Manga - Chapter 7

Bedtime Stories is the first chapter in volume 2 of the Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! manga and the 7th chapter overall.

Plot
Adele finishes her story of how she ended up in the Hunters' Prep School. She comments on how she feels blessed to have met new good friends and it's then decided they continue hunting. Before they start, Adele gives helpful magical advice to Reina and Pauline. Feeling left out Mavis approaches Adele and asks for advice on her swordwork.

The following morning, the two practice their swordplay with one another. Their practice becomes extremely intense, so much so that Mavis can barely keep up. So Adele devises another training practice involving tying a loose cloth around her waist and making sure that it doesn't touch the ground. Mavis does this, however, she immediately quits the moment she runs into a tree. Another training practice Adele suggests is hanging upside down from a tree branch and filling up a tub above them with water from a barrel below them. Mavis resolutely declares that she'll try doing this one as well. It's said that due to this harsh training she'll master a technique known as the "God Speed Blade".

That evening the girls become restless as they can't sleep. Mavis brings up her selfconsciousness over the fact that she's a mere swordsman who cannot use magic. Adele then declares her complete faith in her and tells her of a story about a kingdom that was ravaged by a dragon, was saved by a courageous Hero. With full resolution, Adele claims that she'll be able to accomplish this feat with ease one day. Mavis cogitates a scenario where she's offered to be the ruler of the land she saves by the land's princess but declines the offer. As she leaves the princess requests that she comes along with her and Mavis wholeheartedly accepts. The two then set off on their own adventures to places unknown. Reina intervenes claiming that she's never heard that kind of story before, so Adele here another one.

The plot of the story involves a cheeky young girl with a slight appearance. This girl would receive a magical staff from two cats that would allow her to change into an adult. Because of her appearance, she was scouted by an old man to become a songstress at the capital. Reina claims that she's never heard of such a magical staff with that kind of power, to which, Mavis claims that's why it must be magical. In a defiant way, Reina claims she has no need for that kind of staff and Mavis and Adele laugh over the fact. Mavis and Adele then get bonked in the head by Reina who contemplates over what she'd do with the staff. She would apparently adopt a secret identity as who can change her appearance and live as a popular diva. Then one day a fellow Hunter falls in love with her and battles the thought of revealing her true identity with her.

Pauline then requests a story for her, so Adeles tells her of one where bandits adorning yellow caps overtook a land. Three youths one brilliant, one skillful, and one strong, team together and vowed underneath a peach tree to defeat the yellow cap bandits. With their powers combined they one day manage to do so. Monika then gets the idea that if she combines her skills and caliber with her friends she'll take over the world no longer be an outcast. Now exhausted from the tales she told, Adele tries to go to bed but is stopped by her friends who want to hear more stories.

The following morning, Zorya notes how Reina, Mavis, and Pauline all look exhausted. Pauline says that Adele's stories were so fascinating they couldn't sleep and Mavis wonders where she heard of them.

Characters

 * Adele von Ascham
 * Mavis von Austien
 * Reina
 * Pauline
 * Zorya the Blizzard