Chapter 47 - The orphans and Rafiah (1/2)
With morning arrive, I'm up early as usual, still not as early as Claude. Claude, even being a ghost can actually fall asleep albeit sleeping isn't necessary once you become a ghost. Strange, but if he said so
Since I'm task on watching and making the breakfast with them, I can relax for a bit more, since they still haven't woken up yet. As for Claude, he has start to clean the mansion. I guess a butler will always be a butler, even after one dead.
As the second morning yawn escape from my mouth, a scream can be heard upstairs. I can guess what's happening there, still, should just went there anyway
”Who, who are you!” [Elise]
”Sorry if I scared you” [Rafiah]
”Morning Elise, morning Rafiah” [Ash]
”Brother Ash, just who is this... wait a minute” [Elise]
Her scream actually woke the other as well, and now they slowly gather around, looking confused and drowsy at the same time. As for Elise, I bet he's thinking about 'that' thing,
”Is this what adults call as...” [Elise]
”Nope, you're wrong” [Ash]
”There's no such thing happening!” [Rafiah]
Thought so. Both of us quickly deny Elise bad guess (actually, wouldn't that be the logical guess here?). Rafiah keeps on saying ”nothing happen” ”nothing happen” multiple times, she really is quick to deny such thing. Plus, her reaction do make one want to tease her more. As for me, I deny it just because I don't want the younger group to learn about it. It's still to early fir them to learn about the adult dirty world
”Just clean yourself first, then we will start cooking” [Ash]
”Yes, we wil... Hmph!” [Elise]
”Ehh? Did something happen?” [Ash]
”Nothing!” [Elise]
”Hahaha...” [Kara]
(Bet it's because of the grilled cheese toast bread yesterday) [Rean]
(That lady, where did I met her?) [Zerolith]
Elise seems to be sulking for no apparent reason. Is she finally at her teenage age? Well, who knew. As for the other, they seem to know the reason, better ask them afterwards. Then, there's Zerolith, he has been staring hard at Rafiah for a while, not because of first love syndrome or something similar. I get the feeling that he actually have realized whom Rafiah is, or at least started to recognize her. With that said, they started to take their shower before moving into the usual morning routine
Well, it's not long until those task with cooking gather inside the kitchen. For today, how about some simple hamburger. It's easy to made and the kids sure love them especially Zerolith and Singa. Should make them more extravaganza, I wanted to please their stomach first, before dropping the bomb (the bomb being Rafiah wanting to apologize for her friend's behaviour back inside the dungeon). I wonder how will they react
At the dining table, Zerolith quickly gulp down the hamburger, gosh... he really is a quick eater
”Slow down a bit Zerolith, or else you will choke” [Ash]
”Wigtt (right)” [Zerolith]
”And don't talk when your mouth is full!” [Ash]
After breakfast is done, I ask them to wait for a moment, since I wanted to give Rafiah a chance to apologize. Before she started saying a word
”Have we met somewhere?” [Savel]
”You too Savel!” [Zerolith]
So not only Zerolith, but Savel also seems to realize something. The other are still confused by their statement, now then, how will Rafiah approach this situation
”I'm sorry, please allow me to apologize to all of you” [Rafiah]
”?” [Others]
”Rafiah, that won't do. You're only making them more confused” [Ash]
We might be around the same age, but gosh... I just realized that Rafiah is bad at communication, especially during an important situation. Still, this is one thing that she should tell those kids herself. Claude and I will only try to convince the kids to at least forgive her. I mean, sure those kids have the right not to, but it isn't Rafiah the one doing the firing back inside the dungeon, but instead one of her friends. Still, I'm sure it's just the same for the one on the receiving end, and I can't blame them for that.
As Rafiah is trying to think of a sentence to explain what's going on, Behe leaps onto Mara, asking for extra light mana, and that's when
”You, you're with them back inside the dungeon!” [Zerolith]
”By them you mean...” [Rean]
”Yeah, the one that try to kill us!” [Zerolith]
”It really is her!” [Savel]