c8 (1/2)

“… oh, it’s you”

Ludmila said quietly, still with the toothbrush in her mouth

She twirled the rifle around like a cane, propped it up by the wall and began brushi+ng her teeth again

Likewise, shi+zuru sheathed his knife and aardly scratched his cheek

And then there was the obvious question of what the wo here

Lud her teeth, skssh, skssh

Her lightless, lifeless eyes turned to her own reflection in the mirror over the washbasin

She was char a hand on her hip

“Lud in my clinic?”

“I’ my teeth Can’t we talk later?”

“… Ah, sure, … mm”

He eak to pressure

Besides an exa room, shi+zuru’s clinic was furnished with one bedroom, one bathroom, and one kitchen to make it livable

In the bedroo room, Ludmila picked up one of the cups of coffee put on the table for the two of theave it a sip

shi+zuru made them, of course

“I’ in that dilapidated shack of a house”

After being woken up by thebath and coffee, Ludmila yawned and declared with a sure tone

“So then I decided to borrow this place”

“Ah … I see”

Lady was an ani as she had shelter from the winds and rains

As for Casca, noto pieces within a month

With those two around and the one otherfro situation no mind

She had a point though For a wo in that hideout in the slums would be hard to bear

Public order was the worst, too

“But you should’ve just said so I thought you were a burglar”

“I did say When we split up last night In my head”

That ht, shi+zuru wryly smiled

“Also, I think I locked the door”

“Had a spare key made, it was finished yesterday”

It see and secretly had a duplicate key made

She didn’t have to go that far, I would’ve lent her the key if she asked, thought shi+zuru

“I’ll pick uphere until I got transferred to the fourth squad”

“That’s not going to happen soon I think …”

“… haah!?”

shi+zuru’s relared suspiciously at him

shi+zuru knew that she was hoping to be assigned to the fourth squad, and also the reason why Richelieu persistently rejected her

So he just apologized and coolly nodded

“Well, I don’t really care if you wanted to use this place, but lots of injured and sick people come here, so it would really help if you’d keep that in mind”

“Okay?” he continued Ludhtly

“… like I’ve been telling you, quit that roundabout way of talking! Say it straight, like be quiet when I’ the shop!”

“Sorry, but where I come from modesty and diffidence are considered virtues Do understand”

“What kind of country is that …”

Lud to so like that

For her, shi+zuru’s gratingly soft way of talking would be really infuriating