Chapter 160: I Purchased It!
We arrived at Aurora and the others’ house on 11th Avenue.
I told Aurora and the others to go into the rooms and pack their personal belongings into the shelves and boxes, then stood with my arms crossed waiting in front of the entrance door.
Even though we had become lovers, I thought looking at a woman’s room would lack consideration.
Win and Rain pulled on my arms and dragged me into the room; Aurora pushed my back, and seeing that, Porte fretted in a fluster.
Thanks to Erika stopping Aurora and the others while looking exasperated, they somehow gave up, and I ended up smiling wryly.
Being told there were no secrets was appreciated, but... women really are strong when they gather, aren’t they?
To be precise they are my lovers, yet if Erika had not stopped Aurora and the others I would have been dragged into the room.
A little distance away from us I could see Satur, who was escorting Erika, remaining alert of the surroundings.
Looking only with my eyes to the side, Erika was leaning her back against the wall with her arms crossed, her breasts resting on her arms, and smiling troubledly.
Because I was waiting outside, Erika said she would keep me company and was waiting outside together with me.
"It’s the first time I’ve seen Raide-san looking so flustered, isn’t it?"
"...Even I get flustered sometimes. Come to think of it, you hadn’t told Porte, had you?"
"She’s surprisingly the worrying type... especially where you’re concerned."
It seemed she had given a partial explanation at the tavern, yet Erika let out a small sigh and smiled troubledly as she told me.
Meeting Porte yesterday had not been by chance; she had originally gone to meet her in order to inform her of my situation.
Hearing my story, Porte had become flustered and confronted Erika with teary eyes.
Being told how much worry I had caused Porte, I rubbed the back of my neck with one hand and smiled wryly.
"That’s why I told her. From now on things will happen no matter how many times, so if you keep getting shaken you won’t last..."
"The way you say it makes it sound like causing worry is already confirmed..."
"My, is that incorrect?"
Bending a finger and resting it against her lower lip, Erika smiled happily and looked at me from the corner of her eye.
At Erika’s manner I smiled troubledly and was unable to deny those words.
Plenty more events would still occur, and if I got involved with them I thought I would cause my lovers worry.
Even so I would not choose the option of not getting involved, and above all I could not leave the students alone.
What was frightening was that only about two months—around sixty days—had passed since the academy started.
Even counting the events that had occurred so far, they only filled the fingers of both hands; perhaps events from free play might also occur.
I did not remember the detailed numbers, yet I recalled that the number of story events, combining large and small ones, had exceeded one hundred.
Well of course—since it was three years’ worth of events, it would easily exceed a hundred...
Smiling wryly at the many events that would likely occur from now on and letting out a small breath, one cheek was poked with a tsun tsun and I looked only with my eyes to the side.
Erika was smiling troubledly and poking my cheek with one index finger; when I noticed, she crossed her arms and spoke.
"I’ll say this first: we, including myself, are prepared. So please act as you like without worrying, Raide-san."
"...Hearing only that part makes me sound like a hopeless guy."
"Fufu, you’re not a hopeless person, but you are a person who causes trouble, aren’t you?"
Erika looked at my troubled, wryly smiling face and laughed happily; I slightly sped up the motion of the hand that had been rubbing.
Apparently it was already confirmed that I would cause my lovers worry.
For the record I intended to try not to cause worry, yet the fact that I could not deny it was sad...
While thinking that, the door opened and Aurora peeked out; smiling and looking at me, she informed me that preparations were complete.
Stroking Aurora’s head and, at the moment of entering the room, looking at Erika from the corner of my eye, I smiled and spoke in a murmuring voice.
"I’m counting on you, Erika."
"...That’s the sort of place you are, honestly."
At my words she blanked for only an instant, then immediately followed behind me and lightly struck my back with a posu.
Finding Erika’s action amusing and laughing, the Aurora walking ahead tilted her head; I shook my head and told her "It’s nothing."
Though I could not see her face, imagining Erika puffing her cheeks made me feel like laughing.
The age-appropriate gestures she shows at times like this are irresistible...
Tightening my loosened spirits again, under Aurora and the others’ instructions I stored furniture and belongings into the magic bags.
Just in case I had brought four magic bags, so they should be enough.
There are magic bags with infinite storage, yet considering the difficulty of obtaining the materials it is hard.
It would be convenient if there were one, yet I do not particularly feel inconvenience, so I do not feel the necessity.
If I remember correctly, because they were infinite one could store even mansions... yet what could be stored was limited to things created by the players.
I cannot imagine what kind of mechanism it would become in this Overwald world.
Having stored Aurora and the others’ luggage, we came to the bathhouse in front of the academy.
And I stood frozen at a sight I had never imagined.
The reason was that a door had been made in the building opposite the one that had the door for entering the bathhouse.
No matter how many times I thought back, there had only been a wall there, and there should not have been a door.
At the familiar-looking scene I shifted my gaze sideways to Erika; noticing my gaze, Erika laughed with a fufun, thrust out her large breasts and made them sway as she spoke.
"I purchased the building opposite!"
"Eh, ha...? This building?"
"That was the fastest way."
I was curious what had been the fastest...
With a still-surprised expression I directed my eyes to the building opposite the bathhouse; its height was greater than the bathhouse I had purchased, and if I remembered correctly its size was also considerable.
I had included this place among the candidates as well, yet the price had been high so I had removed it from consideration.
While the bathhouse had been six gold coins, the opposite building had exceeded a platinum coin.
It was not that I could not afford it, yet considering the funds for repairing the building and such I had stopped.
"The interior renovations are already finished, you know?"
"Already? ...Ah, you requested that place?"
"Yes. I asked Nimi-san for the location."
Apparently she had requested the same renovation contractors I had asked for the bathhouse renovations.
At Erika who was laughing happily—"Are you surprised?"—I smiled wryly and scratched the back of my hair.
Aurora and the others and Porte seemed to have known as well; they laughed happily and looked at me.
I had been so surprised that now only laughter would come out.
Who could have predicted something like this...
The first floor had been renovated so that one could relax after bathing, she said.
A kitchen had also been installed so that tea and light meals could be taken, and spaces for lying down and for discussion had been made; she explained while smiling happily.
While looking at the building the door opened, and seeing the person who came out from inside I widened my eyes a little.
Noticing me, that person smiled, waved one hand, and approached.
"If it isn’t the instructor—what’s wrong? Making a face like that."
"Instructor, yahho~~~! Everyone too, yahho~~~!"
"What’s wrong is what I want to ask..."
The ones who had come out were the two popular female adventurers who had previously accompanied us to the mountain during academy classes.
Seeing the happily behaving Erika beside me, they apparently understood and began laughing happily.
Though I was trying hard not to let it show on my face, many question marks were floating above my head.
Erika gently took one of my hands, pulled a little, and tried to lead me into the building.
Turning her face toward me and smiling—"I’ll explain"—she entered the building together with Erika.