Until The Witch Dies

Chapter 9

Section 2: Great Man, Cleaning Up the Mess

Translated by AmaLynne

「That’s all of them.」

Rags, aprons, bandanas. A vacuum cleaner in my right hand.

In front of me, fully armed, are all the messengers that exist in this house.

「Even if Master is not here, I’ll do my best to clean the house!」

At the sound of my voice, the little animals look up at me with serious faces.

Everything is ready.

「Let’s get started!!」

At my command, all the messengers scattered at once and began cleaning.

Not to be outdone, I too, ran around the corridor with a vacuum cleaner in hand.

First I sweep and mop the rooms, then put away the books, followed by the laundry and the washing up.

The house is so big that I can’t finish without using the messengers.

「Look, look, there! You two scrub properly! Toilet? Now go back to your nest and do it! There! No fighting! You just eat!」

After an hour of wrestling with the small animals, I was finally able to finish cleaning up.

「Boo-hoo~, I’m all dirty.」

I plopped down at my desk and Carbuncle wiped the sweat off my face and White Owl tapped me on the shoulder.

They’re so cute.

I looked at my watch and it was already eleven o’clock.

In an hour I will feed the messengers, have lunch, and go shopping in the city in the afternoon.

After that, I’ll do some voluntary magic training, gardening, or work in my field of magic.

「The smell of tea is so good. I knew it!」

I sip my tea with a smile.

I take a sigh of relief, and the messengers are happy.

The second hand of the clock ticks away, and it is a peaceful tea time.

Silently, I grabbed the desk.

「I don’t have time for this!!」

I snapped and overturned the desk, and the messengers jumped back.

The teapot cracked with a pleasant thud.

「It’s been a week! My precious lifespan has been used for a week! For chores!!!!」

Yes, a week had passed since I was sentenced to death.

「Right there, direct order!」

I shouted, and a white owl and a carbuncle sat a little in front of me.

I walked right past them, glaring at the two particularly innocent animals.

「How fast must I store up my remaining tears?」

When I asked, the white owl reply「Hoo」and wrote a drop of water.

「Th-Three grains a day…?」

So, on average, I have to make three people a day cry because they are too happy?

In a limited situation of a few hours a day, while also doing the master’s errands.

「Wait, wait, it took a lot of effort just to collect two grains the other day. Now you want me to add one more grain to that?」

White Owl and Carbuncle nodded.

「Ugh!!」

I scratched my head.

At this rate, I would die with time to spare.

The first thing I had to do was to secure time.

I must think.

「The thing that takes up the most time in a day is housework, so if I can get rid of that culprit, I can manage… That means… I have to get rid of that damn master first.」

But I can’t visualize it at all.

Me defeating one of the Seven Sage?

A witch who could wipe out an entire country by herself if she wanted to?

「I don’t know if it would be possible if I used poison or something. Aconite, or paralyzing incense, or… poison?」

At that moment, an electric shock went through me.

Right, medicine.

I can use drugs to force tears.

It would only take a moment to develop and disperse a lacrimal gland disrupting drug that would manipulate people’s hormones and enhance their emotional state by stimulating adrenaline secretion.

The idea came to me.

I immediately mixed various medicinal herbs, cast a spell, and created a reagent product.

It was a quick and easy process because I made it at random.

「All that remained was to see who I could test this on…」

I glanced at the messengers, and they both jerked and shook.

Trying to reassure them, I gave them a thin smile.

「Don’t worry, you won’t die.」

When I caught it by the scruff of the neck, the carbuncle struggled to its death.

A white owl shoved me from the back of the head.

「I had no choice! Sacrifices have to be made for the sake of human evolution!」

As I was sloshing around with the two messengers, suddenly,「What are you doing?」, a voice comes.

The two animals stop moving and one and the other look in the direction.