Ha, Master Hurt what is this?

　We were surrounded by red fruit and couldn't move, and a surprised Tina spoke to us.

　What was she surprised about?

　Is it the sudden growth of a huge tree in the courtyard?

　Or that there are tons of red berries falling in the garden?

　Maybe it's because the sylphs haven't been around for a while and now they're here.

　I'm also surprised that I don't understand the situation. I tell Tina what I know for sure.


　This huge tree in the courtyard of my house.

　Apparently it's a world tree.

　Yesterday evening, Sylph planted a seed and Luna gave it the leftover water from the bath and it came to this.


　...Yeah.
　It doesn't make a lot of sense.

　I heard why Sylph planted the seeds of the World Tree in my mansion.

　I guess she was lonely, too.
　I heard that if the World Tree grows here, Sylv can stay here forever.

　Well, that's good.

　What I don't know is that the World Tree has grown so far just by pouring the leftover water from the bath.

　Sylph said that the World Tree probably grew because of the leftover water from the bath.

　As far as Luna was concerned, she thought it was a waste to just throw away the hot water from the bath.

　Before she entered the magic academy──she had been giving the leftover bath water to the vegetables she was growing in that vegetable garden since she was in an orphanage──she had been using the leftover bath water.

　That habit of Luna's caused the situation in front of me.

　It seems that Luna had planned to give World Tree the leftover water from the bath this morning as well. She had a jowl in her hand.

　I tried to demonize the liquid in the jowl.

　I'm going to be able to find out if you are going to be able to get a good deal more than just a good deal more than just a good deal more than just a good deal more than just a good deal more than just a good deal more.

　What, is this really the leftover water from the bath?


　........Apparently, there's no doubt about it.

　It was some kind of amazing liquid.
　Even though it was the leftover water from the bath I put in yesterday, it was normally warm.

　I also felt a fairly high density of energy.

　It's not surprising that it would make me feel more comfortable if I poured such a liquid on it.

　However, if it wasn't for the fact that it's not a body that can accept an enormous amount of energy, this probably wouldn't happen.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most out of this amazing hot water - which I've aptly named 'hot water' - and it's just a matter of time before you can accept the energy.


"But even so, the water from the joule that Luna raised couldn't possibly be enough to get to this point, right?

　Yeah.

　That's right, Luna only gave the jowl the hot water that she filled the jowl with once last night.

　It's not just the amount of magic that's contained in the water, but also the amount of magic that's swirling around inside the world tree, which is unbelievable for a single jowl.

''Um...I have an idea.''

What?

　I thought I was just muttering to myself, but Tina responded to that.

'What do you mean by that, by heart?'

'Could you follow me for a moment, please?　I'll put these things away for now.

　Tina used her wind magic to collect all the red fruits that had fallen in the courtyard and carried them towards the kitchen of the mansion.


　─ ─ ─ ∗∗ ──.

　Afterwards, Tina grabs me and the sylphs and I head to the basement of the mansion.

　I'm surprised to find a basement for food storage in my mansion, but I didn't know there was an even bigger space than that.

　Incidentally, Luna didn't come with me to explore the basement of my mansion today, as she was on cooking duty.

　It was my first time in the basement, so I was pretty excited.

　Normally Sylph would be excited about this kind of thing, but today he was somewhat quiet.

　For some reason, he seems frightened by Tina's behavior.

　He is always hiding behind me, trying to stay out of Tina's sight.

'Sylph, what's going on?'

'Wow, I don't know. But it's just that I'm kind of...scared of Tina.

　I asked him in a sneak peek, and he gave me that answer.

　Even Sylph himself didn't know why he was afraid of Tina.

''I'm sorry, Silf-sama. I didn't think that thing was a world tree...''

　Tina's on to something.

Tina, what's going on?

The fact is...

　Just then, I reached the deepest point down the stairs.

''In the space beyond, the roots of the World Tree came to me.

　When Tina opened the door, there was a large space.

　There were large cracks in the walls, and stones, of all sizes, were lying around.

'Oh, it's so big.'

'This is the space I originally created for Master Hurt to practice his magic in.

　Tina told me that it was in this space.


　That all the soil and stones on the walls had been turned into rare ores due to the awesome hot water flowing into this space.

　That the roots of the World Tree had grown up to this point, and due to the magic power being sucked out of the rare ore, it had reverted to just stone.

　Only the baboon cane remained as it was.


　And that the reason why a large amount of red fruit fell on the ground was because Tina, whose roots had developed a killing intent, had threatened the World Tree.

　The Sylph is the incarnation of the World Tree.

　That's why she was so scared of Tina.

'Tina, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that.

No, no!　I am the one who is sorry. I never meant to threaten Master Sylph in the slightest.

　The Sylphs are the incarnation of the World Tree in Alheim.
　The World Tree planted in my mansion grew from a seed created by the World Tree in Alheim.

　That means it's a sylph's child.
　I think he feels responsible for this since his own child did it.

I'm sorry too. I just got a lot of orichalcons and stuff like that........

Don't worry about it. I don't need the ore.

　And besides...

Orichalcong is so fragile.

What?
Master Hurt what?

　I approach the wall, which shines the same color as the ring I gave to Tina. It's a lump of baboons and canes.


　So much for that!

　It's great.

"Thank you, Tina, for creating this space. You've given me a lot of babies to work with.

　As he says this, he wears a flame in his hand.

　It's not the fire lance or some other type of flame I usually use.

　It's an ultra-hot flame that burns bright blue.

　A flame created by the magical power of a thousand flame knights while sending air adjusted to the optimum quantity and quality with wind magic.

　If not for this, the baboon kane couldn't be processed. On the contrary, if you can handle this flame, you can process even the so-called immutable metal, the hibiscus kane, just like candy cane.

　It's a magic that requires a great deal of concentration and skill to handle.

　With that, I twisted off a piece of the hibiscus kane that was sticking out of the wall.


'See. I'm very happy just to get this.

　He connected and rolled up a lump of baboon cane into a neat sphere before showing it to Tina and Sylph.