Why Do You Keep Doing This Lately?

“This time, we're really going, right? I should actually pack?”

“Yeah. We called in a few more groups after that mercenary company incident. Unless another human-caused disaster happens like last time, nothing should happen. Things have been quiet for a while, too.”

That mercenary company incident…… Yeah, I remember what happened then.

Since then, we'd both consciously avoided talking about anything sexual, so things between us had naturally gone back to how they used to be.

Of course, I'd taken the opportunity to try to find out what Derek was into, but I couldn't figure out where he'd moved his hiding place.

Ahem. Anyway, Derek and the knights and mercenary companies had been steadily dealing with monster incursions.

But this winter was unusual—in Derek's words, the monsters' stirrings had been exceptionally quiet, or, as I'd put it, a brief but spectacular flare-up.

The monsters had been more active than usual right when we went on the inspection tour, but strangely, after a few days, they'd gone back to about their usual level of activity.

They said that even the commotion during the last incident would've been manageable under normal circumstances if that mercenary hadn't neglected his watch.

At this point, it was hard to tell whether the latest stirrings had been milder than the previous ones, or whether the monsters had just been temporarily more active than usual...