“Surrender… surrender… Yukina, stop hitting me… You’re going to kill me…”
Facing Yukina’s relentless, head-on barrage of enthusiastic blows, the French witch, who had fallen on her butt, quickly raised her two small hands in surrender.
Seeing Charlotte raise her hands in surrender, Yukina looked disdainful.
“Didn’t you just boast that you were going to make me cry, brother? How are you surrendering before I’ve even tried my hardest?”
“I apologize that I couldn’t make you use your full power, little sister Yukina.” Charlotte also kept up with the times and started using a meme she had just seen yesterday.
Yukina sighed, lowered her bamboo sword, and extended her hand to Charlotte. Charlotte wisely took her hand, and Yukina pulled her up.
“Ouch… Yukina, you really hit your brother with all you’ve got!”
Feeling a persistent stinging pain on her face, Charlotte couldn’t help but complain about her merciless sister.
“That’s because you just boasted you were going to make me cry, brother! But you crumbled like paper and were defeated in just a few moves! Does that mean you’re completely useless without magic?”
“Of course not! I’m very powerful even without magic! It’s just that Yukina is much stronger, so it’s natural that I lost!”
“I won’t be happy even if you compliment me like that! Alright, brother, heal your wounds. It’s time for us to go home.”
“Heal them?” Charlotte looked confused.
“Just use that Holy Magic of yours. You’ve been using it quite skillfully before!”
“But, Yukina, didn’t you just say you wouldn’t allow me to use any magic inside the school?”
“This one time is an exception!” Yukina’s tone carried a hint of impatience, seemingly urging Charlotte to stop making excuses and heal her facial wounds immediately.
If Charlotte went out with unhealed wounds on her face, other students would assume Yukina was a bad girl who engaged in domestic violence, an impression she absolutely did not want to leave.
“No!” However, Charlotte willfully shook her head.
“Huh?”
“The wounds on my face were caused by you, Yukina. You should be the one responsible for healing me.”
“What nonsense are you talking about, brother? I’m not a doctor, and I don’t know magic. How am I supposed to heal you?”
“I don’t care! I don’t care! You caused these wounds, so you have to take full responsibility!”
Yukina’s brow furrowed.
‘I’m getting angry.’
‘My fists are clenching.’
‘Where did this troublesome brat come from?’
‘You say this brat is my brother? Are you kidding me? Who raised her to be this way?’
Under Charlotte’s unreasonable ruckus, Yukina suppressed the urge to hiss and agreed to Charlotte’s demand to heal her.
“There’s no helping it. Brother is at a very troublesome age. You wait here, brother. I’ll go see if there are any band-aids left in the drawer.”
Since this was the Kendo Club, minor scrapes during practice were unavoidable, so they usually kept a sufficient supply of band-aids in their drawer.
However, the Kendo Club hadn’t made any purchases in a month, so Yukina wasn’t sure if there were any band-aids left.
If there weren’t, Yukina would have no choice but to use some saliva on Charlotte’s wounds as a makeshift disinfectant.
Fortunately, a few penguin-themed band-aids were left in the drawer. Yukina sighed in relief. She wouldn’t have to act like a gentle cat-girl, licking the wounds on Charlotte’s face.
Taking the band-aids, Yukina walked back to Charlotte.
“Brother, hold still.”
She said this and promptly slapped a band-aid onto the wounds on Charlotte’s face.
“Ow… Yukina, be gentle! You’re hurting me!”
“I told you to hold still! Did you think I’d take gentle care of you?”
“It hurts so much… If I had known, your big brother wouldn’t have come back. At least my sister in the other world treats me very gently!”
“Does a brother who constantly drugs his sister deserve meticulous care from her?”
After sticking all the band-aids she had onto Charlotte’s face, Yukina fell into thought.
Honestly, Charlotte’s previous move had a lot of momentum. If she had been just a little taller, Yukina might have been sent flying by that one move.
After all, Yukina hadn’t been on guard at all.
Even if she had reacted quickly and tried to block, it might have been too late to stop such a swift strike from Charlotte.
Unfortunately, her brother had seemingly never used that move in a real fight, otherwise, she would have surely known that it was impossible to use with her height.
The question was, where did she learn that move from?
Why would she, a witch, specifically remember a swordsmanship technique that was of no use to her?
“Hey, brother, who did you learn that move from?”
“Oh? You want to learn too, Yukina? Heheh, my move was pretty cool, right!” Saying this, Charlotte’s face was full of smug pride, as if she had won the fight.
“It was cool, but you didn’t even successfully pull it off, brother! So what’s the point?”
“Ngh… it must be because my broomstick is too long. I need to figure out a way to shorten it.”
“Then you’d have to cut off at least half of it!”
“Am I really that short? You’re insulting your brother again, Yukina.”
“I’m not insulting you. So, who did you learn that move from?”
“Oh, it was this person…”
Charlotte was about to raise her hand to initiate a memory playback when Yukina suddenly raised her hand and covered Charlotte’s mouth.
“Wait a minute, brother!”
Yukina quickly scanned her surroundings, even checking outside the dojo. Only after confirming that there were no other unnecessary people around did Yukina feel relieved.
If her brother had projected her memory like a VR game in the dojo for everyone to see, she would have truly had no way to explain herself.
“Brother, you’ll have to tell me the story instead.”
“Hmm? Don’t you want to see the person who taught me swordsmanship?”
“I really want to, but this is school. What if someone else sees it?”
“I see. That’s what you’re worried about. That’s easily solved!”
“Hmm?”
“Wait for me, Yukina.”
Saying this, Charlotte took out her phone, placed it on her forehead, and meditated with her eyes closed for a few seconds. Then, Yukina’s phone suddenly played a message notification sound.
“Hmm?”
“Alright, Yukina, check your phone.”
Yukina looked utterly confused. What kind of trick was her brother pulling now?
She took out her phone and opened it, finding that her brother had sent her a video.
Opening it, she saw a medieval-style city in the frame, with little Charlotte standing right in the center.
Without a doubt, this was one of Charlotte’s memories.
“Good grief, you managed to edit and send that video in just a few seconds? What kind of innate editing saint are you?”
“Hmph, your big brother is the strongest Star Witch in the other world!”
“I’m tired of hearing that. Can’t you change your self-introduction, brother?”
“I am Colonel Charlotte Chartier, the Star Witch! A little injury is nothing to worry about!”
“What are you doing, brother?”