Alicia Just Wants to Live Relaxedly As a Human Being

Welcome Gifts

Already, a week has passed since I got Aki as a waiter.

Really, luck is on my side, right?

Actually, making Aki a waiter was a side thing, because the biggest benefit of getting a waiter was that I automatically got the dictionary running.

But that doesn't mean the side is on the side. This is in the bonus route.

This bonus is what can be said as a second goal, getting good food.

By getting good food. It's been two birds with one stone. In fact, these days it can be three birds, because Aki voluntarily helps clean the house. Four birds when Aki wants to take care of the weeds in the yard and tidy it up. It might be five birds if Aki wants to make a flower garden in the yard.

But no need, I would really be a 'neet' if I was constantly pampered.

The important point of Aki's existence is here to be a walking dictionary in the vocabulary of common sense.

I am still a layman with general knowledge, so having Aki here is very helpful. For example, this [Handphone], box shape, small, and can be held by hand. When I pressed the button on the side, the screen suddenly let out a light filled with colored images. When I touch or slide the screen with my finger, the image changes. He said this is an object for anything, such as contacting other people, browsing, sending messages, photographing or recording both images and events, and so forth. What advanced technology.

It is very nice and interesting, an object without relying on magic, has the same function as some magic techniques loaded in this one small box. If likened to magic techniques, this kind of thing has a similar function to high-level magic techniques, such as [Telepathy], [Map Sense], [Remote Control], [Book of The World], etc, and other.

Really, human development is truly amazing.

But there are also many things that are incomplete in my walking dictionary. But it's okay, since Aki is also a normal human being, she doesn't know everything. Especially with the economic conditions of his family, making him a little less insightful about high technology.

Even so when compared to myself who had just plunged into the modern world, her knowledge was still far more than mine.

That way, I can at least gain the minimal knowledge required in this modern world. So there's nothing I need to complain about.

“Oh, yes. Looks like my dad will come later.”

What is this sudden proposal?

“Eh, why suddenly?”

“Can't it? Dad said it too suddenly when he left for work. So it's likely later in the afternoon he comes.”

Now it was Sunday, a day off at Aki's school, so she could come visit in the morning. Providing morning cafe service.

“Not be it. Just don't know why there's a strange feeling enveloping me.”

I, who was always alone and shunned, was suddenly given a proposal that someone would come to see me. I don't know why there's such an out-of-place taste.

“Is Alicia-san nervous? Relax, he's just my dad. So I'm sure there's no problem. Looks like he just wants to say thank you.”

So, is this what you call nervousness?

“...Thank you, for what?”

“I, that...maybe.because, thank you for giving me the opportunity to work here. Maybe.”

“Is it?.........There seems to be no problem then.”

On this hot day and also this summer, it seems natural that farmers working in the fields plant what is called rice. In the past the plant was only considered like a weed, but in this era rice has been considered a staple food by most people.

His father must have had a high work ethic as a human being. He willingly continued to strive hard from morning to evening for the sake of this daughter. I was a little overwhelmed by the story of his struggle.

Father and son both have a high spirit of work to get through this hard life. The story of this relationship touched my attention even since ancient times. When the social caste was divided into nobles and commoners, good social relations between family members were common among commoners. I often encounter this kind of thing on the way. Some even have a tragic story, where the son of a poor family of two people struggle to be adventurous in order to find money to buy the medicine of his sick mother at home, even though he was only seven years old.

Unlike this age of peace, there used to be many abandoned children and many also ignored it and ridiculed it. Even not infrequently who repel it or kill it because it is considered like a pest. When this happens in front of my eyes, I can't ignore it. Because I have a conscience, especially for children.

'Although I am a vampire.'

I always couldn't ignore this kind of thing, which stirred my heart as a vampire with a heart.

Therefore, as the host, it would probably be better to welcome Aki's father well this time around. Both his father and his daughter have fought hard for this life.

Although you could say this is not my house, but it's okay. After all, it's wrong who abandoned the house just like that in the forest, right?

So rather than in vain, would I not take away the right of his house.

So this is now my right home. That said, the previous sentence was not wrong.

Well I repeat.

As the host, it would probably be better to welcome him well this time around.

Then, what are the usual things the host does to welcome guests?

The only thing I know is from the knowledge of the nobility's ethics of welcoming guests. And it's too complicated and formal. But it may be true, or it may be less precise.

“Hei, Aki. How should I greet your father later? Is there any special reference.”

“Happy my father? No need, we are just ordinary people. So as usual it won't matter.”

As usual yes.

But it would be nice if I gave a good welcome. Because I'm a host with a special heart.

“Aki, I'll go for a while.”

That way, I go out. Leaving Aki who was still busy washing the cookware.

.........

“Hmm, something to welcome guests. Better what, huh? The food? A drink? Money?”

“Let's just find the reference in human city.”

That way I fly in the hot sun towards noon.

After arriving I headed to a cafe that I had visited before. Because I think, it is better to ask an experienced person to welcome guests in this age.

RINGG

"Welcome........"

As before, I was greeted with the ringing of bells and the loud voice of the shopkeeper.

I ordered sweets as usual, and while he was serving me, I interrupted this waiter's time.

“Um, can I ask you something.”

“Thank you. In that case, I would like to hear the opinions of others on how to welcome a good and true guest?”

"..."

He was silent for a moment.

“Ummm, perhaps by giving a special gift that makes him happy?”

Actually this waiter just thinks that the guest is his girlfriend. Because of Alicia's pretty face.

“Gift yes...Hm, okay thank you then.”

“Happy to hear it, good luck.”

He added an 'OK' click with his finger gesture at the last section.

After that, he returned to his position with a false assumption.

“Nya, youth.” Or at least that's what he thought.

While Alicia was still struggling in mind while chewing peerless tenderness and sweetness.

"Munch-munch...Hm.....Hm....Hmmm."

***

“But what gift should I give? Special gift? Is it a homemade gift? And what can make guests happy.” In the clear sky, I was rolling around hoping that an idea would flow through my brain.

I've never had an experience like this. No one in the past would visit me, except one. But it was just a bully, so I just ignored it.

But now it's a real person. Not for being a bully or a bully.

So it would be nice if this welcome would be sincerity.

“Maybe homemade then? I don't know the stuff of today.”

Although it has gained minimal knowledge, it is still lacking to look for reward references.

I struggled for two hours, saturated in thought.

“Then this, just make yourself the gift.”

“Because he's an old man, maybe an anti-aging drug? No, it involves magic. It will be strange later to be.”

“Hmmm,Hmmmm. Something I can make is just a magic tool. But I don't want to show you magic. Then...Hmm, maybe I'll make a magic tool, which doesn't show any magic...Butwhat? Hmmm.hmmm.”

Since Aki's father was a farmer, it might be better to give the immortal soil fertilizer. But it will get caught strange and suspicious as time goes on. And can result with green weeds that accumulate.

“Hmmm, something useful,..hmmm... magic...but not magic,.....can be for long term, ...hmmmm.”.

“Oh, yes. Seed plant.”

Like there's a yellow light bulb on top of my head. An idea came like enlightenment for my hot brain.

Seed plant. I don't need to show magic in public, and there's definitely no sign of magic and it's not weird. Because all I made was ordinary plants but of superior quality. Also the manufacturing process was only in the beginning so I could use magic without showing it.

Making seedlings is just a simple thing for me, I can modify them into the most superior seeds in the world.

For example a plant that will continue to bear fruit and develop quickly, but never age.

But baby, I'll never do that.

Why, you ask?

Hey, of course I explained at the beginning, didn't I.

Something that won't flashy.

Although magic can make it very superior, I still will not make it beyond the output of human reason.

Normal, just keep the normal limit. But superior. That's what we call ideal. And that's a possibility that fits as a gift.

But don't expect too high. Or later it could hit the ceiling.

Let's get back to the topic. I went too far this time.

Now let's explain how I would make an ideal seed.

First let's see, what plants are commonly planted in the fields.

I see it's weed, “Ehem”, no, it's called paddy.

“Once, so like this paddy huh. Small but soft. And it would be filling if the number was thousands. Fumu.”

That way, I took one grain of rice and observed its characteristics.

I used [Growth and Development] as a simple green magic so as to grow immature rice to be ready for harvest. I only use it on one crop of rice and in a place where no one is.

After that, I took out the rice plant and dropped the grains.

Collecting it in one place, I used a high-level magic technique called [Cultivation] so that I could modify the genes towards the development or evolution I wanted.

With an accelerated thought process coupled with parallel thoughts, I managed to complete the genetic transformation of hundreds of rice seeds quickly.

The properties obtained from this genetic transformation of rice are resilient, although rice will not be slammed. That means he will withstand bad weather, lack of water, excessive heat or cold changes, or flooding. With this, it also gives maximum yield every time the harvest with good quality and a larger harvest amount of 1.5 times than the regular harvest. The treatment period is also shortened by about 20% from the usual time, so if it usually takes five months to harvest, then it now only takes four months and so on. At least this is the genetic transformation of rice that is likely still normal among the market and not too prominent.

“Yup, this might be good as a gift, right?”

I am satisfied with my work and provide perfect value and guarantee the best quality.

Might as well.

But I feel like it's been really good, and then it'll be okay later.

"Go home........."

That way, I returned home and looked forward to the warm greetings I would give to this first guest.

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