Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home!

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-rank 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?

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...

Shiori’s been busy putting her magical abilities to use as a housekeeping mage, and she finds her services requested by a well-respected noblewoman from a famous family of artists who’s looking for protection on a special journey. Together with her lover Alec, her slime companion Rurii, and two A-rank adventurers, Shiori braves the frigid wilderness to reach the Tower of Silveria, where the noblewoman wishes to behold a vista only visible in the midst of winter. The trek there is treacherous, meaning preparation is paramount and any error could be fatal. Is there more to the noblewoman’s request than just art? And what of her relationship with her aides...?

An unexpected flooding incident keeps Shiori and company from leaving Silveria Tower as easily as they’d hoped. But that's the least of their worries—they also find themselves helping two sick adventurers on the snowy path back to town. Along the way, they encounter magical beasts, the likes of which none have ever seen before. On top of all this, Shiori has to worry about her first-ever formal dinner party...and she doesn’t even have an outfit!

A crisis hits the Tris Cathedral the day before the much-anticipated Nativity Festival! When half of the orchestra for a famed songstress falls ill, Shiori is called in to help provide some much-needed backup with her illusion magic. However, the songstress soon reveals that a rival performer may be plotting her downfall, and more danger may yet be waiting around the corner. Will Shiori and Alec become targets themselves? And will Shiori’s illusion magic be enough to save the songstress’s performance?

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...

When an Eastern merchant expresses a desire to meet Shiori because of all the soy sauce she’s bought, Shiori finds herself facing quite the dilemma—she’s let those around her believe that she hails from the East, and any contact with the real thing will almost certainly blow her cover! But there’s a small ray of hope for her too—what if the distant nation to the east is in fact a version of the Japan she calls home? Follow Shiori as she faces up to her past, and finds the courage to reconcile it with her future!