“Changed your clothes?”
Elena nodded, blushing as she walked out of the room.
“Hey—I mean… Elena… you were staring at your own… that… for quite a while just now, weren’t you?”
Kelly’s malicious whisper came from beside her ear.
“What’s the matter…? Is it your first day getting to know this body? You’ve never noticed… your own… that—and only today realized… your stats are so impressive?”
“Uh—”
Elena’s former reaction as Xiao Chunan backfired, making her seem like a truly innocent and naive girl.
To put it simply, Lady Elena was still too pure, so much so that she couldn’t handle even the slightest stimulation.
Back when she was a paladin, she was different from those other spoiled nobles—while the rest of them lingered among a garden of flowers, Elian had never even held another girl’s hand.
To be precise, the Valcier family’s sex education for Elena was close to nonexistent.
Talia was eager for her child to succeed, but she had missed out on teaching essential knowledge about male-female relations.
This might also be related to their family values—her mother Talia insisted on remaining a widow for her husband, and except for social occasions where she had to wear formal dresses, she was always dressed in a plain gray long skirt; her older sister Lila, an adventurer, rarely wore clothes that showed off her figure; and as for her younger sister, there was no need to mention her—she was a nun in the Church and had strict clothing restrictions.
Elena’s ignorance as Xiao Chunan was so pronounced that it even reached the point where she would awkwardly turn her head away if she encountered a woman dressed in a more revealing manner.
Even after becoming Elena, her mind still carried the rigid thinking of her time as a paladin:
After she turned into Elena, she had never deliberately observed or carefully touched… those parts she once didn’t have…
Because Elena felt that was frivolous… that was perverted…
Just now, she had been utterly absorbed looking at her own exposed chest—a complete pair of breasts… and she had stared for a full ten seconds!
That broke Elena’s own record…
Elena savored the image from just now.
Wasn’t that basically equivalent to looking at a young girl’s chest!
Wasn’t that basically equivalent to harassing a girl!
Then what difference was there between herself and those lecherous playboys!
‘Too… too un… b-bashful… shameful!’
Yes, that was the magical thought process of the idiot Lady Elena.
clang—The silver-haired girl’s brain overloaded.
“?”
“Why can’t you take a joke?”
Kelly clicked her tongue.
Wait, just now, did I see… that Elena wasn’t even wearing a bra?
But aside from those female perverts with their master’s shameful play tasks… what normal person in their daily life would go without a bra…
“Mm… could it be?”
Combined with what Fen had said earlier—that Elena was his sister who had always lived in the countryside—Kelly seemed to have found a key point.
Elena’s complete ignorance of physical development… was probably due to the lack of sex education from her parents…
That was why she was so dense about this, and after someone pointed it out, her reactions were so childish and sensitive…
In a small village, with limited information and inconvenient transportation, surely it would even be hard for a girl to get a bra, right?
Plus, with Fen’s goofy personality…
Really… an unreliable older brother like that… after she came to the Holy Capital, he probably didn’t pay any attention to the girl’s physical development either.
‘So she’s really a pure country girl… that’s why she gets embarrassed so easily…’
Based on the romance novels she usually read, Kelly smoothly filled in the image of Elena in her mind as a shy, naive, innocent little country flower.
Taking a closer look… this child really was wearing a boy’s shirt and trousers… not the cloth skirts that most girls in the Holy Capital preferred…
The idea in her mind seemed even more confirmed.
Definitely! It had to be a lack of sexual knowledge!
Suddenly, Kelly’s guilt surfaced—she really shouldn’t have made fun of this innocent, good-natured girl from the countryside…
“El… Elena!”
The purple-haired loli suddenly grabbed the silver-haired girl’s hand seriously.
“Let’s go to the tailor’s! I’ll buy you a piece of clothing!”
“Huh? Why… why bring this up all of a sudden?”
Kelly’s sudden change of attitude made her at a loss.
“As your master, I’ve been negligent, letting you lose a piece of clothing for nothing…”
Kelly pointed at the ruined shirt in her arms.
“As compensation… your master will personally take you to the best tailor in the city, and you can pick whatever you want!”
Elena usually resisted this kind of imposition on others.
“Th… that won’t do! I can’t let you spend money, Master. Let’s continue the lesson—”
“Hmph—how can that be?”
“If people found out that I, the Great Magician… wasn’t even willing to pay compensation for ruining my disciple’s clothes… wouldn’t that be a joke?”
“Besides… you’ve been studying for so long, aren’t you tired! Accompany your master on a walk—think of it as a break. It won’t kill you!”
Relying on her little girl appearance, Kelly shook Elena’s shoulder in protest, trying to convince her with cute pleading.
‘As expected, Master just wants to slack off…’
Elena had long seen through Kelly’s nature of loving to be lazy.
“But…”
“Alright, alright—this is your master’s assigned training task. No refusing!”
Since when was this considered a training task…
Elena muttered inwardly, but obediently nodded.
“Wait—before we go, your master has one more question for you…”
“Please go ahead, Master.”
Kelly paused for a moment, hesitantly gazing at the girl’s chest.
Combining the brief glimpses she had stolen during the earlier practice… even though she was wearing loose clothes, and without a bra to shape her figure, it didn’t look very prominent… but the swaying amplitude… and the scale that was impossible to lie about…
As expected, it was magnificent!
Kelly lowered her head.
Then she looked at her own flat chest, able to see her toes at a glance—a wave of frustration washed over her.
“Mm—”
‘It’s bad enough with those scheming women from the Magic Association… why is even a village child better developed than me…’
Kelly let out a sharp wail.
“Ahem… ahem—”
“El… Elena, what do you usually eat…”
Under the girl’s bewildered gaze, Kelly awkwardly added.
“What do you eat… that… that made you develop so well…”
Kelly had often asked that question to her improper colleagues, but it usually earned her responses like, “Little Kelly wants to get bigger too?” or “Just rub them and they’ll grow… want me to help?”—all kinds of teasing replies.
“Hmm… let me think—breakfast is usually oatmeal, main courses are chicken and eggs… on fasting days, I eat some fish… and I always have a thick soup made with carrots and potatoes…”
Elena recalled the menu from her knight order days, answering without thinking.
“I don’t drink… but the others generally drank some ale…”
“Eh!?”
Unexpectedly getting a serious answer this time, the purple-haired loli’s eyes sparkled with surprise.
“Re… really!? You’re sure you’re not lying to me? Eating that actually works?”
“Yes… oh, right! After we finished training every day, we also ate coarse wheat bread—that stuff isn’t tasty compared to normal bread.”
Elena shook her head, continuing, “But it fills you up and strengthens your will.”
“You have to exercise too?”
Kelly found it strange.
An… and besides… isn’t all this a bit too weird?
Such a regular diet, plus exercise… and coarse wheat bread, strengthening the will… so disciplined… it sounds exactly like what those tin cans from the Knight Order would do for training…
She wanted to settle down!
To develop!
Not… not be a paladin!
“B… but Master… you’re an adult, right?”
“Hm!”
“I… I don’t mean to discourage you… but at your height… shouldn’t you be done growing by now? No matter what you eat, it won’t help anymore…”
“?”
Kelly froze.
So this idiot had mistaken her “development” for height!
Looking at the innocent expression in the girl’s golden eyes, a wave of inexplicable anger rose.
This… this girl was terrifyingly ignorant about these things!
Too… too much!
With such good looks…
Such a great figure…
Yet so innocent!
She could hardly imagine there being such a beautiful girl in the world who knew nothing about sex.
“Elena…”
“You really are dense… and terrifyingly naive in this regard…”
Kelly put on a gloomy look and closed in on Elena.
“I’m talking about this!”
The loli pointed fiercely at her own chest.
“Wh… what!?”
So when girls talk about development, it’s not height, but that!
Xiao Chunan-as-Elena was shocked again.
“H… how would I know! I… I woke up one morning… and it was like this…”
Kelly obviously didn’t believe Elena’s weak excuse.
“You’re lying! I’m just small! It’s not that I haven’t developed!”
“How could anyone just wake up and be this big?”
Her suspicious gaze still lingered on her—or more precisely, on her chest.
Elena nervously wrapped her cloak tighter, trying to make the curve in front less noticeable—as if it would give her a sense of security.
“Re… really——”
The girl wanted to cry but had no tears.