It wouldn't be a good idea to stay here any longer.
It is an established fact that I am peeping on myself.
When the time comes when faced with accusations from others, the young man will definitely find it difficult to defend himself.
If what you meet today is just a stranger you will never see again in the future, then there is no harm in accidentally seeing the other person's privacy.
But the girl in front of him is actually his companion.
Now he saw Nia's whole body.
Women in this world are not that open, and this is not an insignificant thing.
Although there is no strange custom that if you are looked at, you will not get married, but being looked at will not make me happy in any case.
Not to mention that I would probably be labeled as a "pervert", "idiot"... and other labels that would make me feel ashamed.
The most important thing is that he and this girl will still see each other every day!
How embarrassing would the result be...
Just thinking about it casually, cold sweat broke out on the young man's forehead again.
Sure enough, today this matter still has to be "God knows, earth knows, I know."
Never let others know, especially Nia who was being spied on!
If you don't want to be disliked by this girl, it's better to pretend that nothing happened.
Next, I just need to go back to the creek, pack up my clothes and everything, and then go back in an upright manner.
If you are on tiptoe, you will be more likely to become suspicious. If you appear to be undisguised, you will be more likely to get away with it.
If they ask you questions such as why you did the laundry, where you were just now, etc., just use the words you have prepared.
Now that he had a plan in mind, the young man turned around and dived into the water to avoid exposing himself at this time.
"Um?!"
Just as the boy sank to the bottom of the water, he seemed to catch something strange out of the corner of his eye.
The eyes of teenagers are very good at capturing moving objects, and they are also sensitive to still life objects with slightly unusual colors and environments.
It was this talent that allowed me, after a period of hard training, to have the observation and judgment skills not inferior to those of the elite archers of Badafenr.
Convinced that he had not made a mistake just now, the young man stuck his head out of the water. In order to prevent exposure, he only dared to expose half of his head above his nostrils.
But at this time, as long as he can use these eyes, it is enough.
No one said this forest was absolutely safe.
Nowadays, girls are so defenseless. If they don't keep an eye on themselves, they will regret it if something happens.
What is that?
The boy turned his gaze and found the strange creature on the shore near the girl.
It seems that this creature is the same kind as those small squirrel-like beasts, but it is larger and has a tuft of white hair on its head.
Maybe it was another species? In short, the boy didn't know much about the creatures in this world. He didn't even know what these little beasts were called, and he just judged their danger based on his feelings.
So, what does this guy want to do?
Although this guy doesn't look very aggressive, I don't think it's "dangerous" either.
But looking at its sneaky appearance, I always feel a little bad.
I took another sneak look at Nia and the others. Nia was sitting on a rock at this time, holding a cloth in her hand to wipe her long hair. She probably didn't notice this little white-haired beast.
What to do?
He couldn't come forward to remind him, but the suspicious white-haired beast had quietly approached the pile of clothes the girl had placed on the shore. This pile was obviously Nia's own clothes. They looked very clean and should be hers.
I plan to put it on myself after taking a shower.
Or...it would be better to do something.
He didn't know what the guy in front of him wanted to do, but the young man still felt that he had to get rid of it.
"That's it!"
The boy who dived again found a palm-sized flat stone from the bottom of the water, and then he raised the stone to the surface with his right hand.
"That's probably it?"
He began to calculate the distance between himself and the little beast, as well as the approximate strength and throwing angle he would need.
When he felt that it was almost done, the boy threw the flat stone at the calculated angle and force.
After the flat stone spun several times in the air, it finally hit the water.
Plop!
Along with the loud sound of falling water, the flat stone splashed water two feet high.
The distance to the shore was still a bit far, and with the strength of the boy's hand, he really couldn't hit this guy directly on the head.
But it’s okay to just throw it into a nearby water area and scare it.
This little white-haired beast had a guilty conscience to begin with, but suddenly there was such a big movement on the sparkling, peaceful lake in front of its eyes. It was frightened and ran away quickly.
"What happened there?!"
Although the effect was immediate, such a loud movement was enough to attract the girl's attention.
Oops!
The girl who heard the noise immediately jumped into the water, obviously realizing that something was wrong.
This time the boy dived into the water and slipped away without looking back.
As soon as he swam back to the original creek, the boy immediately went ashore to dry himself with a wrung towel, and then put on the ill-fitting clothes. Finally, he packed up the washed clothes and planned to rush back.
Already.
Before leaving, I stretched my neck and took a photo of the clear stream to make sure there was nothing wrong with my expression.
"Yo! The boy is back?"
Just after passing through the bushes, I saw Zeref standing beside the carriage.
"I thought your kid was snatched away by a wolf while he was too deep asleep."
Faced with Zeref's teasing, the boy habitually chose to ignore it. He rolled his eyes, held a pile of wet clothes in his hands, and passed by Zeref.
Several long strips of cloth have been tied to the sunny branches of several small trees nearby. I hadn't seen it before. It should have been done by Zeref and the others after they came back. It seems that Nia wants to wash clothes for everyone. She
Already notified in advance.
Seeing the young man ignoring him, Zeref, who had become accustomed to it, was not angry. He saw the young man going to dry the clothes and asked, "Did you just wash the clothes?"
"Well, I've been sweating these past few days, and I've also got lice on my clothes."
As expected, Zeref asked him this question, and the young man who had already thought of the reason did not change his expression and his heart did not beat.
"I took a shower as soon as I got up and washed my clothes."
As the boy spoke, he put the clothes on the wooden box beside him, and then put the clothes on the cloth strips one by one.
"You love to be clean? Why didn't I know that before?"
Zeref held up his cheek and thought for a moment, then seemed to suddenly understand the boy's change.
"Oh! With a beautiful girl by your side, it's normal for you to like to be clean, haha!"
"Whatever you think..."
It seems that he "handled" the environment around the carriage pretty well. At least Zeref didn't see any problems.
As long as the stain in your life of being shoved into a horse manure pile by a horse is not exposed, then everything will be fine.
"but……"
Zeref suddenly looked at the boy with suspicious eyes.
"You wouldn't have watched that little girl take a bath, would you?"
Uh-huh?! How do you know this?!
The young man suppressed his racing heart and swallowed the words stuck in his throat again. The young man never expected that another flaw of his would be pointed out so quickly.
Be calm, it shouldn't be exposed so quickly. Zeref must have caught him by mistake!
The young man thought like this and continued to answer without changing his expression:
"How is that possible?! Why should I peek at her bathing?"
Denial is the correct answer to the current situation!
"Oh? Don't young people have this interest now?"
"I'm just not interested."
"Ha, when I was your age... wait, how did you know she was taking a shower?"
Zeref was just about to talk about some of the "fun" he had had in the past, when suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he found a loophole in the boy's answer.
"..."
The young man who was about to return to the car after hanging his clothes was asked this question, and his whole body froze.
"What, how did you know she was taking a shower? I didn't know just now!"
So the boy continued to deny it, but his tongue was a little tied.
"You just said, 'Why should I peek at her bathing'?"
It was the young man's careless words that aroused Zeref's suspicion.
"If you didn't know she was taking a shower, you would probably have said, 'Is she taking a shower?'...something like that, right?"
Zeref confidently pointed out the boy's obvious flaws.
"You must have known that she went to take a shower before, so you said this."
Um, shouldn't this guy Zeref put on his sunglasses first and then hold his pipe in his mouth to suit the occasion?
The young man coughed twice, and then replied: "I didn't know that before?"
"But if Nia wasn't taking a shower, why would you ask me a question like, 'You wouldn't have watched that little girl take a shower?'"
Oh, I'm pretty good at sophistry about treating others with their own taste! Zeref, you still want to trick me?
"That's why I said that."
The young man spread his hands, as if quite helpless, and then turned around and walked towards the back of the car, not giving Zeref a chance to ask further questions.
"Just saying, are you too sensitive?"
Zeref touched his forehead and didn't really think that the boy was peeking. After all, the direction in which the boy walked was completely different from the direction in which the girl went. The two people should not have met each other.
Seeing that the young man had already entered the carriage, Zeref reminded him:
"There is food in the car, don't forget to eat."
"Uh, thanks."
Indeed, the boy hadn't eaten since he woke up. If Zeref hadn't mentioned this, the now a little nervous boy might have forgotten that his stomach was actually empty.
When they got to the car, the boy found the food that Zeref had mentioned.
It's actually just fresh grilled fish wrapped in cloth and a few pieces of dry bread.
Although it has already cooled down, it is still edible, and since Zeref is a cook in the army after all, this grilled fish tastes great.
I just don’t know where Heimer went, but seeing that Zeref didn’t mention it, I guess there’s no problem in coming to him.
After finishing the food, he sipped his saliva to moisten his throat. The boy patted his belly and felt the bulging stomach inside.
"Isn't Nia back yet?"
The boy remembered that before he left, Nia was already drying her hair, which should mean that the girl was planning to leave the lake. But the boys who left at about the same time came back for a while, and even finished the food everyone left for themselves.
But now there is still no sign of the girl coming back.
Could it be that something happened to her?
Although the boy did not see any danger in the lake area until he left, it is not impossible that some problems may arise after that.
"Hey! Little girl, you are back!"
Just when the boy jumped out of the car and planned to go to the girl's place with Zeref, Zeref's voice suddenly came from outside.
The boy looked sideways and saw that the girl was back.
"Thank you for doing the laundry for us grown-ups. And as expected, you look much prettier after taking a bath."
Zeref greeted the girl who was walking towards him cheerfully. The girl who had changed her clothes really made people's eyes brighter, but at this time, the scene by the lake kept coming to the boy's mind, and he couldn't look directly at him.
.
"When you grow up in the future, be careful not to be seen by those aristocratic gentlemen who are so old that they are about to die, so as not to put flowers on cow dung."
Although this was said to be Zeref's joke, if such a thing really happened, the boy felt that it was not impossible.
This girl is really beautiful.
Even now, the girl is holding a box of clothes in her hands and carrying her sister on her back. The clothes she wears are sarongs that look old and don't fit well, making her look like a village girl.
But even so, she couldn't hide her delicate face and slender figure.
If you dress up carefully, you will look normal to those weird old men with extremely lustful desires and hobbies.
"That everyone..."
Nia always gives people a light and airy feeling when she comes over.
Zeref greeted her.
But the girl seemed to have no intention of replying at all, and her blue eyes did not have the same sparkle as before.
If a young man were to judge her, it would be as if she had lost her soul.
Did something really happen?
So the young man who came outside asked Nia: "Nia, what happened to you over there?"