Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

Finish a warm, well-fed breakfast in preparation for the heavy workload on your way back. Eulia, who had no appetite, was given warm berry syrup water, and Flor, who was willing to eat a little, was given soup without utensils.

After breakfast, split the luggage between the two.

"Let's do our best to get back to Silveria by the end of the day. The closer you get to the city, the lower your chance of encountering Magic Beasts, so there's a little danger, but even if the sun goes down, you should aim for the city. If you don't arrive, I'll call for help first. Choose the luggage you want to leave with that intention."

On Alec's instructions, we decided on the items to be disposed of.

Each individual's non-food items were consumed over a three-day period and packed in a spare cilantro's back sack. If there is no problem with some bathing tools or toiletries, and it is easy to replace them, it is decided to leave them here. In this way, the empty space was filled by sharing clothes, blankets, tents, etc.

"I can't help it. Do you want to throw away anything but alcohol that you noticed?"

"Please throw it away. It's too ominous."

I still have it at home.

"... dispose of it when you get back"

Each of them packed their luggage while tilting their necks to a conversation that only Alec and Clement could understand.

Then apply thick clothing to Flor and Eulia, and then wrap a blanket around it to protect against the cold.

Finally, the campsite was completely dismantled by pulling out the boundary pile.

The order of transporting the two sick people was initially Alec and Lori. The rest was decided to change every hour. Dennis and Balt are fighting fatigue less often than the Adventurers.

"All right, here we go. Let's make a detachment and get out of here. The man is leaving. I'm sorry, but give up."

I wish I had taken one of the remains or one of the artifacts, but I had no choice because I didn't expect this to happen.

Flor nodded slightly when he opened his closed eyelids.

"... don't worry. Only the body is left behind. Only the soul will return home."

--Two cousins, Sergei, who was also a playmate when she was young. You can't go back to the dirt, but the lightened soul will return to the place of memory.

He was an uncomfortable man, but this is how he mourns. The connection between people is not a matter of reason. Complex and pathetic - but warm.

"Siori, please take the exit. It should be as big as one person can get in and out. I know you're tired, but make sure you get better. I have enough spare magic healing medicine. Use it without hesitation to avoid accumulating fatigue due to lack of magic. Ready?"

"Yeah, okay."

Starting from the lighting window, I developed earth magic to create a desorption exit and looked down from there. Push up the cobblestone and get off like a lift.

"I'll make you protrude. The distance to the bottom increases the magic consumption, so I'll split it down twice, okay?"

"Yeah, you do it the easy way."

"Understood. - The earth rises!

The cobblestone beneath the tower is magically pushed up with earth. That's the weight of it, and it wasn't high enough just once, so I magically interfered again and pushed it up to the fourth floor height.

Clement, Nadia, and Annelier rode about two meters away. Meanwhile, I took magic healing medicine and recovered, and when the five of them finished riding, I developed earth magic again. Lower it slowly so that there is no danger.

"--don 't run away and live up to your responsibilities...? My ears hurt."

Alec, who was looking down, murmured.

"Lord Dennis... you fought by the side of Lord Annelier without escape."

Feeling like blaming himself in his voice, Theori looked up at him. The eyes of the five people who should arrive below and descend from the cobblestone lift in turn are shaking somewhere unreliably, as if they were staring at a distance that is not here.

"... Alec?

When I gently touched the hand, I was gently gripped back.

"--when I was much younger. I threw everything away and ran away."

I haven't heard much about his past.

"I pushed my brother into all the trouble, and I ran away. At that time, I thought that was the best thing, but I still think that if I worked hard without running away, maybe there would have been different results. My brother sent me away pleasantly, but I'm sure he was... thoughtful."

He laughed small. Weak, self-taunting.

"... then there was another person who was badly hurt. I did more dishonesty than ever. Thanks to you, I was so angry that I ran into an outrageous rumor... but I couldn't bear it. I'm still dreaming about it."

I got a signal from Clement who went down earlier. Expand the earth magic again and push the cobblestone up to the height of the de-export.

"... an outrageous rumor?

--I still dream about it.

His nightmare overtook him.

Alec lent his shoulders to Flor and got on the lift. With his shoulder lengthened, he leaned forward slightly, and his forehair hid his blue eyes. His expression, hidden in his long forehair and visible only around his mouth, was not well understood, but only when he saw his lips engraved in the form of a slight smile, Siori took a small breath.

That was because laughter was so sad and painful - and the edge of his lips seemed to tremble.

He said.

"On the contrary, my memories are worthless to me..."

――

I don't know what the relationship between the person and him was and what it was like to throw such a dialogue. But it's a word that's too poisonous for anger to throw up and throw away.

Having memories of him must have been the one who stayed with him for a long time. And he was badly injured by running away.

Beyond his side he looked up, feeling like he felt a sign of a woman he didn't know why for a moment, Siori turned away without thinking.

After confirming that Luli, who wrapped Eulia around, was on the lift, she concentrated on the cobblestone at her feet and slowly lowered it downwards.

"... was it painful?

"Oh, I trusted him as much as I trusted my brother. Now I don't know if that was a word of anger or a word of sincerity... but I'm really worried that this is a punishment for me for running away."

--- Denial of existence from a person who trusted me.

(... but it's not worth it to Alec, so... it's like he was by Alec's side because there was something delicious about it.)

I don't need it. I know the pain and pain because I was told once.

--Not for anybody. I have never lived to satisfy someone's desires. I survived with all my strength because I just wanted to live.

I'm sure a lot of people, not just themselves, are. Live for yourself, not for anyone else. It makes sense to live for yourself. I think it would be a pleasure if it helped someone on top of that.

"I don't know what the reason was, but I don't think it's important to say anything to people that denies their existence. It's not a life for that person. It's not like it's worth it or anything... because Alec is Alec, good..."

With the momentum on the spot, he began to express his thoughts, and noticed that Flor and Eulia, who were supported by Alec, were looking at each other with their eyes closed, followed by Eulia, who was wrapped in Louis at their feet. Theori frowned.

"Su... what?

"Uh-huh, nothing."

Misguided in a hurry, Alec looked a little sad.

"I thought you might like to hear some good words."

"Nothing!

Flor and Julia laughed slightly.

"... it doesn't seem like my body is just hot because of the heat."

"... that's right. I feel like I'm getting a bit more and more fever."

While they moan with a high fever, they giggle somewhere fun. I stared at them like that.

"You look fine! I'll leave you alone if you're feeling better!

"I'm sorry. Take me with you. I've decided to live."

Flor said it would be painful with a bad fever.

"I was raised with taxes my people scraped myself up. This body is made of their blood tax. This life is mine and theirs too. That's why we can't waste our lives here."

A snow-miscible wind from below rolls up the edge of the blanket and rolls up his sandy forehair. When he pulled up the blanket and repacked it, he looked small and bowed before looking forward.

"... Stridia is a good country. The country is rich, even though the environment is not that different from Dolgusto's. Over the years, the wasteland will be opened up, and the land and crops will be improved and enriched. I'm sure the King... is better than the one who stands up."

Just as the king and his successors were foolish, the Empire followed the path of decline.

Instead of turning away from the poor and the lean lands, he tried to make up for the shortfall by taking away the land of his rich neighbor. For this reason, a drastic conscription was carried out, and as a result the number of serfs decreased, tax revenues decreased more and more, and the recession accelerated.

"... many lords set out to improve, but they lost it late. The situation was too bad to be helped by the efforts of one lord, but all petitions to the central government were ignored. That's why we gather people from each house to fish for the artifacts of the past in order to secure funds..."

Of course, only a handful returned the artifact. Most of them, like the Rahmanins, could not be recovered after they had already been taken away by someone, and the money to return to the country ran out, and while doing so, civil unrest broke out and remained in the kingdom.

That said, Flor looked down sadly.

"The kings and nobles of this country are healthy. Politicians understand their position and what to do. As you come to this country and travel around, you will know it very well. Because the people are for the nobles. Nobles are here for the people. We were kept alive by the people. In return, I had to be more attentive to the people, but why didn't I notice it earlier? Even the Sergei already realized the reality, but he couldn't abandon the ridiculous pride of the Empire aristocracy, so he made his life worse than the lives of his people."

"... stop it. If you get too excited, you get sick."

Alec's quiet voice softened him.

"The Empire may be over, but you're still alive. I realized it alive. Once you've healed yourself, you should go to the refugee camp. You live there with the people, and you decide how to live from now on."

--The road will never be easy.

"... oh, that's what I'm going to do. But I don't know if we'll be able to live in peace as nobles."

"That's up to you. It appears that there are also clans of lords in the camp who fled with them while protecting their people. If you're willing to stay close to the people like them, I hope..."

"... ahh. Thank you."

The lift reaches down.

Alec challenged the magic of muscle enhancement and bore Flor with the help of Clement, who had gone down earlier.

All right, let's go.

Everyone nods at his words. Louis cared for Yulya, wrapped up, or trembled smaller than usual.