The next morning Lena walk up after a goodnight's sleep, She had overslept since it was her first time using a bed in so long it felt too comfortable, but that scared her, did octan already leave? she couldn't know where he is in her room so she immediately went to leave the room in a rush and as she left the door almost smashing through it in the process she immediately stops as soon as she entered the corridor. With both sharing the same reaction and faces full of surprise octan and Lena stare at each other. octan is standing on the other side of his room's door calmly most probably waiting for kouko. the staring contest goes for quite a while then finally octan breaks the silence saying "good morning?". "g-good morning..." Lena replied back with a red face.
After some time kouko leaves her room she greets octan normally but Lena kind of awkwardly, Lena is then reminded of what happened last night, she had completely forgotten about it. after they had exchanged their good mornings they went to the inn's little restaurant that's linked to it for breakfast. The little restaurant is a restaurant in the morning and a bar at night full of people laughing together and enjoying their time drinking. kouko wanted to join them but octan insisted on just sleeping for the night.
After having their breakfast octan and kouko left while Lena was still eating for the city. Lena did nothing and went up to her room. octan and kouko are going around the market, they aren't looking for any particular thing. they look at jewelry, weapons, armors, and cloth. nothing really catches their eyes. While walking they run into a kind of festival happening in town. Octan stares at everyone there for a bit then asks kouko "by the way, where is Lena?" all while still staring. kouko surprised at him showing any kind of "affection" towards Lena for the 2 years she's been with him asks "why are you asking?". Octan finally moves his attention away from the people of the festival towards kouko and with mostly open eyes he replies "yeah... why am I asking..." kouko surprised by his reactions laughs and replies "w-why did u take that so seriously? she stayed back at the inn." octan's face then returns to its original bland expression and goes back to staring "oh..." he says.
Lena is laying on her bed with nothing to do. She didn't leave the inn scared that octan might leave town without her even though he said he will stay for a week, since if he wanted to leave he would at least come and collect items so she had a better chance of catching him while staying in her room than going out there. after spending the whole day just laying down recalling all the stuff she learned from octan she hears a knock on the door, she goes to see who it is and its kouko. same as yesterday Lena moves away and kouko enters while thanking her, but this time kouko didn't sit down but instead after moving away a couple of steps she stood there and stared at Lena with an apologetic look. After closing the door Lena turned back and was surprised by how kouko looked.
"I'm really sorry for what I did yesterday my problem isn't with you I shouldn't have let it out on you. you didn't even say anything yet I just lashed out and said stuff I should've never said." kouko says while fully bowing down. Lena goes up to her and say's "no problem." with a little red face. after hearing her kouko raised her head with an exciting look and jumped onto her with a huge hug. "YOU ARE SO ADORABLE MY LEAN!!!!!!!!!!!" "I JUST LOVE YOU SO MUCH PLEASE MARRY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" kouko is screaming while almost crushing Lena's bones hugging her and giving her tons of cheek kisses.
"c-calm down miss kouko, p-please you are disturbing other people," Lena said panicky. kouko immediately stopped after hearing that. she got up and looked at her seriously. "why did you say that?" kouko said in a slightly angered way. "s-said what?" Lena said panicky again not knowing what offended her. "miss," kouko said. "come on now Lena we aren't that much older than each other." kouko said pouting. "b-but its a 12-year difference mis-- kouko" Lena said questioning her logic. with an embarrassed face kouko said "d-dont say that now. I'm still in my prime you know". "s-sure..." said lena in a pitying tone. "p-please don't say it like that..." kouko said feeling bad for herself. "haha... sorry" lena said with a slight grin. "call me.... big sis kouko" said kouko proudly. "but wouldn't that be weird with me being taller than you?" lena said mockingly. "hey now you don't see me talking about your flat chest." kouko replied trying to fireback. Lena then looks at her flat chest and her grin turns into a frown. "I-I'm sorry I didn't know you cared that much, p-please forgive me." kouko said while panicking. "d-d-d-dont w-w-worry a-aa-a-a-a-bout i--i-i-i-ii--iit" lena said holding back her emotions.
"here if you want I can fix your hair for you as an apology." kouko suggested and lena nodded. Lena went and got the chair in the room and sat down while kouko stood before hair brushing her hair. "so what did you do all day?" kouko asked. "not much just laid down and recalled some stuff" lena replied. "what why? why didn't you join us in town? or go out there on your own? it was beautiful I tell you there was even a festival I'm sure you would've loved it." kouko said trying to convince lena. "r-really? a f-festival?" lena's head slightly tilts forward as she says that. "don't worry about it Lena i asked one of the locals and they said this festival goes on for 4 days today was just the 1st day you can come back tomorrow." kouko said reassuring lena. "REALLY?" lena said excitingly while turning around to face kouko almost getting her head scratched by the hair comb. "yeah yeah really?" kouko said while giggling and turning lena's head back to how it was.
"here, after I'm done with your hair I will bring you a little amount of money so you can spend it tomorrow how about that?" kouko said. lena gave her a thumbs up in response so she doesn't waste any progress. with a smile, kouko continued to brush lena's hair and then finally did her classic ponytail, after that she told lena to wait a minute and went to get her the promised money. kouko gave her the money and excused herself saying it's late now and she will go head to sleep, they both waved goodbye to each other as kouko left the room.
Lena too went to bed after that with a smile thinking about how nice kouko was to her today and wishing for their relation to stay like that.