「Ukyuu～」
「Ara ara… Looks like she’s reached her limit.」
「Yeah… Nn～ I’m so tired～」
「How is Amilia-sama so full of stamina…」
Croco was spinning from magic exhaustion, while Selene and Shia collapsed into sitting positions.
Only Amilia and I were still full of energy.
「Probably thanks to 【Latent Enhancement】, right?」
「Yeah. Honestly, when it comes to growth speed, she’s even more ridiculous than I am.」
「Really!?」「Is that true!?」「Ehh!?」
The three of them stared in shock.
「Hey, come on. Even I took more than five years to get this strong, you know?」
They looked at me in stunned silence. I’m gonna cry!?
「At first, after being summoned to this other world, I spent over a year just training my body and grinding experience in low-difficulty dungeons, you know?」
「Hee… So that’s how it was.」
「Doing something that unusual, I thought you were super strong right from the start.」
「Right. I just assumed you were monster-class from the very beginning…」
That’s harsh… Especially you, Shia…
As I thought that, Shia stared straight at me.
「What’s up?」
「No, it’s just… you dodge my attacks so easily, and you’re resistant to poison and instant-death moves in general. It feels like you’ve gone way beyond what a normal human should be capable of.」
How can you read my mind like that!
「It’s written all over your face. And anyway, I really like that monstrous side of master, you know?」
「Seriously…? Everyone keeps saying that… And you never even act like it, yet you say it so casually…」
「Ara, are you already finished?」
A voice echoed across the training ground. When I turned, Liliana was standing there wearing the jersey I had given her.
「Ah, Liliana. We were just listening to Yuuki’s old stories.」
「Yuuki-sama’s past, is it… That sounds very interesting.」
「Is it really that fascinating?」
「Yeah, Yuuki-san’s stories are super fun!」
Before I knew it, Selene had returned to her beast form and climbed onto my lap.
Amilia and Liliana scooted in close on either side to match. Lately, whenever we gather like this, we end up talking in this close-knit formation.
「I’ll go make some tea～」
With that, Shia quickly scooped up Croco and left.
「So, I’d love to hear more about Yuuki-sama’s past.」
「Yeah, you said five years, but that was only part of it, right?」
「It’s really not that interesting, you know?」
「No. We want to know about Yuuki-sama—how you lived, what you felt, and how you ended up here with us now.」
「And honestly, we just want to hear stories from another world!」
「I see. Then… where should I start…」
「Yuuki-sama, what was your original relationship with Hikari-sama?」
「Ahh, that’s…」
◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆
Before I knew it, we’d spent about two hours talking about the old days, and then the evening bell rang out across the grounds.
「Ara, it’s already this late.」
「Time sure flew…」
「Come to think of it, I’m starving～」
「True. We had some light snacks brought in midway, but it wasn’t nearly enough.」
「Onee-sama!」
At that voice we turned around. Rena-chan and Shia were peeking in through the training ground’s doorway.
「Huh? Rena?」
「Um… Liliana-onee-sama, Selene-onee-sama, Yuuki-oniisama. Good evening!」
「Good evening.」
「Good evening.」
「Good evening, Rena-chan.」
「So, what’s up, Rena?」
「Um…」
Rena-chan fidgeted a little, looking shy at Amilia’s question.
「Rena-sama, should I say it for you?」
「No, it’s okay! Suu… fuu—」
Rena-chan took a big deep breath, then opened her mouth with newfound resolve.
「Would you all like to have dinner together?!」
She said it with the intensity of a once-in-a-lifetime confession.
「Come to think of it, we’ve been so busy lately we haven’t eaten together properly.」
「In that case, Amilia, why don’t you go?」
「Yeah! You’ve gotta do some little-sister service once in a while!」
Everyone urged her on, but Rena-chan kept squirming in place.
「Um, um… I want to eat with onee-sama and everyone…」
We all exchanged glances at her words, then burst out laughing.
「I see. Then let’s all eat together.」
「Yes, let’s go, everyone.」
「Come to think of it, if she’s Amilia’s little sister, then she’s my little sister too, isn’t she?」
「Right! In that case we all have to give her some little-sister service!」
Everyone stood up (Selene shifted back to human form and changed first), and we stepped outside the training ground. There, prepared like something straight out of my original world’s glamping setups, was an impressive outdoor arrangement.
「「「「Ooooh!!」」」」
「While listening to master’s stories, I remembered you mentioned something called ‘glamping’, and I thought we could try preparing something similar here. So I gave it a shot.」
「I helped too!」
Both Shia and Rena-chan struck proud, smug poses. Come to think of it, we really haven’t done much proper camping lately.
「It’s been forever since I last did something like camping. This could be nice.」
I pulled out the camping gear I’d been storing in spatial storage (item box).
「Wow, so much stuff came out…」
「Yuuki-san, what’s this?!」
「This is… a pot?」
「Ahaha, Selene, that’s a chopping block. What Amilia’s holding is a fire pit stand—it’s for making campfires on grass or dirt. Rena-chan, come here.」
「Y-Yes!」
I took out some thick, unsplit logs, set them up, and had Rena-chan strike them with a hammer. They split cleanly right away.
「Amazing…」
「This is really nice.」
「Can I try too!?」
「This makes splitting firewood so much easier, doesn’t it?」
One after another, everyone took turns trying it. Soon we had a huge pile of split firewood, and just like that, the camping began.
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