Chapter 71 (1/2)

CHAPTER 71 – THE MAID’S DREAM

Afternoon in the Grimoire Library, I am reading Grimoire/manga as usual.

I read manga leisurely. I look very depraved, but this is my job.

It’s rather, my life work.

I want to learn more and more magic here, and live a blissful life with my lovely wives.

I am reading manga with that feelingーーand recently, I feel like the pace I read has increased.

「Danna-sama」

I was called so I looked up.

Amanda-san in her maid appearance was there without me noticing it.

「I have brought you a bentou」

Amanda-san handed me a basket.

It’s the basket with a lid that we usually use when I go to a picnic with my wives.

「Thank you」

I received it, and opened the lid.

「Today was made by Veronica-sama」

「Veronica did? Was she able to cook?」

「Without any means to be rude, I have helped her. And also」

「Un?」

「Because it would take a long time to repair the kitchen, I advise for you to return late」

「I see」

It means, Veronica isn’t good at cooking as I’ve thought, and it’s on the level that the kitchen would get destroyed.

I got a little relieved hearing that. That suits Veronica better.

However, if it is like that, I am now worried if there is no problem with the bentou.

I carefully looked inside the basket, several toasts with jam and b.u.t.ter spread on it.

Its shapeーーsaying it kindly, it is artistic. The shape of the toast itself, and the jam spread too.

「Is the kitchen alright? If you want, I can secretly return and fix it using magic?」

Its looks made me not hold back on asking Amanda-san that.

「There is no problem. If you would please return by sunset. And in addition, there is no problem with how it tastes」

「Is that so」

Since Amanda-san says that, it’s probably true.

I took one of the toasts that for some reason spiky behind, and took a bite.

……un, it’s normal.

It tastes like normal toasted bread with jam spread.

Well, it tastes good. In the level of the ingredients.

Their shape are radical, but it tastes properly.

I got relieved and ate the other toasts.

All of their appearances were devastating, but it tasted normally delicious.

「Well, thinking of her previous career, it’s this much huh」

「It is as you say」

「Come to think of it, I haven’t heard Amanda-san’s past. What did you do before you became a maid of the house of Martein?」

「A lot of things happened」

「A lot?」

「Yes」

After that, Amanda-san did not say anything anymore.

Her expression is unchanged as usual, but it’s a face that doesn’t have the intention to tell.

Probably, if I ordered her to, she would probably would; Amanda-san is that kind of person.

I didn’t order her.

It’s because somehow, I thought that it is wrong with that.

I ate the remaining toast. I also drank the juice that looked more devastating than other things placed inside the basket but tasted delicious.

「Thanks for the mean. It was deliーー」

I looked up and tried to say that, but I closed my mouth.

It’s because Amanda-san who was standing in front of me with her hands together was sleeping.

She’s doing the feat of sleeping like standing, it is really unlike her, but it also suits her.

I stared

at Amanda-san for a while.

I enjoyed the sleeping face of the perfect maid that almost did not show any openings.

Most probably, I should thank Veronica who made her this spent.

「So」

「Un?」

「Sorry, please forgive me……」

「……」

Amanda-san who suddenly started to sleep talk, what she said in her sleep was something I could not ignore.

I thought for a moment, and casted magic.

『Dream Catcher』

It’s the one that I used once before on Sylvia and Nadia, the magic that peeks onto dreams.

The young Amanda-san, one day, the village she was living at was attacked by a band of thieves, and her parents were killed there.

The children were spared, but to have a burial for her parents, she sold herself to a slave merchant, and used the money from that to bury her parents.

After that, she was bought by Ojii-san, and came to the House of Martein.

I returned to the real world from the dream I peeked at.

The dream I saw right now was really sickening.

After all, that is a type of a dream that ‘I have seen before’.

It’s the same with Sylvia and Nadia, it’s a dream based on a horrible past.

It means, that was Amanda-san’s past.

The past where her village was attacked, and sold herself to a slave merchant to bury her own parents.

……it’s sickening.

「I should at least change her dream. 『Dream Modify』」

I chanted a different magic, and entered the dream once again.

I fixed one part inside of the dream.

『This girl, how intelligent. How about this, will you let me take her in. I will let her receive education at my place, and raise her as the world’s strongest maid』

I erased the part where the thieves attacked, in exchange, I made it a story where Ojii-san visited the village, saw through Amanda-san’s genius, and took her in.

And just like that, Amanda-san was sent off by her parents with a smile, and came to the House of Martein.

Thus, once again, I returned to the real world from the dream.

It was exactly the same time when Amanda-san woke up.

Amanda-san looked around restlessly.

「Good morning, Amanda-san」

「Good morning to you too, Danna-sama」

「You were fast asleep, did you see a dream or something」

「A dream……? Yes, I saw a dream. It was a wonderful dream」

「I see」

For the meantime, I got happy because I succeeded changing the contents of her dream.

「Rather than that, thanks for the meal. It was delicious」

I said that and returned the basket.

I told Amanda-san who received the basket.

「I’ll leave the rest to you. Ahh, I’ll be a little late today, so you can take your time fixing the kitchen」

「……I understood」

Amanda-san left the library.

I confirmed that she had left, and raised a voice.

「Fan, Fan Cruz, are you there?」

Being called, one man appeared.

A huge man that exceeds two meters, my a.s.sistant that doesn’t usually appear, but is always on stand by in this library.

「What is it, Administrator」

「This, you know something about it?」

I drew a picture in the air using magic.