Chapter 170 - Misunderstanding

To his question, Lefiya answered with her lip shaking a little because she felt the situation could easily escalate, and that Ethan could misunderstand what happened to bring her in this state.

At that moment, Lefiya wanted to have the necessary strength to immediately answer the question, so as not to leave any room for other thoughts, but she found herself unable to convey her thoughts into proper words at that moment. She wanted to let him now she actually was in this state just because she believed that the two of them could go to sleep together without even telling her.

Although this wouldn't have been a big problem before in fact, Lefiya was reminded of what her relationship with was from Ais herself, and so from now on if she was nearby, she d.e.s.i.r.ed to sleep with Ethan too, and if he wanted to sleep alone with Ais, Lefiya at least wanted him to say it clearly, instead of understanding it because of the 'circ.u.mstances'..

But actually, even though Lefiya was a bit lost in her thoughts, she didn't have time to think about it too much since Ethan was already next to her, and surprisingly, Ais was now also close to her.

"Are you...alright..?"

Ais didn't say anything else while Ethan with a look that showed a little the thing had shaken him, asked why she was crying for the second time, and seeing both of them show how much they cared for her, Lefiya had a little smile on her face and, with a somewhat embarrassing red face, she felt the words that before didn't want to come out now had an obligation to, so they could no longer remain stuck in her throat...

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"... Sometimes I doubt your intelligence"

After Lefiya slowly explained what caused her tears, Ethan stared at her as these words were like arrows that pierced Lefiya's entire body, and as she recovered from it, she saw Ais nodding in affirmation without hesitation, which caused more imaginary arrows to pierce her body and while she was apologizing for the umpteenth time for worrying them, Ethan sighed.

"As a matter of fact, Ais decided to come to me, and even though her gesture seemed some kind of betrayal to you, leaving you to have a bath with Hestia and Lili, don't you think she thought about it well before making that decision?"

Ethan couldn't be sure until he asked her, but he felt that in addition to keeping him company, Ais wanted to stay away from them for some more important reason, as she normally followed the rules, and if there could be an even more important reason for Ais forcing her to leave everything in Lefiya's hands, it was precisely the knowledge of not being a talkative person, which would have made the bathroom feel a little weird.

"Are you i-implying that Ais.. leaved them with me.. because she trusted me..?"

To her question, Ethan nodded back as Lefiya unconsciously turned her gaze to Ais while the latter nodded to make her understand it was as Ethan had imagined, which also led Ais to be happy since Ethan had understood all her intentions although she herself hadn't specified why to each of them, although her main reason was still to keep him company.

"There is no need to cry further. We cleared the misunderstanding, so I guess it's time to sleep.."

Bringing his hand on her head, Ethan patted Lefiya a few times and although the action caused Lefiya to have red cheeks, Ethan responded to her embarrassment with a smile before remembering he hadn't seen Maple around, but soon after he had asked, Ais replied

"I saw her on the couch where we were arguing before.. but Ethan didn't notice.."

In fact, after Maple had finished eating, she had decided not to go with Ethan to bathe, and this was because after all that had happened, she felt a bit tired at a mental level, and so she decided to rest on the couch...

With this information, Ethan reflected for a second before adding that he was going to pick her up, because although he understood he had chosen a room for himself, Ais had clearly seen Maple sleeping, and so Ethan had sensed that she had fallen asleep there.

As he left the door, Lefiya sighed as she looked down, now that she was with Ais, she felt again obliged to apologize for her behavior, but to this apology, Ais didn't respond while sitting on Lefiya's bed, which reminded her that the latter wasn't big enough to accommodate 3 people..

But even to this new information, Ais responded by shaking her head while looking into her eyes before answering "If there isn't enough space for 3 people..we squeeze even more".

As he responded in this way, Ais made the pose of an embrace as if to make Lefiya understand what she meant and this led Lefiya unexpectedly to laugh while Ais who was posing for her had a confused expression on her face, which was soon clarified by Lefiya's words

"I'm sorry, it's just that the seriousness with which you said it made it strangely funny..."

He was fortunate that Maple was still a child, this was because normally an a.d.u.l.t's instincts are much more refined and predominant than those of a child, which left Maple without any defence while sleeping, And so Ethan could easily avoid waking her up, as long as it wasn't too loud, and he moved her carefully.

Having her now in his arms, Ethan quickly arrived at the second floor and, going by exclusion knowing the rooms of everyone except Maple, Ethan found the latter's room in no time at all.

Entering the room, Ethan ignored all the details of it to focus on the bed, in fact without having to repeat it twice, he used his free hand and, gently placing Maple on the bed, he wrapped the blankets all around her so that the latter was on a sort of small pillow and, seeing that everything seemed to be alright, Ethan nodded with a thought in his mind.

'From tomorrow, we'll be even more busy...'

He had a lot of things to deal with, starting from his training with Tiona and Riveria, continuing with time to try to figure out how to enter into his domain, so that he could interact with Light, since the things he had to tell her and in which he wanted help continued to increase.

He had to fix the situation with Freya, who in a few days would appear at Twilight Manor requesting her presence, he had to take care of his career as a blacksmith, and so this would involve, or at least he hoped to interact with the most gifted blacksmith in the city, to teach him things that the book could only teach him mechanically, then he also had to solve the situation of his home, and properly inform Loki that 2 new roommates were present here, but in addition to all this, Ethan couldn't stop to reflect on another important issue.

'I wonder how far I am ahead in history at this time or whether it is already something completely different from what I remember..'

With everything that had happened since he took over on time, Ethan had doubts, but actually with the butterfly effect, the world he was now in was definitely different from what he remembered, which automatically nullified his initial advantage, Because Ethan knew that everything that's going to happen now is likely to be completely different from what he remembered before.

'Nevertheless, that doesn't mean dangers and threats can be nullified...I must move to become stronger'

Although it hadn't been much time since his training began, Ethan had been able to gradually increase his parameters so far, and although this wasn't nearly comparable to before, Ethan was fast reaching the peak of his current level.

But even though this was the case, Ethan lacked XP to receive all the benefits that made climbing to an extremely advantageous level

But when asked how to acc.u.mulate the required 90 XP, Ethan saw a panel appear in front of him, and although he already knew that the content would bore him, he read without hesitation what the system wanted to communicate this time.

[There's a way. Animals]

'As usual, I see that the system don't like to express itself that much, but this time the advice seems useful and easy to understand...weird.'

Although this board was actually something that Ethan hadn't thought of before, the idea it was the same system that spoke so abstractly about its dominance, never gave any advice that Ethan could be sure he interpreted it correctly to make this advice, and this made it hard for him to believe the system's words should be taken literally, but since he really couldn't think of anything else, Ethan sighed as he decided for the time being to trust what the system wanted to communicate to him, because if it was wrong, the system wouldn't have communicated anything at all.

But these thoughts were put aside as Ethan realized that he was in Maple's room all the time.

While smiling at the fact that he was lost in thought now, Ethan took one last look at Maple and, leaving her a kiss on the head as good night, he went to the door before closing it behind him, ready to finally go to sleep, because not only was it rather late, but he didn't even want to worry Ais and Lefiya further for today.

Quickly taking the road that separated the two rooms, Ethan entered Lefiya's room and, seeing the two already lying on the bed to discuss, Ethan involuntarily smiled before making his presence known in the room...

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(Alternate Titles:"Party in Lefiya's room, yet she didn't realize it","Hestia and Lili..poor souls, ignored throughout the night", "Lefiya has still a long way to go, but it's not as bad as before...in the next future, something good will happen with her OwO")