Chapter 138 Announcement

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Chapter 138

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The next day, after some hesitation, Max headed back to the library. Fortunately, Ruth greeted her with an air of relief, acting like nothing had happened. She sat with the magic book opened and stared at it for a while. After getting so angry the day before, she was embarrassed to talk again. For a long time, Max struggled to open her mouth, only looking blurrily at the letters in the book.

“Uh, what I said yesterday... I m-mean...”

“What?”

Ruth, who in the meanwhile was focused on his job, looked at her. Max swallowed and continued awkwardly.

“Y-You told me i-if I practice m-my way of speaking, I’ll get better. H-How should I d-do it?”

Ruth nodded, “Oh, about that,” and soon responded in a sour way.

“Well, if you’d like, I’ll look for an efficient calibration. But first, wouldn’t it be helpful to talk as much as possible in a comfortable environment?”

“Talk as much as possible...?”

“The more you do, the better you get. You should stay calm and talk as much as you can. When you’re excited your speech gets faster and you stutter get worse. In that case, remaining calm seems more important than anything else.”

Being criticized so directly, she lowered her eyes with embarrassment.

“Oh, I-I got it. And... w-well, what should I do?”

“Well... wouldn’t it be helpful to practice talking slowly and clearly? It’s okay if it’s slow. The purpose is to master the pronunciation, you can do that practicing your speaking over and over again.”

Max uncomfortably rolled her eyes around, blushed and slowly spoke, loosening her stiff tongue.

“I... got it... Like this?”

“Yes, like that. You should be patient and slowly say what you want to say.”

“I should?”

“If this doesn’t work, I’ll look for another way to correct it. Let’s try one way or another.”

Max, who thought there might be a special way to correct it, looked slightly disappointed. Well, no matter how smart Ruth was, he was not omniscient. In the end there wasn’t an easy way to fix it, so Max buried her face in the book again, holding in her disappointment. Ruth, who stared at this scene and stroked his chin as if he was thinking about something, opened his mouth again.

“Well, in the end you didn’t get to practice yesterday.”

Max hardened her face by Ruth’s easy-going words.

“If I... go... There might be c-chaos once again...”

“We’re not going to the training ground. Isn’t this castle full of people besides knights? If we go to the kitchen, there might be at least one or two servants who cut their hands while cutting or cooking in front of the fire.”

“I’m sure there might be, but....”

There was an exclamation everywhere. However, the person who was most surprised was Max. She didn’t know that she would succeed on her first attempt. Max, who stared blankly at the boy’s hand with a surprised face, suddenly jumped around Ruth.

“Ruth, it’s a success! I-I-I succeeded!”

“You did a great job! That’s great for being the first time!”

Ruth smiled broadly and patted her on the back. Encouraged by the success of the first spell, Max looked back at the servants and shouted confidently.

“I-I’ve been learning h-healing magic for weeks now. I-I need someone to p-practice with. Is there a-anyone else who has a s-scratch on their body?”

“Can we volunteer?”

Max looked back with surprise at the sudden sound of the voice. At the entrance of the kitchen stood Lord Hebaron and Lord Caron, with a young knight whose face she barely recognized. It was rare to run into knights at this time, unless they went to the blacksmith, so Max was embarrassed as if she had been caught red-handed. Lord Caron politely said to her: “I’m sorry if we surprised you.”

“Oh, no....”

“I didn’t know you were this good, and we were disrespectful yesterday.”

“I- I understand...”

Max waved awkwardly at Hebaron who was deeply bowing to her, he then came inside scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

“I got hurt during the battle... Can I get treatment now?”

He showed her a small scratch on the back of his hand. Max’s eyes alternated between his face and the back of his hand with a puzzled face, she couldn’t really get a grasp on the sudden change in attitude of the knight. When she didn’t answer back, Hebaron’s face looked bitter.

“As expected, the behavior of yesterday made you feel... offended?”

“Oh, no! It’s just... I’m a l-little surprised. Come on, s-sit here. I-I’m going to...”

The servants quickly brought chairs for them to sit down and the knights lined up in front of her, pretending in an exaggerated way to be in pain. Max swallowed. If she failed because she was nervous... Max felt a lot of pressure on her shoulders because she thought it would be a disgrace. Ruth, who was watching the scene from behind, laughed.

“You don’t have to be too nervous. Everyone was worried about what happened yesterday, so they came here with an excuse.”

“What are you talking about? I’m bleeding like this!”

Hebaron’s word impressed her and then she didn’t even notice anything else, starting to focus. Pointing to the visible wound she said: “I’m afraid it’ll be a fail, but...”

Ruth clicked his tongue as if it were absurd and she inadvertently smiled at the large, distracted knight. Suddenly, she felt much lighter. Max relaxed and put a healing spell on the knight’s hand. Seeing the scar disappearing in a blink of an eye, Hebaron poured out enthusiastic praise as if he had never witnessed even greater magic, so Max finally burst into laughter at the ridiculous exaggerated attitude. When he saw it, Hebaron smiled along.

“Don’t mind what Uslin said yesterday, he just likes to say whatever comes to his mind.”

“I-I don’t mind.”

“That’s a relief.”

Hebaron smiled and got up from his seat, Max then proceeded to cast healing spells on the knights one after another. Once she had healed all the knights, she even treated the minor wounds of her servants. Except for the boy whose hands were burned, all those injuries were good enough to be left alone, but Max quickly became exhausted anyway, due to her little amount of mana. However, her heart was full of energy and she smiled proudly as she wiped her sweaty forehead. Even if it wasn’t that great, she was so happy to be able to help someone. It was a meaningful development for her, who had always been told that she was a useless human being: she seemed to have gained value for the first time in her life.

“If you don’t mind, please feel free to make us a test subject. I’ll tell the other knights.”

Hebaron looked back at the lady just before he went outside. Max nodded with a shy smile.

TL – way to go Maxx!