Chapter 72 (1/2)

Kain was troubled…

Well, rather, he had been troubled for a long time now, but now another new trouble was added to that mountain.

Kain’s gaze was directed at Princess Fii, who was leaving the 18th Division gathering place.

Kain immediately began to move.

While suppressing his presence, he relocated to the usual location.

“Kain-saaan! I’ve come to play~!”

No sooner had Princess Fii stopped before a certain tree did she immediately move to climb it.

Before she could, Kain leapt down from his tree. A clean, silent landing.

The moment Princess Fii saw him, her face spread into a smile.

“Kain-san, I’ve come to play!”

‘Didn’t you just say that?’

Kain didn’t say that though.

He had something more important to say.

“Heath-kun, didn’t I tell you not to climb trees? It’s dangerous.”

“Yes, but I climb walls all the time, so it’s a bit late for that, you know?”

Her words seemed to stab into him.

True. She climbed walls all the time.

It was his fault for teaching her the gra.s.s skill of wall-scaling.

Naturally, it was even more dangerous than climbing a tree. Kain had even taught her various other things, like rolling to break one’s fall.

It had long pa.s.sed the point where he could warn her about the dangers of tree-climbing.

“True, but there’s no harm in being careful.”

“Yes, I’ll climb carefully.”

He actually meant that she shouldn’t climb at all…

Kain placed his hand to his forehead.

“More importantly, Kain-san, I came to play! Please teach me a new skill!”

Her words caused sweat to flow down his back again.

This was what had been troubling him.

Princess Fii who he had become acquainted with. Just like what she was doing now, Princess Fii would frequently come find him to ‘play’.

But that wasn’t the problem. Well, it was, but there was a bigger one.

The real problem was what her ‘playing’ entailed.

Each time Princess Fii came here, she came to learn his skills.

“Heath-kun, the skills of a gra.s.s aren’t a game…”

“Ah, yes, that’s true. I’m sorry! I’ll take the lessons seriously!”

(No… That’s not what I mean… If possible, I don’t want you to learn at all.)

For some reason his warning had been met with an enthusiastic reply.

Kain didn’t know what to do any more.

She was technically a VIP.