When I opened the door, Aiz was standing there with dead eyes.
"I have the key, so how did you get in?"
"Hm?"
"Where were you until now?"
"Something came up, so I went to the Pleasure Quarter, but..."
"..."
As soon as I finished speaking, Aiz grabbed my clothes and yanked me toward her.
"Wha— What are you doing all of a sudden—"
"...Did you?"
"Huh?"
After tugging at my clothes and sniffing them for a moment, Aiz looked up at me with those dead eyes and said, "You smell like another woman."
"Well, yeah. I was chased by prostitutes."
"?"
"It's a long story, but... let's sit down first."
Maybe because I'd spent the whole night on edge, I was incredibly tired now.
If I drank some coffee, I'd probably be fine for a little while, but right now Aiz wanted an explanation as soon as possible.
"I'll tell you everything that happened, so don't look at me like that."
Being stared at with dead eyes was surprisingly scary...
"...Okay."
Ah... I'm exhausted...
"—So that's why I stayed up all night."
"I see..."
Aiz let out a relieved sigh.
After I explained everything that had happened tonight, the look in her eyes returned to normal.
"So there's no misunderstanding now, right?"
"Yeah... Sorry."
"Don't worry about it."
Ah... I'm tired...
Maybe because I'd pulled an all-nighter for the first time in a while... I was even more exhausted than usual...
"Then I'm going to sleep now... Come get the armor tomorrow... no, after this afternoon."
"Mm..."
I couldn't hold back the sleepiness flooding over me anymore, so I roughly tossed my clothes aside, collapsed onto the bed, and let my eyes close on their own as I sank into sleep like I was sinking into a lake.
"..."
After Bellf fell into a deep sleep, Aiz opened the bedroom door.
"..."
Bellf was sleeping so deeply that even if someone kidnapped him, he probably wouldn't wake up.
Aiz walked over to Bellf.
"...Disgusting."
The scent of perfume used by prostitutes had soaked into Bellf's body after his ordeal, and Aiz found the smell deeply unpleasant.
"..."
So,
"Excuse me for a moment."
She decided to cover it up with another scent.
The bed Bellf used was big enough for one person, but a little cramped for two.
Still, that didn't matter.
"Mm..."
"Nn..."
If it was cramped, then they could just stay closer together.
"..."
By afternoon, I woke up on my own.
Feeling something off in my arms and shoulders, I lifted the blanket and found Aiz asleep with both arms wrapped around me as if she were hugging me.
I twisted my body this way and that to get free, but—
"Don't go..."
Whether it was a reaction or not, she held me even tighter, so I couldn't escape.
"What am I supposed to do about this?"
There was no way a Lv. 5 blacksmith could beat a Lv. 6 adventurer in a contest of strength, and for some reason I couldn't get any strength into my lower body either, so getting away was impossible.
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