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“Uuuuuu…T-the mines… dying there they said, uwehhhhhh”

Was she this desperate? That bald guy, he shouldn’t threaten a girl like this.

“Ah, it’s going to be okay. You can always stay here. okay?”

“I, I… I was small, nothing… even at home… they always mad at me…, even after being sold… if n.o.body… bought me ever… that’s, that’s why… I’m glad…”

Sati, while sniffling and weeping, she told me bit by bit. Somehow, she suffered those hards.h.i.+ps…

“Not only that… yet even, my eyes too… T-Thank… Thank you very much…”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. Look, you can eat this.”

Said that, I pull out a grilled wild rabbit meat skewer. Sati accepts it and while still sniffling and weeping, she is munching on it. It was a success feeding her. She seems to be gradually calming down.

“From now on, you’ll be able to work, play or do anything normally, right? Hey, what did you ever wish to do if your eyes were healed? Do you have anything you want to do?”

Sati stops eating then stares at me with an astonished look. Her face became soppy wet with tears.

“Anything?”

“Yes, anything is fine.”

Lowering her line of sight towards the skewer left on her hand, Sati said:

“E-ermmm. I-I’ve always wanted… to cook, b-but, I was no good… even helping at home, because I’d ruin it they didn’t let me do it… And, and…”

Oh no, she cried again.

“I see, cooking is it?! Then, since it’ll be dinner I’ll let you help me immediately!”

“Y-yes. I’ll do my best. I’ll help you!”

“Look, there’s meat left, isn’t it? Finish eating it.”

While watching Sati eat the remaining, I think what to do. Even if I say cooking, she’s probably really inexperienced. What can a beginner do? I have a hunch it was cup noodles then? Ready in 3 minutes with boiling water. It’s good that it was simple. But here, there’s no cup noodles and the like. Ah, should I have her boil water? Let’s have her prepare tea. And it would be scary suddenly letting her use such things as knives.

“Then I think I’ll have you boil water for me. I want to drink tea.”

Let’s see, with this pot then only this small quant.i.ty of wood, they were left over from the previous resident. Although I can make water with magic, I think from now on it’ll be the water well. There’s no water jug or something. Will it be fine with this big pot? I’ll have Sati carry it. There are a lot of things that will need to be bought. The supplies are overwhelmingly insufficient.

“Can you carry it? Is it okay?”

“Yes. I can carry it!”

“Then, we’ll go draw water from the well. Follow me.”

As we were going outside, suddenly I realized. Sati’s clothing have remained unchanged since bringing her from the slave trader. She isn’t wearing panties. If she doesn’t get changed.

“Wait a second. Let’s change your clothes first. Look, didn’t we buy some at a clothing store while returning?”

I make Sati leave the big pot while I take out and spread the clothes and underwear on the desk. Is this fine? I turn over and give her the one piece kind of dress I chose and the underwear.

“?!”

Sati was already utterly stark naked. After staring fixedly at her for an instant, I gathered myself, looked away and handed her the clothes. As expected she really wasn’t wearing panties.

“Hey, wear these. Also, it’s wrong for a girl to be undressing in front of people.”

“Yes. But only Masaru-sama is here.”

Sati says while she’s putting on the clothes she received. Since it’s only a one piece dress and underwear she soon finished dressing.

“It’s wrong even if I’m present. Isn’t it embarra.s.sing?”

“E-errr… I, because I’m small and thin, you don’t like me? But that, I heard that men would be delighted if I’m seen naked…”

Sati is tearing up again. Who was it, who taught her that information?

“No no, you don’t need to show me.”

“That is so. There’s no way you could want to look at someone like me naked, right?…”

“No, wait a second. That’s not it, I want to look.”

No no, it’s not that I want to look. Yet, I want to look. What should I say?

“That, it’s that. Children take off their clothes in front of people, don’t they? However, adults don’t undress in front of people, do they? In the case of adults, they don’t undress except for like going to take a bath or in front of the person they like! When one becomes an adult, one doesn’t show oneself naked.”

“Well. Since I like Masaru-sama, is it okay for me to get naked?”

Why she start liking me from the first day?! The progression is too fast. d.a.m.n, I must think. Now is the time to mobilize all the knowledge I have acquired from anime and manga! If I tell her I’d look, seems like she’ll immediately take of her clothes. If I tell her I don’t want to look, she’ll surely cry. Despite telling her I’d like to see, I’ll prevent her from undressing!

“I’d like to see Sati naked. Ah, ah, you don’t need to show me. That’s. You don’t need to be naked until I tell you to. Excepting when I tell you I want to look, make sure only take off your clothes somewhere no one else will see.”

Sati has a somewhat sorrowful face.

“No, I want to look. When that’s the case I’ll have you show me plenty! Hey, for now it’s cooking, isn’t it? We got to get the water from outside.”

“That’s right, it’s cooking!”

I have Sati hold on to the big pot and we go outside. The reality is, in this kind of situations one gets awkwardly fl.u.s.tered?

“Ok, this is the water well. Draw the water.”

I issue instructions while feigning to be calm. Sati is working hard to pull out out the bucket with water from the water well. With a splosh, she put the water from the bucket into the big pot.

“Alright, then shall we go back? Isn’t it heavy? Can you carry it?”

“I’m okay.”

With a ‘heave-ho’ she walks while carrying it. I appears what the slave trader said about them being strong is true. I open the door for Sati who had both her hands occupied and we enter. She puts water into a small pot and puts it onto the cooking stove. When she puts firewood.

“For fire, how do normal people light it?”

“They use a flint.”

I see. Today while thinking if I would use magic, Sati crouched down and was rummaging.

“Found one!”

Replying ‘yes’ she showed it to me. Did the previous resident leave it behind?

“Can you light the fire?”

“I’ll try to.”

Sitting she starts to clink the flint. This is so troublesome just to boil water. Even though it would take 10 seconds to light it with magic. Should we mainly eat out…? Before long, it appears to be lit. Her skill is good. From TV I’ve watched previously, lighting fire takes at least around 30 minutes. The embers light the firewood and the fire rises while cracking. Sati is watching over the water in the pot with a serious expression. The water won’t boil from her watching it, but I how the feeling from staring at it. I stop her as she quietly tried to thrust her finger into it.

“Don’t use your finger to measure the temperature. When it boils, it’ll start bubbling. Watch it.”

“Ah, bubbles are coming out! Bubbles!”

The heating power from the cooking stove is pretty strong. Or should I say, for all that little water to be boiled looks like we put too much firewood. It immediately boiled.

“Okay, then put the pot here. Let’s put the tea leaves.”

And there’s no pot stand, is it okay to place it directly? The small pot has soot, the table might get a little bit dirty. Let’s use Cleanup later. No, should I leave it to Sati? She wished to work after all.

I put a pinch of Magi Tea in a cloth, tie it like a pouch with a string and put it in the hot water. It’s a simple tea bag. Sati is quietly watching. I have Sati pour the prepared magi tea and drink it. Yea, it’s good. Even though I thought it tasted strange at first, once I got used to it, it’s no different than drinking the tea from j.a.pan. When I have Sati take a sip she makes an odd expression.

“This is called Magi Tea. It’s a tea that recovers a little bit of Magic Power for wizards.”

I explain it while pouring the remaining tea in the canteen. It’s only boiling water. By all means it can’t be considered cooking, but later if she chops ingredients she can make something like a soup, can’t she?

“Then, can you tidy up what’s left?”

“Y-yes.”

Sati takes away the pot and cups to the kitchen sink. Of course there’s no water supply. She draws water from the big pot and hand washes them. Let me see, since it looks like there are no sponges, then they use something like scrubbing brushes? Afterwards she leaves them in the sink, there would be a bucket a something. Are there dust clothes, dish clothes or detergent? If there isn’t, it’ll be troublesome when making fried food. A pot to be used for deep-frying or something and tools. As one would expect there are no paper towels, are them? How do the people here do things? Which reminds me, there aren’t restaurants that serve things like karaage or cutlets. I wonder if that kind of cuisine doesn’t exist? Even though I believe dragon meat in karaage would be delicious.

Sati who finished the was.h.i.+ng having a whole smiling face reports me with a ‘I’m finished’. Her voice is being lively too. Despite planning to buy a maid to take care of things, I feel like I ended up being the one taking care of her, yet this way isn’t too bad. In any case, it’s shopping. We must procure many kinds of daily necessities.

“Well then, Sati. Shall we go shopping?”

“Yes, Masaru-sama!”

Flapping her tail and having a smiling face, Sati is very cute. From today, I’ll start living with this girl in this house. Yeah, this is it. It might not be so bad!

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