The Strongest Onmyoji and the Shikigami With AI are Unparalleled in Another World ~ A Second Life Properly Enjoyed Using Artificial Intelligence ~ - Chapter 71

Annie, Natalia, and Lily are gathering herbs.

Koma-chan is wandering around them.

AI-chan sat down and has been drawing the map all this time.

Alice and I are leaning against the fence, keeping watch on the surroundings.

“…Bored. Yuuma, tell me something fun.”

Alice, who looked bored beside me, sat down and started doodling on the ground with her staff, asking for something interesting.

“Do you have any plans for the future?”

“…That’s a boring topic. Why?”

It’s an important thing to think about, isn’t it?

“Clive is going to be a chef, right? Annie seems like she could work as an apothecary even after retiring as an adventurer. What about you guys? Since your job is physical, you can’t be adventurers forever.”

“…Adventurers live day by day, so we don’t really think about that stuff. But maybe Natalia and I will work in jobs that use magic? If you can use magic, you won’t have trouble finding work. Well, the best thing is to become a successful adventurer and get rich. Then live a life of luxury.”

They’re thinking about it to some extent, huh?

“I might be like that too? Living a lazy life or traveling the world sounds nice.”

“…Sounds good. Let’s take a trip around the world when we retire.”

It’s not exactly a trip, but it might be good for making memories.

“Is there anywhere you want to go?”

“…There are a lot of places. First, how about Lily’s hometown? There must be plenty of embarrassing stories there.”

Ah…

“I can hear you! There are plenty of embarrassing stories!”

I thought so…

“I had a feeling… Oh, there’s a skeleton.”

“…You’re right.”

A skeleton with a spear entered the property.

“Wind Flash!”

Pointing at the skeleton, I cast my spell, causing a tornado to rise from the skeleton’s feet.

Caught in the tornado, the skeleton is torn apart, scattering its bones around.

“…Promise big sister. Don’t use that on zombies.”

It might scatter rotten flesh.

“I won’t. Also, calling you big sister is a stretch.”

She’s tiny and younger than me.

“….You’re zero years old.”

Alice says so as she picks up the spear and stores it with spatial magic.

“Is it possible to be zero years old…?”

We continued to watch over the three as they gathered herbs while occasionally defeating the monsters that came.

Natalia would pause her gathering to collect the magic stones from defeated zombies. She’s incredibly hardworking.

Later, when it was lunchtime, we had lunch. After finishing our lunch and entering the afternoon, the three resumed gathering herbs, and AI-chan returned to mapping.

Alice and I continued to lean against the fence, keeping watch and defeating any skeletons or zombies that approached. Of course, Natalia handled collecting the magic stones from the zombies.

“Annie, think about the way back.”

It was already afternoon, and quite some time had passed, so I called out to Annie.

“You look bored… Well, I guess this is enough for today. When I think about it, Clive isn’t here, so I have to prepare dinner.”

“…Right.”

Alice, who had been bored the whole time, agreed.

“You’re just watching, not cooking… You guys can’t do anything besides what you’re good at, huh?”

Alice seems to just watch even when cooking.

Well, I had that feeling.

“…Because Natalia does it for us. She’s better at it anyway.”

I had that feeling too.

“I have the spirit to try. But nobody asks for help, and I’m not even allowed in the kitchen.”

I’m banned for doing nothing.

Or rather, I’ve never even been in the kitchen.

“Sigh… Well, let’s go home.”

Annie sighed and called out to Natalia and Lily.

“Yeah, we need to make dinner.”

“Tomorrow’s our day off.”

The three who had been gathering herbs started cleaning up.

“Well, a day off isn’t so bad… AI-chan, how’s the map?”

When asked, AI-chan looked up.

“About halfway done, I think. By the way, there were still no orcs, right?”

Is it likely that we only saw the one who ran away during the stampede?

They might not be around here anymore.

“Got it. Let’s report that for now.”

“Yes.”

Once we finished preparing to leave, we exited the estate and began to retrace our steps.

“I wonder how much we earned today.”

We defeated quite a few monsters, and the three of them gathered various herbs.

“I think it’s pretty good. What about the rewards? I’m not a member of your party…”

“What do you think would be fair?”

I’m not sure.

“I’m fine with just the ones I gathered myself. Actually, I process them before selling them to a magic shop owned by an acquaintance, rather than selling them at the guild.”

“What about the ones Natalia and Lily gathered? Could you handle those too?”

That would be more profitable.

“Of course, I’ll take a fee. But honestly, there are too many, so it’ll take too long. And the herbs they gathered won’t last for days.”

They’ll wither away, won’t they?

Well, naturally.

“Then, should we sell them at the guild?”

“You should. It’ll contribute to Pamela, who’s struggling with declining sales.”

That’s true.

I feel sorry for Pamela, and it seems like the better option.

“Okay, let’s do that.”

As we talked and made our way back, we could see the remains of a fountain in the center of the ruins.

However, there were three adventurers there.

“Oh no, this is the worst… Are they stalkers?”

Annie made a disgusted face.

The other three also looked uncomfortable.

I understand how they feel.

That’s because the three adventurers at the fountain were the thug trio: Cyrus, Pat, and Rick.

And those thugs were glaring at us with displeased expressions.