Chapter 64: Community service

It's bright early this morning. I thought the weather would be abnormal again today, but it's just bright, even for seven in the morning. It's not hot, far from it, but the sun feels like it's mocking me for getting up early on Sunday just to clean the church and the area around it, as a form of punishment from that old man who kept babbling yesterday. Well, he gave me his share of cake and sweet yesterday, so I will forgive him.

The head maid said goodbye to the three of us after our breakfast. The punishment was only meant for me, but Nar and Sas, being the best wonderful older brother, decided to join in as well. I'm not sure why, but I'm glad they wanted to go with me. I wouldn't mind if they just wanted to sleep around all day, as they always look dead tired, even yesterday, but it makes me happy that they are willing to help me.

We arrive at the church just in time for the morning prayer. Sas, as usual, sleeps through the prayer. I have nothing better to do, so I sleep next to him. Unusually, even Nar sleeps. The three of us only wake up when one of the sisters here gently touches my cheek.

Yawning as much as I want, I get myself ready. I raise my hands to the sky, bend my back and hop a few times and I am ready to go. As for the two of them

"Come on Sas..." [Nar]

"Five more minutes..." [Sas]

Let us just leave those two behind. Even the sister feels the same way. The sister brings a set of clothes for me to wear because she does not want my dress to be dirty. I don't really care, but she insisted. I guess there's nothing wrong with changing my clothes. Since only Nar and Sas are around and the others are all sisters, I thought of just putting the clothes given to me over my dress on the spot, but they forced me to change my clothes properly. Fine...

We start by cleaning the floor. It's made of special tiles. Depending on the temperature, it can be either cold or hot to step on. Since there's no one around and I really wanted to feel the tiles, I said

"It's really warm!" [Diana].

"Fufu, most of us did that too"

"Make sure you put your shoes back on"

"Yes!" [Diana]

The mop I am given is large and difficult to handle. Since I feel that it's a waste of time to try to mop the floor like the sister, I float and start brushing the tiles extensively. It's easier for me that way! I even use cleaning magic, soap magic, and even purifying magic to make the tiles shiny and white! I thought the sisters would be nagging me, but it turns out they were clapping and praising me! Now I feel even more motivated!

Just as I finish cleaning the floor, a group of children comes! They are making the tiles dirty with their shoes! I scold them and they get angry! It's your fault! We began to argue, and Nar, waking from his sleep, began to intervene.

"Fine... But we refused to clean with her!"

"Who wanted to clean the church with you!" (Diana)

(Am I like this before? No, I'm sure I'm mature compared to when I was their age) [Nar]

Nar, together with the children from the nearby local school, starts to clean the area where they enter. As for Sas and me, we started cleaning the window. Sas, lazily takes one of the old tattered clothes and starts cleaning. He seems to fall asleep at any moment. I wanted to do it faster, and I wanted to energize him, so...

"Water magic!" [Diana]

"Hey!" [Sas]

"Now the window is all clean and you're wide awake. Hehe..." [Diana]

Using a wand imbued with a water stone, he fires off a large water bubble. His target is none other than his own little sister! How dare he target me! I won't surrender easily as I try to burst the bubble with my fire punch, but

"I'm trapped! What's this bubble magic!" [Diana]

"Serve you right" [Sas]

He guided the bubble out and burst it! I'm soaking wet right now! That does it! War! It is war. I declare my declaration of war loudly to Sas, and he, grinning, accepts it. I'm sure I'll win this war with my water magic. I'll add ice magic to make it freezing cold.

"Should we tell Cardinal Davis about this?"

"Perhaps."

"I'm sure none of you wanted to be scolded again? Am I right?"

"We sincerely apologize for all our mistakes. We are nothing but a humble lamb in this world" [Sas, Diana].

(That was fast... The Sister sure knows when to throw Cardinal Davis' name around) [Nar]

After cleaning the window, it's time to clean the dust in hard-to-reach areas. The others just use something like a long broom. As for me, since I can float easily, I don't need it. I float to any high ceiling, and whenever I see dust accumulating, I use my space magic, inspired by Linda, to trap the dust in a space cube magic, and throw it into the garbage bag. Nar, looking at me, gets the same inspiration. He floats next to me, but he's a little unnatural at floating and flying around. Even Sas tried it, but Sas is even worse at it than Nar.

"You're really natural at this" [Nar].

"Can you teach us?"[Sas]

"NATURALLY!" [Diana]

"How fun!"

"Can we fly too?"

"Make us fly! Make us fly!"

"SURE!" [Diana]

And with my magic, I make us all float. Laughter ensues as we play instead of cleaning. I'm sure only Nar and Sas are taking the cleaning seriously at this point. Even the sisters laugh and smile when they see our reaction, but suddenly they stop laughing and the reason is clear.

"IT'S CARDINAL DAVIS!"

"Stop or he will get angry like a devil!"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A DEVIL?" [Cardinal Davis]

We quickly get into position and clean the area.

(What is that?) [Diana]

That jewel-like thing? What is it? Does it feel empty? I wonder what it could be. I just grabbed it and when everything is done, I show it to Nar ans Sas. Cardinal Davis seems to be interested as well.

"It's an empty magic stone, no, it's a magic devouring stone" [Sas].

"Why such a thing here?" [Davis]

"To absorb the holy power around here? Maybe? But why steal it this way? Who does it belong to? I don't sense anything that can be used for spying as well" [Nar]

"Meow" [Fie]

"Oh, it's you Fie, out for a walk?" [Diana]

Fie actually grabs that thing and it seems like he wants to absorb it. Literally! The thing starts to enter his body! I panicked and used all my mana to stop it, and the magical devouring stone lit up. It still goes into Fie!

"FIE! FIE?" [Diana]

"It's changing color..." [Nar]

"Hey... Could it be... Fie is not an ordinary cat, but an elemental cat..." [Sas]

"Elemental cat? I thought it was extinct?" [Davis]

"Still, this will explain why Fie suddenly exhibits mana similar to Diana..." (Meaning that Fie can also use all magic like Diana after absorbing the magic devouring stone containing Diana's mana.) [Nar]

Fie, from being a completely shiny black cat, now has all kinds of colors on her fur. Even Fie's eyes are like a rainbow. He's still active as usual, and more importantly

"He's still adorable!" [Diana].

"Can I pet it?"

"Look, it started floating around!"

"Fie can do that too?" [Sas]

"Hey, let's play chase with it!"

"Let's go, go, go!" [Diana]

"Wait, hold on!" [Nar]

Of course we won't, because Fie is in the mood to play as well. We run outside and start playing tag while the adults look confused.

Chapter end