What should I do!
If so many people know healing magic, won't that make me seem useless!
What if Kazuma abandons me then!
Aqua couldn't help but imagine herself homeless, hungry, and cold.
Absolutely not!
"Roswaal-sama, the recovery tea is ready."
Just then, Rem walked into the room with a pot of tea.
When Satou Kazuma was previously unconscious, Roswaal had instructed Rem to prepare some tea for him.
"This is very precious tea, even I would not get it easily. It is said to have good medicinal value."
Roswaal introduced it with a smile.
The moment Rem entered, the whole room was filled with the fragrance of tea, making people feel relaxed just by smelling it.
Seeing Rem with the tea, Aqua's tiny brain was racing, as if she had suddenly thought of something. She rushed in front of Rem in one step.
"Give it to me!"
She took the teapot from Rem's hand, sat next to Satou Kazuma, poured him a small cup, and said to him in an extremely gentle tone,
"Here, Kazuma, drink slowly~ be careful it's hot."
"Hey, hey, hey, why are you suddenly so gentle? Are you worried that I'll think everyone else has healing magic and abandon you?"
Satou Kazuma saw through Aqua's inner thoughts at a glance.
"Haha, how could that be? We're companions! So of course I'm worried about you!"
Aqua said this, but her eyes had already shifted guiltily to other places.
Satou Kazuma picked up the teacup, very curious about this precious tea.
Even Roswaal, who seemed so rich, claimed that this tea was valuable, and Satou Kazuma wanted to taste it even more.
This wasn't something an ordinary person could drink!
What kind of taste would it be?
With a heart full of expectation, Satou Kazuma took a small sip of the tea—
"It's plain water."
Satou Kazuma put down the teacup, looking at Aqua next to him with a smile,
"Aqua-sama, it's been a long time since I've had such ordinary plain water."
"This... I have something to do, I'll go first."
Aqua scratched her cheek with one hand, stood up, and took several steps back.
She had forgotten her passive ability as a water goddess.
To purify any liquid she touches into the most ordinary water.
And this pot of incredibly expensive tea, under the influence of Aqua's ability, had become unremarkable water.
"Plain water?"
Rem tilted her head in confusion. She had brewed the tea herself, so there couldn't be a problem.
She immediately stepped forward to check, but Satou Kazuma, who was still lying on the bed, immediately jumped up and hugged the teapot:
"No, no, no, I mean, the plain water for making tea is very, very clear! This tea is really good! It's delicious!"
Satou Kazuma showed the same awkward smile as Aqua a minute ago.
If Roswaal knew that his carefully prepared precious tea had been purified into plain water by this useless goddess, he would be very annoyed.
"Since Kazuma-sama likes it, that's great, but... there's one thing I have to admire you for."
Roswaal smiled and looked at Satou Kazuma.
"Ah? What is it?"
"After all, that's a teapot filled with hot tea, how can you just hug it like that?"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it hurts it hurts!!!"
"How much trouble are you going to cause Betty!"
.....
In the evening, everyone gathered in the mansion's dining room.
Satou Kazuma sat in his seat with a lost look on his face, recalling everything that had happened today.
Originally, he had imagined that he could have a carefree trip to another world, and also recruit beautiful elf girls as teammates.
But why, why did it turn out like this?
Satou Kazuma thought to himself, then turned his head slightly to look beside him.
Beatrice was sitting in the seat next to him.
Why is this loli who looks very difficult to get along with sitting next to him?
"Hey, you, why do you look so surprised that Betty's next to you?"
Beatrice frowned and stared at Satou Kazuma.
"Haha, no, no."
Satou Kazuma gave a negative answer without hesitation.
Although he had been scared unconscious earlier, Satou Kazuma absolutely, absolutely, absolutely didn't want to suffer the attack of a great spirit.
Even though he hadn't seen a great spirit fighting with his own eyes, he didn't want to see it.
"Betty is worried that you, idiot, will do something inexplicable again. First you scared yourself unconscious, then you got beat up by your companions, and then you hugged a teapot full of hot tea with your bare hands. Betty can't understand why you do what you do."
After Beatrice finished speaking, she sighed with some exhaustion,
"Your fainting has nothing to do with Betty - at least 99 percent of the time it doesn't! Why should Betty be responsible for your stupid actions!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, a classic tsundere character for a young girl."
Satou Kazuma said with a smile.
"Betty really needs to teach you a lesson..."
"I'm sorry."
Before Beatrice finished speaking, Satou Kazuma began to apologize as if it were a reflex.
"Seriously, don't cause trouble for Betty, okay!"
"Another classic young girl speaking with an elder's tone..."
"Ugh! Don't say the word young girl!"
"I'm sorry."
Beatrice collapsed on the table. In over four hundred years, she had never met anyone as helpless as Satou Kazuma made her feel.
But after a moment of silence, Beatrice straightened up, turned to look at Satou Kazuma, and suddenly asked:
"Betty has another question to ask you, why exactly do you want to recruit Betty?"
A rare, very serious expression appeared on Beatrice's face.
Although she knew that Satou Kazuma had come to her during the day to try to get her to join his party, Beatrice didn't know the reason why he did so.
"A team should have a spirit teammate, right?"
Satou Kazuma also answered very seriously.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Beatrice sighed again, regretting asking the question.
But...
This was also the first time in four hundred years that someone had come to the forbidden library because of 'her' existence.
"If I say..."
Beatrice said softly, but paused.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Do young girls like to talk to themselves and act mysterious?"
"Ughhhhh!"
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