Tensei Saki ga Shoujo Manga no Shiro Buta Reijou datta Chapter 15

Three months have passed since my memory returned.

As usual I am teaching the children, and on the side I have continued my beauty products research.

The soap has had a positive effect on my body, and the lemon has made my hair silky and smooth. Lately, my acne has even begun to decrease.

However, my body’s weight still has hardly diminished. From 75 kilos (TLN: 165 lbs) it has hardly decreased…

(Why!? I have decreased the size of my meals, and I have been exercising.)

It’s a mystery. My upper arm and butt are still puyo puyo. (TLN: jelly-like)

(… Would it be good to build muscles?)

Increasing muscle sinew will increase calorie consumption. It will also temper my body and improve my posture, and in my previous life the television said it would lead to longer life. Those are all positive reasons.

I decided to add weight training to my normal exercise.

(Speaking of muscles, protein.)

The concept of protein does not exist in this world, but there are soy beans and dairy products. Eating more of those should be good for protein intake. Beyond that, meat and eggs would be good to eat.

“Yosh. I’ll do my best!”

The children were adding and subtracting water using a barrel and a dumbbell. Adding or subtracting water to the barrel would raise or lower the dumbbell respectively.

Rather than offering a tsukkomi to my sudden eccentric behavior, the children continued silently studying. They’re good kids.

One of the boys, Ryan, is a genius at studying. In the blink of an eye he had mastered reading and writing. Now, I lend him books from the library that I read when I was young.

Ryuze and grandfather already know that I am teaching the children. Even when I lend out a book, they don’t have any complaints.

“Ojou-sama, the book you lent me this time was funny. Thank you very much.”

“That’s good. Jaa, read this next.”

“There is a little thickness to it, I’m glad. This will be worth reading.”

Ryan’s eyes were sparking.

I am not that fond of children, but after inviting these two to study, I think that Ryan and Maria are very cute. Even though I call them children, that is only from the perspective of my previous life. As Britney now I’m not that separated from them in years…

Until now, Britney hasn’t had any friends the same age.

There have been few opportunities to make friends with noble’s daughters of the same age, and even if there had been a chance, they would have quickly put distance between us. Perhaps it was impossible to keep in touch with a self-centered white pig.

Because of this and that I was lonely, so spending time with the children is a good diversion.

After studying I research soap, but when I looked outside the research room that Ryuze had given me, I saw Maria looking in curiously.

When our eyes met, she came in with an awkward appearance.

“I smelled something good… please don't mind me.”

“Aa, this is the smell of soap. If you’d like, want to make it together?”

“Eh, but-”

“I am always researching by myself… if I had an assistant I would be helped.”

After telling her that, Maria rolled up her sleeves and entered the room.

I don’t need anyone for manual labor, but having a conversation partner while working would be fun.

(After all she is a girl, and has an interest in things like soap.)

Maria, once she entered the room, looked at the many herbs and essential oils lined up on the interior.

“How to make soap is a trade secret. Right now, only Ryuze-oniisama, some of his subordinates, and I know how.”

“I understand! I will not tell anyone what I’ve seen here!”

Be that as it may, the seaweed is already made into lye. The only thing left to do is placing it in a pot so there’s no worry of anything being leaked…

Maria seems to enjoy making the soap. I tried placing in honey and the essential oil of chamomile that she liked into the soap.

After that, I had her pour it into a mold.

Ryuze had prepared a storage shelf in a place with good air flow so it would dry faster.

After my cousin had started helping, work become so much easier…

Once the soap was finished solidifying, I decided to give it to Maria.

Through deepening our relationship like this, Maria had told me she wanted to work for the Earl’s estate in the future.

She is still only eleven years old, and to serve me she would need a good maid’s education. Still, that’s a matter for the future.

(I’m happy to increase my number of allies, but I’m worried that Maria would be isolated among the current maids…)

Her mother is a maid that takes care of laundry, and probably hates Britney. The majority of the maids do after all. Maria’s dream has many obstacles.

(I don’t have an exclusive maid right now, so I will ask Ojii-sama if I could offer that position to Maria.)

However, that action backfired on me.

My grandfather told me “rather than making a commoner your friend, you should make friends among nobility.”

Although I said nothing of it, talks of gathering noble’s daughters for a tea party at our estate began.

“Y, you’re mistaken Jii-sama. I don’t want to have a tea party with the other noble’s daughters!”

In a panic I interrupted his speech. It is still too much of a hurdle to become friends with the other noble’s daughters.

Based on my malicious childhood, it was easy to predict the other noble’s daughters would look down on me.

(Besides, I don’t want to expose this chubby unattractive figure to other girls…)

The eyes of contempt directed at me when I was younger came to mind.

In those days, even though I was thinner than I am now, the noble’s daughters still ridiculed a Britney that was only a bit chubby. Hiding their mouths with folding fans, they exchanged glances and chuckled to each other.

Although I was not laughed at directly, it was more than enough for the dull me to understand.

Thinking back now… the foundation of Britney’s ill temper and her complex about her figure were probably obtained at that time.

“I will prepare lots of Britney’s favorite sweets~.”

My grandfather could not read the situation, and continued fussing over the tea party. Perhaps that slowness was hereditary and had been inherited by the previous me.

“No, I told you I was on a diet. I will not eat sweets!”

I involuntarily raised my voice.

I was desperately trying to make progress, but my doting grandfather, who should have been my number one ally, was a hindrance instead.

“Britney, why are you so obstinately not eating sweets? As I thought, was it because your engagement was broken off?”

“No, it’s for health. The illness of being fat… I have found my body’s figure disagreeable. I want to become thin.”

“You don’t have to push yourself so much… But I’m troubled. I have already sent out written invitations…”

Hearing those words, my entire conscious was painted white.

(Ojii-sama, what have you done while I wasn’t looking-!)

I was driven by an impulse to hold my head and cry out.

And here’s the third chapter, the last of the initial chapters before I created my website. I’ve translated more though (translated up through chapter 21 so far) so expect further chapters from me.

If you don’t know who Reika-sama is, what are you doing with your life? Go read Kenkyo, Kenjitsu o Motto ni Ikite Orimasu right now! I mentioned the story last chapter. I don’t think you’ll regret reading it!

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