And so, the idiot parents subjected me to study while ignoring what their kid wanted.
Oh well.
I guess it's good since I decided to live on seriously.
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And because of those reasons, our household decided to hire a tutor.
It seems the income as a tutor, for a noble child, is rather good.
Paul's one of the few knights in this area, and still had the status as a lower-class noble.
Thus, he's able to provide a salary befitting of his status.
But this is a village area far away from the capital.
Thus, as befitting of the border, it's rare to get outstanding talents here, let alone magicians.
Would they be able to hire someone just by sending a request to the Magic guild and the Adventurer guild?
Even though I had such worries, the unexpected thing was that we quickly found a tutor.
And that tutor will come in tomorrow.
This village had no inn, so the job offer includes accommodation too.
According to my parents' guess, the one arriving is probably a retired adventurer.
Young people won't come to the countryside, and a court magician can easily find work at the capital.
In this world, only magicians ranked advanced and above are qualified to become a magic tutor.
And consequently, an adventurer's rank is probably above intermediate.
The one coming is probably a middle-aged or old man who spent his life devoted to researching on magic.
That person probably has a beard, giving the impression of a sage.
I am Roxy.
Please give me your guidance.
But contrary to my expectations, a young girl came along instead.
She's probably of similar age to a Middle School student.
She's dressed in a brown magician's robe, her light blue hair in braids, and her compact body felt just right.
The white skin, devoid of any suntan, was accompanied with sleepy half-opened eyes.
She had curt-looking lips, and though she's not bespectacled, she does give the image of a studious girl always working in the library.
She's holding a bag in one hand, the other hand holding a staff a magician would use.
And thus, she met with the 3 of us in this house.
My parents were speechless as they look at her.
That's to be expected.
It was beyond what we expected.
We imagined the tutor to be someone who had weathered many years.
But the person who came was a little fellow like this.
To me, who had played a lot of games, a loli-like magician wasn't something out of the ordinary for me.
Loli, half-opened eyes, brusque.
With these 3 qualities, she's perfect.
Please be my wife.
"Ah-ah, you're, that, home tutor?"
"Ah, that's really."
With my parents stuttering, I quickly added, "You're really small."
"I don't want to hear that from you."
was immediately refuted.
Maybe she has a complex about it.
Even though I wasn't referring to the chest.
Roxy sighed.
"Hah."
Anyway, which one's the student I'm supposed to teach?"
She looked around as she asked.
"Ah, it's this child."
Zenith introduced me, who was in her arms.
I gave her a wink.
And she immediately widened her eyes, letting out a sigh, "Haaa."
I guess it happens from time to time, huh, that there are idiot parents who think their child has talent after growing slightly."
She quietly grumbled.
I heard that!!
Miss Roxy!!
Well, I couldn't agree more with that.
"What is it?"
"It's nothing. However, I think that child of yours doesn't understand the concept of magic, right?"
"It's fine. Our Rudi here is very talented!!"
Zenith said something any stupid parent would say.
Roxy sighed again.
"Haa, I understand."
I'll try my best.
She probably assumed it's useless to say anything else.
And with that, it's decided that in the morning, it'll be Roxy's lessons, and in the afternoon, it'll be swordsmanship studies under Paul.
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"Well, let's start from the magic textbook... No, before that, let's test how much magic you can use, Rudi."
For the first lesson, Roxy brought me into the courtyard.
The magic lessons are mostly done outdoors.
She too understands what'll happen if magic is used in the house.
And she won't break the wall like I did, "Let me demonstrate.
Bestow the protection of water to the place where thou demands, let the crystal clear stream appear here, TWater ball.
When Roxy recited the spell, a basketball-sized water bullet was formed in her hand.
It flew towards one of the trees at high speed.
Crash.
The branches snapped easily, and the fence got soaked.
Size 3, speed 4.
Around there, I guess.
"How's that?"
"Yes."
That tree's one Mother raised with such care.
I guess Mother will be angry.
"Eh!?"
"Really?"
"No doubt."
There was that one time when Paul swung his sword and cut the branches.
The fury Zenith had wasn't just the ordinary level of terror.
"Isn't this bad?"
Got to think of something...
Roxy frantically ran to the tree and picked up the fallen branches.
And with her face red, she took the branches.
"Uu... let the power of God be converted into a bountiful crop, and bestowed into one's who had lost their strength to stand up once again, [Healing]'"
It's another chant.
And the branches are back to how they were before.
"Phew."
Wow.
Amazing.
Anyway, got to praise her.
"Phew."
"Teacher, you know how to use healing magic!!"
"Eh, yeah."
I have no problems up to the intermediate rank.
"Amazing!! That's amazing!!"
"No, if you train properly anyone can do things to that extent."
But though her response was somewhat curt, the corners on her lips showed otherwise by curling upwards, and her nose seemed to twitch slightly, proudly.
She's happy.
I only shouted "amazing" twice, and she's already this happy.
That's too easy.
"Now then, Rudi. Try that."
"Okay"