Camilla Hennefelt let out a small sigh while looking at the smiling boy who seemed to have fun. (TLN: The name in raw is カミラ・ヘンネフェルト)
She was thinking that maybe she had made a thoughtless promise.
She wasn’t confident that she would give good lesson about magic in particular.
When she thought about that fact, she had intense remorse. Although her friend, Sofia, asked her, it wasn’t really a bother to become a private tutor.
And there was also another reason.
“Well, I will think about it properly, so be good and stay in bed. Don’t think any unnecessary things, alright?” (Camilla)
“Hmm… that’s what I plan since beginning, but for the argument’s sake, I think it was impossible to do anything with this body.” (Soma)
“If you think about it normally… there is no way a common person to have muscle pain is to be this intense.” (Camillia)
“Hmm… You are certainly right.” (Soma)
That was vague. It made Camilla spewed an astonished sigh this time at Soma who looked like he had something to say.
The sigh had a double meaning.
And the reason of the sigh was related to the sigh earlier.
— Here’s the story in the beginning.
At present, he said to Carmilla that he had an intense muscle pain, but… normally, a muscle pain won’t immediately happened to the body.
Especially to those who had skills in martial arts, it could be said that it was impossible to have muscle pain like that.
To put it simply, for those people, they won’t had a muscle pain. (Rephrased the whole sentence)
As a result of suitable action depending on the efficacy of each skill, it was impossible to overuse the body that would make muscle pain happened.
In other words, the body was strengthened by the efficacy of the skill.
Possibly, she probably didn’t even know that he could do beyond the efficacy of the skill.
For example, it was like swinging a lump of iron which way heavier than own body.
Doing such think probably would cause muscle pain, but… to do such a thing mean he was not in a common category.
That was why it was impossible to have such a muscle pain.
Nevertheless, it was a talk if he had skills.
To tell the truth, there were not so many people with martial arts skills.
Most of them were able to learn the skills since the need to learn it wasn’t necessary at all.
Given the possibilities of being attacked by existence such as monsters or bandits, there was no harm in learning skills, but… well, when thinking of such a thing too much, it was certainly better to hire escorts.
For that reason, except when one becoming a soldier or going into that direction, it was common not to learn martial art skills.
If one had time to do such a thing, it would be better for them to learn at least one knowledge related to the occupation that they wanted to be.
Anyhow, sometimes those people also got muscle pain.
For example, if they were attacked by monster or anything like that, they would have it after escaping with full power.
Basically, in this country, there were neither monsters nor bandits coming out due to its location and certain reasons, but that didn’t mean it could be said to everyone in this country.
There were some who went to other countries for business, while others had some sort of things to do.
That was what she tried to say.
Well, in some cases, there seemed to be some people who train their body as a hobby, but… even to those people, it was normal to get muscle pain.
As for Camilla, she thought that he would learn skills if he would do something like that, but there was probably a difference in sense of values.
For those people, instead of emphasizing practicality, their purpose was to train the body.
Now, let’s return to the main subject.
Anyway, it was unusual for those people to have muscle pain, but it wasn’t impossible.
However, the situation was still within the bounds of common sense.
It was just that Camilla never heard about that much of muscle pain which could cause a severe pain throughout body.
“By the way, although I know about muscle pain, what did you do after all? I don’t think that you will be in this condition unless you did something too much.” (Camilla)
“Uhmm… no, I haven’t done anything serious. I merely did something that I thought needed.” (Soma)
“I wonder what did you need to do…” (Camilla)
Perhaps, it was the truth.
At least, whether Soma himself thought so, Camilla looked at his face and admitted the fact.
At the same time, she also didn’t plan to teach him if she heard of what he did.
“What exactly did you do?” (Camilla)
“That is a secret.” (Soma)
For him to answer like that, it was still within her expectation.
Or perhaps, he was trying to hide it in the first place.
Truthfully, she was always measuring the timing.
Well, as a result, there was nothing out of expectation.
“Even though I am your private tutor?” (Camilla)
“It is because you are more or less a private tutor. I don’t have a hobby of gladly talking about what caused such a failure.” (Soma)
“Hmm…” (Camilla)
Those words were probably his real intention.
But, this was why Camilla couldn’t stop thinking.
She wonder what would happen to the boy if she didn’t do the skill appraisal.
Of course, if Camilla didn’t do the appraisal, another person would do it.
She didn’t mean to be like that… for example, she thought what if Soma wasn’t from this household, and to be specific, what if he was born as a child in a poor village.
As for why she thought of such a thing, to be honest, not everyone would receive a skill appraisal.
The reason for this was simple. Skill appraisal would cost a considerable amount of money.
Well, although the price was not too expensive, it was still something one couldn’t easily have it.
Of course, there was correspond value to receive the appraisal, but that also would depend on the person.
Some people thought that it wasn’t worth it if they didn’t get decent skills… and as a matter of fact, most of the time people didn’t get decent skills.
Nevertheless, she herself thought that it was worth it because a person would not progress toward a wrong path, and for people like Camilla, it was values of those who would spent their days without waste.
Those who were located in poor area, it wasn’t unusual for them not to receive a skill appraisal.
Perhaps, Soma could fully demonstrate his talent in such an environment.
Those who didn’t have skills couldn’t oppose of those with skills.
It was a common sense of this world, and one of her reasons.
The fact couldn’t be overturned, and it was in vain to challenge.
Certainly, there were cases where those without skills had won against those with skills. Hence, these cases could be mentioned as examples.
However, in the first place, it wasn’t a custom to confirm those who made efforts.
It meant something completely different.
By spending whole life, where a person was trained until their limit, it was possible for them to reach equal or lower rank, but that itself was pointless.
At the very least, a person could reach lower rank.
That lower limit was officially recognized as a soldier.
That person was nothing but a person who had come of age, and they were far from the top.
And that was also a lower rank skill.
Hence, by receiving a skill appraisal, there would be no such thing like a wasteful effort.
If he wanted to do it, she probably would try to stop him with all her power.
Even if he couldn’t learn any skill.
But… yeah, that was what Camilla think.
Even if he would train to the limit, it probably won’t make him suffering from muscle pain enough to cause severe pain throughout the body.
Or perhaps she should say that it was impossible for ordinary human beings.
Regardless of how much he would do, he would certainly get braked somewhere.
So, what did Soma do that made it possible?
If no one stopped him, she wonder how far he could have progressed.
Lower rank, intermediate rank… or possibly…?
That was what she thought.
Or maybe, there was no need to suffer from muscle pain in the first place.
It could be healed with magic, so that might be necessary.
Although she only heard the story, it seemed what was running through the whole body of Soma was really intense.
Even so, not only children, that much seemed to be impossible for adults.
Since the physician said so, it must be the truth then.
How could he endure such a thing?
As a matter of fact, Camilla was not acquainted with Soma.
Even though Camilla also lived in this mansion, there was opportunity to meet each other, but there wasn’t much to talk about.
However, since she heard from Sofia, she thought that she knew about Soma as it was.
Honestly, Camillia didn’t believe her too much.
Maybe he was his parent’s favorite, that might be the reason why they exaggeratedly talked about him.
From Camilla’s opinion, Soma was nothing but a boy who talked in strange way.
The impression that Camilla had about Soma was almost what she saw with her own eyes during the last three days.
She thought that he was a pity.
Camilla was a private tutor.
Moreover, she was hired by Neumont.
If Soma wanted to do something extra, she had no choice but to remonstrate.
Well, considering that there was a high possibility of being wasted, it was natural to stop him, but—
“…I think that my only wishes to see this until the end.” (Camilla)
Camilla thought that it was really regrettable. Hence, she let out a small sight while those words stuck inside her mouth.