"Master Ikki, we found another hill, shall we start to search this hill?"Matius ask me a question.
"Master Ikki, I want to also search for mineral sources in this hill, can you allow me?" mister Lukas is voicing his request to inspect the hill mineral potency. Maybe he wants to search for ore or other metal sources.
"This hill is big, maybe we should spread to make the searching faster master Ikki" this time chief Harvard give his opinion.
I'm thinking for a while. All their request is reasonable and there's no reason to reject it. So I just nodded and agreeing
"Okay, let's do that way"
After hearing my approval, chief Harvard start to command his men
"Alright, let's spread in a pair and take a look at this hill and be careful. Master Ikki, please take care of my daughter" chief Harvard giving his command and hurriedly grab Lukas hand and go to right side of the mountain.
Matius and Marius also following him make a pair and go to left side of the mountain, leave me and Silvie alone. Damn old man Harvard, did he intentionally doing this?
So we stand still awkwardly in this hill slope like when we meet in front of her house for a while until she starts to speak.
"Um, master Ikki, do you dislike me?"
Huh? Why suddenly she asks that?
"Hmm? No, not at all. why I should dislike beautiful girl like you?"
Whoops! I don't know why I said 'beautiful girl like you' instead I can just say no. now look at her blushing there. Damn! My mouth is just too honest
"Am I not trouble you or drag master Ikki down?" she asked again
"No, and just call me name Ikki, don't add that master thing. I thought our age not much different right?"
She just nodded and I can see her face getting redder.
"And what are we going to do now?"
"Look for the cave of course, and if we can't find it here, we try to climb up to the top of the hill. Can you do that?"
"Yes, mast …. I mean Ikki. I can do that"
"Good. Let's start searching and don't go too far from me. I'm afraid you'll meet a wolf again"
She nodded as a sign of understanding, I can see she a little tremble when I mention wolf. It seems she still has lingering fear toward the wolf.
After searching for half an hour, we find nothing here. We already look behind the rock, behind the shrubs and bushes, look at every crook in the hill, but still nothing. So I decide to climb up the hill.
I let Silvie climb first and follow her from behind. At first, the hill still climbable and we can seek the cave while climbing. But later the hill becomes more steep and hard to climb. We must step carefully during the climbing or we will slip and fall down.
When Silvie tries to climb further, suddenly the rock which she steps at, get loose and make her slip. Fortunately, I was right behind her and manage to catch her before she falls down. Because I'm hugging her from behind, I can smell her body odor and her hairs aroma. It brings indescribable aroma, pleasant and refreshing, not sub-par with modern perfumes that used by the girl in my world.
Although I hug her tightly, she didn't resist or struggle to break free. Only her face become beet-red.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, thank you" she answering with low voices.
"Good. Be careful next time okay? I don't want to see you fall and get hurt"
She only nodded and lowering her head, make me can't see her face. After she gets a stable footing, I release my hug and make her continue her steps. This time we step more carefully and fortunately (or unfortunately?) nothing bad happen again. After a while, we finally reach the top of the hill.
We're sitting in the rock to take a rest. I pull a water drink bottle from my backpack and offered to Silvie. She surprised to see the bottle. It's PET bottle that usually uses for drinking water but seems plastic didn't exist in this world, I'm not surprised if she astonished with this bottle.
"Ikki, what is this?"
"It's drinking water. That's the way people in my country carrying water"
"And what is the container made from? Is so transparent that I can see through it"
"It's called plastic. It's made by using very complicated ways to produce it"
"It's so light and the water inside didn't spill out. How people drink from it?"
Since she doesn't how to open the bottle cap and drink from it, I had to show her how to use it. I open the bottle cap, and pour the water inside to my mouth and take few gulps.
"It's like that" and I handled the bottle again to her.
Because she already sees how I use the bottle, she didn't hesitate to accept the bottle and directly put the bottle in her red cherry lips and drink it.
I'm dumbfounded when seeing the way she drinks it. Isn't that called an indirect kiss? Moreover, when I see her lips moved when drinking giving a sexy impression to me, make me keep staring at her. When she aware I was staring at her, she stops her drinking and blushing.
"Sorry Ikki, I'm drinking that much", she handed back the drinking water.
"Eh, it's alright, you must be thirsty and I still have some more"
For a moment, awkwardness rises again between us.