Chapter 284 Nina and Nim
And if we were to ask when a precocious magical girl like Nimue behaves most childishly, it would undoubtedly be in front of her older sister, Nina.
"Nim, did you listen carefully to the captain's words?"
After a morning of instruction, Cornflower and Nim returned to the team camp and met her sister Nina, a magical girl codenamed Mohe.
Nina asked about her sister's well-being, checked her equipment, and even helped her tidy up her hair. She also asked about her sister's performance: "You didn't act like a spoiled child or say anything weird, did you?"
Because the sisters' parents passed away early, Nina is not only Nim's sister, but also often plays the role of half mother, always worrying about Nim's various affairs.
Perhaps it was because of this overprotection, coupled with Nina's tendency to always take a pessimistic view of things, that she, under the guidance of the legion commander, bribed her superiors and put herself and her sister into a small team.
Until now, Nina still often feels ashamed in front of Cornflower because of this incident, and most of the time she avoids her team leader. In Cornflower's opinion, the magical girl codenamed Mo He is like a ghost. She is clearly on the team's list and has completed the assigned tasks, but she is nowhere to be seen.
"Of course not, sister, you worry too much."
Sitting on the bench and kicking her calves, Nim shook her head restlessly under her sister's hands: "The captain kept praising me for my good performance."
Nim did not completely understand the things her sister was worried about, but in her opinion, many things were not that complicated.
She thought Cornflower was very capable and she admired him very much, so she should say good things about him; she knew that she lacked experience and was weak, so she had to work hard to improve herself; she felt the doubts and distrust from other people in the team, so she took the initiative to communicate with these teammates and eliminate the barriers.
Because problems exist, we should solve them; because difficulties exist, we should face them. Nim has always thought so and done so.
However, she would not refute her sister because of this difference in concepts.
"That's good."
Hearing her sister's answer, Nina breathed a sigh of relief, but she also reminded her worriedly: "Don't cause trouble for the captain, got it?"
"I know, I know."
Nim was somewhat helpless in dealing with her sister: "But sister, you should also be more careful, right? According to the schedule, it is your turn to go to the fortification area with the captain to inspect in the afternoon, but now you can't even speak coherently when you see strangers. Is that okay?"
Nina paused.
“…No, no problem.”
She raised a hand somewhat stiffly, and smoothed her bangs that were too long and blocked her view, and replied reluctantly: "I am much more familiar with the captain now. I feel that we are no longer strangers."
"I'm already stuttering."
Nim raised her head and looked at her sister with a sly smile: "Besides, sister, you haven't seen the captain many times, right? You usually avoid her."
"Yes, I have seen it before!"
Recalling her conversation with Cornflower about the bribe, Nina retorted: "Although we haven't spoken for a long time since that time, but at least we have met. I, I think it should be okay..."
This is a lie.
Everyone in the Cornflower Team knew that the magical girl codenamed Mo He was hiding from Cornflower every day as if she was playing a cat-and-mouse game. Whenever there was a situation where the two of them might meet, she would find a place to hide in advance.
The reason why the situation had developed to this point was that Mo He felt that he had done two things wrong to the other party.
The first was her bribery of the legion commander. Although Cornflower had declared that she had forgiven her and now accepted her sister as a member of the team, Nina still felt that she was wrong in this matter.
The second reason is that I failed to live up to the captain’s expectations.
As compensation for the "bribery", Cornflower once asked Nina to be responsible for the training of her sister Nim, and at that time, Nina loudly declared that "she could do it".
The follow-up to this incident was that when Nina began to act as Nim's mentor, her efficiency in teaching was extremely slow.
It's not just because her personal ability to express herself is so poor, so bad that even her own sister can't understand her expression of those professional terms; it's also because Nina's training requirements for Nim are too lenient, and she simply can't bear to see her sister suffer. Many times, Nim herself doesn't feel anything, but Nina thinks her sister is already tired, and starts to ask about her well-being and go into the rest session early.
Such teaching efficiency naturally could not meet Cornflower's original requirements. Even Nim herself could not hold back, so one day, after finishing teaching, Nim compiled all the questions she could not understand into a book, and then went to the captain Cornflower to ask him questions.
In response to the team members' questions, Cornflower naturally answered all of Nim's questions one by one and quickly solved the bottlenecks that Nim encountered.
Since then, Nim's daily teaching process has become to listen to her sister first, then collect the questions she doesn't understand and ask Cornflower again. Over time, in pursuit of efficiency, this process gradually became to go directly to the captain to learn, and her sister Nina didn't need to do anything.
Cornflower never thought there was anything wrong with this matter. In her opinion, it was the result of both her and Nim's initiative. And Nina had completed part of the teaching task very conscientiously before this, which was enough.
But in Nina's opinion, this was due to her own poor performance. The less complaints the captain and her sister had, the more uneasy she felt. She always felt that she was being hated.
Even if she kept hiding from the captain, they couldn't never see each other again. The work schedule eventually brought them together. This time, Nina couldn't escape.
When Nina thought about the possible scene she might face in the afternoon, she felt a huge pressure, so much so that her stomach hurt and she even felt like vomiting. But she also knew that she couldn't keep avoiding it. She would be stabbed anyway, so she might as well offer her neck to him.
"Anyway, I will try my best."
Imagining that "destined to be miserable" future, Nina couldn't help but reveal an expression like a warrior who was about to die bravely. Then, she clenched her fist with one hand and suddenly raised it in front of her...
——"It hurts! Why are you pulling my hair, sister!" Nim raised her head and said dissatisfiedly, feeling that her sister had pulled out several strands of hair on her head.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
(End of this chapter)
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