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Chapter 23 – Terms of Employment

Count Dan’s daughter, Chrisse Gate Vlad was a hikikomori.

Both her parents were magicians over B+ rank.

However, she had no talent as a magician.

When they turned 7, the kids of well-to-do Demon Continent families started going to school. There, they learn to read and write, do arithmetic, and learn history.

When they turned 10, those with talent went to magic schools.

Those without talent went to schools of general education.

The bullying began when Chrisse ojou-sama was 9 years old.

When they turned 9, the cla.s.ses for those who would go on to a magic school and those who won’t were separated as preparation.

Chrisse ojou-sama was put in a separate cla.s.s from her 3 close childhood friends. She alone was put in a cla.s.s for general education.

Three months later―she stopped coming to school because of bullying.

The cause of the bullying was…. because in spite of both her parents having talent in magic, Chrisse ojou-sama did not inherit that talent.

Then, because her three friends had talent, she was separated from them and became alone.

The stage for her bullying was set.

After that, Chrisse ojou-sama became afraid of light and the world outside, even now when she’s 10 years old she hadn’t taken one step outside her room.

Her room was furnished with a bath, toilet, and kitchen. They were specially constructed after that fact.

My head hurt from Master and Madam’s sweetness.

I understood the ojou-sama’s pain. But why didn’t they try to get her outside, and allow her to live inside as a hikikomori……

But they themselves were of course not okay with how Chrisse ojou-sama was currently shutting herself in.

It seems that I was bought as a caretaker and blood bag as one of their efforts.

Unlike people in the Fairy Human Continent, those in the Demon Continent celebrate birthdays every year until they were 15.

At 15 they were considered adults.

It’s like a high school kid graduating from getting christmas presents.

Then, on the day of her 10th birthday, they thought to start with getting her a blood bag as a present, they met the slave trader and he recommended me.

Master liked me at first sight and bought me without haggling―he mistook me for a girl.

Certainly, after a year on the s.h.i.+p, my hair had grown to my chin, and I was almost always at my cabin so my skin was white. My muscles had weakened and my arms had become slender like a girl’s.

If I had to say it, my looks are young and girly.

If that was the case, it probably couldn’t be helped if she misunderstood and I didn’t say anything.

Master, Madam, me, Merry, Gigi, and the maid left Chrisse ojou-sama’s room and went back to the room where we drank scented tea.

“Hahahahahaha! You looked so cute, so I thought you were a girl for sure! You got me there! Hahahahaha!”

“Oh you, always such a scatterbrain.”

Master and Madam laughed cheerfully as if they just went to a comedy show.

I endured the aching in my head and asked.

“But how could Chrisse ojou-sama immediately tell that I’m a boy? Even though n.o.body here did.”

Madam answered my question.

“Vampires move and see better in the dark, you see. That girl has good eyesight, even among us. So she probably could judge at a glance that even when wearing maid clothes, you had the body of a boy instead of a girl.

The head butler Merry bowed his head and apologized.

“I checked the doc.u.ments again, and it was certainly written ‘male’ in the gender column. It was my fault for not confirming baa~.”

“Hahahahahaha! It’s all right, it’s all right! It was my fault for immediately buying him at the shop without checking in the first place!”

“…… I could tell from the smell from the start.”

“Eeeeh!?”

I spontaneously shrieked in surprise.

It was the first time I heard Gigi talk.

As I feared, he had a low voice like a yakuza.

Merry knitted his eyebrows at Gigi’s late remark.

“Then why didn’t you tell me immediately baa~.”

“Because you didn’t ask.”

“So Gigi-san, you couldn’t do a job unless you were told to baa~?”