Plan Of Action

"Ah... Finally some fresh air." The girl ran down the road to the village.

Summer has finally ended and it's now fall, some of the tree leaves are now falling. The village are now working much harder since winter is soon to come.

When the girl arrived at the village, she saw the woman and children carrying basket of harvest vegetables.

"Lady Tina."

"Tina, you're here."

"Fuji."

The girl greeted everyone as Fuji went and played with the children. It pleases Athena seeing the children are close towards Fuji since the elders aren't after finding out Fuji is a Twilight wolf.

"Tina, are you going to the fields?"

"Tina can I come with you?"

Athena smiled and nodded as she walked along with the children to the field.

After Lirius successful fixed the connection between my aura with Fuji, it was not long for my mana to restore as well, and I was able to cast magic again. A few days of rest, I decided to restore some of the farmlands by the village. It surprises not only the village but also me when I was able to restore almost half a hectare of land.

Right now, I've restored almost 2 hectares of land and brought life back to the dead tree around it.

Whilst the children continued to play around with Fuji, the girl went to talk to the worker on the field as she checks how the crops were growing.

"How are they?"

"Lady Tina, they are doing well. Hopefully within another week or so will be able to harvest them." The man answered as he bowed to greet her.

Despite I've told the village to call me Tina, the elders still prefer to call me Lady Tina. No one knows who I really am except for Lirius so I continued to insist that they'll call me Tina even Lirius does not call me Lady Tina but occasionally calls me Athena when no one is around.

"Lady Tina."

"Tina."

"My Lady."

Athena turned to were all the commotion was coming from. From the distance she saw Serfred and the hunting team returning.

"Everyone, your back." Athena headed towards them as the children run to greet them as well.

"Father."

"Brother."

Serfred, Arthur and Gran went ahead towards Athena.

"What are you doing out here? Your suppose to be resting..." Serfred asked as he check on the girl's condition.

"Tina, I looked at what I found for you." Gran pulled out the flower from his bag.

"Vlespoine and you have two." Athena was surprised to see the lily again.

After telling Lirius the truth about my condition, he has been working on a cure to help cleanse my system clean of all the poison. At the same time, he explained to me the orange polka dot lily was called an Vlespoine. He said it's very useful in curing frost bites as well.

"Thanks Gran, Arthur how are you?" Athena looked at the man who was just standing next to them.

"..." Arthur thought for a moment and just nodded his head.

Why did I even bother asking when he hardly speaks at all. sigh**

"Let's all head back together?" Serfred called out everyone attention as they depart back to the village.

"Tina, let me carry you." Gran reached out his hand.

"I'm fine, I can walk it's not that far anyways." Athena walked away as she felt embarrassed being carried.

Gran did not hold back as she grabbed the girl and lifted her off the ground. "Don't be shy, come on..."

Athena buried her face onto the man chest embarrass since there were quite a lot of them.

"Looked."

When Athena opened her eyes and looked to what Gran was pointing at, she was that the children were also being carried on the men soldiers. She smiled seeing how everyone is trying to ease her.

Once they arrived back at the village, Athena went to speak with the Chief and some of the appointed leader. She explains to them her next course of action in order to improve the village economic situation.

"So, we harvest the crop on the field, we will sell half of them to the other village and town nearby."

"By why must we sell them?" One of the leaders asked.

"As you know, the land does not belong to us and yet we are using it. We need to raise money in order for us to pay taxes for using the land."

"So, does that mean will be seeing the animals we have raised as well?"

"That's right, will also trade the animals for other animals we don't have in the village and breed them."

"Tina, can we really do all of this?" Tycho asked seeing the plans seem too impossible for a run down village like them to achieve.

"We can but it will take time, once I restore more land will soon be able to provide work for everyone which means everyone will be able to earn some money for themselves since we are selling the crops on the field."

After the meeting, Serfred and Athena headed home. Serfred carried Athena and was curious as to why the girl was looking too down. "What's wrong?"

"The villagers are hesitant in regards to my plan of action. I know it's all of a sudden but we need to start earning some money soon since the land is not ours."

Serfred stop for a moment as he thought of the words to say to the girl. "The villagers didn't expect they'll even be alive right now. Seeing how things suddenly improved since you arrived, they are grateful and will do anything for you. But for you to worry about the landowner as well…"

Serfred sighed, "The villagers would rather work and earn the money to repay you not the true owner of the land, who never even bother to help them."

"But the Grand Duke was sent to war leaving the Grand Duchess to handle other matters when her husband just passed away." Athena explained

"Of course I know that, but still… Can't they spare at least one of their men to check whether the people in the village are still alive. Without the Chief and the church half of the villagers would have been dead." Serfred gave out such depressing feeling.

"I know but still, we need to implement the right principles and follow the law. Despite the fact that they never did came to help, we should work according to what is right."

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