Yuri Date Chapter

Flo and Annise filled their stomachs at a pancake shop.

The next place they visited was a clothing store popular with a certain group of fans for its cute designs.

This, too, was a fairly high-end shop, and they valued it because it was unlikely they’d run into the many sisters who frequented it.

“Flo~ Have you finished changing~?”

“M-Miss Annise… I-I don’t think an outfit like this would suit me…”

“No, no, no! That’s not true! It’s freakin’ adorable!”

――Well, Flo looks cute in anything, though.

“R-really…?”

The outfit Flo came out of the fitting room wearing was a gothic lolita dress, predominantly black and white with tons of frills.

Flo, a fragile twelve-year-old beauty who still retained traces of a little girl, looked utterly charming in it, like a real doll.

“Still so cute! You should wear that as you go—clerk! I’ll buy this!”

“Yes, thank you for your purchase!!”

“Wha!? M-Miss Annise!?”

“It’s a gift from me.”

Flo normally spent her days in the sister’s habit provided by the Holy Church.

Annise had heard that even after being appointed to the Knights of the Stigmata, Flo still spent her daily life in custom-made vestments and had almost no civilian clothes.

So she decided to gift Flo a new outfit—a dress—as a present.

Annise is a Holy Knight—working in the Knights of the Stigmata, the unit assigned the most dangerous jobs.

She lived in a way that wouldn’t fit the image of a cleric who values temperance and poverty—spending her money immediately because if she died she’d die cleanly.

Moreover, she was extravagant almost entirely on the sister who was her playmate.

Therefore she had no hesitation whatsoever in gifting a well-made dress that certainly wasn’t cheap.

“You’re only twelve, Flo, so it’d be a waste not to dress up plenty while you’re young. No matter how pretty you are, you could still end up late to the party like Senior Sheena.”

“Ah, ahaha…”

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――Meanwhile, the clueless Sheena Aytel (25).

“Achoo! For some reason I can’t stop sneezing today…”

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――Back to Flo & Annise.

While Annise paid for the gothic-lolita dress, Flo looked around the store.

“Ah…”

Her eyes were drawn to a coat displayed prominently in the shop.

It was a black long coat.

Looking at its slightly flashy design, the face that came to mind was that of a certain member of the Shikai Tribe.

“(Mr. Sid…)”

A lifesaver and comrade who once fought alongside the boss of an S-Rank Dungeon.

And—an extermination target of the Knights of the Stigmata.

I wonder what he’s doing now?

Flo pondered such things as she thought of Sid.

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After leaving the clothing store, the two toured various places in the royal capital.

Flo was naive about entertainment; everything was fresh and interesting to her, and Annise enjoyed the date just watching Flo’s reactions.

The sun was dipping and it was about time to wrap up.

――Thud!

Flo, walking side by side down the main street, bumped shoulders with a man passing by.

“Ah, I-I’m so sorry!”

“Owwww! This is definitely broken! Hey, little miss! What are you going to do about this!?”

Flo immediately bowed her head, but the man she’d bumped into exaggeratedly clutched his shoulder.

He hurled an intimidating, angry shout at Flo.

No matter that Flo’s level was higher than the average adventurer’s, her class was a backline-type cleric.

Besides, it’s impossible that someone as slight and small as Flo would break a bone just from bumping into her.

Scamming people like that to extort money was this thug’s main source of income.

“For now let’s take this to an alley and settle it—owowowowow!?!?”

The thug reached toward Flo, but Annise stepped in, grabbed his fingers and bent them the other way.

She immediately drew a dagger hidden in her sleeve and, from an angle Flo couldn’t see, pressed the tip under his jaw.

With a little pressure it would pierce his jaw and tongue.

Annise whispered close to the thug’s ear so Flo couldn’t hear.

“Could you please not ruin a fun date? ――Also, haven’t I seen you before?”

“Y-you are that cleric from before…!?!?”

The thug who’d been hassling Flo was a former adventurer who used similar methods on Rinrin Ringland when she came to the capital for supplies, and had been driven off by Annise.

“You really want me to break your bones?”

――Creak creak creak.

The thug’s fingers groaned in protest.

He knew from experience that Annise mercilessly dislocated people’s shoulder joints.

“S-s-sorry… I-I won’t do it again…!”

She felt like handing him over to the guard right then and there.

But she’d rather not waste their remaining short date time dealing with it, so she let the thug go.

The thug fled from Annise at top speed.

“Flo, are you okay?”

“I’m fine. But I’m worried about that man. It looked like he had a broken bone, and I’d like to take responsibility and cast healing magic on him… but he’s already gone somewhere. Will he be alright?”

“(No, she’s way too pure…!!)”

Flo truly believed that the thug had been injured.

“(Is she just naive, or excessively merciful… I can see why Senior Sheena is overprotective… Is she really the daughter of the Saintess of Mercy who massacred so many of the Shikai Tribe—Saintess Frances Cuticle…?)”

Annise fobbed it off with, “No, it didn’t seem like a big deal,” and they resumed their date.