Chapter 18 – Accidents

After a long enough time to start worrying about what might have happened, the warrior finally came out of the bathroom.

What did you do to come out so late?

Now, more than that, the hero may still misunderstand me, so I have to clear that misunderstanding.

As soon as the hero came out, I showed him the hero’s clothes I had taken earlier.

It was because I thought that I should show this at least to clear up misunderstandings quickly.

Fortunately, the hero didn’t seem to think anything strange.

I held out clothes that I made clean and smelled good, and the hero accepted the clothes with a bewildered expression. Still, because I used a different magic, I somehow managed to get rid of the smell, so I was able to use this as an excuse.

I’d say it’s an excuse, but it’s true.

“Did you suck it with magic?”

He nodded at the warrior’s question.

Do you understand now

The reason I had to go into the bathroom and smell your clothes was just to check whether I should wash them or not. Never went inside with the perverted idea of ​​spying on a bath or sniffing clothes.

He looked at the hero with such strong determination.

Please don’t misunderstand me.

“Thank you.”

“…”

The warrior smiled and said hello.

Thank god..

I internally let out a sigh of relief.

Well, now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, I must go wash up soon.

“Rumia.”

“..?”

The warrior grabbed my hand as I tried to stand up.

I turned around to see what was going on, and he was looking at me with a serious expression on his face somewhere.

Why is he like this

“I have a question for you.”

“..?”

No, because it’s not that difficult to answer the question you’re asking.

As if to say something, I sat down again, and the hero, who had been thinking for a while, sighed as if he was frustrated that he couldn’t speak properly. What kind of question did he take so long to ask? Gradually, I was getting frustrated and wringing my fingers, so the hero finally opened his mouth.

And an unexpected question hit my ears.

“That… What do you think of me?”

What?

I put on a blank expression.

What is he talking about?

“..?”

What?

Didn’t I hear it wrong?

The warrior’s expression was too serious to say that he had heard it wrong.

“No, that.. I got the question wrong.. Kheum, so we just met, right? But I was wondering if I was being too friendly.”

Should I consider this fortunate?

If he really liked me and asked me such a question, I would have been at a loss as to how to answer.

In order to survive, right now I have to like the warrior and even have a baby of the warrior, but right now I am not ready to accept it and I do not want to accept it.

If possible, I want to find a better way to survive in that way.

“That’s why I asked if he really thinks of me as a colleague… If he thinks of me badly. If something happens between colleagues, it’s better to solve it quickly.”

Then why are you asking this question?

The most appropriate answer would be that I think of him as an ordinary colleague, but the time we met isn’t that long to say that, and if that happens, the things I’ve been too attached to until now will hold my ankle.

What if I replied that I just thought of you as a normal colleague and then found out that I was secretly flirting with you?

Since everything is not without possibility, there is also the possibility that I have noticed that I have been flirting.

It’s a co-worker I’ve only met not long ago, less than a week ago, but it’s almost certain because he’s trying to wash his clothes, try to sleep in the same place, and doesn’t tidy up his clothes, wipe his mouth, or hold his hand.

Did I overdo it?

Is that why the warrior is asking this?

“…”

Then there are possibilities that I hadn’t even thought of.

I had expected him to be a real regressor from before.

Let’s assume that the hero knows how to defeat the demon king and returns to the past with the wizard sacrificing the ending.

If so, it means that there is a possibility that my intentions were read.

“I don’t want to hurt you. You may find it strange, but I want you to answer seriously.”

The warrior looked at me while saying that.

“…”

I made a mistake.

It seems that the warrior rather doubted me because I got too close.

If you just listen to what he says, he’ll simply be worried about me and ask if his actions might hurt me, but if you think about the part where he says that he seems to be friendly with you since you’ve only just met him, that’s absolutely not the case.

In other words, the Hero must be asking this now.

Do you know me

Maybe I’m asking this question thinking that I’m also regressing.

Is it psychological warfare to make a clear decision based on my answer?

“What do you think of me?”

I gulped.

What should I answer?

…

…

Can not help it.

Here, if you answer that you are following me out of interest like in the original work, or if you answer that I am a colleague to catch the devil together, there is a high possibility that you will think of me as a regressor.

The original Rumia shouldn’t be very friendly with the hero at this time, so it’s normal.

However, this is a blind spot if you look at it differently.

There is something called the butterfly effect.

The hero also behaves differently from before returning, so if I push forward with a certain concept, I have no choice but to believe in that direction..

The hero also took care of me and supported me to the extent of being suspicious, so even if I didn’t make it to a colleague, let’s go one way as a party member.

Now that this is the case, there is no choice but to push the concept forward.

It’s a bit embarrassing.. But what should I do?

I resolutely used my telepathy to answer.

…

It’s embarrassing too.

* * *

The next morning.

I got up and went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

“After..”

To be honest, I didn’t have a good night.

Until yesterday, it was difficult because of the anxiety about Rumia and the thought of having to endure it, but this time it is for a different reason. The answer Rumia gave yesterday kept ringing in her head, making it hard to hold on.

“Haaa..”

I think I’m going crazy.

I took out my clothes

As Rumia said that she took it to wash, it smelled good and it was incomparably cleaner than before.

It smells fragrant.

I gulped and got dressed.

At first, there was a lot of anxiety, thinking that I might have approached Lumia too much. Because I showed a lot of behaviors that were not like Rumia, I thought that maybe Rumia also changed because my behavior changed.

Looking at her usual behavior, there wasn’t much difference from Rumia before, but it was also true that they acted too close to say that they had only met for less than a week. That’s why he was so worried that he asked Rumia what she thought of her.

It was a problem that this was a question no different from a confession.

I belatedly babbled and made all sorts of excuses about what should happen as her colleague, but the reason I asked the question was no different.

I wonder if Rumia thinks of me as her colleague… She was asking to see how close we were.

Of course, she didn’t think that she might have come back, but if she did, she would have approached me first and said, seeing what I’ve done so far. Since she is Rumia who values ​​efficiency, she must have tried to find her way quickly to let each other know that they were back.

And I, as well as Rumia, must know how to completely defeat the demon lord.

If Rumia had also returned, we would have been…

No, that’s not it.

I covered my face with my hands.

Let’s think again why I came back.

If so, her assumption that she has returned must be firmly abandoned.

She definitely held her line back and her step by step was all she asked me to make her fall in love with me.

But the answer that came back was mediocre.

Only the answer

– Same party member..?

Saying that, she shyly turned her head away.

If it was the Rumia of the past, if it was the Rumia of this time, it would be normal to answer that she was not a party member, but that she was following her interests.

However, the answer that came back was that they acknowledged that they were members of the same party.

I don’t know why.

It wasn’t a long time, but unlike before, I focused all my attention on Rumia.

I don’t know what happened in between that changed Rumia’s mind, but one thing was certain.

Unlike her past, she quickly became close with Rumia,

And she said that Rumia was too cute to bear.

I banged my head against the wall.