(Rem x Reader) Re:Reader - Starting YOUR New Life in Another World

Chapter 145: I Still Miss Someone

Chapter 145: I Still Miss Someone

YN: Why are there so many damn candles in here? Algol, can you hand me the trimmer?

Algol: Yeah!

On the ladder YN already didn't feel entirely safe on, he was put to work maintaining the candles meant for the Coronation of Knighthood that would be occurring later this evening.

Passing him up his tool, YN used the specialty device to trim the wick on these higher up, lit candles.

YN: What a pain...

With this just being another of the many differences between his world and his old one, YN gingerly descended the ladder and moved it over slightly, so he could reach the next set of lit candles.

Ascending the steps, YN trimmed four of the five before him, but as he trimmed the fifth...

YN: Damn it.

He had trimmed too low, and had killed the flame.

YN: I'm sorry, Algol could you pass me another match? I went too low on this one too.

On any candles he either would accidently blow out, or trim the wicks too low and the flame would die, YN would need to relight them.

Algol: Aniki~~, I told you already, we ran out. You keep messing them up!

YN: *Sigh* I guess I'll go ask Ram for more. I'm sure she'll scold me for using so many, but if I don't get this trimming done soon, all the wicks are going to bend over and burn the candles in an ugly way...

Algol: Ya know... If you just tried using your Yang magic to light them again, I'm sure you wouldn't need any matches at all.

Once more suggesting this course of action, YN was once bitten, twice shy.

YN: I am not ruining another set of candles if I screw that up again. We're lucky Emilia-sama understood our situation with that and volunteered to get us replacements so we wouldn't get yelled at for that...

Algol: That was just a fluke! I'll control the mana better this time, I promise!

Never really ever having to trim candle wicks before, when YN had first tried after being given this task, most of the candles he had tried to trim went out, which had made him use a great number of matches initially to relight them.

It was at Algol's suggestion that he try using a very, very minor Jiwald to reignite the wick. However, with this magic being the first the duo had cast since Algol had gained this new form, this "very minor" Jiwald was anything but.

YN: There were five backup candles, and we had to use all of them after I melted each one into a puddle of wax. We're just lucky none of it got on the rugs...

Crossing her arms, Algol shrugged.

Algol: What kind of super fancy rich people mansion only has five back up candles when they've got like, a thousand out to be lit?

In only the few days she'd be conscious, Algol's personality was really coming into its own as she became more familiar with everyone. She knew when to be courteous and soft-spoken when she had to be, but when she needn't be, a much more robust tone was her preferred choice, and at times, she'd not hesitate to gain an air of potent smugness if she could.

YN: *Sigh...* It looks like we'll have to try your way then...

Holding his palm up to the smoking but unlit candle wick, YN took another deep breath and concentrated.

Algol: Don't worry Aniki, it'll be fiiiine. I'll do a better job at controlling the amount of mana coming out of your Gate this time, but you need to not create a vacuum for it all to rush to at once, gotcha?