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Chapter 67 - The Chapter Where I'm Treated Like a Pervert Because of Nanapon

Upon returning to the Guild, I headed for the reception. It wasn’t quite five o’clock yet, but there was a decent line at the counter. And there were even a few people lined up at my Kaede-chan’s station.

Thinking it was a pain to wait, I got in line for Kaede-chan anyway.

"Um, are you Eleanor-san?"

As I was waiting and looking at my phone, the adventurer in front of me spoke to me.

"Yes, I am," I replied, my eyes still on my phone.

"Are you solo?"

"Perhaps."

I couldn’t say for sure. I wasn’t solo, after all.

"Would you like to team up?"

"No."

"I see… Good luck. I’m rooting for you."

"Thank you. You do your best too."

It really was a pain when there were other people around. Maybe I should have had Kaede-chan work overtime.

I decided that from now on, though it was a bit unfair to Kaede-chan, I would return after five o’clock, and continued to wait. When it was finally my turn, I handed my weapon to Kaede-chan, along with the Skeleton swords that had dropped.

"It was crowded."

"I heard from Nanaka-chan. You must be tired."

So Nanapon had already told her…

"I’ll have to think about what to do in the future… Oh well. Where is Nanaka-san?"

"Nanaka-chan has already gone home."

She went home without showering… Well, her own house was probably better. Maybe I should do the same.

"Then I’ll do some shopping and head home."

"Understood. Please wait a moment. I will calculate your payment."

I really didn’t like this formal version of Kaede-chan.

Afterward, I received today’s payment slip from a fifty-percent-smiling Kaede-chan and decided to go home.

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I got home, put the alcohol I bought on the way into the fridge, and headed for the bathroom. I took off my black robe and underwear and put them in the basket in the dressing room.

Kaede-chan did the laundry, so if I just left them in the basket, they would be folded and placed in my room by tomorrow. Kaede-chan was a truly capable girl. Incidentally, I had never seen her clothes or underwear.

Once naked, I drank a TS Potion and returned to being a man. Then, after a quick shower, I dried myself with a towel and got dressed.

"Hmm, definitely Okita-kun."

I looked in the mirror and nodded. I certainly didn’t look like a killer.

Satisfied with my own face, I went back to the living room to wait for Kaede-chan to come home and for Nanapon to arrive. I sat on the sofa and was watching TV for a while when I heard the front door open. Soon after, the living room door opened.

"Senpai, I’m home."

Kaede-chan was back. And of course, it was the usual Kaede-chan with a one hundred percent smile.

"Welcome home. Thanks for your hard work today."

When I praised her, Kaede-chan sat down next to me and flopped onto the sofa.

"Man, it was so busy today."

That was busy? It seemed pretty quiet to me. Well, I wouldn’t mention it.

"That must have been tough."

"It was. Oh, it seems you had a rough time too, senpai? I couldn’t ask in detail earlier because people were around, but did adventurers really come to the Diana Mine?"

Kaede-chan, who had been limp on the sofa, sat up straight and asked.

"Yeah. The people who were at the Guild probably ratted me out."

"Oof. We’ll have to think about that."

"Yeah. I’ll talk to Nanapon about it when she gets here."

It was supposed to be a celebration, but it was an important topic, so it would be fine.

"Senpai, just to be sure, did you tell Nanaka-chan our address?"

"I didn’t. But she said she knows."

"I see… Well, I guess it’s fine. I’m going to go get changed."

Kaede-chan stood up. She was wearing a simple sweater and pants, which seemed perfectly fine to me, but since she said so, I didn’t stop her.

"See you in a bit."

"Senpai, which is better, a shirt or a knit sweater?"

"Knit."

"Roger that."

Kaede-chan gave a smiling salute and went to her room.

See? A cute and good girl.

As I waited for Kaede-chan in high spirits, she quickly returned after changing. Of course, she was wearing a knit sweater as requested.

"You really are cute, Kaede-chan."

"I know, right?"

After clearing our daily mission for the day, we ordered pizza and waited for Nanapon to arrive. After a short wait, the doorbell rang with a pin-pon. Kaede-chan stood up and went to check the monitor in the living room.

"Oh, it’s Nanaka-chan. I’ll get it."

It seemed Nanapon was here.

Kaede-chan went to the entryway to greet her and soon returned to the living room with Nanapon in tow. Nanapon was looking at me with an incredibly cold gaze.

"Welcome… What’s with that look?"

"I asked you to be Eleanor-san, didn’t I?"

Come to think of it, I believe we did have that conversation.

"Kaede-chan is here too, so it’s fine, isn’t it?"

"Please be Eleanor-san."

Honestly… I couldn’t see a future where Okita-kun and this girl ever got along.

"You’re so selfish, Nanapon."

She had said it was too intense to come to the house where we were living together, so she was probably self-conscious. This girl was secretly perverted, after all.

I stood up from the sofa, left the living room, and went into my room. As I was about to take off my clothes, I realized I had left my robe in the laundry basket in the dressing room.

I went to the dressing room to get the robe, but froze when I saw that the washing machine was already running. Kaede-chan had started the laundry.

"Hmm… I guess a tracksuit is fine?"

I left the dressing room and returned to the living room.

"Nanapon, Eleanor-san’s clothes aren’t here, so is a tracksuit okay?" I asked her.

"Huh… Eleanor-san in a tracksuit? I don’t think that would suit her."

Then apologize to the me who went to the hair salon.

"But I don’t have any other clothes."

"Is that black robe the only thing Eleanor-san owns?"

"That’s it."

I had thrown away the first black robe I bought online when I moved because it was confusing.

"Why don’t you buy some clothes?"

"I don’t know anything about women’s clothes."

And I wasn’t interested. The only clothes I was interested in were Kaede-chan’s.

"Senpai, shall I lend you my clothes?"

Kaede-chan proposed some strange kind of roleplay.

"Yours, Kaede-chan? Hmm, well, since it would just make more laundry, can I borrow the one you were wearing earlier?"

The sweater Kaede-chan was just wearing.

"…………Well, I guess it’s fine."

Despite having suggested it herself, Kaede-chan looked a little reluctant.

Kaede-chan stood up and headed for her room, so I followed her. When she reached the front of her room, Kaede-chan stopped dead in her tracks.

"I’ll bring them to your room, senpai, so please go change into Eleanor-san."

That was a good point. I had instinctively tried to go into Kaede-chan’s room.

"Alright, bring them over."

I went into my own room right nearby. Once inside, I took off my clothes and drank a TS Potion. Then, for some reason, I wrapped myself in a blanket.

"Senpai, may I come in?"

"You may."

I gave her permission to enter, and Kaede-chan came in, holding neatly folded clothes.

"What are you doing?" Kaede-chan asked, seeing me hiding my body with a blanket.

"Well, I’m naked."

"You should at least wear some underwear."

"But you already did the laundry."

Isn’t it a pain to do more laundry?

"I’ll do that much. I have to wash my own things anyway."

"Then please do."

"Yes! I’m good at cleaning and laundry!"

Kaede-chan said that, but she showed no signs of leaving the room.

"Hey, get out."

"No. You have to change while I’m watching."

Seriously… this really is some strange roleplay.

"No. It’s embarrassing."

"And I don’t want you sniffing my clothes, senpai."

………………………….

"I-I wouldn’t do that. Of course I wouldn’t."

"The fact that your way of speaking has reverted says it all."

………………………….

"I guess I’ll get dressed."

I threw the blanket onto the bed.

Embarrassing? A man feels no such thing.

I walked, completely naked, to the dresser, took out some underwear, and put it on. Then, with Kaede-chan watching me, I put on her clothes.

Incidentally, when I put on the sweater, I secretly took a sniff, and as expected, it smelled wonderful.

"Oh! I’m enveloped by Kaede-chan!"

As I put on Kaede-chan’s clothes, the words just slipped out.

"Senpai………… That’s honestly kind of gross."

It’s not Okita-kun who’s gross………… it’s me.