Chapter 21.21 - Prologue Part 3 (1/2)

Prologue Part 3

I’d better cut my hair soon～」

「Same. Maybe I’ll get a trim.」

Makoto and Haruna chatted while they enjoyed the outdoor bath. What with Hiroshi’s personality and all, they didn’t have any concern of being peeked at, so they were quite languid.

Furthermore, this large, portable bath had actually been madly requested by the girls from Hiroshi, and it came complete with a space to change as long as there was enough room to pitch a tent. The existence of this bath was probably the greatest reason as to why the Japanese people were adapting to life in this forest.

「Upon closer inspection, haven’t you gotten a bit bigger, Mio?」

「Mako, when say “big”, what area in specific do you mean?」

「In addition to your height increasing a bit, I also feel like your physique is different from when your body was even all around.」

「If that’s the case, then that does make me a bit happy.」

Mio indeed looked happy at Makoto’s assessment. In actuality, while it could not be denied that in terms of physical growth she was half Aearis’s circumference, it was doubtful that anyone who saw Mio would still think her to have a child’s physique. Having finally been freed from her bedridden hemiplegia, the initial frail physique had been done away with, and it was now clear to anyone that she had the body of a normal, healthy person.

Albeit slowly, Mio had finally grown to a level that was no longer frail or childlike, exuding some eroticism for once. However, there was still much to be desired from her physique in comparison to Haruna’s more glamorous body type. Indeed, in total, most people would flock to Haruna’s side.

「But I don’t pop out like you do, Haru……」

「Well not even Elle has gotten to that point, and even Mora is on the large side but still not quite there. I don’t think you need to fret about that. I mean, look at me.」

「Well even you aren’t too bad yourself, Makoto-san……」

「It’s okay, you don’t need to comfort me. In the end, I’m just a meager-chested girl who loses magnificently to even the elves……」

Ignoring Haruna’s heartfelt thoughts, Makoto had sunk into a spiral of self-depreciation. In actuality, the elves in question did not happen to have much interest in appearance or physique in their value system. Furthermore, it was not actually a proven fact that elves had meager breasts. It was just that the elves in Wulls or Kalsus they had met tended to be in said category. They hadn’t met all the elves in the city, so who could say for sure that was all they had?

「Ah, right, I forgot.」

「Hm？」

「I can’t exactly talk about something like this in front of Hiroshi, but it’s about that time.」

「……Ah～. Did you have it pretty bad？」

「No, not exactly.」

The three of them spoke in low voices to discuss something a little too graphic for men to hear.

「What about you, Makoto-san？」

「It ended before I even came into the forest.」

「I couldn’t tell at all.」

「Well yeah, because it’s not a big issue in my case. Just a little bit and that was that.」

Everyone had agreed on not going into detail about private affairs, especially since Hiroshi was concerned. As a result, there hadn’t been much of an opportunity to share said information, quite possibly because they had never had big problems when living in the workshop.

「And you, Mio?」

「My cycle is fairly uncertain. Same with the severity.」

「So…?」

「I never know when it’ll arrive.」

「But it does in fact come around?」

This was a fairly important thing, so Haruna and Makoto looked at her with serious expressions. After Makoto had asked that question, Mio silently nodded. This physical phenomenon unique to woman created a variety of effects during any given cycle. Besides, this also related to potentially bearing children in the future, so even if it was impossible to discuss in front of males, they couldn’t simply avoid the subject out of embarrassment.

「At any rate, I’m so glad you made those for us.」

「Yeah, we can’t after all rely on Hiroshi too much for things like this.」

「If we pushed the job onto Sensei, that would truly be the end of him.」

「Yeah, cause Hiroshi-kun already had quite the handful with undergarments.」

After meeting up, Mio had been in charge of producing menstruation-related items. Unlike Hiroshi, who did not notice the small details, Tatsuya seemed to somewhat have an idea of what was going on, as he already had a wife, but she figured it was a good manner at times like these to not mention anything.

Still, Tatsuya was truly a good man, being attentive at times like these in more ways than one. It was no surprise at all to hear that he had a wife.

「So everything seems to be fine for now, although I’m not sure how well we can deal with it.」

「Got it. Well, I’ll look out for you, so don’t worry. Nothing major has occurred so far.」

「Please do.」