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Chapter 25 – Day 2: Mille Crêpe

The second day, morning.

I went together with the head maid Mercè-san to wake ojou-sama up.

Mercè-san knocked like yesterday, then opened the door without waiting for a reply.

“Ojou-sama, excuse us.”

“Excuse us.”

This morning ojou-sama seems to be awake, sitting blankly on the king-size bed.

Wearing pajamas made of something like silk, she had her slightly wavy blond hair spread out on the white sheets.

Because she was still sleepy, she had a vacant look on her face, yet her lovely cuteness was almost like a princess out of a fairy tale.

“Good morning ojou-sama.”

“Good morning.”

As Mercè-san and I greeted her, ojou-sama quickly bowed her head.

She didn’t run and hide anymore even when there’s me, a boy, here.

Instead, she ran her fingers on her mini blackboard.

“I’ll be looking forward to today’s tea party and evening party”, was what she conveyed to us.

“I’ll do everything I can and make snacks for ojou-sama.”

She smiled bashfully as I answered.

c.r.a.p, she’s cute!

If I had a daughter like ojou-sama in my previous life, I would have spoiled the h.e.l.l out of her.

With that thought on my mind, I went out the room for a moment to make breakfast.

I had a late breakfast with Mercè-san again today.

Once breakfast is done, I immediately started making snacks for the afternoon tea party.

The cakes to be presented to ojou-sama was already being handled by an exclusive chef.

I began working on making something else than the pudding I made yesterday.

The cake I decided to make today was a crêpe—a mille crêpe.

It is made by spreading cream and custard in between the crêpe dough and piling it up.

Crêpes were first made in France, but the origin of [Mille Crêpe] is j.a.panese.

Firstly, I made the crêpe dough, and cooked it in a shallow frying pan while adjusting the fire on the stove.

Once I’ve made crêpes until there was no more dough left, I left them to cool.

While that happens, I made custard cream.

Custard cream is made from egg yolk, sugar, flour, and milk.

I mixed the yolk, sugar, and flour, and evened them out while adding milk. Then I put it on a low fire until it became thick.

Once the custard is finished, I cut up fruits to put in the cake. Today I’ll be using a fruit similar to strawberries called a rawberry.

It tasted just like a strawberry when I tried eating it.

I cut the rawberry up into thin slices.

After all the preparation was done, all that’s left to do is to coat the crêpes in custard and put the rawberry slices on top.

Repeat that 20 times, and the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe] was finished.

But in the end, I was still an amateur cook, so I had to show it to the Vlad house head chef afterwards.

The head chef, Malcolm of the Demon Race, Lizard Clan, cut off the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe] into rectangular shape.

In the end, he put a little bit of the leftover custard on top, and set an uncut rawberry on it.

Like this, it became presentable, so much that I thought that it could be displayed on a storefront. As expected from the head chef.

Ojou-sama would surely be happy with this.

“This is the cake I made, a [Rawberry Mille Crêpe].”

It was the afternoon tea party.

I brought the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe] to her room.

Scented tea had already been set on the table with a tablecloth on it.

There are other cakes besides my [Mille Crêpe] put on the table. But ojou-sama’s eyes were entirely fixed on the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe].

“It looks so tasty.”

Ojou-sama showed her mini blackboard to me, who was standing at the doorway.

I lightly bowed at her words.

While I was standing by the doorway, Mercè-san was helping ojou-sama.

Ojou-sama immediately told Mercè-san she wanted to eat the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe]

The head chef Malcolm-san had already cut the cakes up, so all Mercè-san had to do was put it on a plate.

Ojou-sama stretched a wooden spoon towards the [Rawberry Mille Crêpe] in front of her eyes.

Ojou-sama happily rested her face on one hand as she took a mouthful.

Second mouthful, third―once I noticed, she had already eaten a whole plate of cake.

Then ojou-sama asked for a second helping of [Rawberry Mille Crêpe]

During breakfast and dinner she ate a considerable amount of food, but it seems she had a separate stomach for snacks.

As expected from a Demon Race with a sweet tooth.

She drank some scented tea to wash down the lingering sweetness, and wrote on her mini blackboard.

“Yesterday’s pudding was really tasty, but today’s cake was also really tasty. Can you make me some more?”

“Of course. I’ll do my best and make other snacks I can also make for ojou-sama.”

“I’m really looking forward to it.”

Ojou-sama had taken a very friendly att.i.tude compared to the day before yesterday. However―

“Well then, I shall put the empty plates away.”

“-hi!”

I approached ojou-sama to take the plates.

As I did so, her body stiffened. It seems she was still afraid of the opposite s.e.x. She still hadn’t fully opened up her heart.

I had closed some distance with the “Grand Snack Operation”, but she still hadn’t fully opened up her heart.

(Even if I keep on making snacks like this, I can’t make her open up to me huh……)

I started thinking up other plans to replace the “Grand Snack Operation” while tidying up the dishes.

“Well, what should I do now?”

“Certainly, that is troubling……”

After the afternoon tea party, Mercè-san and I were sweeping the residence together.

In the corridor there was an empty metal armor holding a battleaxe with a broken blade, and a large vase that can easily fit two children inside.

There are also paintings and stuffed animals decorating the place.

Mercè-san and I had our strategy meeting while cleaning each and every one of them.

Once again I was relying on Mercè-san who had come up with the ‘snacks operation’.

“Mercè-san, do you have any other good ideas besides the ‘snacks operation’?”

“That’s right. What about giving ojou-sama some kind of present after this?”

“I see. You mean getting intimate by giving her a present. I wonder what ojou-sama would like to receive.”

“How about things that girls like―bouquets, or jewels?

“……but I don’t have any money.”

If I had the money to give her jewels, I wouldn’t be a slave.

Mercè-san’s look became distant when I pointed that out.

“……Lute, it’s only been a short while but it was nice working with you.”

“That joke again. I’m not going to fall for it again.”

“…………”

“Why did you become silent!? Were you serious just now?! Don’t look away!”

“……If you can’t give her jewels or bouquets, I wonder if ojou-sama would be pleased if you show some special skills. Do you have any special skills you can show her?”

“Skills huh….. I can pull off my thumb like this.”

I put my left thumb and right thumb together and slid it away, it was a practical joke that any j.a.panese would know.

I’ve heard that some foreigners get surprised if you show this to them.

But when I lightly showed it to Mercè-san she stepped back and fell down on her b.u.t.t.

She looks very scared.

“You look surprised Mercè-san! See, I only put my left and right thumbs together and slid them off like this.”