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As I stayed with the little girl using a clone, I decided to go on as usual in my daily life. As I moved into important things, an entire day passed, and now I went to check the rest of the people from the Rabbit-kin village.
After having given them the Purple Potion, it was time to see if the effects had gone as we have planned, and to my surprise, or well, to my good expectations and hopes, things did indeed go well.
Phew, I am so relieved…
The people were actually very healthy, and every single rabbit ended up healing from the disease they had caught, and their Status showed that they were healthy.
The fever some were feeling or the weakened sensations they were feeling over their bodies had all gone away. This was a nice thing, and they had fully recovered, and I felt relieved and quite happy.
Now, the thing we had to do was to disinfect their bodies and let them out. It would be for the best, to be honest.
I had to wake up my friends so they could help me with this, but mostly Emeraldine, who was able to use spells that could disinfect stuff. I had yet to develop many spells to help in that regard. Death Magic is quite limited in its utility, although I’ve learned a few spells that are “outside the system” that don’t show up as Skills, the same way Emeraldine, too, learned spells like this.
One of such Spells can help with the fermentation of things and maturation, too. I guess it can work in foods and other things. There are even some similar spells that help at preserving stuff, but complete disinfection seems to require a bit more thought and investigation on my part. Still, I have Supreme Magic. Anything I will, will be used… as long as it fits within my own magic affinity and elements.
After all, no matter how strong I can grow, I can’t do everything. This is why Emeraldine comes in handy so much now, and all of that, you see… so it is very important to use her abilities and her magic, and she’s also lovely, so she always nods happily and accepts. She is as dedicated to the people as I am.
She’s really such a nice girl. My Emeraldine is a saint… I don’t deserve such a bright and pure girl… I really don’t!
“Alright, you guys, please give me all your clothes!” I said.
The rabbit-kin looked at me with surprise.
“Y-You mean it?”
“Won’t we end up naked?”
“This is kind of… erm….”
“Well…”
“Yes! You must get naked, so we can disinfect you guys, and you can finally join society… well, our society. After that, we’ll burn all the things in the camp too, so the disease doesn’t spread.” I said.
“P-Please, everyone, just obey her… I am sorry if this is embarrassing…” sighed Syllis.
The cute rabbit boy at my side tried to convince the people.
“So come on, get naked! Show me those bodies!” I laughed.
“M-Maria, I think you lack a bit of common sense there. It is not really easy for people to get naked…” said Emeraldine.
“Huh? Is it not? But… Ah, I get it. I will give them privacy.” I said.
I spread my domain of darkness and generated thin curtains made of shadows around the entire camp.
“This should do it, guys! Better?” I asked.
“Y-Yeah…”
“I guess…”
“Please do this quickly, though….”
After the people got nude, we showered them in spells that could disinfect them, and then we also used warm water to wash them well. After that, we gave them new clothes that I had from all the stuff stored inside my Inventory, and then we set on fire all the things in the quarantine camp.
“And done! It only took the entire day! …Eh? It’s already night?”
I looked upwards, and it was indeed night already.
Did we seriously spend the entire day? Wow…
Well, side quest completed.
“Thank you… Maria-sama, you’ve really done so much for us. I don’t know how I can repay so much…” cried Syllis.
“We’ll be forever grateful….”
“Please, take us with you to wherever you’re going. We are good hunters.”
“We also know about all sorts of herbs, animals, and natural routes.”
“We originally used to be a nomadic tribe before we ended up stuck in this forest, actually!”
“Yeah, that’s right….”
The people were as grateful as the goblins were back then, and they all were kneeling before us.
“It’s nothing. You guys should relax for now and enjoy life. I would be happy if you could be happy as well. For now, how about you finally join the rest of the people we got here? My people are eager to meet all of you.” I said.
“S-Sure!”
“Let’s go!”
“I am starving….”
“Thank you…”
As we began to make food for everyone with the help of the people, we enjoyed a nice dinner together, eating grilled meat, stew, and freshly baked bread. I gave myself the luxury of enjoying a nice few cups of wine below the moonlight with my friends.
We laughed, we smiled, and we decided to simply enjoy and celebrate the moment. We won’t have the chance to experience and live such days all the time.
Sometimes you just want to forget about everything else and just sit down and enjoy a day off, right? It is not something bad per se, nor something that people “don’t do.” It just comes off naturally after you’ve lived a lot of stuff. Sometimes we just really want to chill out and relax.
In the end, it was around twelve at night, and most of the people were sleeping by now. The ones that ended at my side were mostly my friends.
“Once more, I am very grateful for what you’ve done for us…” said Syllis with a cute smile.
The young rabbit boy seemed cuter today, perhaps because he was smiling so radiantly.
I petted his head.
“Don’t worry, Syllis. It is just what I do.” I said.
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