Episode 4 – Growing Up

Grace SIDE

It’s been six years since the day I opened my heart to someone other than my family, and I’m already 20 years old.

The outstanding physical abilities I didn’t have in my past life and the superior memory that never forgets what I see once gave me the joy of learning.

I got a taste for getting stronger, and I was fascinated by a different kind of growth that I had never tasted before, completely different from masturbation.

And before I knew it, spring with its full bloom of flowers was approaching.

Ian and I stood facing each other in an empty field.

Ian had long since become a sturdy adult. His face retained the beautiful features of his childhood, making him handsome. And his body, moving intensely and steaming with sweat, was surrounded by muscles that weren’t excessive, as if sculpted.

Ian was breathing roughly, glaring at me.

Looking for an opening, I lightly threw a fireball at Ian to break the stalemate.

Ian, as if used to the fireball approaching him at a fairly high speed, hit it with the shield he was holding, scattering it, and then quickly rushed at me, swinging his wooden sword.

Seeing Ian instantly closing the distance to just a few steps away, I calmly used an afterimage. When I showed Ian the illusion of the wooden sword rushing towards him, he naturally recognized the afterimage as always and rushed at me without a care.

I quickly moved to the right and swung the warhammer in my hand at the shield. Seeing this, I smiled fiercely with a competitive look on my face, grabbed the warhammer with both hands, put all my strength into my arms, and swung it with a full swing.

Kwaang!

With a sound like a bomb exploding, Ian was sent flying backward by my superhuman strength, rolling over and over.

I watched him with the warhammer slung over my shoulder. Finally, he stopped rolling and lay face down, breathing roughly. I smiled playfully and approached Ian.

“Is this the end?”

I said, using my healing ability on Ian, who was whimpering with a broken arm.

“Haa, haa, haa, seriously, isn’t that strength a bit too much? Haa, it’s so sad that humans are weak, so sad.”

“What, are you saying I’m just a strong beast now??”

When I glared at Ian with my unique cold expression, Ian panicked and waved his hands.

“Ah! Ah… no, that’s not what I meant! I just…”

“Hehehe, Ian is always so serious.”

“Sigh… I… I really thought it was real. Don’t tease me like that while looking at me like that.”

“Okay~ okay~ Now, get up quickly, we have to do the next training session.”

I smiled mischievously and held out my hand to Ian, who had fallen. Ian sighed again, took my hand, and got up.

After doing the last training session like that, I came home, took a bath, and came out to find my parents looking at a letter with serious expressions in the living room.

“What kind of letter is it that you’re looking at so seriously?”

I asked, approaching my parents with a curious look.

“Hmm… the head of the family is calling for me. I think I’ll have to go to the capital.”

My father said, looking at Ian and me, who had come down after taking a bath.

“He says he has something to say, so I have no choice but to go.”

“Re… really? But what could he be calling you for?”

“I don’t know either. Maybe the head of the family has something in mind when he calls me… Hmm… or maybe…”

My father started to think deeply about something. Seeing my father like that, I shrugged and sat down on the chair opposite him.

Ian also sat down on a chair and seemed to be lost in thought for a moment, then made up his mind and said.

“Master, may I come with you?”

At Ian’s words, I looked at him with a surprised expression and said.

“What are you talking about? Where are you going?”

“Sorry, Grace, but I want to go out and experience various things at least once, even for you.”

‘Keuheup! Even for you? How can he say such embarrassing things so naturally? Ugh, am I weird? I’m so embarrassed!’

At Ian’s words, I rubbed my feet on the floor in embarrassment, and turned slightly to avoid showing my flushed face, and said.

“St… still, you can learn together when you go on a trip with me later.”

“It’s too late to learn outside. I don’t think there will be many opportunities like this. Sorry, Grace, Master! Please!”

My father and mother were looking at Ian and me with warm smiles, as if remembering old memories.

“Well… it wouldn’t be bad to experience it in advance. Let’s go together.”

“Thank you!!”

Ian bowed his head with a bright face when his father smiled and agreed.

I sighed softly at the sight of the two of them, shook my head, and asked my father.

“Then when are you leaving?”

“I’ll have to leave right away tomorrow. It’ll take about a month, so keep that in mind.”

“Sigh… okay.”

My father turned to Ian, a smile on his face, and said.

“Ian, let’s prepare for the trip together. Follow me.”

“Yes! Master!”

With those words, my father took Ian somewhere.

* * *

The next day

My father and Ian left the house with luggage on their backs to use during the trip. We saw my father and Ian off, and we returned to the house and began to live our daily lives again.

Without Ian, I filled my boring daily life with training, and when I came to my senses, I realized that the time for my father to arrive was suddenly just around the corner.

‘Time flies…’

With a slightly excited heart at the thought of meeting Ian and my father soon, I came out to the living room for training today and saw my mother wearing the traditional costume she received with her coming-of-age ceremony.

Ah, the traditional costume is a very expensive piece of armor made of magical thread that our Holstaurus clan receives when they come of age.

The bottom is a black micro miniskirt with a length of less than the size of a palm, and thanks to this, even if you spread your legs a little, the vagina is clearly visible from the perspective of the Holstaurus, who do not wear underwear according to tradition. In addition, the fact that the crimson vagina is emphasized in the shiny black latex material of the bottom is completely erotic.

The top uses white magic cloth. It has a jeogori shape that exposes the shoulders and the upper part of the chest, and the torso part is kept short enough to show the lower chest, with a thin string in the middle to tie the jeogori. And the length of the sleeves is made to come down to about the wrist.

Due to this structure, it seems like it will fall off soon, but it has the characteristic of fixing the position according to the nipples using magic, so it does not fall off no matter how much it shakes.

Of course, thanks to the characteristics of our race that keep our breasts from sagging and maintain a firm state, the nipples that rise plumply without wearing underwear stand out on the pure white top, and there was an attraction that would make anyone look back at least once.

Additionally, there are also black diamond-patterned mesh stockings that come up to just above the knees. The upper part of the stockings has the symbol of the Holstaurus pierced through it, which is also funny. The symbol of our race is a heart shape that means love, and they pierce it on both sides as it is, so people who don’t know the Holstaurus mistake them for prostitutes and sexually harass them because of the black stockings that contrast with the pure white skin….

Finally, the shoes are leather shoes with a heel about the size of a finger joint, and the holes are made wide at ordinary times, but when the user wears them, they are adjusted to fit perfectly.

However, there was an element that solved all these lewd shortcomings. When this equipment is worn, the magic power of the magic substance is spread according to the set range to protect the body. In the case of ordinary people, they don’t have to worry about their breasts sagging, and they have a much higher level of protection and magic resistance than steel full body armor.

Fortunately, magic substance is a very rare substance, and if you wear other steel and leather layers on top of it, the protective ability that magic substance originally has disappears to the point where it becomes meaningless. Therefore, if you equip yourself with equipment based on magic substance, you usually use the smallest possible area to save money, so you are not completely treated as a slut in social norms.

Well, it costs a huge amount of money to make something that minimizes the area like our race’s traditional costume, but our family earned a lot of money working as healers, so that wasn’t a problem.

Perhaps because of that, I was slightly looking forward to the traditional costume I would receive at my coming-of-age ceremony. Even though the equipment using magic substance is used sparingly, there are almost no people who use it this sparingly, so wouldn’t everyone around me be watching my lewd appearance? To be honest… I’m looking forward to it because I feel like I’ll be easily exposed to lewd things.

Anyway, I looked at her with a puzzled expression at the sight of her wearing the traditional costume that she usually wears when going out and asked.

“Mother? Are you going somewhere today?”

“The village chief is very sick this time, so I discussed it with the villagers and decided to take turns taking care of him for a day at each house.”

“Ah~ why didn’t you tell me such an important thing?”

“I’m sorry, hehehe, I didn’t think there was any need to tell you. Anyway, that’s what happened, so eat what you prepared for dinner today, okay?”

“Yee~”

I answered vaguely and went out to the garden with my practice warhammer for training today.