In short, since she’d gotten her hands on the cookbook, Floedina had apparently cooked things like sweets every single day. Furthermore, Floedina herself said she’d been intent on cooking up every single recipe in the book.
And so, they ate dessert after every single meal. Not only that, she even gave them sugary snacks to munch on while they took breaks during training. And yet, after completing every recipe in the cookbook, Floedina continued making their favorite sugary treats from it.
“Back then, I was completely obsessed with cooking and eating. And so, before I realized it…” Floedina said, her eyes looking far off as she recalled to herself what’d happened.
Apparently, after this had gone on for a while, every one of the sisters except for Alfina had grown quite a bit plumper than they were now.
“But… I mean, every single day we had such delicious food!”
“Back then…we couldn’t possibly resist the temptation.”
Elievina and Selestina interjected, hanging their heads in shame as if they were now rather disappointed in themselves when they thought back on that time. As they told Mira, while some of the sisters became plumper than others, it was those two and Christina who were hit the hardest. This was particularly true for Christina, who was a prolific eater.
“It was all Floedina’s fault!” Christina shouted, her dark secret now exposed. And, laying the blame entirely at Floedina’s feet for having made too many delectable treats, she began asserting that she was in fact a victim.
This may have been a fairly irrational take, but more than half of the sisters had agreed, and so they deemed sweets to be off limits.
“I see… So that’s what happened. So…you said you got heavier, but just how much heavier exactly?”
The sisters were currently quite slim, so much that Mira never would’ve expected that to have been the case. So, just how much weight had the girls gained during this period which seemed so painful for them to revisit? After all, different people defined gaining too much weight in different ways, so it was actually quite vague. And so, simply curious, Mira came right out and asked. Just how much did they gain?
Now, one might very well say that asking a girl such a thing is strictly off limits. And if Mira hadn’t looked like a young girl and if she hadn’t been the sisters’ master, then they would’ve simply written off the question as being disrespectful and refused to answer.
“Well…”
However, she did look like a young girl, and she was their master, and so Alfina disclosed the answer.
Elezina, Floedina, and Charwiena had all gained a little over ten pounds. Elievina and Selestina had gained about fifteen. Or so Alfina reported matter-of-factly. Every time she uttered one of the sisters’ names, the sister in question would grimace. And finally, she uttered the very last name.
“And Christina… She gained closer to thirty-five pounds.”
This must’ve been pretty bad, as Alfina heaved a sigh as she spoke even though she’d talked very matter-of-factly the entire time. A second later, a cry of “Nooo” tore through the air. Without needing to check, Mira knew immediately that the pained shriek had belonged to Christina.
In short, the reason for the blanket ban on sugary foods was for the sake of dieting.
Since then, Floedina had been forbidden from making any sugary delights, and so such sugary foods no longer made their way to the dining table. Additionally, alongside the diet, there’d been a special training regimen added to their normal training session. Alfina had been eating the exact same food as her sisters, and yet she hadn’t gained any weight because she always subjected herself to even more grueling training than her sisters. And so, this explained the addition of the special training session to their usual regimen.
“Hrmm… So that’s what happened, huh?”
Given that she now knew the reason behind the absence of sugary foods from the sisters’ diet, Mira couldn’t help but agree with Alfina.
“Aww… Masterrr…” Christina said mournfully, as the air was filled with groans from the other sisters, disappointed that Mira, their only hope, had taken Alfina’s side.
However, hope wasn’t completely gone.
“It seems like you had no choice but to cut out sugary food. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that that still needs to be the case, no?”
According to their story, the whole incident with them getting fat from eating too many sugary snacks happened over a decade ago. And the sisters were now quite vocal in their displeasure about this ban on sweets and the continued special training. Knowing this, Mira suggested something to Alfina. She pointed out that the diet had been a success, and that they were now all in very good shape. Therefore, so long as they continued the diet and training, wouldn’t it be okay to have the occasional sugary treat once a day, two or three days a week?
“Eating sugary food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack, like you guys did back then, isn’t normal by any stretch of the imagination. So of course you gained weight. But if you pay closer attention to just how much you’re consuming, then you won’t get fat all of a sudden.”
Understandably feeling bad for the sisters, Mira continued trying to convince Alfina, buoyed by the younger sisters’ unspoken support. That is, trying to convince the eldest sister that sweets were nutritious for the soul.
“Yes, what you’re saying is correct, Master… We can probably have them in moderation now.”
Not surprisingly, being that it was Alfina, Mira’s words seemed to be particularly impactful. She then answered that she’d talk with Floedina about occasionally incorporating sugary food into their meals from now on.
The moment she did, an exuberant cheer went up from the younger sisters, led by Christina. Alfina looked astonished to see this, and yet a rather warm smile also played on her lips. Meanwhile, Mira chuckled softly to herself as she took in this whole scene.