Chapter 78

Myl is looking at me with an unusually serious face...

When I asked if there was something she needed, she said she had come to show us the flowers she had received from the squad leader.

Wearing those flowers makes her look more like a girl. They really suit her.

But be careful, Kicks is coming from behind.

Kicks fixed the flower on Myl's head again, saying, "This way looks more like Myl and suits you better...!" while panting and laughing.

Hey, hey, is it really okay to laugh so leisurely?

Myl, he must have gone to report to the squad leader.

After that, the squad leader with an icy expression came with a below-zero gaze to warn Kicks.

While sorting the letters and packages sent to the fort, I found a letter from Captain Sarell to the squad leader, so I decided to deliver it to the squad leader with Myl.

Captain Sarell seems to have become the deputy of Cord's fort... I wonder what he needs from the squad leader?

I was told a little about the content of the letter.

Apparently, the wind spirit often comes to play at Cord's fort, and while Captain Sarell is happy about it, he is also confused about how to deal with it.

So, he seems to have sought advice from the squad leader, who gets along well with Myl.

To like Captain Sarell, the wind spirit must be quite unusual...

Outside, Myl and Kugaru are playing with a colorful bird.

I was wondering if such a bird lived around here, and Tina told me, "That's the wind spirit, Hyliris."

So that's the famous one...

But the scene of three spirits playing around the fort is, when you think about it, not normal at all.

Yesterday, it was a bird, and today, a large black sheep was walking around the garden with Myl and Kugaru on its back.

What kind of spirit is this? The fort is starting to look like a zoo.

Myl and Kugaru seemed to have fallen asleep, buried in the fluffy fur, and as dusk fell, the black sheep asked for help.

Their parents would be worried, so they asked us to wake them up.

I tried to wake Myl by saying, "Wake up," but she was half-asleep and wouldn't wake up.

Then the black sheep sighed maturely and said, "Well, I'll take them to their parents," and disappeared. It seems to be a very considerate spirit.

The next day, when I asked Myl about the identity of the black sheep, she told me it was Daphine, the earth spirit. When it takes human form, it apparently looks like a mature woman, so I hope it comes in that form next time.

Today is warm and pleasant.

We, on break, are leisurely watching Myl leisurely looking up at the butterflies leisurely flying in the sky.

Spring, huh...

Myl has been sneezing a lot lately, probably due to pollen.

But, about once every five times, a small ball of light flies out. What is that?

The spirit's body is mysterious.

That ball of light seems to be Myl's fairy.

I don't really understand what a fairy is, but I hope it can help with her restlessness.

Myl's sneezing continues, but today, she actually blew a snowstorm out of her mouth.

This caused an incident where Kicks, who happened to be holding Myl at the time, got his face covered in snow.

But, since it's Kicks, it's probably okay even if his face gets a bit frozen.

Today, the squad leader suddenly assigned us the task of removing weeds from the grounds.

I thought it wasn't that overgrown and we didn't need to do it yet, but it seems he's considering Myl, who has been sneezing a lot lately.

I don't know if the cause is pollen from the weeds, but if it can help calm Myl's sneezing even a little, I'll work hard on the tedious weeding.

I saw Myl stuff something into her rabbit backpack and sneak off towards the dining hall.

She's dropping some of the contents along the corridor. What is this? Nuts?

After finishing work, we all headed to the dining hall for dinner, and there was a mountain of nuts on the central table.

According to the chef, Myl brought them in the afternoon. That must have been when I saw her.

She found spring nuts at the foot of Mount Snowlea and brought them for us.

She said it was to thank us for worrying about her pollen allergy and for helping with the weeding. That little fox is a spirit, yet sometimes she's so formal and human-like.

Since there are over eighty knights, she had to make three trips, filling her rabbit backpack each time. Even if she had taken human form, it must have been quite a task to gather so much with those small hands.

Oh, the deputy is quietly trembling with emotion, like a father who received a gift from his little daughter on Father's Day, and the squad leader is trying to take his share of the nuts home in a glass jar!

He says it's a waste to eat them, but they'll rot if you keep them, won't they?

The next day, when Myl came to play at the fort as usual, I thanked her for the nuts, and she looked unusually embarrassed but also quite proud.

She says it's no big deal, but her tail is showing her feelings.

Everyone was happy, so Myl seemed happy too.