“If you won’t drink, want a cigarette instead?”
“You smoke as well?”
Perhaps Daniel was shocked by Meister’s life of indulging in everything unhealthy. At the offer, I wrestled fiercely with myself for a moment.
“…Do you have any?”
“Yeah.”
I had already been craving one for the past few days… No, but how could I go back to cigarettes after quitting?
“…This is not my body, so I should not smoke carelessly.”
After agonizing over it at length, I declined on the grounds that this was not my body. I could hardly use someone else’s body however I pleased, especially when cigarettes did nothing but harm it.
「I-I don’t mind…」
What, were you awake? Well, after four days, it was about time for him to wake up.
Faced with the kid anxiously watching my reaction, I decisively gave up the lingering desire. I could not smoke in front of a child after all.
“He’s the one who dragged you into a storm out of nowhere. You think he’d complain over something like this?”
“He likely would not, but I still do not believe it would be morally right.”
“You really insist on making your life needlessly exhausting.”
“I do not believe this qualifies as making one’s life needlessly exhausting….”
At that moment, Daniel provided supporting fire. Meister, who had been drinking alone, swept their gaze over the two of us, then furrowed their brow.
“You bastards would join a monastery even without a god….”
I could not tell whether it was an insult or a compliment. Viewed one way, he was calling us damn fools, but viewed another, he was saying…