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Inside the library, Alice stared at a thick paper containing Lily’s handwritten translation.

Due to a mistake in using magic energy earlier, Alice failed to perform teleportation magic by determining the coordinates in the air.

The library felt very quiet, especially with her alone without anyone accompanying her.

The embarrassing mistake tarnished Alice’s pride as one of the greatest witch families because she cast the wrong teleportation magic. Her teleportation magic was successful, but the exit point was always in the air, not on the ground, making her who was teleporting have to fall first before touching the ground.

"Huuu... I don’t want to waste my time reading long writing like this."

"Why doesn’t Onee-sama give a brief explanation of this than give me a detailed explanation that makes me vomit when I see long paragraphs like this," Alice cursed her laziness because she couldn’t stand seeing Lily’s handwriting which was longer than the writing on a magic book in general.

"I feel bored when I don’t have an interest in reading like this."

"Do you have any ideas to grow my interest in reading to read Onee-sama’s handwriting, Zeta?" Alice asked her butterfly spirit who remained calm as she accompanied her to read in the library room.

Zeta’s sparkling wings, which spread behind her body, flapped and flew towards Alice, who was buried in the pages of paper that seemed to pile up to form a mountain paper.

"Master Alice, didn’t you say to pay more attention to the writings left by Lily-sama after experiencing bad things like in the previous battle?" Zeta calmly perched on Alice’s hair in her butterfly spirit form.

"I know, but without a high interest in reading, I’m too lazy to read it," replied Alice who had lost her enthusiasm for reading due to her greater laziness.

"I don’t know how to respond to this, a spirit like me had no problem reading something before. I only live to fulfill my contractor’s orders with my spirit sister. If possible, do I need to call Lily-sama so that your interest in reading will grow again?"

Alice’s ears turned red when she heard the name of her beloved Elder Sister.

"No! Please don’t call Onee-sama to this place, if Onee-sama knew that I was lazing around reading her painstakingly written handwriting, I would feel so impudent for wasting Onee-sama’s kindness!"

Alice adjusted her body position that was buried under a pile of pages of paper containing Lily’s handwriting. With her body leaning against the chair, Alice tried her best to force her eyes to read the paragraphs written by Lily in detail.

Reading and studying were two intangible enemies that were difficult for Alice to defeat.

Without the interest in finishing it all, Alice would laze around until the end.

However, behind that laziness, there was a genius brain from a future witch who had offensive magic spells that had a level of damage that exceeded the benchmark of genius witches in the past timeline.

Before Alice developed into a genius witch who had offensive magic spells that had a high level of damage, she had to be able to fight her laziness that always devoured her body.

In the perpendicular line of destiny, Alice had to be able to overcome her laziness to become a witch who was known in the history of mankind as a genius who was born once every thousand years.

When the seconds count to ten second, Alice put her head back on the pile of papers.

Pooommm...

"This is useless!"

"I’m too lazy for this!"

"I need motivation!"

"At least give me some motivation to overcome my greatest enemy, this laziness!"

Alice’s voice echoed inside the library room, the scream made a wind blow through the library window with cherry blossom petals scattered in front of Alice’s eyes.

"It seems like you need motivation to read, Alice?"

Right in front of Alice’s eyes, she saw her beloved Elder Sister sitting on the table right next to her body. Her white casual clothes showed a great contrast with her light brown skin color. Her silver hair waved along with cherry blossom petals falling on each strand of her hair. The red eyes that looked like rubies stared at her without fear like a determination from eyes that always watched her.

"Onee-sama!!" Alice was surprised by Lily’s sudden appearance.

Alice felt a warm touch on her cheek indicating that Lily had just gone out into the hot sunlight.

"You still haven’t finished reading my handwritten copy of the translated magic book?" Lily asked while stroking Alice’s messy hair because she felt tired after locking herself in the library room without any results.

"Are you forcing yourself to read my ugly handwriting?" Lily said while looking at her sadly.

Alice’s body trembled when she saw her Elder Sister who looked sad because she thought her handwriting was ugly and made it difficult to read.

"N-No! It’s not like that, Onee-sama!"

"Onee-sama’s handwriting is not ugly!"

"It’s just me who feels lazy because I have no intention of reading to finish the translated copy of this magic book," Alice tried to make Lily feel good by blaming herself.

"Really?" Lily tilted her head so that her silver hair fell and covered the page of paper that Alice was reading.

"Yes, that’s right, Onee-sama! I just feel lazy and have no interest in reading!" Alice tried hard to nod to make her beloved Elder Sister feelings better.

"Do you need motivation to read?" Lily asked while directing her gaze to the side as if watching something that Alice couldn’t see.

Lily’s eye movements indicated that she was reading something and biting her lip as if trying to understand a Quest that was addressed to her through the Yurification System.

To Alice, Lily looked like she was reading a page of paper which made her lazy to read because of the thickness of the long paragraphs that caused motion sickness.

"I understand, forcing yourself to read is not a good thing, right?" Lily said while getting down from the table and approaching Alice’s chair to sit beside her.

"How about for every piece of paper you manage to read, I’ll kiss your cheek?" Lily said who made an offer to attract Alice’s interest in reading.

"Hue?" Alice’s eyes looked blank after hearing that.

Twiitch...

Twiitch...

Alice blinked her eyes repeatedly and tried to focus, "Did I hear you right?" she said in low tone.

"Didn’t you hear it? There’s no way I can sit beside you to watch you read in boredom," Lily began to take a piece of paper containing her handwriting about a simple magic spell in the form of the Fireball methodology that uses the elemental fire element.

"Huuu... Onee-sama, can I hear again about what you said earlier?" Alice began to feel nauseous when she saw the paper containing handwriting with long and thick paragraphs.

"About what? I’ll be the one kissing your cheek after reading one sheet of paper?" Lily replied while handing a piece of paper to Alice.

"I-It turns out I didn’t hear wrong, it made my interest in reading rise. But... can I be a little greedy for more than that?" Alice asked while giving Lily a pleading look.

Zeta suddenly flew into Alice’s view and flapped her wings to signal not to be excessive in falling into the abyss of greed.

Alice blinked her eyes to signal that she understood the limits of her greed and wanted more than just a kiss on her cheek.

"You want more than just a kiss on the cheek?" Lily glanced at Alice with a curious look.

"Uhm… Onee-san… I want more than just a kiss on the cheek," Alice’s face slowly filled with a blush of embarrassment.

"May I know what makes you a little greedier than a kiss on the cheek?" Lily’s face got closer when she realized Alice’s face was covered in a blush of embarrassment.

"H-How about a kiss on the lips every time I finish a paper to read?" Alice asked, offering her greed by stimulating her interest in reading to emerge against her laziness.

"Alice, that’s too much for one sheet of paper. How about every ten sheets of paper that are read are finished to get one kiss on the lips?" Lily replied by offering another option to satisfy Alice’s greed.

Hearing the offer given by her beloved Elder Sister, Alice felt her heart beating fast. The offer made her read faster and her motivation for reading had piled up until it overflowed.

"That’s not too bad, Onee-sama!"

"Please listen to me who is reading this!"

Alice’s body was filled with a burning passion to read the pile of papers from Lily’s handwriting that translated the magic book.

Starting with ten sheets of paper that were read slowly, Alice received a gift in the form of a soft kiss on her lips from her beloved Elder Sister.

Chuuu...

Chuuuuppp...

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When the ten pages that Alice had finished reading became a form of temporary rest in reading, Alice enjoyed every kiss that lingered on her soft lips. The light and soft kiss made her interest in reading and make a little reading rest to get a soft kiss from her beloved Elder Sister.

In this library room, the voice of a little girl trying to read the paper that piled up like a mountain paper in front of her and the reward for her hard work in reading by getting a soft kiss on her lips lingered until the night came.

When Alice and Lily came out of the library room, Mio and Alyssa who were looking for them were surprised by the condition of Alice’s clothes which were covered with her saliva. Her small lips indicated satisfaction from the results of her hard work in reading the pile of paper that had piled up to almost make her vomit. Her laziness was defeated by the kiss.