Chapter 41 (2/2)

But.

“Please throw it up for me. I want to try the climbing practice, too. I can practice the throwing portion later by myself.”

(How efficient… Or rather, why didn’t I think of this myself…?)

Kain held his head in worry again…

Princess Fii hadn’t said anything wrong. Thanks to that, Kain could only accept.

The hook caught the top of the wall. He threw it more carefully than usual.

Immediately, Princess Fii grabbed the rope, and then began practising her climbing.

In a panic, Kain rushed over underneath her, and prepared himself to catch her.

The first time she climbed, Princess Fii suffered a huge stumble. Kain thought his heart was going to stop.

But she recovered surprisingly quickly and began climbing up the wall once more.

(Oh my G.o.d…)

Normally, this wasn’t something you could do in one go, even if somebody ordered you to.

There was the issue of balancing yourself as you climbed. Inexperience with supporting your weight. Not to mention the fear of heights. All of them would come together to interfere, and the first try would always end in failure.

But for Princess Fii, despite a number of stumbles, she steadily made her way up the wall.

Not only that, but the further up she went, the more stably she climbed.

A light body, an excellent natural athleticism, and finally, unflinching bravery.

In Kain’s opinion, despite her unfamiliarity with it, these qualities of hers had led her to her success.

(We’d love to have her in Gra.s.s… Wait, what are you thinking. She’s the Second Queen of this country, you know…)

Kain denied the thought that naturally came to mind.

In the end, Fii splendidly reached the top on her first try.

“Kain-san, I did ittt!”

Princess Fii waved at him from on top of the wall.

And as she made merry up there, she lost her balance.

“Uwawah, oh?”

She fell from the wall before his eyes.

(UOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!)

Kain forgot himself, and charged over to catch the Princess.

And then, he scolded her in as loud a voice as his Gra.s.s status would allow him.

“Right after you succeed is when you need to be most careful! Please stay focused until you reach the ground!”

“Sorry.”

Perhaps because she knew she was in the wrong, Princess Fii obediently nodded as she lay curled up in his arms like a cat.

“Then I’ll try not to fail this time. Ah, and please teach me how to get down too.”

Showing no fear from falling once, Princess Fii immediately began to practice again.

Like that, she ended up spending the whole day on climbing up and down.

“Thank you for teaching me such an amazing technique, Kain-san!”

After the training, her expression was completely satisfied.

Then, for some reason she bit her thumb and stared ennnnviously at Kain’s chest.

It was the same place he had stored the hook-rope.

(It can’t be that she wants it…? No, you can’t. I only have one of these. It’s essential to a Gra.s.s… I can’t part from this…)

After thinking for a short moment,

“Please ask Galluzzi… I’m sure he can create a new one…”

“Yes!”

Hearing his words, Princess Fii nodded with an extremely happy smile.

A few days later, Fii appeared before her apprentice friends with a smug smile.

“I’ve finally learnt a secret technique too!”

She had practised her grappling hook for the last few days, and could finally use the skill properly.

The first people she wanted to show were Slad, Gheith, and Remié.

Incidentally, when Gorms heard about the secret technique, he had immediately made his escape. Fii had already decided that she was definitely going to show him later.

At any rate, first she was going to show off to these three.

“Ohh? What kinda technique?”

“I thought we had already run out of new techniques over these last few days, but…”

“I’m looking forward to it.”

Slad was simply interested, Gheith seemed to be thinking deeply about it, and Remié gave Fii a smile.

And then, the moment she brought out her grappling hook, their three expressions turned complex.

“Heath, you…”

“That’s…”

“That’s against regulations, you know…”

All three of them were astounded, and looked at her with pity.

Apparently that secret technique boom had at some point gained rules.

Supposedly…

Sword techniques gained 1.5x the points, bow and spear techniques would gain 1x the points, and everything else was against the rules.

The length of the demonstration could not exceed 10 seconds.

If they moved further than two metres from their starting position, they would be disqualified.

If it was a sword technique, you could only use three of them.

Because the techniques being shown off grew wider and wider in scope, the boys imposed rules on themselves.

Since Fii had been training with a grappling hook these last few days, she had absolutely no idea.

When Remié explained the rules to Fii, her face turned deathly white.

The secret technique that Kain taught her had no use whatsoever.

“W-, Well, try your best next time? Okay?”

“EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?”

Remié’s awkward encouragement was to no avail, and Fii’s mournful cry resounded through the school.

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