Reincarnated Maid is About To Be Captured by All Players

In the end, I spent the entire day dealing with adventurers but still couldn’t find a suitable master.

As usual, the grass and fences in the courtyard were severely damaged. At this rate, repairing them would become part of my daily routine. I might have to seriously consider finding replacements.

Hegedrifa stayed indoors all day. If I hadn’t verified that her ears were real, I’d suspect she was a fake elf.

Elves are very close to nature. Even in their most bustling cities, you won’t see the kind of complete takeover by brick and stone that you find in human towns. Where they live is more a symbiosis with nature than a settlement.

Elves are not suited to the urban style of human kingdoms, but Hegedrifa seemed perfectly comfortable.

She even got along quite well with Lili, satisfying the young girl’s curiosity.

“What’s this?”

Lili pointed at a golden apple.

“It’s a special product from the Orcs of Arcadia. It’s not for eating. Holding it will bring you lots of trouble. Don’t worry; it only works if you use it intentionally.”

“Is this pretty thing the same?”

Lili picked up a bouquet of roses.

“It’s a rose. Human males like to give them to females as a sign of love; it’s a flower imbued with beautiful thoughts. It’s ironic, though. Humans destroy nature, causing roses to diminish, while we elves protect the flowers born of nature, but none of us use roses for love… Ah, I’ve said too much.”

Lili was none the wiser.

Then Lili’s curiosity turned to a… strangely-shaped, stick-like object.

“This thing looks so weird.”

“Um… How should I put this… It’s a… ‘Joy Stick’ that can let your sister Anna experience the pleasure of being a woman…”

“—What are you teaching Lili?!”

I didn’t hesitate to whack Hegedrifa on the head with a chain, then quickly put away all the items on the table into my storage space, as Lili looked on, stunned.

I had taken things out of my storage space to entertain Lili, hoping she’d find something interesting… I want to cry; I wish I could crawl into a hole. Why did I take out the Dragon Root… I’ve sinned, exposing Lili to such an obscene object…

“It hurts! What are you doing?”

“It’s my turn to ask you, isn’t it? I come back to find you harassing me…”

I glared at Hegedrifa, full of resentment. Thankfully, Lili is young and didn’t understand Hegedrifa’s insinuations.

I adjusted my mood and gave Lili a gentle smile.

“Feeling better, Lili?”

Lili didn’t answer directly but stood up from her stool, ran around a bit, and jumped twice.

I knew she was trying to show that she was feeling better, but seeing her move so much still made me anxious.

“It’ll be a few more days until you’re fully recovered. It’s getting late, Lili. Why don’t you go back to your room and wait for your sister?”

“Okay!” Lili obediently nodded, but then hesitated, “Sister Anna… later, Sister Lifa said she would tell elven stories…”

“…Alright, we’ll both come to find you later.”

Hearing my response, Lili was overjoyed and ran back to her bedroom upstairs… to wait for us. Thinking about this, I glanced back at the elf who was still rubbing her silver hair.

“Getting along well with Lili, huh, Lifa-sister?”

“Don’t you find it familiar?”

Of course, it’s familiar; you’ve even been promoted to ‘sister.’

“Ahem, calm down. To understand Lili as much as possible, it’s natural for me to get close to her, right?”

“…I hope you haven’t dug into Lili’s scars.”

“I have my limits. Although I haven’t fully figured it out… I suspect that the church is not the one who hurt Lili.”

Hegedrifa seriously shared her conclusion after sticking to Lili for a day.

“Really? But isn’t the church the most likely group to hurt Lili?”

“She knows less about the church than I do.”

Hegedrifa looked quite credible in her serious mode.

“In Lili’s perception, the people of the church are kind, providing her with food and shelter.”

So, in Lili’s inherent impression, the church is made of good people.

Indeed, aiding the suffering is part of the church’s duty, born from their faith. Given Lili’s potential, I originally thought the church could be the organization that harmed her.

After all, the church, with its holy magic, is forever an implacable enemy to the undead and all related to the [Demon King].

If not the church, then who?

“…I have a guess.”

“Do tell.”

“Do you know about [Tasks]?”

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The Demon King was actually mentioned as early as Chapter 11, not a sudden addition. But if you read quickly, you might have missed it. It’s an immature early foreshadowing, making his first appearance so inconspicuous that everyone forgets. There won’t be such moves in the future.

Also, I find that everyone is particularly interested in Anna’s love line? A lot of people are asking…