I took a huge breath of the forest air in the morning.
"It feels so refreshing~" -Ruri
『freshing~』
『ing~』
Fairies around me were imitating my actions.
It has been a few days since I've started living with Chelsea. Although I was saddened by the reality of not being able to return to my old home, I was actually starting to enjoy these day-without-Asahi of mine.
I was given an empty room to call mine in this huge house. With the sheer number of rooms and size of the house itself, it's hard to imagine only one person was staying in it.
My life here was filled with surprise.
I was utterly amazed at the way magic was executed in this world. Not in a good way tho.
The usual method for borrowing the power of the fairy is by imagining the result you want in your head and basically, pray to the fairy.
It might sound stupidly easy, but there was no guarantee that the resulted magic will be the same as imagined by the magic user. The magic capacity and wavelength of the user influences the result greatly.
You could say that it all depends on whether the fairies like your wavelength or not.
While we are at the topic about my wavelength, It seems that even fairy that is in contract with Chelsea loves it so much that they would do anything I ask of them. Understandably, Chelsea scolded me for having 'too strong of a magic power' and ordered me to suppress the amount I use/leak.
After being told that 'Learning to control your power is part of your training', I continued to train myself to use magic that won't cause any damage to my surrounding.
At first, I wasn't sure what 'magic' really was. But after using it for a while, I was slowly getting the hang at 'feeling' the weird sensation of something flowing out of my body every time is use magic. I was able to relate that sensation later as the outflow of magic power from my body.
At first, whenever I tried to 'limit my magic power', there was the occasional hiccup of failing to do so. However, once I got used to the flow of magic power within me, I was able to control the power output without failure.
Things changed quite dramatically after that.
Specifically my duties of doing the cleaning, cooking, and laundry that I promised to do as payment for my stay here.
Cleaning was done by gathering the trash into one spot with wind magic, and fire magic to incinerate it.
Laundry was done with a magic called 'Purification'. A special type of water that would only remove stains from the clothing without wetting it. Really makes life easier, this magic.
Because the water from purification magic was safe to be used on both cloth and human skin, I became a little bit dejected. If only I knew about this magic back when I was still in the forest, I wouldn't have to run all about sticky ickily…
As for the matter of food, magic wasn't used for it. Instead, I received a lot of fruits and nuts from the fairies. The fairies were doing it to make me happy. Chelsea just gave me a deadpan stare the whole while.
Now then, for the reason I've woke up early today, It's bath time!
Even though I was told that the need for a shower was mute seeing as there was the purification magic, as a j.a.panese, I can't abandon the idea of having a nice long soak in a bathtub.
Compared to purification magic, water creation magic is something even the lousiest of magic user could use. As long as your affinity with water fairy isn't zero, you could easily make water anytime you like. That contributes to the absent of 'soaking in a bathtub' culture in the Dragon Kingdom as there was no reason to have a public bath if anybo
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dy could create water for themselves to use for shower and stuff.
Still, because of my constant nagging and stubbornness in convincing Chelsea the greatness of j.a.panese bath, she reluctantly gave me permission to make my own bathtub in the backyard.
"Alright then! Let's start construction!" -Ruri
『Of what～?』
『Something called a 'bathtub'』
『What's a bathtub?』
『No idea~~』
I started imagining the picture of a tub in a small log house as detailed as possible.
Soon, branches that were seemingly alive came shooting out from the ground and started interweaving into the shape of the log house I had imagined in my mind.
I took a victory pose.
"Hooray~ Magic is omnipotent! You guys are really awesome!" -Ruri
『We were praised~』
『We're awesome~』
The fairies that were praised by me danced in the sky happily.
Without wasting time, I opened the door and was greeted with the changing room. Further inside was a private open-air bath closely resembling the ones you could find in a 5-star j.a.panese inn. Indeed a splendid wooden bath house if I say so myself.
Once filled with the final most important component called 'hot water', the perfect bathtub would finally be complete.
Hey, you can't blame me for being excited!
After filling the tub with hot water created by my magic, I undressed in the changing room and entered the bathtub. I was fully immersing myself in the sensation of soaking in a j.a.panese bath which I've waited for so long.
Joining in the fun, the fairies too was comfortable floating in the tub.
"This is heaven~" -Ruri
During the time Ruri was enjoying her bath, a letter had arrived for Chelsea back in the house.
The sender was Chelsea's grandson Joshua, who was working as an intelligence agent in the Dragon Kingdom.
The content of the letter was pertaining the news concerning the Shrine Princess and the prophecy.
According to the investigation, the people around Asahi was abnormally drunk with loyalty for her. However, it doesn't seem as it'll be much of a problem.
There was evidence of Asahi using charm magic. But whether she was doing it on purpose or not, it was determined that the magic power of the person herself is not that high.
It was deemed that Asahi has quite the amount of magic capacity, but the 'charm' magic she used only affects people who stay in close proximity to her for a long period of time. Otherwise, the effect of the magic wouldn't take root.
However, in the stories told by Ruri, those who came in contact with Asahi would turn into something akin her loyal slave.
This difference in result was probably due to the fact that magic exists in this world and not in the other. In a world where magic wasn't even a concept, the resistance people have for magic differs from the people who were used to it their whole life. At least, that was what Chelsea thought.
As the people in the other world lack magic resistance, the charming effect was at a different level.
'Even medicine would lose its effect after taken too much' sort of situation.
As for the citizens of Nadarsia, the reason they revered her even though they weren't charmed was hugely due to the prophecy.
What stated in the prophecy was that a Shrine Princess sent from another world would bring prosperity to the country. But if the country does not act according to the will of the Shrine Princess, the country would be lead to destruction by her.
That's why when Ruri was accused of 'attempt murder of the Shrine Princess', everybody else other than the charmed Prince acted as erratically as they did.
What had happened was certainly misfortunate of Ruri. But Chelsea was glad it happened the way it did.
The country called Nadarsia was never fond of demi-humans. Envious of the fact that demi-humans occupied more land than they do, countless wars were initiated by them in the past.
Demi-humans are naturally born with some sort of power in them. The 'wars' are just the petty excuse used by the country with the 'humans are the superior race' mindset to get rid of other countries with people from the demi-human race.
It was obvious which country was doing better.
Chelsea shivered at the thought of things that could happen if Ruri was involved in such a stubborn country.
The king of the Dragon Kingdom is the strongest individual in the strongest race of the world, the dragon race.
And Ruri is an individual from the race that has the least amount of magic potential, the human race. However, her magic power is comparable to the dragon king's and she is loved by the fairies.
Occasionally, there are people the fairies show interest in. But helping those who got lost in the forest, or bring food for them, is not something the fairy would do.
Fairy governs everything in this world.
Their outlook may by cute, but they could easily destroy a whole country if they were angered.
Chelsea felt that the fairy treated Ruri like how a mother would treat her children.
Safe to say that if anything bad happens to Ruri, the fairy will launch a retaliation.
If Ruri was taken in by a country that wants to get rid of demi-humans and was planted of that idea…
The demi-humans would probably be slaughtered by humans.
What's scary was that Ruri doesn't even notice that herself.
Those were the words from the letter.
"I guess it would be bad if I leave her alone. " -Chelsea
Chelsea stood up and heads towards the location of Ruri.
"Haa~ You just can't go wrong with a j.a.panese bath. Ah, Chelsea-san. How about you Chelsea-san, wanna have a go? It's really comfortable." – Ruri
Just as I finished my bath, Chelsea came in the log house with a serious expression.
"Ruri, may I have a bit of your time?" -Chelsea
"Hmm? Yeah sure, what's up?" -Ruri
I don't think I've done anything bad at this point of time, but I prepared myself for a lecture nonetheless.
"You went through quite the ordeal at Nadarsia, haven't you? Do you by any chance…hold contempt towards Nadarsia?" -Chelsea
"Of course! It's my first target of my revenge!" -Ruri
I answered without hesitation.
Hearing that, Chelsea spoke with a tense voice.
"When you say revenge, what do you plan on doing?" -Chelsea
"I wanna make them cry! I wanna have them squeal down before me!
I want to punch the root of all my misfortune, Asahi; my former cla.s.smates and the Prince who made up a false charge against me; the king and priests that kidnapped me here; the soldier that kicked me; I want to have them lined up and taste my fist of fury!! " -Ruri
"Ah… I see…" -Chelsea
Chelsea was looking at Ruri dumbfounded but was feeling relieved at the same time.
She was probably glad that the 'revenge' Ruri had in mind was quite docile.
"If so, I have a small request." -Chelsea
"What's that?" -Ruri
"Actually, Nadarsia is currently unable to use magic. No matter how much they call for the fairies, they wouldn't answer them." -Chelsea
"Why?" -Ruri
Instead of Chelsea, the fairies that were flying around me answered.
『Those people are bullies. 』
『Punishment~』
『Because Ruri said she wanted revenge, this is their punishment.』
『We hate people that bullies Ruri. 』
One after another the fairies took turns speaking up. Although their voice sounded lighthearted, hint of anger could be felt in it.