"Huff... ha..."
"Huff... ha..."
After a series of panting sounds that were easy to misinterpret, made one blush, and set one's heart racing, came the sound of three women drinking water together.
In this season when petals drifted on the wind and leaves rustled up beneath the late-autumn breeze, the weather had turned wonderfully cool.
This was nice... Jiang Han breathed in the flower-scented air, greedily gulping down breaths as she drained the warm water in her thermos in one go. Beside her were the equally bedraggled two witches, likewise transformed into "water dispensers." Angelite, dressed in overall shorts, was in the best shape. After bracing her hands on her knees for a while, she recovered and said somewhat raggedly:
"'Sea Sirens are all lunatics.' Kraken, lend me that little black notebook of yours. I need to write that down!"
"L-life lies in movement, Angel." Kraken replied in her usual faintly mocking tone.
Jiang Han held her heaving chest and took another breath.
"Big sisters, stop bickering. Honestly, I'm amazed you still have the energy to bicker."
Just now, the three of them had suddenly decided to run from Witch Market, along the outer ring road, all the way to Crane Lake among South City's Six Lakes to go fishing. After setting the rule that magic was forbidden, the three of them ran like idiots for ten minutes, then collectively stopped at a rest station right outside Witch Market, panting beneath the "cute but idiotic" gazes of a crowd of witches.
Incidentally, Jiang Han had been the one to suggest the run.
And Kraken had been the first to take off.
Then came Angelite, so competitive she might as well have been dead from it, catching up at a doglike pace. Jiang Han had started the slowest. She and Kraken,