Multiple updates today, this is the third one.
“I heard you said you ate some fruit earlier, but what about the rest of you?”
Both of them shook their heads weakly in response to my question.
“We don’t have a lot of different kinds of food, but we can offer some grilled mushrooms.” “Yay! I want to eat them!” Shouji’s eyes lit up. “I’d be happy if I could get some too.”
Shion also answered, rubbing her own stomach.
“I’m fine. I’m already full on mushrooms.”
With a meaningful look, my childhood friend, Senyuu, said something.
She was probably referring to the events that had happened in the cabin. “Well, then, it’s two portions.”
She was originally the type to throw in crude jokes, but today’s incident might make that tendency even stronger.
With that in mind, I opened up my ‘Inventory’.
I could have taken out the grilled mushrooms, but that would have revealed the information that they could be stored without changing temperature, so I decided against it for now.
Instead, I took out the mushrooms, skewers, and salt, and handed them to the two of them. “Grill them over the fire and eat them.” “Yay! Thanks, Souzou!”
Because she was being so honest in her happiness, I decided to tease her a little.
“Are you sure? It might be a poisonous mushroom.”
“Hehe! Sōsuke wouldn’t do something like that.”
Shouko said it so naturally that I was at a loss for words.
“Besides, Mashiro-kun can smell out the poison.”
Shion added as she put the mushrooms on the fire. “Oh, that’s true.”
Indeed, Mashiro of Fenrir seems to be quite capable.
Eventually, the two of them ate the cooked mushrooms.
Shouko ate them with gusto, while Shion ate them delicately, bit by bit, and finished them both.
“Yummy yummy! It’s salty! Why!?”
“Yeah, it’s from seawater. Want to eat more?” “Is that okay? How much will it cost?” Shouko joked. “The cost has already been paid.” Senyuu muttered. “Huh? What do you mean?”
“Sō-kun, you were peeking at Shō-chan’s shorts earlier. So, these grilled mushrooms are your pants payment.” What the…
What the hell is she going to say now, seriously. She knew all along, huh.
She knew even before we started the fire, when it was just the moonlight.
“Haha, but you couldn’t help it, right? I’m, um, fine with it.”
Seion seemed to have noticed too, but she laughed off the embarrassment and forgave me. “Sousuke’s so perverted.”
While saying that, Shouko pinched her school uniform’s chest area, fanning it as if to send a breeze.
If she hadn’t been looking at me, I might have missed it as a casual gesture.
But completely involuntarily, Shouko’s bra was slightly visible under the firelight. “Damn.”
“Yep, I saw it. You have to earn your own food…! Haha.”
Shouko said, her face turning red.
“No, Seion and Shouko, what she said was just a joke from Chiyu…”
But since it was such a treat for the eyes, I happily offered to do it again.
And so, the conversation had been veering off in such a grand way.
「Even if we eat, let’s keep sharing information.」 「Yeah, yeah.」
Both Shouko and Shion woke up in the forest.
While Shouko was summoning Fenrir and advancing through the forest, Mashiro reacted to the presence of someone.
That someone was Shion, and the two of them met like that.
「Really, I’m glad Shouko-chan found me.」
「No no, it’s me. I was super lonely thinking I might be alone!」
After that, the two of them came to my base riding on Mashiro.
「How did you find Sou-kun?」
Before I could say anything, Senyuu asked.
That’s right, that’s the point of interest.
「Um. Well… ahaha.」
Shouko, blushing with embarrassment, scratched her cheek.
「When you two woke up, what did you have with you?」 Shiomi spoke up.
Considering the flow of events so far, it seemed like she was adding to the conversation rather than dodging the question, so I responded.
“Just my uniform and indoor shoes. I was lucky because our school’s indoor shoes are also used as gym shoes.”
They weren’t much different from regular running shoes, so I could use them without any issues in this environment.
Though I did cut my feet on small rocks on the beach. “What about you, Senyuu-chan?” “Well?” “Um, look.”
Shiomi took something off her wrist. It was a hair tie.
“I always wear it on my left wrist when I go to school because I use it to tie my hair.” “Oh.”
That’s when I realized something. We had transferred wearing our uniforms, but we hadn’t really thought about what counted as our initial equipment.
Because we didn’t have any other items, we had assumed that everything else had been confiscated.
That seemed fair enough, and it was what I had expected.
But I had brought something other than my uniform too.
The innerwear that I had transformed into a towel using my ability.
That means even those who aren’t wearing it are getting an extra layer, so I’m the one who’s getting the better deal.
Besides, if they call it initial equipment, it would be more natural if everyone had the same kind of underwear or none at all.
You mean they sent me here in the clothes I was wearing to school…? No, defining what I usually wear is tricky.
“Hey, Sōsuke. I think they’re trying to figure out what to send us with, and I’ve figured it out.” “Really?”
“Yeah. Well, it looks like I was sent here in the clothes I was wearing when I got home from school the day before.”
“Oh, I see. But how did you figure that out?”
Shion wiggled her lips and looked down as she spoke in a hoarse voice.
“Well, you see… At first, it was, uh, underwear. Not just me, but Shōko-chan seemed to be wearing it too.” “Ah, I see…”
I didn’t even know what kind of underwear I was wearing the day before, but apparently girls do.
“But, well… We only figured out the timing of when we got home thanks to Shōko-chan. She had something she got the day before and put in her uniform pocket when she came home.”
If the item is something we don’t usually have, and it wasn’t there when we went to school but was there when we got home, then it’s definitely the clothes we were wearing when we got home the day before.
“Hmm. …Wait, does that mean that’s how you found me? If it is…?”
Shouko took out a handkerchief from her pocket.
“This is the one I borrowed from Souzou yesterday.” I recalled the previous day.
Shouko had spilled water on her uniform, so I naturally and discreetly offered my handkerchief as a friend and gracefully left.
It wasn’t because I couldn’t help but look at her uniform when it was see-through from the water and offered it to hide that fact. “Oh, right, I did lend it to you.”
Damn, I sounded like a wooden fish.
“No, I was going to wash it properly and give it back!”
Shouzi was blushing and making excuses for some reason.
I wasn’t disappointed just because she left a handkerchief with me.
Was she worried about being seen as someone who carelessly handles borrowed items?
“Did you let Fenrir smell So-kun’s scent and stalk him?”
Chiyu’s words had a slight edge to them.
“Ugh. I knew you might not like it, but it was an emergency!”
So, it was a miraculous combination of the transfer system’s specifications, a coincidence from the previous day, and her Familiar’s abilities that allowed her to meet up with me.
“I’m fine. I was worried about you too, so I’m not bothered.” “Sousuke…”
She’s glistening with tears of emotion.
”…Men are too weak for cute girls who are otaku. Childhood friends are the only ones who can win.”
Chiyu is grumbling, but I know she’s not that cold-hearted and wouldn’t abandon me.
We continued talking for a while longer, and I got to hear most of what I wanted to know.
「I have the ‘Crafting Ability,’ Chiyou has the ‘Healing Magic,’ and Shouzi has the ‘Fuzzy Summoning Ability,’ but what about Shion?」
I hadn’t asked about her.
Well, she might not have an ability, so it might be hard to say among this group.
Either way, I want to know.
「Hmm… Don’t think I’m a bad kid?」
She told me, albeit hesitantly.
What I wanted was… the ability to tell if someone is lying.
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