PAID

“…H-hey, Rose.”

“What is it, Lili?”

“Umm, maybe it’s just me, but don’t you think the men in our department have… changed lately?”

“……”

“I-I mean, don’t they look… a little more bulky?”

“Hm, I’m not sure? Isn’t that normal?”

“So it’s just me…?”

The girl called Lili—full name Lirina Boarne, also known as Chick Number 12 by their instructor—was the daughter of a baron’s family, well-known for their strikingly handsome and beautiful lineage.

As part of the Boarne bloodline, she was no exception—her features were delicate, refined, and her future as a beauty was highly anticipated.

However, compared to her peers, her growth had been rather slow. She had yet to undergo her coming-of-age ceremony and looked about the same age as younger children. This was her one and only complex.

But after undergoing the special training that her instructor had tailored just for her, her height had grown from a mere 130 cm to 139 cm in just eight months.

A 9 cm growth spurt—an astonishing transformation.

Her instructor had even assured her that her growth plates were still open and that she could grow even taller, which completely erased her previous insecurities.

She now trusted her instructor 120%.

…And yet, despite this impressive change, no one around her seemed particularly amazed.

Perhaps it was because, compared to the absurd transformations happening around her, hers was practically insignificant.

Huff! Huff!

“Just one more! One more!”

“That’s it!”

“Pull-up! Pull-up!”

The figures hanging from the pull-up bars, doing sets of chin-ups, were not bears.

They were noblemen.@@novelbin@@

The same noble young masters who, until recently, had been as soft and delicate as silk cushions.

Now, they were training hard—shirtless, their upper bodies exposed, fervently working on their muscles.

And their upper bodies had… noticeably grown.

Not in an unappealing way, of course. It wasn’t fat—they were just bigger.

But considering these were knight aspirants—the same ones who had once preached that overly bulky muscles were impractical—seeing them like this felt… odd.

Lirina wasn’t the only one confused.

“Maybe it’s because they’ve been hanging around the bear-men while helping with the cathedral’s reconstruction,” a voice answered.

“Ah….”

“And according to Master, when a man starts getting defined abs, he naturally wants to train the rest of his body as well.”

“???”

The voice belonged to Lady Levi.