Kujibiki Tokushou: Musou Hāremu ken

Chapter 4

04 . Maid’s order

That night, I came to the haunted mansion alone .

Normally, at time like this a real estate agent will show me the rope around the area, but Saramas from the real estate company was like,

“I’ll leave all the minor things to you . ”

He said that to me and left me alone checking the mansion .

When I asked him if he had something to do, he said he’s going to prepare the contract, making registration at the public office, doing arrangement for the lack of furniture at the mansion . He even answered so in rapid succession

“We can leave such sort of things later don’t we?” I asked again .

“To make it so that you can live comfortably as fast as we could is our motto . ”

Well, seeing how fast he evaded the topic of showing the ropes around the area . I guess he must be that much terrified of this haunted mansion .

Using the key that I got from the Saramas’s firm store clerk, I passed through the front yard and went straight to the mansion’s door and opened it .

Using the lamp that was given to me, I light up the other lamps inside the mansion from room to room .

There were a lot of different rooms amounting to more than 20 including the parlor, living room and bedroom . Although there seems to be no sign of people living in this mansion, the furniture was aligned in one way .

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“As I thought, it ran away…”

Something is weird— kind of feeling welled up inside me . To the very least, there is no necessity for the furniture to be arranged this way and the store clerk would at least understand that .

As there was a balcony outside, I go up the stairs where there was carpet spread all over while letting out a small laugh .

Even though the mansion was located at the outskirt of the city, from the balcony I can see the entire view of city’s night scenery .

The light was sparse at the heart of the city, but it’s beautiful in its own sense . At the same time, you can actually feel the height of this place’s rank .

This mansion was originally a very expensive property, so for such a scenery must’ve already been taken into account .

It felt good .

That night, I spent a quality time enjoying the scenery and took my rest at the most splendid bedroom I could find .

I’m not sure either it was due to the bed being very large that I wasn’t able to sleep well, but that doesn’t seemed like the case .

***

The following day, to complete my quota of at least one mountain cow a day, I wandered around the neighbourhood .

I can hunt more mountain cow and earn a lot more, but as I just got myself a mansion . There are tons of things that I want to do . There are some furniture that I wish to replace too, and I want to get my hands on things that I actually need in my daily necessity .

For example, as I cannot get a good sleep, I want to buy a pillow and futon .

TLN : Surely you know what futon is right?

Well, there a heaps of things that I need but there is one thing that hold a high importance to me .

“I would like to hire a maid . ”

I went to the Saramas firm and the store clerk with a worried expression was there .

“Maid, is it?”

“Yes, a maid . Maintaining that place alone by myself would be impossible afterall . ”

“I see, so that was the case . ”

“Regarding it being the haunted mansion, is it really that terrifying?”

“Surely not . ”

Saramas flustered a little but and cleared his throat afterwards .

TLN: I’m guessing since it’s called Saramas firm so the shopkeeper would be the owner; Saramas .

“Just leave it to me, I will arrange it for you . If I think about it carefully, living in that big mansion alone, not having a maid won’t cut it . ”

“You can do that too?”

“Of course dear customer!”

Saramas seems to be taking a great pride while he was saying so,

As he was looking quite differently from before, I decided to tease him a little bit .

“Are there maid who would be willing to work inside a haunted mansion?”

“Regarding that matter, you don’t have to be worried . ”

Saramas had a very serious look on his face, being surprised as the way he reacted wasn’t the way I was hoping it to be made me dumbfounded a little bit,

“Oh?”

“No matter what kind of house it would be, be it a house of demon murderer, as long as they got paid . There bound to be one or two people who’d be willing to work as your maid . ”

“I see, then does it mean that it’s okay?”

“Certainly so dear customer, now then . What kind of maid do you have in your preferences?”

“What kind huh? Let me see…”

I gave it a deep thought .

I need to find a maid to take care of my mansion! Was what I had in mind, but I never really gave it any sort of thought on what kind of maid that I want .

Talking about maid, there are capable maid and not so capable maid .

… . .

A long skirt brazen maid who can complete the given task perfectly .

A clumsy mini-skirted maid who keep on failing on every task, crybaby .

TLN : In the raw it was ‘full with emotion’, well take it with a pint of vodka added with salt .

Which one is better…

TLN : Long skirt one for me… So I can play her route and turn that emotionless brazen maid into a dere-dere bish .

“…maid that can do her job properly I guess?”

“I see, a maid who posses the talent to become a chief maid in the future is it?”

“Chief maid huh? Yeah I think that’s about it . ”

Imagining about it makes me excited a little bit . The maids listened to Chief maid orders . And the boss of that Chief Maid is me . It makes me extremely excited .

“Well then, I’ll be looking for maid with that taken into account . Lastly…”

“Yes?”

“Between slave maid, butler or a normal maid . Which one do you prefer?”

“Slave maid . ” I replied immediately .

That is for given as she won’t turn on me .

***

“To think that they would normally have a slave maid . I see that’s how it is…”

As I was strolling throughout the city, I recalled the the last question that Saramas asked me .

Afterwards, I exited from the store . As expected, they cannot prepare someone to work right away today so they will look for it and told me to come again tomorrow .

With this, I’m somehow finished with my task of looking for a maid .

Now that what is the next thing that I need – was what I thought . But before I knew it I already became a roundworm .

TLN : Have you ever seen the shape of stomach parasite,I think that was what the author mean by that parable .

I randomly entered the nearby store . Near the street corner there are restaurant that looks quite flourishing .

“Irasshai~mase, welcome to Purosu-tei!”

An apron wearing woman greeted me .

“What would you like to have?”

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“Err…”

I looked at the inside of the store .

There was the menu, but it looked gibberish and I don’t understand it at all .

“I’m not quite sure, do you have anything that you can recommend to me?”

“Customer, are you a traveler?”

“Do I look like one? Actually I’ve recently arrived here so I am thinking to stay here for a while . ”

“I see . Then how about a mountain cow fried rice? It’s a famous speciality of this city where the cow meat and rice are cooked producing a nice fragrance . Usually it is limited to 5 serving, but today we made more . ”

“Why did you made more for today?”

“It looks like there’s an skillful hunter that had come to this city, so procuring the meat had became stable and easier . It seems that the price for the meat had decreased for a bit . It’s a very good thing . ”

“Heh . . is that so . ”

It was a little bit funny . Probably the person that she mention was me . When it was said to me directly like that, it somehow made me feel a little bit funny .

“Well then, in that case . ”

I ordered the recommended menu .

Now that I think of it, i made my earning from hunting mountain cow . But never did once I’ve eaten the mean of mountain cow itself .

“Got it, one mountain cow fried rice . ”

“Ahh… a big serving . ”

“Okay, a big serving at that . ”

The woman left with a big smile on her face and went back inside the shop . After a bit of waiting, she came big with a big plate filled with fried rice .

“Sorry for making you wait . ”

“Whoa… it looked really delicious . By the way how much does it cost?”

“It would be 10 copper coins . ”

“How about this one…”

As I don’t have anything like copper coin, I pulled out one silver coin and put it on the table .

“Silver coin huh?”

“Is it not enough?”

“No no no . It’s the opposite actually . I’m wonder if we have enough change to pay you back . ”

“Oh you don’t have enough change?”

It seems that they don’t have enough small change, it happens a lot in convenient store too .

“Well then, with the remaining amount of money, please bring me another recommended dish that you have . ”

“Is it okay?”

“Bring me the delicious one . ”

Saying so, once again the woman smiled brightly . She took the silver coin and went back to the shop .

I ate the fried rice .

“DELICIOUS!!!”

Though being only a recommendation, it was amazingly delicious . Somehow it got a nostalgic taste to it, restaurant . No, it got a homely taste to it . When I think of it, the cow meat that they used were really soft and juicy . The moment I bit into it, the umami inside the meat juice was spread out, filling my mouth .

I wolfed down the food greedily . . As it was really delicious, I finished eating it in no time . Now then, the next recommended dish would come . If it’s something that as delicious as this, I’d like to request for the cow meat to be in separated .

It was such time when I suddenly thought about something .

“It’s bad to save up even more copper coin in this city . ”

With my strengthened hearing sense, my ears caught on something suspicious .

Connecting it with the small change matter earlier, I focus my consciousness at the direction of the voice .