Very soon, Kiana shook her head, casting the thoughts from her mind aside. She casually slipped her terminal into her pocket and looked at the other two beside her.
"Did the messages you received also say that Gwen had gone out early?"
"..."
Nodding in response to Kiana's question, Raiden Mei stroked her smooth chin with one hand, a thoughtful expression on her face.
"Judging by what Gwen said, he should be back by the time we finish our morning training. It probably isn't anything too troublesome."
It sounded as though she were talking to herself, yet also as though she were explaining it to the other two.
The calm poise and intellectual air Raiden Mei naturally exuded whenever she was deep in thought gave the two girls beside her an instinctive sense of trust. Hearing her words, they both nodded.
"Then let's go first."
With that, Kiana smiled brightly, as if she were not worried in the slightest. She grabbed Raiden Mei with one hand and Bronya with the other, then dashed out the door.
However, Bronya's keen observational skills, honed as the Ural Silver Wolf, allowed her to notice that although Kiana and Raiden Mei both appeared perfectly normal, the expressions they revealed during their breaks showed that neither of them was as calm as they seemed.
Fortunately, when the three of them returned after their morning training, they found that the door to Gwen's home was already open. Evidently, Gwen had returned.
They instinctively looked at each other, and Kiana and Raiden Mei nodded.
Bronya could sense an inexplicable atmosphere of reassurance emerging between them.
"Gwen, we're back!"
Kiana was the first to stride into the living room with her chest held high. The fabric stretched over the girl's ample chest swayed slightly with her movements, revealing