"Oh? Quite brave, aren't you?"
Phield laughed.
"Of course I am. In a little over a year, I'll be an adult. I'm going to become a lady knight."
Alexia proudly puffed out her chest. Judging from her figure, she looked nowhere near adulthood, but that did nothing to stop her confidence as she placed her hands on her hips.
"So I need to start getting real combat experience now."
"Youth really is full of energy."
Phield suddenly realized that he himself had only recently become an adult as well.
Maybe because he had been teaching them for so long, he sometimes ended up with the strange illusion that he was already an old man.
"Put away your little nail clipper. That thing would barely tickle a corrupted corpse."
Phield handed Alexia a crossbow.
"Use this instead. It packs a lot more force."
"My lord, I want to slash things, not shoot arrows."
The girl pushed the crossbow away without hesitation and bluntly refused.
