At Sea

On the Demon Continent, wearing anything too conspicuous would get you targeted, so while we were there, we had worn the sort of clothes adventurers on the Demon Continent usually wore.

Now that we were about to board a ship, I had changed into some of the more comfortable clothes I'd bought earlier, mainly for comfort.

Eris and Aisha did not change. During our time on the Demon Continent, they had simply rotated through three sets of clothes, and they had hooded cloaks covering them anyway.

"Lord Rudeus Greyrat, A-rank adventurer, and Lady Eris Greyrat, A-rank adventurer, the upcoming voyage will last two weeks..."

"Understood. I've already looked into it."

"Then we'll be counting on you..."

There were about seventy people aboard this ship. He had hired adventurers who were headed the same way, and I had to admit, it was a smart move.

He had hired Eris and me for only ten silver coins. Two A-rank adventurers. If this had been a guild request, it would definitely have cost around one gold coin. A-rank adventurers were not easy to hire.

It seemed he had also hired an A-rank party, which meant two A-rank adventurer teams were protecting his ship...

"Rudeus... I feel awful..."

"Brother... I feel awful too..."

These two little troublemakers... They had clearly been so excited before boarding.

I reached out and cast healing magic on their foreheads.

"How's that?"

"Much better... x2"

"You two should go rest in the cabin first."

"Ugh... Forget it... If I stay on deck, I can throw up into the sea whenever I need to."

As Eris spoke, she looked like she was about to vomit again.

Aisha nodded along in agreement.

"Fine... Then sit over there."

I pointed to a patch of shade beneath the sails on the deck.

They nodded, obediently walked over, sat down, and leaned against each other.

What a lovely sight. Two cute girls leaning against each other and all.

On the seventh day of the voyage, healing magic had already become almost completely useless against their seasickness.

It was my first time hearing that someone could build up immunity to healing magic...

Was this like cockroaches from my previous life? Use the same insecticide too much, and later generations evolved to stop fearing that type of pesticide?

Hmm... If only I knew the kind of magic that could block someone's sensory perception of their organs. I remembered learning in my previous life that carsickness seemed to happen because some organ in the ear was too sensitive? Then seasickness should work on the same principle.

"Brother... Am I going to die...? I'm so young... so cute... and a genius too... And yet...!"

"Where did you learn lines like that?"

I tapped Aisha on the head.

"Ugh... I already feel terrible, and now Brother is hitting me too. Besides, Big Sister Eris already felt so bad she fell asleep..."

"Isn't falling asleep a good thing? You've barely slept for two days, and you throw up as soon as you eat... Hmm, what do you think I should do now? Healing magic has already stopped working on you two."

"Rub... Rub my tummy..."

As Aisha said this, she lay down beside me.

"Like this?"

I slipped my hand under Aisha's clothes and gently stroked her lower stomach.

I used magic to make my hand a little warmer, while continuously using healing magic at the same time.

"Mm~ That's it..."

Aisha closed her eyes, her expression looking very comfortable.

Just as we siblings were enjoying a warmth that belonged only to siblings, I felt someone's gaze on me.

I turned to look. It was coming from Eris, whom I had thought was asleep.

"Rudeus... I want that too..."

As Eris said this, she leaned over beside Aisha and lifted up her own clothes herself.

Eris's lower stomach bore the marks of training, but even so, it was very cute. Cute? No... With a figure like that, the word should be beautiful...

And paired with Eris's expression right now, a softer expression she would normally never show...

Uh... No matter how you put it, Eris was a fourteen-year-old girl in puberty. It was actually normal for me to feel something, right?

And in my previous life, I had never had any contact with women either, so this kind of reaction was normal, right?

This kind of reaction? What kind of reaction was I having right now?!

"Rudeus...?"

"Ah... come on, come on."

I reached out and started doing the same thing to Eris as I had done to Aisha.

What had I been thinking just now...? Eris was only fourteen. How could I have those kinds of thoughts about a child?

I shook my head, throwing the distracting thoughts out of my mind.

"Rudeus, what are you thinking about? You don't look too good."

"Uh... nothing."

"Hehe~ Was it seeing Sister Eris lift her clothes just now that got you excited, Big Brother?"

Aisha said it from the side with a giggle.

"Is... is that so...? Rudeus...?"

"Mm... maybe. Anyway, both of you be quiet. I need to focus on controlling my mana..."

Although I had no idea where Aisha had learned all these weird things, there was no way I could beat her in an argument right now.

Because my face was definitely bright red. At the very least, even my neck felt hot.

"Big Brother~ when I grow up, I'm definitely going to have a great figure. When the time comes, I'll do this pose for you too."

"Shut up."

I chopped Aisha on the head with my hand again.

This little sister of mine, seriously...

Just then, the ship suddenly swayed.

Several enormous tentacles rose out of the sea.

Eris had just been about to get up when I stopped her.

"It's fine. Isn't there still an adventurer party?"

"Oh, right."

And so, the three of us continued what we had been doing, and this time we even had that adventurer party putting on a coordinated performance for us.

I had to admit, as expected of A-rank. If you pulled them out one by one, none of them would be at A-rank level, but with teamwork, they managed it.

If Eris and I cooperated that well, could we reach S-rank?

A few hours later, that giant octopus monster was finally taken down.

It seemed that party wasn't all that strong at fighting at sea, because they lacked firepower.

The mage had been using fire magic the entire time, so it looked like she wasn't very good with other types of magic... If Aisha had been the one out there, she definitely would have used a different spell to quickly bring down that giant octopus.

Even if their teamwork was good, it wasn't that impressive...

Aisha and Eris had already fallen asleep. I carried them back to the cabin, then returned to the deck.

At that moment, I noticed that the adventurer party seemed to have found me and was walking over.

Looking for trouble? Or were they going to scold me for not helping just now?

"Hello. You are Lord Rudeus, correct?"

Apparently not.

"Yeah."

"It's like this. During the fight with that monster just now, the warrior in our party was poisoned. Can you use detoxification magic? Intermediate level is enough."

I nodded, and the person happily led me over to the poisoned man.

It was that warrior from earlier... He was still conscious.

I placed my hand on him.

"O goddess, daughter of a mother's love, please hear this child's plea. [Ex Healing]"

After all, intermediate magic was enough.

Once the treatment was finished, I stood up.

"Y-you shortened the spell chant just now?"

"Is that rare?"

"No... not rare... but your spell chant was just... far too short..."

"I'm just a little good at healing magic, that's all. I'll be heading back now."

"Ah... thank you! We'll continue watching the deck from here. If anything unexpected happens, please help us. After all, our warrior isn't in very good shape right now."

"Mm, I understand."

I waved a hand and walked back to the cabin.

Aisha and Eris's expressions had turned pained again.

Right, of course. For the past few days, the two of them had been eating, throwing up, then eating again.

But they couldn't just not eat...

I slipped my hand under their lower bellies and used the same method as before to massage them.

"We'll be there soon..."