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This icy night was decorated with simple dishes from a tea party that my mother had planned.

With warm tea that had just been heated and warm cake snacks made from soft breads, my body felt warm from the inside.

Mama, Alice, and Alyssa who were present at the tea party tonight added a very comfortable warm atmosphere.

It felt like my family was gathering to do one thing together without caring about the problems that were happening around them.

Several joint soldiers and adventurers who had just returned from hunting the Golden King Bear herd immediately looked at us with amazement.

The location of our tea party was an open tent that looked like a public kitchen that was often used for cooking by soldiers who were on an expedition.

The use of this minimalist tent was intended so that the tea party could be held anywhere and anytime, according to my mother preferences.

Seeing the tired gazes of the joint soldiers and adventurers who had just returned from hunting the Golden King Bear herd, gave them a brilliant idea to utilize their food supply that had been distributed by the Marquess Rommel family to celebrate the victory party after successfully bringing home the results of hunting the Golden King Bear herd.

Several joint soldiers and adventurers who had returned seemed very busy with tying up the corpses of the Golden King Bear herd that were still intact. The wounds that the corpses of the Golden King Bear herd had were only their decapitation wounds caused by a surprise attack from the Stealth Slime herd.

"Those are extraordinary wounds, I didn’t know they could defeat wild monsters with just one attack that beheaded them," said my mother while sipping the warm tea that Sebastian had prepared.

"Moreover, that wild monster is one of the rare monsters that can only be found freely when the Great Hero is still active in fighting the followers of the Goddess of Destruction. It would be a shame if this unique monster died in one large-scale hunting operation," continued my mother while watching the movements of the soldiers and adventurers who had just returned after recovering from their fear due to being exposed to the Golden King Bear’s powerful magic.

"Hmm... speaking of the Golden King Bear. How does it feel to fight against such a unique monster, Lily?" asked my mother while directing her gentle gaze towards me.

Listening to the question given by my mother, my body felt a small throb where information about the Golden King Bear and the cursed sword would be freely given to my mother.

With my elegant small movements in enjoying every sip of the aroma of tea that soothed the feeling in my body, I began to prepare to tell my experience of fighting two enemies in one body.

"It made me very tired and excited at the same time, Mama," I answered while giving my relaxed attitude while enjoying the tea party that was approaching midnight.

"Lily is tired? That seems impossible," my mother denied after hearing my answer.

"Mom, I’m really tired after facing two enemies that are on the same level of difficulty as Calamity Disaster. If I hadn’t managed to make one of them fall and surrender, I would have fallen on the ground and been knocked out all day because of the great fatigue," I replied while taking a soft bread snack that pampered my tongue.

Noomm...

The answer I gave made my mother look at me more closely.

Her gaze filled with analysis and suspicion was fixed on my body without leaving out any small details that could be missed by my mother’s sharp instincts.

"Tired from not being used to getting a new magic core?" said my mother while asking a question that made Alice and Alyssa immediately look at me.

"A new magic core?" said Alice while moving her head which was nodding and closing her eyelids.

"A new magic core, huh..." This time, Alyssa put her index finger on her lips as if she was thinking about something.

"That means... if Lily-nee runs out of magic energy. It will take a long time for me to kiss her lips to replenish magic energy directly through kissing contact," Alyssa’s small murmur was heard clearly in my ears.

Even at this close distance, I felt scared when I could hear what Alyssa was planning just by reading her lip movements and listening to her small murmurs.

"That’s a very good thing for me. With this, I have to increase my magic capacity so that Lily-nee who is running out of magic will depend on me to fill the dried-up magic energy. I have to increase my magic energy capacity so that I can kiss Lily-nee’s lips... at least thirty minutes before my magic runs out," Alyssa muttered softly, making it increasingly clear what she was planning.

I tried to stay calm in facing this small tea party and enjoyed every dish that Sebastian had brought. Together with Noel who acted as my Exclusive Maid, I received some small movements from Sebastian’s winks so as not to make things that would bother Alice and Alyssa’s Exclusive Maid.

I tilted my head to find out what Sebastian’s winks meant and slowly peeked at the Exclusive Maid in question. They seemed to give a look that begged to help those who were going to be in trouble which confused me.

However, I immediately realized the answer to that confusion after listening to Alice’s small mutter.

"Do I need to practice destroying mountains so that my magic capacity will increase like Onee-sama’s too?"

"But, it seems that Onee-sama’s magic energy capacity has increased greatly from the last time. I can’t even feel the overflow of her magic energy leaking out?"

"If it continues like this, my magic ability is just a child’s magic ability for Onee-sama. I think I have to practice magic again to destroy a mountain in one attack."

When I listened to the murmurs of Alice and Alyssa who seemed different from each other. Now I began to feel the worry emitted by Sebastian and hoped for myself to stop their madness that was about to run out of control.

"For once, I was really lucky because the Golden King Bear could be defeated easily with just my basic sword technique," I said to change the direction of the conversation that was starting to bring up strange murmurs from my two step-sisters.

"Basic sword technique huh... Isn’t that a technique that should only be used by the Mio family? I heard from Helena that it was a technique that was passed down from generation to generation by her extended family. Although Helena has now stopped teaching her family’s technique to Mio,... that didn’t make Lily neglect to study it further until she was able to face the Golden King Bear without any fear at all and defeat it without breaking a sweat."

My mother’s words made my body feel a light interrogation aura that was unconsciously directed at me. If this light interrogation aura was directed at civilians, then they would scream and tell anything my mother wanted to know.

However, I was used to the interrogation aura that my mother often used when she was interested in something I was doing.

And the only way to deal with this interrogation aura was to stay calm and start answering casually.

"My hard work in training has at least made me able to defeat the Golden King Bear without difficulty, Mama."

"I see, you are my daughter who diligently trains even though you knows that the sword technique is difficult to master in a short time while you are very busy teaching Mama, Alice, and Alyssa about the magic book written by one of the Great Heroes."

"Yes, I even sacrificed my free time to rest to train with Mio. So it is a payment that is commensurate with the results I have obtained, isn’t that very satisfying, Mama?" I gave an answer that would make my Mama feel happy and satisfied with this light conversation.

"Compared to the magic book that requires intelligence and logic, does the sword technique that Lily learns also require other things such as endurance and physical limits?"

When I heard that question, it seemed that I managed to change the conversation to a more relaxed direction which made Alice and Alyssa fixated on this conversation.

"Of course, Mama. My body muscles scream when forced to do something that pushes my physical limits in the training given by Mio."

"I know the feeling of trying to surpass physical limitations like that. I even experienced it after trying to cast magic spells written by the Great Hero himself several times until my brain almost gave up on thinking. Luckily, my daughters provided mental and emotional support that allowed me to overcome that terrible ordeal," my mother said with a smile and an aura of happiness around her.

"Speaking of Mio, where is she now? Why is Noel who is currently your Exclusive Maid now?" asked my mother after realizing that Mio had disappeared from her duties as my Exclusive Maid.

"Mio is currently trying to reforge the cursed sword to be used as my main weapon," I answered in a calm tone without drawing too much attention.

"Eeeh?!"

"Huuuh?!"

"Haaah?!"

The answer I had given seemed to surprise Mama, Alice, and Alyssa. Their unconcealable facial expressions indicated their curiosity about the presence of the cursed sword that was being reforged by Mio.

"Lily, I seem to have misheard you. Can you repeat your answer in more detail?" asked my mother once more.

"As I said Mama, Mio is currently away trying to reforge the cursed sword in order to have the same weapon posture as my katana," I answered while looking calm without causing panic.

"Ahh..." said my mother who seemed speechless after hearing my answer.

"Waaahhh..." Alice looked very excited after hearing about the presence of the cursed sword that was being reforged by Mio.

"As expected of my Lily-nee..." Of all the complicated expressions shown by Mama and Alice, it seemed like Alyssa had another expression like she was glancing at me with a gaze filled with great respect for me.

"As expected of our Supreme Commander, truly amazing," without breaking down her thin presence, stealth slime number forty-seven who was not far behind me said words that were in line with Alyssa.

Because Alyssa and stealth slime number forty-seven had the same mindset about me being great in their eyes, I started to sweat coldly which made my back feel wet.

"Will this go well?" I muttered a little after seeing the response that my family had given.

At the cold yet warm evening tea party because of the togetherness of the family, I realized that something strange like this is not bad to feel.

What is certain, I hope that my family at least has a normal standard that matches the normal standard in general.

At least, I try to hope for that normal thing.