Chapter 2 (1/2)
If it’s on your day off, then even the daily ard with the eyes of a dead fish is fun to watch FroTV Ah, so it’s going to be sunny today, huh? I’d been saving up all of ht as well do so with my hands
I tossed the bento container and the disposable chopsticks into a plastic bag, and stood up after drinking the rest of the tea out of the bottle I bought yesterday That’s when I realized that I’d fallen asleep while still wearing my dress shi+rt and suit pants Eh, they were a little wrinkled but not enough that I needed to rush to get theet paid, at least
I picked up a long-sleeve shi+rt and sweatpants froe As I was in thea towel and underwear in ht that I should probably wash Ilias’s clothes too Since he’d been sleeping with such a high fever he was probably sweating through the whole night, and then he’d have to keep wearing those clothes after that… Ah, guess I’ll go grab them and take care of his clothes too, ’cause I’uy That’s why I’ll keep quiet about how it’s getting washed along within fabric softener to make it nicer, yeah
While I was thinking vaguely about what to do for lunch, the door to the bedroolanced over to see Ilias, who still looked a bit feverish but on the whole in a reeted that restless and fidgety guy with a ‘Good ’, and he properly returned it Jeez, don’t just stand over there like that, I’ll get off the sofa to give you so a neater bottle froe I stealthily observed Ilias, who reservedly sat on the sofa He had golden hair cut to shtly droopy blue eyes, a tall and thin nose, and thin lips He was also a head taller than ht of 173cuy an Ideal Prince Char for the 1 uy would win hands down1
“Hey, think you’re up for eating?”
“…No, it’s okay”
“That’s not an answer What I want to hear is whether you can or cannot eat If you can then I’ll cook up soe for you”
“It’s really fine I wouldn’t dare ask to trouble you further”
Though Ilias was stubbornly unyielding, the growls of his sto out of his mouth Ilias’s face reddened at the sound, and he went silent Ah, I pro, and in themy head: even when you try to suppress your stomach with your arh he has the looks of a prince, it turns out that this guy's still veryof him went up a little bit
“Just sit and wait, I’llfor you”
I’ll be cooking for e but a delicious one with egg instead With that decided, I went into my far-too-unused kitchen
“This… It’s delicious”
So Ilias spoke, holding a spoon in his hands and looking at y rice porridge bit by bit, thought it was just alright It’s a given that it’d turn out pretty good since I’d been using a su room only had one low table and a sofa where the two of us were eating side by side I really wasn’t expecting to eat food this intiht, especially one with this kind of sweet-faced handsoantly, Ilias opened up his mouth and wonderfully shoveled food in Yep, if you properly eat your meals, you will also recover quickly
Once we’d finished eating and our stomachs had settled down, I fed the last of the cold medicine to Ilias to help with his fever Ilias said that he would help with the dishes, but I pulled him down and told him that sick people should just rest quietly He obediently sat again on the sofa and began fiddling with the stones that he’d brought in and had been tinkering with since this
“What are those, anyway?”
I sat next to Ilias and peered into his hands The stones that had earlier beenho-knohat incomprehensible physics were now only a bunch of rocks after their light had been extinguished
“It’s a h there’s only a little bit of spellpower contained inside, there is also a ineer It’s not a particularly rare thing, or so I thought”
“… Sorry, I still don’t get it So if you carry those around, you’d be able towherever? I guess I ic is kinda…”
“… Magic is h? It’s simply the ability to channel and use spellpower, that’s all”
“No, I get it, I get the theory behind it and all, but…you know that ht?”
“… Just nohen you were cooking, weren’t you using a ic stone of some kind in order to do so?”
“Uh, the thing I used to cook is called a stove; you ht have heard of it”
“Sto-ve…? No, I can’t say that I have Is a stove this country’s ic stone?”
“Oookay, you knohat, let’s stop talking about ic How about you tell me just which country you’re from instead”
It’s an absolute waste of tiic 3 All I wanted to do was bring this guy back to reality a little bit, so I coot totally serious and flew off with his fantasies just now After I’d switched topics by asking a different question, Ilias straightened his posture
“The place in which I was born and raised is the Kingdodonedfor the past five years”
“Ha… Haha… Okay, Mister Knight of the Kingdo in that fort to so up on my doorstep?”
“Yesterday I had been assigned aa newly-developed long-distance teleportation core when a spellpower overflow had occurred I’d quickly hurried over tohere the ht in the blast, and… the next thing I kneas here”
“… … I—I see”
“Usually, space transfer using a teleportation core doesn’t cause any strain on the user I believe it was a co-distance factor as well as the overflowing spellpower that had caused this kind of impact on my physical state”
“…And, what’s the reason for why you can’t make a call with that device?”
“That, I do not know I have never heard of a time when it was unable to identify its current coordinates Even if I’d left my country, it should still have been able to identify where I was… Unless I had done so over to another world, that kind of thing…”