GILF Hunter Novel Chapter 281 ...Where am I?

Chapter 281: 281 ...Where am I?

Rin frowned as she felt the dazzling light leaking through the window.

Did I not close the curtains yesterday...?

Rubbing her half-open eyes, Rin, who had started to sit up to draw the curtains, paused for a mont.

As her mind, which had been subrged in fatigue and drowsiness, gradually woke up, she felt a sense of unfamiliarity with her current surroundings.

...Where am I?

Looking around, Rin belatedly realized that this was not her room.

This was... Ian’s room.

"...!"

Rin sat bolt upright in bed.

Trying to recall what had happened before she fell asleep... only then did she rember the events with Ian last night.

After doing it last night, she must have fallen asleep right then and there from exhaustion.

As shaful mories of the various things they did in the heat of the mont began to surface one by one, Rin clutched her head with a bright red face.

Yesterday, with the Captain... that kind of thing.

Even that.

A-and even that much.

How am I supposed to look him in the eye from now on?

The only saving grace was the fact that Rin was currently alone in the room.

It seed Ian had probably left first due to so business.

...At the very least, it seed she could buy so ti to figure out what to say when she first saw his face.

Rin let out a sigh and tentatively put on her pajamas, which had been folded in a corner.

***

After first heading down to the first-floor bathroom to quietly wash herself, Rin felt a wave of hunger hit her late.

Lunchti must have long since passed, but Tanya probably left sothing she made in the kitchen.

Thinking so, Rin peeked her head out and her eyes t with the other mbers gathered in the common room.

"...."

This was also sothing she wished would never co...

But eventually, it was bound to happen.

A comrade who went to the Captain’s room for a talk and ended up sleeping in that sa room for the night.

There would certainly be a lot to talk about in many ways.

Rin had thought up various excuses in the bathroom.

Like saying they just talked all night....

Or that she was so tired she just fell asleep in the Captain’s room....

Or that they just slept while only holding hands....

However, looking at the sly expressions on her friends’ faces as they stared at her, it was clear that such excuses wouldn’t work at all.

"Rin! You’re awake."

"Oh, hey. Where did the Captain go?"

"He went out for a bit, saying he had work."

Tanya greeted Rin first and stood up from her seat.

"You’re hungry, right? I have sothing I made, so I’ll get it ready for you in a jiffy."

Tanya headed toward the kitchen to prepare Rin’s lunch.

Beside her, Mika, who was watching Rin, tapped the empty chair next to her with her hand.

Seeing Mika gesturing for her to sit there, Rin awkwardly turned her body.

"No, I... I don’t really have an appetite... ughhk."

Let’s run for now.

Just as she thought that and tried to turn back, Rin’s forehead bumped into sothing with a thud.

It was an empty space, but looking closely, so kind of translucent wall had been ford.

It was the remote barrier magic that Mika had been practicing recently.

Rin turned her head toward Mika and grumbled as if it were absurd.

"...You couldn’t even use it properly once until now, but you succeed at a ti like this?"

"I’m the type that’s strong in practice."

"Succeed when we’re fighting...!"

It was a futile resistance, and even that was easily blocked, so Rin had no choice but to be dragged to the table where all her comrades were gathered.

Having received a bowl of stew that Tanya brought over, Rin looked at her comrades sitting beside her.

Mika and Tanya were on her left and right, and Lia was directly in front of her.

She was surrounded to the point where she couldn’t even lift a spoon properly with peace of mind.

Rin ate her stew, feeling as though she were sitting on a bed of needles.

Mika, who was next to her, watched Rin’s appearance quietly before asking the question she was most curious about.

Since they had caused such a fuss yesterday, they first had to know whether it was a success or a failure.

"So, how was it? Do you feel like there’s any effect?"

"What is?"

"...What do you an, ’what’? Didn’t you go to the Captain’s room because of that?"

"...Ah!"

Seeing Rin’s reaction, which seed more surprised as if she’d forgotten, everyone made the sa expression.

Had she forgotten why she even went and just completely lost herself in *that*?

Belatedly realizing her mistake, Rin’s face also turned beet red.

Hearing those words, Rin belatedly checked her physical condition.

Is there anything different...?

Even as she thought about it, simply sitting still in the chair and clenching her fist gave her no clue as to what was different from yesterday.

"Uh.... I’m not sure yet. Though I do feel a bit more energetic than usual."

"By any chance, do you feel any mana?"

"How do I even feel that?"

"You know, inside your body.... Like sothing bubbling, or tingling...."

Maybe her mana had increased and Rin just didn’t know it.

Mika, thinking so, tried her best to explain how to feel mana to Rin, but first, understanding Mika’s explanation was an obstacle in itself.

"What on earth does that even an..."

"Try to concentrate! Right about here, like a flash...!"

While Mika was grabbing Rin and struggling to make her understand mana.

Soone who had been staying quiet suddenly chid in from the side.

"Wait a minute."

It was Lia, who had been silently listening to the conversation until now.

"That, it wasn’t just to tease .... Are you guys actually serious?"

Lia was looking at everyone with an expression that still seed suspicious.

Of course, Lia had taken Mika and Tanya to their rooms last night and heard plenty about why they had done such a thing.

However, she hadn’t been able to get a satisfactory answer.

Things like how drinking the Captain’s "essence" would cure a curse or have the effects of an elixir.

She had heard nothing but such absurd stories.

Hearing Lia’s question of "Have you been drinking?