DAY 21: NIGHT — THE LADY FINGER BOUDOIR — INTERLUDE: GIRLS' MEETING

Loner Life in Another World — LNCrawler · All chapters

DAY 21

NIGHT

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THE LADY FINGER BOUDOIR

INTERLUDE:
GIRLS’ MEETING

TONIGHT’S MEETING focused on our daily training, combat practice, and our current situation. We shared our thoughts and feelings. Eventually, the conversation turned to the Haruka-kun situation and what we could do about it.

He finally did it. He got into a fight with high-level bandits that apparently used weapon techniques against him. I say “apparently” because he came back without a scratch on him.

If he took even one hit, he could have died. He insisted they were too slow to win any prizes, but was I really okay with that? I didn’t even know what he meant.

In the end, he came back alive and told me everything was okay. I couldn’t help but worry. How long would he be able to survive? He could be gone tomorrow.

He assured me that he was just passing by and ended up getting surrounded by bandits. That was an obvious lie.

If he was really sprinting by at full speed, he couldn’t have gotten dragged into a fight. In all likelihood, he threw himself into the fray to help people. As fast as he could move, there was no way he could’ve gotten ambushed.

He always put up a facade of indifference, irritation, and reluctance, but he always helped when it mattered.

That’s what he did for Oda-kun and his friends, for Shimazaki-san and her friends, and even for me. Every single time, he pretended that his help was just a matter of happenstance.

“Are we going to run surveillance on him?” Vice Rep B asked.

“Tie him up?” Vice Rep A said with a smirk.

“Use some tape?” Shimazaki-san suggested.

“Bondage?” Fukunuki-san offered with a glint in her eyes.

Everyone kept throwing out suggestions. Did any of us have tape? No, keep thinking.

In the end, I knew it would be impossible to keep him here. We could stand by, protect, surveil, stalk, smother, bind, and even imprison him. But we wouldn’t, we couldn’t, and we shouldn’t. I couldn’t just do nothing and let him go, though.

He wouldn’t change even if we asked. None of us want him to, either.