Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume7 Chapter8 3

Thursday. Part 3

So after all that, my arms were aching that evening.

"Yuuki, sorry, can you rub my shoulders?"

I pounced on my younger brother as he left the bath, and dragged him into my room.

"Why do I have to?"

"I'll buy you a caramel next time."

"Do you think I'm in elementary school or something?"

Whine, whine, whine. But he was kind, so he fulfilled his older sister's request.

"Whoa, your shoulders are stiff. What on earth have you been doing at school, Yumi?"

"Preparing for the third-years' farewell party."

Carrying signboards and vases the size of hibachi ovens.

"It's a girls school, but you're doing manual labor?"

"It's because it's a girls school. After all, there's not a single guy there."

Like all-boy schools, all-girl schools had their own set of problems.

"Ah ha. Don't overdo it, though."

"It's in two days time. I have to overdo it."

"Easy to say, but will your body hold up?"

"–"

"Yumi?"

"Mmm … yeah!"

I'd dozed off, without noticing. I'd been dreaming, momentarily, but was awoken by my onii-sama scolding me.

"Just go to sleep."

Shocked, Yuuki left my room.

"Yeah."

That was how I answered him, but I couldn't go to bed just yet.

I had to practice the moves that Yuuki had shown me, as well as organizing my books for tomorrow.

Ahh, that reminded me of something I'd read.

– This was surely an authentic example of midnight training.