I'm a Man, of Course!
"Want some water?"
Fu Hua looked at the boy beside her, drenched in sweat. After thinking for a moment, she took out a waterskin and handed it to him. They had already left the previous place and had been walking for over two hours.
This road was difficult to travel. In many places, there was not even a trace of human habitation. As for buying a horse... that was even more impossible. Not only were horses strategic resources that ordinary people had no right to trade, but there were no horses around either. They had not even seen a household that owned an ox.
On top of that, no one had ever properly maintained this road, making it hard to walk. After more than two hours, it was several times more exhausting than walking on a flat concrete road.
"Thanks!"
Looking at the waterskin Fu Hua had handed him, Minamoto Hikari took the cloth from behind his back and wiped away his sweat before accepting it.
Looking at the sun in the sky, blazing fiercely overhead... this journey had been even harder than he had imagined. In all his life, he had never walked this far.
Still, he did not complain because of it.
"Here..."
After taking a few drinks from the waterskin, Minamoto Hikari handed it back to Fu Hua.
"Keep it. I still have more."
Fu Hua shook her head and did not take it.
"Okay."
Minamoto Hikari did not refuse.
"There's a good shady spot ahead. Let's go rest there for a while." Fu Hua did not feel anything at all, but looking at Minamoto Hikari beside her... she felt that he was starting to reach his limit.
"...All right."
Though somewhat reluctant, he really was running out of strength, so he