The morning after Sister Elinora returned to the mansion. I woke up on my bed and couldn't move.

　The reason for this is due to yesterday's practice with Elinora's sister. However, it wasn't the usual bare bones and sword swinging. It was a kind of shirking, making me run until I reached my limit.

　This laziness, even though I went to bed early yesterday after taking a bath and eating dinner. I don't even need to move to make sure I'm moving to realize that my lower half of my body is aching with muscles.

''I don't want to move.''

　I blurted out in the futon as I took stock of my body's condition.

　I'm tired from running a lot yesterday, so I'll just sleep a little longer.

　I pulled the covers back on and closed my eyes, but I noticed that the temperature in the room was rising due to the sun's rays.

　If I continued to sleep with the covers on, the temperature and body temperature would rise and I would sweat.

　I took only my hands out of the covers and sprinkled the cold air with ice magic.

　The air in the room changes to a chilly one as I release the cold air for a while. The sensation of the soft air turning into comfortable air in an instant. It's like having an air conditioner running.

　The air is cooler than usual, and I curl up in the futon to sleep.

　The air is a little cooler than usual, and I curl up in the futon to sleep in the warmth of the room.

　It's a blissful time, making the most of the benefits of the cool air.

　As I'm meditating on this blissful moment, I hear someone coming up from downstairs.

　It's very familiar footsteps and signs. Specifically, it's supposed to be Sister Elinora.

　It should still be early for breakfast. Are you trying to take me out for a voluntary morning practice or something?

　Since she's the person I don't want to see the most right now, I activated my psychic with just my arm and locked the door to my room.

　Hmmm, that's a relief.

　No matter if Elinora sister yells at you for a moment, it's just a matter of deciding to go to bed with a raccoon. There is a master key in the house, but you have to go back downstairs to get it.

　If you give up taking the master key as a bother, all the better.

　If you're going to go for it, you can transition and escape to your own home. You can sleep twice in your own home if you take out the bedding that's stored in it with spatial magic.

　Hey, the excuse is just to say that you were going for a morning walk.

　Now you can avoid the morning practice by Sister Elinora.

　As I gloat while wrapping myself in the futon, a presence that looks like Elinora sister stops in front of the door. And I tried to move the knob on the door at random, but it's locked, so the door won't open.

　Or rather, you ignored the knock as a matter of course. I remind you to go home while you put such a shove in your heart.

　However, contrary to my wish, the door is easily unlocked and Elinora sister comes in.

''........Eh?　Why?

I knew you'd be up.

　When she opened her eyes and uttered the questioning words, she was met with a dumbfounded look from her sister Elinora as she walked into the room.

'Mother was telling me. She said that Al has been using magic to lock the door lately, so you should take the master key with you when you wake him up.

　Sis Elinora says as she plays with the master key in my room with her right hand.

　d*mn you, Mother Erna!　You're playing into the hands of Sister Elinora!

　If I hadn't had the master key from the start, I could have escaped this room with ease. That was really unnecessary.

''I mean, it's cool in this room. You've been using ice magic, haven't you?　You're as dexterous as ever.

Well. Oh, Elinora, sis, the cold air is going to get out, so just go outside and close the door.

'Oh, that too!　--You think I'm going to fall for that?　See, Al already knew that, didn't he?　Morning practice. I'm going to practice, Al!

　Perhaps to get me out for practice, Sister Elinora pulls the futon away from me.

　However, I hold the futon in place with my psychic to keep it in place.

'No!　My muscles are aching in the lower half of my body from all the running I did yesterday!　Leave me alone!

You're not helping Al get fat.　Just because a muscle ache hurts a little bit doesn't mean it's going to kill you!　Come on, get out of the covers!

"We worked so hard yesterday, why not today?

Isn't that kind of laziness what this is all about?

　Hey, sister Elinora, isn't this too much to ask of your brother?

''I mean, you can't get the bedding off!　Where does Al have that kind of power? Maybe he's using psychic or some other magic again!

　Huh, it seems that Elinora sister's magic power sensing is still too sweet to not notice that fact right away. I feared that she might have reached the same magic power sensing as Nord Dad and Erna Mom due to her increasing level of physical enhancement, but it seems to be a groundless fear.

''It's to counter my sister who gives out stupid powers.

If that's the case, I'm going to use my body armor to counter Al's magic, right?

　When I say this with a smile of leisure, Elinora sister suddenly turns into a straight face and says something boisterous.

''Huh, no matter how much your body strengthening has improved, you can't match my magic power.

Don't get under the covers, I'll just turn the bed over to you.

　No, no, no, no, as expected of sister Elinora, she wouldn't go that far either... right?

　I questioned her with a look, and sister Elinora smiled and lifted the bed.

　I was on the bed, and a sudden feeling of levitation hit me, bringing me all the way up to the ceiling.

''Wow, wow!　God!　All right, all right, all right. Put me down!　I'll go to morning practice properly!

You should have said so in the beginning.

　I said in contemplation, and sister Elinora said that and slowly lowered the bed to the floor.

　I didn't expect her to really lift the bed. I wondered what she would do this time if I continued to refuse her. The unpredictable nature of what she might do is frightening.

　With Elinora in the room, it's hard to fall asleep twice in a row.

　The fact that I let Elinora's sister into my room is my downfall.

Come on, get dressed quickly. Next time you have to wake up Silvio too.

　As I get off the bed and catch my breath, Elinora takes the liberty of handing me my training clothes from the shelf.

　At her urging, I hurriedly take off my pajamas and change into my practice clothes.

　In the meantime, Elinora's sister has opened the curtains and the window for ventilation.

　As soon as I finished dressing, the sunshine shone in the room.

　I was used to being in a dark room, but the sun's light was awfully bright. Still, I make it a habit to get some sunshine when I wake up, so I squinted at the glare as I moved closer to the window.

'It's another beautiful day!　It's a perfect day for practice!

Yes.

　Just as Sister Elinora had said, the sky from the window seemed to be clear and cloudless.

　It was the clearest day of the year. I was happy about that and at the same time disappointed that the practice would have been cancelled if it was raining.

　The wind blew in through the open window, and sister Elinora's ponytail fluttered softly in the air. The sight of her reddish-brown hair trailing in the air was so beautiful that I was often transfixed.

　I missed having Elinora's sister next to me like this.

'The view from here makes me feel like I'm home.

　Elinora sister, who has placed her elbows on the window sill, murmurs with a gentle expression on her face.

　The Elinora sister who is looking at the scenery outside with a beautiful expression like this is really beautiful, like a deep-windowed daughter.

　Well, her actual true nature is the sister who lifts up the bed to wake her brother up, even though he's sleeping, without a care in the world.

　While thinking about that, I look out the window at the view outside.

　Outside the window is the courtyard of the mansion, with its leafy trees.

　Beyond the gate, there is a single road, a plain, and a small river, and beyond that, I can see the large mountains.

　A beautiful landscape surrounded by nature. This is where we should return to.

　Elinora and her sister look at the scenery in silence.

　A few moments later, Elinora stretched out her arms with her arms stretched upward.

　Then she let out a deep breath.

'Come on, wake up Silvio, we're going to practice!　Al!

　He took my hand and started running.