Chapter 31: Do something!

Somehow, I finished talking with Ahri well and it’s been a week since we lived together in our house.

What I learned while watching Ahri for the past week was that she really has no talent for manual labor.

Of course, it’s true that farming is hard work for beginners, but Ahri just can’t do it no matter what.

I don’t know what she did to make the hoe bounce off the soil — not even a stone — when she struck it into the ground.

In the end, I asked her to help with cooking instead of farming.

I thought there would be no problem because all she had to do was help me from the side.

But it didn’t take long to realize that it was my miscalculation.

When I asked her to hand over the ingredients right next to me, she picked them up and tried to hand them over, but she tripped over something and fell. And when I asked her to stir the soup well so it wouldn’t harden, I came back after preparing another dish to find the ladle stuck in the pot.

In the end, I told Ahri that staying still was helping and prevented her from doing anything.

Ahri herself said that she should help with something, but I had no choice but to shake my head because I didn’t know what would happen again if I gave her something to do.

At first, Ahri lived comfortably because she didn’t work and just rested.

Then, after about 5 days, she begged me to give her something to do.

Thinking about it, I realized that there was nothing to do while staying still in this world.

At best, it’s reading, but there was nothing in our house except for the fairy tales that I bought to read to Set.

I thought that if I kept leaving Ahri like this, her mind would go out, so I thought about what to do that would be okay to ask her to do, and I decided to take her with me to train in the morning.

The reason was that even if she did something wrong, there wouldn’t be a big problem, and I thought it would help her, who is weak in physical strength.

I took Ahri out from the very next day and set the amount of exercise she had to do.

I said that she only needs to do half of the amount when I started training because she is weaker than me when I first started exercising.

But she talked to me because she didn’t like something.

“Where does this look like the amount to make someone do who is exercising for the first time today! This is too much for me to do!”
“Don’t worry. It was hard for me when I first started, but I couldn’t do it all. It’s okay to do it slowly, so try to do only the given amount.”

“I’m saying this because I don’t think I can do it all even if I do it slowly! How much do you do that you’re doing this to me!”

“20 times.” “What.” “In 25 minutes.” “Yeah?”

“Okay. If this looks hard, I’ll tell you a simple exercise that I can do in 25 minutes. It’s Taebo—an exercise that combines Taekwondo and boxing.”

Looking at Ahri, who was doing Taekwondo? Boxing? in front of me, I remembered that there were things that were in the original world here.

Well, I thought there was no need to say this, and I shook Ahri, who was about to let go of her mind, to make her come to her senses.

I added a brief explanation because she seemed not to know what Taebo was.

“Taebo is not a hard exercise. Jab, punch, hook. Just remember this and follow what I say, and you can get the efficiency of running for an hour.”

“I don’t trust you more when you say that. Is it really effective?”

“Of course. Just put strength in your stomach and follow me. First, let’s start with warming up.”

I thought Ahri might do something again this time, but unexpectedly, she followed my movements well.

Is it because she instinctively knew that it was effective for dieting?

It’s another story that Taebo will become a sensational hit in Ionia in the future.

Time flew by quickly while living with Ahri.

Every morning, she followed the Taebo movements I taught her and exercised hard for 25 minutes.

She was always exhausted and stretched out when she came home after that, but it was nice to see her not giving up and doing it steadily.

Today is finally the day to leave for Weh’le to keep my promise with Kindred.

Ahri also knew that and had prepared to leave with me last night.

It takes a little more time to arrive because I’m going on the road with Ahri, but it doesn’t matter much because the time to see the scenery increases that much.

On my back is Set, and in both hands, I’m carrying the items the delivery office asked me to take since I said I was heading to Weh’le, along with the lunch box the old woman packed for me to eat on the way.

Next to me is Ahri, fidgeting with the small disc she’s had with her since the first time we met.

It’s a combination that’s hard to see anywhere.

Ahri didn’t show any signs of exhaustion even though she was hiking at a fast pace, as if she had built up her stamina through Taebo.

After all, the fact that effort doesn’t betray you is an unchanging truth.

I was able to defeat the bandits because I, who was an ordinary citizen, trained hard.

Fortunately, I didn’t encounter any bandits while going to Weh’le this time.

Even if I had met them, there would have been no problem because Ahri, who can control people’s minds, is next to me now, but it was better because there is still a what if.

The more I entered the center of the place where the festival was held in Weh’le, the more people there were.

Ahri tightly wrapped the cloak around herself to hide her tail, but she looked around curiously at the surrounding scenery.

That’s because various stores on the street were selling various products to match the festival atmosphere.

Ahri was mainly attracted by the smell of food from the stalls, and I was drawn to the items to give as gifts to the old woman and the items to buy as toys for Set.

While doing so, I remembered there was no time to waste, so I punched Ahri—who was trying to charm the stall owner—and quickly grabbed her.

Just as I was about to move to meet Kindred with Ahri, who had fainted in silence, I remembered a very important fact that I had forgotten.

I didn’t hear where to meet?

It’s difficult…