As they talked, he tilted his head slightly to examine Dark's body, then suddenly said, "Nice muscles."
Dark's mouth twitched, and he shuddered instinctively. After a long pause, he said, "They're all right. I work out."
"Don't be nervous." Viscount Greatbear reached out and patted Dark on the shoulder. "How about sleeping with me tonight?"
Though Dark knew he meant "sleeping foot-to-foot," he still could not help but shiver and hurriedly declined.
Viscount Greatbear immediately laughed. "You're already this grown up, and you're still shy?"
Dark: "..."
In any case, by showing his bashful side, Dark successfully avoided the awkward predicament of sleeping foot-to-foot with Viscount Greatbear.
He truly could not imagine what he could possibly talk about with Viscount Greatbear for an entire night, and he genuinely needed a relatively private space.
—Molly had delivered the Magic Brain Dropper and Thought Bottle two hours earlier.
Tonight's theme was "Greed."
While Dark was enduring hardship on this side, Aurora, Rose, and Diana were having Tea Party with Camilla, the "Silver Wolf Knight," spending an evening full of young-lady elegance.
The next day.
Dark was awakened extremely early by the crowing of roosters. Fortunately, he had always been in the habit of rising early, so he did not feel particularly uncomfortable.
But the moment he finished washing up and stepped outside, the young people of the Greatbear Family dragged him off to the training grounds, where he underwent an intensely demanding morning workout.
Diana usually did morning training at home as well, but she did not come that morning.
She had spent the entire previous night fooling around in the same bed with her two close friends, and for once, she slept in.
Thus, Dark was not able to leave the Greatbear Family until after lunch—he had truly experienced what was