Volume 12 Chapter 1 Part 8
「Ehh?」
「Would you like to see it?」
Rutina’s reply suggested that she was interested in the platinum coin, so I decided to show it to her.
I took it out of the Item Box and gave it to Rutina.
It’s not a good idea to leave such an important item at home, and if I carried on myself regularly, there is always the danger of dropping it somewhere, so that’s why I decided that all the platinum coins that I will be able to obtain shall always be kept in my Item Box.
it at home, and if you carry it, there’s a danger of dropping it,
After all, it is the maximum of platinum coins that there is no choice but to put it in the item box
Although I only have one platinum coin right now, it still ended up using one entire row of the Item Box Space to be placed there.
If you exchange it for gold coins, you’d have to use two rows of the Item box space for the money you’d get from that exchange, so it’s a better deal than that.
It’s worth it, so it simply cannot be helped.
「So this is what a Platinum Coin looks like? You had something amazing like that in your possession?」
「Yeah, that’s right. Now, give me your left hand.」
「Yes.」
「Here you go.」
I made Rutina show me her left hand while asking her to return the platinum coin.
I then switched my First Job to Slave Merchant and used 「Intelligence Card Operation」.
When I looked at Rutina’s Intelligence Card, I was listed as Rutina’s owner, and she was listed as my slave. Knowing that was a huge relief.
Even if the Duke of Hartz changed his mind about Rutina becoming my slave and tried to get her back for himself, preventing him from doing that should be easy.
But since the Duke of Hartz chose to not go that far and give Rutina to me as a reward for my help with the takeover of the Earldom of Selmar, it saved me the trouble of having to go visit the Slave Merchant and going through all the necessary formalities, payment included.
「It seems that you really are someone who can do just about anything.」
「Thank you, but I am nowhere near as amazing like that. Let’s eat for now, shall we?」
Preferably before the scrambled eggs that I tried to make will become an even bigger fail than they already are.
「I agree.」
「Yes, let’s do that.」
Everyone goes to the living room while bringing the plates with the food that they prepared onto the breakfast table.
Thankfully, the scrambled eggs that I thought were a failure turned out to not be that bad after all.
「Well, it’s not as soft as I expected it to be, but it’s not as bad as I expected it to be either.」
「No, not at all, I think that it tastes great. Do you eat things like that every single day?」
「That’s right.」
「That’s amazing. You really are willing to go to such lengths to prepare such delicious food every day?」
Rutina is impressed by the food that we prepared for breakfast, but I was always under the impression that the members of the nobility would be eating much better things than we are having.
I wonder if that is yet another misconception that I had about the people who live in this world?
I also wonder if the meals that we are preparing for ourselves might not actually differ all that much from what usually only the members of the nobility are able to eat?
Come to think of it, I’ve been invited to the dinner party hosted by the Duke of Hartz recently, and the food that his servants were serving there was really good. Now, if I was actually skimping on food expenses as much as possible and didn’t spoil the girls with allowing them to each such quality food on a daily basis, would iy be possible for them to start disliking me, allowing the Duke of Hartz to score some major affection points with them instead?
As expected of the Duke of Hartz. I need to keep being alert of him at all times.
He must have been thinking that this would be a good strategy to sway Roxanne over to his side.
I can’t show even a single gap in my defenses whenever I am around him, it seems.
「Fish, eat, let’s go, desu!」
I see. A good meal for Miria seems to be something that comes with fish, or rather, I should probably say that in Miria’s case, as long as the meal has fish in it, she doesn’t care about anything else.
What she said just now was not only an encouragement for Rutina to eat it, but it was also an indicator that she wants to eat it herself, I think.
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Well, she often shares the fish that she prepared with Miria and Vesta, so one more person shouldn’t make that much of a difference to her, because even if I get my hands on the fish from time to time, she is not giving me any sort of looks that could e described as malicious or resentful.
「Fish, is it?」
「Stirred fish, desu!」
Make sure that you won’t forget about the freshly prepared tartar sauce of our own making.
「I see. Well if you say that you want it so badly, then maybe we should go and make some fish fry for dinner tomorrow night.」
「Eat it, desu!」
Like I thought, it’s all about you wanting to eat it after all, isn’t it?
「Well, nowadays we’re often serving fish-based dishes for dinner, so my advice to Rutina is that you should try to get used to it as quickly as possible, okay?」
「Yes. When it comes to food, I do not have any particular likes or dislikes.」
「It’s amazing, desu!」
No, Miria, you’re the amazing one here. Rutina only said she isn’t a picky eater, which means that she doesn’t dislike fish, but also that she doesn’t particularly like it either.
The way I see it, Rutina is also amazing for not being picky about the things she eats despite receiving noble upbringing her entire life. I she really a lady hailing from a noble family?
She doesn’t seem to have any specific likes or dislikes when it comes food because the members of the upper classes are all well brought up since the early years of their lives.
On the contrary, the lower classes are probably the ones that are considered as the ones that cannot live without being picky eaters that do nothing but complaining about everything that they eat and eating whatever they want anyway.
Is having likes and dislikes and being picky about your food something that was common in the past, or is it a problem that is exclusive to the modern-day world where we are all living in the age of satiety where we have access to virtually anything we might ever desire?
「By the way, do you have any thought or plans on how you are planning to subjugate your first Labyrinth?」
「How do I plan to subjugate it?」
「Yes. If you manage to subjugate a Labyrinth, then as a reward you are going to be awarded the title of a noble. And since you are currently fighting on the 44th floor, then I think it is about time for you to start thinking about such matters.」
Even though we just started eating, Rutina was rushing me to think about some serious things. Well, maybe it was precisely because we were eating.
It seems that in this world you can become a noble if you manage to subjugate the Labyrinth. The Duke of Hartz even teased Rutina by saying that I have so much potential that I am going to achieve just that sooner rather than later.
Can’t we just eat this delicious food without thinking about it too much?
「No. For the time being, we decided not to go to the higher floors, since right now we might still not be completely ready to challenge the floors from 45th and above.」
「I understand where you are coming from, but based on what I have seen today, your Party seems like it is more than ready to challenge the higher floors.」
「Yes. Master should be perfectly able to go to the upper floors of the Labyrinths soon.」
Rutina, please don’t say anything too weird that might end up encouraging Roxanne even more, okay?
「However, even if you subjugate the Labyrinth in the existing noble’s territory, you will not become a noble. The labyrinth where you can become a noble have been neglected for years, and naturally grew more than 50 floors, so subjugating them won’t be that easy.」
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