The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 257

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Part 2, Chapter 55

As if she hadn’t expected me to ask about the Sword Master himself, Ricky blinked with a dazed expression before frantically waving her hands.

“No! You two have similarities but are also very different. Um, if you’ve met Yeonwang, you’d know that he’s very intimate with ordinary citizens. The fact that his trademark pink hair represents his spirit of sacrifice too.”

Michèle muttered.

“Tsk. What spirit of sacrifice for a highly evolved attention seeker. How excessive.”

“…The, the Sword Master may have low intimacy with the public, but he’s an extremely professional person. Even when we make somewhat unreasonable requests, he always succeeds without great danger.”

Michèle muttered.

“That guy succeeded big at a young age, so he’s fearless and somewhat unlucky too.”

Ricky, who had been watching my reaction, puffed out her breath with a reddened face.

“Un, unlucky is the same for you, Senior! Being forced to attend Legion personality correction classes every year!”

“What? This one’s gotten cocky now that she’s grown up…”

“Now that you know about the Sword Master, you should know about the Sword Master party too, Sir Pager!”

A fourth set of characters appeared on the airship’s inner wall.

【4th Party: Sword Master Party Members】

Sword Master

Kwaegeom Jin

Golden Mage

Jewelry Fire Royal Flower

Guild Support: Gray’s Spire

The Sword Master party.

I see familiar names, and names that seem exhausting just to look at.

I casually asked Michèle.

“How’s that friend Kwaegeom Jin?”

“…Kwaegeom Jin, you mean?”

“Yeah. Michèle’s evaluation was quite cynical, so I wondered how you view Jin.”

The confusion was brief. Michèle’s eyes suddenly sharpened.

“When I first saw him, I thought his shoulders would pierce the sky since he was a disciple of that famous Swordmaster. But contrary to expectations, he was very easygoing.”

This friend has good judgment.

“Aside from being a bit clueless, I don’t see anything particularly criticizable about his abilities or character.”

Of course, of course.

“He doesn’t struggle for recognition with self-esteem that’s drilled through the basement like Yeonwang. Nor does he treat human lives like fly lives like Black Mask.”

Naturally, you can’t compare him to Jin.

“I think he’s the reason the trashy Sword Master party manages to maintain its form.”

Right, right…

…

One troubling description remained in my heart.

“The Sword Master party is trash?”

Ricky, with a fed-up expression, widened her eyes and waved her hands.

“What? No, no! How could that be! The Sword Master party is truly one of the world’s greatest parties…”

“It’s trash.”

“Absolutely not…”

“Trash.”

“…”

This is worrying.

Ricky’s firm assertion is gradually losing strength. As if she can’t conscientiously object to the evaluation of trash…

“Since Sir Andert Pager is currently in a mentally weakened state, I’ll warn you in advance.”

Michèle, who had taken the spoon from Ricky, manipulated the magical device in various directions.

As various faces flashed across the wall, Michèle stopped at one mage’s photo.

“This is Jewelry Fire Royal Flower.”

The next was also a mage’s photo.

“This is the Golden Mage. I recommend staying as far away from these two as possible.”

The third was Jin’s photo.

“Stay close to this one if possible.”

I was planning to do that anyway without being told.

And the fourth photo.

“This is the Sword Master. The Sword Master is more decent compared to the first two, but he’s an unpredictable person, so you shouldn’t rely on him too much.”

“…”

“…I think I moved through the screen too quickly. Let me show you Jewelry Fire Royal Flower again.”

“No, that’s fine.”

I gestured with my chin toward the Sword Master in the photo.

“This one is the Sword Master?”

“Yes.”

Right, that’s what you’re saying.

As I stared at the Sword Master’s face, laughter came naturally. Really, truly, how very surprising?

‘This guy… is the best among the three excluding Jin.’

It was absurd.

It was natural. The identity of the magic swordsman I met at Trash Hill. He was the Sword Master.

‘Impressive guy. To grow up in a remote place like Trash Hill and become a promising inspector.’

Even so, the opponent is a Black Knight who hasn’t escaped the possibility of complete assimilation.

In wartime, he’s like a time bomb.

“Is there anything else you’re curious about?”

Perhaps because of his Black Knight characteristics. I was curious about the person called the Sword Master, but I shook my head.

“It’s fine, this is enough. Thank you.”

Just seeing that guy’s face gave me a sense of what kind of party it would be.

The last question I asked Ricky was about the time remaining until landing, and she answered five hours.

It turned out this airship was a supply ship for Corpinium Base, so it was large and relatively slow.

Perhaps because Lu wasn’t beside me.

The feeling of being alone again was strange.

If Lu had been in the seat next to me, what would he have said? Would he have told me to get some sleep, even briefly?

Since my human days, I’ve always been a light sleeper who needed little sleep, but strangely, when I lay down with Lu, I slept like I’d fainted.

It must be because my body unconsciously recognizes that his side is the safest place.

Since I only show such weak sides, Lu definitely gets angry over something as small as sacrificing an arm. I need to show a more reliable side for him to trust me.

‘…No, this is a slightly different matter from trust.’

Just because I trust Lu, when he said he would sleep for 20 years as the price for turning back 100 years of time.

Could I support his choice?

‘Absolutely not! 20 years isn’t time that passes in the blink of an eye!’

But the lost arm will return quickly. Of course, using the power of blooming might make me antagonistic toward Lu like before.

That much would be quickly resolved by returning to the Land of Death.

“I don’t want to lose a single hair of yours. Naturally… this white hand too.”

Lu seems to be disgusted by me getting hurt.

Well, it’s not strange. I don’t want to get hurt either. But aren’t there things that end easily only if you get hurt a little?

Lu also used the power of blooming excessively to deal with Rien and became a stone…

‘…Ah.’

Right.

Lu had become a stone.

I sighed as I recalled the matter I had completely forgotten for the past few days.

‘I need to ask what kind of problem occurred with Lu’s body.’

My stupid body had fallen asleep and forgotten about it like it was someone else’s business after waking up.

Meanwhile, Lu returned from being a stone and immediately transformed into a country girl to prevent me from becoming Spollia’s hundredth child production machine.

Lu always feels like he’s cleaning up after me.

Right, so I might look even more vulnerable. Taking care of someone ultimately means protecting them, after all.

I couldn’t deny the self-questioning of whether I was living too recklessly. And for good reason—until now, there had been absolutely no reason to live delicately, had there?

‘But that’s too much of a solitary way of living. If I decided to be with Lu, I should at least find a compromise between us…’

Just then.

Through the gaps in the mechanical noise, I heard Ash’s small muttering.

I brought my ear close to Ash’s small head that was peeking out from the bag.

[Daisy… danger.]

“What did you say, Ash?”

The beast’s golden eyes flashed sharply.

[Daisy, run away.]

KWAAAAANG-!

Everything flashed before my eyes.

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