"Good morning, Sam."
Fortunately, Lucy showed up not too long after my brief but awkward conversation with the demons.
As usual, the redhead was dressed in clean, light armor, donning her sheathed sword behind her while standing at 'attention'.
While she was extremely cute, nothing about her facial expression or outfit denoted 'cute'. She was a Loli, yet she was more mature than most of the older and more experienced women I had seen thus far.
'At least she's calling me Sam now. That's progress.' I smiled and returned her greeting.
"Good morning, Lucy. How did your patrol go?"
"It went smoothly, as usual. Thank you for asking." Her answer was brief and straight to the point, as always.
Her speech was usually clogged with formality, and she always acted stiffly around me. Normally, that would have made me grow distant from her, but I found Lucy's actions to be somewhat endearing.
