CHAPTER 315: CHAPTER 23 - NORMAL DAY FOR MARQUESS ROMMEL FAMILY

My mother’s madness had made her an arsonist who was burning the bushes around the residence of Marquess Rommel’s mansion.

I, who was protecting my mother from the counterattack carried out by some adventurers, sighed after my last attack caused extraordinary destruction.

As someone who was bound by the blessing of the Goddess of Destruction, I was speechless after witnessing the destruction I had wrought, along with the fire needle magic attack performed by my lovely mother.

"I don’t know what to say about this," I muttered in a small voice after the fire had burned high enough to make my twin sister cast even more water magic than before.

The splash of water magic that was much bigger than before provided a great contrast from the fire needle magic attack by my Mother had done and the destructive attack that I had done before.

The cursed katana and cursed odachi that I was holding looked like background decoration after taking a counterattack from an adventurer who had launched a counterattack.

"I think... this is already enough." While saying that, I put the cursed katana and cursed odachi into their lovely sheaths.

Ctaakk...

While putting my weapons into their lovely sheaths, I saw my mother’s gaze staring from the top of my head to my face.

"Lily-chan, you look different than usual." While saying that, my mother seemed to notice the cherry blossom crown that was floating above my head.

I immediately stopped the blessing from the Monarch of Holy Destruction and removed the cherry blossom crown that was floating above my head.

"Hmm?" I turned to my mother as if I didn’t know what my mother was saying.

The cherry blossom crown that disappeared above my head immediately surprised my mother.

"Eeehh?! Where did the cherry blossom crown that Lily-chan was wearing go?!" my mother screamed in a high tone and looked curious about it.

"M-Mom?" I tilted my head and pretended not to know what my mother had said. I just stared at her with an innocent smile.

My mother’s eyes were now fixed on the cursed katana and cursed odachi, which were in their sheaths.

Twiittcchh...

Twittcchh...

My mother’s eyes immediately fell on the cursed katana and cursed odachi, as if trying to understand what had happened to me.

"Lily-chan, is it just me, or have you... gained more weapons?" my mother asked, a little late in realizing it.

"I’ve had two cursed weapons like this for a long time, Mama," I replied with a casual tone.

"T-Two cursed weapons?!" As if just realizing that I had two cursed weapons, my mother tried to act normal.

"..." I also tried to understand what my mother was doing, who seemed to be deliberately ignoring the fire that my twin sister was busy putting out.

"This is interesting, Lily-chan..." my mother murmured, seemingly trying to understand what I had said.

"I didn’t know Lily-chan was capable of using such a cursed weapon..."

"There are even two of them!" my mother continued to shout, her expression showing she couldn’t comprehend all of this.

Was it just me, or was my mother trying to forget the trouble she’d caused earlier?

Even with me here, carrying two cursed weapons like this, my mother still managed to turn a blind eye to the massive fire that was raging in front of Marquess Rommel’s residence.

I, who was trying to understand this, glanced at my father, who had been standing silently.

"Um, Father..." My call sounded soft and make my father surprise.

"Please, don’t ask about that, I don’t know about this either," my father replied in a weak tone, as if he didn’t want to get involved in the madness that my mother was causing.

The large fire that was caused by my mother’s fire needle magic attack and was being tried to be extinguished by my twin sister, made the smoke from the fire that had been successfully extinguished rise high enough in the air that it made Sebastian, who was inside the Main Mansion of Marquess Rommel, come out running.

Sebastian, who saw my father and mother, immediately went towards them to ask what was happening at that time.

Before Sebastian asked my father a question, he glanced at me with a big question mark.

I returned the glance by looking at my mother, who was holding a magic staff in her hand, and Sebastian sighed heavily.

Without asking my father a question, Sebastian had already understood what had happened after my mother held a magic staff in her hand and my twin sister was extinguishing a large fire in front of the entrance gate of Marquess Rommel’s residence.

"A normal day for the Marquess Rommel family," Sebastian grumbled after catching his breath.

"..." Somehow, I felt deja vu after hearing Sebastian’s grumbling.

It seems that Sebastian and I were thinking the same thing on a normal day inside Marquess Rommel’s residence.

After Reina and Mio did something to the front garden of Marquess Rommel’s residence, this time it was my mother and I who did it.

"Yup, a normal day at Marquess Rommel’s residence, Sebastian," I replied in response to Sebastian’s earlier grumbling.

"Lily-sama, you’re not involved in this, are you?" Sebastian replied, glancing at my cursed katana and cursed odachi.

"Uhh... Umm... Teehe~" Giving Sebastian a gentle smile, I gave an honest reply to this.

"Lily-sama..." Sebastian gave up on this and took a deep breath after knowing what had happened earlier.

"Marquess Rommel, I hope you can be patient with this," as he said this, Sebastian rubbed my father back.

Caress...

Caress...

As Sebastian was stroking my father back, I saw two grown men helpless in this situation and hoped that this problem would be resolved quickly.

The massive fire that was raging was successfully extinguished thanks to the efforts of my twin sisters. A powerful water spell swept away the brush that had been burned by my mother’s fire needle spell, sweeping it away into a suddenly created pool of water.

I, who saw this, immediately saw several bodies of the adventurers who were struggling to save themselves, burned to death and drowned at the same time.

My mother, my twin sister, and me. It seemed that the three of us had worked together to wipe out several adventurer parties that were peeking out from behind the bushes.

The bodies that were in the bushes were visible after the flood, making my father and Sebastian panic after seeing them.

"M-Marquess Rommel, this isn’t what I think, is it?" Sebastian asked in a soft whisper to my father.

"Well, they are adventurers connected to the Dark Guild. I think it will be safe after we kill them in such a brutal way," my father said in a relaxed tone, without feeling guilty about this.

"I-Isn’t that the same as us committing a war crime?"

"Sebastian... listen to this. We are not committing war crimes if we are not on the battlefield. Of course... if no evidence is found to accuse us of being war criminals," my father said in a convincing tone.

Sebastian could only stare at my father with blank eyes, trying to understand every word that came out of my father’s mouth.

"Somehow, I can see a war crime happening in the upcoming inter-noble war season," Sebastian grumbled as he straightened the collar of the Butler uniform he was wearing.

"Well, as for that particular war crime, I’m sure it will happen either from the opposition faction or from the faction that supports the royal family. Marquess Rommel’s family will not commit a war crime... because we will clean up the evidence before anyone else finds it!" my father exclaimed excitedly, making Sebastian stand up with a pale face.

"Ah!" Sebastian stood up straight with his pale face and tried to act like a normal Butler.

"I don’t know how to respond to this," grumbled Sebastian, who seemed to have given up in this situation.

Snap...

My mother suddenly snapped her fingers and made several herds of stealth slimes stand in front of her, as if answering my mother’s call swiftly and skillfully.

Seeing such a disciplined herd of stealth slimes, I was amazed at what my mother had done to be able to make this herd of stealth slimes answer the call of her finger snap.

Aiko and Sirius joined the herds of stealth slimes that had been summoned by the snap of my mother’s fingers.

"Alright, everyone..."

"This is the right time for you to be on duty..."

"The operation to remove the evidence of the war crime has begun!" my mother shouted as if ordering a herd of stealth slimes to immediately clean up the bodies that had died in a state of burns and drowning due to the water magic spell from my twin sister.

Swiissh!!

Swiisshh!!

With fast movements, I could see stealth slimes turning into their slime ball form to devour the corpses of the adventurers connected by the Dark Guild.

I also remembered Sebastian’s words about war crimes and my father’s words that he would pretend this incident never happened as long as there was no evidence left.

Is it just me, or does my family seem like a dangerous family?

"..." While I was standing and watching the herd of stealth slimes cleaning up the corpses, I felt the touch of Alice and Alyssa, who had just finished resting after putting out the big fire that was started by my mother.

Tuutt...

Tuutt...

"Onee-sama, was my water magic too much?" Alice asked after seeing the bodies of several drowned adventurers.

"Lily-nee, was the magic attack I did enough?" Alyssa asked with a look of delight on her face.

Alice and Alyssa’s questions sounded almost identical. But, they weren’t sure whether their magical attacks were too much or too little.

By looking at the results of the magic attacks they have performed, I can only conclude one thing for sure about this.

Some of their water magic attacks managed to extinguish the fire and kill the adventurers.

"Hmm..." I suddenly realized this one important thing.

"Y-You two put out the fire that Mama started, or attacked the adventurers until they drowned?" I asked Alice and Alyssa.

"I put out the fire Mama caused," said Alice.

"I drowned the adventurers who survived Mama’s attack," Alyssa replied.

Hearing these two different responses, I could only smile.