"Uwaaaahh! UUGH UHHHG!" My moans could practically be heard across the forest as I struggled to pull water out of the well near Buster's house. For the love of god, hadn't he heard of a pulley or some other tool like that to pull water a little easier!? I was breaking my back over here!
"GIIIIHHG! YIEEEEE!" Still, barely halfway out, I am about to get a hernia as I almost start falling inside the water well when Buster catches me and lifts the water bucket like it was nothing with his left hand just looking at me funny like I was some sort of small crying wimp.
"I'm sorry for sending you to do this task. I forgot you're still a kid." Buster says, all while cleaning the sweat off my forehead with some old rag while I pant on the floor like a tired dog or something of the sort. I'm just tired, and so done with the day after using all my strength on one task.
"Tell you what, I'll let you do some cleaning or something else for the day; I'll cut the wood myself. Don't worry about it." Oh man, now I felt patronized, but he wasn't wrong. After struggling with the water, I really felt useless, but to my defense, his bucket was about as big as me, so cut me a break!
I may be stronger than a regular kid, but I am not a Hulk, or something overpowered like that. I can't have things too easy over here; I am not a Yoimiya, after all. Did I just rip off another slightly more successful series like that by the same editor? Oh man, I am the best!
Small cameo aside, life in this new world and body was not as easy as I thought it would be. The latest reincarnation trail is not as easy as I thought, but at least I wasn't under the tyranny of some old fart like in my first run, so I would make the best of this one even if it were proving to be complicated.
To be honest with you, life as a girl is far more complicated than I anticipated. I thought it was all fun and rainbows, but the things girls must worry about are terrifying. For starters, I have to be constantly on the lookout for the next predator since pedophilia seems like the hottest thing in town for these people.
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I can't sit with my legs wide open anymore and must always behave in a certain way so I look cute and appeal to the desires of the males around me so they keep helping me; I am sure that if I had a shitty attitude toward Buster, he would not keep on putting up with me.
I guess both genders have their pros and cons. It just sucks I am stuck on the role of the one who is never supposed to talk back or come up with ideas because I am, believe it or not, considered more stupid than my male counterparts, or at least I was in my first reincarnation.
Boys and girls both go to school in this world, but boys clearly get the magical education while all we are taught is basic math and basic things like how to read and write, all while the boys are getting all of that plus magical lessons on how to use attack magic, it's all fucked up.
In any case, I didn't learn anything in school anyway, and I'd rather forget about that time in the brothel. If I am being honest, I can already see the Rule 34 fan service drawings of me if my story gets into commercial trade as a manga or anime permits it.
Anyway, as far as today was concerned, all I had to do was get inside Buster's house, grab a rag and some water, and dust things off there as he told me to. It was a little ironic how I now cleaned someone else's house, but back in my world, I never bothered to clean my room; it was kind of embarrassing, but hey! I already told you I used to be a Neet.
I stumble upon some of Buster's dirty clothes on the floor as I go on cleaning, as well as pieces of uneaten food and other random debris that I sort out in a controlled fashion. If you were wondering why I mentioned my attitude before, let's just say that being a bossy girl when someone is already lending you a helping hand is not really helpful, talking about your 'Snowwhite remake.'
That's why even when I knew I would struggle to pull the water out, I still tried even if, in the end, Buster had to come to my rescue because he gave me an impossible task. I really need to figure out how to make a pulley in this world as soon as possible since I know I can multiply my strength with leverage.
I don't know how pulleys work if I am being honest, as I didn't pay much attention to physics class history, but I do know that it was how some cranes operated since my dad used to be a crane operator for years, and would never shut the hell up about it.
As far as I am concerned, a pulley worked by redirecting all of my strenght to the object I try to lift by removing my initial weight from the equation since whenever you try to lift something, you also have to lift yourself along with the weight. Therefore you're letting the pulley to do part of the lifting for you or something like that.