Helnion eventually came when the servants had left for the night. She had not received the same treatment that I had gotten. Her clothes were the same cotton toga they had given earlier her while I was now wearing my thirty somethingth outfit today. I imagine her room was nothing like this.

“I am bored.” Was the first thing she said.

I was bored too. It was late in the day now, but we still had time to do something. Then the light bulb hit. If we could just annoy them enough to not want us here… It was the best idea I had had yet. It was risky. I could see Usui's no longer smiling face as he ordered the trouble makers exterminated, but I would rather risk that than to become another love slave to Usui no matter how luxurious a life it would be.

“Let's just take a walk and see if there is anything interesting to do.” Survey the battlefield, I say.

“Alright,” Helnion smiled.

We ended up not walking very much. My legs were still sore and Helnion eventually just sat down on the ground and rubbed her legs. I didn't blame her; she had been walking a lot the past few days.

The rest of the day proved uneventful. When it had gotten dark the other servant found us and took us back to our rooms and served dinner. I wasn't sleepy yet, so I used a crystal lantern I had found in my room and read.

Our second full day here Helnion and I finally felt up to walking around. Everyone was super friendly and despite the extravagance did not seem elitist. I didn't know if that's just how everyone was or that they were just being nice to help convince me to stay. I ignored them mostly and eventually even left the city to get away from all the people and their now creepy to me politeness.

Helnion loved it outside the city. While there had been animals inside the city there were much more out here and they fascinated her. While I recognized most of the animals, she couldn't have. Flaern kept to itself and didn't have many explorers throughout its history and mainly got its outside information through traders.

Helnion and I had skipped lunch and had been scolded by the maids when we got back to Usui's house. They had now gotten used to Helnion, and no longer herded her back to her room, though she got yelled at more than I had and was told to not let me miss meals.

The third day was the preparation day. We now knew what we wanted to do. It hadn't taken us long to decide what we wanted to do as we could recycle many of the things we had done back at the school.

I had been right about easily getting equipment. They often asked me why I would need what I wanted but they got it for me even though I never gave them an answer. Since I had already built lots of these things earlier, I easily got done before the end of the day.

The fourth day was showtime. Helnion was back to her old self and my knees didn't give me problems anymore except if I hit them on something. I knew that we had to start today. Usui had told us he would get back to us when I had healed. I didn't know if that meant completely or just back to where I could walk with no problems.

We began our work after breakfast.

Our first stop was the kitchen. We had built another air canon, since Helnion had lost the one I had brought with me, and needed ammo. We had found the spot where they put the rotten fruit and vegetables by the animal feeding place. We loaded bags with vegetables and fruit before leaving for our launch site.

We were now on the roof of the Usui's house. From here there were plenty of places to target but there was one that we wanted to shoot at above all. The center courtyard. There were always plenty of Usui's wives relaxing or chatting here. It was perfect. I just hoped they didn't mind their clean place a little messy.

My air canon ended up becoming more of a giant shotgun. Many times the fruit would just spray out of the canon after opening the pressurized chamber that held the projectile. Not only was this much better at saturating our target with pieces of fruit and vegetables, it also didn't hurt as much when it hit someone. I still enjoyed watching the few intact projectiles splatter though.

We had made a huge mess. Usui's wives eventually found us, and we got away after they began to chase us. We had planned on this and already had our escape route planned. We were also lucky most of them weren't very athletic, though a few kept up with us for a while. Helnion laughing all the while.

Having lost our pursuers, we headed to our next location. All those women would want a bath after what we had done. It would be too late to get all of them, but we would get as many as we could.

In front of us was the stream that fed the bath in Usui's house and next to it was a pile of rocks we had put there the day before. We would dam the stream.

It didn't take long. We had stacked the rocks in a way that they all fell in with just a push and then filled in the gaps by hand.

When I planned this, I knew that rocks alone would not be enough to stop the water, so I had chosen a special spot. The spot was a place that made it easy to divert the stream down a nearby hill after a little digging.

In no time we had most of the water going where we wanted. Now only a small amount of water would make it to the bath and it would hopefully empty.

Our next plan was Helnion's.

It was good. The only problem with it was that it was dangerous, not only to ourselves but to those that were unfortunate enough to get involved in it. If they could run fast enough, they should be fine.

This plan only had one problem. It involved finding a herd of animals. We not only had to hope there was one around, we also had to get them running and get them to go in the right direction. Fortunately for us, they were tame and some of them had let Helnion ride on them. We also needed to scare them and get them to run.

There they were. It was a herd of something like a gazelle, or a gazelle. They did nothing as we approached them. There were no predators here for them to run from so they must have seen everything as safe. I hoped that I could exploit this.

Helnion had gotten on one animal. She knew what we were here for so I didn't see why she would do that but it didn't matter. All I needed to do was get the animals to run. Having Helnion riding one would add to the effect if she could stay on.

I positioned myself so the animals were between me and the city. I had an idea of how to get them to run and pulled out my sword. I didn't need to kill the animals so it wouldn't matter if my current magic power output was low as I just needed to shock them.

It worked better than expected. I smacked the hindquarters of as many animals as I could and they soon ran away from me as fast as they could. Helnion stayed on her gazelle and was screaming happily as she went off.

After watching the event unfold, I went to our temporary hiding place. I would have to wait for the town to settle down before the last event of the day. I also needed to see if Helnion would come back. I had lost sight of her and didn't know if she had fallen off or gotten caught. I would have to wait and see.

It was almost time to start the next event when Helnion finally arrived. Aside from some scratches, torn clothes, and some bruises, she seemed fine. I had expected as much. She had gotten good at escaping as long as she didn't find something more interesting.

“Sorry Salis, I got lost,” she said before sitting down and opening a basket of food we had hidden here.

Night had now fallen. We had been lucky to not have been found. I hadn't seen any for a while so I decided it was time to leave. Helnion was next to me dozing, and I shook her awake.

“Is it time?” She asked sleepily.

I nodded and picked up one bag we had stashed here along with the food. What was in these bags was the main attraction for our last event of the day. Inside the bags were several things. Operation Night Whistle is what I liked to call this event. I had been wanting to try this at the school when I had gotten back, but here would be even better than at the school. I had even made a prototype I had brought back from Flae.

As the name of the operation suggests, this had something to do with whistles. I had also waited for night to fall so everyone would be asleep or getting ready to. What made the plan even better was that I would attach levitation crystals to the whistles and would tie them off with a fine string so they wouldn't float off. I had then connected a whistle to a wind crystal to make the noise. These were connected to a magic storage crystal to make the effect last a while. I had prepared several of these floating whistles and hoped it would be enough to wake the whole town.

The moment had come. I could see many of the lights going out in the houses. Helnion and I each took a bag and snuck to the center of town where we split up and began the operation. We knew we had to rush. As soon as the crystals got their power, they would give our position away. I had wanted to make a timer somehow but didn't have time so we would have to start them and run off as soon as it floated away.

Soon the town was full of wailing whistles. By the time the town folk had realized what was happening I had placed my last floating whistle and went back to my room. I didn't care about being caught now that my work was done and they probably wouldn't think to look back in my room, anyway.

I said I didn't care about being caught, but I enjoyed the sneak back into Usui's house. Almost everybody was awake now and none looked happy. None of them were looking for me so I easily navigated around them through the sparse light in the building. In no time I was back to my room.

He was waiting inside.

“What an eventful day,” said Usui to me, smiling as usual. “Did you enjoy yourself? I know I did. There hasn't been this much excitement here in ages.”

So he had enjoyed it, had he? I wasn't surprised. As a Deity he must not care too much for those under him and just watched the show. I hoped he wouldn't keep me around so I would liven things up a bit.

“The whistles are annoying, but I thoroughly enjoyed how you covered the girls in rotten fruits and vegetables and then stopped the water to the bath,” He laughed, “Which you need.”

This wasn't going to plan. I had needed this to annoy him, not to entertain him. I just now had to hope that the others would complain enough to keep me from staying.

“Don't think I will let you off the hook for providing me entertainment, it wouldn't be fair to the others. While I had considered it, that stampede through town could have killed someone and I can't ignore that.” His face no longer had the smile he always seemed to have and had been replaced by a serious expression. It almost gave me chills. Almost.

“So what will my punishment be?” I asked.

“First thing tomorrow morning I will have the entire town gather and have you give them a formal apology. After that, you will spend the rest of the day helping the servants clean.”

I was fine with the latter punishment, but the first was a problem. “I'm fine cleaning, but I will not apologize.”

“Why not?”

“I will not apologize for something unless I genuinely feel regret for it and I feel no regret for what I did today.”

“Even if you don't regret it, apologizing will still lessen the anger your victims will have against you.”

Having the town folk angry at me had been the plan all along. Apologizing would just take back the effort I had put forward. I also didn't like being dishonest and apologizing when I felt no guilt would not be honest.

“Very well. If you don't mind the anger of everyone, then that is your problem.” He sighed, “I have one last thing. Since you seem better, I will tell you of your options that I will give you after you have finished your chores tomorrow.” He stood up and left.

I wasted no time and prepared for bed. It had been a long day and I soon fell asleep despite a whistle or two still sounding in the distance.