The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49

I was about to ask if it was okay for others to touch your body like that, but I held back. You must have been fine with it since you let it happen.

“Mi? What’s that ‘mi’? Is it aegyo?”

“Mi means ‘are you crazy?’ or ‘crazy bastard.’ It’s a new abbreviation I came up with because I got tired of asking Lu if he’s crazy. It’s absolutely not aegyo or anything like that. Got it, mi?”

“Aha, how creative. Though I still can’t tell how it’s different from aegyo.”

“Mi?”

Lu tilted his head at an angle and looked at me with a sneer.

Yeah, that’s your smile. I passed by him feeling much more at peace.

I saw a large bed on one side of the small aerial greenhouse.

Mi? A bed in the forest? It was such a fairy-tale-like scene that I unconsciously ran toward it and threw myself onto it.

Oh my goodness.

“Mi?”

Have you ever seen such an insanely cozy bed? How can it be this comfortable?

I couldn’t continue speaking, overwhelmed by the sensation that gently embraced my back, waist, and hips.

Lu, who had slowly followed with his long legs swaying, looked at me rolling around on the bed with a mysterious gaze.

It was quite an unpleasant look. I glared at Lu while burying my face in the soft pillow.

“What? If you have something to say, say it.”

Lu had a face that said he had no such thing. As if.

“You were just thinking something while looking at me, weren’t you?”

“…Ah, thinking. I did think something. I was thinking it’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone else lying on my bed.”

Hmm.

“Ahem.”

I quietly got up and headed to the sofa positioned next to the bed.

The sofa was only called a sofa, but it was as wide and high as the bed I use. I sat on the sofa as if nothing had happened.

‘I acted too naturally as if it were my bed. Now that we’re done pretending to be married, let’s keep our distance again.’

I expected Lu to tease me saying ‘Did you want to share a bed with me that badly? Ah, you’re trying to undress me on the bed, right? Come on, undress me,’ but he obediently sat across from me.

However, my psychological discomfort increased because Lu was only wearing pants on his bare body.

It was even more awkward because despite being a mage, he had a perfect body like a warrior who had devoted five years to swordsmanship.

I pretended to look around the greenhouse and asked.

“Lu. Is Kalerpa your real name?”

The answer was surprisingly straightforward.

“No.”

Then what does Kalerpa mean? I was about to ask that when.

Formal footsteps approached, trampling the grass.

The person who appeared from beyond the small ash tree was a dark-haired man wearing ordinary modern clothing, unlike the others I had seen so far.

‘An inspector.’

I looked at the long sword hanging at the man’s waist.

I couldn’t hear any resonance.

Judging by his posture and presence, his skills weren’t mediocre.

That meant he was probably a swordsman skilled enough to hide his resonance.

The man began speaking in quite fluent Imperial language.

“It’s been a long time, Kalerpa. I heard you drove away the Senyots. I came to serve you instead.”

The dark-haired inspector who stood up looked at Lu with a cautious gaze.

No, he ‘only’ looked at Lu.

Just like those perverts earlier. Do I appear invisible to the foreigners on this airship?

“You haven’t finished changing clothes. I’ll help you.”

The dark-haired inspector who said that put his sword down on the ground and approached Lu.

The man knelt on one knee in front of Lu, then gently grabbed Lu’s pants hem with smooth movements. Then he slowly began to pull down the pants and—euheuaaak.

“Stop!”

These perverted bastards have no common sense.

At my desperate cry, the dark-haired inspector turned around. With highly alert eyes, he placed his hand on the sword hilt, looking ready to cut my throat at any moment.

‘But this guy is different from the perverts earlier.’

For this inspector, the act of undre… undressing Lu seemed more like work or duty. The foreigners on this airship are strange in many ways.

‘Even doing the same action, some have unpleasant intentions while others only have a sense of duty.’

Physical conversation should only be used with perverts and trash.

I tried dialogue like a modern person.

“Hello.”

The other person’s wariness didn’t ease at all.

Someone who could speak Imperial couldn’t have failed to understand ‘hello.’ I spoke Imperial clearly word by word to accommodate the foreigner.

“I am Daisy Pager. I am Kalerpa’s work colleague. Kalerpa needs clothes to put on, not clothes to take off.”

The man’s face went blank for a moment. He looked at Lu and asked.

“Kalerpa, this person is…”

Lu answered indifferently.

“Didn’t you hear? A work colleague.”

“A work colleague… you say?”

At the question that could have been either a sigh or exclamation, I furrowed my brow. Does he not understand ‘work colleague’ because he’s a foreigner?

Well, that’s not important information anyway. I pointed at Lu and continued seriously.

“Kalerpa needs clothes.”

The dark-haired inspector looked at me again. It was the look one gives a crazy person. This bastard knows the word ‘changing clothes’ in Imperial but doesn’t know ‘clothes’?

“Kalerpa needs clothes.”

“…”

“Clothes! This thing. Like what I’m wearing. Kalerpa needs clothes.”

Perhaps finding my appearance amusing as I communicated with the foreigner through gestures, Lu chuckled lowly and gestured to the man.

“What are you doing? Bring clothes to wear. She keeps whining.”

“…Yes, understood.”

The dark-haired inspector bowed his head with a dubious expression and left the greenhouse.

‘What’s this, he understood but why was he acting so sluggishly?’

Anyway, maybe because they’re Lu’s acquaintances, there’s nothing I like about any of them.

But I’m in a position where I’m getting a ride on the airship.

I managed to get Lu clothes in the end, and he’s not a pervert, so let’s behave quietly.

I carefully examined the greenhouse of the airship, which was like a collection of modern magical studies.

No matter how high-purity, large quantities of refined stones were loaded, maintaining this level of complex ecosystem inside an airship on a long journey was nearly impossible.

‘Don’t tell me all thirty of those people are mages?’

Or perhaps the magical studies of the Northern Continental Union far exceed the level of the Empire’s magical studies?

“First time seeing a place like this?”

As if he had been watching me look around the whole time, Lu asked in a somewhat languid voice.

“Yeah.”

“I’ll only take one question, so use your head well.”

Suddenly?

I looked at Lu with suspicious eyes. No, I started to look but stopped.

His chest was so magnificently handsome that I couldn’t bear to look at it. I saw men’s naked bodies every day in the military, so why am I feeling uncomfortable now?

“…Any question is fine?”

“As if.”

I slowly chose a question in my head.

The best would be asking about Lu’s purpose or identity.

But if I asked that, he’d definitely answer ‘How greedy to ask such a question, trying to get something for nothing when you haven’t even bloomed?’

Let’s choose something moderately safe.

“How old are you, Lu?”

Meanwhile, Lu was being attended to by the inspector and putting on clothes.

The garment he wore lightly like an overcoat was a traditional coat style in a blue slightly darker than Lu’s hair, with ornate silver embroidery.

Wearing those fluttering clothes made him look like a completely different person. The arrogant and haughty appearance suited Lu perfectly.

Lu, who had been quietly stroking his chin as if lost in thought, asked the dark-haired inspector.

“How old was I again?”

The man answered casually.

“You turned 179 this year.”

…What?

“Already? Hmm. Just drop the last digit and think of it as roughly seventeen years old, Miss Daisy.”

How is that supposed to work?

‘I had my suspicions since he mentioned being acquainted with Dian Cecht, but 179 years old? Is that even possible?’

The problem was that it didn’t sound like a lie. Obviously, no ordinary human could live for 179 years.

‘Either he extended his life with powerful magical artifacts, or he achieved enlightenment at the level of a Sword Master. It has to be one of those.’

I let out a pure exclamation of admiration while examining Lu’s face. It was hard to believe this was the appearance of a grandfather approaching 200 years old.

“Mr. Lu is… older than I thought.”

The dark-haired man looked startled at my words and turned to Lu. Lu nodded casually.

“That’s right.”

“You’re incredibly old.”

The dark-haired man looked half-angry at my words and turned to Lu. Lu offered me a casual apology.

“Sorry about that.”

“I’ll treat you with a bit more respect for your age from now on.”

“Oh, that would be so appreciated I might just die.”

“Please don’t actually die though.”

After that, I fell asleep for a very brief moment.

I thought I had just lightly closed my eyes like taking a nap, but when I opened them, the outside was pitch-black darkness. Moreover, just like before, I found myself lying on a bed again today.

“Ugh.”

When I’m with Lu, I strangely fall asleep easily.

Right after stretching long, Lu took me outside the greenhouse.

The airship was already docked at Midwintry High-Speed Airship Station. Could they have been waiting until I woke up?

Officer Thomas, who guided us to the ground, knelt and bowed to Lu.

“I’ll see you next time. Stay healthy, Kalerpa.”

With his farewell as the last, we left Midwintry High-Speed Airship Station. After a long ordeal, I had finally returned home.

There’s one thing I learned from this outing.

Never again…

Never again will I leave the house.

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