After spending nearly a whole morning in Fujiwa's room, Chiho asked her for many things, and in order to better understand Raiden Mio's usual preferences, she had to listen carefully to Fujiwa's explanations of each process.

"It's already eleven o'clock, time flies so fast...... Fujiwa looked at Chihori's slightly swollen feet, and asked, "Is it better? It's about to be the time agreed with the eldest lady, even if I dissuade you, you won't listen." ”

Chihori nodded, and then looked out the window, I don't know when, Raiden Mio had already left there.

"Miss Fujiwa, where has Mio gone?"

Fujiwa smiled slightly and said, "I guess I'm fiddling with her knife in the room again, this hobby is very similar to the owner of the knife wind." ”

"Knives?" Chiho Ri vaguely remembers glancing into Raiden Mio's room in the morning, where there were indeed a lot of swords hanging in it, and it didn't look like a girl's bedroom at all.

"Well, there are ninety-nine of them, and the eldest lady has been collecting them ever since she became fond of swords, and every one of them in her room is a very valuable collection, and the eldest lady has named each of them, and I am afraid that only she can remember these names. ”

"Ninety-nine, why don't you make up a hundred?" asked Chihori.

"Because the eldest lady could not find a more exquisite knife than the ninety-nine, in this world, the perfect knife no longer seems to exist, but in the eldest lady's room there is still the place of the hundredth sword, she said that she will always come across the last favorite sword. Fujiwa seemed to be reminiscing about very good things, but at the same time she was worried about Raiden Mio, because those knives were her friends, and there was nothing else to call "friends".

The room is getting hotter, Chiho keeps fanning the wind with her hands, Raiden Mio said that there is no such thing as an air conditioner in the whole house, but the Raiden family doesn't seem to be too afraid of the heat from top to bottom, and even Fujiwa doesn't sweat a drop.

"I'm sorry, I talked so much unconsciously, you still have your own business, right?"

"Hmm. Chihori put on her socks and shoes, and when her feet touched the ground, the whole person subconsciously fell down, but fortunately, she supported the edge of the bed in time and didn't fall, "Miss Fujiwa, then I'll go first, and if I have time, I will ask you to teach me more things." ”

Looking at the figure of Chiho Ri leaving, Fujiwa sighed and walked to the window.

"The kid...... Maybe it can change the eldest lady. ”

At noon, Chiho waited for Raiden Mio under the tree next to the steps, and seemed to have adjusted to her ice-like expression.

"Miss Mio, are you going to start now? or come back after lunch?" Chiho Reined in her feet, trying not to see her injuries as much as possible for Raiden Mio, to be honest, the hot weather and the overly hard shoes, the plaster on the red and swollen areas had begun to become slimy, and the skin was itchy and painful, as if there were thousands of centipedes biting.

"Now. Thunder Mio walked coldly towards the steps, the speed was not very fast, but if you want to really go up and down five times in this weather, I am afraid that the iron body will not be able to withstand it.

In desperation, Chiho Li had no choice but to take a bold step to keep up with Raiden Mio, and every time her toes touched the next step, there would be a heart-piercing pain, and ten minutes later, the two finally came to the bottom of the mountain at a slow pace.

"Whew...... ...... "Chiho Ri is covered in slimy sweat all over her body, water is dripping down her eyebrows, and the evaporated sweat rises from her body to the top of her head, and her spicy eyes are a little unable to open, and she has become like this after just one descent from the mountain, how can she withstand the next trial?"

Mio...... Mio-san won't ...... Do you feel hot......" Chiho asked as she grabbed Mio Raiden, who was still about to continue her upward journey, and opened her somewhat chapped lips with difficulty.

As she could see, Mio didn't sweat a little bit on her body, and she always exuded a refreshing aroma.

"Can't stand it anymore? Raiden Mio shook off Chihori's hand and walked up.

"Mio-san, it's not over yet, I'll stick with it until the end. Chiho Ri caught up with Mio with a step-by-step pain, and even if her body couldn't bear it anymore, she had to persevere until the end, otherwise what she did would be meaningless.

As time passed, the two of them had completed nine-tenths of the journey, each time from top to bottom was a new beginning, and gradually, the pain had long overtaken the exhaustion of the body, the stomach was empty, and the hallucinations were almost on the verge of appearing in front of them.

Clothes, skirts, stockings, hair, Chiho Ri now had no dry skin on her body, the sweat was like raindrops on the steps, and the last time she returned, her legs began to tremble, her breathing was extremely disordered, and her lips were slightly white, and she looked extremely bad.

"Very good, today's mission is done, go back and rest. Five minutes later, Raiden Mio stood in the sun and said to Chihori, who was still on the last few steps, as if she had been here yesterday.

Chihori let out an "um" and climbed the last five steps with trembling legs, and by this time Raiden Mio had already returned to the house.

"Puff ......"

Chihori's body couldn't move, and the impact of falling to the ground grazed her elbows and knees, but she didn't have time to care about the new wounds, she just bit her lip and tried to stand up on the ground.

"Mio, this kid is going a little too far. At the same time, in front of the study window on the second floor, Raiden Daofeng was looking at Chiho Li who had fallen in front of the steps with his arms crossed, but this thought was dispelled in the next moment, "But...... It's a shame that this kid can persevere, new wife straw, you really entrusted me with a nice girl. ”

"Miss, lunch is ready. ”

Raiden Mio, who had just entered the door, was stunned for a moment, turned around and glanced at Chihori with some concern, and said softly, "Masako." ”

"Yes, Miss, I know what to do. ”

After Raiden Mio left, Fujiwa stood in the doorway and looked at Chiho Li lying in front of the steps in the distance, this training was very difficult for her, her body was painful, tired and hungry, and she probably had no strength anymore.

Feeling the heat coming from the ground, Chiho suddenly felt that something was covering the top of her head, and when she looked up, Fujiwa was crouching in front of her with a parasol and a glass of lemonade.

"You're too tired to do it, are you? Drink it, you look like you're about to get heat stroke. Fujiwa picked up Chiho and handed the lemonade to her, "It was the eldest lady who asked me to come to see you, she never cared about anyone." ”

After drinking all the lemonade in one go, Chiho Li suddenly felt much better and her strength recovered a little.

"Finally...... If you survive it, if you have a second longer, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold on......" Chihori's brows furrowed, her whole body was already soaked, and a human figure had been printed in the place where she had just been, and it was constantly being disintegrated by the heat.

"Let's take a shower in the evening, it's been a hard day. Fujiwa pulled Chihori to her feet, her legs still shaking.

At night, at the end of the day's work, Chiho Li tore off the crumpled plaster, took off her clothes in the bathroom dressing room, and limped into the bath with a bath towel.

Although Raiden Mio and Fujiwa have told her about taking a shower, she still likes to take a comfortable hot bath, and maybe the spring water in the mountain is really cool, but it is a blessing for her.

"Hiss......" The toes of her feet were stained with hot water, and the numb pain gradually spread all over her body, and it took a lot of effort for her to soak her body in the water, "Whew...... The moonlight in the mountains is so beautiful......"

Through the window, you can clearly see the moon behind the layers of leaves, and the hazy mystery is refreshing.

"Don't you like cold water? It's very similar to the eldest lady. Suddenly, there was a voice behind her, and it turned out that she had just finished work and was planning to come here for a good bath.

"Miss Fujiwa, why did Mio ask me to do these things?" asked Chihori.

Fujiwa immersed himself in the bath, looked at the moon outside the window, and said slowly: "The eldest lady has been hurt by someone, and those who keep claiming to be the eldest lady's friends have distanced themselves from her step by step in the end. The eldest lady is doing this, it should be confirming your level of trust, I just reacted, it turns out that I have been negligent about this before. ”

"Because you've been hurt by an unreliable friend, do you want to test people's hearts in a bad way?" Chiho Ri's mood was a little low, "This is really pitiful......"

"So Chiho ......"

"I'm not going to give up. Chiho Li said firmly: "No matter how difficult the test is, I will pass it until I really touch Miss Mio's heart, and until then, I have a reason not to give up." ”

Fujiwa was shocked by Chiho's words, and when ordinary people heard that kind of explanation, they were afraid that most of them would have a bad impression of Raiden Mio, but Chiho Li wanted to get closer to Mio even more, and planned to use her own will to break the shackles in her heart.

"If it were you, maybe you could really become the eldest lady's first friend. ”

Late at night, Chiho Ri was lying on the windowsill, and she could still see the familiar figure standing under the street lamp not far from the steps.

……

A month later, Chiho Ri got her first paycheck, and the envelope was bulging, and it looked like it was much more than Fujiwa and the other servants, and it felt like she was about to break through the envelope.

"I've got a good salary, and tomorrow is a day off, so let's go out and relax." Fujiwa patted Chiho on the shoulder, in the past month, she really didn't give up her work on Raiden Mio, even if she was asked to do something very difficult every day, she still endured it.

"I want Mio to come with me, I wonder if she will agree......"