With no need to turn back partway, I brought Leymia with me and returned to the national border.

    There having been repeated skirmishes at the outpost, I took in the scenery of tired soldiers taking their rest.

    Within that, I went to the lodge bringing Till and Leymia as well.

    Everyone should probably be there.

    And, before then maybe I should stab a nail in this.

    「If you do something unneeded here, you won’t keep your life okay Leymia?」

    I displayed myself threateningly as if to say I’d take and eat her.

    Faced with me as such, Leymia replied with a scornful smile of all things.

    「Doing stupid unneeded things is wrong.」

    ……Hou ho～u?

    So that’s a worthy attitude ehhh!?

    「……Leymia, it seems it’s important to make you understand your position.」

    Right, you are a prisoner you understand, a prisoner!

    Of course I don’t know whether the same international treaties exist as in my previous world, are there no protective guarantees outside of domestic law?

    「Do you intend to use torture or something? Even if someone like you who seems like she doesn’t even know about males says that, it’s not scary.」

    「Huh!? Males!?」

    Inconceivable, I know better than anyone!

    On that note, what am I being told by this child who looks even younger than my current self!

    「……Kohon, it seems like you’re misunderstanding something Leymia. I am more literate in males than anyone.」

    I showed some resistance and, succeeded at getting Leymia to make a surprised face.

    「……That’s surprising, Fairy of Silver Lightning. While you make such a cute face――you’re a bitch aren’t you.」

    「……」

    ……Bitch?

    「It, it isn’t something like that okay?」

    「Your face is pure red you know? It’s fine to avoid pushing yourself, since you’re not hiding anything.」

    Is it just my imagination that I somehow know I’ve lost?

    For now, I turn my eyes to my shishou who’s walking beside me.

    「……Till, do you know males?」

    「Be silent, you idiot disciple!」

    Age 287 huh.

    With that then……

    Eh?

    But doesn’t it seem like there’s something very unacceptable about loving Till?

    That is, rather……

    「Crime?」

    「I really get it Alice――You, want to play with me do you? Kufu, it would be good if you would say such things sooner.」

    「Hii!?」

    What happened then, the incident with the extreme point of absolute zero along the national border, was an unimportant matter.

    Having borrowed the entirety of the lodge that Maria-san arranged, as expected everyone was staying there.

    Speaking of the outpost, what was along the border wasn’t something like prefab cottages, but fortifications built in the base.

    The borrowed lodge is also something like a proper house.

    ……Though this VIP treatment is scary.

    It might be fine for now……

    「At the current point, it’s not the case that Sacrament is taking serious action to seize this fortification. Be that as it may, the opponent’s commander is fighting at the furthest front line. Morale is high, and he certainly did burn our hand.」

    「Leoneil did?」

    Sitting at the table, I confirmed the situation with Ilya.

    「Hai, as far as Aim-sama has confirmed, it seems that he excels at endurance and agility.」

    Continually evading attacks, and even enduring long battles is it……

    If his specialty is just as I learned from Kran during the arena tournament……I’m at a disadvantage.

    「……Eclair is?」

    Ilya shook her head sideways.

    「So far, the front lines are」

    「Then……」