Translated by Appleot
Edited by Appleot
Chapter 14
In the Duke’s estate (1)
“I’ll be careful in the future. This is clearly my mistake.”
Serpence didn’t answer. Before I knew it, he put the empty tableware on one side, and picked up the documents again.
‘Still, he emptied everything clean.’
I’m a little proud.
“I want the Duke to know that there are many fun things in this world. So I would like to recommend many things to the Duke in the future.
“···········”.
“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to force it. However, can you allow me to make recommendations?”
There was a long silence. It was only when the thought of ‘Are you thinking about it?’ started to change into ‘Are you ignoring me?‘ that I finally got an answer from him.
“…I think the meatball tomato risotto wasn’t bad.”
What does this mean?
As the saying goes, hate sin but don’t hate people, you were bad, but the meatball tomato risotto wasn’t bad. Is that what he’s talking about?
At such an abrupt answer, I blinked and tilted my head in response. Seeing this, Serpence, with an expression that he saw something he shouldn’t see, took up the documents and obscured his view.
“I’m saying I’ll allow it.”
How on earth can I express that story in that way? Would anything change if he just says it in an easy-to-understand way?
I don’t know why he’s twisting and twisting his words so that it’s hard to understand.
“Well, then I’ll prepare tea, would you like some of the cookies that I brought?”
Serpence lowered the documents he had lifted so that only the corners of his eyes could be seen, and met my eyes.
In that state, his eyelashes slowly descended and then rose again. Then he quickly lifted the documents back up and covered his face.
“…Can you say something in words? Or just nod your head. If you do that, I’ll just interpret things my way.”
He didn’t say anything, and I interpreted it to mean do whatever I want.
I rang the bell, asked for the empty plates to be removed and for tea to be prepared.
Half of the cookies brought went into Serpence’s mouth.
* * *
Even though I tried to stop him from the side, Serpence stayed up all night until the second night. By the time he finished work, it was just past lunchtime.
The past meals were randomly chosen by me, but for this lunch, I recommended Serpence to choose. He glanced at the menu indifferently and chose the meatball spaghetti.
‘Until then, he looked normal as usual.’
But, when we look at each other while eating and observing quietly, different things stand out one by one. It’s like he keeps fixing his glasses or frowning slightly. It must have been sharper than usual. At the same time, I can’t help but admire his appearance of maintaining perfection without making a single sound of tableware. If it were me, I would have fallen asleep as soon as I finished my work. After that, Serpence said it was time to get off soon, he washed up again and went out.
‘If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have run away on the first day…Or maybe you could come back quickly.’
It seemed like it was because of me.
I came out of the shower room to dry my hair later out of frustration and grumbled for a while on the top of his head.
Was it something he didn’t want to hear? Serpence voluntarily promised that he would sleep peacefully in the carriage going to the castle.
The train stopped at the platform.
Before I got off, I asked the staff to match the assortment to a certain extent, since it’s not necessary to have a course meal next time.
Translated by Appleot
Edited by Appleot
Chapter 14
In the Duke’s estate (1)
“I’ll be careful in the future. This is clearly my mistake.”
Serpence didn’t answer. Before I knew it, he put the empty tableware on one side, and picked up the documents again.
‘Still, he emptied everything clean.’
I’m a little proud.
“I want the Duke to know that there are many fun things in this world. So I would like to recommend many things to the Duke in the future.
“···········”.
“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to force it. However, can you allow me to make recommendations?”
There was a long silence. It was only when the thought of ‘Are you thinking about it?’ started to change into ‘Are you ignoring me?‘ that I finally got an answer from him.
“…I think the meatball tomato risotto wasn’t bad.”
What does this mean?
As the saying goes, hate sin but don’t hate people, you were bad, but the meatball tomato risotto wasn’t bad. Is that what he’s talking about?
At such an abrupt answer, I blinked and tilted my head in response. Seeing this, Serpence, with an expression that he saw something he shouldn’t see, took up the documents and obscured his view.
“I’m saying I’ll allow it.”
How on earth can I express that story in that way? Would anything change if he just says it in an easy-to-understand way?
I don’t know why he’s twisting and twisting his words so that it’s hard to understand.
“Well, then I’ll prepare tea, would you like some of the cookies that I brought?”
Serpence lowered the documents he had lifted so that only the corners of his eyes could be seen, and met my eyes.
In that state, his eyelashes slowly descended and then rose again. Then he quickly lifted the documents back up and covered his face.
“…Can you say something in words? Or just nod your head. If you do that, I’ll just interpret things my way.”
He didn’t say anything, and I interpreted it to mean do whatever I want.
I rang the bell, asked for the empty plates to be removed and for tea to be prepared.
Half of the cookies brought went into Serpence’s mouth.
* * *
Even though I tried to stop him from the side, Serpence stayed up all night until the second night. By the time he finished work, it was just past lunchtime.
The past meals were randomly chosen by me, but for this lunch, I recommended Serpence to choose. He glanced at the menu indifferently and chose the meatball spaghetti.
‘Until then, he looked normal as usual.’
But, when we look at each other while eating and observing quietly, different things stand out one by one. It’s like he keeps fixing his glasses or frowning slightly. It must have been sharper than usual. At the same time, I can’t help but admire his appearance of maintaining perfection without making a single sound of tableware. If it were me, I would have fallen asleep as soon as I finished my work. After that, Serpence said it was time to get off soon, he washed up again and went out.
‘If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have run away on the first day…Or maybe you could come back quickly.’
It seemed like it was because of me.
I came out of the shower room to dry my hair later out of frustration and grumbled for a while on the top of his head.
Was it something he didn’t want to hear? Serpence voluntarily promised that he would sleep peacefully in the carriage going to the castle.
The train stopped at the platform.
Before I got off, I asked the staff to match the assortment to a certain extent, since it’s not necessary to have a course meal next time.
