Russell: Am I Actually a Really Bad Person? (Part 2)

She had clearly come to comfort her teacher, yet she ended up being comforted by him instead?

For a moment, she did not know what to say.

After thinking for a while, she finally spoke softly.

"Teacher, have you eaten?"

The girl tried to steer the conversation toward something she might be better at.

Her teacher's wife was gone.

It seemed there was no one left in her teacher's home to cook.

Perhaps neither her teacher nor Natsumi had eaten?

"No."

Russell's answer eased the girl's worries.

This was something she could help with.

"Then leave it to me."

She patted her chest in assurance, a faint smile appearing on her little face. This was something she was extremely good at.

"Mm, then I'll leave it to you."

In her field of vision, her teacher nodded lightly.

"There are four people in this house altogether."

Itsori understood what he meant.

—He had mentioned that the Third Spirit had happened to end up on his side as well. Including herself and Natsumi, there were four people here.

The Third Spirit—Tokisaki Kurumi—was a woman classified as extremely dangerous.

But if she had appeared beside her teacher, there did not seem to be any problem?

After all—

She definitely could not beat her teacher.

Itsori suddenly felt a strange sense of pride...

She had never had anything to compare him to before, only knowing that her teacher was strong.

But now, using Tokisaki Kurumi's demonstrated combat ability as a unit of measurement, she realized that her teacher was truly strong enough to be almost mythical.

A man like that probably ate quite a lot, right?

She considered Russell's appetite and provisionally counted it as two portions.

Then, the faces of her younger sister and her adjutant surfaced in her mind...

Kotori and Muramasa