Aibo's house was quite large; hosting a few dozen people was no problem at all.
Besides, there weren't many girls in this world who looked unfortunate. With the room full of lovely young women, Aibo felt as though he had fallen into a spider demon's cave. If he had been a few years older, it would have practically been a decadent paradise.
Unfortunately, the imperial weapon had nowhere to show its might for now.
Besides, Aibo's attention was mainly on Erza. She had not dared meet his eyes for several days now.
Even though Aibo, the "victim," did not care about it anymore, he had no idea what she was so hung up on.
Still, shy Erza was kind of cute. He liked it.
Erza saw that Aibo spoke with her as usual, never mentioning what had happened before, as though he had forgotten the awkwardness entirely.
She sighed in relief as well, gradually rediscovering the way they used to get along. Things no longer felt so stiff between them.
But whenever she thought about how Aibo still had to take care of her in matters like that, Erza could not help feeling dejected.
As an older sister, she truly was failing.
As for the unfamiliar perfume scent on Aibo...
Erza looked around at the beautiful girls filling the room and let it go.
Aibo had grown up surrounded by women. Something like that seemed perfectly normal and was not worth finding strange.
Though she was still a little unhappy, Erza did not dwell on it too much.
Instead, after putting aside those strange thoughts, she went to find Lucy and had her recount their trip to Galuna Island.
Then Erza sternly criticized Lucy and the others for accepting a commission in violation of the rules. She also said that