"Ah! Hello there, looks like the drill hall angel has arrived!"
Ria laid eyes on a goddess.
A towering pillar of strength and beauty.
Half-washed silver hair tied up in a ponytail.
A black skirt, white knee socks, and muscular thighs.
A loose white top over her voluptuous chest.
Short sleeves, her muscular biceps.
Her ripped abdominal muscles.
Her rugged flats.
Soiled with dirt stains from marching through the countryside.
Fraying at the sides.
She leaves the soiled flats outside.
Her socks touched the marbled ground.
Her claymore, hoisted on her back.
Its handle itself was already thicker than Ria's body.
Badum!
Ria's heart pounds as the giantess approaches.
Thud.
Simple steps for the giantess.
Thud.
She stops.
Ria could barely tilt her head enough to see the muscular thighs above the knee socks.
Her knees trembled.
The knee socks dwarfed her.
"Lady Ria. Drill master."
The giantess greeted them.
"Good morning, Hikari. Glad you could join us for a morning drill. How are you liking the drill hall so far?"
"Good."
Towers of cotton and muscle thicker than Ria's body.
Up close, she could see the contours of Hikari's muscular thigh.
Badum!
Her heart pounded.
"Well, looks like my shift is almost here. Catch you around."
Sir Parkel scurried out of the drill hall with curious haste, leaving Ria alone with Hikari.
"Wait-"
"My lady."
The mid-pitched voice echoed through Ria's head.
Ria froze.
"Down."
Ria heard the voice in her head.
She couldn't tell if it was her imagination.
Badum! Badum! Badum!
Her heart beat faster and faster.
She couldn't breathe.
Her knees collapsed.
She fell on her hands and knees.
"My Lady."
The voice came from above.
She couldn't get up, staying on her hands and knees.
Trembling.
"Down."
The voice in her head.
"Down."
She stayed down.
"My lady."
"Huh, what's going on?"
Ria lifts her head, confused and disoriented.
A giant pair of feet filled her view.
The socks were at least a day old.
The giant foot was larger than her table.
So big and muscular.
"My lady."
"Oh, right."
Ria shakes her head.
She clumsily got to her feet and began walking in random directions.
"Where am I going? Oh, right, my rapier- where is it?"
Hikari nudges Ria's rapier towards her with her big toe.
The big toe looked huge next to her tiny rapier.
Ria swallows her saliva.
"Oh! Thanks so much."
Ria picks up the rapier with both hands.
She looks up and can only see the underside of her blossoms.
Hikari leans forward so her lady can meet her eyes.
Ruby red eyes.
Ria feels her body being ripped to pieces by its killing aura.
She fell to her knees.
Her heart races.
"My lady."
The giantess squats down.
Ria trembled before her.
"Oh, it's nothing. Your size does take some getting used to."
Hikari stood up.
Warmth.
"Drill?"
"Oh, yes, of course. I'm here to drill too. We have the drill hall all to ourselves. After what happened that day, I thought I should brush up my skills."
Silence.
Hikari raised her massive arm and scratched her cheek with her finger.
Ria felt her chest loosen.
"Good."
"That's great; let's drill together. "
Hikari strides past her.
Ria was sucked forward from the vacuum created by the giantess's stride.
Hikari strapped on her arm and knee guards.
Ria watched as she warmed up.
She raised her arms, bent down, and touched her toes.
Side-to-side rotations. Leg stretch. Arm stretch.
Her size made even the most basic exercises feel so intense.
Ria couldn't take her eyes off of her.
Hikari's eyes turn towards her.
Quickly, she turned to face the wall.
She took another peek.
Looks like she's done with stretching.
Hikari stamped her shoe to test its friction.
Then, she took a stance.
She held the massive claymore with one arm.
Ria held her breath.
One foot in front of the other.
She raised the claymore over her head.
Downwards swing.
A basic stroke.
Ria could feel a gust of wind.
Badum!
The sheer immensity of her movements.
She raised the sword over her head and swung it downwards, stopping it just before the tip hit the floor.
Without pausing, she lifted the sword up effortlessly and swung again.
A hulk of steel that would take several horses to pull.
Swing. Swing.
Like clockwork, she repeated that motion.
Her lady stares in awe.
How many reps did she do?
Ten? Twenty?
Then the air changed.
Hikari began channeling her mana.
It was Hikari's mana form, using her mana to push her physical strength even higher.
The overwhelming buildup of mana pierced Ria's skin.
Horizontal sweeps, the full half crescent, followed by a whirlwind of slashes, using the constant spinning momentum of the blade.
The next stage, a dash from one end, executing a whirling sweep in the middle, followed by a full sweep at the end of the dash followed by a sudden backward dash into a sweep in the other direction, ending with turn sweep, finally landing in the middle.
She paused.
Ria could imagine an army charging her from all directions being completely obliterated by that display.
The shock wave from Hikari's swings blows her hair back.
Relaxing her stance, Hikari leaned her sword back in the corner.
She stood straight and took several deep breaths to steady her breathing.
The giantess wiped her sweat.
Hikari's eyes turned.
Ria blushed red as she got caught staring again.
She turned to the straw dummy.
Her rapier dropped onto the marble floor.
She picked it up and aimed it at the straw dummy.
She lost her balance again and crashed into the dummy.
The taste of straw filled her mouth.