The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

“…!”

Lavinia’s expression brightened dramatically. Lillieta took the boxes and sat back down at the table. The noblewoman hurriedly followed and took her seat. Seeing her straighten her back and correct her posture, it seemed she was trying to appear respectful.

Rita opened the small box and began to speak.

“Anne wrote up the list of things you’ve done wrong so far, I suppose?”

“Yes, she told me to memorize it completely, hic.”

Lavinia was nodding her head when she suddenly covered her mouth with both hands in panic. The pink-haired girl looked tearful with an expression that said ‘I wasn’t supposed to say that!’ which naturally brought a smile to Rita’s face.

“It’s okay, I had already guessed as much.”

“….”

“This is that revolver you showed me before.”

Inside the small box was the Riclef Workshop revolver that Lillieta had refused during their boat outing. She briefly examined the revolver with her eyes and then turned the box toward Lavinia.

“It’s a good revolver, but you should use this one, Noblewoman. I already have one I use.”

“Huh, huh? No, I already have one! I bought another one of the same kind… well.”

Lavinia trailed off and averted her gaze.

“Duirebourg Noblewoman, don’t tell me you bought two identical ones and gave me one of them?”

“…Yes.”

“And you practiced shooting alone with the other one?”

“Yes… I’m sorry! Actually, actually after seeing you fight that monster that day, I couldn’t help myself, I just wanted to touch it a little, just a tiny bit, but it was so fun that I….”

Lavinia fidgeted with her fingers and hung her head. Lillieta let out what she pretended was a sigh to hide her rising laughter.

Honestly, she found it incredibly endearing and heartwarming.

To think she had been captivated by her shooting and practiced alone, even practicing so enthusiastically that her wrist hurt and her index finger knuckle swelled up, and that she found it so enjoyable—how could she not be pleased?

The words ‘How about it, shooting is fun, right? Magic gunmanship is even more fun. Want to learn? I’ll teach you’ rose to her throat, but Rita deliberately made an angry expression.

Regardless of her love for guns and shooting, guns were weapons that shouldn’t be approached lightly.

Practicing recklessly alone could result in serious injury or harm to someone else. Unlike her own childhood where she had to risk her life on battlefields, there was no need for that here, so it would be better to learn properly and progress step by step within permitted boundaries….

‘No wait, but actually teaching magic gunmanship would be a bit much. How could I take a noble young lady who’ll never fight magical beasts as a magic gunmanship disciple? Especially when her family is Duirebourg.’

Duke Duirebourg didn’t blindly follow the Grand Duke and moved according to his own judgment, but he was still ultimately part of the Duke’s Faction.

‘I’ll just teach her some shooting techniques as a hobby.’

Rita thought this as she closed the small box.

“Then I’ll accept this.”

“You, you’ll accept it?”

Lavinia brightened up. Lillieta nodded and added in a stern voice.

“But if you want to learn shooting from me in the future, you must never touch a gun without my permission. If you do that again, I’ll return this to you and never forgive you.”

“…!”

At her words, Lavinia let out a silent cheer and stamped her feet, then placed her hand on her chest, took a deep breath, and asked with sparkling eyes.

“Raskail Princess, will you teach me shooting?”

“If you continue to behave respectfully and listen to me well.”

“I’ll be respectful! I’ll listen well! I’ll call you teacher!”

Lavinia excitedly poured out her words. Rita opened the large box that had been under the small one and replied indifferently.

“Teacher, there’s no need to go that far….”

Her words trailed off. Inside the sizeable box wrapped in silk, various things were packed full.

Prettily wrapped cookies, large pink dahlia blossoms, a small book with silhouettes of dancing men and women, a white ribbon with pearl decorations, a small porcelain unicorn….

“Noblewoman, what is all this?”

“Anne said gifts should contain sincerity….”

Lavinia glanced around nervously, then pointed to each item in the box with her finger and explained.

“These are my favorite cookies. The chef usually won’t make them because they spoil easily, but when I said it was for a gift, he specially made them! And, and dahlias are my favorite flowers. It’s early in the season for them to bloom, but Duirebourg’s greenhouse has flowers from every season! I picked the prettiest ones that were blooming there.”

The girl chattered with a flushed face.

“And this is a novel I enjoyed reading, I thought you might be bored lying down sick… well, seeing that you’re healthier than expected, it might not be necessary, but it’s really fun so please read it once. This ribbon is one I treasure but I thought it would suit you, and the porcelain unicorn is….”

Listening to her, it seemed more like a box of things she personally liked rather than a get-well gift, but she could tell that each item had been carefully chosen.

‘She certainly put her heart into it.’

Lillieta smiled faintly.

She thought she understood why Anne said Lavinia was childish. And why she continued to look after and follow this child around despite scolding and getting angry with her.

‘The excessive flaunting of status and rude behavior seems to be… more of a family education issue.’

While she was thinking this, Lavinia asked in a nervous voice.

“Don’t you like it?”

“No.”

Rita added with a smiling face.

“It’s a gift I like very much. I can feel your sincerity in it. Thank you.”

When she smiled, the noblewoman’s youthful face melted. Lavinia couldn’t hide her silly grin as she squirmed in place. Rita watched her for a moment, then stood up from her seat.

“I’ll give you something in return for the gift.”

“Huh, yes?”

“Stand up and try holding this, Noblewoman.”

She took out the latest Riclef revolver from the small box and held it out to the noblewoman.

“Hold it…?”

“I’ll check your shooting stance.”

“…!”

Lavinia’s eyes lit up as she jumped up and took the revolver. Rita checked once more that the chamber was empty before handing over the gun and pointed to a corner of the garden.

“Imagine there’s a target over there and try aiming the gun.”

“Yes, teacher!”

“…I don’t have enough to teach you to warrant being called teacher. So just call me by my name comfortably.”

“By name?”

Lavinia, holding the gun, gulped nervously. Lillieta nodded.

“Rita is enough.”

“Ri, Ri, Rita teacher…!”

“I said you can drop the teacher part.”

“Call me Lavi too! Me too!”

“Alright, Lavi. Now let’s try aiming the gun.”

“Yes!”

Lavinia excitedly aimed the revolver toward the corner of the garden. As soon as Rita saw her stance, she smiled a little.

‘She copied my shooting stance after watching me.’

It seemed she had observed carefully, but it was still clumsy in many ways.

To begin with, her stance was a veteran’s stance modified through countless battles, not something to recommend to a beginner. She immediately corrected Lavinia’s finger placement first.

“Remember this, Lavi. Only put your finger on the trigger when firing. Otherwise, just rest your index finger on the trigger guard.”

“Ah, yes!”

Then she lightly touched her back.

“Don’t lean your upper body too much. Don’t lower your head, keep it facing straight forward.”

Finally, she adjusted her arms and wrists to correct her stance.

“Extend your elbows a bit more, no, don’t straighten them completely. You need to bend them slightly to absorb recoil. Think of making a triangle with both arms….”

“Li, like this?”

“That’s right. Ah, keep your wrists level. If your wrists bend, the impact accumulates in your wrists with each shot and becomes painful. Hold the gun with your entire palm, and let your left hand wrap around your right hand… lift it to eye level… good, this is the basic stance.”

“But this is a bit different from Rita teacher’s stance…?”

“This is the basic form. It’s much easier to balance and more stable. My stance has the advantage of being flexibly adaptable to combat situations, but beginners tend to have their gun barrel shake or their body sway. And I told you there’s no need to call me teacher, right?”

Lavinia looked slightly dissatisfied.

“But teacher’s stance looks much cooler.”

Rita gave up on correcting the teacher title and just said.

“You need to build the basics before you can do variations. When you can maintain the basic stance and hit the target with 6 consecutive shots from 10 meters away, I’ll teach you my stance too.”

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