Fairy Tail: I don't want to be the president

Chapter 20 What pet can't do housework?
"Ah... Another busy day." Rhodes returned home and took a quick cold shower.

Fortunately, it is summer now, and since I have magic power, I feel that my body has become stronger, otherwise I might not get used to it so quickly.

We don’t take hot showers because there is no solar energy equipment and it is too troublesome to boil water with firewood.

Rhodes did think about buying a device that uses magic to boil water, but after asking the price, he decided to hold off until the winter became unbearable.

After helping Worm take a bath, Rod began to miss the washing machine in school that could be used once for two coins.

Washing clothes by hand is really slow and troublesome, and there is no mobile phone to watch videos while washing clothes.

The best you could do was play some music on an old hand-cranked phonograph.

He was not used to it at first, but as he listened, Rhodes suddenly felt that he was very stylish, just like those upper-class people in the movies of the Republic of China.

The songs recorded on this record are quite mixed, including pop, rock, classical and everything else.

shhhhhh...

The washboard was leaning against the basin, and Rod rubbed the wet clothes against it, leaving white foam.

He's not very proficient in using this thing yet, but when he rubs it to the rhythm of the music, he feels the sound is quite relaxing.

Worm stared at the bag of laundry detergent curiously for a long time, and finally couldn't help licking it with his big tongue.

Then its facial features began to twist and it spat out white powder.

"Are you stupid?" Rhodes knocked Worm's head and threw him into the sink. "Rinse your mouth yourself."

After hanging the washed clothes on the balcony, Rhodes noticed that there were several potted green plants on the balcony.

One pot looked like a succulent plant, and the other two pots looked like orchids. Because no one had watered them in the past two days, the soil on the surface was dry.

"It seems like there are a few more lives that I need to be responsible for... maybe."

Rhodes picked up the watering can beside him and filled it with some water to give these poor plants some sweet rain.

The shower head sprayed out strings of water droplets, wetting the leaves and soaking the soil.

Rhode seemed to be able to feel their vitality, and said to himself:

"From now on, you'll be called Tatsuya, you'll be called Ren Ming, and you'll be called... Well, when we get to the other world, Dad will have to take care of the three of you."

Worm looked at his master's expression and always felt that he was not smiling happily.

"Why do you have that expression?" Rhodes put down the spray can and picked up Worm. "Go, clean the floor you just made dirty!"

Worm looked at him in shock, didn’t you say you treated me as a pet? Why did you ask me to mop the floor?

"Don't look at me like that. How can a pet not do housework?" Rod threw Worm into the laundry room. "You are responsible for cleaning up the mess you made."

Worm squatted on the ground and looked at his little paws. How should he wipe them?
How Worm would clean the floor was not Rhodes's problem. After all, the little guy could understand human language and was quite smart, so he would always find a way.

Rhodes got angry when he thought of this. Why should Worm, a creature from the Howling Abyss, understand the language here as soon as he arrived? Why should he learn it himself?

Can the language pack sent by Mr. Zhashibiki be shared?
Rhodes sat at the desk in his bedroom angrily and opened the book he brought back from the guild.

This is a history book. Although he is not interested in history, he always feels it is necessary to learn about it.

And in order to enable him to read well, Leibi lent him a pair of glasses.

The magic prop, Feng Yong's glasses, allows people to read books at up to 32 times the speed.

In other words, if you concentrate on reading for one minute, it is equivalent to reading for half an hour!
Rod felt that his blessing had come. No matter how much he disliked reading history books, he could always read them for a few minutes, right?

But a minute later...

Snapped!
The sound of the book spine hitting the table woke up the drowsy Rhodes.

He miscalculated one thing. Although the time spent reading was shortened, there was still the same amount of content to read.

If you are not interested, you are not interested. If you feel sleepy when reading history books, you will never become a top student even with the help of magic props.

For someone like Rhodes, it would be appropriate for Hibiki to use magic to directly impart knowledge to him.

Or listen to beautiful girls like Leibi telling historical stories. For example, the story of the legendary hunter Belbaraso and the heroic story of Ruben Kaludo told today left a deep impression on him.

"Do fifty push-ups to wake yourself up."

Rod lay on the ground and grunted as he did thirty push-ups in one breath, and then his arms began to tremble.

"If you want to increase your magic power as quickly as possible, in addition to meditation, you should also exercise your body a little. Otherwise... you will suffer."

This is what the president said to Rhodes.

However, Rhode felt that the Guild Master's words of suffering a loss did not refer to going out to fight, but rather that he would suffer a loss in a brawl within the guild.

Although he himself does not like fighting, judging from the situation in recent days, there is no guarantee that he will be implicated someday.

Think about the girls in the guild, each of them is as strong as a mountain and as powerful as a giant. I can’t imagine how heavy Nazgre’s fists are.

Rhode gritted his teeth: "To increase magic power!"

One.

"To avoid getting beaten!"

again.

"So that I can hit back when I get hit!"

again.

The reason for Rhodes' efforts became increasingly strange.

Exercise to improve physical fitness, meditation to improve magic power, and reading to increase cognition. These are the three most important things for Rhodes at this stage.

The biggest difficulty is reading. Books related to magic are okay, but books on history and geography are really troublesome.

Rhodes decided to ask tomorrow if there were any newspapers or magazines here, so that he could get a little news.

……

The next day, the weather was a little cloudy, but the sun was not visible and it didn't look like it was going to rain.

Rhodes chose a cool way to go to work, riding a Canyon Swift Crab.

As soon as the huge dark green crab appeared, it attracted the attention of neighbors, and many people were frightened by its strange appearance.

But when it started running with Rod on its back and actively avoided pedestrians, the little bit of panic disappeared.

"It turns out to be a mount. It looks a bit strange but quite majestic."

"Hey, that's a crab, right? Why isn't it walking sideways?"

"The one on the crab's back looks like a wizard from Fairy Tail."

"Is he a new guy? He seems to be another restless guy."

Someone was sharp-eyed and saw the blue emblem on Rhodes' arm when his short sleeves were blown by the wind.

There were people riding monsters running wildly on the streets, it was so novel.

It's Fairy Tail, that's not surprising.

The emblem on Rhodes' arm was providing him with "convenience" in a strange way, but he himself was unaware of it.

Rhodes held the two tentacles of the swift crab in each hand, feeling like he was driving a heavy motorcycle.

All I heard was the sound of wind as it stopped at the guild gate - less than a kilometer away, it was still too close.

Rod straightened his hair that was messed up by the wind, and thought to himself that it was a lucky thing that the car was on autopilot, otherwise it might have knocked over several people.

It doesn't seem safe for this 'River Crab' locomotive to run at full speed.

(End of this chapter)