Early in the morning, Kelly woke up from her sleep and opened her eyes to see a spire, and it took her a moment to remember that it was the spire of her tent, that this was the Whispering Forest, and that it had been a month since the trial. Ever since the day Donner had led away the thieves, she had always slept poorly, waking up from nightmares. Although countless traps have been laid around the camp since then, no thieves have ever appeared.

When she was still in Lante Island, Kelly knew that Donner was different, and in those clear eyes, there was something different. Since the summer, those differences have slowly appeared, and now, it has long exceeded Kelly's expectations. Although she didn't know what a naturalist association was, it was incomprehensible that a seventeen-year-old boy from the island of Lante had become an honorary director of an association on the mainland.

What is even more unexpected is his bravery. Isn't it chivalry to be willing to take risks for the safety of one's partner on the line between life and death? A girl of this age, who is being educated as a knight, has no resistance to this quality.

Kelly noticed that the girl named Lucia had been approaching Donner lately, consciously or unconsciously, and she knew that Donner liked magic, so she deliberately found some magic topics, and she couldn't even interject at this time. Kelly felt it was more than just gratitude for his actions that day.

Yesterday, the three girls finally couldn't stand the smell of sweat and took a bath in the stream near the woodland. The four boys are responsible for protecting and watching the wind. Halfway through the wash, Wesley deliberately shouted, "Donner, don't stop me, I'll take a look." Don't worry, I only look at Lucia, not Kelly!"

Even though they knew he was joking, the girls couldn't help but hide in the icy stream, leaving only three wet heads on the water, until Roger laughed and shouted, "Don't worry, I'm watching him." ”

While taking a shower, Kelly kept secretly comparing the size of the three of them's breasts, and finally came to a disheartening conclusion. Both Fiona and Lucia have bigger boobs than her. But she quickly attributed the reason to her youngest.

"Soon to be bigger than all of you?? But will Donner be able to wait? In the future, you have to eat a little more, what will you eat to grow your breasts?" the girl's face changed.

The hunt every afternoon is everyone's favorite activity, and Joey is an experienced old hunter, and no matter how hidden the rabbit nest is, he can't hide from his eyes. He had more ways than the Jungle Tracing teacher at the Knight School, and Kelly felt that he should be invited to teach at the Academy.

Ever since Kelly had seen Lucia's ice spear completely freeze a hare, Richard would pluck up the courage to come up to Roger every night for advice.

"Donner is always looking at Nina in a daze, he must be very fond of children!"

Before it was fully light, Lucia heard some movement in Kelly's tent.

"She's having nightmares again. ”

Since that day, Lucia has been keeping vigil and has heard the sound of Kelly waking up from her tent. Fiona tells Lucia that she was at the back of the line at the end of the line the night she searched for Donner, and saw Kelly crying all night.

"She must have liked him. ”

Then, Lucia remembered when she found Donner, oh no, when Donner found everyone.

"At that time, I asked if I had breakfast, and the ghost knew it was to ease the atmosphere, which was too deliberate. ”

Downer said that he hid in a tree hole that night to avoid the thieves, and even slept in the tree hole until dawn before returning to find everyone.

Lucia was still very angry about this: everyone worked so hard to find you, and worried about you all night, but you were better to sleep alone in the hollow of the tree.

Donner laughed and said that he didn't sleep comfortably in the hollow of the tree.

After that day, Donner was still the same as Lucia, keeping a proper distance, which made Lucia very uncomfortable, but she couldn't have a seizure, and she couldn't say "I cried that day because I was worried about you", right?

So Lucia found herself very fond of antagonizing Donner, and she wanted to talk to him if she wanted to read quietly, and she wanted to sleep and she had to pull him up to keep vigil, and he joked but she didn't laugh, and when she was serious, she wanted to laugh.

Finally, one day, Lucia realizes that something is wrong: she has a crush on this guy, and she is trying to get Donner to value her.

She couldn't stand Donner keeping her distance from herself, but she couldn't take the initiative to show her heart like Kelly. She had long been accustomed to the fact that the boys would take the initiative to approach her, and now it was her turn to get close to Donner, but she was at a loss, and a little effort was easily resolved by the other party, but she couldn't be as cheeky as Wesley, so there was only one way left, and it was exactly what she was doing, that is, deliberately going against Donner.

As soon as she found out what was wrong, the clever girl immediately made a change. She knew that Donner was interested in magic, so she talked to the other party about magic, consciously or unconsciously, from meditation methods to magic models, from mental manipulation to elemental perception. As the topic deepened, Lucia found that Donner's magical knowledge had accumulated more than she had imagined, and she had to recall it in order to answer the other party's questions, and later, Lucia even got a lot of inspiration from the other party in terms of mental manipulation and elemental perception. Considering that Donner had only been in contact with magic for less than four months, Lucia was also shocked by his comprehension, but she was a little relieved to think that the other party had only learned theoretical knowledge after all, and had not actually started learning magic. Of course, if she knew that Donner had been promoted to a magic apprenticeship three months ago, she would have been ashamed of her title as a magical genius girl.

The efforts have paid off, and now Lucia and Donner greet each other warmly, even with innocuous jokes.

"The first step, become friends first, done!"

Lucia discovers that Kelly has been paying attention to her lately, intentionally or unintentionally, and she is afraid that Donner will be snatched away, right?

"Who made it take you so long to make it unsuccessful?" Lucia quickly found a reason to be at ease.

"Donner, this guy has been staring at Nina lately, he probably doesn't like to be so small, huh!"

No one noticed the little thought of the two rivals. When Donner returned to the camp, he found that Nina had no accidents, and was still happily following his grandfather's feet, knowing that his previous experience was just a dream. Perhaps, as the dwarf Idarua said, there is indeed something strange in the forest, but it is not within his current reach, and Donner can only suppress this curiosity.

The trial activities of the seven-member team returned to a state of vacation after the emergency, and the thieves never appeared again, but it had nothing to do with the traps they had carefully arranged, it was Adalua who cleared all the thieves in the vicinity before leaving.

At the end of February, the weather warmed up a little, and the month-and-a-half-long trial finally came to an end.