Chapter 35: Idle talk The Invasion of the ChiefMaid
Every day is as peaceful as ever. It’s a peaceful time to take a break after a hectic morning’s work.
Then one day, in the Church of the Royal Capital of King Algray, a huge stone holy sign that was displayed to ensure that peace in this world would last forever suddenly cracked.
”……..Ominous.”
Holy Knight Elias muttered with a reluctant face as he and the young children from the church orphanage saw it together.
”Onii-san……..”
“It’ll be fine.”
Picking up the young child clinging to his legs, Elias asked a nearby priest to repair the holy seal and made up his mind not to go outside for the day.
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“Boom! Rumbling”
“What is that…”
A man running a fruit orchard on the outskirts rushes out of his barn a sudden thunder.
It will soon be time to harvest the fruit called Nassie, which has a lot of moisture, and if a squall comes and the fruits fall off, there will be heavy damage. ……..but the sky was clear and almost cloudless, and there were no thunderclouds to be seen in the distance.
”……..What was that, what in the world?”
“Hey, there.”
“Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
The man who was approached from behind in the fruit orchard, which was rarely visited by anyone but himself, turned around to roll over with a maiden-like scream.
”Ah, you……..”
“I’m sorry. I’d like to ask you a few questions.”
Seeing the figure of the voice reddened the bear-like face of the man who had been single until this age.
She looks like about twenty years old. Dressed in a long jet-black dress without a single piece of dust and wearing a pure white apron dress like fine silk. Fine white skin that has never been touched by the sun and beautiful blond hair curled into a luxurious vertical roll. The figure looked like an aristocrats or even a royal maid.
The most surprising thing about her is her beauty. The cold beauty, with perfect symmetry and no human distortions, looked like a doll created by God.
“Wha, what?”
When the man asked the woman, who didn’t show any expression, with a strange sense of intimidation, the woman nodded leisurely.
”Have you seen a dark-haired maid in her mid-teens around here?” “…There are no maids in a place like this. A nobleman’s mansion in the city of the royal capital would be a good place to find one.”
When the woman asked the direction of the royal capital, she thanked the man politely and walked in that direction.
The man, who had been staring at the distant back of the maid, shook his head as if he was misty-eyed by the woman’s beauty and muttered with a small sigh.
“But she was so beautiful…….. If that wasn’t a precipice…”
“Snap, rumble, rumble….”
That year no fruit was shipped from a fruit orchard on the outskirts of Wangdue.
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“Shiver!”
“What’s wrong? Letty.”
“I’m sorry, milady. There’s a chill in the air…”
I served tea and snacks to milady in the girls’ dormitory room at the Academy of Magic, and I suddenly felt a chill and shuddered.
“Well, you shouldn’t do that, Letty. You’re not catching a cold, are you?”
“I’m sorry about your concern. Now, would you like some more chocolate donuts?”
“Thank you.”
Gazing smilingly at milady as she chews on her third donut, I gently look out of the window.
“….Ominous.”
“Hello, owner. Do you know of any dark-haired, somewhat unusual maids around here in their mid-teens?”
“Welcome.”
The owner of a shop near the third dungeon – commonly known as the “Salt Dungeon” – is greeted by a strangely beautiful blonde maid who walks into his shop and gives him a stern look, feeling a sense of déjà vu.
(Why do I only get strange women in my shop?)
The demon outbreak that occurred last month caused a lot of damage, but the store is safe and it’s back on track now.
It’s a good thing that the strange maid defeated the demon that attacked the store and bought some of the ruined goods. But the owner was a little bitter about being negotiate down so cheaply that he thought he could be a little mean to the woman in front of him. If she was an acquaintance of the maid.
“Well, there’s nothing I don’t know, but you see, you know when you ask a stranger for something, right? Lady maid.”
“I see. You have a good point.”
“Huh?”
The owner of the store, who had a somewhat lowly smile on his face, readily agreed and gently touched her cheek. She let out a voice that made his heart pound, but he couldn’t help but be disturbed.
“Since the shopkeeper is a little lonely with his scalp, I would like to give you the ‘secret’ method of my [Lord].”
“Yeah, hey.”
On that day, you could hear a scream that seemed to echo through the town, and the shop never reopened that day.
“Bam!”
“……….”
I was running out of sugar, so I was on my way to the merchant’s shop to buy some. When the laces of my leather boots were all cut off at once.
“Pi.”
I put my fingertips to my lips and let out a small whistle, and snotty kids come up to me from alleyways all over the place.
“‘Onee-chan, hello!’
“Yes, it’s a beautiful day. Did you find anything unusual?”
“He is not open today.”
“A very beautiful woman came in, and then all of a sudden he closed up the shop.”
“The owner’s hair had an afro.”
“Very well. Here’s your reward.”
“Hey, Onee-chan, thanks!”
Waving back at the children who waved at me with innocent smiles as they got their iced sugar. I decided to give up on today’s shopping and go back to milady.
“…Ominous.”
“Hmm….. This time I want that one ………. just her!”
Marquis Michels, Sharon’s brother Joan’s maid of honor, who lost her position when her sister and brother made up, Mia. Who was supposed to be starting over as a new maid with a pardon despite being the perpetrator of the attack on Sharon, was about to attack them, again, gathering the roughnecks with her former connections.
She doesn’t care about Sharon anymore. She just thought that all of the damage that was currently falling on her was because of that maid and she wanted to get revenge.
“Hey, hey, I can help, but you have to pay me for the labor.”
“It’s okay, Dario. I’m sure she got a lot of bags to give you.”
Mia is in her early twenties, but she has been quite naughty as a teenager. A few goons from that time, including Dario, a former butler from the Marquess family, were her friends from that time.
“Give me that black-haired maid, too.”
“Hmm. Okay. Now give that Fleurety guy a good, hard slap on the wrist.”
“Did you just say Fleurety?”
“Yeah.”
When Mia turned around, she saw that all the men had their limbs unjointed and were displayed on the wall of the back alley in a strange object-like state.
“What? Huh!”
“I’m sorry. It was a little unsightly, so I made it pretty and put it on the wall.”
Mia couldn’t understand what was going on at the outrageous dialogue of a beautiful, slender blonde maid she had never seen before. She looked at the woman and Dario and the others over and over without finishing.
“And about your clothes, I believe you are some maid. It seems to me that you are not well educated as a maid, so I will be happy to give you some special instructions.”
“What? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Then that day, a young woman’s screams came from the back alley and one of the maids was gone.
“Nice to meet you. I am Fleurety’s boss. I was the head maid at her former employer.”
“Well, that’s a long way from home, isn’t it? Letty. The head maid was worried about you.”
“It’s been a long time.”
What a surprise, the head maid has arrived.
And milady who summoned me from another world is not uncomfortable with the head maid from my former workplace.
The head maid is conversing calmly with milady, but she radiates a perfectly controlled “intimidation” that only radiates on me. That monster.
“Fleurety.”
“I’m sorry.”
Please don’t read my mind normally.
As I stiffened, the head maid slowly approached me and suddenly patted my head and bowed to milady.
“I am glad that Fleurety is able to serve you well. Lady Sharon. Please take care of my unworthy apprentice.”
“Yes, Letty is good too me.”
For saying such a thing and coming so suddenly, the head maid left easily. Don’t tell me that she really just came to see my face……..
“She was a good person, wasn’t she? ……..By the way, Letty.”
“I don’t know what to do…”
The room was piled high with a foot-deep pile of Nassie fruit, salt, sugar, flour, and other items, as well as dried wakame and taco slime.
All of them were souvenirs of the head maid.
……..As usual, the head maid is a horrible person.