“… I’ll do the dishes, Mrs. Envel.”
Lucy said cautiously during breakfast, her eyes wide.
Envel, who had been admiring the taste of the omelet she had made, waved her hand at the sudden declaration.
“No, I can’t ask a guest to do that. More importantly, Lady Lucy. Why are you suddenly being polite?”
“… I have a change of heart.”
Lucy said, barely able to put some soup in her mouth.
Her hands were shaking as she felt an indescribable fear towards Avalli, who was sitting next to her.
“Anyway, Mrs. Envel is an adult.”
“Keuk!”
‘Envel clutched her chest as if shocked at the word ‘adult.’
Avalli giggled quietly at that obviously exaggerated behavior.
“… I would appreciate it if you could help me, but… Avalli is in charge of the dishes.”
“Please, Mr. Envel. Please let me do it!”
Lucy shouted with desperate determination.
Envel and Avalli couldn’t help but be flustered, sensing the spirit of risking their lives in those words.
“Um…”
Avalli hurriedly joined the conversation after seeing Envel’s bewildered expression.
“I’ll go with you. You said you’d help me, but it’s rude to keep refusing.”
“… That’s right? Avalli, you should never be rude to Lady Lucy, right?”
“Of course.”
Lucy felt goosebumps running down her spine as she watched Envel naturally treat Avalli like a child.
It was like watching a newborn baby heading toward a stormy sea.
How would Envel react if she found out that Avalli, whom she was educating, was one of the few monsters in the world?
‘… I wish I didn’t know anything like that.’
However, now that she knows, there’s nothing she can do.
If the reason is simple curiosity, then it’s even more her own fault.
Lucy was determined to build up favorability in this mean way, somehow save her life, and escape this village.
“Then I’ll ask you something!”
Envel waved her hand at the entrance.
Lucy used levitation to lift a wooden basin filled with dishwashing liquid into the air.
It wasn’t a very large basin, so Avalli could easily lift it… but Lucy had to somehow score points right now.
Of course, Avalli, who didn’t know the circumstances, found the sudden favor uncomfortable.
“Wizard! Sister Avalli!”
The two walked toward the western gate of the village in an awkward atmosphere.
Just before they passed through the gate, someone called out loud to them from behind.
When Avalli turned her head, she saw a young girl with crimson hair braided into two pigtails.
“Camellia. You’re up early today?”
“Yeah. I wanted to say hello before I go, Mister. Yesterday was so much fun.”
“Oh my, you’re so good. Our Camellia is so polite.”
“Hehehe.”
Avalli patted Camellia’s head, and Camellia smiled brightly and leaned into the touch.
“Be careful on your way!”
Camellia soon bowed politely and bid farewell to Lucy, who was standing there blankly.
“…… I’m not going yet. I’m helping Mr. Envel with some work.”
“Huh?”
Camellia tilted her head upon hearing the polite language coming out of Lucy’s mouth.
“Why are you speaking formally? Camellia is still a child, and you’re a wizard!”
“… My feelings have changed.”
Specifically, it was so as not to make Avalli feel uncomfortable.
After all, it was impossible for her to be polite only to Avalli while maintaining the arrogant wizard attitude toward others.
Lucy had evolved from a strong-weak-weak-strong wizard to a strong-weak-weak wizard due to the shocking incident last night.
“Then, the good wizard, are you going to play with Camellia today?”
“Camellia, the wizard has to go back today. I’m just helping Envel-unnie with her work for a bit.”
“Really? … It’s too bad.”
Camellia turned around with a sour expression.
If it were the usual Lucy, she wouldn’t have left that gloomy child alone and would have played with Camellia a little longer…
“Then, let’s go again, Lucy-unnie.”
“Oh, yes. I understand. Avalli-san.”
“… Isn’t the politeness too much?”
“I’ll correct it, Avalli-san.”
Lucy didn’t have the luxury of that right now.
‘Why is this person suddenly like this?’
Avalli was a little embarrassed by Lucy’s change.
Of course, she would be even more embarrassed if she found out that the cause was none other than herself.
Anyway, the two arrived at the riverside in an uncomfortable silence.
When she released the levitation, the basin fell limply to the floor.
“You should rest, Sister. I’ll do the dishes.”
“… No. I’ll do it too.”
“It’s okay. Just listening is enough.”
As she said that, Avalli took out the dishes from the basin and started to wash them.
Then Lucy quickly sat down next to Avalli and picked up a plate.
“Sister Lucy, you don’t have to do it. You’re going a long way, so why don’t you rest a bit—”
“Please let me do it! Washing the dishes is my only hobby!”
Avalli unconsciously pulled her head back at the determined voice filled with determination.
‘… Washing the dishes is your hobby?’
She had heard that there were many eccentrics among wizards, but Lucy seemed to be one of the most eccentric among them.
“… If that’s true, I’ll ask you to do it.”
“Yes!”
Avalli nodded awkwardly, not intending to stop her hobby.
Finally, Lucy, who had received permission, started to wash the dishes as if she was fighting a battle for her life.
In fact, it wasn’t a metaphor; Lucy really recognized the situation that way.
‘If you make a mistake, you die…!’
Lucy had already determined that Avalli was the demon god of the old tale.
Space magic was an extremely difficult magic that only the candidates for the Magic Tower Master could handle.
Among them, there were almost no magicians who could move living things.
Even the occasional geniuses were limited to teleporting themselves to another place.
However, Avalli brought Lucy, who was invisible to the eye, to the village from several kilometers away.
Furthermore, Lucy was not an ordinary person with weak magic power, but an official magician of the Magic Tower who had taken over a personal laboratory, even if it was a lowly one.
There was no way that a human could do that.
At least, it was a skill that only a dragon, especially a famous elder dragon, could achieve.
“Still, I survived thanks to you, Sister. I thought it would be hard today because there were a lot of dishes to do.”
Avalli tried to start a light small talk to relieve the frozen atmosphere.
It was a story that had no particular intention, but was literally just a way to kill time—
‘Could it be that I came and got in your way…?’
From Lucy’s perspective, dealing with an outsider, or rather perceiving the situation that way, only sent shivers down her spine.
“Sorry… I’m sorry.”
“Uh… yes?”
“I’ll work harder!”
Lucy opened her eyes wide and concentrated.
The magical power from Lucy’s body was added to the gently flowing river—
‘There will be warmth!’
The river water near Lucy became scalding hot.
It was ‘warmth,’ the most basic form of heat magic, a magic that grants heat.
“Huh?”
Of course, Avalli, who was washing the dishes right next to her, also noticed the change in the temperature of the river water.
“Did you just use magic?”
“… Yes.”
“You didn’t have to do this.”
Lucy’s heart sank at Avalli’s words.
Of course, she meant it as gratitude for her consideration, but to Lucy’s ears, it sounded like, ‘You dare use magic? Do you want to die?’
Lucy’s hands began to tremble.
However, if she missed the plate, she would lose even the chance to make up for the deduction.
That was why she could barely hold on, but if she let her guard down even for a moment, Lucy would faint from the pressure.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and her back was already soaked with cold sweat.
“Still, thank you. Thanks to you, Lucy, I’m comfortable today.”
Only after Avalli spoke a word was Lucy able to calm down.
“Ah…! No! This much is enough!”
“Are you crying, Sister?”
“No… I’m not crying…!”
Lucy shook her head desperately from side to side to deny it.
“I can see the tears…”
“When I washed the dishes… I felt so good…!”
“Ah… yes.”
Avalli closed her mouth with a tired expression after hearing Lucy’s answer.
‘… Let’s be careful next time we meet a wizard.’
Even if they look normal on the outside, they might be hiding some kind of darkness inside.
Without knowing that she might be the cause, Avalli accumulated a prejudice against the wizard profession.
***
“Oh my, it’s over already?”
Envel, who was chopping firewood with an axe, greeted the two.
Usually, Arsene, the eldest, took care of the work, but sometimes when they went out, Envel would use her strength.
Despite her slender appearance, Envel had solid muscles underneath her clothes.
“Lucy helped me.”
“You didn’t bother Lucy, did you?”
Envel asked with a mischievous smile.
Avalli also smiled faintly and was about to deny it when—
“…I did it because I liked it!”
Lucy shouted, her eyes half-open.
“Oh… is that so?”
“Yes! So please stop saying such scary things, Mr. Envel!”
What on earth was scary about?
Avalli looked back and forth between Envel and Lucy with a puzzled look.
“Hehe… Hehe! I’m sorry for yelling.”
Lucy, who met Avalli’s eyes, trembled again and said.
Envel, whose eyes were wide, looked at her with a questioning gaze, but Avalli also had no idea what was going on, so she shook her head.
“Please forgive me…”
“…”
“…”
As if the usually proud and haughty appearance of the wizard had been a lie—
“I won’t do it again.”
Lucy Ignis made a mean expression.
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“Mr. Envel”
Envel is not a mister. Shows up twice