Chapter 486

"Sylphy, have the children in the village been bullying you lately?"

Roxy hadn't noticed the expression of little Alice behind her; facing the green-haired little one before her who looked happy from being praised, she began to ask.

Compared to Alice, the noble lady of the lord's house, Roxy, who was of demon race origin and likewise suffered much trouble because of her hair's reflective color, felt closer to little Shilfy, who had similar troubles.

"No, they don't dare bully me anymore after hearing Sister Roxy's name."

Little Shilfy shook her head. Although she had gained the nickname of a tattletale, compared to when other children used to shove her before, it was just a nickname, and the girl didn't feel she was being bullied.

Of course, she was indeed a little sad, after all, usually in the village, no child her age was willing to play with her.

But Shilfy didn't care, because she still had Broly Brother and Sister Roxy coming to see her every now and then; they protected her, gave her delicious things, and were willing to teach her wonderful magic.

So every time Broly and Roxy came, Shilfy felt especially happy.

"That's good."

Roxy put her mind at ease, looked gently at little Shilfy, and reached out to rub the other's soft little head.

Shilfy happily accepted the demon girl's head patting, while little Alice's mouth pouted higher and higher, because Roxy had never done such an intimate thing to her.

"Next, I will test your magic."

"Mm."

"No need for Water Ball Technique; you cast it skillfully. Let's directly move to the intermediate magic stage of Water Cannon."

Little Alice pricked up her ears; this was exactly what she was currently working hard to learn.

"Sister Roxy, I've memorized the incantation for Water Cannon, but I still can't cast it yet."

Little Shilfy said, then recited the full incantation of Water Cannon once.

"I can recite that too."

Little Alice quickly interjected; she couldn't let this little one steal her spotlight anymore.

"But you can't cast it either, right?"

"I will definitely learn it earlier than her."

Little Alice glared at Broly, then said with her arms crossed.

"Being able to chant skillfully is already very remarkable for children your age. Next, you just need to cooperate with the incantation to mobilize the magic power within your body, and let the magic power be released smoothly."

Saying this, Roxy paused, clapped her hands, and said to the two girls: "How about this? Your learning of Water Cannon should be at about the same level. How about learning together? See who learns Water Cannon first."

"I couldn't ask for more. I will definitely prove I'm more powerful than this guy."

Roxy's proposal was exactly to little Alice's liking; the red-haired little girl said with her hands on her hips.

"Huh?"

Regarding this, little Shilfy was somewhat at a loss, because her competitive spirit wasn't that strong.

"It's decided then. Shilfy, you must work hard."

Roxy encouraged the little one. As a magic teacher, she felt appropriate competition helped improve students' learning motivation.

And this experience came from herself, because when she learned Intermediate Healing, it was the same—she was in a competitive situation with Filia.

Without Filia, she probably wouldn't have mastered Intermediate Healing, whether in this loop or the previous loop.

"Sister Roxy, I will do my best."

As previously stated, little Shilfy was very obedient. Although her competitive spirit was lacking, the obedient her would also work hard to learn Water Cannon and wouldn't easily admit defeat.

"Practicing Water Cannon requires a sufficiently spacious area. Let's go to the riverside."

Roxy proposed, and the group soon arrived at Clearwater River by Buena Village.

"Gentle water spirit, princess of the shallow river flowing on the ground, use your powerful strength to wash away everything……"

Little Shilfy and little Alice faced the small stream and began chanting together.

At their outstretched palms, they could feel fluctuations of magic power, but the Water Cannon magic was not cast.

Little Shilfy condensed a bit of water flower that fell to the ground, while little Alice didn't even condense a water flower. She felt unconvinced and began chanting the incantation again.

And the effect of competition quickly took effect. Little Alice had never been so focused, serious, and devoted in practicing magic.

By the time the sun rose overhead, and even practicing magic under tree shade felt somewhat hot, her Water Cannon finally had a bit of water flower appear. Although it was still a casting failure, she was obviously making a bit of progress.

"Teacher Roxy, Broly, did you see? My Water Cannon can start condensing... water."

Little Alice said excitedly, but when she turned back, she saw little Shilfy, who had overused her magic power, being placed on the demon girl's lap for a knee pillow and being gently comforted.

"Shilfy, you are already very skilled in the magic structure of Water Cannon. What you lack now is just magic power."

"You are too young; the potential magic power within your body hasn't been excavated yet. But believe that as long as you grow up a bit, you will be able to successfully cast Water Cannon."

Little Shilfy couldn't cast Water Cannon only because of insufficient magic power within her body, not because her magic operation technique wasn't mastered enough.

In terms of this child's magic talent, Roxy felt she was not weaker than herself, and if taught well, she might even become stronger than herself.

"Perhaps I should go find another Crystal of Love Ore."

Broly said while stroking his chin at the side.

"Alice, you are also great. I believe you will learn Water Cannon soon."

After comforting little Shilfy, Roxy looked at the red-haired girl with sweat on her forehead and also began praising her.

However, little Alice was not happy at all, because the meaning of those words just now was that if that green-haired little one had enough magic power, she could already cast Water Cannon now.

"Come over and rest a bit."

Roxy called out and cast Frost Magic, lowering the temperature around her a bit.

"Miss Ghislaine, help pull the picnic blanket."

Broly took out the picnic blanket and asked the Beast Race Sword King to hold the other end.

"Okay."

Ghislaine didn't refuse and helped spread it out.

"Broly Brother, is there anything I can help with?"

Little Shilfy stood up and asked.

She rested for a bit and was already much better.

"Then Sylphy, you help set out the utensils."

Broly took out another box of utensils from the Crystal Palace and had Little Shilfy help with the work.

"What about me, what do you want me to do?"

Alice came walking over aggressively and asked directly.

"As for Alice, just rest for a bit first."

Broly looked at the sweat all over her forehead and said.

"I don't want to."

"Eh?"

"Let me do something too!"

"Uh, then you help pour the juice."

Broly saw she insisted, so he took out several small wooden buckets containing different juices, along with some wooden cups, and had her go help pour juice.

This kind of work, for the Young Lady Alice, was normally done by servants, but now she did it with great vigor.

"What are you doing, why did you spill the juice I poured for you?!"

However, while Broly was arranging various foods on the picnic blanket, Alice and Little Shilfy had some conflict.

"S-sorry."

Little Shilfy hurriedly apologized, and on the picnic blanket where she stood, some purplish-red liquid had spilled — freshly squeezed grape juice.

"It's fine, just clean it up, Freeze~"

Roxy controlled magic power to freeze the spilled grape juice area, picked the frozen grape juice off the picnic blanket with her hand, and although some traces remained, it no longer affected anything.

"Do you look down on me?"

However, Little Alice questioned Little Shilfy rather relentlessly.

"Ah, I didn't..."

"Didn't? Then how did you spill the juice I poured for you?"

"Is it possible you poured the juice too full?"

Broly pointed at the wooden cups that would spill juice if shaken even slightly and said.

"You mean her spilling the juice I poured for her is all my own fault?"

"This isn't a big deal, it's not Shilfy's fault, but it's not yours either, after all, Alice you've never done the thing of pouring juice for others before."

Roxy mediated.

"Ghislaine, you say, is this my fault?"

Little Alice didn't look at Roxy or Broly, but looked at her Swordsmanship Teacher and asked.

"If poured too full, picking it up carelessly will indeed spill some."

Ghislaine spoke the truth; she is Beast Race, always saying whatever she has.

"Ah, even you say so..."

Little Alice's eye sockets reddened at once.

"You're all a bunch of hateful guys."

Leaving those words, she ran off directly.

"What's going on?"

Broly was a bit stunned, really couldn't understand why the girl suddenly became like this.

Clearly the other party was picking a fight with Shilfy, but now it seems like she's the one wronged.

But the Crystal Palace Panel doesn't lie, Alice's Happiness Value is indeed decreasing.

"Ah, I get it!"

Roxy was also stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted.

"Alice has been the center of attention since childhood, after we got along with her we also often took care of her, but now coming to Buena Village this side, we're taking care of Shilfy more, she definitely saw it and felt unbalanced inside."

When Broly and Ghislaine looked over, the demon girl explained.

"I see."

Ghislaine realized.

"Broly, what are you standing there dazed for, hurry up and go chase Alice back."

Roxy looked at the boy still standing there unmoving and couldn't help but urge him.

"This was originally Alice's fault, why should I go chase her back?"

Broly felt the targeted Shilfy needed comfort more.

"Hey, do you still want Alice to become your wife or not?"

"Want."

"If you want, go chase."

"Then Shilfy..."

"Little Shilfy's side has me, I'll be responsible for comforting this child properly, you be responsible for going to bring Alice back.

Remember, don't use forceful means, talk properly with that child, understand her thoughts, then coax her back."

Under Roxy's command, Broly went into action; seeing her own boy chase in the direction the girl ran, Roxy then exhaled.

With Broly's straightforward personality, if he were alone, wanting to capture Alice would be plenty tough.

"Roxy-neesan, does Alice-neesan hate me?"

And at this time, Little Shilfy asked with tears in her eyes.

"She doesn't hate you, she's just a little envious of you."

"Eh?"

"Her family took very good care of her, so that child would think everything in this world should revolve around her, but after she discovered that we were revolving around you here, she became somewhat unhappy."

"So, is it Shilfy's fault?"

"Little Shilfy, you didn't do anything wrong."

Roxy shook her head.

"But please don't blame Alice either, it's just that her growing environment made her personality this way."

Little Shilfy was a bit dazed, but still nodded her head.

"I won't blame Big Sister Alice."

"Shilfy is so good, want to eat cake?"

"Mhm."

After feeding Little Shilfy cake and letting the little one have a smiling face, Roxy then looked at the Beast Race female Sword King beside her.

"Miss Ghislaine, aren't you going to chase after Alice?"

"Broly is enough, I think right now Miss Alice shouldn't want too many people to see her appearance."

When saying this, Ghislaine felt a bit strange, this was like a judgment her intuition made, but also seemed like a choice someone had once told her, just like a prophetic dream.

Alice ran away, she also didn't know where she ran to, and when she came to her senses, she discovered she was already in the forest.

"Damn it, why does everyone blame me, if I knew it would be like this, I shouldn't have followed them over to this side!"

The exhausted girl kicked the tree beside her with her small foot, kicking and sobbing as she spoke.

"Where is this?"

After venting, Alice only then began to pay attention to her surroundings.

"Ghislaine..."

She subconsciously wanted to call for someone, but after reacting, she closed her mouth.

"They're all hateful guys."

She would leave the forest herself, and after returning home alone, have Grandpa fire everyone.

Little Alice thought this way.

The afternoon forest wasn't too dangerous.

However, this was for hunters accustomed to hunting in the forest.

For a Noble Young Lady, even if Alice didn't lack the strength to truss a chicken, she was still a child.

There were many things in the forest that could pose a threat to her.

Who knows if it was luck too bad, but the direction Alice chose happened to have a bear den.

Just as the girl climbed up a small slope, she encountered a mother bear coming out of its den with cubs.

"Roar~"

The mother bear saw the girl, roared once, and charged at her.

Little Alice was somewhat dazed, but still reacted, she subconsciously chanted the Water Ball Technique.

But after the water ball smashed over, against a mother bear not much smaller than an adult, it didn't have much use.

"Ghislaine, Broly, Roxy Teacher, Grandpa, Dad..."

Facing the ferocious wild beast, the girl subconsciously called out the names of everyone she could think of to rely on, then hugged her head and crouched in defense.

"Bang~"

The event of dying in the bear's mouth didn't happen, the ground in front vibrated once, and when Little Alice carefully opened her eyes, that mother bear that wanted to attack her was already lying on the ground, with the boy whose name she had just called stepping on its head.

"Alice, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, no wait, who wants your concern?"

Broly was somewhat speechless.

"Then whose name were you calling just now?"

"Anyway I didn't call your name."

The little one loudly denied it, but her face had already turned red from lying.

"Alright, I'm here to take you back."

"Who wants you to come get me?"

"That's naturally Roxy."

"Eh?"

Little Alice opened her mouth wide, but asked: "Then if Roxy Teacher didn't tell you to come get me?"

"Then I naturally wouldn't come, after all, you shouldn't bully Shilfy."

Broly said honestly.

"Ah, you hateful guy, if you don't want to come then don't come!"

Little Alice kicked him two feet in anger, Broly didn't dodge.

"That won't do, I still want you to promise to become my wife in the future."

He said.

"Eh, what nonsense are you hateful guy spouting?"

"Not nonsense, and even if you don't agree, I still have to come when you encounter danger.

"After all, Alice Beryas, you are my good friend."

Broly's straight ball attack left Little Alice somewhat dazed, her expression a mix of joy and tension.

At this moment, the two bear cubs leaned over, crying out beside the fallen mother bear.

"Since you treat me as a good friend, and still want to let me... hmm, become your wife in the future, then why are you so good to that green-haired guy?"

"Well, because I also want Little Sylphy to agree to become my wife in the future."

Broly spoke the truth.

Hearing this, Little Alice wore a face full of question marks.

Even she felt the boy's words were a bit absurd.

"Are you a pervert? Having ideas about me is one thing, but you actually have ideas about a child even smaller than me too?"

"What can I do? Your young age isn't something I can control."

Broly was somewhat helpless.

Squatting down, he lifted the unconscious mother bear and placed her back into the bear den.

Then, he came out again, lifted the two little bears, and placed them beside their mother whom he had kicked unconscious.

"Hey, Broly, can you only want me alone?"

When he came out again, he saw Little Alice, face red, speak these words.

"My butt, you can hit it several more times in the future, I won't want to hit back."

Little Alice added, giving out her own uncommon conditions.

"Adults make choices, but I, I want it all."

In response, Broly shook his head, refusing the girl's requirement.

"If you cannot accept this point, then I can only say goodbye to you."

Little Alice: "..."

"You truly are a hateful guy!"

"How about it, Broly, did you coax Alice well?"

Seeing Broly return smoothly with Alice, Roxy pulled the boy aside and asked.

"Uh, it should count as coaxed well, I guess."

Broly wasn't very certain about this point either.

"I will make it so you only want me alone in the future, just wait and see."

These were the words Alice said to him before returning.

"Wah, Sister Alice, can you stop staring at me like that?"

Once Alice returned, she stared at her, making Little Sylphy almost cry.

"Hmph, Sylphiette Yett, right? You listen well, I, Alice Beryas, will be the final winner!"

Alice crossed her arms and declared thus to Little Sylphy.

"Ah, is her desire to win this strong?"

Roxy thought the girl was talking about who would learn Water Cannon first.

(Chapter End)