Chapter 16: A secret makes a woman woman

The trembling of the first leaf putting out in the sunlight. I always greet a new morning with such thoughts. Every day has been a series of new experiences since coming to this world.

I get out of bed, anticipating another new day today. The chirping of birds I still don’t know the names of, heard from outside the window, felt like my alarm.

Then, shall we start today’s work? First, I simply put on my clothes and leave the house to do the training that has now become an indispensable routine.

I start with push-ups in the small yard prepared in front of the house. It was a bit much to do even 100 at first, but now I can easily do 1000. As expected, if you exercise every day, your strength increases like this! If I had known that I could become this strong in the previous world, I would have exercised more.

Sit-ups continue after finishing push-ups. This is also 1000 times. Squats are also 1000 times, and running is about 25km to the small mountain in front of the house, so I run 50km round trip.

Are you curious about how many minutes it takes to do all this training? It’s exactly 25 minutes. I adjusted it because I thought this amount of time was enough for training. If I exercise for too long, it will affect the work I have to do.

In the first place, training is meaningful in doing a proper amount consistently every day. If you do too much for a long time and skip even one day, the training becomes meaningless. I don’t know what other people think, but at least that’s what I think.

After the training, I come into the house and simply wipe off the sweat with a towel that I had prepared in advance. There wasn’t enough time to do a full body wash because I had to prepare breakfast for the two people who were still staying at the house.

I changed back into my usual clothes and headed to the kitchen. This time, I didn’t have any particular idea of what to make, so I decided to just prepare the food I usually eat.

I knocked on the doors of the two people 10 minutes before the table was completed to wake them up in advance. Judging from the presence felt inside Shen’s room, it seemed that he had already woken up, but it was certain that Akali was sleeping. Why? Because the sound of her snoring was loud enough to be heard outside the door.

Hmm… It’s better to keep this a secret. Even for Akali’s sake. Having said that, I told the two people who had all woken up to sit at the table.

But Akali’s expression sitting at the table is a bit ambiguous. Is it because the table is different from yesterday? No, Akali. It’s no use looking at me like that. Yesterday was special.

Although her expression wasn’t good, Akali picked up the spoon, thinking about the sincerity of the person who set the table. Still, it was made quite delicious, so after putting it in her mouth, her face became a bit better.

It was the first time in a while that I had eaten with other people, so I think I talked more than I thought. I asked various questions, from how they usually train to whether they had any interesting experiences.

Among them, when asked if she had someone she liked, Akali blushed and said that there was a man who was her type, but he had a few flaws, so he wasn’t very good. I must have hit the nail on the head. With that reaction, she must be liking him.

After the slightly noisy breakfast, I did the dishes, and the two people went into the room to prepare to leave. They said they were going to catch the Golden Demon, so they must be in a hurry.

Thinking that I should pack something so they don’t go hungry while traveling, I took out a few fruits that were in the house, wrapped them in a cloth, and made it like a wrapping cloth. With this, they won’t starve at least until they reach the next destination.

As it happened, the two people who had finished preparing went to the front door to leave our house. I handed them the wrapping cloth and, thinking of a funny idea, brought my mouth to Akali’s ear and whispered as if teasing her.

“(I wish you a good love life~ ^q^)”

“E…eeeek!!! It’s not like that at allllllll!!!”

Akali suddenly screamed at my words and ran far away, leaving Shen behind. Oh dear, was the joke too much? Well, she’s at an age where she’s about to fall in love, so she can be embarrassed enough.

Seeing Akali, who was getting farther away by herself, Shen shook his head and thanked me.

“I don’t know how to repay this kindness, not only for providing a place to avoid the rain, but also for serving two meals and snacks.”

“No, you’re welcome. Isn’t it natural to help someone in trouble? You don’t have to worry about it. If you happen to pass by this area again, please stop by.”

I had received a lot of help from other people in this world, so I couldn’t just pass by other people in trouble. If it weren’t for their help, I wouldn’t be who I am now.

Shen listened to my words, bowed again, and stopped as he turned to take a step. Then, he slightly turned his head and said to me.

“It would be better to relax your body when meditating. The energy of nature is to harmonize, not to control. Then, I’ll be going to where the balance leads…”

Leaving only these words, he just left. Hmm… Relax your body when meditating… Harmony, not control, is important, not, how does that person know that I meditated yesterday? Well, he wouldn’t know all of my strength, so it doesn’t matter. Because I also have one or two secrets I want to hide, so it’s not fair.

Still, to notice what I did yesterday, the head of the Kinkou is something different after all. Anyway, I was able to get useful information thanks to his advice. It seemed that the path of mental training that had been vague was visible.

Okay. Then I should finish cleaning the house and go to receive delivery work today. The weather has also gotten better, so there’s no reason not to.

As I entered the house, the Ohyangjangyuk that I had left out yesterday came into my sight. Ah, I thought I was going to give this to the old woman. What should I do?

Oh well, I don’t care. The old woman and our Riven are more important than work. I’ll just bring this and go to work for real. For real…