The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

‘What would Lu look like with those gorgeous jewels in his ears?’

The image was so dazzling that I decided to stop imagining it.

What Lu picked from among the jewels was an earring with a pure white pearl and a smaller turquoise pearl dangling below it.

When Lu pulled on the lustrous green pearl, white sparks flew.

Crackle.

‘What a surprise.’

Soon, a long white blade was drawn out in the same direction he had pulled.

An elegant and sharp longsword that seemed impossible to have been extracted from such a small earring.

Swish. Lu lightly spun the sword once with his right hand.

It was a very brief movement, but I could tell at a glance.

‘This isn’t the skill of someone who’s only used a sword once or twice.’

He was even familiar with it. Lu carefully checked the condition of the sword’s handle and blade before putting it back into the pearl.

Then he held it out to me.

“Use it.”

“…Is it really okay for me to use this?”

“Yes.”

I was grateful he was lending it to me, but I couldn’t readily accept it. It felt like too precious a treasure.

Lu stood up abruptly and positioned himself behind me.

Without a word, he put the magical device on my right ear. No, he pierced it.

“…Ah!”

This stinging pain I felt in my earlobe.

I instinctively ran to the mirror to check my ear. The area around my earlobe where the magical device was embedded was swollen red.

‘Ah, right. This body has never worn earrings before.’

I had completely forgotten.

“Did it hurt?”

It was a strangely gentle question.

“A little.”

“Cute.”

Was saying “cute” with a completely expressionless face that showed no sense of cuteness some new form of harassment?

When I glared at him in disgust, Lu lent me two additional magical devices.

One was a luminous ring that would light the way in darkness. The other was.

“A trap disarmer. It can be used twice. It’s a consumable magical device, so throw it away after use. After a certain time passes, it turns to dust and leaves no trace.”

“…Isn’t this an incredibly expensive item?”

Lu, who had personally put the ring on my right index finger, chuckled.

“Even if a maid named Daisy Pager devoted her entire life to work, she couldn’t pay for it.”

I pretended not to hear.

Lu, who had now reached the level of pretending not to see my pretending not to hear, gestured with his chin at my lower face wrapped tightly in a winter muffler.

“You’re going like that?”

“Yeah, this is the best option. Even if I changed my face, it would be undone once I go underground.”

Earth is one of the biggest factors that impede magical sustainability.

Especially advanced magic like transformation magic is greatly affected by it, so the magic quickly dissolves when you go underground.

There was no way to maintain it unless the caster went down together.

‘But I can’t go down together with Lu.’

I planned to have Lu watch the entrance network. It was the best measure to prepare for any emergency.

“Miss Renya. Please also prepare a mask that can cover below my eyes.”

Now it was time to depart.

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‘…It’s itchy.’

I stuck my hand inside the mask to scratch my chin.

Just how long had it gone unwashed for it to be itchy the moment it touched my skin?

Enduring the musty smell creeping up, I slowly looked around.

“It’s cool.”

This was the western edge of Westwintery.

Inside the dense Summer Willow Forest, by the stream where the Milky Way flowed in winding curves.

I slowly warmed up with the sword strapped to my right waist.

It had been a really long time since I had warmed up with the intention of beating someone up with a sword.

“Mmm!”

Good. Warm-up complete.

Before going down to the Royal Treasury buried underground, I drew the pearl sword to check its condition.

Just like when I first wore the sword, no resonance could be heard.

‘I had quite high expectations. What a shame.’

Actually, I had somewhat expected this.

Resonance is a phenomenon that appears when the sword and its master’s ego become one.

There was no way I, who felt no affection or attachment whatsoever to swords as tools after the Mage War, could resonate with a sword.

I properly put on the clown mask that had been slightly raised from scratching my forehead.

“Mr. Lu, provide good cover from there. If anyone tries to enter, please stop them.”

A low laugh burst from above my head.

Lu was up in the willow tree, still wearing his black pajama robe.

Sitting on a thick branch with his back against the tree, he looked as comfortable as if he were resting in his own bedroom.

The pink slippers dangling from his large feet looked quite adorable.

‘Isn’t he cold?’

The location of the Royal Treasury was quite deep in the forest.

The forest wasn’t densely packed with trees, and the full moon and Milky Way were bright enough that there was no great difficulty in distinguishing the view.

But the cold air at the level of a transitional season evening made my hair stand on end.

Lu, who had been leisurely swinging his legs under the branch, whispered cheekily.

“What should we do since our Miss Daisy can’t do anything by herself.”

“It’s just in case, just in case. It would be a shame not to use a good weapon when I brought it.”

“Miss Daisy is the first to treat me like a tool.”

“I’m getting tired of that line now.”

“Boredom is setting in already.”

Continuing this trivial conversation, I stood in front of the waterfall.

According to the blueprint, beyond this waterfall, I would have to go through quite troublesome terrain before I could enter the Royal Treasury.

‘The best move would be to exit through this waterfall when coming out of the treasury too.’

Honestly, I wasn’t sure if it would be possible.

There were over 10 accessible routes, and more than half were traps, so I would probably have quite a hard time.

“Miss Daisy. To increase your intelligence, think of yourself as the Weatherwax Baroness. Otherwise, the probability of being trapped in the treasury and starving to death increases.”

“I understand very well what Mr. Lu thinks of me.”

Leaving Lu waving his hand lightly behind me, I stepped inside the waterfall.

Whoooosh.

When the curtain of water was drawn back, a narrow crevice in the rock was revealed. Even at a rough glance, it would be fortunate if I could breathe.

There was no room for something like a mask to exist.

“…Mm, good.”

I couldn’t die of suffocation from stubborn insistence. I threw the mask into the river and squeezed my body into the rock crevice.

40 minutes.

I caught my breath and chose a path through the rock crevice.

There was almost no space where I could walk, and it was mostly a path I had to crawl through.

I took the wrong direction in the middle, so it took twice as long.

20 minutes.

I moved through the underwater cave.

I dove for a full 15 minutes, nearly losing consciousness several times when I ran out of breath.

The ceiling was so low that opportunities to breathe were few and far between. It literally felt like swimming through darkness.

Without the luminous magic device Lu lent me, I would have developed claustrophobia.

The water was so damn cold I thought I’d freeze to death.

And the final 10 minutes.

The time it took to escape the underwater cave and reach the cliff leading to the entrance.

“Phew.”

I climbed the cliff. Indeed. This was a trial worthy of the Royal Treasury.

But I’m a maid with three months of experience.

Climbing a cliff with bare hands is nothing special.

‘I can’t come here twice.’

I don’t have the disposition to become a treasure hunter.

Rather than ruin my life with thievery, I’d rather live as a maid… Even today I remind myself how happy a maid’s life is.

So I drove my pearl sword into the wall at intervals, sat on the sturdy blade to rest, then resumed rock climbing for 30 minutes.

“Phewww.”

Finally, flat ground welcomed me.

It was nothing spectacular flat ground.

However, according to the blueprint, deep within this flat ground were iron bars positioned in all directions, with various gems stored inside each cell.

I walked through a corridor as long and wide as a temple.

Drip, drip. Except for the sound of underground water dripping and wind blowing from somewhere, only my footsteps echoed in the world.

How long had I been walking like that?

10 minutes?

30 minutes?

1 hour?

Ah, right. It definitely seemed like more than 2 hours had passed.

Around that time, I was certain I had fallen into a hallucination trap.

It was a trap not shown on the blueprint. I thought I had walked carefully and attentively…

Then.

Very suddenly, someone grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. A large hand flashed across my vision.

The moment I reflexively widened the distance and made eye contact with the owner of that hand.

I felt like my heart dropped to the floor with a thud.

“…Raphael?”

Raphael.

He was standing there.

Blond hair matted and hardened with sweat and fatigue on his forehead. Rigid lips. Broad shoulders and thick arm muscles. And relieved red eyes.

[Haa, damn it. You. You, Andert…]

He embraced me. As his familiar scent enveloped my body, I felt dizzy.

Why was Raphael suddenly here? How, wearing the uniform of the Mado Allied Forces?

How on earth… with that face from 4 years ago?

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