Housekeeping Mage From Another World

Shiori is an average Japanese office worker who was suddenly teleported to another world. Four years later, she’s managed to carve out a niche for herself—as a housekeeping mage. Alec is an A-class adventurer, just returned from a long-term assignment. When his friend Zack, the local Guild Master, tempts him into going on a manticore hunt by promising to bring in a mage with special skills, what Alec finds is the last thing he could have expected. On the outside, the two couldn’t be more different. Yet deep in their hearts, they each yearn for the same thing: a place to belong. In the face of old wounds, their dark pasts, and the everyday challenges any adventurer must overcome, will they find the courage to risk being hurt again?

In the aftermath of the snow wolf attack on Brovito Village, Shiori begins to come to terms with her past while she and her fellow adventurers help the villagers get back on their feet. She feels like she’s found a place where she belongs. Meanwhile, Alec decides that he wants to continue protecting the housekeeping mage, so he approaches Shiori with a request...but what might it be? And what truths will come to light when Zack reveals to Alec the connection he has to the horrible incident in Shiori’s past...?

Alec, an A-rank adventurer, meets Shiori, a woman with the mysterious appellation “housekeeping mage.” She has so little magical power that she’s useless as a combat mage, but to make up for it, she uses her magic to take care of all the daily chores of an expedition, like washing and cooking, single-handedly. As Alec adventures with Shiori, her novel use of magic provides a warm bath and delicious food...in other words, an environment much too comfortable to be called “camping”! He’s completely taken with her, but she has a certain secret...

Shiori finds her services requested by a well-respected noblewoman from a famous family of artists. The lady is looking for protection on a special journey to the Tower of Silveria, but things get complicated when one of her aides doesn’t even try to hide his hostility towards Shiori. The journey to the tower is treacherous in winter, meaning trust and preparation are of the utmost importance. Can they navigate the snowy, monster-infested paths ahead and find a way to get along?

When Alec collapses with a fever, it falls on Shiori to nurse him back to health. But it’s not just Shiori who is left worried—powerful friends from Alec’s past appear, intrigued by the housekeeping mage the magic swordsman has grown so close to. Alec then picks up a request posted by Shiori herself: taking her familiar Rurii on a trip back home. The trip marks a chance for the two to get to know each other better, but it might also mean surviving a literal ocean of slimy magical beasts in the wondrous winter environment of the Blue Forest...

Shiori and Alec successfully guide their client, the artist Annelie, to the top of Silveria Tower. Their arrival allows Annelie to accomplish her true goal: bringing her lover, Dennis, to the pinnacle of the tower, so she can confess her long-held love for him. However, in the shadow of their blooming romance, danger lurks, and the journey home will prove more challenging than any of them imagined...

When Shiori and Alec venture into the Blue Forest for what should be a simple gathering request, they find that winter in the heart of the forest is as dangerous as it is beautiful. When Shiori and Alec venture into the Blue Forest for what should be a simple gathering request, they find that winter in the heart of the forest is as dangerous as it is beautiful. An encounter with a rare magical beast known as the snow wolf entangles the two adventurers in a life-threatening series of events—events that neither of them could have imagined. And what follows brings to light scars from the past that have yet to heal...

When the herbalist Nils realizes that he’s completely out of mandrake root, he asks Shiori and Alec to accompany him on a gathering expedition in Hortensia Cavern. Upon arrival, however, the group of adventurers quickly realize that they’ll have to face a magical beast which feeds on the fears of its prey. And when this monster gets a hold of Alec, he is forced to confront not just his past, but a potential tragic future too...