27 Winter is Definitely Coming (1/2)

-Morning, My House-

-Me POV-​

*Ding*

[Achievement Alert]

[Home Sweet Home]

[Live life comfortably in your own Home]

[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]

”…”

Just a moment ago, I'm trying to eat my breakfast, but then an alert suddenly appeared when I am in the middle of bringing the food to my mouth, leaving me with my mouth open.

'…Comfortably? Is that the Keyword for the Achievement?'

I closed mouth and start thinking.

'It has been 4 days since I live in this House, at the first day, I did feel nervous when the night fall, at the second day, the intruder alert going off but it's a false alarm because it was just an animal wandering close to the house, I resetting the alert through the system, I excluded normal animal from it, and I still wondering how Yukari didn't setting off the alarm when she appeared, after that, the third and fourth day going smoothly and I already getting used to lived in here.'

I look at my breakfast.

A bowl of rice, a plate of sauced chicken meat for the side dish, and a cup of normal water, everything are placed on top of mini table in front of me, oh, and I also use a spoon to eat, I could use chopstick like usual but I'm most comfortable using a spoon to eat instead.

At first, I start just eating the canned food, but then I felt something missing, it's the Rice, I grown up with eating that stuff dude, so I felt weird if I didn't have it on my plate.

With that said, I bought everything that I need for cooking.

[Cooking Master] = 6.000 AP.

[Let User professionally did everything that related with Cooking]

[10 kg of Rice and many Cooking Utensils and Essentials] = 400 IP.

After that I start cooking everything, rice, meat, even sauces. As long as I have the ingredient, I can cook everything I want.

While I finished having that though, I continue eating my breakfast.

But while we're still talking about cooking, let's talk about something similar, such as, making an apology cake for people that I 'attacked' on 'that' day.

Seriously, I feel bad if I just leave it and pretend as if it never happened, all of them probably think me as a freak or an asshole if I didn't apologize after what happen, I don't wanna be hated by cute girls, dammit!

With that said. I started making Cheese Cake 2 days ago.

In the First day, I baked 2 Cakes for Marisa and Alice since those 2 are closer from my home, and I also want to tell them some news regarding my collecting services to both of them.

”…What do you want-ze?”

Marisa squint her eyes while holding her entrance door.

'..She's immediately on her guard after she saw me.'

I showed her my hand that's holding a box.

”…What's that-ze?”

”An apology cake, I think I owed it to everyone because of what I did a few days ago.”

I nudge the box to her.

She hesitant at first but in the end she takes the box from my hand.

She looks between me and the box before she opened it, revealing the yellow cream colored cake inside.

”Woah! This looks delicious-ze!”

”Beside the Cake, I also want to talk about something.”

She's looking back at me with a smile now.

”Go in then, just sit whenever you want-ze.”

She said before she disappeared into her house.

'…Thank god that was easy, now let's hope everyone also as easy as her.'

With that hope in mind, I step inside her House.

-Marisa's House-​

'…My eyes hurt.'

I see Stuffs and Books scattered on the floor, I'm forced to use my Vector Change to cut through some of them to create a path as I walked along the corridor floor.

”It's still messy just like the last time I saw it, I wonder how can you breathe while knowing how messy your house is?”

”Well, I kinda just put it there, aaaaaand that's it-ze.” replied Marisa from another room.

'…Are you serious?' I thought, ”…Do you want me to help you organizes everything? I can do it easily and fast enough that it'll not gonna take all day.”

I arrived at a room, the Cauldron Room.

”No! Don't do it, I'm gonna forget the position of everything that I put on the floor-ze!” said Marisa as she poked her head from another room.

”…But Marisa, that's the point of organizing, it help you remember everything you have.”

”And I think it's still gonna be useless-ze. There's no point if I organized everything but then it keep getting messy again in the future-ze.”

'…But that's also the point of organizing thing, to discipline yourself so that you won't bring mess to your home, …you know what, I don't care, if she's that hard headed then it will just gonna do more harm than good if I keep pushing.' I think. ”…I see, it can't be helped then.”

”Yup, it can't be helped.” She said proudly while walking into the room.

'Why are you goddamn proud about it?! I swear to god, I think I'll pop a vein when I'm dealing with this girl in the future.' I thought tiredly.

”So what do you want to talk about-ze? By the way, just sit whenever you want-ze.” She said while proceeding to sit on a sofa that's in the corner of the room, it got piled up by many book but somehow it have a single empty spot so that Marisa can sit on it.

I look around.

”…There's no chair in this room.”

”That's why I said 'sit whenever you like'-ze.”

I sigh.

I walk toward her and then sit on the air a meter in front of her.

Marisa started opening her mouth but I immediately bring up my palm to her and start talking to cut her off.

”It's my ability, and you can replicate it with magic, but of course, I've no obligation to tell you about it.”

She closed her mouth.

”…Good, now, the first thing I want to talk about is regarding my collecting service in the winter.”

She looks confused with what I'm talking about until she dawned into something ”Ah, the winter ingredients-ze.”

”That's right, the winter ingredient only come out when the season is in its peak, so there will be nothing appeared in the first month of winter, which also mean, I won't be delivering anything to you in those month.”

”I see.”

”Now, the second thing I want to tell you is that, I have a House now.”

”Wait, you have a house-ze?”

”Yup, it's actually not far from your House, and that's why I'm telling you first instead of Alice”

.I point toward the direction of my house through her wall, Marisa moved her head to its direction.

”And because of that reason, I don't need money anymore, so you and Alice won't need to pay me anymore when I deliver your ingredient.”

She blinked in confusion, ”Why-ze?”

”Training and a good relation with my neighbor”

She starts thinking for a moment with what I said, before she voices her though.

”All right, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth-ze.”

”Thank you, excuse me for a bit but I always wondering, how did you get your money if all you do collecting random stuff and no customer for your store anyway?”

”That's a secret-ze! *wink*” She winked at me.

”…” I gave her my flat stare, '…Fuck this shit I'm out.'

And I left.

After that, I went to Alice's House, I explained everything again just likes the time with Marisa, and she responded differently, she's nicer and more understanding than Marisa.

And the next day or yesterday, to be exact, I decided to went to Reimu's Shrine; I baked 2 Cakes on that day after I decided to went to her place.

Yeah, 2 cakes, the first cake disappeared as soon as I turned my back, it got replaced by a note that said ”Thanks for the cake, by Yukari nee-chan.”

Of course, I can't do anything since the Cake already gone, but instead I complained to her, even though I'm the only person in the House, ”if you want one, please give me a message ahead of time so that I can make it alongside Reimu's share, I can save sometime that way.”

Unexpectedly, she replied by making a note fall on top of me, it said ”I'll hold your word for it.”

I start feeling dejected because apparently my House wasn't enough to keep Yukari away from me.

I decided to stop moping around and proceed to bake Reimu's Cake again.

The conversation with Reimu happen just like with Marisa, excluded messy house and shorter conversation.

”An Apology Cake”

”You are forgiven!”

Really. Short. Conversation.

I've forgiven by Marisa, Alice and Reimu. Today, I'm aiming for Akyuu…I wonder how she's doing right now.

-Late Morning, Human Village-​

I walk inside the Village, Hieda Mansion is my destination.

I place the Cake inside my waist pouch; it's to keep them safe and still warm until I give it to her.

I see the villager start wearing thicker clothes now that the autumn season nearing its end.

'Should I make an Accessory that has warming effect on Akyuu?'

As I'm considering that idea, I saw a woman villager hurriedly walking to me.

I'm start thinking if I knew this person or not until I saw her title.

It's one of the Hieda's servants.

She explained the situation and brings me to the other servant.

So apparently, Akyuu start acting strange.

She's eating less, acting unmotivated, constant sighing, and she start daydreaming.

She starts doing this a few days ago and the servants believed that I can snap her out of it.

It's logical and all because it's the servants wishes that they want their master to be healthy, but I want you guys to answer a single question.

”Why me?”

All of them avert their eyes.

”Oi! What if I make her situation worse, then what do you guys do about it then?!”

One of the younger servants brings her hands together to me.

”Please, Arah-sama, just talk to Akyuu-sama for now.”

”Kuh…” Pleading from a young girl, my only weakness, how did they know?! ”*sigh* All right, I'll try.”