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“Natalia might not see you as a candidate to date right now, but depending on how you treat her from now on that might change.”

“From what I heard Natalia was created less than a year ago as well, and she barely has any contact with regular life outside of what her duties require.”

“Natalia also seems to be very adaptable and independent, so I’m sure that’ll get better with time. It’ll all be up to how Olivia approaches her once she understands she has a valid position in this world, even if she’s part of a minority.”

“How I approach her?”

“It’s what we mentioned earlier. Natalia sees you as her mistress’ daughter, which makes approaching her harder.”

“You mean she’ll slowly and carefully have to make Natalia aware of her availability as a romantic target? Since she doesn’t see her that way now.”

The truth was that Natalia still saw Olivia as a child (regardless of her strength.) On top of that, her past life’s experience gave Natalia the image that women usually partook in a lot more skinship compared to guys, so she assumed that everything Olivia attempted was normal for girls.

“I guess she’ll need to change her behavior a lot then…huh? Olivia?”

Amy tried to look at Olivia, the center of the conversation, but it took her some time to find her squatting on the floor while hugging her head.

At first she worried Olivia was sick, but that worry was dispelled rather quickly.

“Wait, so because I’m my mom’s daughter my position makes a magic automaton’s what? And Natalia is an independent minority that…”

Olivia’s eyes were swirling as she desperately tried to follow the conversation, but it had only ended with an overdose of information that made her mumble nonsensical sentences.

“Ahh, my bad my bad, sorry for talking about so many complex topics.”
“U-umm, why don’t we just focus on how to change Olivia’s behavior towards Natalia then?”
“Are you saying I’m no good right now?”
“Yes. I think changing how you treat her is the first step to make her recognize you as a potential partner.”
“But what should I do exactly?”
“Let’s see… I guess you should just outright stop everything you did in the past.”
“…”

Olivia looked like her world was ending once again.

“Ahhhh, Olivia, I didn’t mean it in that way!”
“Oh god, you really should learn just how tricky it is to get this girl to understand something.”

Amy shook her head seeing Christina flustered and panicking, and then firmly grabbed Olivia’s shoulders and began talking to her.

“Listen up, Olivia. You have to move on from all your childish attempts.”
“Move…on?”

Amy made sure that Olivia’s eyes looked slightly alive again, then held her shoulders even more tightly.

“Yes, basically it’s time to get serious! Christina and I will research the best way to look more like a potential girlfriend, and then you’ll just have to follow our indications!”
“Time to get serious…okay, I’m in! I really like the sound of that!”

Olivia’s will to live is easily reignited, and she clenched her fists as she thought about the future with excitement.

“I like that answer. But if you want it to work you’ll have to stop hugging her or making her pat your head. Otherwise she’ll forever see you as a child.”
“Ugh…that’s so hard…but I’ll give it my best shot.”
“Good! You’ll definitely win her over!”
“Yeahhh!”
“Yeah, yeah.”

Amy and Olivia both raised their fights while screaming loudly, while Christina had mixed emotions seeing that pair of childhood friends.

When Olivia returned home, she found Natalia reading her magic textbook.

“Welcome back.”
“I’m home.”

Seeing that Olivia was back, Natalia quickly closed the textbook and stood up to bow politely.

“How was your study session with Christina?”
“Ah, uhh, it’s going well. At least I think I won’t get taken out of Classroom A now.”

In truth, Olivia had been studying romance rather than magic, but it was true that her grades had improved enough to not be dropped from the class.

“I see. I’m proud to see you’re working hard.”

Natalia smiled gently and held out her hand. She was going to pat Olivia like always. But before that could happen, Olivia decided to give it all she had to step back the moment Natalia’s fingertips reached her hair.

“Young Lady?”

That was not the usual reaction, so Natalia tilted her head while wondering what happened. Olivia took a deep breath and pushed herself to speak.

“Natalia, I’m not a kid anymore, it’s a bit embarrassing to do that now.”

Olivia spoke slowly, like reading off a script, and her smile had no confidence at all.

“You’re right, my apologies. Would you like some tea instead?”
“Yes please.”
“Okay, just give me a moment then.”

Natalia smiled like always and turned away to prepare some tea. Behind her, Olivia held her head and threw herself on her bed.

(Ughhhhhh! And she had just started patting me dailyyyyyyyy! And what was that smell right nowwww! Natalia’s scent was so closeeeeeeee! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!)

Even though she felt like dying, she had to bear with the pain. That was all part of her new fight!