The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 225

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Part 2, Chapter 23

 

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I looked at the woman who stood resolutely with a reliable expression, carrying a hefty load of luggage from who knows where.

 

“Hey, you.”

 

“Please call me Deshang, True Master!”

 

“…Right, Deshang. Are you really planning to follow me?”

 

“Of course. Although I have a duty to wait for you and guard this building, now that we’ve met like this, I believe I must guide you to the Jjaga Master!”

 

“I said I can go alone. Traveling with someone I don’t know well isn’t my style.”

 

“No. I must follow and protect you. You… don’t know how many people in this dirty world have sinister and frightening thoughts!”

 

This girl says that even after being pinned down by my butt for over 30 minutes.

 

That aside…

 

‘I don’t quite understand that the assassin butler formed a guild to wait for me, rather than staging a rebellion.’

 

To consider it a ploy to deceive me, there were the facts that this woman had waited for me for half a year, and that she had devised several absurd tests to distinguish the real me.

 

The real me.

 

‘Does that mean someone impersonating me has come before?’

 

The curse placed on the guild too.

 

It seems something unpleasant happened to the Weatherwax Family while I was asleep.

 

“I just reserved VIP seats on the train to Brishuir through mail. I’ve also requested additional accommodation at the hotel where the Jjaga Master in Brishuir is staying, so please meet with him, catch up, and rest comfortably for as many days as you wish. Now, let’s go, True Master!”

 

Deshang’s enthusiastic appearance is somehow burdensome, making her terrible first impression seem meaningless.

 

“Don’t call me True Master.”

 

“Yes? Ah, you don’t like how it sounds. I understand… Master.”

 

Master is even worse.

 

If I correct everything, it’ll take all day. I borrowed a leather bag to wear at my waist, stuffed the deeply sleeping Lu inside, and left the building.

 

Since there was plenty of time until the train departure, I decided to walk to Midwintree Station instead of taking a carriage.

 

Actually, more than having time to spare, I wanted to observe the atmosphere of the market since I had returned.

 

Thinking of the merchants’ meddlesome nature, they must have been worrying about me for four years without any news.

 

Perhaps they had even fallen apart after arguing about whether they should go look for me or wait for me, unable to stop worrying.

 

Otherwise, the gazes looking at me couldn’t be so mysterious and strange. It seems they became extremely wary of outsiders after I disappeared.

 

Deshang, who had been restless like a dog needing to relieve itself, asked me.

 

“Um, Master… are you planning to continue going around looking like that? Aren’t you thinking of covering your face with a hat or mask…?”

 

Looking like that?

 

“Why? Is it strange?”

 

No, there’s no problem.

 

Just in case, I examined the clothes I was wearing, but they were ordinary without any particularly conspicuous parts. Wondering if my skin was blue, I checked the back of my hand and the inside of my top, but they were equally ordinary.

 

Suddenly, Deshang’s eyes widened (so wide that blood vessels burst in the whites), and she clenched both fists and shouted.

 

“No! How could it be strange? What crazy bastard would dare find fault with Master’s beauty? You match really well with that wonderful pet bird on your shoulder. If anyone comes to pick a fight, I’ll smash them all to pieces!”

 

“Say such things quietly in a whisper, Deshang. You’re startling the market people.”

 

“Ah! Yes.”

 

You’re over 180cm tall with considerable muscle, and you’re even carrying a bag as big as your body. If you want to keep staying in this area, maintaining good relationships with the merchants is…

 

“I say, you there.”

 

I stopped walking at the sudden call. A middle-aged man who grabbed my shoulder and turned me around asked with an extremely serious expression.

 

“By any chance… are you a descendant of the hero Andert?”

 

Suddenly the vicinity became quiet.

 

As people’s gazes focused on me, I felt an unprecedented sense of alienation. But before I could ponder the cause, Deshang blocked my way.

 

“Say something that makes sense, mister… That person had no children. Even if he had, would they already be this grown up?”

 

Deshang gently caressed her arm muscles and smiled. The man hesitated with a flustered face but persistently made eye contact with me.

 

“Then perhaps Andert Pager himself…”

 

“Just an ordinary person who looks very similar to him. I understand your surprise, but please don’t trouble my master? We’re in a hurry… Let’s go, Master!”

 

Ah.

 

‘I see. I wondered why people kept glancing around and mentioning Andert’s name.’

 

My face must have changed to look somewhat similar. I wouldn’t know since I haven’t looked in a mirror.

 

After arriving at Midwintree Station, Deshang approached the station attendant to receive the train tickets. The station attendant who handed over the train ticket made of luxurious paper and took our luggage looked back at me with a shy face and whispered.

 

“You’re really handsome.”

 

What’s that about?

 

Of course I’d be handsome. Lu has aesthetic sense, after all.

 

‘Am I drawing unusually more attention because I look somewhat like Andert?’

 

Even in the station bustling with people, piercing gazes pour down, so it’s starting to become a bit bothersome.

 

The trouble reached its peak right after boarding the train.

 

“I say!”

 

Inside the corridor of the antique VIP exclusive seating area.

 

The moment a meaningful man with a pointed beard wearing a bowler hat called out to me.

 

“You, by any chance… haven’t you lost your memory?”

 

When I ignored him and passed by, the man grabbed my arm. He rummaged through his coat with a desperate face.

 

“I’m not just saying this! Your face… looks very much like someone I know. If you’re curious about your past, please contact me later with this business card…”

 

“Hey, bowler hat. Want me to make you lose your memory too?”

 

Crack. Deshang’s joints sing and dance. I ignored the business card the man threw and ran away with, and tried to open the door to Room A6.

 

At that moment.

 

My face was reflected in the glass window.

 

Wait.

 

This face is…

 

“Hah.”

 

Right, that’s what it was… I thought there were strangely too many people spouting nonsense…

 

As soon as I sat down, I opened the bag.

 

“Lu, look at me for a moment.”

 

But no matter how much I touched his whiskers and stroked his fur, the blue cat Lu showed no signs of waking up.

 

Seeing him sleeping so soundly without any movement made me feel strange.

 

‘This is the first time like this.’

 

My intention to get angry became meaningless as anxiety sprouted.

 

I didn’t bring it up separately to Lu, but… when we reunited at Kalefa’s Glass Greenhouse. I saw a bed positioned behind the lush oak tree.

 

Seeing the somewhat disheveled bedding as if someone had just woken up, I wondered whether that bed was used by Verdandi or by Lu.

 

That’s because Lu had said he slept for two years following me just because he was bored, hadn’t he?

 

But at that time, such doubts were quickly erased from my mind when I realized that Lu had become free from balance.

 

Since he could use the power of blooming freely without restraint, there would be no need for him to take deep rest like me.

 

I definitely thought so.

 

‘But what if he really needed rest and is still pushing himself to move because of me…’

 

If the reason he’s active in this small cat form is not out of pure interest, but to replenish his strength.

 

I shook off the gloomy anxiety that dominated my mind and carefully closed the bag.

 

If Lu left Kalerpa pushing himself just to help me, then the loving repayment I can give would be to protect and care for such Lu. Though I’m annoyed that he changed me to look like this.

 

So for the time being, unless it’s something quite dangerous, I should handle things myself. Though I’m really annoyed that he changed me to look like this.

 

At that moment.

 

Creak-

 

Someone grabbed the door handle and slowly opened it.

 

Thump, thump, thump.

 

At the same time, my heart began to beat rapidly.

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