Sword Art Online Vol. 15 – Alicization Invading Chapter 15 - In Northern Lands 39 | P a g e “Though your feelings make me happy, there is really no need to be bothered over it, Selka. I like the cabin and I feel blessed enough, staying close to the village. …I will go immediately after Kirito is done with his lunch. Where is it?” “…The cleared land in the south, he said.” Selka softly replied and spent a short while silently walking beside the wheelchair. With just a little more to the fork heading towards the log cabin, she suddenly spoke in a firm tone. “Sister, my time as a sister apprentice will end next year and I will receive some wages, even if it’s not that much. When that time comes, you can stop helping those people, okay? If it’s for you, big sister, and Kirito, I… I will always…” Alice gently hugged Selka whose voice came to a stop there. She felt her tawny hair on her cheeks, a sensation much the same despite the clearly different color, and whispered. “Thank you… But I feel blessed enough simply with you close to me, Selka…” Seeing off Selka, who waved her hand endlessly in reluctance to part, Alice returned to the log cabin with Kirito and quickly prepared lunch. Though she had become somewhat capable of housework recently, her skill at cooking alone remained stubbornly lacking. Compared to the Fragrant Olive Sword, the kitchen knife bought from the village’s general store seemed as unreliable as a toy and twenty or thirty minutes would pass in the blink of an eye as she nervously sliced the ingredients. Fortunately, Selka had delivered that freshly baked pie today, so she cut it into smaller portions and fed Kirito. By bringing the pie to his mouth with a fork and waiting patiently, his lips would eventually open slightly, accepting it into his mouth. With that, Kirito would slowly, slowly chew as though replaying his memories of how he used to eat.