Orion opened his eyes. He recognized the room as his usual place to sleep, so he just stayed in bed, staring at the ceiling.

'What am I going to do?'

Remembering the promise he made to Amelia not to train for the next three days, he was trying to figure out what to do with his spare time.

'I'm going to take a shower, and then I'll think about it.'

He removed the sheets and sat on the bed. He stood up and found out that he was in his underwear.

'I might have drunk a bit too much yesterday? I most likely got too hot to bother sleeping with pants on. Where are they?'

He looked around the room and found them neatly folded on the chair. That made him chuckle, thinking that even drunk, he could act like himself.

He walked up to his clothes, picked them up, and inspected them in case they were dirty. Looking clean, he put them on and walked to his bag to pick up the necessities to shower properly.

Luckily, these things lasted quite a long time, and they didn't need to search in the human cities for them.

Toiletries such as shampoo and soap were easy to buy, and as long as they weren't rough with them, towels lasted a long time.

With everything in his hands, he walked toward his door and left the room.

He walked past Amelia's room when her voice leaked from it.

"Ouch! Stupid hair, stop struggling!"

'She's awake too. I guess she's brushing her hair? They are quite long now.'

It has been a month since he cut her hair.

'Her beautiful blonde hair usually stops around her waist, but currently, it is past her butt.'

'I should ask her if she wants me to trim it closer to her back later.'

Thinking about her hair, he continued walking down the corridor and found himself on the second floor of the big hall of the mansion.

He walked down the stairs and continued on his right into a room that was separated by two doors.

The left was for men, and the right was for women.

This might be shocking, but even fairies enjoy bathing.

Orion entered the left door without hesitating. The room was small, as there were only a few bags and drawers to place your clothes inside.

He removed the clothes he was wearing, placed them in a bag, and placed the bag inside a drawer. Together with the towel he took along with him around his waist, he entered the last room, the shower, and the bath area.

'What should I do? Should I take a quick shower or soak in the bath?'

He was stuck deciding, but then remembered something.

'Oh, that's right. I have all the time I want today. In the bath, we go. I'll still rinse before, though.'

He entered the shower after removing his towel. He thoroughly washed his body to remove the filth that had built up overnight before quickly walking to the bath with his towel in hand.

Then, Orion wrapped the towel around his neck and plunged his body into the hot water.

"This is good. Occasionally, I forget the simple things in life."

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Feeling rested after half an hour inside the bath, he finally decided it was a good time to exit.

He dried his body with the towel and walked out of the shower/bath area. He opened his drawer to pick up the bag with his clothes inside and put them on.

The same clothes he wore at the feast the day before, except the new underwear and a pair of socks. He wrapped the dirty clothes inside the towel and exited the place.

Just outside the changing room, he found two familiar faces already done bathing.

"Look over there, Amelia. Here he was."

Surprised, Amelia immediately glanced toward him.

"I was looking everywhere for you, Orion. I thought you went to train somewhere."

Karteira and Amelia were drying their hair on a bench.

"You finished bathing quicker than me?"

Orion suddenly felt awkward. As a man, was it that strange that he took a long time inside the bath?

"How long have you been in there?"

"I don't know. Half an hour maybe?"

The girls looked at each other and laughed.

"No wonder we had time to finish before you."

"We entered fifteen minutes ago. I can't believe you were in there longer than us."

But, he shrugged it off.

"I love baths; what can I say? I remembered I had all the time in the world to take one, so I did."

Karteira nodded, while Amelia smiled.

"That's true, but you could've at least left a note on the table or something."

"I had just woken up; that's not the first thing I think of in the morning."

The two ladies stopped at a point when their hair was dry.

"Anyway, let's forget about that. What are you planning to do today, Orion?"

Karteira wanted to know his plans for the day.

"I have no idea. Since I'm stuck doing nothing, maybe I could explore a bit of the surrounding area or even wander around the village."

"This is a pretty good idea. You haven't really taken time to see the village. There's not much to see because of the recent attacks, but we're rebuilding everything. We still have a few shops and places to eat."

Something caught his attention.

"The fairies have specialties to eat? What could be special enough to be sold by the fairies? How does that even work? You guys don't sell outside the realm."

"Well, it's true. We don't go outside this realm. Fairies still exchange some sort of money between each other, though."

"We tried going without money before, but nobody understood anything, and it almost led to conflicts."

Orion smiled, imagining such a scene.

"That's funny when you say it like that."

"I wasn't born yet, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't hilarious at the time. It's the Queens who brought everything back to being this way. They are great, but occasionally, you wonder what they might be thinking."

The conversation stopped there, and Orion took the opportunity to go back to his room.

"Well then, I'll be going first."

They watched as Orion turned to walk up the stairs.

"He fled."

"Yes, I guess he lost interest in the conversation."

"No, I'm pretty sure he didn't know what to say anymore."

"Should we go too? My hair is dry now."

The two left the place not long after Orion, and they returned to Amelia's room together to talk about many things.

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The morning ended like this. Orion moved around the mansion and found the library, where he enjoyed a great book until noon, while Amelia and Karteira had a talk about him and what would happen from now on.

Like he said, at noon, he came to look for them in Amelia's room. He knocked on the door and opened it to find them sitting at the table.

"I'm going to seek food. You want to come?"

"You have money?"

"No, I don't."

At least, not the money of this realm.

"Then let's go look for the Queens. They should be able to give you some."

"I'm coming too!"

Orion left the room with Amelia and Karteira next to him and walked to the room where the feast took place, the first place where the twins could be.

And just like that, he found them. After explaining that he wanted to enjoy the food the village had to offer, they happily gave him a few leaves.

"That's your money? Leaves?"

His reaction was one of disbelief.

"Not just any leaves! Those are from Tiohr!"

Drania was trying to sell the greatness of the money they created.

"I won't speak about how dumb I think all of this is; let's just go."

"You just about said it already! Have a good time."

Dramia shrugged. With just this, Orion knew who was the one who brought this idea forward in the first place.

Orion walked outside the room after thanking them with mixed feelings.

He exited the mansion and began exploring the village, with Karteira volunteering as a guide.

There really wasn't much to see, except the fact that the interiors of the houses were different from the dilapidated look they had. They were living more luxuriously than he thought.

'It's magical to live like this.'

While thinking about that, Karteira led them to a place she had eaten before. It was a grilled meat restaurant.

'Why am I not surprised?'

Karteira loved eating meat.

Most fairies liked meat.

There was a lot of wild life around them, and they were pretty easy to hunt too. But since the fairies were weak, they simply tamed a few of the biggest creatures and domesticated them so they could be eaten.

After eating a mountain of minced meat, the three, now full of energy, decided to explore the outside of the village.

There were more unique landscapes to see, but there was a limit. Around sunset, the three arrived at the edge of this realm, the endless sea.

Karteira explained that this realm was an island and that, besides the fairies and Tiohr-nam, there was nothing else in this world. There were previously corrupt beasts too, but they never tried moving past the underground area.

One of the queens (Drania) once decided to fly from one side to the other, and with her speed, she arrived two days later on the other side, saying that there was nothing else but water all around the island.

With this little story done, Orion decided it was time to go back.

The first day of rest ended just like this.

Seeing that endless sea left a pretty strong impact on him, making him think about the power that a Remnant needs to create a space with nothing inside.