Sepakai (GXG) (GIRLXGIRL) (GL)

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Chapter 13
Section 14: A Peaceful Place
[Carol]: “Hmm. So that’s why you’re so mopey?”

Carol poked my cheek as I buried myself in couch cushions.

[Lapris]: “You should’ve summoned Phoenix and rubbed her right in that pompous girl’s nose. That would’ve shut her up.”

Lapris was lying back ready to sleep on my stomach while looking a little bloated after the supper we just had.

[Iris]: “Uh-uh, it would’ve felt like I cheated.”

[Lapris]: “It’s still your power.”

[Iris]: “But it’s true that I couldn’t use any magic when the time came. Urgh, I would’ve practiced more if I knew this was how things were going to turn out…… If I was able to cast any kind of spell then Lou-chan wouldn’t have been insulted……..”

[Lapris]: “What the, that’s the part that got you so angry?”

[Iris]: “That’s right. But more than anything, I’m lamenting my own worthlessness…….and I’m also incredibly full, so if you could not lay right there.”

I tried peeling Lapris off my stomach, but she dug her fingers into my shirt. When I was younger, Mycena dragged me up to the mountains so we could pick up some stag beetles for fun. Even back then I was amazed at the strength that could come from such tiny bodies.

[Toslin]: “Pull yourselves together. Have you forgotten that we will be dungeon diving tomorrow?”

Toslin scolded us both while I wrestled with Lapris who continued to stubbornly cling to me without bothering to try and justify her being there.

She had just gotten out of the bath and was currently drying her hair.

It’s at times like this that I think about how bothersome it must be to have long hair.

Would it take me one, no, two years to get my hair that long? The thought that it’ll take that long before Rose-san will tell me how beautiful I look just makes me even more depressed.

[Iris]: “Uuu, Rose-san~”

It’s time like this when I want to be spoiled and called Rose-san’s name, but it was Saluena who answered back.

[Saluena]: “Rosa is washing off her sweat right now. She is worn-out from how much moving around she did today. Let her relax in the bath for a bit.”

[Iris]: “Ah, of course…….”

We usually take our bath together, but because we returned at different times today, we’re taking them separately.

[Saluena]: “I could console you instead.”

[Iris]: “………no thanks. There’s something unpleasant about the way you move your hands.”

[Saluena]: “You wound me. I am simply showing you my love.”

Saluena gave an overreactive sigh. But I won’t be fooled. The innocent Iris-san who would turn red just because you pet her head or stare into her eyes no longer exists.

[Iris]: “…..hm? Now that you mention it, what were all of you doing while I was in class?”

[Toslin]: “I was teaching a couple of students some swordplay.”

[Carol]: “I just watched.”

[Saluena]: “Rosa, the knights, and I spent the day training.”

[Iris]: “Ohh, is that right?”

I kind of figured for Saluena and Rose-san, but it’s a bit surprising to think of Toslin as a teacher.

[Carol]: “Listen to this Iris. Can you believe that Toslin spent the whole day flirting with other women when I was right there?”