Harvest Festival (1)

1.

In a clinic room at the temple.

I took a breather, drinking strawberry milk.

“Haaah… I’m alive.”

It was a really busy morning.

Recently, more patients have been visiting the temple.

It’s because of the Harvest festival next week.

Harvest festival.

Generally, it’s a festival held in the fall to celebrate the harvest of crops, but at the academy, it’s also used in another sense.

A large-scale competition to subjugate Magical Beasts.

The name Harvest festival was given because it reaps the heads of Magical Beasts like crops.

It is a competition for Swordsmanship department students and Magic department students, and anyone can participate in the competition by forming a party of four, regardless of department or year.

How many Magical Beasts were caught.

How dangerous Magical Beasts were caught.

Those are combined to score and rank.

The party that comes in first place is given prize money and prizes.

“Haaa…”

I sighed deeply.

“Harvest festival…”

I want to participate in the Harvest festival.

But the Theology department cannot participate.

This is because they are classified as non-combatants, not combatants.

How can that be?

I feel like going to the president and arguing about it.

“Ughghgh…!”

I stretched my arms above my head.

My shoulders are stiff.

It seems like my body’s muscles get knotted up if I rest for even a day.

I haven’t been able to move much lately.

I’m too busy.

As a priestess before being a Saintess, I had to take care of patients all night.

I’ll probably be busy until the Harvest festival is over. So busy that I can’t even go out into the forest at night.

But I can go out today.

Because the last patient I was in charge of was discharged just now.

I cleaned up the clinic room and prepared to return to the dormitory.

And then.

-Knock knock

An uninvited guest arrived.

I shouldn’t call a patient an uninvited guest.

But it felt uncomfortable to come five minutes before closing.

But what can I do?

This is the job given to me.

I’m not an irresponsible person who ignores my work.

“Yes, come in.”

The door opened before I could even finish speaking.

A girl wearing a large pointed hat came in.

The girl was holding a large, fluffy teddy bear in her arms.

I know her.

Lua Pertel, the top student in the first year of the Magic department.

This is the first time I’ve met her since the entrance ceremony.

“…….”

Moving her languidly loosened eyes slowly, Lua looked inside the clinic room.

“……This place is nice.”

Saying that, she tiptoed into the clinic room.

And she took over the bed as it was.

Lua lying on the bed.

Hugging the teddy bear, she curled up like a cat.

“Where does it hurt for you to come?”

At my question, Lua shook her head and buried her face in the back of the teddy bear.

“……Sleepy.”

“Yes?”

“……Haaah, hmmmmm.”

After yawning, I faintly heard the quiet breathing of someone who had fallen asleep a moment later.

“Wake up!”

I shook Lua’s body.

She didn’t budge.

She fell into a deep sleep as soon as she lay down.

“This is a temple. It’s not a place to come to sleep.”

It was no use.

“I said, wake up?”

“……Noisy.”

“Yes? What did you say?”

“……The academy is noisy.”

It is noisy.

Because they are busy preparing for the Harvest festival.

It seems that this cat-like girl came all the way here looking for a quiet place to sleep.

“Sigh…….”

I sighed and looked out the window.

A window where the sunset is coming in.

Below it, there is a fluffy thicket.

“……That won’t do.”

I shook my head.

For a very brief moment, I thought about throwing this uninvited guest out the window.

It’s only two stories high, but she won’t get hurt if she falls.

Even if she gets hurt, I can treat her right away.

“Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like she even registered…….”

I picked up Lua.

“Well, I can treat her.”

I dropped Lua out the window.

I stretched my head out the window to see if she had fallen well.

“Kuuu…….”

She is sleeping soundly, sprawled out on the thicket.

Looking at that absurd sight, I chuckled.

The wind blew.

The lukewarm wind blows my hair.

I tucked my hair behind my ears and looked at the academy.

Today, the academy was noisy preparing for the Harvest festival.

2.

Night fell.

As soon as Elia changed into her pajamas, she headed to the forest.

“Hum♪ Hmm♩”

She walks along the forest path, humming.

She was in a good mood at the thought of training after a long time.

When I arrived at the clearing in the forest, Yohan was training alone.

“Hello.”

Elia greeted Yohan and approached him.

“Saintess!”

Yohan, who was wielding his sword, smiled brightly and greeted Elia as soon as he saw her, like a puppy meeting its owner. It was the first time they had met in a week.

“Have you been training well while I was away?”

“Of course!”

Yohan nodded his head greatly.

“I came out and trained every day without missing a single day. Look. I can handle Magical power more skillfully than before.”

As if showing off, Yohan raised his Magical power.

The energy of Magical power fluctuated and began to surround his body.

A subtle light swirled around the sword he was holding.

His growth rate is fast.

After gaining enlightenment once, he is growing at a terrifying rate.

In particular, sparring with Yuriel last time was a great help.

It is a really big development that Yohan, who had never been able to handle Magical power at all, can now handle Magical power even a little.

Of course, in Elia’s eyes, he is still just a puppy.

“I think I can land a hit on you now, Saintess.”

At those words, Elia burst into laughter.

“Really? Shall we check it out right away?”

Elia tied her long hair with a string and rolled up her fluttering sleeves to her shoulders.

“Come on in.”

Elia moved her hand back and forth.

Yohan, who was keeping his distance and watching, rushed at her as soon as he caught the moment when Elia blinked.

His body, enhanced with Magical power, shot out like an arrow.

Just by taking one step, he narrowed the distance and Elia came into the range of impact.

He extends his fist.

There was no hesitation.

But just in case, he released Body Enhancement just before his fist touched her.

He wants to show the Saintess his growth, but he doesn’t really want to hit the Saintess.

“Who taught you to hesitate?”

Elia lowered her stance and lightly dodged Yohan’s fist. And in that position, she raised her fist upwards and struck Yohan’s chin hard.

“Keugh!!”

Yohan flying away.

The moment he was hit in the chin, his vision shook greatly.

“Cough…! Ugh!”

Elia sat down, using Yohan’s stomach, who was sprawled on the floor and unable to come to his senses, as a chair.

“You’re still far from landing a hit on me.”

Yohan blinked a few times and barely came to his senses.

“You’re… merciless.”

“Have I ever gone easy on you?”

“…You haven’t.”

“You know it well.”

Elia stood up, dusting off her butt.

“Get up. Let’s start training right away.”

Yohan staggered to his feet.

“Get up quickly.”

“Ugh!!”

Elia kicked Yohan, who was getting up.

He rolled on the ground.

Looking at that, Elia chuckled.

Elia kicked Yohan every time he tried to get up, preventing him from getting up.

“Saintess!”

Yohan screamed.

“Hey, why are you getting angry at your teacher?”

Elia put her hands behind her back.

She was smiling brightly as if she was enjoying it.

After a long time, old memories came back to her.

This happened when she first taught her disciple.

She kept knocking him down and playing pranks on him, making her disciple angry.

“Training has begun. Get up.”

Yohan’s eyes sharpened as he understood the meaning of those words.

He watches carefully.

He concentrated until an opportunity came.

Flash!

The moment he found an opportunity and tried to get up.

“Keuhak!”

He was kicked.

“I was going to teach you swordsmanship in earnest from today, but if you’re lying on the floor, can I teach you?”

Yohan’s blue eyes flashed.

“Swordsmanship?”

Until now, training has only been hand-to-hand combat.

He can finally learn swordsmanship.

Yohan really wanted to learn.

“I’ll teach you all the swordsmanship I know.”

Elia stretched, wiggling her ankles.

“Of course, that’s if Hyung Yohan gets up.”

As soon as he heard those words, Yohan jumped up from his seat. No, to be exact, he got up and was kicked by Elia just before his feet touched the ground, and rolled on the ground again.

10 attempts, 10 rolls.

“Was the reward insufficient with just this swordsmanship?”

“Heo…… Heo…….”

“Okay, if you get up today, I’ll grant you one wish.”

“Yes? Really?”

Yohan raised his head sharply at the word wish.

Without realizing it, his gaze turned to Elia’s large breasts.

Looking up from below, the fullness is further emphasized.

I know it’s an ungrateful thought, but I think any man would want to touch them at least once.

“Hyung Yohan.”

Elia’s eyes narrowed.

The red eyes visible between the narrow eyes were ferocious.

“I need to fix your mentality before learning swordsmanship.”

Elia kicked Yohan hard.

-Crack!!

Yohan crashed into a tree.

His ribs were broken.

But he was immediately treated and kicked again.

“Get up.”

Yohan vowed not to look at the Saintess’s breasts carelessly in the future.

3.

In the end, Yohan couldn’t get up and rolled on the ground for nearly four hours.

Elia looked down at Yohan, who was tattered.

“Are you alive?”

“Somehow, I’m alive.”

Elia, refreshed from exercising after a long time, sat on a nearby stump.

“If you’re alive, get up and massage my shoulders.”

Yohan staggered to his feet.

While getting up, he was startled and flinched.

He urgently takes a defensive posture.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah, no… that’s… I thought you were going to kick me again….”

“Today’s training is over. Let’s cool off and go in.”

Yohan massaged Elia’s shoulders.

Unlike her slender shoulders, they were very tightly knotted.

Is it natural since she has a pair of iron balls hanging on her chest?

“Are you participating in the Harvest festival this time, Hyung?”

“Well… I want to participate, but I haven’t been able to form a party yet.”

Participation in the Harvest festival is unconditionally based on a party of four. Therefore, a party of three cannot participate.

“Who are the two people?”

“One is Estel, who is in the same Swordsmanship department as me, and the other is Reine in the Magic department. The Wizard who was in the same party as the Saintess during the entrance exam.”

“I know. Reine Van Agnia.”

I haven’t met her once since the entrance exam.

I hope she’s doing well.

I was indifferent because it wasn’t a deep relationship.

In the first place, I have no interest in the Magic department.

“Those are the only two?”

“Yes.”

“That’s strange. I’m sure you can find one more person?”

“Who…… Ah!”

Yohan clapped his hands as if he had thought of someone.

“You mean the Saintess is joining the party!”

Elia glared at Yohan.

“Are you making fun of me right now?”

“Yes?”

“Don’t you know that the Theology department can’t participate?”

“Ah…… that’s right.”

He didn’t know.

No, he wasn’t interested.

Yohan thought that since he could participate, other students could also participate.

“I really want to participate too.”

“Then who is the other person?”

Elia turned her head and pointed to a thicket.

At that moment, the thicket shook greatly.

“How long are you going to hide there?”

The thicket began to tremble as if an animal was hiding.

Yohan approached the thicket.

“No…!”

A voice was heard.

“Aaaaaah!”

Thump thump.

Someone tripped over a stone and fell while trying to run away.

“Huh…?”

A woman who was hiding in the thicket and spying on Yohan’s training.

Yuriel had fallen with her butt raised.