I wake up in the morning with that letter still on my mind but before anything I need to start my day.

I put on a dress and sandals and go down. Only Monica and the other maid are awake. They are preparing breakfast. I pick a jar of water and go outside and begin to do my morning training.

I am managing to control my mana circulation somewhat but I am on the edge. If I get a little too excited or heated my hair starts to get red and I start to be on fire.

As I train I also remember that I need to buy new clothes for me. My dresses still fit me but I have no pants, shirts and pretty much no underwear anymore.

After finishing my morning training I clean myself with a spell and go back inside. Everyone is there, mostly everyone is awake. Mess doesn’t look like the type of person who woke up this early normally.

We all eat as soon as I sit on the table. Fresh baked bread, milk, fruits and juice all there.

“Wow, it is sweet.” Alfina says as she drinks the milk.

“Yeah, I was surprised too.”

“This must be from candy cows.” She says obviously joking.

We all snicker a little.

As we eat we really don’t talk much as the food takes priority.

After that we all wash ourselves. Mess and Alfina put some actual clothes, not pijamas, as I wait for them downstairs. Sophia has gone for a walk before she starts to work. Probably to check the city as she didn’t have the chance yesterday.

As they come downstairs I begin to talk with them.

“Ok, now that you are ready let’s get this show on the road. I know it is only your first day but we don’t have time to lose.”

“What exactly are we doing?” Mess asks.

“First you two need to get physically stronger. Alfina because she needs the endurance to learn how to use spells like I do and you because you need to be at least capable of running away if necessary.”

He looks at me like trying to deny something he knows is true. He is a great mage but has at maximum below average physical abilities.

“First we will start with stretches. Your muscles are not in condition to actually be trained so we better prepare them for a few days.”

They just nod and follow me outside. I begin to help them stretch every muscle in their body using spells to relax their muscles so when they do something that would hurt, it hurts less.

Alfina is still just a kid so it is easier for her but Mess is starting to have his body get in the shape he will have the rest of his life so his muscles were more rigid.

After half an hour of this we finish. I wipe their sweat with a spell and they take a breather. This isn’t exactly exercise but it takes some energy.

“Alright, rest for a few minutes and go do whatever you want until lunch. I have work to do.”

“What can I do?” Alfina asks me.

“I have no idea. I usually read.”

“I don’t need to go to school?”

“Those don’t exist here. If you want to learn you have to ask other people to teach you. Speaking of that, can you read?”

“Yes.”

I quickly go inside and pick a random book, then give to Alfina.

“What is the title of this book?”

“Economy Journal 5.”

I take a look. She is right. I guess she can read this world language somehow.

“Ok, and math?”

“A little.” She says while gesturing how much with her fingers.

“Well, I will teach you at a later date, you will need it.”

“But Lucia, what is there to do?” Mess asks me.

“Like I said, I have no idea. I train, work, read, train, sleep.”

“So you're telling me this place is worse than the capital?”

“Yes.”

He looks defeated.

“What did you do before all this? In your free time I mean.”

“You speak like I had free time.”

“Well, if you have nothing to do go train your magic or something outside the walls and do not hit the walls.”

“Better than nothing. I will walk around.” Mess says as he leaves the mansion going around it.

“What about me?” Alfinas asks.

“Sophia isn’t back yet so let’s go inside.”

I guide her inside the office and give her a book of short stories for her to read. She is a little interested in stories so this will get her attention for a while.

With that, I leave her there and go look for Monica. I find her upstairs leaving Sophia’s room.

“Monica I need to talk with you.”

“What do you need of me Lady Lucia?”

“I heard you have a special power that would help me find something.”

“Who told you that?”

“To be honest, I have no idea.”

She looks at me trying to figure me out on this one but I am being 99% honest here.

“Ok, yes, it is true but it comes with some heavy costs.”

“Can you explain?”

“Sure, follow me.”

We go to my room where I sit on my bed and she is on a chair I have there.

“My power is the mixture of a curse and a blessing. I can find any written document in the world that has something I want but everytime I do that I need to obtain at least one of my findings or I lose years of my life equal to the quantity of different documents I found.”

“That is brutal.”

“Well, on the opposite end if there is none or only one and I manage to get that one my life span increases by a few years, I just don’t know how much even now, I just know how much when I get them.”

“I guess that’s why we have the library down there, right?”

“I will not say you are wrong.”

“Then can you find something for me?”

“My services are only for free if used by Lady Sophia or myself.”

“How much?”

“I have no need for money, I want a favor.” She says in a neutral tone.

“And what would that be?”

“This is a long term favor. If you find any elves with dark skin, bring them to me, even if you have to do it by force.”

“They exist?” I ask surprised as I never saw anything about dark elves anywhere.

“I am telling you this because you proved that you don’t care about the biological standing of people. Even Lady Sophia is not immune from this so even she doesn’t know what I am about to tell you.”

“Are you sure?” It's not like I can’t keep a secret, but it's something that Sophia doesn’t know.

“You are not going to be a permanent member of this place, at some point you are going to adventure into the world, you probably have more of a chance of helping me than any other person right now.”

“Ok, I am all ears.”

She puts a spell in my room so people outside can’t hear us.

“I am actually a dark elf myself but I can’t show my true form because you need another dark elf to undo the spell cast on me. Most people attribute my skin color to mixed blood but it is just an illusion that can’t be dispelled or detected.”

“...Is there something else I should know?” I ask as I feel there is more to this.

“I trust you enough for this but I don’t fully trust you. You still are just a horny girl in my eyes, even if you have something decent inside your head.”

“In my defense, I have no control over it. I need sex the same way people need to eat, drink and sleep.”

“Ok, what is that you want me to find?”

“Something that has information on demons. And I mean everything, from habits, biology to tastes. As much as it can”

“Like an encyclopedia?”

“Yes.”

She stays still for a few seconds with her eyes closed.

“Well, there are two and one is uncomfortably close by.”

I look confused to her.

“Where?”

“Bellagrizz. A city to the northeast of here. I say a city but is pretty much a villa for rich people.”

“...I hope the place is better than I imagine.” I can imagine everything wrong in the world happening there.

“Well, the book you want is in the library, in the mansion of the governor. Now if you excuse me I have my job to do.” She says as she leaves the room.

Well, I have to get some new clothes anyway, might as well buy something and try to get this book the peaceful way.

I go down to the office and read a little, along with Alfina until Sophia shows up.

“Welcome back.” We both say.

“Hello.”

“Anything I have to do?”

“Actually you have. Someone tried to steal money from some merchants when we were away and he made quite a mess. He was caught but he damaged the account books that the merchants have so we have to check our books and see how much money I should give back to each merchant.”

I probably look a lot angry right now. I miss computers and the internet sometimes. I didn’t work with it very much but, when the business where clean, not having to do things by hand was paradise.

“How many?”

“15 to 20. Not everyone that was robbed found me, some people will come by later to give what was left of their books.”

I sigh and begin to do my job. We have to check every receipt they gave us and our books to check everything.

After around an hour we manage to organize everything so we can make our job faster. All the books were given to us along with the receipts of the last months along with the ones of this month.

“I finished.” Alfina says closing the book I gave her. It was a short book so I am not surprised.

“We will work now, if you need anything ask the maids.” Sophia says to her.

“Ok.” She says as she leaves the room. We will need full concentration to actually not screw this up.

As we are left alone we begin to actually check everything. Sophia is not stupid by any means but her brains are not her strong suit, at least for this type of thing. She is visibly in pain as tries to calculate things on her head before giving up and doing it on a piece of paper and restarting the circle again.

We pretty much ignore everything happening around us, we even more or less skip lunch as Monica and the other maid just made us some sandwiches that we ate in the office.

Me and Sophia were determined to finish this in one day. We powered through skipping dinner altogether and finishing by the time we usually go to sleep.

“I don’t want to see numbers any time soon.” Sophia says clearly exhausted.

“Well, at least we found out that some people were being robbed even before now.” I don’t know who is filling the books of some of these people but they are clearly being robbed. After paying us taxes, they should have more money than what was written.

“I am going to eat something.” She says as she leaves the office.

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“I am going with you.”

She lights the place using spells and we eat some apples and I quickly roast some meat with a spell.

“There has to be an easier way to do this.” She complains to me.

“You could always pay people to lessen your workload. You are paying me, aren’t you?”

“Not everyone is as smart as you.”

“Have you ever tried to teach people then?”

“I don’t have time for it.”

“I know you are still taking care of the thing with the farms so do you mind if I take care of this problem?”

“What can you even do?”

“Create a school.”

“Schools are too expensive for normal people.”

“I don’t know what your idea of school is but if we can put people in a room and teach them things regularly it classifies as a school for me.”

“...ok, then you might have something.”

With that we go upstairs.

“I am going to take a bath.” Sophia says to me.

“Sure, I can wait.”

She then grabs and pulls me into the bathroom.

She doesn’t light the room but guides me into the tub where we shrunk ourselves, one on each side.

“Sophia, I think I have to say sorry about the whole marriage thing in Cruxadia.”

“Don’t worry, at this point I heard it so much it is just annoying.”

“Can I ask why?”

“We are technically married already.”

If we could see each other she would probably see my WTF face.

“I am surprised to say the least.”

“Not many people know. We married when we were still kids, a little younger than you by our parents.”

“Is that legal?”

“Yes.”

“And what is the reason he is not here with you?”

“Because we never consummated our marriage, I got these scars before we could become man and woman.”

“And that dress? Don’t it heal you at least for a day?”

“I have to use the dress for that to work.”

“What even caused those scars?”

“Wish I knew.”

“I found out about Monica’s power. Even she can’t help?”

“Even her can’t help. The most powerful healer in existence already tried everything he could, the most powerful potion. This is not a curse or a blessing so it can’t be removed. At this point I pretty much give up. That’s why I want to talk with you.”

“What do you need?”

“Out of everyone I know you are the only one who can actually give me an answer without anything holding you back. What do you think I should do? I know he loves me, He even saw me in my worst but I can’t go to bed with him looking like I am now.”

I stop for a moment and begin to think.

“I don’t want to give you hope, but I think I can make someone strong enough to be able to heal you.”

“How?”

“If you find someone who has an affinity for healing magic and a great quantity of mana I can force her to use spells like. It will probably take a few months of non-stop training but I can guarantee that whoever this person is, will be able to use healing spells like none seem before.”

“Can’t you do it?”

“Normal healing didn’t work on you. I don’t think mine will.” I accelerate and give some energy to the person so she heals herself. If she didn’t heal already by herself I am pretty sure I can’t help.

“I heard that even the Institute wasn’t able to train someone to do things like you, what makes you think you can do it?”

“Because I am able to not be nice.”

“You talk like you are going to torture people or something.”

“I don’t know if you remember but I said that trying to get to the point I am is pretty much torturing yourself. I spent two months without sleep, almost no food and water in constant pain, alone in a forest to just start.”

“Sometimes I forget that you actually came here through that forest.”

“Sometimes I wish I forgot that forest.”

“ ” Mira says.

“No, I am not talking about you, any of you for that matter.” I say back to them.

“You know that your swords can’t talk, right?”

“I feel like they do.”

“Anyway, I will look into possible candidates.”

We both leave the tub and I dry us with a spell. Before we put our towels and leave the room she asks me another question.

“Why did you take those two here?”

“Alfina has nowhere to go, she literally has no one alive related to her and I am the only one who can actually help her with what she wants right now. Mess is just useful. He himself said that he doesn’t really care about what happens to him so I will make him useful.”

“Well, remember they are your responsibility as you are mine.”

“Sure.”

We leave the bathroom and go to our rooms. Monica is waiting in mine for our daily session of sex.

Morning hits again. I wake up, train and then eat breakfast with everyone.

After that Me, Sophia, Mess and Alfina go around the city to deliver the money and the books.

We inform some of the merchants that according to everything we have, they are being robbed by someone who has access to the books. All of them went into a fit of rage, I am pretty sure I saw one man go get a sword as we were leaving.

After giving everything we stopped at the fountain in the middle of town.

“Alfina and Mess. What did you two do yesterday?”

“I played tag with a lot of people.” Alfina says.

“I walked around all day.”

“Wait, you just walked around and came back to eat?”

“Yes.”

I am surprised to say the least.

“Well, I have something for you to do starting today.”

“What?”

“Try to recreate the stone that makes the walls of this city.”

“Shouldn’t be so hard.”

“This was made using a spell, no one here knows what spell.” Sophia explains.

“I will try anyway.”

“What about me?” Alfina asks.

“I will help you study and train magic as much as I can. I also need to buy new clothes so if you want to come, you can.”

“Why do you need new clothes?” Sophia asks.

“All my fancy dresses were just my size, I need at least another one for something I need to do at a later date.”

After that talk, we spend several days working and doing our things.

Mess spends all his time trying to make the stone of the walls. The walls are not indestructible but something like a tank shot would not do much besides crack the stone a little. You need concentrated fire to break this wall as it also repairs itself after a few days.

I am helping Alfina study and train her body. She can read just fine so I try to help her with some history, geography and math. It is kinda hard for her to remember new places as she still remembers other places on our old planet even if she can’t remember the names.

For training she just stretches and I let her play after she finishes everything. There are some kids in the city that play with her but she stands out a little being an elf.

I went around the city trying to find a dress for me that I would actually use when I had free time from work. Took some time but I found a blue one. A straight dress that reaches the middle of my shins. It is not classy as the things I have but it is enough to not look like a commoner. I also buy some low heels as my feet have grown as well along with everything else I would need.

Now I have everything I need to go to Bellagrizz, just need a free day.

--//--

It's the 27th of Aries, Sophia had to leave the city to check on the areas around us so for a few days I am free of work.

As we are all eating breakfast I begin to talk.

“Monica, can you keep an eye on Alfina for the next two days?”

“Are you also leaving?” She asks me.

“Yes, probably going to take a full day to convince someone who owns that place, peacefully.” I checked a little about that city. It’s not as bad as I think it was but is not a good place by any means. It is a giant red-light district just for nobles, with gambling and drugs. Anyone who owns a place like this is ready to use muscle to solve problems by my experience.

“Where you going?” Alfina asks me.

“Buy a book in a fancy place.”

“Can you bring me something?”

“Like what?”

“A doll.”

“... Sure, if I find one I will bring it.”

“Yay!”

“Since you are leaving I think I have to say something. I am getting close to finding a lead.” Mess says to me. For all his faults he is a hard worker.

“Well now if you excuse me I have to go.” I say as I leave the table.

I go to my room, put a change of clothes and my money in my bag, put my new dress on and fly out of the window in the direction of Bellagrizz.

Some people saw me but at this point I really don’t care.

After a little more than an hour of flying, as I didn’t want to go full speed and risk the dress, I reach the gates of the place.

The entire city has a iron fence wall around it guarded by a lot of guards, dogs and a few sabertooth tigers. well, they look like sabertooth tigers at least

All the buildings I can see are made out of a beige stone. The buildings are square like apartment complexes but they have smooth borders. I think those act as a second wall since I saw some mansions from the sky.

I land at the gate of the city and a dozen of armored guards come to ‘greet’ me.

“Identify yourself.” A male guard shouts at me while everyone else there is ready to go after me and unleash the dogs.

“My name is Lucia and I would like to enter the city.”

They all look around trying to figure something out.

“Am I not allowed?”

“No, I mean yes. Usually people come in carriages and unarmed.” The same man says apologizing.

“I can see your point. Can someone open the gates for me then?”

He gives a signal and the gate opens. I walk past all of them into the city.

After two more sets of apartment complexes I reach the actual city. There Is a big central street that goes to the governor house. Along the street there are places of entertainment such as casinos, bars, theaters and of course your good and old brothels, here cleverly called Fine Dates.

Most of these places probably only have real customers at night as the streets are pretty empty. You see more guards than people who live or work here. The rest of the city are lots with mansions or houses in them separated by small fences.

I walk for about an hour as I take a good look around me and reach the governor's house, well at least the gate.

The mansion is a two stories hotel. The kind you would find deep in the woods near a mountain in my old world. It is quite wide, I can count 8 windows on each side of this thing and they are far apart enough to be their own rooms.

“Miss, what are you doing here?” A guard, more heavily armored, asks me from behind the gate.

“I would like to speak with the governor.”

“Is he expecting you?”

“No.”

“Then you will have to make an appointment like everyone else.”

“I guess I will have to take my business somewhere else then.” I say while showing him my bag full of gold coins. It’s not normal, even for rich people, to have as many gold coins as I have in their possession.

“Wait, give us a few minutes.” The guard says as he runs towards the governor’s place.

I wait there for around 5 minutes when someone in a black tuxedo comes back with the guard.

“Hello, I heard you came with a business proposition I couldn’t pass on. I am the governor of this city, you may call me Medias.”

This man is what you would call and Alpha Alpha Male. He is around 2 meters tall, lightly tanned skin, short army hair, and just bulk enough to not be strange. He is also the most beautiful man I ever saw in this world. If I was a normal woman I would be all over this man right now. As he approaches I see the color of his eyes, yellow.

“Hello Mister Medias, I am glad you found time to see me.” I say as I bow down lifting my skirt a little.

“Well, let’s come inside shall we? This is no place to do business.”

I follow the man inside and we reach the reception desk. There are walls on the sides blocking the view of the corridors on the side so it's just a somewhat big space with two desks there and two women going over documents. I have to keep my eyes open as this is clearly something that is mimicking my old world. Maybe another reincarnation gave ideas to this man.

The two women are quite beautiful. One is black with an afro the other is a oriental woman with black hair as long as mine.

I follow Medias to a set of hidden stairs on the end of this room and we arrive directly at this office.

The walls are filled with bookshelves and he has a single office table with two chairs, one on each side. There is also a door in here so there are other ways to arrive here.

We sit down and begin to talk.

“I heard from my guards that you have quite the amount of money. What business does a girl like you like to do with a man like me?”

“First I would like to thank you for not trying to get my weapons. I don’t want to be responsible for more people getting hurt.”

“I have been in business for a while now. I can tell when someone wants to use their weapons on me.”

“Well then, let’s start our business. You have a book I want.”

“... You really came all the way here with a bag full of gold coins just for a book?” he asks, genuinely surprised.

“I probably wouldn’t be here if not for them.”

“That is true. So what book do you want?”

“A encyclopedia about demons that is in your library.”

“I sorry miss, but I have no such book here.”

“I know, I am talking about the big library you have somewhere in this place, not your office.”

He looks at me suspiciously.

“I don’t remember ever seeing you here for you to know about this place this well.”

“I have my ways of finding information.”

“How much are you going to pay for the book?”

“A minimum of 2000 kir. More if the contents are what I am looking for.”

“Aren’t you quite generous?”

“This is my way of saying that I am here on a serious business and I am willing to pay a just price for things.”

“Ok, I accept your proposal. It will take a few hours for my employees to sort through everything so you should enjoy the city.”

“If you say so.” I say as I give him 2000 kir.

He puts the coins in his pockets and acompain me downstairs again.

As we reach the desks agains he stops.

“Brass, call everyone who is ready.” he then looks at me. “If you don’t mind I would like to give you some company so when we find what you asked we have a way to contact you instead of you having to walk here from time to time.”

“May I ask how?”

“Sure. These two ladies here can use telepathy to communicate with specific people, my employees.”

“Ok.”

“What kind of company would you like?”

“I don’t know. Someone around my age would be good. Female if possible”

“Can I inquire about your age?”

“14.”

I can see his soul leaving his body for a few milliseconds along with the two women there.

“You are quite big for a girl your age.” He says as he laughs nervously.

“I get that a lot.”

He whispers something to both of the women and waits nervously around.

After a few minutes, from the same direction we came, a black girl with black hair dressed in a black fluffy dress like the ones a idol from the eastern countries of my old world or a magical girl from an anime would dress up. She has gloves, a butterfly hair ornament on the start of her ponytail, white clothes and kneesocks, I am pretty sure there is glitter or something similar on top of the dress and she is using some strange black ankle boots.

“Hello uncle, how are you doing?” She says to Medias.

“Hello sweetie. Can you keep company to that girl for a few hours?” He says as he points to me.

“Sure.” She says happily. Then she approaches me.

As she gets near me I get a look at her height. She is at maximum 156 cm high as she is not that bigger than Mira. Her hair is straight.

“Hello, I am Nyx, what is your name?”

“Hello, I am Lucia.”

“Alright, let’s have fun.” She shouts as she grabs me and pulls me outside.

I just go with the flow.