Chapter 487

In the evening, Broly and the others arrived at Sylphy's home, and Sylphy's parents welcomed them.

"My daughter Sylphy, truly, thank you for the care of Broly and Lady Roxy."

Rolz Yeto thanked the two from the bottom of his heart.

Because of her hair color, his daughter suffered rejection and bullying from the other children in the village.

This mixed long-eared race man knew this.

But knowing was useless; as an adult, it was very difficult for him to intervene in children's affairs.

The adults of Buena Village were fine; they did not speak ill of his daughter because of her hair color.

But children were different.

And if he relied on his adult status to teach a lesson to the children bullying his daughter.

The parents behind those children would not necessarily be willing.

Unless their whole family didn't want to continue living in this village.

Otherwise, some things had to be endured, and even his daughter had to be made to endure them.

Therefore, Rolz and his wife were extremely grateful to Broly and Roxy, the two who prevented their daughter from suffering bullying by the other children in the village.

Upon hearing that Broly would stay in Buena Village for a period of time, Rolz proactively invited the boy to stay at his home first.

The countryside had no inns, but there were guesthouses; every house had some rooms for storing grain, and as long as they were slightly cleaned up, people could live in them.

Of course, the lodging conditions were definitely not as good as in the city, let alone compared to the lord's lodging conditions; after Elinalise walked into a room, her small face showed an obviously disdainful expression.

"There isn't even a bed here, how can anyone live here?"

"I think this is still much better than adventurers camping in the wild, Elinalise; if you can't even live in a place like this, then you'd better not become an adventurer in the future."

Regarding this, Ghislaine gave a reminder.

An adventurer's life was indeed not very good.

Unstable income, not as good as eating and sleeping well in the Boreas Family.

"Uh, actually this place isn't unlivable either; I've slept in my family's stable before."

However, Elinalise held admiration for the profession of adventurer.

Immediately, she felt that this countryside room lacking a bed wasn't a big problem either.

"If a long stay is needed, I will build a house next door, and then buy some furniture, and living will be better."

Broly said.

"Eh, you're going to stay in this village long-term?"

Elinalise widened her eyes and asked.

"Mm."

The boy nodded, but originally he had no such plan; it was just that Elinalise had come along.

Where the wife is is home; here gathered two capture targets and one wife, so this is home.

"If you live here, doesn't that mean Teacher Roxy has to stay too?"

"Right."

"Then what about me being a sparring partner, teaching me things, what should I do?"

Little Elinalise asked, very worried that both Broly and Roxy would leave her.

Although she had thought about dismissing the two at noon, that was just something thought in anger, and couldn't be taken seriously at all.

"As long as Elinalise you also live here, wouldn't that work?"

Roxy proposed, she wanted to improve the relationship between Elinalise and Sylphy.

"Ah, this... is that okay?"

Elinalise looked at Ghislaine.

"This requires going back to ask Lord Sauros."

Ghislaine answered.

The next day, Broly took Elinalise and the others back to Roa City.

Upon learning that his granddaughter planned to live in the countryside for a while, Sauros naturally was unwilling.

However, after Roxy said this might help Elinalise grow better and better train the girl's self-care and independence abilities, this Lord of the Fittoa Region fell into thought.

Does a noble young lady need to train self-care and independence abilities?

If she wants to be a vase, not having this ability actually doesn't matter.

And what made Sauros agree to this matter was Elinalise's own idea.

"Grandpa, I met an opponent there, I want to defeat her!"

Upon learning that the opponent in his granddaughter's mouth was a student Roxy had taken in that village, and that the other party was younger than his granddaughter yet had higher magic talent, Sauros Boreas found it very hard to say words that would strike down Elinalise's competitive spirit.

"Elinalise, since you have a target to defeat, then go defeat her!"

Sauros Boreas chose to unconditionally support his granddaughter, but it was also impossible for him to truly let Elinalise run free in the countryside and not care.

"You must come back at least once every half month, and you must also let me see this child's growth; if you can't do it, she has to come back."

Sauros was willing to support his own granddaughter's idea, but had some doubts about this demon race teacher Roxy's teaching plan for his granddaughter.

Letting his granddaughter live in the countryside to strive to defeat an opponent, and letting his granddaughter return home to strive to defeat an opponent, to Sauros, were no different.

"Yes, Lord Sauros, we will definitely let Miss Elinalise obtain sufficient training and achieve growth."

Roxy and Broly made eye contact and hurriedly agreed.

After obtaining Grandpa's agreement, Elinalise, having returned to Buena Village again, faced the first problem...

"What kind of room do you want?"

Broly was going to build a house, and since they might need to live here long-term, each person's preferred room style had to be arranged properly.

"Any kind of room is fine?"

Elinalise asked with eyes shining.

"The premise is that you, Elinalise, also have to help build the house together."

Broly had originally planned to handle this whole thing himself, but due to Sauros's request, he now intended to let Elinalise participate, to gain growth through the practice of building a house, although it wasn't too clear what use house-building experience would be to a noble young lady.

"I want an adventurer-style room."

Elinalise said loudly.

"That would be an ordinary inn room with a moderate price."

Roxy recorded it down.

"Eh, how could it be that kind of room?"

Hearing this, Elinalise immediately became unwilling.

Looking at Elinalise's dissatisfied expression, Roxy had to explain: "Most adventurers have no fixed abode; many adventurers basically don't have their own houses, and generally only rent rooms in moderately priced inns."

"Ah, Ghislaine, is that how it is?"

"What Roxy said is largely correct, however, she refers to those adventurers who can earn money; as for those adventurers with unstable income, they might choose even cheaper places with worse lodging conditions."

"Then Ghislaine, when you were an adventurer, where did you usually stay?"

"When I had a party before, I stayed in inn rooms; after the party disbanded, if I was in a city, I would find some relatively flat roofs, lie on them, and sleep."

"Sleep directly on the roof?!"

Elinalise's eyes lit up again, looking at the Big Dog Girl Sword King with a yearning expression.

Sure enough, after Broly built the main frame of the house using tree trunks cut from the forest, and started to lay bricks and stones.

This somewhat wild young lady chose to build a sloped attic-style room with a bit of a slope inside her own room.

In contrast, Ghislaine, this Big Dog Girl Sword King, followed the standard procedure, holding planed wood, and knocked together an ordinary room for herself.

Besides sleeping rooms, there also needed to be a matching bathroom; considering the high probability that 5 people would live here in the future, Broly dug a large tub-sized pit on the ground floor.

And the household, including him, had 4 people who could use water magic, so there was no need to consider the water supply problem, only how to drain it.

Finally, Broly coordinated with Roxy's earth magic to manufacture an underground sewer linking to the riverbank.

A house with a wooden beam and earthen wall structure was thus gloriously and quickly built next to Sylphy's home.

Buena Village occasionally had passing villagers stop to watch; although surprised by the house's construction speed, it didn't cause too much commotion.

They only knew another household had moved into the village, and there was a mage of suspected demon race identity; some villagers were worried and went to ask the Village Chief, then learned the land next to Roland's house had already been allocated to those outsiders.

As for other information, the old Village Chief kept his mouth shut, only admonishing the villagers to be polite to that family.

And during the house construction period, Elinalise, who originally didn't have a very friendly relationship with Little Shilfy, saw their relationship improve because of sword practice.

The reason was when Elinalise was doing her daily sword-swinging homework in the morning, she happened to be spotted by Sylphy; the little guy watched from the side.

Elinalise thought the other party had some opinion on the swordsmanship she was practicing, and in a fit of pique threw the wooden sword to her, telling her 【you do it then】.

Then, she got the conclusion that Little Shilfy, who was called a magic genius by Teacher Roxy, was a complete mediocrity in swordsmanship.

Ghislaine also certified this; at least in swordsmanship, Little Shilfy had no talent to speak of.

Perhaps through bitter practice she could reach the level of an Upper Swordsman, but breaking through to Saint rank was impossible.

This made Elinalise, who had lost in magic, feel great, thinking she also had strengths surpassing Sylphy.

And in Ghislaine's words, she was a child with great talent for practicing the Sword God Style.

Of course, whether this talent means having a simpler brain and being suited to be illiterate is not too easy to say.

After all, the Sword God Style's head dojo, the Holy Land of the Sword, has an illiterate population, and most people there have rather simple brains too.

In short, it was because she had a specialty superior to Sylphy's that Elinalise didn't feel as much pressure facing Little Shilfy, and instead eased the relationship between the two.

"Your magic is a little stronger than mine, but my swordsmanship is much stronger than yours; you're only a little stronger than me, while I'm much stronger than you, proving I'm stronger than you!"

Elinalise reached this conclusion and tried to make Little Shilfy understand this.

Whether Little Shilfy understood or not is hard to say, but every time she would applaud very cooperatively.

Then, praise a sentence: Big Sister Elinalise is so amazing.

"That is only natural."

Every time Elinalise would be hooked by this praise into a smug grin, then react and distance herself from Little Shilfy, solemnly declaring they were still rivals.

"Don't think that just because you praise me, I'll let my guard down; the final winner will absolutely be me."

And Little Shilfy, at Roxy's prompting, expressed that she also wouldn't easily admit defeat.

Of course, the former refers to becoming the boy's wife, while the latter still thought it was about comparing magic.

However, although on different wavelengths, they unexpectedly managed to communicate smoothly.

And what made the two's relationship thoroughly improve was Little Shilfy later being bullied by village children.

This day, Broly went to Roa City to purchase supplies, while Roxy helped villagers regulate the weather.

Sylphy was alone reading under the tree shade, when she ran into several village children who used to bully her.

These brats had a very nasty attitude toward Sylphy, thinking the little demon had occupied the territory that originally belonged to them.

Originally, with the prestige of Roxy this big demon, these brats wouldn't dare go too far, but the ringleader brat had been beaten by his family this morning for a mistake.

Harboring anger, seeing Sylphy this punching bag, how could he hold back; he immediately grabbed a handful of mud from the ground and threw it at the girl.

"You little demon, don't get too arrogant; don't think just because you'll tattle, I'll be afraid of you; get off our turf!"

With the leader taking the lead, the other brats also gained courage and jointly attacked Little Shilfy.

And this scene was just spotted by Red Lion, who was beating wild grass with a rattan switch on the country path.

"Stop."

Eris ran over without a second thought.

Never mind that she knew Sylphy; even if she didn't, the adventurer stories she'd heard contained scenes of heroic swordsmanship.

At this very moment, just like the time when one roars upon seeing injustice on the road, Eris directly blocked the way in front of a group of brats, protecting Little Shilfy.

"Who are you, are you the tattletale's friend?"

"Tattletale?"

"The one behind you is the tattletale. If you don't know her, then hurry up and leave, otherwise we'll make you eat mud too."

Eris had still wanted to understand what a tattletale was, but hearing this her temper flared directly; clutching the vine she used for beating wild grass, she pounced and gave the arrogantly loud little fatty a beating, and the group of brats around him who wanted to help their boss were beaten until they cried for their fathers and mothers.

"Waaah, you actually hit us like this, we're going to tell our dads and moms..."

A group of country brats were actually driven off by a young lady with astonishing combat strength.

"Hmph, still saying others are tattletales, I'd say you're the tattletales!"

Eris held her head high, hot breath puffing from her little nose; she'd trained in swordsmanship for so long, yet today it finally found a place to be useful.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thank you, Eris-neesan."

"When those guys were pelting you with mud, why didn't you fight back?"

"I don't have much strength, and I was all alone."

"You know Water Ball Technique, right? Just directly smash them with that!"

Eris said as a matter of course.

"But Roxy-neesan said Water Ball Technique is also dangerous magic, to be careful when using it on others; I was worried I'd hurt them."

"You really are a little idiot. Those guys pelted you with mud; if they get hurt they get hurt, who cares if they drop dead!"

"Wah, sorry."

"Forget it. By the way, how do you think I performed just now?"

"Very handsome, just like in a fairy tale, a knight saving a princess."

Asked this, Little Shilfy replied without the slightest hesitation.

"Ah, is that so?!"

"It is so."

As Little Shilfy spoke, she handed the storybook in her hands to Eris; on it happened to be an illustration of a knight saving a princess.

Although what they faced in reality were not ferocious thieves but a few country brats, the positioning of the situation just now unexpectedly basically matched the drawing in the book Shilfy held.

After washing the mud off their hands and heads, Shilfy and Eris sat together under the tree shade and finished reading the still-unfinished book.

When returning home, the two were still holding hands; when Ghislaine asked about the mud on the girl, Eris replied rather coolly: "This is a knight's medal!"

Then she indicated she was currently executing an arduous escort mission; as for the escort target, naturally it was Little Shilfy, Princess-sama, behind her.

These words actually made the Dog-girl Sword King listen in a daze, until she saw the fairy tale book of the knight and princess in Shilfy's hands, only then did she realize what was going on.

When Broly and Roxy returned, and dinner called for Shilfy to come eat together, Eris narrated today's heroic deeds.

Regarding this, Little Shilfy agreed repeatedly at the side; the two sang in harmony narrating the story of the Red Knight saving the Green Princess, making Broly and Roxy look at each other in blank dismay.

The matter of Little Shilfy being bullied by village kids again made them angry, but the situation of her becoming intimate with Eris because of it seemed to have become a good thing instead.

And just when dinner was half-eaten.

"Thump thump thump..."

The door outside was suddenly knocked upon.

(Chapter End)