Chapter 3: Silent Lusha

"Boss, we've seen your announcement!" Lucina sat down at the tavern bar and asked Uncle Xiang with great interest, "Hey, are you the boss?"

"I ...... Be. The bald uncle looked at the two Aiya and showed a look of surprise: "Ah, then, the two are spell breakers?"

At this time, Lusha was sitting next to her with the ball in her arms, silent and expressionless.

"I, I, I am!" Lucina hurriedly raised her hand and replied, "I don't lie to you, I'm a very powerful mage, right?

Lucina summoned a staff that hovered behind her and asked triumphantly.

Its name, Frost Spirit, is a magical staff that is extremely powerful and can be called an artifact.

Metal, icy white, with a four-clawed base at the head of the staff, which holds an ice orb that is tumbling in it.

Moreover, the staff has a mind of its own, and can act alone, but only obeys Lucina's command. No one else can control it, and they can't use its magic.

In short, as soon as you look at the staff, you know that this mage is not simple!

Even ordinary people who don't know anything about magic still have this kind of eyesight.

The more powerful the magic weapon, the more difficult it is to control it.

Judging from the fact that she can have such a strong staff, this female Mage of Aiya must be amazingly powerful.

"Ahh......h

"Hey...... Ahh......h Oh no, I'm letting you see my strength, uncle! Don't look at how much it's worth, okay?"

"Oops, sorry, sorry, sorry. Forgive my clumsiness, but I can only judge your strength by how much the staff looks worth......" The boss said as he found Lucina's speechless expression, and he himself became embarrassed: "Uh, don't talk about this - you said you could help me lift the curse, right?"

"Uh-huh!" said Lucina confidently, "I'm amazing!

"......" Lusha tugged at the hem of her skirt slightly, gently stroked the ball intently, and placed her on her thigh with a leg ring and two magic pistols stuck in it, hugging the ball and clinging to her body.

The dumplings are soft and too comfortable to hold. I don't want to let go as soon as I hug it.

"That'...... Who is this?" the shopkeeper had been concerned about the silent Aiya girl with a hood and pink dumplings in her arms from the beginning, so he asked Lucina curiously.

"She's my sister! After Lucina finished introducing herself, she hurriedly reminded the shopkeeper, "My sister is more introverted and doesn't like to talk much, so just talk to me! Tell me what's going on with that curse?"

Lusha really doesn't like to talk when she has someone other than her sister. When it is not necessary to speak in front of outsiders, it is possible to keep a word for the whole day. It's amazing to occasionally use simple pronunciations such as "um" that can't be considered a simple pronunciation of speech.

It's hard to see a girl who is quieter than her.

Lusa's mother, Yasha, was actually a little silent, but not to the same extent as she was.

It is precisely because of Lusha's quietness that although her appearance is easy to attract attention because she is too cute and beautiful, she has never had a sense of existence.

...... Sometimes this lack of presence even exceeds the effect that silence itself should bring, making one wonder if she has magical abilities that can reduce her own presence.

Maybe there really is—no one knows.

Even Lusa and Lucina didn't quite understand.

Some people may think that this is because when Lusha stays next to Lucina, because of the extreme contrast between their personalities, Lusha's presence is diluted.

But this is not accurate.

Because, even if Lusha acts alone, she often becomes non-existent after others stare at her for a while because of her cute appearance.

She's one of those situations that makes a strong impression, but after a while you don't notice that she's there.

There have been many times when people have forgotten about her because Lusha has no sense of presence and doesn't speak, resulting in situations such as "locking her in the store", "forgetting that Lusha hasn't gotten in the car yet", "forgetting that Lusha hasn't eaten", and so on.

There may even be cases where you forget that there is a person named Lusha in the house, and you will be shocked when you inadvertently find out that she exists.

...... Lusha didn't mind much.

Rather, she doesn't want others to pay attention to her.

Lusa, who has a fear and rejection of communicating with others, only wants to talk to her sister Lucina.

Even though he was able to communicate with Lucina normally in front of his sister's demons, he was reluctant to talk to them.

She uses body language to express her emotions and thoughts, but she just doesn't want to speak.

Extremely repulsive and afraid of communicating with others, Lusha will use magic to conjure up a board and pen and write clearly on them when she really has to express her opinions, but she can't use gestures to make them clear.

This level of communication is also avoided as a last resort.

It's no wonder that others think she's mute—in fact, they wouldn't think so if they knew that Aiya couldn't have a physical defect.

"Oh...... All right. Where did I start......" Nodding, the shopkeeper stopped asking about Lusha, and began to slowly recall: "Hmm...... I was cursed three years ago. After that, I suffered every day, and recently I finally made up my mind to find someone to break the spell......"

"Hey, wait!" Lucina felt that she had found a blind spot, and asked in disbelief, "Three years, and still suffering from it every day, why are you only looking for a spell solver now!"

"Because...... I thought I would disappear one day by cursing myself, so I didn't look for it...... You have to spend money to find someone, don't you?" Speaking of this, the shopkeeper looked a little helpless: "How do you know that it will never disappear." ”

"That's for sure! There are so many curses that can't disappear, you're going to die if you delay it for so long!" Lucina listened and knocked on the table helplessly, "So what? What kind of curse?"

"Look at my head. The shopkeeper grimaced and pointed to his head.

"What's wrong?" Lucina didn't understand what he meant.

"Look at this one, what are the characteristics?" the shopkeeper continued to guide patiently.

“...... Bald. Lucina was stunned when she said this.

"Hey, you don't know how to say it...... The curse is to make you bald, right?"