Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! (Manga) Vol 2

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...