Chapter 481: Ignorance is Bliss (1/2)

With the words ”Come visit me at my laboratory next time”, Fors-san left with Laguna-san, and though we're a bit late from our schedule, the three of us and my two pets started going around the city, celebrating the fourth day of the Six Kings Festival.

[My presence was a bit thin earlier, wasn't it? Well, I guess it's inevitable that my presence would be a bit thin within that group, especially given my previous standpoint.]

[Errr, yes. Putting that aside, Dr. Vier?]

[Unnn?]

[Why are you holding my arm……]

Dr. Vier, who was walking next to me, was clinging to my arm as if it was the most normal thing in the world. It's that so-called linking arms…… the problem is that I can't compose myself, especially with the very ample bulges pressed against my arm.

[It's a date after all. This is what you do on a date, right?]

[I- Is it…… really how it is?]

[That's right! Well, putting our distance aside…… Why are you walking away from us, Neun?]

As Dr. Vier said, Neun-san is walking a few distance…… around three steps behind us. That certainly shows the modesty of a yamato nadeshiko, but it wasn't very appropriate considering that we're currently at a festival.

What I mean is that I'm worried that we might get separated.

(T/N: yamato nadeshiko = personification of an idealized Japanese woman)

[Aren't women supposed to walk three steps behind a gentleman?]

[……That's the first time I've heard that. I can understand if it's a servant saying that for her master but……]

[Errr, I guess there was such a custom (?) like that in the world Neun-san and I were in before.]

[Heehhh~~]

For someone like me who lived most of my life in Japan, I feel like Neun-san's actions were old-fashioned, but I don't feel like such actions feel out of place. However, Dr. Vier found Neun-san's actions strange, tilting her head in wonder.

Chuckling upon seeing Dr. Vier's reaction, I turned around to call out to Neun-san.

[But Neun-san. We might get separated, and since Bell is with us……]

[I- I see…… Come to think of it, that's certainly the case…… W- Well then, please excuse me.]

With Neun-san walking three steps behind us, it makes it difficult for the large-bodied Bell to walk behind me. Hearing my words, Neun-san looked at Bell who was walking while always glancing behind him. She then nodded her head in understanding and started walking next to us.

Even with her newly-colored pink hair, Neun-san still looks like a yamato nadeshiko, and even the way she walks seems to have a certain elegance to it.

[……Neun? You're blushing like crazy, you know?]

[……T- This is the first time I've walked alongside a gentleman…… and walking l- like this makes me feel like we're l- l- lovers……]

[H- Hmmm?]

Neun-san, who was walking on the opposite of the arm that Dr. Vier was clinging on, was walking with her blushing face looking downwards, probably because she's feeling embarrassed.

I don't know if I just feel like each of her gestures was cute or not, but seeing her react like that makes me feel embarrassed too.

However, hmmm. The situation I'm in now is certainly something that a man would envy.

On one hand walks a ladylike beautiful swordswoman, while on the other is a cheerful beautiful doctor…… a situation that those winners in life would be in, and if it was the usual me, this would have been something I would be nervous about.

But I'm rather calm right now, and the main reason for that is Neun-san.