Late at night, all was quiet.
On the bedroom bed,
Nanahoshi lay against Hilde's chest, her face full of resentment.
Hilde had rarely agreed to bring toys into their games, so Nanahoshi had been having a wonderful time.
But halfway through, she had grown upset, and no amount of coaxing could cheer her up.
Because she had found a bite mark on Hilde!
It was faint, almost gone, but Nanahoshi could clearly tell it was a bite mark. Hilde couldn't possibly have made it herself, either. She couldn't reach that spot with her own teeth.
That was enough to sour Nanahoshi's mood.
"Hilde, do you have another woman?" Nanahoshi asked.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Then explain where the bite mark on your body came from."
"A friend bit me."
Hilde looked so earnest that there was no sign she was lying.
Nanahoshi didn't believe a word of it. "Do friends usually bite each other there? Isn't that a little too intimate?"
"She got worked up and bit me."
"Worked up? No, however worked up she was, why would she suddenly bite you there?"
"Maybe I said something that made her angry."
"What did you say?"
"I said we were friends."
"Huh?"
Nanahoshi was a little lost. That didn't sound like a problem. "She bit you just because of that?"
"Yes. To be honest, I didn't expect her to bite me out of nowhere, either," Hilde said helplessly.
It had happened so suddenly, and Isolte had had her pinned beneath her at the time.
In that position, Hilde couldn't have dodged.
Isolte had apologized afterward, but she had specifically forbidden Hilde from using Healing Magic to erase the bite mark she'd left.
Hilde had no idea what was going through her head...
Nanahoshi fell into thought.
After a long