I Didn't Even Want To Live, But God Forced Me To Reincarnate! Chapter 44: Trapped In A Messy Situation, Solution Please?

I made a mess in my independent training, and now I don't know what I should do...

Can this mess be undone?

While I was busy thinking of various possibilities to solve the problem, suddenly there's someone calling out to me.

"Lyra~ Are you sleeping?"

Clavis-nii's voice!

Which means, Alt-nii is also coming home! He will definitely be able to help me make the ice disappear!!

After all, he is a [Void] user!!

"Clavis-nii, I'm at the second floor's living room! Is Alt-nii with you?"

I can hear footsteps approaching the room I'm in.

"No, he had something he needed to do at school, and I didn't want to accompany him anyway, so he asked me to go back first and to play with you!"

...what a bad timing, Alt-nii!!

Oh, right, both Alt-nii and Clavis-nii were finally admitted to special cla.s.s!

(Actually, Alt-nii half-forced Clavis-nii to accompany him to study and such... Alt-nii is dead set on making Clavis his aide, eh?

Also... Clavis-nii seems to be quite smart that he can also get into the special cla.s.s, through my brother's enforcement—or that he received one h.e.l.l of Alt-nii's pestering and tutoring?)

...Let's get back at the current situation. Clavis-nii's footsteps are getting closer.

"Uh, uhm, Clavis-nii, wait a second, don't come here—"

But my warning comes too late.

Clavis-nii finally climbed up all the stairs, and now he's standing frozen in front of me, looking at the room in his confusion.

"Uh, uhm, this..."

I... feel awkward looking at his confused expression. He notices that I'm the source of this ice mess, and he looks at me, worried on what to do.

"Can... you help me... Clavis-nii?" I smiled awkwardly.

"...Uhhhhh... My attribute is [Neutral], so..."

"..."

"..."

We are both standing still, face-to-face, looking at each other's face, with puzzled expression.

"L, let's move the ice into the trash bin!" He suggested.

"But, what about the table, the gla.s.s, and other things that are covered in ice?"

"..."

We can definitely wait for it to melt by itself or melt until Altaire or Mom comes home, but the frozen big objects are the major contributor to the mess. Yup, definitely.

After the long silence...

"...I will bring in a wooden torch and we shall thaw them...?" He suggested, again.

"What if we start a fire and burn the whole house, instead?"

"..."

Uuuh, I appreciate his worries and his earnest thinking to help me, but... we are both stuck!

His tail is not wagging, it's completely stiff. Both of his ears are also standing. If I'm not wrong, it's the sign that he's also nervous.

Our expressions clearly stated this: 'What do we do?'

"Wait for them to naturally thaw....?" He asked.

"It... might take quite a while, as they won't thaw quickly in room temperature. Not to mention, winter is approaching so the air is colder—and... if it thaws naturally, it might create a mess of water...?"

I gave him my thoughts about his suggestion—which I have thought before he even mentioned it.

"..."

Finally, the long silence dragged on and on...

Perhaps wondering what was going on with the silence, Niina decided to go upstairs to take a look.

"Clavis? You're here? Why are you and Lyrsama being so quiet? Huh-"

She stopped talking when she saw what a mess we're in.

Then, as soon as she realized what's going on, her expression turned to be a dreadful expression.

"Forgive my rudeness, but... Lyrsama?! What on earth did you do...?!"

I smiled as wide as I can, as a response.

Normal maids or workers would risk their chances of being fired if they were to say the remarks that she said just now—if they were working in normal n.o.bles' house. Yes, my family's n.o.ble house can't be categorized as normal. Unlike the typically stiff att.i.tude the maids and workers of other houses have—in order to prevent anything from going bad that would lead them to stop working or considered to insult the n.o.bility—the workers in my current house are really, really friendly, just like part of my family.

So, of course my response would turn out to be as friendly, and I would obey her as she's older than me. Okay, responding by honestly admitting your mistakes is not an easy feat to do.

"Uhm, I was just practicing my magic... independently... and... I forgot I haven't learned how to thaw them myself... I... can't control my own magic... yet?"

I ended my sentence with a question mark because I wasn't very sure of what I thought of.

Now, there are one human and two beastmen standing still in silence, wondering what to do to get out of the mess.

"Me, Chloe, and Vince... all of us naturally couldn't thaw the magical ice... we had to resort to the traditional way of thawing ice, I guess? We have no choice but to clean up the mess afterwards," Niina finally decided the course of action we'd take, rather than waiting and let more time to waste.

"S, sorry, Niina...," I can't do anything but to apologize for troubling her.

"It's alright... Maybe next time you can practice outside, Lyrsama...?" She smiled to me, trying to give her suggestion which sounds good, to be honest.

I nodded.

Yes, that's definitely a nice idea.

"I will go down and prepare the wooden torch." Niina then went downstairs.

But, shortly after that...

"I am finally homeeee~ Lyra, Clavis, let's play~!"

Oh my, big brotherrrrrr!!

Big brotherrrr, thou art the most wondrous brother ever! Thanks for coming to my rescue!

"Alt-niiiiiiiiiiii---!" I quickly ran downstairs to welcome my big brother with open arms.

"Ahahahaa, ahahahaha! That's so funny, Lyraaa!!" Alt-nii couldn't stop laughing at my miscalculation after he helped to dispell all my ice magic to the void.

"Uuuuhh, I didn't think that we could feel so disconnected to our magical creation like that! I thought I could just cancel the magic just fine!" I pouted.

"Haha, guess you should ask Mom to teach you that, so you can do independent studies at ease~," he patted my head.

"I will still do the independent training outside from now on, though!"

Yes, lesson learned: No more indoor independent training until I am good enough at controlling magic!

Thank goodness Alt-nii saved my life!! The mess incident is solved before the room turns into a real mess~

I am glad I have a big brother like Alt-nii~ ฅ(＾・ω・＾ฅ)