He lifts one of the buckets he's carrying, nodding to it.

"So we've got these, right? And I can just..."

He moves it over to his other hand, making the two buckets clank to free up a hand. And in that hand--one of the other buckets appears with a light wobble.

"...make them disappear and reappear! So we fill them all up now," pointing the bucket to the spring, "we can get the job done at once! Or we can make a show of coming and going but just stickin' in town."

Whichever one sounds smarter.

"Still doing all this hard work, right?"

And Tidus didn't mind some light deceiving if it wasn't hurting anyone.