Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 26.2

The next day, I woke up in the dark even before morning came.

“…[Light].”

I turned on the light with my living magic to put on my maid’s clothes, which I was still not used to.

I took off my nightgown and put on a white blouse. Fitting the buttons was a new experience for me, but once I got used to it, maybe it would be quicker than tying it up with a belt? 

The blouse was white, but only the collar and cuffs were removable, perhaps because they were easily soiled. Minna said that the blouse was too loose in the chest area to prevent chafing, but if the blouse is as big as Minna’s, a special breastplate might be needed.

All that was left was to put on socks and shoes, a black one-piece dress that goes almost to her ankles, and an apron dress, and she would look like a maid.

…But where should I hide my weapons? 

The throwing knives were small, but my body was still too small to hide them in my sleeves.

It’s too big to hide it in my sleeve, too small to hide it in my bosom, and too obvious to hide it in my apron.

“…I guess this is the only place.”

I retrieved the leather strap from my old sandals with a knife, strapped the black knife and throwing knife to it, and threw the overstuffed “drawers” that I had just been given yesterday, which I inevitably couldn’t wear, onto the bed.

After changing into my maid’s uniform, I crept out of the upstairs window and, using stealth, made my way to the Temporary Base where I hid in the woods.

I had little to pack, but the money and the wildflowers book were important. I could still leave the other items hidden there, but I retrieved the book of wildflowers and potions, smothered them with insect repellent weed just in case, and headed for the backyard Sera had assigned me.

The backyard of the mansion I reached seemed like a good place to hide and practice, since it was out of sight of the mansion and easy to detect if someone was to come by.

“…”

I arrived at the backyard at the designated ‘same time as the sun rises’, but Sera had not yet arrived. I thought I was a little too early, but if Sera used concealment, I wouldn’t be able to notice her.

I wondered if this might be a part of my training, so I carefully searched the area with [Detection] and found a small presence in the woods.

“…Heh. You can tell.”

As I turned my gaze there, I heard a voice, and a figure a little smaller than me emerged from the woods.

“You seem to be able to do it pretty well. Are you the newcomer I’ve heard so much about?”

“…Who?”

Dark hair and pale-brown skin. Is this kid also a Cruzian? The boy, with a rather well-defined face and a curious glint in his blue-gray eyes, stared at me, then approached me with a mischievous smile on his face, not answering my earlier question.

“But don’t get all worked up just because I’ve been found, okay? I’m sure I could take down a goblin or two, and there are attacks in the world that you don’t even know about.”

“Such as what?”

“Well…”

Was he related to this place? The boy did not seem to be trying to kill me when he said he would “attack”. The boy, who had approached me as if taking a walk with a grin on his face, vanished from my sight.

“Like this!”

Basaah! 

An unexpected attack.

If it had been an attempt on my life, I would have been able to deal with it, but that attack, which I didn’t think was an attack that made me duck down instantly, caused my skirt to roll up almost to its full length.

“Huh?!”

The boy’s eyes widened in astonishment.

He must have seen the throwing knives and black knives I had hidden under my skirt, wrapped around my thighs and shins.

I kicked him in the jaw with an instantaneous strike, and as I leaned over the boy who had fallen on his back, I thrust the black knife that I had pulled out of my shin right at his throat.

“…I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

“Since you’re not my enemy, I will not kill you this time, but…”

When I glared at him, the boy, who for some reason had become flustered, somehow turned his dark-brown face which now had a bright red blush spread up to his ears and held his face in both of his hands as if to avoid looking at me.