Book 3: Chapter 27: DLC: The Sea Part 4
We started a game of beach volleyball. Alicia certainly wasn’t unathletic. On the contrary, she boasted of stats befitting the game’s heroine. However, as the team containing villainous daughters, the combined stats of Lady Sophia and Fol were just too high.
Due to the light weight of the ball, the spikes1 weren’t that fast. Of course, there was also the fact that I refrained from going all out. But at any rate, no matter where they would throw the ball within the playing field, I’d be able to block their attack. As for Alicia, she was limited in her ability to react.
Under normal circumstances, this pair of villainous daughters would take a crushing victory. However, since they wanted to enjoy the game, they appeared to be skillfully slacking off a little, so they only won after a close call.
Afterwards, Alicia seemed to be struggling with her stamina and withdrew from the game. Lady Sophia and I then had a showdown with the teacher-disciple team consisting of Fol and Teacher Tristan.
Fol was suffering from Magical Overcharge Illness so she was learning how to use spells from Lady Sophia and I. As a result, she apparently reached the stage where she could regularly enhance her physical abilities with a spell. Therefore, Fol was easily holding her own against Lady Sophia, who had enhanced her physical abilities with magic as well.
However, the difference in physical abilities between the young, pre-teen me and Teacher Tristan, who was in his mid-thirties, was just too great. I gave it my all by using a spell and all my physical abilities, but I was no match for him.
Teacher Tristan was considerate in allowing not only his ally, Fol, but also Lady Sophia to actively participate, but he was sending spikes my way that were always just barely out of reach. That being the case, our team—or rather, just me— had lost.
…Damn it, he was being so childish!
And so, the second match ended. This was when Prince Alforth and Raymond finally decided to make an entrance. As Fol’s butler-in-training, Raymond retreated to a corner, and the pair of villainous daughters zeroed in on Prince Alforth. And so, the battle between the teams of Fol and Alicia, and Lady Sophia and Prince Alforth began.