episode_0059

“Let’s go, Ellie.”

“Ugh, uh.”

I took Ellie downstairs.

Hmm, there was a lot of dust on the stairs too.

I have been cleaning it periodically, but I haven’t been able to do it for a while.

They probably didn’t care about this place, they just cleaned up the area they mostly spent time in.

Oh, if that’s all you’ve put away.

ha…

He took a large envelope out of a corner of the kitchen and handed it to Ellie.

“Now, bring all the trash in this room here.”

“I…?”

“Should I work?”

“Ah… ”

Ellie sighed and started looking around.

Yeah, to him, it was just a redhead sitting on the couch looking at her phone, and he didn’t know what she was talking about with Blanc, but he probably wanted to say something to them because they were just hanging out without even cleaning up.

But what can we do? This is what we have to do.

In the first place, when I first came here, I was the one who stopped you from helping me because you said it was burdensome. On the contrary, it’s easier to work if you ignore me like that.

Well, as long as you get out of the way when I clean up there.

“What are you sighing about? You have to work now. If you want to live with me. Right?”

“Ugh… No matter what, I’m in a position where I’m just serving a magical girl and doing chores… I’m completely disqualified as a villain.”

“What, what are you complaining about when Eden has already fallen? Come on, hurry.”

“They don’t move? They share the same dorm! But why are we the only ones working!”

“It’s even more annoying when those magical girls say they’ll help. It’s a hundred times better to be physically tired. I’m saying this from experience, so take it to heart.”

Upon hearing this, Arin looked at him as if she had something to say, but Blanc stopped her from saying anything.

I don’t know why Blanc is holding back though.

Well, I’m going to have a hard time training with Ellie, who’s still full of complaints.

“Haa… I can rest if I just clean up this room? No, Blanc said he wanted to rest today too. I’d rather just rest… ”

“What are you talking about? That’s what I hate the most. Putting things off and doing them all at once later. You’ve probably messed up a few things like that, right? You know that Ellie. You’ve messed up a lot of plans because you kept putting them off. Even when I first went to Eden, before I even debuted, right? ”

“Ah, I understand. I understand! Stop nagging me! I’ll do as you say!”

Ellie hurriedly covers her ears and runs out to clean the room.

I wish it had been like this from the beginning. Sigh.

Ellie seemed to be doing a good job of taking out the trash, so I decided to head toward the kitchen.

The living room is too big for Ellie to walk around alone, so she has no choice but to head towards the kitchen, where there is a lot of trash.

“No, Blanc. Have you ever thought that living like this would have a negative impact on Arin?”

“No, even this much is considered clean. Even the children… ”

“Arin?”

“Ah, yes! That, this, this much… Hmm, it seems a little less organized than when I was at home. But still, to some extent… a well-organized chaos, you could say… ?”

“Arin, haa… Could you please give me a can of soda? Oh, if you’re done, over here.”

He handed over a plate of snacks and a can of drink that looked like Arin had already eaten them all.

Then he took the coffee cup Blanc had been drinking from and put it in the sink.

Haa. It’s messy. It’s crazy.

“I don’t think the ruins I made would be this messy. Isn’t that right, Blanc?”

“Not that much.”

“We, I think the empty lot where we always fought individually, the ruins of the abandoned factory, have been cleaned up a lot.”

“But this place is tidy, and that place is completely abandoned and a ruin where no one comes and goes. Let’s compare what’s comparable.”

“Well, I was bored waiting for you to come, so I cleaned up a little and made several hiding places.”

“But still, comparing that place to a living space… ”

“Well, it doesn’t matter. But what were you talking about with Arin that you’re sitting there with? If you had asked me for coffee, I would have brought it right away.”

“What, if I ask you to do even this much, you’ll definitely get addicted. You might end up like that lazy Seohyun who just lies there. Besides, I didn’t want to bother you right after I got here, did I?”

“Anyway. But what I was asking was what you talked about with Arin, right?”

For a moment, the topic of conversation almost went off in a strange direction again.

I didn’t know because I’ve never had long conversations with Blanc, except when we met briefly during battles or when we ran into each other and talked. But there’s something I’ve come to know recently while living with Blanc.

At least when Blanc wants to hide something, he beats around the bush and changes the subject altogether.

And, I just got swept away without knowing it and the topic changed several times, so I just barely found out.

“Ah, that’s… well, it’s nothing. We were just talking about things Arin should do in the future and such. Arin is a magical girl after all. If it’s to protect the citizens. She should work hard. Right? ”

“Well, aren’t you putting too much of a burden on Arin? For now, isn’t it too much to ask little Arin to protect the citizens?”

“If you think about it that way, you’re going too far? Don’t you even remember how much you did to me when I was around the same age as Arin?”

“No, at that time we were both doing our own thing… ”

“How much pain would it have been if you fell from hundreds of meters in the sky? Even though your body was protected by magic, you didn’t even think it would hurt, and you just kept attacking me in order to throw me off, right? ”

“At that time, I was young, and you were young too… ”

“What happened after you regained your memories?”

“Haa. Are you really so rude that you bring up old stories?”

Let’s shoot that pathetic tone at her. She sighed as if she was talking while taking a step back.

“Anyway, I was wondering what to do so that the child doesn’t experience such pain. I’m saying that it’s not about putting responsibility on the child or increasing the burden. And, what can we do about the fact that she was chosen by the mascot because she has magical girl talent? It’s our seniors’ job to raise her.”

“Well, I already have a training course set up for her.”

“Ah, you’re helping Arin grow up, first of all, you have to be a companion. If I knew you’d collapse like that, I wouldn’t have asked you to do it in the first place.”

“No, I’m more energetic now, and I can control my strength better… ”

“Until we know exactly what constitutes evil, all magical actions are prohibited. Understood?”

“Who are you to forbid my magical actions?”

“Originally, handling unauthorized magic is prohibited. Why do you do that when you know that?”

“No, this is my freedom… ”

“Just imagine that with that one freedom, you collapse again and lose consciousness. This time, not for 15 days, but for a month, no. Who knows that you’ll just lie there unconscious for a year. To bring her back from that unconsciousness, you need Ellis, but she won’t be able to escape the shackles of evil when it comes to handling magic power. In that case, Ellis’s remaining magic power is finite. If it’s all depleted, how can you wake her up again?”

“That evil deed is… ”

“You should know that, so we can at least close our eyes to that. And without knowing that, you’re going to collapse again from overusing your magic power? No. Absolutely not. Forbidden. And stop doing excessive activities, and ask the others to help you when things get tough. I hired Ellis too.”

“Ugh, really. You’re not even my parents, so why are you nagging me like this… ”

“I’m doing this because I’m worried about you.”

“Please, instead of worrying about villains like me who exist only for the sake of evil and vicious acts, please worry more about the citizens. A magical girl who cares about villains… Isn’t that strange?”

“What, don’t you think it’s too late to be nitpicking now?”

“Still… ”

“Think carefully about how much influence you’ve already had on the magical girls in this dormitory.”

“Haa. It’s so comforting for a magical girl to rely on someone like me.”

“Okay, listen to me for the sake of the magical girls who have become complacent.”

“ Okay. I need to figure out the criteria for this evil act quickly, so please step aside. You’re getting in the way of the cleaning.”

“Ah.”

Sigh, really.

I’m not a kid or anything.

Don’t do this, don’t do that…

Why do you want to treat someone like me like this?

Meanwhile, Ellie came to me holding a rather heavy bag, asking if I had collected all the trash in the living room.

“Vine! I’m done! Where should I put this?”

“Follow me. Check first.”

“No, I really cleaned it up diligently… I cleaned it up by searching every nook and cranny even harder than I would in my own house?”

“What are you talking about?”

I left her complaining behind and looked under the sofa.

“Hey. I looked everywhere and searched every nook and cranny.”

“No, how could I… ”

“I have to clean it up. It’ll be inconvenient to clean up later?”

The tissues under the sofa, and what’s that?

I took out the hair ties and other odd bits and pieces and sorted them.

It seems like I’ve been away from this house for about a month, but isn’t it too much just because I’ve been away for that long?

ha.

“First of all, well. The trash that those lazy, stupid, and foolish magical girls threw away, over here.”

I roughly told Ellie where to sort the trash, and also told her where the laundry room was nearby.

Yeah, now I really need to get organized.

I wish I could quickly sort out this strange lump in my heart.

What a struggle I’m going through, being caught by strange magical girls.