Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

"Oh, yeah, take this."

While enjoying the after-dinner chatter gently, Alec took the sachet out of his pocket as he remembered. Stuffed with magic stones picked up in the tower of Silveria. Opening the contents on top of the basin raised a small cheer.

"Wow... it's beautiful."

"A bright red stone... is this, like, the one that doesn't open?

Oh, it's a magic stone of fire.

When I opened all the bags that I had made instead of the boiler into the pot, it was big enough to turn into a red mountain.

"Did it happen so much? Isn't this a good amount of money?"

Clement murmured as she picked up a grain. Anneliers also put one or two of them on their palms and looked at them with interest. Ruli took out the magic stone that Alec cherished and began to play by stroking it around with her tentacles.

"I don't mind picking it up, but I was disturbed by the noise afterwards. Clement's right. It's going to be a lot of money, so I thought we should talk to your client."

According to Guild policy, Adventurers are basically supposed to take back what they acquire during a client adventure. However, it is a policy to discuss valuables and potentially expensive items with clients and decide how to treat them.

"I've been thinking, this time I don't think we should distribute it evenly."

"Oh, are you sure? Almost half? I wonder if it's too much."

"... it's okay. Because."

Theori laughed.

"The three of us were very active. Dear Annelier... Annie left me a sketch of a rare beast that might be new, and Dennis and Bart brought the Imperials to the city. And Dennis persuaded Flor to die like that in the tower, and affirmed my... unproven past."

"That's right. And hey."

Nadia takes over Siori's words.

"Happy birthday. Take it to your anniversary."

The three looked at each other and nodded with a smile.

"If that's the case, don't hesitate to ask. Thank you, everyone."

The magic stones were split by Alec's hand.

"... it's unexpectedly round. I thought the rocks were more like stones."

Annelier says as she rolls the dispensed magic stone in her palm.

"I wonder if the generation environment was good. It's usually like a pebble."

The magic stones produced in the beast's body are mostly in the form of stones. However, in rare cases, some magical beasts drop objects close to the sphere like processed products.

I see. What a beautiful crimson... "

Annelier glanced at the magic stone picked up with her fingertips and exhaled.

"--I like red. Severely burning, but somewhere gentle and warm...."

"Oh, well. Is he in love?

As she said, Nadia glimpsed at Dennis and noticed what it meant, Annelier dyed her cheeks.

"Ah... that's not what I meant, but, yeah, maybe it is."

Dennis, who looked suspicious about what was going on, also became red after a beat. Looks like we got it.

The interior is filled with laughter that distracts and blesses the first two.

"Well... then, what a shame."

Alec laughed at each other for a moment.

"I think it's time we went back."

― ― This journey, which was short but varied, and which resulted in new friends, is over.

"... well, is that so? Are you tired already? I thought we were staying for the next night."

Annelier lowered her eyebrows and buttocks in loneliness.

"Speaking of which, I'm tired, but I'm used to it."

"That's right. Besides, I'm not running out of work."

"Hah... that's amazing. That's a pro."

"... that's right."

Balt laughed bitterly as he said it was stinging, and looked at Dennis face to face. Dennis continued on his feet.

"To tell the truth, I've had a lot of muscle pain since this morning."

That's why he lowered his eyebrows, saying that he left the breakfast party to the innkeeper.

"Not really, but I don't feel like riding a carriage today. It's tough if we don't rest for at least another day."

"I was going to get used to outdoor activities, but it was a lot of work. Ah, and maybe it's because of the magic of muscle enhancement."

Maybe, Alec laughs bitterly.

"That magic is like borrowing health. Don't push yourself, rest slowly."

"Yes, I will. It's like they're both my selfishness. I'll let you rest till you get home. I'll be busy when I get home."

We have a lot to do to announce the engagement, prepare for the wedding, rearrange the servants with it, and root out the surroundings. Although it's a celebration, it's not just fun because you're a nobleman with lots of fences and customs. Especially in these two cases.

But I'm sure they'll get over it. If the two of you decided to go beyond that arduous journey to solve the nuisance and live together for the rest of your life, I'm sure.

Ask Annelier to sign the request form and check it before placing it in her notebook.

"... ah. You can drop off here. Don't push me."

--In order to escort the resigning Shiori, we held down the three men who were going down together. Especially Dennis and Balt's muscle aches.

"Well, I'm sorry, but let me do that. Once we get down, we go up again, and this is not going to happen."

The two nodded with a bitter smile.

"... oh, I miss you. But I'm sure I'll come and see you."

Annelier hugs Siori. The scent of softness and light mint grabbed my nose. It has a refreshing and cool scent like hers.

"... yeah. I'm going to see you, too. And I write letters."

"Yeah, I'll be waiting. I promise. Thank you very much."

Thank you for your help. Also, either way. "

"Be careful and go home."

The three of them shook hands with each other, and were escorted by the girls who said goodbye - they left the inn behind.

The carriage slipped down the street, and Theori stared at the city far away from the window and at the forest holding the tower - until it could no longer be seen in the snow.

Silveria.

The land, which bears the name of the word silver in the ancient language of Stridia, glistened in a white color like a canvas, as if waiting for a new season to come to life.

- The time was around 16 o'clock.

The carriage arrived in the city of Tris as the night book descended and the world sank into the night. The carriage that stopped in front of the union (guild) dropped off with four people and ran away quietly.

It's just...

The sunset time is fast in winter, but the operating hours of the union (guild) remain unchanged throughout the year. It was all night, but there were still a few colleagues left.

"Oh, I'm so tired."

Zach, who was working with the staff to close the day, raised his face and smiled.

"I see you've finished this."

"Yeah, thanks."

After unloading the shipment and submitting the request form, Zach nodded satisfactorily as he received it and ran his eyes.

"Is satisfaction the highest rating? Well done. Did he... did he say Dennis? Are you okay?

"Ahh....."

He said he took a lot of trouble when he visited the meeting, so he was worried that something would happen.

It certainly got a little troublesome at first.

"It's okay. I wasn't a bad person. I became a friend... and I was honest and cute."

"Oh, my friend? Isn't she cute?

Zach opens his eyes and utters nothing but that. Alec and the others looked at each other and laughed.

That would be the case. Since she said it was a meeting that caused a lot of trouble and left her anxiety in terms of preparation, it is not impossible to wonder why she became a friend and how she would be evaluated as cute.

"... there's a lot going on. Well... there's something going on with him. I wondered why you would do it when you were rude to Theoli, but he was quite a man."

Alec stroked Siori's head as he said so.

I gave Zach a glimpse of what happened on this journey.

Interaction with Dennis in person for the first time, on the road, encounters with the Empire, the internal situation of the Sylveria Tower, Annelier's purpose, the flood accident, the protection of the sick.

Hearing his face in contact with the Imperial Adventurer and in a flood accident, he also showed some sympathy for the situation in Dennis - even though only slightly - and surprised at his encounter with a snowman called the Phantom Beast (Sne Troll).

"I see. If this proves to be real, it's gonna be a little noisy."

Zack murmured with a low voice about the unconfirmed beast.

"Yeah, so don't talk to the outside world until you know more."

Siori smiled bitterly while measuring the experience with the measuring instrument.

While some information will be shared in the Knights and Adventurers' Union to maintain safety and avert danger, it is visible that the presence of unknown beasts will become noisy if they are leaked outside. It will cause extra anxiety to the residents. You'd better keep your mouth shut until the beast's identity is confirmed and its tactics are known.

"I guess. After the most public announcement, it will eventually be pushed by the newspapers and interested people. You'll get stupid experience."

Zack smiled bitterly as he scratched his red-haired head as he was about to request more processing from you. Then I casually peeked into the results of Siori's measurements and whispered softly.

You've been in a long time, XP.

"Huh? Show me."

"Which one... oh"

"Wow... everyone"

Show the measurement results while Alec and the others push it from behind. The needle pointed slightly below the maximum value of the scale.

"This is... that's it. I know the snowman."

"... maybe. Wow, so much. It's not a malfunction, is it?

Measuring instruments that quantify and measure empirical values can sometimes produce unbelievable values due to malfunction.

"No, you stabbed him. It is not strange that it is contained this much. I'll measure them all."

Clement started measuring with the same measuring instrument. The needle stops up to a quarter of the scale. His level is much higher than Cili's, so he gets less experience fighting the same beast.

"Oh, yeah. This would be the case if we included the fight between the one-horned rabbit mutant and the snowman. It's okay, it's not a malfunction."

Clement narrowed her cut blue eyes and smiled.

"Really...? Good. I'm glad."

"... okay, I've added up my XP. It's me. Level it up."

"Wow, thank you, brother."

"You did it. Congratulations."

"Yeah, thanks, Alec. I knew it was different to defeat a big guy."

It was a rather subtle defeat, but it was nonetheless me who finally stabbed him. The experience gained in battle is huge. Even with backup support, of course, it's smaller than what you get when you fight the Beast directly.

This can only be explained by the fact that the empirical measuring instrument is designed based on the avant-garde position. Recently, the development of measuring instruments dedicated to backward support jobs seems to be underway, but it seems that the evaluation criteria are difficult to establish because there are more professions than avant-garde jobs, and it is still far from practical.

That's why fighting the Beast is rare and the level of backup support positions is difficult to raise, which is also a problem. Therefore, even if they were working the same way at the same party as the avant-garde, they were much lower in level. Nevertheless, your contribution as an adventurer is largely determined by client satisfaction and likelihood, except for in-party ratings, so you can get almost the same rating as an avant-garde position.

The result is a low level of backup jobs but a high adventurer rank.

In fact, Shiori is also low enough to not be considered B rank if you only look at the level. Ellen, a therapist of the same rank as Shiori, is similar, and Nils, a pharmacist holding the A rank, is completely absent from the fight, which is even lower than Shiori and the others.

Despite the low level, the unbalanced situation of the Adventurer rank is high - one of the reasons is that there are many avant-garde jobs that are uncomfortable with backup jobs. Underlying their prejudice is the inexorable idea of "sluggishness".

There is also a view that the level system should be abolished rather than the development of empirical measuring instruments, and that it should be restricted to rank-based systems only.

However, it is easy to be motivated by a level system that allows you to check your work with accumulated numerical data. And the ranking system that relies on the subjective opinions of peers and clients also has problems such as lack of fairness.

Whichever you take, it's as short as it takes. There is some opinion that we should consider a new evaluation system that incorporates the advantages of a level and rank system, but this may be far more realistic over time. This system, which was introduced at the time of the adventurers' union (guild), was made possible by the fact that the profession was not as diverse. The old system should change little by little in the future.

"Even in the rear guard position, the support system is really hard to go up."

Nadia lowered her beautiful eyebrows and groaned. Zach and Clement must have remembered something too, with a rugged look on their faces.

- The case of [Dawn]. The then Union Master altered Theoli's experience and assessment results by exploiting the problem because it was difficult to go up the level.

Even if you show even fewer experience points that were originally low, many people don't doubt it.

Few people suspected using broken measuring instruments and measuring less experience than they actually did.

[Akeshi] did not receive requests from the outside, but only from the Enemy Club (Alliance), which has become the client. It is the master's job to evaluate the results. Therefore, it would have been easy to lower the evaluation and assessment results of Ciori.

Having noticed the anomaly, Zach used the authority of the S-rank holder to call the headquarters directly, qualified as an investigator for possible misconduct involving the master, and obtained personal information that could only be seen by the master or administrative staff.

"Experience changes and assessment results figures are unnatural."

[Akeshi] After examining the documents of the members and Shiori, it seems that it was Clement who realized the possibility of falsification. Having lived with a merchant and been familiar with documents with a lot of numbers since he was a boy, he seemed to have spotted alterations from a slight discomfort.

What I learned from this is that Shiori has been gradually adding to the assessment since before joining Sunrise.

(... I'm sure you've been watching Mr. Langwald for a long time.)

The ancestral master. Sometimes he read and wrote to me and taught me magic. I thought it was like a teacher. He was a gentleman with a soft waist. He was kind to the leftovers like himself. I thought so.

I think he probably trusted me. At least I trusted Zach and the others.

So - I think that Runwald is right, and the incorrect information is gradually printed in, and as a result, that's what happened.

--Most of the time, he was watched as a prey.

"But well... you really did well."

Theori returned to me with the voice of Zack as if to bring back the thoughts that had sinked in the past.

"My nose is high that you ended the request of the prestigious Robnell family with the highest rating. It will also lead to an evaluation of the branch. Thank you all for your hard work."

The atmosphere of the venue is gorgeous to praise from the master's heart. Lori's feet trembled with joy. Alec and the others had a hard time talking to each other, and we had a pleasant conversation at the tavern tonight to celebrate, and then a voice rang from the side.

"... the Rovnell family. I miss it. I haven't heard that in a while."

I see. I wonder how many years it's been. "

Magical Swordsman Ludger and Spear Marlena. Mr. and Mrs. Lanelide.

"Do you know? It's so famous...."

Shiori, who rounded his eyes, waved that they were different.

"Hey, we're from Rovnell territory. I used to belong to that branch."

"Yes, this is a better place to earn money and the atmosphere suits you. It's been about seven or eight years."

"... that's right."

They narrow their eyes in a nostalgic manner.

"... and even so, the Rovnell family. I was a branch specialist until about ten years ago."

"I see... since the death of Mr. Gerhard and Mr. Mario, you've been completely interrupted."

Alec and Clement looked at each other in the face. Alec pressed his finger against his chin to reflect and his gaze flushed sideways, and Clement frowned in a shaped eyebrow to think of something.

"... what's wrong?

"No... hey, is that Gerhard's surname Rovnell? I have a son named Dennis...."

Mr. and Mrs. Lanelide rounded their eyes at Alec's question.

"Oh, yes, but... what, did you know Alec's husband?"

"No, I've heard a little bit about it. So, is that Mario... a tribal immigrant?

"Yeah, that's right. You're familiar with it. I wonder how famous the accident was."

"... an accident? An accident?

"Wait, Mario... hey, Mario looks like a man's name."

"Oh, I see. I didn't know if it looked like a man or a woman, but that old man was definitely a man. If you don't shut up, it's beautiful, but if you open your mouth, it's just a salvation."

At last, Siori looked at them and leaned her neck toward them as they began to look completely incomprehensible.

"Eh... hey, what's really going on? Alec"

"That's right, what's the matter with both of you? Talk to me so I can understand."

Alec and Clemens glanced at each other and looked hesitant. But I started nodding and talking right away.

"--I asked Annelier, but Dennis's father...."

"... after I ran off with a tropical woman, I felt it."

"Eh!?"

"Haaaahhh!?"

It was Ludger who shouted at the words of the two. Marlena also opened her eyes and said nothing.

"Hey... I don't know what to do about that."

"Yes... I see. I wonder if it was distorted somewhere."

Marlena said.

"It's true that they died. But Mario was definitely a man, and I can't believe he was... wrong, and he wasn't even a man. Gerhard and Mario went to collect flowers and fell to death. I suppose you tried to force me to take it from a dangerous place. I said something romantic about giving it to my wife for her wedding anniversary, so..."

Alec's signs became cold and swallowing.

"--Someone deliberately distorted the information...?

To keep Dennis away from the Rovnells - from Annelier.