Chapter 240: Chapter 240: Classmate Winry
Translator: 549690339
“Based on the situation in the ‘upper district’ corridor, we seem to be the first team to get here.”
It’s almost evening now, and even if other teams have killed a family executive and obtained the [key], they wouldn’t dare enter the ‘upper district’ without a map.”
The other teams will definitely return to town first and continue their actions tomorrow.”
We’ve achieved our goal for today, so let’s rest in this bedroom tonight… It might be exhausting tomorrow.”
Setting aside the unexpected encounter with the group of third-year students on the way…
The overall plan is successfully ongoing, largely thanks to the disguise ability granted by the ‘Faceless Skull’.”
“The first team!? What about the captain’s team?”
Winry was a bit confused. She hadn’t expected the progress to be this fast.
“The captain’s team will also leave, and only the two of us will stay in the castle overnight.
Moreover, with the advantage of the map, we will always be in the lead… until we meet the Great Lord.
Miss Winry, please be prepared.”
“Hmm…” Winry clenched her teeth and nodded slightly.
She looked around this smith’s bedroom.
It’s decorated in a style of European nobility, with luxurious wool rugs on the floor, and there are lighting candles set in the recesses embedded in the walls.
The bed, which is three meters wide, takes up a lot of space.
There’s also a separate bathroom.
Aside from the Satanic decorations and books hung around, the room overall is quite nice.
As she had just slipped out of the smith’s skin, Winry’s body was completely soaked.
The window couldn’t be opened, or it might reveal her identity.
The only way left to cool down was one.
“Vice Captain, I’m going to take a bath first…”
“Remember not to close the door.”
“Oh!!”
Upon hearing this, Winry’s cheeks flushed.
“Since it’s uncertain whether there are any mechanisms in the bathroom, in case something urgent happens during your bath, it’s easier to communicate if the door is left open…”
“Then you mustn’t peek…”
“I won’t.”
Han Dong had no other thoughts, and he himself wasn’t interested in this.
Winry, holding a set of loose sleepwear, peeked at the vice captain sitting on the bed before she tiptoed into the bathroom.
She wanted to remind him once more, but swallowed it back.
Winry had never experienced being alone in a room with the opposite sex… not to mention that she had to leave her door wide open during her bath, with no privacy or sense of security at all.
“The vice-captain isn’t like other people, he certainly won’t…”
The round bath was filled with cool well water.
As Winry stripped off her sweat-drenched vest and leather pants, her gaze would occasionally drift towards the door… As soon as she set down her clothes, she quickly stepped into the bath and completely submerge herself in the cold well water.
“Wow… this is so comfortable.”
Leaning her arms on the edge of the bath, Winry’s eyes never left the door.
As time passed and her discomfort faded away, Winry started to have a very strange change in mood.
“The Vice Captain is really amazing… It’s as if he could predict so many things in advance, and everything is within his control.
I bet the Vice Captain probably likes girls with slender arms and legs like Mia.
He probably wouldn’t be interested in a muscle girl like me…”
Slowly.
Winry even started to look forward to the appearance of Han Dong at the bathroom door.
When she suddenly realized the problem with this thought, Winry’s cheeks turned crimson, and she completely sank her head into the water to try to cool herself down.
And so, the bath ended.
Winry, now dressed in loose linen sleepwear, didn’t get the scene she had imagined.
Stepping on the ground barefoot, she walked out of the bathroom.
Winry found that the deputy captain was still sitting at the head of the bed, fingers sketching on the wall, as if silently conducting planning and calculations.
“Deputy Captain… I’m done bathing.”
“Alright.”
Han Dong stepped out of his mental palace, and in just this short period of time, he had formulated two supplementary plans to deal with emergencies.
However, when Han Dong glanced towards Winry who had just bathed, he was taken aback.
Her wet, fiery red hair draped over her shoulders and her loose linen pajamas concealed most of her muscles.
If we were to just focus on her appearance, Winry was pretty good, skewing towards the cute and delicate spectrum… Of course, the moment her eight-pack was revealed, it would elicit a completely different sensation.
Seeing Han Dong staring at her, Winry bit her lower lip and averted her gaze, feeling quite embarrassed.
In this moment of daze, Han Dong had already entered the bathroom.
Splash!
Hearing the splash, Winry who was back to her senses, actually harbored a thought of sneaking a peek on the deputy captain bathing.
“Geez! What am I thinking about!!”
Winry buried her blushing face into the soft, huge bed…
“Right! How do we sleep tonight? There’s only one bed…”
The thought of this made Winry’s face flush anew, her brain was having difficulty processing rationally, as her legs flapped around restlessly.
“Winry.”
“Ah!!”
With the freshly bathed Han Dong softly calling out her name, Winry who was lost in her imagination, let out a scream… and then realized her mistake and quickly covered her mouth.
“I’m… I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay.”
“There’s still time, I have a few things I want to ask you.”
“Ask away, Deputy Captain!!”
Upon hearing that they were getting to the main points, Winry immediately cast aside all her fantasies, kneeling on her bed obediently and gazing at the deputy captain intently.
“Your body seems rather unique, can you tell me a bit about it? If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to tell me.”
Winry shook her head, “It’s not inconvenient…But, you must keep this a secret for me! After all, my master said that I can’t disclose the secrets about my body to anyone before becoming a formal knight.”
“Hmm… I promise to keep it a secret.”
“My body is related to my father… But I don’t know who my father is, my earliest memory is from the blacksmith’s shop. I grew up with my master.
I never met my parents, and my master did not let me ask. Even mentioning them would get me beaten.”
As she reached this part, Winry’s eyes became slightly red-rimmed, as if the topic of her parents was a taboo for her.
“Father?”
“Yes… A body strengthened by the Fate Space is inheritable.
Similar to Captain Abe, who has the ‘Hundred Beasts’ constitution.
I inherited my father’s ‘Muscle Fibers’… From a young age, my strength has always been much greater than others.
In addition, the density of my muscle fibers can continuously increase through various types of training.
Working in the blacksmith’s shop is the best form of training. High temperatures stimulate muscle cells and high-intensity forging work allows my body to achieve maximum enhancement.
I can barely manage to control my muscle fibers, causing them to gather in certain places to enhance explosive power.
When attacked, the fibers will automatically compress to form a high-density defense layer, offering protection from various types of damage. That’s about it.
Additionally, it seems that my muscle fibers can also store oxygen, so my stamina is much better than the average person.”
“Unlimited muscle fibers… No wonder your physical abilities are so strong.
The ‘myoglobin’ in slow-twitch muscle fibers binds with the oxygen released by red blood cells, which serves to store oxygen.
Fast-twitch muscle fibers have a wide cross-sectional area and contain a greater density of ‘myofibrils,’ providing explosive power in an instant.
Your muscle fibers probably have a density that is ten times that of a normal person, or even higher…”
As for what Han Dong was saying, the obedient Winry was completely confused, tilting her head, the only thing missing was a question mark hanging over her head.