“Hey, Ise-kun.”
When I turned around towards the familiar male voice—Kiba was there. He was dressed in his jersey, but it was all tattered. So I wasn’t the only one.
His good-looking face also looked quite tightened now.
“…You’ve gotten a good body.”
Kiba said that while looking at my naked upper body. I covered myself!
“S-Stop it, what’s with those eyes…Don’t look at my body with those eyes!”
Somehow, I felt danger to my body! Because, he was scary sometimes, this guy!
“H-How cruel. I just wanted to say that you built up your muscles nicely.”
“You…haven’t changed.”
“Well, because I have the body-type that has difficulty in putting on flesh. I’m jealous.”
“Oh, Ise and Kiba.”
This time it was a girl’s voice. —It was Xenovia. Wait, she had bandages all over!? With her whole body covered in bandages, Xenovia’s appearance was also ragged.
“But, y-you, what’s with that appearance…?”
When I timidly asked that, Xenovia looked over her appearance again and spoke.
“Yeah. I became like this because I trained, got injured and bandaged myself, and then trained, got injured and bandaged myself again.”
“You’re like a real mummy woman!”
“How rude. I have no intention of being preserved forever, you know?”
“That’s not what I meant!”
Geez, she’s incomprehensible as usual. But, I felt that the aura around her body was quieter and thicker than before. Speaking of which, Kiba’s aura was also denser.
Huh? My ability to see the flow of magic power had also improved from before? Was this also a result of training with Ossan? Did my sense become sharper from becoming one with the nature of the Underworld?
“Ise-san! Kiba-san, and Xenovia-san too!”
Coming out from the castle gate was—Asia in her nun clothes. Ah, it really is Asia!
“Asia, it’s been a while.”