Chapter 113: Lilyana's True Emotions

"Lilyana!" Natsuki, who had finally calmed down, then approached Lilyana and helped her sit near the grilled meat.

"What happened?" Lilyana asked with a confused face.

"Don't you remember? You fainted after successfully making a small knife, which was very small, literally." Natsuki said it with a smile.

But Patrick, who heard that, could only sigh and think that Natsuki was a very foolish woman, and did not understand the situation around her well.

"Uh? Is that so...?" Lilyana said it awkwardly.

"Yes!" Natsuki nodded.

"This is grilled meat, eat it slowly." Haruto handed a grilled meat skewered on a wooden stick to Lilyana.

"Thank you..." Lilyana then took the grilled meat.

"Eat, then clean up everything, and then sleep. Tonight I will be the one to stay awake, so eat as much as you want..." Haruto continued eating the meat calmly.

"Are you sure you want to stay awake alone?" Patrick asked with a doubtful face.

"Yes, it's okay, tomorrow we will start organizing the night watch schedule." Haruto said this while still eating the grilled meat.

Then they started eating eagerly, until they finished eating the grilled meat, leaving only a lot of smoked meat using the smoking method.

Time passed, and finally night came. They rested for a while after finishing eating, then decided to sleep, leaving only Haruto who stayed awake near the entrance of the Giant Iron Spider's nest.

As Haruto was on guard at night, he realized something, there was someone who was not sleeping and just pretending, Haruto didn't care and let it be, and he continued to sit facing the entrance.

But the person who kept pretending to sleep started moving, then stood up before sitting next to Haruto.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Haruto didn't need to turn around, because he already knew who the person was using the Sensory Perception Jutsu.

"... I just can't sleep." Lilyana said she was sitting next to Haruto.

"Is that so?" Haruto just stayed silent and sat calmly.

"Don't you want to ask something? Like, why can't sleep or something?" Lilyana asked with an unhappy tone.

"Do I need to ask that? Do you think I'm the main character of a rom-com novel?" Haruto replied somewhat unexpectedly, which made Lilyana stunned and look strangely at Haruto.

"Do you like reading novels?" Instead of being annoyed by Haruto's strange answer, Lilyana asked about something much clearer.

"... Not really..." Haruto answered, looking away.

"Why are you avoiding eye contact?" Lilyana asked suspiciously.

"You don't need to know." Haruto didn't want to answer that question.

"Just say you like novels, what's wrong if a Haruto Sato likes reading novels?" Lilyana replied with a faint smile.

"..." Haruto just stayed silent and didn't say anything.

Because Haruto was silent, Lilyana also chose to remain silent, the two of them just sat there quietly without saying anything.

"Thank you..." Lilyana suddenly said.

"For what?" Haruto asked with a puzzled face.

"For today..."

"I don't understand. What do you mean?"

"I... I'm very scared... I'm afraid of making mistakes that could cause us to fail... Even though I have become the team leader, but... I'm not sure if I can keep us all safe, especially when meeting the team from class B... I... I'm very scared, I become very panicked and don't know what to do."

"That's why I'm very grateful for what you did today. Thank you for everything that happened today... Thanks to you, I was able to make something useful, so far... All I could make were just small objects, which were even useless to others... That's why when I successfully made something useful, it made me very happy..."

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