? Let's see........Asakawa-san.......Mmm.....call me by my name....Yuuka...Yeah, well, Yui Yui, Yu.You don't need to call me Yuuka.Yuuka...Yes, Kenjin-kun.Whoa ... I want to take it home! I want to take this adorable creature home to Volzard!So what is your request, Kenjin-kun?'The takeaway... it wasn't... it's about everyone else...'I told him about the quarters I had peeked into before I came here and asked him if he could take care of his mind.'If possible, could we not encourage everyone to keep me and the five of us alive today and not let the Riesenburg side find out that we are alive...''Yes, I heard about it from Kento-kun, so I can get away with acting it out, but everyone else is seriously shocked.Commissioner... no, Yu, I'm going to put the burden on you, but somehow...Yes, Kento-kun, I'll do my best.The chairperson holds my left arm in her arms, tilts her head back and stares at me intently, looking a little upward.Wrapped in one blanket, at a distance where we can feel not only each other's body heat, but also each other's breath and heartbeats, I've never had the experience of touching a girl before, so my heart feels like it's going to burst with a heartbeat.Copy that.Yuka.........Erna is coming back, so I'll be back too.......As I told him this, the chairman tightened his grip on my arm.It's bad, I don't want to go home.''Tadaka........I will definitely come to save you.......''What.... uh... your lips... kissed my cheek... and...I promise, I promise...'Uh, yeah ... yeah ...'"Mr. Kent please hurry...'Yeah ... yeah ...'She literally heard the living room door open just as Fred dragged her into the shadows.Erna crossed the living room and put her ear to the chairperson's bedroom door and, after peering inside for any sign of life, she walked noiselessly into her room and walked over to the side of the bed.To her surprise, Erna's room had a hole drilled in it that looked into the chairman's bedroom.My fuzzy, peachy mood was blown away with a single shot.Since the committee chair is already in bed and staying still and motionless, there's no problem, but if she's scurrying around like I was when I arrived, she might get suspicious.This is poorly done if I don't tell them before I leave.After checking the chairman's room, Erna let out one sigh and began to prepare herself for sleep as well.While I finished dressing and went to the bathroom, I told the committee chairman about the peephole.''Yuka you have to be careful because the next room is peeking in on you.I knew there were a few times when I felt the odd look.Oh, that could be me........but let's keep it quiet.'I'll come back to you, tomorrow might be a bit of a challenge, but I'll be here as soon as I can...''Yeah, I'm sure.......waiting.......'I reached out from the shadows and curiously grabbed his hand, and the chairman was surprised for a moment before squeezing it back.I shook off the thought that it was hard to leave and returned to the Demon Forest tent.''I'm back........''The lights were still on in the tent, but I called out to them and then opened the entrance.They were all wrapped up in sleeping bags and seemed to be sitting in gym class talking.'Oh, welcome back, you took quite a while,'Is there a problem?'Volzard's was fine, it's just that everyone in the Rustock garrison seemed pretty shocked.Hey, you've been to Rastock?I told you it's easy to move around in the shadows.He's a bit of a goth.However, it seems that Kobayashi-san's concern is for the girls.Did you see how the girls are doing?'Yeah a lot of kids were crying, the Bumpy Sisters are on the girls' side.Wow I feel kind of awesome guilty about it.Hey, Kokubun-kun, how's Asakawa-san and the rest of them...?'Oh, I contacted the chairman of the committee yesterday, so don't worry, I hope you performed well.''Thank goodness.......Asakawa-san was helping me with my treatment, and I was worried because he seemed so desperate.Everyone else seemed to agree with Mr. Sakurai's words and nodded their heads in relief.'I also told them that we rescued everyone safely and asked them to take care of everyone else's mental health,'Isn't that too much of a burden for Asakawa-san to bear?Yeah, I think I'll take care of the chairman.That's right, now that he's kissed me, I have to do my best."Wait a minute, why the hell are you a Kokubun?'What? Because Yagi and the others can't come back, and we have to keep our lives as secret as possible, and then I'll have to do it.You're not trying to get to Mr. Asakawa by talking like that, are you?Well, it's not... not for nothing, but...No, or is it more of a target for me? And it's not hard to say.''Hmm........Kokubun is also aiming for Tadaka.......heh......'''No, I don't think this is the time to talk about aiming or not aiming,'I don't know what it was, but the bumpy sisters were giving me grinning glances, but there was no way they could tell that I was being kissed, right?But just when I was thinking that, the fake glasses still got involved.'Kokubun, you said you contacted Asakawa-san, how did you get in touch with him?'Well, that's ... while the caretaker went to report to Camilla, I approached the chairman of the committee.In the doctor's office...?No, it's a quarters room.You came into Asakawa-san's room?No, because I can't help it.I mean, I thought you were asleep at this hour.'No, I was in bed, but I was still awake.'You're so far into the bedroom!No, so you can't blame them, otherwise the caretakers will be watching you.When I tell them I've entered the bedroom, the Bumpy Sisters whisper and repeatedly whisper in my ear and then give me more grimaces.And even the old and new duo have joined the conversation, you know.''Let's hear more about that story, shall we? Hey, I think so, don't you, Tatsuya?Of course, Kazuki, this needs to be investigated, hey Yagi?'Of course, since you've invaded Asakawa-san's bedroom, you'll have to throw up all over the place.......'I mean, it's totally in the school trip groove, isn't it?'No, I'm not throwing up or anything, we've just been talking, and look, we all have to walk tomorrow, so it's time to go to bed.......'What are you hiding?Nitta, do you have a wild guess?What? I mean, I don't have anything to hide. Hey...What did he look like?Huh? Ka, look...?Is it pajamas, a negligee, or....'Huh, a normal nightgown? It's not like a negligee, it's more like this...fluffy, I think it's silk...silky to the touch.What's that silky smooth feeling you get when you touch it?I didn't mean that I touched you...So you're saying Asakawa-san touched you?'No ... you see, I was supposed to be dead, so I'm glad I'm alive ... and then the flow was like ... sigh ...'Ssshhh? Gyu?"No, no, I'll just, um, put your hand on the chairman's...Speak up...No, I'm not going to tell you to throw up...Did you hug him?Ew..............................The new and old duo and the color of Yagi's eyes are unusual.''No, it's like........that's good.......''Are you sure...?The truth is... that's... but I won't tell anyone!Sweet, Kokubun, you don't have the right to remain silent in another world."No, no ... wrongful arrest! False accusations! Please get me a lawyer!I succumbed to the unfair interrogation that extended into the middle of the night and the matter of being hugged was exposed, but the matter of Chuu was not known.Huh........no matter how much I've been freed from my position as a slave, people are too excited about it.
