Chapter 54 (1/2)

When Fii turned around, she noticed the open curtains and then the frozen Doug. With this, she knew what had happened.

(Guess I’m totally busted, huh.)

Well of course. He had seen her naked, after all.

Doug’s face was bright red like a tomato, and his mouth flapped open and shut as he stood there.

On the other hand, Fii was mysteriously calm.

She did feel a little embarra.s.sed, but perhaps she kept her cool because Doug was so shaken instead.

As Fii looked at Doug, whose brain had stopped working from all the panic, Fii boldly decided on her course of action.

First of all, it was a bad choice to hide her body. It would mean that she had something to hide.

Fii found out after she joined that there was no rule against females applying as knights, but the reason was actually because no woman in Orstoll had ever applied.

The whole system had been built with the a.s.sumption that all the knights were male.

If they found at, at worst she could be fired. At least, that was what she thought.

Fii recalled Conrad-san’s teachings.

The one she wanted was his teachings on negotiations and emotions.

Most people had two types of emotions.

The type that they vented outwards and the types that they took in from around them.

For example, when it came to laughing, it was separated into laughing because you found it funny, and laughing because you were influenced by others’ laughter.

For the latter, it was because they sensed from the environment that they should be laughing and reacted by finding it funny as well.

In other words, people’s moods were influenced by the atmosphere.

What this meant for human relations was an interesting consequence.

When it came to a misdeed, there were people who felt shy about it and people who did not.

Which of the two groups were scolded more?

Normally you would a.s.sume it was the people who were bold about their actions.

But that wasn’t always the case.

As long as you were bold enough, it was possible to infect others with the idea that ‘you did nothing wrong.’

And when you instead gave the idea that you had something to be guilty about, it could induce people’s anger instead.

In the end, sometimes people would be angrier at the reflecting party.

Perhaps it would be easier to put it in reverse.

Sometimes you would have something wrong done to you, but the other party was so bold that you even forgot you were supposed to react with anger.

It would only be upon later recollection that you would get mad.

Sometimes when you should have been angry, people around you treated it so naturally that you didn’t even know how to feel.