Compared to Gauss's ease, she seemed clumsy in the air, like a fledgling that just learned to fly.
"Huh? Huh!!!"
"I did it! Teacher!"
"I'm really flying!"
Rhine cheered, waving her arms and legs in celebration of her successful flight.
At this moment, in the mind of this girl who had never ventured beyond the village gates, some kind of invisible shackle seemed to have shattered with a loud crash.
She soared into the sky, and the village that once was her entire world now appeared exceptionally small.
It wasn't even the size of a fist.
She stared in disbelief at the ground below, her whole body trembling slightly.
It wasn't fear, but excitement that was hard to contain.
The vast earth stretched out before her like an expansive painting slowly unfolding, and she watched everything below her voraciously.
Streams transformed into ribbons, endless forests, and in the distance, the rolling green hills, like a giant dragon silently sleeping on the earth.
