Ars didn't hesitate to walk into the shower room as if it was a natural progression in front of Loki. He looked behind him and saw that a change of clothes had been roughly thrown into the unused shelves he'd seen when he'd entered the room. His robe was nearly falling off the shelf, and his shoes were still in the process of being taken off.

　Then, once again, Loki turns his head to look at the shower room that Ars had entered. It can't be my imagination that I have a very bad feeling.
　If it's just me, but the girls are here too.


''You guys are going to start training in earnest when we get back, so get ready for it.
I know. I know you have a lot of work to do.
Well, you get used to it. Once you've been out in the world a few times, you learn more and more about it naturally.

　There was the usual conversation going on, and the only difference from the usual was the constant sound of the shower as background music.

''Whoa!''

　Such amazement reverberated through the shower room.

'Haha, you did it too!
Fear and I both did it. You'll never notice.

　Loki watched curiously from the doorway as merry voices flew across the gender spectrum. It was still a strange sight, although now it felt like a late start to anything, but it was still a strange sight.

'Why is it set to cold water? That's totally harassment.
Doesn't that mean I should cool off?

　You're the one who needs to cool your head, Loki tsked in his mind.
　No, the fact of the matter is that it's a private room, so as long as you don't deliberately peek into it, you won't be embarrassed. Loki knows that much, and that's not something he would want if it were Ars.

　What she thinks is unusual is the reaction of Tesfia and Alice.

　When she thinks about it, she realizes that this is not a particularly strange situation for Loki, who has a lot of military experience, although he had forgotten about it. Maybe it's because he spent so much time in the academy, a place where men and women are separated, or maybe it was imprinted on him before he knew it, that it was natural and common sense.

　It's not something to be fussed over, although there is a little bit of shame in it, and Loki entered by all means.
　The reason for the push back was probably due to the disreputable sight of Ars and Tesfia that he had seen earlier this morning in the outside world. Just remembering it makes me feel like I can't pull it off.

　Ars also seems to have been bathed in cold water as well, and Tesfia said, "This time I got a cold heart too, though~. Hahaha.........hahaha.......ha? He laughed in a very funny way.
　But as Loki started to take out the shower, careful of the cold water on the other side of it, he could clearly see what she had noticed.

'#$&@*&%$!

　The unvoiced astonishment - a sign of rejection - was really easy to understand. Loki could predict that screams or curses would soon follow.

'Whaaaaat? - Why are you so nonchalant about it!
'I don't think that's a line from the guy I was hugging naked in the morning.
I've only just realized that it's all too natural and doesn't feel out of place.

　Ars, who washed out his hair, calmly responded.
　Of course, Loki was feeling frustrated that it was a fire hazard - while listening to Ars's calm voice from next to him.

　Loki tries to warn Tesfia, who protests to get on the smoked glass door, "You'll see a lot of things if you get too close. Everywhere around here has always been built similarly or differently, and it's a smoked glass counter door. The bottom is just enough of a gap to see the toes, and the top is just enough to see the head, but I can see from below that the current Tesfia is a little taller than the rest.

　Of course, Ars didn't turn around to check, but Tesfia stepped back in a hurry.

''Uggh ... this ... this ... I was going to forget about it and now you want to remind me. Things aren't the same as they were back then!''
"Haha, you'll have a hard time like that when you join the army, boys.

　Tesfia held a container of shampoo in her hand and swung it at Ars across from her, but stopped at the warning words he issued.
　What she was going to do with the container in her hand, though, I don't have to guess.

'What do you mean?'
Do you have a bath or a mixed bath?

　Alice's voice only skipped as her back was turned. She was embarrassed, but she seemed to have decided to split up and enjoy the shower rather than blink like Tesfia.
　While bathing in the pouring water all over her body, she applied the treatment to her hair as if she were working on it.

'As expected, there's no mixed bathing, but the shower rooms used by the military are basically private rooms, so most of the time they're shared.
What?
I don't know if it's a lie, she's got manners, but you can't keep getting mad at her for everything, so get used to it.

　With that being said, the ignorant Tesfia was forced to lower her hand that grabbed the container as common sense in the military. She was about to let her sudden emotions get the better of her and fail. However, the discarded line, "Don't peek, right?" was issued as a reminder.

　With a strange sense of urgency, the situation moved toward understanding and convergence - it should have. A voice objecting to Ars's complaint was thrown at him from next to the private room he uses.

'Al, the only time we actually use them jointly is in case of an emergency. It's usually divided, or if it's not, it's usually divided by time. When I was on a mission, most of the shower rooms were separated by men and women... well, I wouldn't say there were any at all.
Hmm?　Wait a minute Loki. When I use the shower room, there's usually a woman with me. But that said, I have a feeling this story isn't going to end very well.

　While musing and puffing out his cheeks, Loki was also somewhat convinced. The point is that Ars has developed a tolerance for women. I've been thinking about this for a long time, but I can't deny the feeling that it's just as I thought.

　It's not just that the showers attached to the troop room are shared, but in fact the military department has separate large bathrooms and changing rooms with showers for men and women. However, as far as Loki knows, Ars's life in the military department probably didn't have access to such facilities.

'Good or bad, the fact that the opposite s*x was also with him was probably because Al was special. Even in the military, there were people who knew of Al's accomplishments, or perhaps it was because he was still a child.

　Ars is certainly old enough to start working in the military, and it's safe to say he's a kid. Since he joined the military after graduating from the academy, he was surrounded by adults who were a year older than him. Even when he was serving under Lord Viziest, the treatment of children was present.
　So they were washed out of their heads and that was the norm.

The fact that the unit that Al will be incorporated into is practically improvised, but still, considering the difficulty of the missions that come around, can't we say it's a contingency?

　Indeed, if it were said, such thoughts ran through Ars's bubbling head.
　Loki's common sense and Ars's common sense, it was somewhat different even in the same place, the army. Naturally, the treatment of a single mage was different, and if he was a child at that age, everything might still be different.

　In other words--.

''Does that mean they aren't usually used together after all?''
To put it simply, there are no rules, but it's a matter of etiquette.

　Ars felt such a feeling on his back, as if the hot water had suddenly changed to cold water.

''Haha~. I was about to be well rounded, but of course it's crazy to use common sense!

　Once the container was lowered, Tesfia lifted it again and held it ready. Loki could feel the container humming and splitting the air across the aisle.

'Err, just shift the timing of your exit, Al.
Okay, okay. Ouch.

　Ars accepts Alice's proposal as a matter of course.
　He didn't expect that what he took for granted would be overturned at his age.

'Al was famous for what it was. For a female magician.''

　Loki's thorny Loki's voice was mercilessly hurled at him. Of course, there was also the topic of not taking a detecting mage, but many mages, many of whom were single women, were probably good at taking care of themselves in some way. Of course, there may have been a kind of maternalism at work that couldn't be left alone.

'You're an erotic brat, aren't you?'
..........

　Tesfia's words stabbed Ars painfully into his chest. This is what it means to not be able to gulp.
　Not to wear the rankings as a shade, but it was Ars who didn't know anything about it.

Master Arthu, would you like me to relieve your back?

　A teasingly buoyant voice emanated in a devilish whisper from Loki, who was using the next private room.
　He seems to be having a lot of fun.

'Give me a break,'