assistirfilmes Chapter 17
Chapter 17
“Oh.....”
The lunchbox Helena confidently prepared looked quite delicious, beyond my expectations.
Come to think of it, according to Felix’s memories, Helena was quite a good cook.
Even so, feeling the devotion put into preparing it made me feel a little burdened. In response to my exclamation, Helena showed a peculiarly proud smile.
“I thought you probably didn’t have dinner.”
I gave a small nod.
Naturally, I hadn’t eaten dinner, so as soon as I opened Helena’s lunchbox, a rumbling sound came from my stomach.
“I’ll eat well.”
With meat, vegetables, and even pasta prepared, the lunchbox felt too fancy to be called one. The portion was quite large, but for my extreme hunger, it was an amount I could finish.
“Eat with me.”
“I’m okay.”
As if feeling full just from watching me eat, Helena smiled and waved it off.
I shrugged my shoulders and shoved the food into my mouth.
Like a mom. Does she feel full just from watching someone eat?
The food quality was so good that I would have been satisfied even if I were a gourmand. Still, since neither Felix nor I cared about such things, I could eat it even more deliciously.
Or rather, since Helena knew Felix’s tastes well, it might be right to think she prepared the lunchbox to match my palate.
“... It’s too much for one person, though.”
The important thing was that no matter how delicious the food, it would be problematic if it exceeded my limit.
Just a while ago, I thought I could finish it all by myself because I was extremely hungry, but the food was more than expected. It seemed like it had been prepared from the start with the intention of sharing.
“Can’t eat it all...?”
Still, Helena gave off the nuance that I should eat it alone.
When I said it seemed I couldn’t eat it all by myself, she blinked away the small tears in her pale sky-blue eyes and looked at me.
“...I can eat more.”
I’ll eat everything!
The thought unconsciously occurred to me that it would be better to force myself to eat rather than refuse.
There’s a saying that a beauty’s tears are a weapon, and it seems to be true. I answered defiantly and shoved the food down my throat.
‘I probably can’t back down now.’
At one point, I thought about stopping, but seeing Helena’s pleasant smile, I silently ate the food.
***
“...I ate well.”
Every time I opened my mouth or even exhaled, the food stuffed in my stomach felt like it was refluxing, making me unconsciously shut my mouth.
Oblivious to my state, Helena proudly held the empty lunchbox and smiled contentedly.
Not knowing why she seemed so satisfied, I unconsciously patted Helena’s head and thanked her. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she asked me.
“Did it suit your taste?”
“Yeah, it was perfect.”
Of course it would be.
Swallowing the rest of my words along with the food, I forced an awkward smile.
Seeing what she was holding behind her back, I could predict from experience, so I licked my dry lips and exhaled a small breath.
“Did you, by any chance?”
“...No.”
No matter how much I insisted to Sylvia that I didn’t have romantic feelings for her, I couldn’t easily dismiss her effort to prepare a lunchbox so diligently.
After all, men are naturally weak to beautiful women.
I answered, trying to deny that reality. Sylvia broke into a delighted smile and walked towards me with short steps.
Taking the same steps as Helena, I suspiciously wondered if she was the same person as Helena, who had just left the training grounds.
“Since I thought so, I brought a lunchbox...!”
“Wow... really?”
Here we go again.
Watching the lunchbox, Sylvia proudly took it out, and I could only mutter that to myself.
Because my stomach was so overfilled, I had considered lying that I lost my appetite, but...
“...Why are your hands like that?”
Seeing the bandages wrapped around Sylvia’s fingers, I had no choice but to set aside that thought.
Come to think of it, Sylvia wasn’t particularly talented at cooking. It was incomprehensible for someone like her to go through such trouble to bring a lunchbox.
But if I had to guess, she might have been worried that her few friends weren’t even eating while just training.
‘If that’s the case, it would have been better to just have dinner together......’
My stomach is about to burst, but the smell of food is making negative thoughts well up inside me. However, since I know that even having such thoughts is a luxury,
And I had no choice
Since she had clearly prepared the lunchbox to the point of cutting her fingers in various places, I had no choice but to force a smile and accept Sylvia’s food despite my full stomach.
“It’s nothing...”
“I see.”
Swallowing the rising sigh, I looked past Sylvia’s injured hands and at the food she had brought.
At least the food wasn’t exactly the same. She had prepared relatively simple sandwiches.
‘But still, to cut her fingers that much while preparing sandwiches......’
I was grateful Sylvia’s talents lay in healing rather than close combat or ranged support.
If she had been a knight, she would have cut her own wrist instead of the enemy.
Having such pointless thoughts, I forced the food into my already full stomach.
“How is it...?”
“It’s...delicious!”
It wasn’t an outright lie – the sandwiches really were delicious.
The problem was that I was too full to properly taste them. No matter how much I tried convincing myself I was hungry, my stuffed stomach refused to accept more food.
“Really? I’m relieved.”
Unable to bring myself to say I couldn’t eat anymore in the face of Sylvia’s bright smile, I just forced myself to swallow the food.
It was serious enough to make me wonder if Helena and Sylvia had conspired to torture me like this.
Translator’s Corner
Sorry it’s late. One more chapter at the regular time. Also changed chapter title to original. Who knew it would fit the best?
-Ruminas