It had been two months...
Ever since becoming the apprentice of a powerful little witch and an assistant witch, all Elaina had to do every day was run errands. For example: going down the mountain to shop, climbing up it to gather herbs, capturing live specimens for magical research, preparing three meals a day plus a midnight snack for a certain troublesome little girl, brewing all kinds of strange potions for them, cleaning the house on a set schedule, driving away the various little animals that snuck in, and giving the assistant massages and scrubbing her back, among countless other things.
In short, every troublesome task the two of them didn't want to do, didn't feel like doing, or were too lazy to do, along with all the dirty and grueling work, was left entirely to Elaina!
At first, Elaina had been deeply resentful and disgusted by this unfair, unjust treatment of an apprentice, which was practically no better than slavery! As a genius, she had come to the forest to study magic so she could graduate from apprentice witch to full-fledged witch as soon as possible and travel the world. She hadn't come to be a free maid or servant for those two.
However...
By now, she had suddenly stopped resenting it so much. In fact, she had settled in quite happily, staying in the little wooden houses built around the trunk of the great tree in the forest and continuing to apprentice under those two unqualified teachers.
She had gotten used to this role and planned to keep at it!
Because, although those two might have been jealous and therefore refused to teach the genius Elaina any magic, she had fortunately managed to befriend her teacher's familiar, Tibbers. So after finishing her daily chores, she could use all