This Is Just Unfair, Seriously

Derek woke earlier than usual, stirred by a sense of wrongness he didn’t normally feel.

What on earth was going on?

Derek decided to retrace the events of the previous night, starting from the beginning.

After transforming the carriage seats into one large bed,

Yuria had hesitated at the thought of sleeping in the same space as a friend of the opposite sex, despite how long they’d known each other. But the moment she lay down, she started chatting away with Derek as casually as ever, as if she’d never been nervous at all.

“So, you know what Maria said to me back then…….”

Things that had happened while they’d been apart during training,

“Uh…… I still don’t think black tea agrees with me. I’d rather have juice.”

Revisiting preferences they already knew by heart,

“Seriously. Alice is great in every other way, but she has a problem with meddling in everyone else’s business. Still, I can’t just tank the performance review of someone who’s good at her job.”...