Chapter 149 – Chapter 12 – A Passing Maid
If we leave these women here as they are, we won’t be able to eat porridge or rice.
Each one has a strong personality, I will correct it. They are people with strong personalities who can’t be beaten.
She’s just an innocent woman who doesn’t know what to do in front of Klaus. She’s Natasha, Caella, or even Cecily. She has the title of the youngest daughter of the Le Blanc family’s magical genius.
If they all gather in one place, of course, everything creaking will be clearly visible.
Peace talks between women? Right in front of my eyes, there is a strange maid standing next to Klaus, as if wagging her tail. Where is the time to think about that?
If there seems to be a gap, they will just prepare to snatch the opportunity by flying in faster than anyone else.
“Would you like a cup of tea?”
Planche, who could be said to be the cause, was just doing all the maid’s work, walking around among the women sitting in the seat, not caring.
To tell the truth, it was Klaus who provided the cause, not her, so it was not at all incomprehensible that she was confident.
At any rate, I was thinking that I should send all these women out soon.
Immediately after knocking, the door opens and Klaus’ official ‘goddess’ enters.
“I’m here. Because it was the exam period, I ended it early… What. Are you all here? What’s going on?”
It was the appearance of Demon King who felt more relaxed than other women.
Julia tilted her head and glanced at Planche, as if she had immediately grasped her mood.
Although she still holds on to her expressionless face, Yulia caught a glimpse that somehow, unknowingly, she was smiling at her.
At that time, Klaus nodded slightly to Yulia.
She means that she wants to come out with me because she is too lazy to let her go.
Her quick-witted Julia, instead of taking her seat, approached Caella, who was staring at Planche with her fierce gaze.
“Teacher Kayla. There is something I would like you to help me with regarding the midterm exam. I think you can attack me in an appropriate line while I turn my magic.”
“… Cadet Julia. I don’t know the right line.”
“Isn’t it possible if you don’t get seriously hurt?”
“…”
“And Natasha, soon we have another lecture. Are you still going to stay here? It’s good to show enthusiasm for the combat magic lecture, but it’ll be good to pass other tests.”
Natasha, who was sitting quietly, flinched when Klaus showed an aura of sympathy with Yulia’s words, saying, ‘That’s right, that’s right’! She does and she shudders.
Come to think of it, she thinks of herself as she was too focused on Klaus’ lecture and neglected other lectures.
She thought she only needed to get a solid grade in the battle magic class, but she couldn’t believe she cared about her test results in other lectures.
“Assistant Kayla. Go and help Julia. I wonder if cadet Natasha could follow along and do some training together before entering the lecture with cadet Yulia.”
“… Yes. I guess that would be good.”
“I will do the same, Professor.”
It wouldn’t have worked well with Klaus alone.
However, Yulia, who is destined to be the first in name and reality, comes and cleans things up quickly, so the other women immediately agree and get up from her seats.
However, one woman whose name has not yet been called is very hesitant.
As Cecily looked at her here and there, she wondered what she should do.
I was examining the situation to see if I should follow her or if I should wait here.
“Cadet Cecily Leblanc.”
Naturally, Klaus didn’t forget her and took care of her.
All the other women had hugged her at least once, and since Cecily had never been properly stroked, she intended to touch her properly before the midterm exam.
That way, she would look perfect in her midterm exams, and by doing so, she would raise Cecily’s value for her name, and then she planned to spread further rumors that she was getting along with Yulia.
“The day before the exam, I will check it myself. As for cadet Cecily, she sparred with me, so even if she said she would take care of it herself, the other cadets wouldn’t be dissatisfied.”
“Ahhh…”
“Do you understand, Cadet Cecily? I will check on Thursday.”
“Yes Yes! All right! I will keep waiting even from dawn to night!!”
It’s not empty talk, that’s real.
In fact, Cecily had been up since Thursday morning, and she had been waiting for Klaus to come.
Yulia, Natasha, and Caella were by no means ordinary women, but it could be said that there was no one who could surpass Cecily in the part where about a dozen screws were missing.
After Yulia came, the atmosphere that had been so uptight was relieved.
Starting with Cecily, who quickly disappears, Kayla and Natasha all leave Klaus’s room.
Julia, who was about to lead them out for the last time, calmly looked at Planche standing next to Klaus, and let out a rhyme with the words, “I don’t think so.”
“I don’t think so, but I’m just saying it once in a while. Maid Planche.”
“…”
“I can’t help but get angry as a hirer for your employer if you do something that doesn’t suit you as a maid. Don’t neglect the maid’s work. You know what I mean?”
“… Yeah.”
“You seem quite clever, no, like a maid, so I’m sure you understand what I mean.”
In a word, don’t do nonsense and faithfully do your maid duties.
Klaus himself would know best what the nonsense we are talking about here is.
Yulia helped her Klaus and at the same time secured enough legitimacy to blow off her warning, so it could be said that the situation was in her favor.
Planche gave a small answer in the sense that he would freeze, then bent down.
At that, Yulia gave a satisfied smile and finally disappeared from her room with everyone.
Thud-.
“…”
Planche was looking at the door where the demon king disappeared.
Then, he secretly checks the coffee cup on Klaus’s desk and opens his mouth.
“Do you need more coffee?”
“Thank you for brewing another cup. Oh no. Not one, but two, please.”
“Okay, Klaus.”
In the past, Klaus himself would have brewed and drank coffee himself.
But now there is a maid who boasts very good job skills, so there is no need for that.
In addition to simply working there, they compete for first or second place in other areas as well.
“Excuse me.”
Planche brings two cups of steaming coffee on a tray.
One of them is put down in front of Klaus, and the empty glass is put on the tray.
Then, when Klaus finished that glass, he seemed to be thinking of serving another glass.
“That one is yours, Planche.”
“… ?”
“I told you to prepare that coffee for you to drink.”
“…”
“I want you to put the tray down on the table and sit down while drinking it and listen to me.”
Planche looked at Klaus for a while and then nodded slowly.
Planche puts a tray with two glasses on the table and sits where the women who were looking at him a moment ago were sitting.
Horok, she drank a cup of coffee, and as if she was ready to listen to Klaus, she sat still with her straight posture again.
Klaus looked at the silver-haired maid sitting in front of me for a while.
He took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, and opened his mouth in a coy tone.
“Flanche.”
“… Yeah.”
“You know who I am?”
“… This is Klaus.”
“More details.”
“… He is the new hire of me.”
“Don’t do that. The three siblings must have talked a lot about me while living in the Palatinat.”
“…”
“Is that really all you know about me?”
A question from Klaus, whose intention is completely unknown.
Then, after looking at him for a moment, Planche slowly parted his lips, and soon began to show a scene that no one in the Palatine had dared to imagine.
“Klaus, a human male in his early to mid thirties. Little is known about his life before the war. He is expected to live the same life as any other normal human being. After that, he started as an ordinary soldier in the Continental War that broke out 12 years ago, and with great achievements, he rose to the position of Southern Commander as a commoner. The demons gave him the nickname Southern Devil for fear and reverence, and even now, long after the Continental War ended, Klaus is highly evaluated. He won at least 23 great victories in at least 23 battles during the seven-year war, and if you count other battles, he won more than 48 large and small battles for the human side. He repulsed the demons’ all-out offensive three times, inflicting great human and material damage on the eastern demons. As a result, the demons who could no longer repair the damage proposed a ceasefire negotiation. Due to the post-war aristocracy’s checks and because he did not show himself jumping into political strife, he was on probation for a while after returning the commander’s position, and it was recently confirmed that he was a professor at the Continental Academy. Strangely, he had not only human soldiers under his command, but also some fairies and beastmen, and because of that…”
“Stop, until there.”
I felt like if I left it like this for a while, I’d say it until dawn.
At Klaus’ restraint, Planche politely bowed his head.
“You say you’re a maid, but you know quite a bit.”
“… It’s just a summary of the stories I heard while working in the Palatinat estate.”
Klaus snorted at Planche’s concise answer.
No matter how ardent followers the Palatinath siblings were, they were crazy about him.
There are absolutely no people who can talk about such things every day in front of a maid.
And when it comes to maids, they are people who are distracted by just being faithful to their work.
It was said that there was no reason to concentrate so much on memorizing even the most detailed parts as if reciting a script.
“Maids don’t care about that. I don’t know if it’s during the Continental War. At the point where five years have passed, the heroes of the Continental War are now at the level of past glory or battlefield specters.”
“…”
“By the way, you memorize me like that without getting a single misspell or missing a word, right? If I feel suspicious about it, is it wrong or right?”
“…”
Planche was silent for a while.
In the silence that lasted for quite a long time, the maid and her employer were facing each other, creating an atmosphere as if they were about to engage in a life-or-death duel.
“… Actually.”
Then, finally, the silver-haired maid quietly brings her words out.
She was still holding on to that expressionless face, but judging by the subtle smile on her lips, it seemed that she was in a very good mood.
“Actually, Mr. Klaus. I know you very well. And, I also didn’t know. So I wanted to meet you.”
“You wanted to meet me? For what reason are you, the maid of the Palatinath?”
“I do not know. No, maybe it’s just that there is no reason at all.”
“No reason?”
It’s an absurd and absurd answer.
I wanted to meet you, but you said you didn’t know why, but now it seems like there’s no reason at all.
Planche continued with a very polite demeanor and voice to what the listener might think was nonsense.
“That’s right. Literally, just for no reason, from the moment I heard your name, I just thought you were someone I must meet someday.”
