Chapter 271: Continuation of the Review, and the Flustered Wash Girl (2)

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching a milestone! :]

"After that, probably the enemy army will dare a charge, and in the meantime assemble the camp. We will also go out to respond. After that Lord Falco will take command according to the situation, so the army will move following that."

"From that time we can move by our own judgment."

"Yes. Of course if there is Lord Falco’s instruction we must follow that, but listening to today’s talk, unless something considerable there seems not to be such a thing."

Indeed as Muriel said, Freit and Falco too, to the degree both mercenary bands voiced dissatisfaction, had declared we could act freely.

I recalled Falco laughing that probably the only time we would issue instructions from this side was when retreating.

However, even if there was a request I thought we could not issue it, so we were also told to be careful of isolation.

Well, self-responsibility.

In this way Freit and Falco and them seemed to have high evaluation, but I was still an amateur who had only experienced war once.

"Muriel, I am counting on you."

"Ha!"

The command of the Dules and confirmation of the situation and so on let us have Muriel do.

Muriel put her hand to her chest like a military man and answered.

Now then, about this much the review ends, maybe.

I closed my eyes and while pressing the corners of my eyes confirmed the time... 23:43:21.

When I opened my eyes, Cathy looking at her own left arm flickeringly was seen at the edge of my vision.

She seemed to be minding the time, but did she have some plan, or did she already want to sleep.

No...

"Cathy, what time is it now?"

"Yes! 23:44!"

Cathy answered immediately without hesitation.

That a smile seemed to be leaking somehow was because I asked Cathy, maybe.

No, maybe because she could answer immediately.

"Thank you."

"No, naturally."

Cathy answered puffing the chest she had exposed.

"Now then, the time is about time, shall we rest."

Looking around, not only the Dules who had participated in the meeting but the other Dules too exhaled hoo.

I should have let them rest first.

"Master, the bath is prepared, but what shall we do?"

Cathy asked me who had stood.

"Right. Since it is a chance, shall we use it."

"Yes, then" "I will help~." ...

Cutting off Cathy’s words, Hexa said that and took my hand.

"..."

"Come, let us go!"

Whether knowing or not knowing that Cathy was glaring, she pulled the hand of me who had stood and tried to leave the room.

"Then with this we dismiss."

Just before leaving the room I told the other Dules.

...

The naked me, Hexa who had become naked the same washed with hands soaped.

Each time Hexa moved, the bells of the nipples rang clonk clonk.

Only one day had just passed since attaching the bells.

"Hexa, does it not hurt?"

I asked Hexa who gently crawled her hands on my back.

"Eh? Ah, this? It is fine. Because Lady Rosina and Sheena are using magic."

The magic was probably pain-relief magic.

Apparently Rosina and them were treating Hexa well.

"Is that so. Then what about Lily?"

"Big sister? Nn~, she seems to be sleeping."

Hexa who had gone around in front of me groaned while looking up, then smiled wryly and answered.

The tail swayed slowly behind.

"Is that so."

Hexa who heard my mutter went around behind me again, and resumed washing the back.

"Is Hexa not scared?"

In the earlier talk there was also that Lily/Hexa would be assigned to the Dule unit which was another unit.

"I am fine. Because big sister is there too, and if it comes to it Master will revive me."

Hexa answered with a full smile while popping only her face out from beside my right arm.

Her voice or hands were not trembling either, and she did not seem to be putting on a brave front.

Did she really think so.

Or because when fighting Lily would come out to the surface, would she throw it all to Lily.

No, even when Lily was out on the surface Hexa could feel the outside.

Pain and so on seemed able to be cut off, but she would probably feel the atmosphere of the battle.

Maybe because she had not experienced such a thing yet she had not thought that far?

"Is that so."

Three times I nodded that way.

Hexa’s hand washing moved from the back to the front.

Washed the chest, washed the belly, and there the hands stopped.

I could tell Hexa gulped her throat.

She carefully washed my thing as if wrapping with both hands.

There was no obscene hand movement there.

But looking at Hexa’s face being red and her breathing being rough, apparently she was restraining herself.

"Hexa, shall we do it?"

"Hin!"

When I crawled a finger on Hexa’s slit, a large amount of love juice clung.

"N-no, y-you seem tired, gulp, d-d-do it, no, let us stop."

The hands washing my thing gradually began trembling.

...Addiction symptoms, maybe.

Hexa who stared fixedly at my thing with eyes as if haunted, when she returned to sanity suddenly, quickly washed my legs and buttocks, and with the hot water set beside washed away the bubbles stuck on my body.

In the meantime she did not look at my thing, yet looked as if stealing glances flickeringly.

"I do not mind."

"N-no, if I partner you I will be scolded. W-with this, excuse me!"

Hexa set the bucket she held in her hand on the floor, and hurriedly went outside.

Um...

Looking down at my body, there were still places with bubbles stuck.

But in the bucket there was no more hot water.

The towel to wipe the water... where was it?

...Achoo.

"Master, the hot water temperature is... eh? Where did Hexa go?"

A little later Cathy entered the room.

"Just now she went out."

"Hexa..."

"F-for now, something to wipe..."

"A-I am sorry! I will bring it immediately."

Cathy left the room once, and soon brought a towel to wipe.

I wiped the water stuck on my body, and put my arms through the room clothes Cathy had prepared.

That Cathy came to see meant Hexa washing me was Cathy’s instruction, maybe.

But if so, I did not understand why Cathy had been glaring at Hexa when Hexa took me out of the room.

Had she disrupted some plan, maybe?

That meant what Hexa said she would be scolded for was Cathy, maybe?

"Well whatever, she washed the body properly, so do not scold too much."

I stroked Cathy’s head while defending Hexa.

"Uu, n-no good. When scolding I have to scold properly, or she will do it again!"

But Cathy, while seeming about to loosen her expression, in the end tightened it.

Well, that too was probably her trying to raise Hexa to a full-fledged one.

"In moderation."

"Yes!"

When Cathy answered with a smile, she said excuse me, bowed her head, and left the room.

Now then...

I left the wash place, and returned to my own room while fighting sleepiness.

Three full days since then.

Every day from past noon the strategy meeting was held.

I wondered what else to talk about, but attending it there were indeed many things that had to be decided.

From basic things such as command authority and order, confirmation and allocation of the stock amounts of logistics such as food and arrows and shells, resupply places, rest places for soldiers, to the evacuation method into the city if we routed in the first battle, the combat places if it became street fighting, their allocation, the pursuit destinations if the enemy routed, and so on, even things I wondered whether it was necessary to decide here now, we decided finely.

According to Muriel, when routing or pursuing confusion arose on the front line, so there were things to decide in advance what to do, I was told.