When Ashton, saved by Olivia, returned to the mansion where Claudia and the others were waiting, a maid standing in front of the front door greeted Ashton with a grin.

"It depends on you being safe back there. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a long neck waiting for Master Ashton to return."

Everyone's gaze concentrates on Ashton, who opened the door to the colloquial room according to the words of the maid. The first person to open his mouth was Claudia, who rose momentum from the couch.

"Ashton!"

Look at Ashton's face. No. Claudia jumped into Ashton's chest. Claudia suddenly starts wandering Ashton's body when she stands on the bar because of something so sudden.

"Commander Claudia!?

"─ You seem to have been hurt quite a bit, but you didn't seem to take care of it."

Seeing Claudia stroking her breasts down, Ashton just felt thankful.

"... I was worried"

Claudia drops a light fist bone on Ashton's head with her head deeply lowered. When I raised my head, my usual tough face was there.

"That's what I see because I'm alarmed."

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't mess with me.

"Shh, excuse me..."

Irrational Claudia's words, but it is an indisputable fact that worried me. Under Ashton, who decided it wasn't a good idea to defy him, Ellis came closer with a niggling grin when he did it and Evansin with a soothing look on his face.

"You'll look flashy early on in your return, Major Ashton"

That's what Ellis said as he glanced at Claudia with chills, Claudia put a certain distance from Ashton as the bat looked bad. Evansin talks to me, as if to soothe an awkward atmosphere somehow.

Major Ashton, you're safe.

"Olivia tells me. You looked pretty good for me, didn't you?

"That's well...... just to be honest, I didn't think I could do it anymore. Anyway, we had a situation."

"I thought so myself."

Think again, he was blown away by Norfest and even fell off a cliff. Besides, that's not the end, the end of being attacked again by the Norfest of Connections.

As strange as the situation is right now that we normally have a conversation.

"O, ohon! ─ ─ Ashton, by the way. Who's that woman over there? I look like a hunter because I fit in..."

Claudia, speaking up again, has asked reluctantly looking at Stacia, who stands without a seat.

"Excuse me, I'm late for an introduction, but I'm Stacia, the benefactor of life"

"... Hi"

Stacia meets lightly.

"She helped you?

"Yes."

Ashton told me once again how he had been saved where he was being flushed into the river, and how he had been attacked by a connected Norfest along the way.

"It was again... Norfest, who blew Major Ashton away, had nothing to do with Major General Olivia's exorcism... but it was tough"

Ellis hoisted up the edge of his mouth next to Evansin speaking the words of labor.

"Heh. I mean, Major Ashton was with Mr. Stacia the whole time."

"It's kind of a strange way of saying it, but there's nothing nasty about it. We had no choice but to dry each other's underwear."

It was too late when I realized it was a silence as soon as I said it. I say as Ellis puts an evil grin on this or not.

"Young men and women spend the night together in underwear!?

"So I'm telling you I have no choice but to dry my clothes!

"How could you do that?

Ellis naturally said to Evansin's words as if they were frightened.

"It's decided because it's so funny. ─ ─ And I can't even put Major Ashton in the corner. By the way, what color was your underwear?

"Black - not black!!

When she hurries to turn her gaze back to the table, Olivia is drinking the tea offered to her maid in a delicious way. Shortly after I breathed a ho that there seemed to be no misunderstanding, in particular, Claudia's chilling gaze toward Ashton.

We don't look like each other in underwear.

"As I was saying, there's really no other way..."

"But we spent time together in underwear"

"Well, that's well..."

Even though I don't remember doing anything wrong, a lot of sweat somehow seeps out of Ashton's back. You didn't see how that went, Stacia broke in.

"I don't feel like doing this to this boy."

"... you said Mr. Stacia. I sincerely thank you for saving Ashton's life, but what do you know about Ashton after only two days of acting together? This man has a temper when he looks like this. Boy, I don't want you to talk too much."

Claudia, whose novels are normalizing, is defending Ashton only now. When I remember such great confusion about her,

"We did spend two days together, but I know we still have a temper. Anyway, this guy is a big idiot who tried to face his warcraft Norfest opponent with a knife. Still, being a boy doesn't make a difference."

That's what I said. Stacia laughs with her nose. Claudia uncommonly tongued as she stared down her breath as the two glances staggered like ice.

"I don't know what to say."

"I came here to receive my reward. Don't worry, I'm not interested in your boyfriend."

"Become!? Or is it my boyfriend......!?

Stacia has flamboyantly ignored Claudia, who is obviously upset, and has offered her hand as she approaches Ashton.

"So it's time for you to give it to me? I'm not free, either."

"We'll have the money right away. ─ ─ And don't say anything weird. I'm the one who complains later."

At the end of the day, when she whispered and eared so, Stacia gave a surprising look and compared Claudia and Ashton alternately, at the end of the day dropping a sigh of disgust.

"You... well, okay. For now, if I get what I want, I'm going to disperse."

"Then I'll get it right away"

Hurry back to his room, Ashton carefully removes one gold coin at a time from the gold bag and arranges it at his desk.

(Hifu...... ok now)

Going down the stairs rhythmically and back into the conversation room again, Stacia was talking to Ellis about something. Apparently Ashton realizes he's back. Stacia comes to grin.

Like Ellis earlier, he grinned.

(Ha...... I guess I said Ellis wasn't even Rokuro again anyway)

I don't know if I care. Ashton immediately frowned as she put the gold coin on Stacia's hand, which was offered again.

"There are six. I said five, didn't I?

"One extra piece is just a feeling. Keep it coming."

"Hmm... then don't hesitate"

Stacia, who quickly missed the gold coin, tapped Ashton's shoulder lightly as she left.

"There will be a lot of things, but keep up the good work. Major Ashton."

That being said, Stacia left the mansion lightly, as did her footsteps.

(... Speaking of which, I feel like I've been called my first name)

Next to Ashton, who thinks that blurry, Claudia stared at the door that seemed abominably closed forever.