“Guys, look at this!”
Back in my room, I took out the holy water I had brought from the temple yesterday.
[Hmph!]
[…]
Sudar and Johnny snorted.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you guys? I brought something interesting. Aren’t you going to see it?”
[You always go out! Take us with you. We’re bored!]
[Take me to the garden.]
I haven’t been paying much attention to Sudar and Johnny because I’ve been going outside for the past few days, so their response was sour.
“I’m sorry, guys. Let’s go play in the garden together tomorrow.”
[Hmph! You should be! I’ll let it slide just this once.]
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[Good… Hehe]
Their simple reaction was so cute that I laughed.
[But what’s that?]
Sudar was interested in the holy water I was holding.
“Oh, this is called holy water. Unlike ordinary water, it’s water with holy power.”
[Oh, amazing! Holy water!]
[Holy water. Holy water.]
Sudar and Johnny, who were hooked on the word holy water, hummed for a long time.
“I brought it for you.”
[Good!]
Sudar and Johnny shook excitedly on both sides with high anticipation.
“And now I can use magic, too.”
I put my strength into my hand holding the bottle of holy water.
The wave that started in the bottle escaped in the shape of a droplet.
[It’s like rain!]
[Hehe, so cool]
The droplets wandered around Sudar and Johnny for a while before being absorbed into the ground where their roots were buried.
“What do you think? Is something different?”
As soon as they received the holy water from the temple, I asked, recalling the plant whose petals were blooming.
[Huh? No? It’s the same!]
Sudar and Johnny fell into their own world and kept humming the song, repeating the word holy water.
As expected, it doesn’t bloom…….
I thought it was a good thing I didn’t say anything unnecessary to Sudar and Johnny first.
After that, I listened to Sudar and Johnny’s chat for a long time and fell asleep without realizing it.
***
[Liel! Wake up! Liel!!]
I heard someone calling my name in an urgent voice at the boundary between dream and reality.
“Um…….”
I frowned and was about to fall asleep again.
[Liel!!]
I woke up to the loud voice and slowly opened my eyes.
It seemed that something was moving wildly in my still blurry view.
“Uh… What? Sudar?”
I realized that the voice ringing in my ears earlier was from Sudar.
[Liel. Hurry up and open your eyes and look here!]
[Liel…]
I woke up to check the window because I thought something had happened.
“What….”
The appearance of Sudar and Johnny by the window was strange.
Their flowers have bloomed.
The layered petals were in full bloom.
[Liel!]
I was staring at the window blankly, wondering if I was still in a dream, and a small mass of light flew in front of my eyes.
[We’re free!]
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[I’m so happy…]
The voices of Sudar and Johnny are heard from the mass of light.
“Really… Sudar and Johnny?”
[Yes!]
[Yes…]
I don’t know what happened, but it seems that Sudar and Johnny’s curse has been lifted.
Am I still dreaming? I thought as I looked at two masses of light flying in front of me.
However, the voices of Sudar and Johnny were too vivid in my ears to call it a dream.
[I can’t believe it; I can’t believe I got out of the flower!]
A mass of light I believed to be Sudar flew to the tip of my nose.
“Sudar?”
[Yes!]
A voice filled with joy rang out from the light that sank at the tip of my nose.
The light, I believed to be Sudar, began to fly quickly around my face again.
[How long has it been since I flew like this? I love it!]
[I’m happy!]
The two beams of light flew around again with innocent laughter.
Recognizing that this was not a dream, I slowly got up from my seat, holding onto my still dazed mind.
“What’s going on? Did holy water really work yesterday?”
I turned my head to the window.
A bottle of holy water that had been used for Sudar and Johnny last night was placed next to the flowerpot.
It was really the holy water that lifted the curse of the Merket.
“Oh, my. Sudar, Johnny. The curse has really been lifted!”
I reached out into the air, expressing my overwhelming happiness to my heart’s content.
Sudar and Johnny, who are now masses of light, roamed around my hand and landed.
[Yes! It’s all thanks to Liel. Thank you, I like you, you’re awesome, I love you!]
[Hehe, I love you]]
Sudar and Johnny thanked me with the prettiest words they knew.
Perhaps it was difficult to stay still soon, the two beams of light flew around the room showing off their high-quality flying skills.
knock, knock.
“Morning, princess.”
At that time, the door opened with the voice of the maid who would serve me in the morning instead of my nanny.
“Oh, yeah. I’m up.”
Embarrassed for a while, I casually welcomed the maid.
Since Sudar and Johnny’s voices can only be heard by me, I was confident I would be the only one who could see them.
“Princess, this morning’s schedule is…… Ack!]
“Huh?”
However, contrary to my expectations, the screams of the maid echoed through the room.
The maid, who covered her mouth with both hands, was looking exactly where Sudar and Johnny were flying.
“What’s the matter?”
Hearing the maid’s scream, Elvin rushed into the room.
He seemed to have heard a scream while coming to pick me up for morning sword training.
I’m supposed to start proper swordsmanship training today, so I should have been ready by now and gone to the training ground with Elvin…….
[Oh? It’s Elvin. Elvin!]
[Funny face…Hehe]
“What is this…. Talking bug?”
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Elvin is also not enough to see Sudar and Johnny, he can even hear their voices.
“Haha… Good morning. Elvin.”
[Good morning! Happy morning!]
Sudar followed my greeting and smiled clearly.
“Princess…”
I think my first sword training today wasn’t right to go ahead as scheduled.
***
“The magic of creating a talking bug.”
Cardin, who said he had neither heard nor seen such magic, was staring at my shoulders.
It was something Cardin, who arrived at my room in a heartbeat at Elvin’s urgent call, said after watching Sudar and Johnny for a long time.
“It’s not a bug.”
[They’re calling us bugs!]
[I’m not a bug….]
After hearing Cardin’s words, Sudar and Johnny jumped over my shoulder and shouted.
Cardin, who raised his eyebrows to the fullest while glaring at Sudar and Johnny, sighed quietly.
“Where on earth did you learn that magic?”
Now Cardin asked me, leaving behind the cries of Sudar and Johnny, who were making fun of Cardin as fools.
“It’s not magic.”
I shook my head and pointed my finger to the window.
“They got out of there.”
Cardin and Elvin’s eyes grew bigger when they saw where I pointed.
There, Merkets, who never bloom, were in full bloom and were in sunlight.
“That flower definitely never blooms…….”
Elvin muttered as he looked at Merket in full bloom.
“I told you before, didn’t I? There’s a fairy trapped in there. These are the fairies.”
I seriously confessed to Cardin and Elvin that this happened.
When I said there was a fairy in Merket, they all took it as a joke.
I also didn’t try to tell people seriously.
In fact, sometimes I wondered whether Sudar and Johnny’s voices were really real.
How can I prove an unidentified voice that only I can hear?
But now, the flowers of the Merket have bloomed, and Sudar and Johnny in them are visible to everyone.
As expected, it was real!
It was the moment when my small doubts about Sudar and Johnny were resolved.
“That fairy story was really true.”
Cardin, who heard me, said in a slightly higher voice.
[Really. Stupid Cardin.]
[Hmph]
Before I could answer, Sudar and Johnny responded faster. The two scratched Cardin’s nerves a little.
For a moment, when Cardin shot Sudar and Johnny with his sharp eyes, the two hid behind my back and cried.
With a light sigh, Cardin slowly swept his face.
He seemed to have a headache about how to accept this situation.
It was not just seeing a fairy for the first time in his life, he also learned the existence of the curse of the merkets.
If this became known on the continent, it would surely bring about a huge catastrophe.
“Call the wizard at once.”
Cardin called Teacher Teto, who gave me the merket.
Called by Cardin, Teacher Teto arrived at the duchy shortly after.
Teacher Teto’s response to seeing Sudar and Johnny was explosive.
Sudar and Johnny cried once again when they saw Teacher Teto, who expressed surprise, saying, “Did the talking firefly develop magic?”
It was a step higher than Cardin and Elvin’s calling them a bug, but fundamentally, they couldn’t escape from bugs.
[You idiot!]
Without knowing why, Teacher Teto, was being personally attacked by Sudar and Johnny.
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“Stop it, Sudar, Johnny. It’s because they’ve never seen you before.”
[Hmph. I still hate you. You fool]
“D, Duke. What kind of magic are these fireflies, no, these lights?”
Teacher Teto, conscious of Sudar and Johnny’s fierce reaction, asked with a glance.
“I didn’t do it, nor was it magic.”
Cardin pointed to the window with his chin.
“What…? Oh, my!”
Teacher Teto, who looked to the window, ran toward the pot with a short cry.
With his trembling hands, he touched the petals in full bloom and shook his hands together.
“Mer, I can’t believe Merkets bloomed. How can this be?”
Unlike Cardin and Elvin, Teacher Teto, who was also studying Merkets, responded very actively.
“How did you make it bloom? There’s no way I haven’t tried before.”
“I gave holy water last night and it bloomed this morning.”
“What? No way. That’s a method that I’ve already used when I discovered Merkel, but nothing happened.”
Teacher Teto replied with surprise to my answer.
I tilted my head at the teacher’s words.
Holy water was only available in the temple.
The holy water that Teacher Teto said he had used will also be no different from the holy water that I used.
Did it bloom because of holy water?
But other than that, I couldn’t explain Merket’s flowering.
The only thing different from usual was that I gave Sudar and Johnny holy water.
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Arigato.