Hi, this is Mai.
I am the Spirit who presides over the magic of fire attributes.
I had signed a subpoena with the human race Hart to make it manifest to the human world, but now I am the wife of that Hart.
My sister, May of the Water Spirit, is also the wife of Master Hart with me.
The Spirit Clan doesn't originally have a family name, but marrying Master Hart gave me a family name, too.
I really like that name.
So let me name you too.
Again, it's Mai-Ernor.
Best wishes.
Now, in the Ernoll family, all Hart's wives take turns in household chores every day.
I was always in charge of chores with May.
Let me introduce you to our day's work like that.
Me and May were on dinner duty today.
Dear Hart, I have to cook morning, noon and evening meals for twelve wives, including myself and May, and then the fourteen Elnors named Shiloh of the Divine Beast.
Occasionally, Lord Silf, the Spirit King of the Wind, is there to play with, so when there are many, it's for fifteen.
Yesterday's chore duty was a buyout.
At the Ernore family, we go to buy ingredients that we use to make the next day's rice with our necessities. The next day, the people on dinner duty will be on buyout duty.
Tina will give you the money to buy ingredients.
Even as a penny, you give me a lot of money, but we spirits, we're not that appetizing, are we?
So the pennies Tina gave me are saving up with very little money.
One day, Mae and Hart and I would wish we could go on a trip or something.
But if I were to go, Tina would likely follow me, wouldn't she?
If Tina's going, so is Yoko and Rifa.
Hehe. I don't know, he's going to be there for the whole family.
In the end, that's my usual family vacation, but I love family vacations I go with everyone, so I'd like to suggest a trip when I save a full penny.
With the allowance Tina gave me, it's a weird story to take Tina on a trip.
How the hell is Tina making so much money?
"Mai? I'm confused, what's wrong?
Oh, I've been thinking too much, and May worried me.
"Sorry, nothing. Rice mackerel"
"Yeah!"
With May, I started cooking using the ingredients I bought yesterday.
I baked fish for breakfast today, cooked rice, and made miso soup.
Grilled fish and miso soup are your favorite dishes, Hart.
Rice also belongs to Phonost, a Far Eastern island country that Hart likes.
Master Hart is a reincarnator from different worlds, but the rice from the original world seems similar to the rice from Phonost, and that's my favorite.
With Phonost and a mansion like Hart's, Glendale is so far away, but me and May are spirits.
Once you return to the Spirit world, you are free to appear anywhere in the human world.
But like Hart, you can't take someone and transfer them.
It's something I've been able to do since I was born, so I don't even know how I come and go between the human and spiritual worlds.
Aside from that, the important thing is that we can prepare the rice that Master Hart likes.
This is not something that you can do very well. Because Phonost and Glendale are so far away.
Normally, you can't.
Yeah, normally...
There are a number of people in the Ernoll family who will be able to go all the way to Phonost and come back in just one day of buyout.
Looks like Mr. Yoko, Mr. White Ya, and Mr. Citrie can travel super fast, and sometimes even go to buy out countries farther than Phonost.
Our ability to go far enough to buy out doesn't make us much of an advantage in the Ernore family.
So here, it's a battle with flavor and appearance!
Honestly, Mr. Yoko's cooking is that... somehow, it doesn't look good.
Tina is a good mentor, so it's not unsavory.
But meat can be burnt, or vegetable cuts can be inconsistent.
I am the Spirit of Fire.
Among its spirits, it is a fairly high place.
Thanks to the massive amount of magic given to Master Hart, I am now proud to say that it may be enough to line up with Lord Ifried, the Spirit King of Fire.
... Excuse me.
I'm on track.
Equivalent to the Spirit King is too much to say.
But it's a great fire spirit about the next time Mr. Ifried does. And Master Ifried is not the Spirit that manifests itself all the time.
In other words, I am the best magician in the world when it comes to the handling of fire.
It's impossible to scorch food.
Even when you dare to burn, you can adjust for the best addition and subtraction.
Today's baked fish, perfect.
The rice also looked deliciously cooked.
By the way, it's water to cook rice, but I use the spiritual water May served me.
Of course, in miso soup.
This spiritual water treats any disease with a sip and extends its life expectancy by a year if a healthy human drinks it - such super rare water.
May, like me, received a great deal of magic from Master Hart to become a Spirit King.
Such is the spirit water that she is able to produce only a few liters a week.
It looks, tastes and smells normal water.
So there's no way you'll ever find out that we're sneaking around extending the life of everyone in the family.
We spirits don't have a lifespan.
If you spend it normally, Master Hart will be dead in less than a hundred years.
After a thousand years, Tina and Rifa will also be gone.
After 10,000 years, Mr. Yoko and Mr. White Ya--
Oh no, I miss you too much!!
The Elnors are all protected by the Creator God, so maybe their life expectancy is extended to some extent.
Still, life expectancy is finite.
That's why Me and May extend everyone's life with rice.