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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
The women gathered in the relaxation area of the management floor.
Since Floria and Sylvia became involved with Razequa Amamiya, they rarely got together, so this was the first time in a long time that they had gathered together like this.
Incidentally, Kousuke was away on his regular visit to Sanctuary, so he was not on the management floor.
Since it was a good opportunity, they called for a girl talk and arranged everyone’s schedule.
Kouhi and Mitsuki were also present because Kousuke was at Sanctuary.
Haku was visiting Nana.
Floria and Sylvia’s children were being taken care of at Alec’s house with their nanny.
As usual, the foxes were with them as their play partners, so they both decided to enjoy themselves without any worries.
As usual, after seeing Kousuke off on his way to Sanctuary, it was time for the ladies alone.
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First up was Kutur, a green tea that Kousuke had been particularly fond of lately.
Sylvia, who drank it for the first time after Mitsuki prepared it for her, had a subtle expression on her face, but she was not surprised. Shrein and Peach were drinking it with normal expressions.
“Hmmm. It has a very deep flavor.”
“Yes, it does~.”
Nodding in agreement with Shrein’s words, Peach also reached for the sweet.
“Oh, it’s delicious after all.”
She eats a pastry similar to a cookie as she says this.
After eating the cookies, she was drinking tea, looking very satisfied.
Seeing this, Floria asked Peach with a curious look on her face.
“It looks like you’re used to drinking it, do you grow the same stuff or something?”
“No, no, no! A similar drink has been handed down in my family. It is not the kind of drink you drink on such occasions, but rather one you drink while recuperating.”
Peach explained that her family has a drink similar to Kutur, which is used during illness and recovery.
It was not similar in quality, however, because it was made from a different kind of tea leaf.
If anything, it is treated more like a medicinal bath.
However, since it is often served during childhood, Peach was used to drinking it.
“Oh, really? Yakuyu.”
Collete nodded in agreement with Peach’s explanation.
If you drink it, you can understand the unique bitter taste.
“Of course, this one has a deeper flavor, though. It tastes much better. I can drink this one normally. The bitterness is much stronger than this one.”
“If it’s more bitter than this, isn’t it completely medicinal?”
“No, it’s not!”
Peach waved her hand in denial.
It is not a medicine intended for a specific issue.
It’s just a medicine given with other specific medicines.
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“As far as green tea is concerned, I heard that something was troubling you about sex, Kousuke-sama?”
It was Sylvia who cut him off like that.
She heard from Peach how things were going at Madosaku.
“Hmm? What are you talking about? I’ve never heard that before.”
Floria, who was in the queen’s service and is not able to hear what is going on in the management level, tilted her head.
“Ah. That’s a thing.”
Collete, who was watching Kousuke at the time as well as Peach, let out a sigh before continuing.
“To put it bluntly, as usual, Kousuke is thinking too much.”
“Is that so?”
Peach nodded in agreement with Collete’s opinion.
“In the first place, Kousuke-san was not familiar with that side of things~”
“…. Ah.”
Sylvia looked drastically convinced.
“And by the way, maybe it’s also because of our existence.”
“That’s right.”
Mitsuki and Kouhi joined the conversation.
“What do you mean?”
“We were always around, so they were less aware of the danger.
“We were okay with that because we were in contact with monsters when we were managing the tower, but when it came to sex, all of us here were pushed to the limit.”
Kouhi’s words made everyone in the room laugh.
It was too much to contemplate.
Kousuke himself doesn’t think he is slow, but the women were more aggressive than that, so he seems to be in the current situation as he is being swept along.
“I don’t think that was the case when he met me and Sylvia, though.”
“But wasn’t that more of a personal risk?”
“That’s true.”
Kousuke quickly fled to the tower to avoid any unnecessary trouble, so nothing much happened after that, but Kousuke didn’t know what they would have done to him if he had been captured or something.
But Collete and Sylvia, who were active as adventurers, were always in danger.
“Come to think of it, in that sense, my awareness of such dangers may have diminished as well.”
Sylvia uttered this, as if it had just occurred to her.
Sylvia had been so confined in the closed world of the tower’s administrative layer that she no longer felt the gaze of such a gaze.
Now that she is in a castle, a space where an unspecified number of people walk around, she feels the gaze of the opposite sex, but when she is in the management level, she does not have to worry about such gazes.
Naturally, as far as Kousuke is concerned, he is completely off the list of targets to be on the lookout for.
“That may be so.”
Only Floria agrees with Sylvia’s words, and the rest of the group looks at each other as if to say, “I guess so.
The other three members, excluding Kouhi and Mitsuki, are under the control of their peers and have many opportunities to come into contact with the opposite sex, even if they are active in the management layer.
As for Kouhi and Mitsuki, even if they feel they are in danger, there is no need to worry about them because they are strong enough to fight back.
In that sense, they are fundamentally different from the norm, so their senses are not helpful at all.
“Well, if you’re going to be bothered by niggling, just get on with it and let someone else give you advice.”
All the members nodded in agreement with Collete’s conclusion.
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For a while after that, they enjoyed having a very normal, common conversation.
Naturally, the conversation focused on the two of them as they began to raise their children.
However, both Sylvia and Floria are usually left to their nannies.
The nannies come to see their mothers whenever they find time, so it is difficult to say whether they are raising their children in a very typical way.
“Are they good with kids?”
Floria asked the three of us who do not have children, since children were mentioned at the time.
“I don’t think I’m ready for kids yet.”
“I think I’m not ready as well.”
“What do you think about me~? I am not sure. It might be ready any time.”
The three answers came back in all three directions, and Floria tilted her head.
“Didn’t you want to have children, wasn’t that why you aimed to evolve?”
“I guess it depends on the original race.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes, that’s the difference between the original species. Vampires are not in a hurry to have children like humans are. Vampires are… And elves, too, right?
“Yes.”
Collete nodded his head in agreement as he saw Shrein’s eyes on him.
By human standards, both Sylvia and Floria are old enough to have children, and it is a natural thing for them to do so.
However, vampires and elves do not have the concept of being late in life.
It may be said that this is a characteristic of long-lived species.
Even if a man and a woman are united as a result, the people around them do not immediately start talking about having children.
“So that’s how it is. What about succubus?”
At Floria’s question, Peach nodded her head.
“Hmmm. I wonder~. Basically, the idea is that you can make them whenever you want, so in that sense, they may be similar to vampires and elves.”
Succubus have a stronger aspect in terms of sexual desire than vampires and elves, so they have more children to begin with.
However, it is not the case that children are desired immediately after marriage, as is the case with humans.
This is probably a tribal difference.
The women confirmed that there is a big difference in the way children are desired by different races, due to differences in their way of thinking and physical constitution.
