Brother, appears ➁

After that the troops seemed to divide themselfs up into groups of a number of people each.
In each group there would without fail be at least one person who had experience fighting monsters, it seemed.
To be honest I had wanted to join them, but as this was training I refrained.

Nevertheless, Brother too was actually doing a proper job, wasn’t he~
While I had forgotten because I always saw him getting punished by Mother’s fists, he was the order’s commander after all.
Not Leon-sama’s babysitter.

It looked like the troops had finished grouping up and were now going to depart.
While holding back my feelings of wanting to join them, I saw them off.

Now then, what shall I do.
Ever since I had returned to the territory, if there was a need I had gone out monster hunting, patrolling and been making medicine, it’s been very busy.
The fact those these were all primarily connected to monsters was .. well, the backlash of what I’ve been doing so far.

Come to think of it, Sana said that Anjiu-sama was getting depressed because I only ever spend time with Aren-kun monster hunting.
Alright, let’s join Anjiu-sama today.
Where could she be~

Realising that I began searching for something, Aren-kun called out to me.

“Ririina-sama, are you searching for something?”

“Ah, Aren. Do you know where Anjiu-sama is right now?”

“Anjiu? In that case she was doing something with Sana-san some time ago. I think they are probably in Anjiu’s room.”

“Is that so. Sana and Anjiu-sama have been close to each other, recently.”

“I agree~ I often see those two sticking their heads together getting fired up about something. Well, it’s probably about me anyway.”

“Hm? About you? Did something happen?”

“Not at all, it’s nothing Ririina-sama needs to concern herself with. They are just getting amused by themselves, after all.”

Ending the topic Aren-kun said ‘Then, I’ll be going out on patrol.’ and left.
Are? Out on patrol, you say?
In that case me too .. no, that’s bad.
I remember now, I always go along with this pattern and end up patrolling the area with Aren-kun, which is why I never spend time with Anjiu-sama.
That was close, that was close.

Entering the mansion I headed for Anjiu-sama’s room.
Now then, around here.

I arrived in front of it.
Knocking on the door Anjiu-sama responded from inside ‘It’s open, so come on in~’.
Saying ‘Excuse me’ I thus entered.

“Waah! Ririina-oneesama!”

Let out Anjiu-sama with a surprised voice seeing me.
If you get that surprise even I will get startled.

“Good day, Anjiu-sama. Ara, Sana isn’t with you?”

Inside the room there was Anjiu-sama but not Sana.

“Ah, if it’s Sana-san she was here until a while ago. So you had some business with Sana-san, yes?”

Saying so the suddenly turned obviously gloomier.
It appeared she misunderstood that I had come here because of Sana.

“Ehm, I’m sorry for causing a misunderstanding. It’s not like I had some business with Sana. I came here in order to meet Anjiu-sama.”

Upon my words a smile returned to her face.
Having a younger sister may feel like this.

“S-so you came here to meet me? Uh, I’m glad~”

Anjiu-sama started crying a bit.
Eh, wait! That much? To make you cry?
I hurriedly handed her a handkerchief.

“Anjiu-sama, please use this. You even have such a cute face ..”

Upon which Anjiu-sama turned red.
While covering her face with the handkerchief she muttered something while squirming.
‘Uuh~~ Ririina-oneesama is a man amongst men~~. How cool–‘

I couldn’t hear those strange things but it appeared her tears had stopped so let’s say all was fine.

“Uh~~, I’m sorry for crying. By the way, that means your business was with me then, yes.”

Anjiu-sama looked at me with glittering eyes.
What do I do, I didn’t really have any reason in particular.

“Let’s see, you may call it business .. er, I haven’t spent any time with Anjiu-sama lately, so I thought to come meet you today .. so no business in particular.”

I told her the truth.
I wondered what I should do if she cried again, but as I watched Anjiu-sama ..
Eh? A whole faced smile?

“You have really come to meet me just because then, right! Ririina-oneesama, to me!”

Looking truly happy she wriggled her body.
Yes, from now on I’ll visit you regularily so please calm down.
If a cute girl moved like that it’d be bad.
I made it a point in my heart to go meet her more frequently from now on.

Konkon.

At that moment the sound of a knock resounded through the room.
“Ye-s!” answered Anjiu-sama while opening the door in high spirits.

“Excuse me.”

The one that came in was Sana.

“Ah, this is where you were, Ririina-sama.”

Sana made a relieved look, confirming that.
Did she look for me?

“Ara, Sana, did you look for me? Did something happen?”

“Yes, the truth is there has been contact from the people that left earlier on patrol that monsters have appeared. However, it seems that in the direction the troops of the order left for a splendid number of them appeared, so Liesa-sama said to have you go there. It seems like everyone else is out right now and can’t move right away.”

“Understood, I’ll head there now.”

Of course I would immediately head out in this case.
Saa, let’s go!
As I was trying to leave the room:

“Ririina-oneesama! Please would you take me along with you?”

Eh? Of course not. It’s dangerous, you know?
As I was hesitating Sana joined the conversation.

“Ririina-sama, I will be joining you as well. Anjiu-sama will be fine even if you take her along. She is quiet strong herself, after all.”

Eh? Is that so?
Those two have truly gotten close, haven’t they.

“In that case let us hurry and head out. Fufu, today will be a girls-only monster hunt then.”

Otherwise I would always go out with Aren-kun and Thoma, so this felt fresh.
But this seemed fun in it’s own way.
Indeed, but this was still saving people, after all! Let’s get fired up and go!
We quickly completed our preparations and left the mansion.