"Miss Alina, is there any water left?"
"Ahhh! I didn't ask anything just now!" The little deer blushed furiously and hurriedly covered her eyes.
Yet she still peeked into the tent through her fingers with those bright, watery eyes.
"Miss Alina?" Kal'tsit tilted her head, acting as if she had heard nothing at all. With a perfectly matter-of-fact expression, she asked, "Is there any water left?"
"W-water..." Deer Woman frantically rummaged through her luggage before suddenly remembering that Oute had not used the Kal'tsit Shop to buy ordinary purified water before they set out.
Their hydration had come from the beer in their food supplies.
"Will this do?"
The little deer pulled out a beautifully packaged bottle of... "holy water."
"Thank you."
Taking the bottled holy water, Kal'tsit returned to the tent.
"Why do we have to do the examination inside the tent?" Oute complained. "The lighting is so poor, and there's barely any room to move."
"Besides, you're only checking the density of Originium crystals in the blood. Aren't you wearing a monitoring ring? Why take your clothes off?"
Kal'tsit calmly said, "After talking so much, your throat must be dry. Here."
Oute took the holy water "for some reason," took a small sip, then set it aside.
At a time like this, playing dumb was not necessarily a bad thing.
"Shark is strongly dependent on Oute right now. If we forcibly separate them, Shark will cause trouble," Skadi suddenly said.
Hadn't that topic already passed?
"Huh?" Alina said. "S-so that's how it is? Miss Skadi, you..."
Did you really believe that?
Skadi stared into the campfire. "Yes. To keep Shark from suddenly going berserk, Dr. Kal'tsit went in with them."
She added at the end, "That's what Dr. Kal'tsit told me before."
C-could it be that Miss Skadi