CHAPTER 4 (PART 3):
I TRIED GETTING SET UP
Brought along by Celia-san, I had once again gotten an invitation to go to the Aquarain family mansion. Right now, I’m standing outside the mansion with Celia-san, however…
“Celia-san? The two guards here…”
The guards that once held me at spear point were no longer here.
Two different guards are stationed here instead.
“Oh, the people who were rude to our honored guest…I wonder what became of them?”
It’s probably a good thing she didn’t know I wasn’t human.
I determined it was best left unsaid that I was a demon.
I feel like something terrible would happen if she caught wind…
“As for those two…our head maid gave them a thorough scolding.”
…what?
Geez, it’s not nearly as bad as I thought.
“You know, our head maid used to be an A rank adventurer. For certain reasons she retired from being an adventurer and became a maid instead.”
Oh? She sounds rather capable.
I wonder if she works as the captain of the guard too?
So maybe that’s why the head maid would be the one to lecture them…?
“She’s terribly scary when she’s angry. She’s very sweet on her husband though.”
What are we talking about, a couple of newlyweds here?
“But it seems they once got into a quarrel. Her husband was so seriously injured it took half a year to make a full recovery.”
“…”
“But, her husband was also an A rank adventurer. Injuries like that were normal from what I hear.”
Scaaaaaary.
What on earth is she?
It took him half a year to fully recover even though they were the same rank? What’s going on here?
“But, at the same time, she was also the one who lovingly nursed him back to health. She seemed quite happy to be able to spoil him so.”
So in the end they still acted like newlyweds?
I wonder if her husband is really all right?
“…Oh my, speak of the devil!”
I look toward the mansion and see a lady wearing a maid uniform coming our way.
“I’m pleased to see you’ve returned, Madam.”
Greeting Celia-san, she angles herself into a lovely bow.
Such a beautiful person couldn’t possibly be very old.
Is she really the one from that story Celia-san just told me?
“Is this our honored guest? I am the head maid in the employ of the Aquarain family. I am called Sophia.”
“Ah…hello. I’m Youki.”
Because she lowered her head to me, I also casually bow.
What’s this, she’s just a normal person, isn’t she?…or so I stupidly thought.
“Sophia, have you finished with that business?”
“Regrettably, I have not. I am only halfway done.”
I wonder what she’s talking about.
“Not yet? Only halfway?”
“Yes, it is taking quite some time, and though they are repeatedly blacking out I can think of no other method.”
“…”
For some reason I feel I shouldn’t interrupt them.
“Madam, how many bones shall I break until they are pardoned?”
“Hmm, I’ll leave it up to you, Sophia-san. Do as much as you like.”
Seriously, what the hell are they discussing?
“Understood. I shall refrain from doing more than five. Would it be safe to use intermediate level magic I wonder?”
“Indeed…there’s only half left, so why not do so?”
“Understood. I shall do so. …Youki-sama, are you feeling unwell? Your complexion appears rather ill.”
“Ah no, I’m doing fine. It’s just your imagination.”
Even if it kills me I don’t want to attract their attention.
Just what was the subject of their discussion?
The answer will remain buried in the darkness.
“Very well, then let me guide you to the mansion.”
Following Sophia-san, we entered the Aquarain residence.
Upon entering the mansion, Celia-san pulls me along until we’re in front of the familiar door leading to Cecilia’s room.
After entering the mansion, with a ‘please take your time’, Sophia-san left us.
“Now Youki-kun, please enter when I give the signal.”
Carefully, Celia-san entered the room.
Soon after, because I was given the cue, I enter as well.
“Wha? What is Youki-san doing here?”
It looks like she had just woken up.
Cecilia is in her nightgown with a bad case of bedhead.
“Oh this daughter of mine, sleeping in so late on a day off~”
Celia-san is in a corner of the room just giggling and laughing .
I thought it strange that she was off in the corner, but I understood as soon as I saw Cecilia’s reaction.
She took the staff leaning on the nearby dresser, focused her attention over here and…WOAH!
“《Shiny Bolt》!”
The elementary level light magic spell, Shiny Bolt.
A direct hit from the lightning-esque holy light sent me flying out of the room.
It’s so sudden that I can’t react in time, and getting hit by magic without any defense up left me laid flat outside the room.
“Get out of my room!”
The door closed with a BAM.
I wish she had said that before she laid me out with magic.
Just before the door closed, I saw Celia-san chuckling to herself inside the room.
That woman set me up big time.
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