The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 255

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Part 2, Chapter 53

‘The nickname “Land of Death” couldn’t be more fitting for this scenery.’

Once a vast pasture where flocks of sheep could frolic, now a desolate desert where not a single blade of grass grows.

Four years ago, the young boy said.

It was Spolia who ruined this land that had been a sanctuary of life.

Due to his ‘purification’ activities, the residents became refugees and moved north, and even after settling on Trash Hill, some fell ill with mysterious diseases and died. Like the boy’s brother.

I walked through the Land of Death.

How many hours had I been traveling like this?

Suddenly, I stopped walking.

Standing on the cracked earth, I looked around at the barren surroundings without a single blade of grass and let out an exclamation.

“This is as far as it goes.”

This is exactly the spot.

If I take one step forward from this place, all my senses return to normal.

And if I take one step back, it feels like my five senses sprout wings and vitality fills me.

This is the feeling.

“This is the feeling, Lu.”

With a fresh face that hadn’t shed a drop of sweat, Lu responded.

“Yes, Daisy.”

“This was the feeling!”

“Right, that must be the feeling.”

“Lu, you’ve always stayed in Kalerpa with this kind of feeling!”

Lu, who had been quietly watching my reaction, stroked his chin with a smile on his lips.

“Hmm. Was it that special? I certainly felt it was different long ago, but… I can’t really feel anything particular now. Try describing how it’s different.”

A description. It was a somewhat difficult request, but I focused all my attention on the sensory changes I felt and opened my mouth.

“Like one nostril that was always blocked due to allergies suddenly clearing up?”

“Oh my. A nostril could always be blocked.”

“Like coming out of a stuffy cave and feeling the cool forest breeze.”

“I think I had a similar experience about 180 years ago.”

“Like having alcohol instead of blood flowing through my body, making me feel good!”

“Wouldn’t that be a bit dangerous?”

Anyway, I think I understood why demigods need land.

‘There was a reason that bastard Rien insisted the Southern Continent was his.’

Yes, if you feel this way day in and day out, you can’t help but develop possessiveness.

Then Spolia and that Mari-something probably each possessed such lands on the Western and Eastern Continents respectively.

Then in the end.

‘For me, the question remains whether to make Trash Hill my base or the Land of Death my base. Since I need a place to return to and rest periodically.’

Setting up in a place left with only ashes… would give me a chance to reunite with the surviving boy someday in the future when he returns to Trash Hill.

But there seemed to be no other advantages. The smell of burning is still quite strong there.

Then what if I set up in the Land of Death?

‘…Are there any advantages?’

Ah, there’s one.

No people. Not just people, but no living creatures at all.

‘But Trash Hill is equally quiet… except that place is ash, and grass is growing there…’

Good.

I’ve decided.

“I’m building my villa here!”

If I don’t like it after living there, I’ll just move.

“Setting up in a villa that no one will ever find for life is quite romantic too.”

I got Lu’s praise too. Now the problem is how to build the villa…

Just then.

Beyond the dried, cracked flat ground, I could see a building standing alone.

They said there was once a village where people lived here. But seeing only one manor standing alone, it didn’t seem to be traces of the village.

After cutting through the dry wind and arriving in front of the manor, I could see a wooden sign posted inside the wide-open main gate.

【For Sale at 30% 50% 70% 90% Discount】

What? This perfectly fine-looking manor is being sold at a shocking 90% discount?

Good heavens.

“What crazy luck is this? Just when I need a villa, such a cheap property appears right away?”

After sweeping the dust off the sign with my finger, Lu smiled wistfully.

“I like how you’re always positive and unshaken anywhere, anytime, Daisy.”

Oh… come on.

Creak-

I immediately entered the interior of the manor.

The two-story structure was the same as Weatherwax Manor, but the interior was different.

Large manors in Pen Rota usually have a structure where you see the hall immediately upon entering the foyer, with stairs in the center and corridors leading to various rooms on the left and right sides.

However, this manor had the foyer positioned on the right side of the building, the hall was very small, and the stairs were spiral-shaped.

Instead, the drawing room on the left was as large as the hall. The rooms were fewer in number but all quite spacious, and the second floor had many auxiliary spaces like a study and warehouse.

Basic furniture like beds, desks, dining tables, and chairs were arranged, but

“Cleaning will take quite a while.”

It’s incredibly dirty.

But the garden is large. Though everything has been dried up and dead for a long time.

Looking from outside, the building is somewhat deteriorated. It looks like it needs repair work. I lowered a bucket into the well located behind the manor.

“The water is… well, seems drinkable.”

It has furniture and drinking water.

Though old and needing repairs, it’s the perfect villa where I can live quietly without a single visitor.

“Such a house… at a whopping 90 percent discount!”

I returned to the wooden sign and memorized the seller’s address written below 【For Sale at 90% Discount】.

Excited, I steeled myself and severed my right wrist.

Though I failed before due to Lu’s interference, I had to learn more about my power in detail. As expected, the pain was much less in this location too.

“Lu! Look at this! My wrist! Let’s watch together what happens to my severed hand!”

Lu looked at me with disgusted eyes, but he too seemed curious about the fate of the severed hand, so he stood beside me and quietly observed the hand that had fallen to the ground.

However, contrary to expectations, the abandoned hand turned into a handful of dust and dissolved away in the wind.

“That’s disappointing. I was hoping… I could put it in a gallery for display.”

Well, if preservation were possible, that would be its own problem.

Since the heart of a god is one of the few means to surpass the fourth wall, if I ran my heart like a factory for mass production, I could gather only demigods and even establish a nation.

“You look happy, Daisy.”

Lu, who had settled on a swing chair standing alone on the desolate sand, said in passing.

“Really? Maybe it’s because this is my first time having my own house.”

Though the reality is I haven’t even purchased it yet.

“…Weatherwax Manor felt more like a borrowed house than my own house. This manor will be the very first house that’s completely my own.”

Of course, the reality is I haven’t purchased it yet.

However, there was one problem.

“When will I get to Sear God again?”

Namely, the seller of the villa resides in Sear God.

Deshero asked me to return within a month for the honorary medal ceremony, but if I go to the Wall of Fire and then visit Sear God, the timing might be quite tight.

“Should I go?”

“Lu?”

Lu, who had gotten up from the swing, answered in a low voice.

“That would be better. You go straight down to Corpinium, Daisy. Since I officially can’t join your support personnel anyway. I’ll cross the Wall of Fire separately later, so let’s meet inside.”

I watched him approach with somewhat wistful feelings.

“No. How about we go to the seller together later? Anyway, no one but me would purchase a house like this.”

“No, it looks like you’d better establish yourself in your territory as soon as possible. I’m anxious about delaying it. In many ways.”

…Did I cut my wrist for nothing.

And so, Lu and I briefly exchanged farewells in the Land of Death.

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