Asmo paddles and deftly kick as he continues to move forward in the water. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It looks like he has already grapes the trick after I show them the example of how to swim in less than tens of minutes.
On the other hand, the other guy is.....
ăUohh! Iâm gonna sink! Ubeeh, the water enters my nose......!ă
Even before he can reach ten meters, he had already sunk.
ăAh, Al! Give me the board! Iâm drowning!ă
ăYea, hereă
Since Torr was about to drown on his own, I throw the board to give it to him.
Immediately after that, Torr managed to move toward the board and lean on it by moving his limbs around somehow. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
ăIt seems like Torr wonât be able to swim at all. Even though Asmo was able to swim easilyă
At the place where my finger points, Asmo was already swimming smoothly after grasping the trick of a breaststroke. He was doing it while always keeping his face on the surface like when doing a dog paddle and it appears that he can do a breaststroke that way.
ăWhy can that fatty float while the light me is sinking?ă
Perhaps he heard Torr complaining like that as Asmo turn around and starts to swim this way.
ăSwimming has nothing to do with whether youâre heavy or light!ă
ăWaaah! Waăź donât try to take the board away from me! I still canât swim yet!ă
Indeed, and Asmo completely showed us that the difference in weight does not matter in swimming. Although from the start, it can be said that Asmo is someone with good motor coordination.
ăDarn it, why am I sinkingă
ăYour limbs are moving clumsily and youâre weak at paddling and kicking the wateră
And besides, I think heâs trying to breathe in too much air that heâs raising his upper body too much. So of course heâs going to sink.
ăOkay. Then it will be fine if I just paddle and kick the water stronger than before!ă
When gave him some advice, Torr dives into the water again and attempts to do a breaststroke.
However, his limbs were still moving uncoordinated and he was unable to take a breath before he even managed to move ten meters and sink.
Itâs like I was watching a frog that canât swim.
ăHey, Al! Help me!ă
As Iâm thinking like that while looking into the distance, Torr was struggling to ask for help. Canât be helped, I use Psychic to give him the board.
ăBuhaa! I can only move forward a bită
ăYou can immediately get better you know. You have to keep on practicing until you get the hang of it ă
ăBut well, I can do it immediately since I have great reflexes,ă
Just when I console Torr, Asmo continues to agitate him while calmly swimming away in front of us.
What a detestable remark and face as usual. Despite knowing that his words were not directed at me, they still made me a little irritated. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
ăDarn it! Iâll definitely be able to swim!ă
After shouting that, Torr starts to dive into the water again.
It will inevitably be me who will have to help him so he wonât drown, do I really have to stay here all along to look after him?
For now, I will just swim alongside him, and shall I also teach him how to tread water so he wonât drown himself?
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After patiently accompanying Torr in his practice to swim for some time.
ăI did it! I did it Al! I can swim to the middle of the pool!ă
He didnât swim from the edge of the pool to the other edge, but Torr can finally swim to the middle of the pool stably.
ăItâs true. You made some progress from the beginning where you werenât even able to swim forward for thirty metersă
ăHahaa! Thirty meters is just the pastă
The âpastâ youâre talking about was still less than an hour from now, you know. Oh well, from the perspective of someone who managed to swim to some extent, I guess it was something like exposing their shameful dark history, huh?
Though, even now, Torrâs swimming is still somewhat clumsy and unreliable to see. Oh well, Â He can now tread in water and do a simple flutter kick, so he should not drown so easily anymore. After that, he will have no choice but to make adjustments and learned them by himself.
ăOoohh! Thereâs something like a huge pool of water over here!ă
ăHmm, Alfried-sama is here, after all, so he mustâve made it with magică
Now then, Iâve also done coaching Torr and when I was thinking of taking a little break, Roomba and Gates came from downstream. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
ăOăźi, Al. What are you doing?ă
ăI made a wider place like a river and cool off while playing aroundă
ăOoh, that sounds nice. There are no stones lying around, and it looks wideă
ăCan we also enter?ă
ăUn, sureă
Then Roomba and Gates start to take off their clothes in a flash when I nod.
Itâd be fine if it were kids, but if two muscular old men were to enter the pool like this, the dirtiness felt seeing that scene will jump up many times.
ăOoăźsh, Iâll jump in thenă
ăAah!ă
The two of them approach us without anything covering their privates. Their imposing walks make us feel like they are warriors who have experienced many battles.
ăâŚâŚamazing. That Roomba guy, is he a monster or whată
ăIâve never seen anything like thată
Torr and Asmo tremble in fear and said that, maybe theyâve seen the thing between Roombaâs groin.
I already know about it since I took a bath together with him back in Kagura.
I donât want to take a long look and explain it, but letâs just say that Roombaâs private is also Roomba-sized.
ăBuh, on the other hand, whatâs with Gatesâ? Doesnât it look crooked like his chin?ă
ăDonât you dare laugh at otherâs chin and privates! Thatâs rude, brat!ă
Gates jumps into the pool in our direction, guess he heard about Torr making fun of him.
ăUwaaa! The âchinâ is coming! Run!ă
Saying âchinâ like that, thatâs harsh. I have also teased Gateâs chin before, but I never said it so direct like that.
As I leave the place so I wonât get dragged into their antics, Gates lands to where we are.
Huh? That reminds me, I wonder if Gates can swim? Unlike the river, this pool is quite deep though...... Oh well, you mustâve master-ed swimming if youâre an adventurer..... www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
ăUooohhh!? Wha, what is this!? Abababah, my foot! I canât feel the bottom!ă
He canât. His face, âânah, Gates is struggling and moving his limbs, splashing water around, with his chin sticking out from the surface of the water.
ăHahahaha, what the heck, old man Gates. Even though youâre a former adventurer, you can't swim!ă
Even though he himself canât swim one hour ago, he ignore that fact and pointed his finger and Gates while laughing.
ăJu, just because youâre an adventurer doesnât mean that you can swim! You have to avoid a dangerous place like underwaterââHabghabgh, rather than that, please help me!ă
ăEhăź? But, old man Gates will just attack me, right? Even though I help you, then you will directly attack me after thată
ăI wonât! I wonât attack you, so hurry up! Obhobghobgh!ă
ăCanât be helped then!ă
After getting Gates's promise that he wonât attack him, Torr hands him the board.
Are you a demon or what?
Ah, thatâs right. Since Gates canât swim, so Roomba will most likely be the same and struggle in the water.
ăAhăź, sure enough, being inside the water feels goodă
When I hurriedly turn around to look at Roomba, I saw Roomba doing a dog paddle.
ăEh? Roomba can swim?ă
Telling that someone can swim just by doing a dog paddle is kinda subtle, but Roomba can actually move around like that without sinking.
ăOoh, I picked up swimming while playing around in the huge river when I travel around, yâknow? Â Rather, I was also swimming when I catch the eels back in Kagura, donât you remember?ă
After Roomba said that, I start to remember about it. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
That was right. Just as he said, he was catching eels barehanded while swimming smoothly with Kojirou.
ăAh, thatâs right. I see, you started to learn it after traveling to various places, huhă
ăYeah, well. And besides, there are also requests of subjugating river or sea monsters, so Iâll be in trouble if I canât swimă
Huh? But Gates said that we should avoid those kinds of places, what does that mean then?
After hearing what Roomba said, we quietly stare at Gates.
ăCould it be, Gates. That was just an excuse since you wanted to hide the fact that you canât swim?ă
ăHow pathetic!ă
ăTha, thatâs not it! I didnât use that as an excuse! To begin with, subjugation requests in seas or rivers have great differences compared to subjugation requests in terms of the strength of the monsters and terrain! You wonât take such requests or get near those places if youâre not a strong adventurer like Roomba, and since we donât take such requests, thereâs no need for us to be able to swim! ă
Gates hurriedly explained himself after being told like that by Torr and Asmo.
ăIs that true? Roomba?ă
ăYeah. At any rate, when youâre underwater, itâs hard to move around so it becomes difficult to fight monsters underwater. Unless you have the strength like the members of the Silver Wind party or are able to cooperate with other adventurers well, it will be difficult to subjugate monsters in the sea or riveră
And when I ask him, Roomba tells me about the situation among adventurers while lightly floating on his back.
Setting his appearance aside, it seems like what he said is true.
ăThen, in other words, old man Gates is weak so you canât swim, huh?ă
ăI, I just canât swim since there was no need toă
Torrâs inconsiderate words make Gates to be about to vomit blood.
ăStop it Torr. Gates will end up looking pathetic if you compare him to the monster-like Roombaă
ăYouâre also the same, arenât you? Youâre making all the other magicians cry, yâknowă
Just when I was covering for Gates, Roomba said that to me with a complaining tone for some reason.
I never made any magician cry before, though?
Oh well, whatever. Letâs just enjoy the pool rather than think of such a thing.
Looking at Roomba who is floating in the air like that, made me want to do that too.
I stop treading the water, release the strength in my limbs, and fall backward.
As I spread both of my arms and legs like when youâre doing a banzai pose, I was able to float on my back.
Just surrendering your body to the water and following the current without going against it feels pleasant.
Thereâs no need to exert any strength in your limbs and you wonât feel tired at all, itâs the best. It also feels pleasant to have your whole body enveloped in water. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I lightly float on the water while staring at the perfectly clear blue skies and white clouds.
ăDowaaa! Donât surprise me like that Al! I thought it was a drowned body or something!ă
ăCalling me a drowned body, thatâs awful of youă
ăNo, but, it was a little scary to see someone with dead-looking eyes floating right next to youă
Although I retort to him, even Roomba - who is also floating next to me - tells me that.
Leaving Torr aside, Roomba says what he exactly sees, so itâs sad since I understand that itâs a fact.
So the figure of me floating in the water really looks like a drowned body, huh?
ăBut, that looks kinda fun! I will also try it!ă
ăMe tooă
ăâŚâŚit was just floating, even I might be able to do thată
After saying those lines, Torr, Asmo, and Gates start to copy Roomba and me.
ăOhăź, this feels niceă
ăOwaaah, wait, why! Iâm gonna sink! Or rather, old man Gates, that looks disgusting donât cling to me!ă
ăI canât help it, you know. Iâm gonna sink if I donât hold on to anything after allă
Asmo spreads out his limbs like me and Roomba, balancing himself well, and thus, it looks like he managed to completely float.
ăWhy does this guy with a sticking-out stomach can float while weâre sinkingă
Torr grumbles while slapping Asmoâs white, bulging stomach hatefully.
Actually, there is a mass of air inside his belly, so that might be the reason he has buoyancy.
ăItâll be easier to float if you spread out your limbs and stick out your stomach a little, you knowă
ăYou for reală
When I give them such advice, Torr and Gates - who was leaning on Torr - start to try it out.
They spread their arms and legs, then gently float.
ăOoh, Iâm floating! And itâs easy that you donât have to swim with this!ă
ăIt feels as though Iâm sleeping on a bed of wateră
It seems like they managed to float successfully.
ăAhhăź, feelâs goodă
ăRightă
We just float in the wide pool, without swimming. This is nice.
Spending the time leisurely while staring at the flowing clouds and cold water wrapping around your bodies.
Even if I donât use Ice magic every day, there is also this natural manner to cool off. I feel like since Iâve been able to actually feel like this. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
ăAh, the refreshing coolness of nature is also not bad eitheră