Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

First, make juice water for hydration. The magically produced clean water is further boiled and then returned to room temperature at once. Magic is really useful in times like these. Remove berry syrup and apple honey pickles, ginger syrup storage bottles, and salt from the shelves and mix each into the water as desired.

It seems that berry syrup has been well made in Stridia for a long time. There are many native varieties in the country, and it seems to have been an important preserve during the winter months when fresh vegetables and fruits are not readily available. Thanks to transportation and conservation technologies developed during the reign of the ancestral kings, they became more readily available in winter, but they are still loved as traditional conservation foods.

Personally, I think it would have been better if it had been lemon, but that was an imported and expensive item in Stridia. I only get it occasionally.

"... I wonder what this is like."

Transfer the resulting juice to a water pot.

Next, soup. I would like to use white fish with plenty of minerals for soup collection and protein source, but I don't have it in my hand, so I make it a chicken with little fat and good for digestion. Cut the onion and tomato in a race pattern, chop the summer onion finely, and then slice the chicken into small pieces. Pour chicken and vegetables in a pot made of fruit oil, then stir-fry the fried ginger, add water and simmer. Then add the homemade freeze-dried carrots, daikon radish and celery to the pan and simmer further. The rest was seasoned with salt and pepper.

Clean your hands after washing your clothes and take the fruit juice to the table by the bedside to see Alec. The towel on my forehead was already warm. Wash in a bucket, gently wipe his face and body, then wash again, squeeze and magically freeze. I touched it again before I put the towel on my forehead. It's terribly hot. It won't go down easily. Re-wrapped and sweaty face, wiped it again, then gently put on a cold towel.

Does it hurt my joints? Sometimes I feel slight bitterness when I move. No sign of waking up yet.

(... maybe you should be prepared to stay overnight.)

Many adventurers live alone. If you fall asleep even if you are unwell or injured, it is normal for you to have a very painful feeling without someone to take care of you. In that case, if there is hope, Shiori may be dispatched at the request of the union (guild), but it was the first time I had a nurse staying at home. And a single man.

(Zach might say something.)

I'm sure you'll be worried about your overprotective brother. I have delivered the note, so I will definitely stop by here when I'm done with my work.

(I don't think I'm going to throw out any sick people.)

While laughing bitterly, I went to the bathroom to do the laundry.

Is there no big difference between the blood stain of the beast and that of the human? I was able to remove it just by rubbing the soap and rubbing and washing it. After that, use the magic to do the laundry as usual, hang it in the bathroom to dry, and use the wind magic to fly the moisture. If you open the window and let the wind through, it will dry up soon.

Luli, who had just returned, was floating in the water on a hot tub and playing in the water. It seems that I have been doing this for a while now. Clean your hands after you raise your voice to the right place.

He took off his apron and folded it while looking out the window.

The evening sky depicted an exquisite gradient from the eastern sky, which had already changed to purple blue, toward the western mountainside, dyed in an azure color. The stars are beginning to blink far above. The sunset got faster. Winter is approaching.

Konko.

There was a noise of the door being knocked. I heard a familiar voice say, "It's me." Open the door by opening the lock. The sunset sky-colored man who had been watching earlier peeked into his face.

"Hey, I'm here to see what's going on."

"Mr. Zach. That was quick."

"I cut it up early. I was worried."

When he pressed the paper bag he was holding against Ciori, Zach walked towards the back bunk. He peeked into Alec while he was asleep, then gently pressed his palm against his cheek to think, but eventually he exhaled a deep sigh.

"... I was going to take him home, but he can't. It's terrible to move."

I knew you were gonna get me out of here. Theoli smiled bitterly.

"Poor thing. It was hard to bring him here. Let him sleep like this."

"... ahh"

Zach was somewhat dissatisfied, but he seems to have given up. As he sat down on a round chair by the bedside, he dipped Alec's forehead towel into the bucket and squeezed. I was a little worried that I should wake her up somewhere and let her drink some water while wiping her sweat.

"I used to get a lot of heat when I was a kid... but it's been a long time since I've seen you sleep like this."

Zach said with a flicker. When I was introduced for the first time, I heard that I was familiar with it, but I was surprised that I knew it so long ago.

"Childhood?"

"I don't think so. The first time I saw him was whether he was going to be ten or not, but I quickly grew up and left the house. Real relationships start when Alec's an adult and an adventurer."

"Heh...."

"When I ran away, I didn't know what to do, so I fell asleep a lot, but can you do that for a year? By the time my body was ready, it was almost gone."

Zack looks at Alec with a nostalgic face.

Both Alec and Zach already know what a fine adventurer looks like, so it seemed strange that there was such an era between them. I wonder what kind of boy I was.

"... are you interested? When I was younger than this guy."

Zach tells a joke. It can only be returned with a bitter smile.

"I'm curious... but it's legal, isn't it? Exploring the past between adventurers."

Some adventurers admire it purely, but many have a reason. Of course, criminals are out of the question, but it's a profession where anyone can get a job as long as they pass a written examination and an interview. I wonder if it was the son of an aristocrat who would not inherit the house, or the daughter who could not find her daughter-in-law, it seemed surprising that such highly qualified people hid their identity and chose the path of adventurers. Some of them seem to be noblemen who have caused trouble staying at home. For these reasons, I don't really like to explore each other's past. It was the adventurers' melody that they shouldn't touch each other's personalities.

I am troubled even if they ask me. Honestly, I can't answer that. Because I can't explain it.

"It's not such a big deal. I don't have a problem talking to myself."

Zach shook his red hair and laughed.

"Even so, it's not a big past. I'm an outsider. My father took it from me and raised me, but the noise around me made me uncomfortable and I left the house. My family wasn't so bad, but... I don't know how to help it, this is all. Alec (this one) is similar."

"... I think that's enough of a 'big past'."

Extra-marital child, noisy around.

I can easily imagine what they said. Adults in this country are, to say the least, sixteen years old, and they are still as young as children. It is heavy enough to go through such a multisensorial period. And...

Maybe he was a good girl.

Because of the words, Zach looks crude at first glance. In fact, however, the behavior is somewhat sophisticated and elegant. One way of eating was very beautiful. There seemed to have been a lot of work with noble opponents during the adventurer era.

I also think that Alec and I have known each other since we were kids.

─ The people are not consumables for the nobles!

Words spoken against the Earl's people before. I felt that it was not a word from a normal person who grew up.

"Uhh...."

Alec moans and returns to me. I saw how it was, but it didn't look like I woke up. There are still no signs of it happening. Zach and I both exhale.

"... sorry, let me stay too. I'll take care of him."

"Yeah, let's take turns. Do you eat while you're asleep?

"Oh, I'm sorry, a lot. There's bread and apples in the paper bag just now, so let me out."

I felt that the fact that Zach apologized for Alec showed that the relationship between the two people was different from just one of them. My best friend - no, in a similar situation, like a brother -

I'm kind of jealous.

It's been four years, but it's only four years. In this world, where neither friends nor family, nor their origins until then, could show any of their roots, their existence was terribly vague, so they were terribly envious of having such things.

If we spend more time, can we find a reason, an edge, and a place to live in this world? Can I make it? I'm in a vague position.

"If you want, I'll be your place."

That's what Alec used to say. He is a very good man. You're a kind man who cares what you have to say. But I didn't really know whether the words were meant and whether their hands were unconditionally good for me.

There were many equally kind people. There was not a man who whispered illogical words and approached. However, if they don't keep the distance any longer, they'll think it's like a social resignation for a man in this country. Just know your own heterogeneous and ambiguous position, extra.

"I want you."

"I need you."

The existence of a man who has left the labyrinth just to die is not to be forgotten after all, without whispering the words of his heart's love to the end, while he keeps saying so many times. After all, I was reminded that I had only that much value.

That's why.

--I was terribly timid to take a hand that I could reach out to.

Also, if I was told that I didn't need it like that, I felt like I couldn't recover anymore.

Even though you know that there are very few such a joke men, rather they are all good people.

But...

Let's go home.

Hands offered. A squeezed hand.

Alec's hands were gentle and warm.

……

Now it's hot and sweaty, gently touching your hands.

I still don't know Alec's true intentions, but that gentle, gentle time I walked by this hand was pleasant. Someone with a gentle and warm hand that will hold you back from being ambiguous.

― ― Get better quickly

After stroking your hot hands, leave your bedside to prepare your meal.

--I didn't realize that Zach was looking up at the object.