While Akatsuki was travelling back and forth in Loriath, Ronald and Duza were in the bathhouse in the City of Shiunam, trying to relax in a warm bath.
Duza was biting her lower lip while leaning her head on Ronald’s right shoulder. She had been in silence since they entered, but she finally spoke: “Ronald, do you think everything will go as Shigure said? That easily?”
“Well, maybe not as easy as they sounded it to be, but I think they will manage somehow.”
Duza splashed some water over her face. “Argh! I should have gone with them! I feel so useless!”
“Yeah, me too… But it’s better this way; they already raised a lot of suspicions among our group by travelling to Loriath and arriving there today to warn the King.”
Duza punched his chest. “Because of you, you dumbass! If you weren’t so
