chapter 79
79 – It’s a waste to throw away
“Huh? Why are you here?”
Fenia looked at the rails with her face in disbelief.
“I can see you’ve been idling around for hours and I should be able to leave you alone.”
“Has the time already been like that?”
Fenia tilted her head slightly to check her time.
She was definitely like Rail said, and it had been well over two hours since she arrived at the mansion.
“And even if it were you, magic would not be infinite. I was worried, so I checked it once, and I knew it would be like this.”
“Worried?”
How long has it been since I heard the word worry?
No. Have you ever heard the word worry in the first place?
Until now, no one was worried about her, an archmage with talent that was incomparable to others.
Even if she had said that, it would not have come from her heart.
“Isn’t that obvious? Even if she’s a great mage, she’s still human. Of course not.”
She is serious, with her face filled with her concern, and seeing the rail holding her, her face somehow felt hot.
“I’m up to ten now. You’d better get out of bed quickly.”
Saying that, Rail hugged Fenia and stood up from her seat.
Then she opened Fenia’s room and put her on the bed.
“Thank you. Rail.”
“What is a thank you between us?”
Rail, who raised the corner of his mouth, immediately left the room with those words.
‘Am I going already?’
Contrary to what she thought she would stay a little longer, she quickly left the room and looked at the rail, and Fenia felt a bit disappointed.
You must be so busy with work.
The reason Fenia used her magic while overdoing it was because Rail stayed up all night and she didn’t work.
So Rail thought that she understood Fenia’s meaning and that she went straight into her room.
Even though she knew she had gone back so she wouldn’t worry, she couldn’t help feeling sorry for her.
So slowly raising her upper body, Fenia reached out to drink her potion on her table.
But her hand, which had been reaching for her potion, began to tremble and she fell helplessly onto the bed.
I have no strength in my body.
I think I’ll feel a little better if I drink the potion, but I can’t drink it.
If you’re going to do this, you should ask Rail for some potions.
But Rail was already in the room and there was no way to call him back.
“Haa… ….”
After she let out a deep sigh, Fenia gave up drinking her potion.
Then she closes her eyes and goes to sleep when she hears footsteps in the hallway.
I’m sure no one is awake at this time?
Ttogak. Again.
Even so, the footsteps did not stop, and continued to be heard.
The sound started to get louder and louder. Pop. The sound of footsteps stopped in front of Penia’s door.
Kikiiik.
And with the sound of the door opening, the rails reappeared.
Why did you come back? Is there anything you left behind?
While thinking that, Fenia’s gaze shifted to the plate in Rail’s hand.
“Soup?”
And bread?
Even though Fenia is a little flustered, Rail took the food and placed it on the table next to Fenia without any reaction.
And Rail, sitting on her bed, looked at Fenia and opened her mouth.
“If you eat something light before drinking the potion, the recovery effect will be good.”
“Of course I know that… …. The soup and the bread. Did you make it yourself?”
“Uh.”
“So the reason you went out was to cook?”
At her question, Rail nodded her head with her face as if asking why she asked such an obvious question.
Then he scooped up the bubbling soup and handed it to her mouth.
Fenia’s face turned red at the embarrassing situation, as if the mother bird was feeding it.
“My, I’ll take care of myself….”
“Can you move your arms?”
“… ….”
Fenia shut her mouth at Rail’s words that pierced her to the point.
Rail, who had suffered more magic depletion than anyone else while training with her, was well aware of her Phenia’s physical condition.
She knew that that’s why she had to eat at least a simple meal before taking the potion, and she prepared the food for him herself.
In the end, she couldn’t help but nod her head, and Fenia slowly opened her mouth.
“Yum… ….”
After eating the moderately warm soup, not too hot, Fenia’s eyes opened wide at the moment.
“Oh, it’s delicious….”
She has lived through many years and tried many foods, but the soup that Rail made was so delicious that she could count it on her hands.
Of course, it might taste better because of mana depletion, or it might taste better because Rail made it yourself.
But she said that the soup Fenia ate was the warmest and most delicious soup she had ever eaten.
“Fortunately, it seems to fit her mouth.”
She liked the soup she made for Leila the other day, and Fenia also liked the soup that Leila made.
For those who always ate only weakly seasoned food prepared by top chefs, Rail’s highly seasoned food was inevitably new and delicious.
Besides, since we were both hungry, it must have tasted even better.
Rail smiled with satisfaction as he watched Fenia drink the soup without hesitation.
“We have bread, so let’s eat together.”
While saying that, Rail tore off a piece of bread and dipped it in the soup fed the bread into Fenia’s mouth.
“Mush.”
Fenia didn’t even notice that there was a piece of bread in her mouth, as if she also liked the freshly baked bread.
I took off the piece of bread from the side of Fenia’s lips with my hand, seeing it as unsophisticated as an archmage.
Then he put the piece of bread in his mouth.
“As expected, it is delicious.”
The food that Luna made is delicious, but I thought it was okay to have such a stimulating taste.
“Uh, huh? Why are you eating it… ?”
Fenia looked at her rails with a red face.
But Rail had a face that didn’t know what the problem was.
“It’s a waste to throw it away.”
It was hard to believe that the aristocrat said that, too, from the later author’s family head, but knowing that he was an ordinary young man who lived a simple life in a small studio, one would have no choice but to nod his head.
Even though Rail came to this world, he couldn’t throw away the wasteful things, perhaps because of his habit in his previous life.
But Fenia, unaware of that fact, stared blankly at the rails for a while, then she let out a deep sigh.
“No. I have to understand.”
Even as she said that, Fenia raised the corners of her mouth and ate the soup and bread that Rail handed to her.
It took longer than expected to eat by moving the spoon, but Fenia ate all of the food on the rail with a satisfied expression on her face.
“Now I just need to drink the potion.”
Rail lightly arranged the plate and stood up to check the potions piled on her table.
All of them look similar, but each potion has a different effect.
Fenia opened her mouth to tell her what potion she would bring, but before she could say, Rail brought what Fenia thought was a potion.
Rail, who drank various potions while traveling with Fenia, was so skilled that he could recognize the efficacy of her potions just by looking at her.
After confirming that Fenia still didn’t have the strength to open the lid of her potion, Rail opened the lid and handed it to her.
But for some reason, Fenia just stared blankly at the potion that Rail gave her.
“Don’t you drink?”
At the level of the Archmage, he would have recovered his body to some extent just by consuming nutrients.
At Rail’s words, Fenia lifted her arm slightly.
But took. Her arms fell helplessly onto her bed.
It was as if she was appealing that her arm still had no strength.
She raised her head and met her eyes with Fenia, and she avoided Rail’s gaze with a slightly red face.
Then she cautiously asked in a small voice that only the rails could hear.
“Her arm is weak, so could you give me some potion…… ?”
I wondered why her body still didn’t recover, but Reil nodded her head and placed the potion in Fenia’s mouth.
She held Fenia’s back with one hand and carefully put the potion into her mouth.
Gulp.
As she drank her potion, Fenia’s slightly pale face began to blush little by little.
And after a while, Fenia’s body started to gain strength again, and it started moving again without any problems.
Checking her recovered body, Fenia smiled a little and said her thanks to Rail.
“Thank you. Rail. You will be tired You go back to your room.”
But the rail didn’t go back to the room.
As I tilted my head at the rail still remaining in the room, he opened his mouth with a slightly serious face.
“I’ll make sure you’re sleeping and go back to your room.”
“Huh?”
Fenia’s eyes widened at the unexpected words of Rail.
At Fenia’s bewildered reaction, Rail immediately continued.
“Now that my body has recovered to some extent, I won’t use magic again to monitor the surroundings.”
“Did you know?”
Yes.
Since Euler’s death, Fenia has cast an invisible detection magic around her mansion.
Thanks to that, she could always check that someone was coming from outside, but because she always uses that magic, Fenia continues to use mana.
‘Now I can see through my level of magic.’
I should have praised her pupil for growing up, but I hated that she recognized her own magic now.
“So, get a good night’s sleep for today. Then I’ll go back to my room right away.”
“……Okay.”
Fenia let out a short sigh and nodded her head at her quick-witted disciple’s point.
Then, as she slowly lay down, Fenia took one look at the rail watching her beside her, then closed her eyes.
Fenia has another tooth by her side and it will take quite a while for her to sleep, she expected.
But maybe it was because she used a lot of her mana differently than usual, or because of the warm food that Rail made for her, Fenia was able to fall asleep right away.
The time she fell asleep was as short as usual, but she was Fenia who fell asleep deeper than ever.
*
I woke up and checked the time.
It is early in the morning when the sun has not yet fully risen.
Originally, she would have been overworked as soon as she woke up, but thanks to Fenia’s magic, she finished her work ahead of time, so she left the room for morning training after a long time.
“Are you awake, Master?”
As I opened the door, I ran into Luna in the hallway to see if I was on business.
“What’s up?”
At my question, Luna nodded her head with a slightly nervous face, which was different from usual, and opened her mouth.
“…The princess sent a letter to the master.”