Chapter 92: The Approaching Crisis
It has been a month since I’ve started taking the Magic Buildup Disease dicine. Since then, while I felt dizzy at tis, the incidents where I suddenly lost all my strength and fainted drastically decreased.
The matter of absorbing my magic proceeded without problems, Finia doing it at ho and Cortina at the academy. Naturally, all while avoiding the public eyes.
Since that sensation was giving indescribable feelings of exhaustion, my expression at that ti wasn’t sothing I could show to people. If it was an ordinary child, it could be passed off as a feverish face, but I was quite a beauty so it could invoke so wild ideas in others.
Either way, I was entering secluded classrooms with a female teacher and ca out with a flushed face, so it did cause so strange rumors, but since everyone was aware of my weak constitution, they were convinced that it was due to the treatnt.
Days passed as such, and I finally reached the level of the healthiness of ordinary children. However… a new crisis approached now.
“S-Stop… Stay away!”
I slowly retreated behind as the personification of ill will sidled up to . However, that didn’t continue for long, for my path of retreat was cut. There was no running away now.
“I refuse that with all my might!” “Ehh, why? Isn’t it cute?”
She inclined her head puzzled at my extre denial… While holding the school swimsuit in her hands. A girl’s, of course. It was a deep blue swimsuit made by a combination of several thick fabric. The chest area was mostly covered, but the arms and legs were left completely bare.
It had already been over two months since I enrolled in this academy. It was already ti for to take on the swimming subject. And for that reason, I was trying to flee from Cortina who sidled up to put that swimsuit on . With. All. I. Had.
I got used to clothes with frills and lace. I even resigned myself to short skirts. But this… No way I was gonna wear this.
“Even if you say it, swimming is going to be added to your lessons, so you are going to lose credits if you don’t take it, you know?” “Ugh, so you’re betraying too, Finia.” “No such thing. I simply thought you looked really cute in the swimsuit, Lady Nicole.”
Finia answered with an ecstatic expression on her face. She was probably recalling how I looked in the swimsuit… But what about the things on top of that swimsuit? Where was the need to wear those kneesocks and ribbons!?
“Finia, I’ll wear that hat, but I don’t need those ribbons. Or those socks.” “Oh my, I prepared this so you stay warm until you enter the water. As for these ribbons, I just wanted to decorate you with them.” “Do I have no allies left!?”
Though I refused, there was a grain or two of logic in her statent. Now that I was included in the swimming lessons, I had no way of escaping from it. Plus, I had to get the suit’s size right while I could, or it could slip off during the swimming.
Considering the ti for readjustnt, trying it on now wouldn’t necessarily be a mistake.
“Ugh, just kill at once!” “Why are you making such a tragic tale out of it? It’s just a swimming class, isn’t it?”
Raum was a big country surrounded by woodlands. It was also located on the water veins that supported the said woodlands.
Rivers branched into every part of the country, so whether you beca an Adventurer or joined the army, you had to have experience in crossing rivers. For that reason, I had to at least learn how to swim.
I tried on the swimsuit, but my denial for the kneesocks remained firm. It was quite big in size, enough that its chest would slip off if I swam with it.
“So it was too big after all.” “Her illness should be cured, but her appetite didn’t change, after all.” “It’s not like the dicine affected the stomach’s capacity.” “Lady Nicole looks cute when she’s so small. But I do feel the urge to feed her lots.”
She put hands on my shoulders from behind and rubbed her cheek on . I felt that the distance between us shortened a bit since we started kissing every morning. I put my hand on her head and patted her.
“Finia, you are a good girl.” “Geez, Lady Nicole. It’s hard to tell which one of us is older here.” “Aah, Finia, no fair! What about , Nicole?” “Teachers shouldn’t ask for headpats. Good grief.”
Though I said that, I still patted her too. I’d be repeating Finia, but which one of us was an adult here?
After having our fill of skinship, I started taking off the swimsuit. Remaining in it in this season felt too cold. After taking it off, I looked over my bare limbs. They were so slim that, put nicely, were like a fairy’s, but put badly, were like withered branches.
I kept on training in secret for the entire month since then and I beca quite strong… Is what I feel. But I didn’t gain any muscle at all.
Given that I was a girl now, I had no intention of turning into a brawny macho, but I still wanted so muscle. My overall physical strength improved, but it was still below an average child. I started feeling the progress in proportion to the decrease in my faints.
“Do I lack training, after all?” “I believe you are more than active enough already, though?” “I decided. I should train so more.” “Please don’t. I’m quite serious.”
While I didn’t faint lately, Finia didn’t stop worrying whenever I went off sowhere and returned with scratches. While the sun was up, Michelle and Letina took out for hunting—which was actual combat in na only—and at night I snuck out and had sword training with Cloud.
I didn’t find any formidable opponents since then, but running around in the forest was bound to give scratches. Surprisingly enough, however, no scars remain on my body. Michelle had small ones all over her body, though.
This, too, might’ve been part of the blessings I received from that goddess.
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