Chapter 156 - Assumptions

After a few minutes, Ethan decided it was time to work on the various things he had to deal with, and even though the warmth of their bodies was indirectly trying to convince him not to talk and let the two continue hugging him for a while longer, Ethan shook his head before saying

"I would like to let you hug me forever, but I need to take care of a lot of things.."

After Lefiya and Ais' words, Ethan felt as if the whole thing had strengthened not only his individual bond with Ais and Lefiya, but also the whole trio's bond, and wanting to include Maple, this had improved the whole atmosphere.

Right now, Ethan had silently wished in his heart things would never change, but his thought was obscured when Ais, who had her hands on his neck, now had them on his face, and before he knew it, his lips met hers.

This time, Ethan was so surprised he opened his eyes wide as his concern laid in the fact he didn't want Maple to think, since Ais didn't bother to show her affection so freely, that maybe it was okay to be like this.

For Ethan, Maple was only four years old, and noble or not, it was impossible not to be conditioned by what seemed to be normal at that age. But it wasn't even necessary for him to say anything before Lefiya intervened

"A-Ais..Maple is still 4 years old...she could develop a bad mentality if she sees..."

While speaking, Lefiya slowly lost confidence in her words for two reasons. The first was she seemed almost to be insulting Ais, 'criticizing' the way she expressed her feelings; Having to say the two were kissing, was the second thing that embarrassed her a little, leading her to stop and think about what to do, but not arriving at a solution, Lefiya looked down while Ethan closed his eyes before nodding as if to tell her even if she had failed to say what needed to be said, she had still given her best...

In all this, Maple looked up and noticing Ais and Ethan's lips joined together in a kiss, she could only be impressed. This is because in the world 1999 it was considered very intimate, but what surprised her the most was they were doing it in front of her.

She understood from the beginning between Ais, Ethan, and even Lefiya, there was definitely something that simply went beyond friendship, so the thing didn't shock her too much, but she could only wonder if their relationship had reached such a level...

'Are they married..?'

This was all Maple's innocent mind could conclude from their attitude. As one would expect from a noble, Maple was aware of what separated friends from the most intimate people...love. She was taught the definition, and she was told people kissing were labelled as people in love, but this was all she was told about the matter, to the point Maple was led to believe those who kissed without any hesitation in real life, could only be a couple practically already married.

Even though this question shocked her for a second, Maple remembered everything around Ethan was different, and that therefore marriages could take place more easily than where she came from. Considering this point, Maple promised to treat Ais, but especially Lefiya, with even more confidence, even if there was still a shortage of trust.

While Maple had already decided Ethan was married to both, Ais released Ethan's lips while he whispered to Ais he would take care of these needs later on before looking at Maple.

As in response to his concern, she struck her paw on his c.h.e.s.t a few times while Ethan gave her a little smile.

"...Now I really have to go, I need to translate everything Maple and Riveria have written.."

But before going, Lefiya stopped him with a "wait!" before running in his direction and, with her face all red as he turned to see what she wanted, Lefiya brought her lips on his cheek before leaving a kiss.

Soon after, Lefiya avoided his surprised look and was ready to go to shelter behind Ais, but instead of stopping her Ethan let her go while Maple in her mind confirmed her earlier theory even more, knowing an embarrassed person like Lefiya had acted so blatantly...

'They must love Ethan very much...'

This was certainly true, and even Ethan had felt how much Lefiya had striven to act in that way.

"Now...it's a t-tie.."

Obviously Lefiya didn't act like that for no reason. The truth laid in the 'battle' Ais was having against Lefiya, as it had leaked out when she declared while Ethan was training that it was 2 to 1 for her.

After having been explained what she was doing, Lefiya had tried to participate in the 'game' that had not exactly an end, but it had more of a symbolic value.

During the week that had passed quickly between one thing and another, Ais and Lefiya always found themselves together, sharing Ethan's room, talking about important matters, and even Loki had decided to send them together on a mission, although not necessarily to increase their bond, but more because the trust they had of the other grew much faster than any other pair Loki could think of using, and therefore she had decided to leave the two as they were.

But other than that, Lefiya was very determined not to let Ais have too significant of an advantage over her, and although she wasn't even noticing, their 'game' was allowing her not to think so much about the embarrassment the things she did would bring her, since her main thought was not to be a problem for Ethan, and at the same time she wanted to be a girl worthy of being at his side.

As these thoughts filled Lefiya's mind, Ais turned her eyes to Ethan who was about to enter his room before remembering something important.

"Wait..our baggages.."

To her words, Ethan remembered he had actually forgotten to give their baggages back as everything happened in such a short period of time that Ethan had removed everything else from his mind.

Making their baggages appear as requested, Ethan walked back to the door and before entering, he saluted them with one hand while the other always held Maple to himself...

Seeing Ethan enter his room, Lefiya and Ais took their baggages and knowing they had to temporarily 'say goodbye' to go to their rooms, Lefiya was going to say that before a question came to her mind

'Wait, but now that we live in the same house, should I say goodbye? I would need just 3 or 4 steps to meet her if I wanted to...'

The mere thought before would embarrass her, but now Lefiya felt more than an idol, Ais was slowly becoming a companion, which until then she never thought she could even say out loud. Besides that, she still had to get used to the idea of living in a new house all together, which wasn't as easy to handle as it seemed for Lefiya...

But this wasn't the time to think about these things as she could see Ais was already walking towards the room she had decided will become her room.

"A-Ais..good luck with the room..see you later"

Saying these words, Lefiya knew very well they were strange and there wasn't much reason to tell her, but Ais ignored these oddities before turning for a second towards her.

"See you later, Lefiya"

This was all she said before she gave her a smile. Turning around again, she walked back to her destination without hesitation while Lefiya sighed out of relief.

'Ais is kind as usual...I'm grateful..'

That's all she thought and, with a smile just formed on her face, she also went to her room ready to fix it up properly...

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While this was happening, Ethan gently laid Maple on the bed before taking from his inventory the papers Maple and Riveria had written, with his only consolation being the fact they had done their best to summarize everything Ethan had asked Maple to write through the use of the book.

The first thing he could notice when he took the papers out was the difference in Maple writing. In fact, when he was driven to write, he was much more inaccurate than the millimetric precision Riveria had as she had done a lot of paperwork before and this difference couldn't be easily filled by Ethan.

But knowing this ultimately didn't matter much to the book, Ethan secretly admired Riveria for her hard work while buying books to translate what were 400 words of text. It took about two and a half pages to write everything, and this was due to the size of the font, since Riveria wanted Maple to be able to read it for herself if she wanted to, and wasting a couple more sheets didn't change much.

By buying three books, Ethan sighed in seeing other SP had been spent, but he also knew he wasn't spending them the wrong way and this could only convince him to not mind it.

Having a budget of only 150 words each, Ethan didn't want to stop and translate the text 150 words each time, but asking the system if there was a way to combine the three books so that the combination had a capacity of 450 words and 15 uses, the system responded by making a panel appear in front of him

[There is no such thing, the book has only the following functions: ...]

By making a mini scheme with all the features of the book appear, Ethan also felt grateful for a moment of the hard work of the system to explain every use, but these uses were available at any time by opening his inventory, and so Ethan couldn't help coming to the conclusion one way or another, the system was making fun of him....

Sighing, Ethan saw Maple staring at him to see if everything was okay and not wanting to worry her, he stroked her fur for a few seconds with a smile before nodding to make clear that everything was okay as he began to use the first 5 uses of the book one after the other..

After a couple of minutes, Ethan had translated all the text and without having to repeat it twice, he took a pen and a sheet he had kept in the inventory to write down everything, this because these were considered very important information, so more than talking about it under a rough summary of what Ethan remembered, it was much better that Riveria read the original version directly.

This is because the translated text didn't remain so forever after use, but in fact after about 30 minutes, the effect faded, making the text return to its original state. The text that was translated through pages, instead of translating and dissolving in the air after a few seconds after, was directly rewritten. So, the effect lasted even longer, although this was longer than the normal process and required around 3-4 seconds per 30 words.

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(Alternate Titles: "I mean, Maple ain't wrong", "Lefiya & Ais..some smaller Yuri development..!?", "Ethan being trolled by the system!")