Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

--I 'm not from this world.

It took time to understand the meaning of the word, and Alec and Zach remained silent and rigid. In a room where you can't hear a single sound as if you've forgotten to breathe. I can only hear the noise in the conversation room from the other side of the door.

Dozens of seconds or a few more minutes. The sound of a snow carriage passing through the window breaks the long silence.

Siori glanced up at the faces of the two men, who could not bear the silence. What's floating there is confusion - vigilance, right?

--Oh, it's over.

Face down again, unable to stand their gaze.

They might have thought you were a liar. You might have thought she was crazy. You may have lost everything you've built up, your trust, your whereabouts. Even my beloved lover and brother's warm heart may have been lost.

Such thoughts fill Shiori's chest with regret and despair.

But I couldn't help but say.

I was expecting it somewhere in my mind. I was hoping that maybe it was just the past of the original world. I meditated on the existence of magic, magical beasts, and different maps, and even though I expected that maybe the same world would end up just because the times were different, even such a small hope was smashed.

I couldn't help but feel disappointed when I was reminded that it was completely different, even though it was similar to my hometown. And I didn't want to be born and raised in that world anymore. It was hard to keep it hidden.

However, as a result, it occurred to me that I might have to let go of my days with these warm people, and Siori thinks blurrily in Alec's arm, which has stopped moving.

(I wonder... where to go next)

Many friends have been blessed here. However, I don't feel like living here while enduring the gaze of seeing strange things directed at me by my lover and brother.

(... I wonder if Ruli will follow me.)

I was sure that this free friend, who was not tied to anything, would come with me. Even now, she is still rubbing her feet.

Where should I take my rugged friend?

Now let's go south. Or should I leave the country with all my heart? The neighboring countries seem to have a common language, so it shouldn't be a problem with words. And unlike four years ago, we now have the technology. I also have knowledge.

After all, you might want to take me to Mizuho's country because I've changed my mind. You'll have to remember the words, but Yae or someone will tell you. If it were an Eastern country with a similar figure, it would certainly be less conspicuous.

(Ah, but... maybe they're both great people.)

One royalty. The other is not just a civilian to know about when he was young. Maybe it's a subordinate relationship. In other words, the two people who were hiding their identities and working in the city well might not remain silent and overlook the suspicious woman who knew who she was, or on the contrary, they might be erased - to that extent, Shiori stunned with so much despair that she meditated strongly.

When I completely stopped thinking and forced my body to stretch, I felt a warm and big hand on my tear-cold cheeks. Behind the elevated gaze were purple blue eyes staring down. It is by no means cold. Her eyes are as soft and warm as usual.

"... you're about to die. I don't know what to think."

"It's not even a rag....."

I don't know if it's nothing, but Shiori, who was imagining being slaughtered by a loved one right now, murmured with a feeling he couldn't say anything about.

"... I thought my life was over."

I can tell by myself that I've only lived for a few years. I heard rumours from newspapers, magazines, colleagues, and people in the city that assassinations and murders, if not as old as old times, were being carried out. Sometimes spies mixed in with immigrants and refugees are ignored.

If so, the existence of yourself may be erased. Instead of being physically erased from the world socially - if you think that the result of desperately trying to live without wanting to waste your life in a strange world may be dealt with as a distracted suspicious person, you also feel like you are dead.

Theoli looked up at Alec again. Zack still stood silent with his confused face, but at least Alec didn't feel disgusted or insulted by his expression. I just lowered my eyebrows and buttocks as if it was a little troublesome.

I have an idea what you're worried about.

He said while playing with Shiori's back hair at his fingertips.

"Mostly, you thought we'd kick you out or erase you."

"... yeah. Because."

It's not just an unidentified person, it's a person with circumstances that are not strange to think they're touching you. If Alec's identity had been as expected, I would not have been in a good position to approach him in the first place. Even though I didn't intend to do that from the beginning, I had a situation where I couldn't complain even if it was erased.

"... Shiori"

Alec, who listened silently, exhaled a long sigh and gently stroked Siori's back.

"As I said before, I accept who you are. That feeling hasn't changed even now. Besides..."

His fingertips wipe the Shizukuzuku that remains at the corner of Shiori's eyes.

"--I knew you didn't seem to be the only one. Hey, Zach."

Suddenly, Zach stared at the speaker of the conversation, and then put down a beat and scratched his red hair, dropping a big sigh.

"... Shiori. Some of you call yourself a goddess."

Heavenly woman. Alec told me when it happened.

"Four years ago... you showed up suddenly. It makes me sick, with the intense shaking of the air. Anyway, there's no sign of anyone getting in or out."

An Oriental woman who suddenly appeared at the same time as an abnormal phenomenon. Siori, who was discovered without explanation unless it had descended from the sky, became known as the "Heavenly Woman" by analogy to the Eastern legend.

The messenger of God, who has descended from heaven.

"Heavenly woman....."

When I realized that the name was clearly attached with something in it, Siori's chest hurt a little.

"... you've been suspicious of me all along."

I remember being very vigilant at first. I have been searched several times. However, even though it was pseudo-like, now that it was a matter of brothers and sisters, there was no such thing at all, and it was sad that he had doubts somewhere deep in his heart that he had treated me warmly as a real family. Even if I understand that it is a dramatic position to think such a thing.

"... well..."

Zach didn't deny it.

"I was wondering who it was. And this time of year. When the neighborhood is finally starting to stink, a mysterious Gentile falls in front of humans. I doubt that."

"A dignitary... I see."

Theoli slowly lowered her eyes and laughed. I thought it would be a very distorted and complicated smile, but I traced the eyes of the floor board with my eyes.

Floor without a single drop of dust. "Niisan" 's office, which seems rough and pretty on a few pages, is always clean and tidy. Documents were also filed by field and kept neatly on the shelves. He always cleans and prepares everything by himself.

He was supposed to have been an adventurer since he was a boy who left home because he was a bastard, but somehow wondered where he learned to do professional clerical work.

Although this country is rich, it is nevertheless well educated if it can read and write calculations. Wealthy and aristocratic children receive only a slightly colored level of education, rather than being traced, aided, or civilian, and most of them seem biased toward social education, such as etiquette.

A kingdom of the standard of whether or not you can finally make report documents unless you were a civilian and an apprentice in a merchant's house. So Zack, who is accustomed to paperwork so much, and who has developed a routine so that he can go out with senior aristocrats equally, was sure to be from a good family.

But now he called himself a dignitary. You're not just a civilian, you're in a position of some sort. If you're close to Alec, you might be able to get into and out of the royal palace.

The dried tears overflowed the edges of your eyes again, pouring down your cheeks.

--After all, I am a suspicious person who approached a dignitary and was under surveillance. My relationship with them is nothing but brothers and sisters or lovers.

"Shiori. Enough. Stop crying. It's okay."

After gently holding Theoli back, Alec stared at Zack with a bitter smile.

"Don't bully my lover too much, Lord Brayzak."

Lori also slapped him hard at his feet. Speaking of which, this slime remains the usual rugged color. Is it not dangerous for me that the warning color has not changed? Looking up at him with a single hope, his brother scratched his head with a bitter smile.

"I didn't mean to bully you... no, that's what happened, my king brother (...)"

As he said, he laid his hand on Shiori's head. A warm, muscular hand that caresses gently as usual.

Though relieved by the comfort of their hands stroking them repeatedly to forgive the young, Theori blinked at each other's unfamiliar names in their dialogues. A feared name with a title.

"... Blaisak? Brother King..."

"Oh, yeah."

After carelessly removing Zach's hand that stroked Theoli, Alec turned back to Theoli with a strange look on his dazed face.

"I am royalty. He is the belly of the current king. That said, I was born only a few weeks early, and I'm the same age."

"Oniisan of the King...."

"Oh, Alexei Frenvali Stridia. That's my real name."

A name bearing the name of the Kingdom. It shows that he is truly the one who gives his name to the royal family of this country. It was the name that appeared in the book I saw in the bookstore.

"You must have noticed. At least not after the birthday."

"... yeah"

The first thing I doubted was on Silveria's journey. Alec told me a fragmentary story about the past. And the disappearance of the Third Prince more than a decade ago, which Annelier and the others talked about. The answers derived from those two stories, which had many points of agreement, seemed unrealistic at that time and tried to forget them as they were.

But his middle name and his origins, which were heard on that birthday night, suggested that he was still royalty.

"The book I studied described the custom of royal naming and the incident 18 years ago. When you calculate your age, it's exactly the same as Alec...."

I see.

"... hey"

Alec smiled bitterly, but Zack smiled stunnedly.

"Alec, you're getting a lot more excited than you thought."

"I thought it would be okay if it was Shiori. I'm not going to tell you everything. Well, he was smarter than I expected, and he was paranoid."

"This guy's got a lot of information processing power."

Many people are smart, but my brother said that the technique of discarding collected information and deriving conclusions against information media is something that cannot be done without having received more than a certain amount of education.

Even children have access to information devices, which is normal in the other world. In this world, where it's been decades since ordinary people have been able to get books, that's not yet normal.

"I trust you... but in a way, I have to change my perception a little bit."

Zach exhaled with a bitter smile.

"I'm sure we've been watching for a while. But after a year or so, your suspicions have almost cleared up. It was really just a stray (...) thing to do, I see. I know you're a serious hard-worker. That's why I'm not gonna do it here."

Saying that, Zach, who smiled like the usual sun, then made a slightly stiff expression.

"... it just seems like you're not just a person anymore, so the part that's not going to work out as usual is coming out."

"... yeah. I mean... do you believe me?

I am aware that I have spoken openly without any flashbacks. I honestly doubt if I would get along properly. Do they believe such a story?

"To be honest, it would be better to say I don't know better than to believe..."

Alec, holding Siori in his arms, gently stroked his back and said quietly.

"But it is also true that people say that they come from areas that are not well known. Your knowledge, your level of education, your technical skills - many of them we can't explain right now. More than anything else."

Once he cut his tongue, he glanced at Zach. After a moment of reflection, Zach slipped away and walked towards the window. After pulling the curtain as it stood, he locked the door and said, looking back.

"... Shiori. You said you had the illusion of" The Gods' Perspective "at your birthday. Why don't you show it to me?"

"Eh... ah, yeah"

I see. Is that why you blocked the view from the outside and locked it? Siori, anxious that something might be done in a closed room, exhales relieved.

"... because I improvised, I don't think it will be exactly the same as then, but is that okay?

"Oh, I don't mind."

After wiping the corner of his eyes, Theori developed a "live video" with magic illusion, supported by Alec.

Fluffy air shakes, and the dawn sky begins to whiten on the spot. An elegantly feathered white bird with a dawn sky depicting an exquisite gradient from gentle lavender to pale rose color. From the winter colors of white and gray, the bird flies down looking down at the earth, which is colored by the colors of young leaves and colorful flowers as it melts away the snow.

"... this guy..."

A low voice of exclamation leaked from Zach's lips.

The view of spring from the perspective of a spring announcer bird flying far above the sky. It is a sight only known to those who have looked down from the sky.

It was a common sight for people in that world. Even if there had been no experience looking down from the sky, there were many ways to know it. It was so obvious that I showed it to the public on that birthday without any concern. A phantom of "gods' perspectives" that later called for various speculations.

― ― The morning sun climbed through, and the sky at dawn (Aurora) eventually became a beautiful blue sky. The birds that flew across the clouds, looking down at the kingdom that was experiencing the spring of joy, were feathery. Change the angle and fly towards the endless sky.

The magnificent landscape of the kingdom, far away from the lower realm, eventually changes into a scene overlooking the world that Theori saw on the earth floating in the ocean. That nostalgic world. An island nation that floats on the edge of the continent.

The illusion disappeared as it dissolved in the air, and the silence was restored to the room.

"... it's still amazing."

After a while of silence, Alec sighs.

"--This sight. You can never see it in the world. I knew you wouldn't be just a woman."

Zach, whose eyes were round and staring at the phantom, also exhaled a long sigh.

"... it's amazing. Chris and the congregation nod to the problem."

Chris?

A name I'm not used to hearing. When asked back, Zach quickly said, "I'm a frontier master."

I heard that you are good at unions (guilds) and familiar with them, but I didn't think they were friends that you would call them nicknames.

"He's been a friend of mine since I worked at the royal palace. We were together and we were bad friends."

"I work for the royal palace...."

Zach is also a nasty person. He affirmed it.

"Blaisak Faucher, that's my real name. Out of a house that separated from the royal family hundreds of years ago. Well, that's why I had to be close to Alec, the prince's mistaken brother."

……

Though I was prepared to some extent, I felt dizzy at a higher height than my brother thought. No matter how bastard a child is, one is a royal, one is a royal sidestream. Would it be nice to have a civilian woman from a different world with such people?

Alec firmly hugged Shiori, who had fallen down once again with a slightly upward feeling. With his warm and powerful arms, he held me as if he affirmed his existence.

"I told you before. I don't change my mind. Whatever you are, I have sworn to love you for the rest of my life, and that feeling remains the same. My goddess. You're my... everything."

"... me too, Theori. I don't know what you think, but you're my sweet little sister."

Say Zach too.

"But... I'll let Chris and His Majesty report this. I won't be sorry, but maybe in the future you'll have some inconvenience to meditate on. I'm sure you'll meet Chris in the meantime, but that's okay, right?

Until then, it was basically okay to spend the same time as before.

Theori nodded.

He believed in such a strange woman as he could never prove. On the contrary, as always, he said that he would stay as a lover and brother. There's nothing more I want.

Luli trembled with joy.

"Four years ago, I wouldn't have believed you if you'd just told me when you came. But now that I know who you are, I can't let you go."

"We didn't help you. Your own efforts saved you. So raise your face. Keep your chest up. If you're still worried, I'll admit it. You're not a strange woman. Our companion, Tris Branch, is the proud housekeeper."

――

The two words shook Shiori's chest. Louis, who had been standing at her feet quietly for a long time, was also shaking his body flutteringly to affirm their words.

Thank you, my open lips trembled. He just told me to raise my face, but I had to lean down to hide the overflowing tears.

Alec pulled such a shiori face to his chest and hid it.

"... you endured it very well. I guess I've been holding him forever."

Secrets that nobody was able to tell, secrets that nobody could tell when asked. There are people who will accept it. There are people who recognize the roots of their existence.

Because of the past, there is now - my ambiguous existence has finally formed a statue here as Theori Izumi.

"... fu, hiu..."

The pharynx leaks from behind my throat.

"I told you not to cry anymore... that's fine. You can cry. Patience, I'm sure you've endured more than we thought. So cry and spit it out right now."

Gentle and warm words spinned with a pleasant low voice.

The joy of being accepted and the sadness and loneliness that you can no longer return to that world burn your heart.

Her exhilarating arms urged her to cry, holding Shiori's body firmly.

Ruli stood close to her feet, and Zack, who was careful, gently touched Siori's back once before leaving the room quietly. Of course, I haven't forgotten to lock it.

"... uhh, ah"

I buried my face in my beloved's chest, thinking that I was just crying today. The moment you fully understood that you no longer had to endure it, the deep walls of your heart that were left to the end were destroyed.

"U-ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Crying from the back of your throat.

Siori burst into tears, feeling for sure the person who forgave it and the presence of herself held by him.

― ― In a room darkened by the sun. My lover and rugged friend stayed close until Shiori stopped crying.