The women were gathered in the Lounge Space of the Tower Management Layer.
It had been a while since everyone had been together like this, as it was rare for everyone to be present now that Floria and Silvia were involved with Razek Amamiya.
By the way, Kousuke was not in the Tower Management Layer today, as it was his scheduled visit to the Divine Realm.
Since they had the chance, she invited everyone to a girls’ talk, and they managed to align everyone’s schedules.
Because Kousuke was in the Divine Realm, Kouhi and Mitsuki were also in attendance.
Haku had gone to visit Nana.
Floria and Silvia’s children were being looked after by their wet nurse at Alec’s house.
Knowing that the usual foxes were also with them as lively playmates, the two women decided to enjoy themselves without any worries.
As usual, after seeing Kousuke off to the Divine Realm, the women’s time began.
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The first thing to come up was a tea that Kousuke had recently taken a particular liking to, Ktool.
Silvia, who had tried it for the first time after Mitsuki prepared it, had a subtle expression, but surprisingly, Shurein and Peach drank it with normal expressions.
“Hmm. It has quite a deep flavor.”
“Yes, it does~.”
Nodding in agreement with Shurein’s words, Peach also reached for some sweets.
“Ah, it really is delicious.”
What she was eating while saying that was a confectionery close to a cookie.
After eating the cookies, she was drinking the tea with great relish.
Seeing this, Floria asked Peach with a puzzled look.
“You seem used to drinking it, do you grow the same thing?”
“No, no, it’s different~. My clan has a similar drink passed down. However, it’s not something you drink at gatherings like this, but rather something you drink when you’re recuperating.”
Peach’s clan had a drink similar to Ktool passed down for use during and after recovery from illness.
However, since it used a different type of leaf than tea leaves, it was similar but not the same in terms of quality.
It was treated more like a medicinal decoction.
But since it was often given from childhood, she was used to drinking it.
“Oh. A medicinal decoction, huh.”
Colette nodded in understanding at Peach’s explanation.
It made sense that it had a unique bitterness if it was called medicine and she drank it.
“However, this one has a deeper flavor~. It’s much more delicious. I can drink this normally. That one is more bitter.”
“More bitter than this? That’s completely medicine, isn’t it?”
“It’s not like that~.”
Peach waved her hands back and forth as if to deny it.
It wasn’t drunk as a medicine for consumption.
Medicine for when you get sick was prescribed separately.
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“The tea is fine, but I heard Kousuke-sama was troubled about something related to lust?”
Silvia was the one who brought it up.
She had heard about what happened during Madsaku from Peach.
“Hmm? What are you talking about? I’ve never heard of that before?”
Floria, who rarely heard about what was happening in the Tower Management Layer due to her queenly duties, tilted her head.
“Ah~. That was because…”
Colette, who had seen Kousuke’s reaction at the time, just like Peach, sighed and continued.
“To put it plainly, it was Kousuke being overly worried, as usual.”
“Is that so?”
Peach nodded in agreement with Colette’s opinion.
“Besides, Kousuke-san was rather inexperienced in those matters.”
“…Ah.”
Silvia’s expression became one of complete understanding.
“And besides, it might also be because of our existence.”
“That’s true.”
Mitsuki and Kouhi joined the conversation.
“What do you mean?”
“Because we are always by his side, his sense of urgency might have dulled.”
“Since we interact with monsters during Tower management, that was fine, but in terms of lust, everyone here was being very proactive.”
Everyone present gave a bitter smile at Kouhi’s words.
They could all relate too much.
Kousuke himself didn’t think he was oblivious, but it seemed that the women were so aggressive that he was simply going with the flow and ended up in his current situation.
“I don’t think it was like that when you met me and Silvia.”
“But wasn’t that more because of the danger to your life?”
“That’s true too.”
They had quickly escaped to the tower to avoid any unnecessary trouble, and nothing had happened since, but they didn’t know what would have happened if they had been caught.
However, Colette and Silvia, who had been active as adventurers, always faced such dangers.
“Come to think of it, in that sense, my sense of urgency might have decreased as well.”
Silvia said, as if she had just realized it.
Having been confined to the closed world of the Tower Management Layer, she had stopped feeling such gazes.
Now that she was in a castle, a space where an unspecified number of people walked around, she felt the gazes of the opposite sex, but when she was in the Tower Management Layer, she didn’t need to worry about such gazes.
Of course, Kousuke was completely removed from the list of people to be wary of.
“Maybe so.”
Only Floria agreed with Silvia’s words, while the other members had expressions that seemed to say, “Is that so?”
This was because, with the exception of Kouhi and Mitsuki, the other three had many opportunities to interact with the opposite sex even when working in the Management Layer due to the management of their own clans.
As for Kouhi and Mitsuki, even if they felt danger, they had the power to fight back, so they didn’t need to worry about it at all.
In that sense, they were fundamentally different from ordinary people, so their feelings were not at all参考 .
“Well, if he’s going to mope around, someone should just give him a warning, right?”
To Colette’s conclusion, all the members nodded in agreement.
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After that, they enjoyed a while of completely ordinary, unremarkable conversation.
Naturally, the conversation tended to focus on the two who had started child-rearing.
However, Silvia and Floria usually left the child-rearing to the wet nurses.
Because the wet nurses brought the children to meet their mothers whenever they had free time, it was questionable whether they were doing typical child-rearing.
“Are you guys okay with having children?”
Since the topic of children had come up, Floria asked the three who did not have children.
“I think it’s still a long way off for me.”
“I agree.”
“I wonder about me~? I’m not sure. It could happen at any time, though.”
Floria tilted her head at the three different answers.
“Didn’t you aim for evolution because you wanted children?”
“That’s probably due to the difference in our original species.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. To begin with, we aren’t a species that rushes to have children like Humans. Vampires… Elves are like that too, aren’t they?”
“That’s right.”
Colette nodded in agreement after confirming that Shurein had turned her gaze towards her.
If they thought from a Human perspective, both Silvia and Floria were well past their childbearing years, so having children was a very natural idea.
However, Vampires and Elves, being long-lived species, had no concept of being “late” to have children.
This could be said to be a characteristic of long-lived species.
Even if a man and a woman eventually got together, the people around them wouldn’t immediately start talking about children.
“I see, so that’s how it is. Then, what about Succubi?”
Peach tilted her head at Floria’s question.
“Hmm. I wonder~. Basically, we believe in having children whenever we want, so in that sense, we might be similar to Vampires and Elves.”
Succubi, compared to Vampires and Elves, have a stronger drive in terms of lust, so they naturally have more children.
However, it’s not like Humans, where children are desired immediately after marriage.
This difference, too, was likely due to their species.
The women confirmed that there were significant differences in how children were desired depending on the species, due to differences in mindset, constitution, and so on.
And so, it was a gathering of women lol.
I wrote about topics that might normally be discussed, but it had little to do with the main story >-<
