Chapter 54 (2/2)

The atmosphere would influence your judgement on how you should have been feeling, and the result was that your emotions failed to coalesce into anger.

In other words, there existed the option of acting guilt-free to avoid somebody else’s anger.

Of course, there were caveats to this.

It would only work when the other party hadn’t coherently grown outraged yet.

If they were already angry beyond a certain point, being bold and unrepentant would only spur on their inner anger.

And once you had already played the card of being unrepentant, it would be impossible to gloss over the situation with apologies and reflection.

Because of that, one had to be careful in its use.

Most of the time, even if it meant legitimising their anger, it would be better to simply apologise and appease them.

But Fii had decided that now was an appropriate time to act boldly.

If Fii tried to hide anything, it would signal to Doug that she had done something to feel guilty of. She would become disadvantaged, and she couldn’t afford that right now.

At the moment, Doug was feeling purely embarra.s.sment and panic. He hadn’t yet gained any reason to scold her.

If she was going to do it, now was the time.

Fii looked boldly at Doug without hiding her body and spoke as though it was no problem for her.

“Oh? So you’ve opened the curtains and come in, huh. Did you want to peek on me bathing or something?”

Hearing her words, Doug frantically shook his head as he blushed.

“AH-, THA-… N-NO-…”

“Hmmm. Then could you shut the curtains already? How long are you going to keep watching.”

“AA-AH…! S-S-S-SORRY!”

Prompted by Fii, Doug shut the curtains in a fl.u.s.ter.

After that, for a while Fii could hear him staggering around and b.u.mping into the walls before finally disappearing somewhere.

She had avoided the most immediate crisis.

Had he caused a fuss here, people might have come running in here, one after another.

She had removed any chance of that happening.

All she had to deal with now was Doug.

Since he had only just arrived here, he still had no close friends.

Because Doug didn’t have anyone he could speak to freely yet, for now her secret was safe.

(Before he has time to think, I need to teach him who’s really in charge…)

Wiping her body, Fii put on her apprentice knight’s uniform and quietly left the bathing area.

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