"Maybe the residents of this apartment building were all too busy with work, or maybe their companies had gyms. Even the young ladies with plenty of free time rarely went swimming." That was the only explanation he could come up with.
After all, the rent here was expensive. The people who could afford it were all high earners. Although everyone had become much more health-conscious nowadays, practical realities were still unavoidable.
Some large companies even set up public gyms to encourage employees to work overtime... Were they afraid their employees would not drop dead quickly enough? How vicious!
"Come to think of it, Mai, can you swim?"
He began trying to paddle about in the water, imitating the dog paddle. He had heard that it was the easiest stroke.
The unfamiliar resistance of the water made him extremely uncomfortable for the moment, as though ninety percent of his strength had been stripped away.
Normally, when he did not use spiritual power, the Elf power system did not have much effect on his physical body. He could still get hungry and tired, and it would not excessively alter his body to make him superhumanly strong or fast.
—Of course, it was different when he actively used it to dispel physical fatigue and speed up recovery.
In other words, during his normal daily life, he relied entirely on the physical fitness he had trained over all these years.
Whether it was horse racing, long-distance running, or beating up wild bears, it was all the result of his hard work and talent!
But unfamiliar fields had to be learned from scratch—yes, he was a landlubber.
Though it was hard to believe, for someone as versatile as him, aside from bathtubs, he had never truly gone into the water in his life.
His house