Dinner was simred boar cutlets, miso soup with tofu and seaweed, plus salad and bread.
It really did make want rice, but I felt like I was finally getting used to having bread with Japanese-style als.
Besides, Shion’s cooking was just plain delicious.
“U-uuu... It’s sho good...”
Mamonaka’s eyes were moist with emotion as she rapidly packed the food away.
As expected of soone from an athletic club, each bite was big, and she ate fast too.
“Hehe, thank you. There’s more if you want seconds.”
“...Mom.”
“I don’t think I’m Myao’s mother.”
Shion gave a wry smile.
“Ahaha, but I get what you an about Shion having mom energy. I didn’t notice it back in Japan, but she’s pretty dostic, isn’t she?”
Shoubu laughed too as she praised Shion.
“Do I? If people feel a motherly sense of acceptance from , that might make a little happy.”
As she said that, Shion glanced at .
The look in her eyes was indecent, and I realized she was thinking back to that intimate maternal roleplay from the other day.
Shion seed to show maternal qualities not only in the dostic sense, but also in certain special kinds of intimacy between a close man and woman.
As I rembered what had happened then and felt heat rise in my cheeks, I quietly continued eating.
“You really are impressive, Yomi-umi. I’m an adult too, so I need to work harder.”
Ms. Luminous seed sohow depressed, but today’s al was extrely satisfying as well.
After we finished eating, I cleared the tabletop with storage, and Mamonaka looked surprised.
“Huh? You don’t have to wash them?”
“My Inventory can also break down what I store at will. In this case, the image is that I separate the ‘dirt’ from the dishes and leave them clean. We use it as a washing machine substitute by the sa logic.”
“Th-that’s amazing...”
“It’s convenient.”
Washing clothes by hand was hard, so being able to skip that work was huge.
“Speaking of convenience, Ms. Tanbi’s lighting magic is very bright, and I’m very grateful for it.”
Minori said.
“I know! Candles and lanterns were a big help too, but it was still a little scary once it got dark. Especially when I was alone...”
Shouko continued as if looking back on the days until now.
I hadn’t known she had felt that way, but several of the girls nodded in agreent, so they must have felt it to so extent too.
...Had they been too embarrassed to say it, or had they simply not ntioned it because telling the others would not have changed anything?
“You can all handle most things yourselves, so I’m glad there was sothing even a teacher could help with.”
Perhaps because Ms. Luminous was the only adult, she tried to help us as a teacher.
But our life was already fairly well arranged, so maybe she had felt frustrated that there were not many places where she could step in.
“Since they will be turned off at lights-out ti, I believe there will still be chances to use the lanterns Master gave us.”
Roa the maid said it as if to follow up.
“Ahaha, I don’t mind. Anything we can make more convenient, let’s keep doing that.”
As the old and new mbers talked peacefully like that, the subject shifted to whether it was about ti to take a bath.
According to the digital clock we had brought back from the bonus area, it had just passed seven p.m.
I was supposed to go into the bath first.
“Can I get in again too? I an, I went exploring this afternoon.”
Maybe because it would an bathing twice in one day, Shoubu checked with everyone.
“Of course. No way we’d leave only you out, Uru.”
“...Ugh. It’s going to get loud.”
Shouko welcod her, while Yukai let out a sigh.
“Serina! Want to wash each other?”
“No, I don’t.”
Yukai looked annoyed as she pulled Shoubu off when the other girl clung to her, but she did not seem to truly hate it.
“Lady Serina. In that case, I shall wash your back.”
“...Why?”
“Because I am a maid.”
“...No, I’m fine.”
Roa answered with a sharp, composed expression, while Yukai refused in bewildernt.
“Oh, everyone goes in together. It’s like a training camp or a school trip.”
“W-we cannot trouble Kuno over and over, after all...”
Mamonaka and Ms. Luminous looked embarrassed.
Still, when I thought about nine beautiful won and girls going into the sa bath after , it felt strange.
“So-kun, I’ll forgive you if you peek.”
“S-Sousuke, is that sothing you like...? Um, if it’s you, Sousuke, then I...”
Chiyu started saying irresponsible things again, and Minori, who took it seriously, blushed but accepted it.
“Class Rep, isn’t your character kinda different from back in Japan?”
Co to think of it, the Minori from the beginning would likely have said sothing like, “Lewd things are not allowed,” in a situation like this.
I had watched her change, so it had not bothered , but I understood why Shoubu was confused.
“D-do you think so? No, you’re right... It is true that my way of thinking has changed.”
“Heeey? Oh, by the way, I’m okay with it too, Kuno.”
Shoubu smiled mischievously.
“So Kuno is into that? ...Well, if sothing like that would let repay even a little of what I owe.”
“Wow, everyone really has opened their hearts to Sousuke, haven’t they? It’s a little embarrassing, but I’m okay too...?”
“Of course, I have no objection either. If it were any scoundrel other than Master, I would have to eliminate him.”
“Uh, seriously...? Can I wrap myself in a towel or sothing?”
Even Shouko, who was bold when the two of us were alone, seed to feel embarrassed under her friends’ gazes.
“...No. Everyone, I don’t have that kind of interest, so please relax. Chiyu, if you’re going to joke, make it one people can tell is a joke.”
“Mm. I underestimated everyone’s favorability. I didn’t think no one would object.”
Ah, I understood how she felt.
Until now, dirty jokes that should have worked on the assumption that soone would object had been accepted by the won before I could even jump in, so Chiyu must have been troubled too.
“I-it was a joke. Iyama, that is bad for my heart...”
“I froze too...”
Ms. Luminous and Mamonaka, who had not reacted until then, spoke with exhausted expressions.
Apparently, they had been bewildered by the bizarre sight of everyone else accepting the idea of a boy peeking.
“Then I’m going to head to the bath, but before that, there are things I need to give you.”
I handed soap, toner, lotion, and other items to Shoubu, Ms. Luminous, and Mamonaka.
“Huh? Kuno made these too...?”
Mamonaka was surprised.
“Well, with everyone’s help, in various ways. By the way, if there’s a scent you like, tell , and I’ll make scented soap as early as tomorrow. I’ll hand out changes of clothes too.”
I was used to this by now, so I had already made changes of clothes matched to the three of their sizes.
“Thanks. Oh, Kuno, I think I want short-shorts pajamas.”
“Huh? Won’t you be cold?”
“Nope.”
“Got it.”
They were not especially hard to make, so I generated short pants that ended above the knee and handed them over.
“Ooh. Thanks! These look warm!”
“You’re welco.”
“Even if Yomi-umi is in charge of the cooking itself, you can process ingredients, Kuno. That ans you chose an ability that solves all of food, clothing, and shelter. The fact that you can use that power so generously for your friends is very admirable too.”
The more companions increased and the more necessities we needed, the more active the Crafting Ability beca.
Consumables and food would always need to be generated, and even if there eventually ca a point when there was nothing left to make, abilities like Inventory and Storage & Replacent would never beco useless. I thought I had really pulled an all-purpose ability.
“Mm. As expected of So-kun.”
“Abbreviated as ‘as expected of So.’”
Around the ti Chiyu and Shouko voiced the usual praise, I started feeling embarrassed and headed for the bath as if fleeing.
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