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Swimming... how do you start teaching it again?

Should we start with the arm strokes, or the breathing? Or the leg movements?

Mayumi Haga tried hard to recall and realized that she seemed to have mastered it after being thrown into the water and drowned twice by her senior, Urzana.

Even without thinking, I know this method absolutely cannot be used on the two children in front of me.

For a moment, Mayumi Haga fell into thought.

Text: 253. Mayumi Haga's Painful Tooth Extraction

Although Mayumi Haga, as a guardian, used a rather hardcore learning method when learning to swim.

But after going to the world of children, she followed the normal growth path of ordinary people in that world, from elementary school to junior high school and then to high school, and naturally she also learned to swim.

Rather, it's because of Mayumi Haga's athletic ability that she can easily achieve excellent results in any physical education class.

She has a considerable reputation in sports clubs, but because of her aloof personality, no member of any sports club dares to bother her for help or pester her to join the club.

Mayumi Haga had no interest in club activities. After all, given her abilities, it would be somewhat unfair for her to join a club and help the school compete.

Hitomi Tono, who is slightly weaker than Mayumi Haga but still has outstanding athletic ability, is a kind-hearted person who will agree to help anyone who asks.

This meant that Hitomi Tono's time as a magical girl already took up a lot of her free time after school, and she had to spend even more time participating in club activities after school, making her always seem very busy.

If Hitomi Tono were here, she could teach the two children to swim.

Although Tohno Hitomi was a feeling-based learner when studying magic—she possessed an extraordinary, almost intuitive, magical talent—she also acquired some relevant teaching skills due to her frequent participation in sports clubs and her role as a teaching assistant for physical education teachers.

In some respects, basic, introductory knowledge is essential, and Mayumi Haga happens to lack that.

Despite having lived in a relatively normal world for so many years, Mayumi Haga still lacks what most people consider common sense.

Her experience means that she rarely received systematic teaching and often relied on physical muscle memory.

Now, asking her to teach two children to swim is really a challenge for her.

At most, she can teach you how to fight underwater creatures...

Mayumi Haga frankly admitted that she didn't know how to teach, but the two children didn't make things difficult for her and just played obediently in the shallow water. They would dig for small crabs one moment and run into the water the next, bobbing up and down with the waves.

Mayumi Haga stood nearby to watch over them, lest the two children be swept away by the waves at any moment.

Because it was the weekend, there were quite a few tourists at the beach, and the small shops along the beach were packed with people, with tourists occasionally walking by carrying snacks and drinks.

The seawater was a deep, unfathomable blue-green, and a little further from the shore, dark currents seemed to surge beneath the surface, ready to pounce.

Mayumi Haga turned her gaze away from the distant sea and then suddenly asked, "Would you like something to eat?"

Mayumi Haga, who wasn't particularly fond of food, wasn't interested in this, but the two children were a different story.

As we all know, enjoying snacks at the beach is part of the travel experience. If funds aren't too tight, we'll naturally accommodate the children's reasonable requests.

To be honest, given Mayumi's aloof personality, the fact that she would proactively ask them if they wanted something to eat was already a bit of a surprise to Shiratori Nozomi. However, Hachiya Yukari firmly believed that Mayumi was a magical girl, and even that cold face became quite friendly through her filter.

"I want fried noodles!" "Then I want takoyaki."

Mayumi Haga nodded and prepared to go buy it.

"Shall I go with Ms. Haga?" Shiratori Nozomi felt it wasn't good to let Mayumi Haga go alone, so she eagerly wanted to go with her. However, it wasn't good to leave Yukari Hachiya alone either, so she pulled Yukari Hachiya along, "Let's go shopping together."

“No, you’re right here.” Mayumi Haga’s refusal was a bit too quick. “Don’t move.”

As she spoke, she pretended to bend down and pick up two seashells from the beach, but actually poured them out of her backpack.

Compared to the ordinary seashells left over from other tourists on the shore, the seashells that Mayumi Haga gave to her two children were incredibly beautiful, shimmering like butterfly wings in the sunlight.

This is certainly not a seashell from this world. Items that she can store in her backpack generally have unexpected functions.

Mayumi Haga handed the seashells to the two children, then turned and hurriedly left.

To be honest, this behavior was somewhat strange—for someone like Mayumi Haga, who takes her guard duty very seriously.

He left the two most likely targets on the crowded beach and then went to queue up to buy things by himself.

Those who know her well would naturally intuitively sense that Mayumi Haga's actions have ulterior motives.

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Thirty kilometers away, at sea.

At first glance, the sea appears calm and tranquil, but upon closer inspection, following the contours of the currents, a dark shadow, tens of meters long, shoots towards the shore like an arrow released from a bow.

Despite the clear and bright weather, thick, dark clouds drifted in from nowhere and rolled toward the coast, their terrifying force seeming to devour and tear the world on the other side of the shore.

In an instant, the calm air and sea surface were stirred up, and a raging storm and huge waves were generated. The slender water beast rushed towards the shore, which was completely unaware of what was happening.

Because of the great distance, even with human vision, one can only see a dark line spreading out on the distant sea surface when observing from the beach.

However, if you are a contestant, you can maintain a certain level of perception with your fantasy entity and issue commands to it through this mental link.

A voluptuous woman with tanned skin, wearing a blue-purple bikini, sat at a table in a seaside beverage shop, feeling [Isohime]'s approach. She crossed her legs, her eyes behind her sunglasses narrowed with satisfaction, seemingly enjoying a refreshing drink filled with ice on this hot summer day.

Only she knew that she was staring at the two children over there.

In the crowd, she spotted the seemingly fragile and young fantasy figure at a glance, while the other child was also a contestant.

After observation, the voluptuous woman discovered that the fantasy figure resembling a little girl was actually just an ordinary little girl with no special abilities.

That makes things easier.

The seaside is the home ground for her fantasy form, [Isohime].

【Isohime】is a kind of yokai in folklore, similar to a mermaid, but huge, tens of meters long, and with a terrifying face.

This monster has a mouth that splits open to its ears, sharp teeth like daggers, antlers on its head, and a fish tail on its lower body.

【Isohime】can cause storms on the sea. She hides in the giant waves and grabs humans, twisting their bodies like a pretzel starting from their heads. Once she grabs them, no matter how strong a person is, they cannot break free. She is a truly terrifying sea monster.

Normally, the enormous [Isohime] stays in the near sea, waiting for her summoner to give her commands.

The voluptuous woman was about to kidnap the two children when she suddenly felt a chill on her back.

She thought it was a drop of water on her back, but she didn't realize it was actually a drop of blood from who-knows-where.

After looking around blankly, the woman didn't notice anything unusual.

She wasn't just keeping an eye on Yukari Hachiya and Nozomi Shiratori; she was also keeping track of Mayumi Haga's movements. After all, Mayumi Haga seemed to be a humanoid fantasy that was close to adulthood, and might have some special abilities.

However, after observing for a while, she realized she was overthinking it.

Ever since Mayumi Haga and her group arrived on her territory, she had noticed these contestants. She could distinguish between the illusions and the contestants, but she wasn't sure who was whose illusion.

So she patiently observed for a while longer and discovered the answer.

These contestants didn't have strong personalities; at least they seemed quite mild-mannered, as if they were simply there for fun.

A woman as thin as a bamboo pole, a college student with poor physical fitness, two immature children, and a girl who seems to be the strongest fighter, but is ultimately a humanoid fantasy, presumably powerless against the attacks of her giant sea monster, Isohime.

With just a slight movement, I could have already secured victory in this battle.

How could a humanoid fantasy figure less than two meters tall possibly rival the thirty-meter-long siren, Isohime?

Of course, he didn't intend to kill anyone; after all, killing two children would be going too far. He just needed to take those two brats away, then threaten the other contestants to admit defeat, eliminate the illusion, and get the points.

While Mayumi Haga was still in line, the woman gave the order to Isohime, a sea monster waiting thirty kilometers away, to abduct the child and act now.

Meanwhile, people on the beach also noticed the unusual activity on the sea and began to discuss it.

"Didn't they say it wouldn't rain today?"

"The weather's getting awful... Ugh, I haven't had enough fun yet."

"Let's go, it's going to rain heavily soon, and I don't want my phone to get wet."

"Can't we play a little longer? We've come all this way!"

"It's dangerous to stay at the beach in this weather... Whoa?! Why does it feel like it's coming at us so fast?"

"What a huge wave! Get out of the way!"

The speed at which the raging wind and giant waves hit my face was astonishing; it seemed as if the waves had reached the shore in the blink of an eye.

The sunlight was stripped away in an instant, the sky suddenly darkened, and the cold sea air seemed to carry the stench of wild beasts, about to rush towards us!

In fact, the moment Mrs. Shiratori realized something was wrong, she had already run quickly toward the direction where the two children were, but seeing the chaos on the shore, she suddenly couldn't find them.

how so?!

The enemy's attack came without warning. The distance of tens of kilometers was only a matter of moments for Isohime, so fast that it seemed no one could react in time.

But the next second, as if it were a collective hallucination, a wail erupted from the giant wave, so shrill it sounded like a ghost screaming.

The piercing sound almost punctured eardrums, causing varying degrees of discomfort in everyone's ears. In severe cases, or for those closer to the center of the sound, their ears would burn and their heads would buzz before they realized they were bleeding.

The woman a little further away didn't realize what was happening either. When she came to her senses, she tried to stand up, but her shoulder was pressed down.

After a brief ringing in her ears, the woman suddenly turned to look at Mayumi Haga, who had appeared beside her without her noticing. The girl's voice was indifferent: "Your voice is awful."

Compared to her friends, Mayumi Haga genuinely felt that all the noise this Isohime was making was noise.

And it's not good-looking either, plus it has such a big head. It's not just ugly, it's huge, making everyone see how ugly it is.

At this moment, through the heavily injured Isohime's gaze, the woman noticed that the two children she was about to catch were wearing seashell necklaces that emitted a soft light.

Just now, when Isohime was about to kidnap them, she ran headfirst into the seemingly gentle but actually sturdy one-time shield emitted by this seashell.

Not only did it flatten Isohime's face, but its hardness even broke half of Isohime's teeth.

—When exactly did this fantastical entity appear...?!

The woman was shocked to realize that she had been discovered by Mayumi Haga from the very beginning, and now her true form was being held captive here. If her opponent were to be even more ruthless at this moment, she might very well die on the spot.

But now he is being held hostage, and those two brats are also his hostages.

Don't forget, Princess Iso is still over there.

As long as I give the order...

At this distance, Isohime could simply give the order and have the two children abducted into the sea.

If the connection between the summoner and the illusion is used, it will actually be a beat slower.

Isohime is, after all, a giant sea monster, a mythical beast, and not particularly intelligent.

Just now, it took repeated commands to get Isohime to come to the coast and attack humans, and that thing couldn't understand any more complex commands.

But at this distance, what I say will immediately...

"Attack... Ugh?!" The woman was about to give the order when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth. As she opened her mouth, a tooth fell out.

Why is there something in my mouth...?

“Speak again,” the black-haired girl pressed down on her shoulder a little harder, her tone still calm but carrying an unmistakable warning, “and I’ll cut your tongue off.”

How on earth did they do that?!

The woman realized that the black-haired girl was much more ruthless than she had imagined, and the fact that she had silently knocked out one of her teeth was truly chilling.

If someone can pull their own teeth using unknown methods, they can also manipulate their own skull without anyone noticing.

Furthermore, the other party's statement about cutting off their own tongue doesn't seem fake.

Haga Mayumi hasn't used "Blood for Blood" in a long time.

The blessing received from Senior Fuyun allows enemies stained with his blood to suffer the same damage as himself.

Because of Mayumi Haga's regeneration speed, she only had to knock out one of her teeth by self-destructing. Due to Mayumi Haga's exceptional pain tolerance, no one could tell that anything was wrong.

He easily intimidated the woman.

Main text: A belated New Year's bonus chapter (1)

new Year.

The rebuilt Alamo world, like the children's world, has four seasons and a year is 365 days long.

If we count the days, this is the first New Year after the world has been repaired, so it should be celebrated in a grand way.

Hitomi Tono had been looking forward to it for at least ten days.

After all, it had been almost two months since she last met with Mayumi Haga. During this time, she could only communicate with her through letters delivered by Lania and through Mayumi Haga's occasional mobile phone.

It's less about contact and more about searching for any messages that Mayumi Haga might have left behind.

Hitomi Tono had heard of exasperated messages exchanged between ex-lovers in drifting bottles, but she never expected to end up like this, waiting for her husband, when she and Mayumi were still in a relationship.

To be honest, once Mayumi Haga returned to her original world, she resumed her state of being out of touch and traveling all over the world, unable to even reply to messages from relatives and friends once a week. Objectively speaking, she is indeed a bit of a jerk.