21 Magical Girl Tidies Up

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/21/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Since I ended up living with Sarche, there’s something I was curious about, so I ask.

“Don’t tell me, Sarche, are you an elf?”

I didn’t notice at first, but while we were talking I noticed her ears are long and pointed.

“Oh my, you knew?”

I mean, long golden hair and slightly pointed ears.
That’s exactly the elves that appear in fantasy worlds.

“Are there elves in your world too?”
“There aren’t, but they’re a race that appears in stories and legends. Elves are beautiful, and a lot of them are pretty. Sarche, you’re beautiful, so.”
“Oh my, you say such nice things.”

A full-faced smile.
I didn’t say it as flattery.
Sarche really is pretty.
Then I put away the dishes and ask about a place to sleep.

“Sleep on that sofa for today. There’s a room on the second floor that’s a storeroom, so tomorrow let’s tidy that.”

…The second floor, …a storeroom. I have a bad feeling.
The first floor was a terrible state.
There were all kinds of things on the stairs too.
I tried not to look, but tomorrow I’ll have to check.
Sarche teaches me how to turn off the room lights.
There’s a switch on the wall, and if you press it you can turn the lights on or off.
I turn off the room lights, collapse onto the sofa, and pull over me a large towel blanket I washed today.
Cub-form Kumayuru and Kumakyuu burrow into the towel blanket.
I hug Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
I feel safe.
If I’d been alone, I might have felt lonely and cried.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, thank you.”
“Kuuun.”

All kinds of things happened.
When I was little Mom died, and it was just Dad and me.
But I became a magical girl, and I met Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
Thanks to Kumayuru and Kumakyuu I stopped being lonely.
But Dad was killed.
Then too, Kumayuru and Kumakyuu were by my side.
Even when the Cat God and the magical girls attacked, they protected me.
But Kumayuru and Kumakyuu died protecting me.
And now they’re alive in my arms.
This time I’ll definitely protect them.
I never want to see Kumayuru and Kumakyuu die again.
But I think if the same thing happens, these kids will protect me.
So to let Kumayuru and Kumakyuu live, I have to get stronger.
Thinking that, I fall asleep.

My body shakes.
I open my eyes to a ceiling I don’t know.
While I’m looking at the ceiling, Kumayuru and Kumakyuu are peering at my face.

“Morning.”
“Kuuun.”

I stand up from the sofa and stretch my back.
It wasn’t my own bed, in someone else’s house, but I was able to sleep.
I think that’s because Kumayuru and Kumakyuu were with me too.
I stroke Kumayuru’s and Kumakyuu’s heads, stand up, open the window, and change the air in the room.
Outside the window, a landscape I don’t know goes on.
I really came to another world.

“Well then, shall we get breakfast ready?”
“Kuuun.”

I use the ingredients on my own and get breakfast ready.
I thought it yesterday too, but running water is properly in place.
If you press a button, water comes out of the faucet.
There’s no way water pipes are connected, so maybe it’s drawing groundwater?
Besides, is this water safe?
I’ve seen how water is overseas, and I’ve heard Japan is about the only place you can drink tap water.
Well, Sarche was drinking the water ordinarily, so I think it’s all right.
And maybe bread is the mainstream in this world; there was a lot of bread in stock.
Is there no rice?
I sort of understand why Japanese people who transfer or reincarnate into another world want rice, soy sauce, and miso. And cup ramen too.
I remember.
I put everything that was in the house in the original world into the Extra-dimensional Box, so rice, soy sauce, and miso are in the Extra-dimensional Box too.
I used to buy extras of things that keep when they were cheap, so I have reserves, but they won’t increase, so I have to use them carefully.

I cut bread, fry eggs, and make a salad.
For morning, this much is enough.
I line breakfast up on the table and look at the stairs.
Sarche’s room is up there.
I go up the stairs to the second floor.
Things and books are lying in the second-floor hallway too.
I’m glad I didn’t look yesterday.
If I had, I think I would have wanted to tidy it.
I can see several doors.
But I can tell Sarche’s room right away.
Only in front of one door is there nothing placed, so the door can open.
In front of the other doors, books and tools are set down however.
I stand in front of the door and knock.

“Sarche, it’s morning. Breakfast is ready too.”
“……”

There’s no answer, so I open the door on my own.
Yep, as I expected, the inside of the room is cluttered with things.
Here too, books are piled on the floor in huge amounts.
She’s like a model of a sloppy woman.
I have to tidy the storeroom too, but this room has to be tidied as well.
First, to change the air in the room, I open the window.

“Sarche, it’s morning.”
“Who is it?”

She asks while hugging a pillow.

“It’s Yuna. I’ve been in your care since yesterday.”
“Eh, was yesterday a dream?”
“Are you still half-asleep?”
“Ah, Yuna.”
“Breakfast is ready, so please get up.”
“Yes, yes.”

Having confirmed Sarche is getting up, I go downstairs, sit in my seat, and wait for Sarche.
After a while, a sleepy-looking Sarche comes down the stairs.
And she’s still in her nightclothes.
Well, it’s her own house, and I used to change after eating breakfast too.

“You got it ready?”
“It’s only something simple.”
“That’s plenty.”

Sarche sits in a chair and starts eating.

When we finish breakfast, I get to today’s work.
First I check the room I’ll use.
The inside of the room is full of things.
All kinds of tools and things are scattered.
And there are books here too.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, carry all the books in this room and Sarche’s room, all the books in this house, to the archive we made yesterday.”
“Kuun!”

Kumayuru and Kumakyuu start moving.

“Sarche, continue from yesterday and organize the books in the archive. Please don’t read books today.”

I say it to Sarche, who has properly changed.

“I’ll do it, so don’t say it with that face like a mother talking to a child.”

I don’t know what kind of face it is, but as long as she does it properly, that’s fine.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, if Sarche slacks off, warn her. You must not become cushions.”
“Kuuun.”
“And if she still slacks off, contact me.”
“Kuuun.”
“I’m the mistress of this house, you know.”

I ignore Sarche’s words, and each of us starts moving.
First I carry books in front of the door and have Kumayuru and Kumakyuu carry them.

“Maybe I should make a storeroom outside.”

Outside the house, the tools and such that were on the first floor are still left as they were.
I go outside once and get permission from Sarche to make a warehouse to put tools in, the same as when I made the archive.

“That’s fine.”

Once I have permission from Sarche, I make a warehouse to put tools in, next to the archive.
Inside the warehouse I make simple shelves too.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, carry things that aren’t books here.”
“Kuuun.”

I leave the small things to Kumayuru and Kumakyuu, and for the large ones I put them in the Extra-dimensional Box and carry them to the warehouse.
I peek into the archive for a moment, and Sarche is lining up books properly.

I go back to the room and resume tidying.
A vase—does Sarche even have a hobby of decorating with flowers?
I think she doesn’t, so it was left.
Or maybe she used to put flowers in vases, a long time ago?
The one mercy is that there weren’t dead flowers left stuck in it.
Incidentally, I don’t have a hobby of decorating with flowers either.
It’s not that I prefer dumplings to flowers, exactly, but if I’m paying money, food is better.
I want to use it on manga and games.
Dad liked manga and games, so he understood that kind of thing.