My House Is a Magic Power Spot ~Just by Living There I Become the Strongest in the World~ - Chapter 169

Chapter 169

After taking a shower and doing some warm ups, I began to take a leisurely swim . Thanks to the hot weather, the water felt wonderful .

「The water here is beautiful…」

The lake was so clear that I could see straight to the bottom, this boosted how wonderful it felt . There wasn’t even any mud floating around in it .

「Is it this beautiful because Mana is managing it?」

I asked Mana who was peacefully floating nearby, and she calmly nodded .

「Yes, I purify it each day with my songs and Katarakta circulates the water . That’s why it can stay so clean……though it isn’t very good for drinking, so I’d say it’s slightly inferior to the water in Daichi-san’s garden . 」

She said with a wry smile before freely swimming around . Actually, her body looked half dissolved .

「How should I say…that’s an amazing way to swim . 」
「It’s because my body has a high compatibility with water that I can do things like this……though I can swim normally too . 」

Manaril said with a little smile and her body turned back to normal . Then she started to float on the water face up .

It seems comfortable so I’ll do it too .
… . I relaxed my body .

Then I naturally began to float a bit . I relaxed further and floated on the surface of the water when… . .

「Hm?」

Suddenly I felt my back rest on something .
I turned my head to look and saw that a small water dragon had placed me on its back .

「Huh, Katarakta?」
「Yes……it must be very fond of you Daichi-san, to let you ride on its back . 」

Fumu, is that so? This is nice in its own way . It felt like I had an invisible life preserver on making things much easier .

I continued to enjoy the feeling of the sun beating down on me as I lay in the water .

Looking around I saw Manaril and Sakura having a grand time swimming around . This place was perfect for cooling off I thought when…

「Hm? Hesty what are you doing?」

Hesty was standing in the shallows, splashing water on herself . Then,

「n~…… . . ok . 」

After looking at us for a few seconds and thinking, she looked as if she’d resolved herself and jumped into the deep end .
And so……

—Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle—

She sunk to the bottom of the lake while letting out bubbles . In fact…

「Eh? Hesty… . ?」

She sunk like a rock .

I watched as if seeing a strange creature as Hesty walked along the bottom of the lake towards the shore before finally emerging from the water .

「Are you ok?」

I approached the shore and looked at Hesty’s face . She was completely soaked, but she didn’t seem to have any signs of oxygen deprivation . Then she shook her body and threw the water off…

「I’m ok, I can breathe like that . 」
「Well, I can see that…but you sunk right?」
「Yes……… . I can’t…swim . 」

Hesty said looking chagrined .

「Seriously… . . ?」
「n, really . 」

Hesty who seemed to be a master-of-all-trades had this kind of weakness .

「Ah, I can’t swim either . I’m glad that that Aneue-sama are similar in that way too~」

Anne took advantage of the opportunity to interject . Her utterly soaked appearance clearly showed that she had jumped into the water too .

「……It’s not because you’re a dragon that you can’t swim right?」

I said as my gaze naturally shifted towards Manaril in the cneter of the lake . But…

「That’s not it . See?」

Mana said as she turned to normal and did a doggy paddle . That’s right . She was swimming normally just a little while ago after all .

「Well, it’s just that Hesty and Anne are bad at swimming . 」

Manaril said . I then looked back at the two dragon kings on the shore .

「I’m a dragon of Earth and Metal, so it’s not really my specialty~」
「… . I’m a dragon that, almost always just flies, so I’m not, very good with, water . 」

They both responded with their excuses .

…… . well the two of them didn’t have trouble with their breath underwater so it was fine .

I was thinking that when Hesty walked over with small steps and said…

「Please, could you teach me, how to swim? I want to, swim with you . 」

She said while peeking at my face . I had never thought the day would come when I would teach Hesty something . It had always been her teaching me .

「Alright, sure . Then why don’t we have a little lesson?」
「n, thank you . 」
「Ah, me too me too . Daichi-sama~ I’ll be in your care~」
「Ok ok, I’ll teach both of you . 」

And so it turned into an impromptu swimming class . It was a strange feeling, teaching dragons to swim .