Maou no Hajimekata Volume 2 Interlude 3 Part 4
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Translator: Jay_Samuel, Editor: Krizzeir
Interlude: We Equally Privileged Heroines, Part 4
「Then, I’ll teach you how to cook」
「Yes! 」
Belle replied with a somewhat nervous expression to the head maid, Reuel’s personal proposal.
She is a woman who gives a graceful impression, with a silver hair that extends all the way to her waist.
Her eyes are always raised with a smile, and she always speaks in a gentle tone, and never for once have Belle seen her raise her voice, or met her in a bad mood.
In spite of all that, Belle feels that Reuel is the scariest of all the maids.
「Is cooking, not an important task?」
And suddenly, Belle asked what she was curious about.
「Because all the seniors thus far, everyone of them, claimed that their job was the most important of all」
Reuel laughed and giggled at Belle’s words.
「That’s true. It’s not a lie. Each and every task is very important……Everyone takes pride in their tasks as they work」
Despite saying that in a gentle tone, Reuel’s hands were moving like that of an entirely different living creature as she makes preparations for cooking.
「Of course, cooking is also very important. Especially the Demon Lord, who is very particular about his food」
While she was saying such things, she finished the preliminary arrangements in a flash.
Belle is also confident in her cooking, but she could tell she doesn’t stand a chance against that meritorious finesse.
But, the reason Belle fears her, of course doesn’t lie there.
「A, amazing……」
「If Ms. Belle too was responsible for this task for a decade, you will also be able to do this much」
「A decade, you say……」
A decade. Belle murmured those words, with a complicated expression.
「Oh yes」
While capturing that expression with the edge of her sight, Reuel said that.
「I apologize, for the strange things Ms. Lasara said」
Belle’s heart leaped shockingly at the sudden change of topic.
「No, it didn’t bother me. Well, I also think of myself as suspicious so……」
「That’s true. It is not a likely occurrence that we get a maid recruit who can use sorcery and also possesses combat skills unless she is an assassin」
Bell nodded. She was already well aware that she will be seen through as such.
「But I swear to you, bearing malice towards Lord Aur is……」
「Of course, I already know that」
Reuel nodded without folding her smile.
「But please don’t tell me they sent an assassin who has never killed anyone before」
「How did you know that?」
Belle’s combat skills is one that was polished through pure assiduous training.
Even if she has faced off against a magic beast before, she has never killed a person before.
「Probably because I’m an ex-assassin」
Towards Reuel who said so without hesitation, Belle was convinced before being surprised.
In terms of pure physical strength, Reuel probably doesn’t come close to Lasara much less Johanne.
However, she is overwhelmingly scary.
Before you notice her, she is already within your proximity.
You won’t be able to notice that she has already closed in on you, and even after noticing, you will not be wary of that smiling face.
For this reason, she is scarier than anyone else.
「I was actually sent to assassinate Lord Aur, but I failed so easily. Since then, I have been working here in anticipation of poisoning him through cooking, and before I knew it I became the head maid」
Reuel was laughing while stirring the pot, seeing that Belle was troubled as to how to react.
Is Aur who appointed an assassin as Maid chief terrific, or is it Reuel who chose to settle as is terrific.
「That’s why. It will be alright, I’m sure. I don’t know about the circumstances that brought you here, but I am sure Ms. Belle too will proudly be able to work here」
「Yes! 」
「So in the end, what is your reason for sneaking in?」
While Sipping black tea in a bad manner, Lasara thus began to talk.
「You already had your audience with Sir Aur right?」
Even while eating baked sweets, Johanne’s eyes gleam off curiosity.
「Belle, looked so happy then」
Melia nodded while she was munching on food.
「I also want to hear about it too」
As Reuel was wiping food scraps off Melia’s cheeks, even she too said something like that.
「Errr, Please don’t laugh at me okay……」
Belle finally gave up, and began to speak.
About how Ten years ago, when Aur was in control of a neighboring village, before he became known as the Demon Lord, she became attracted to him in a form almost close to love at first sight.
How in the coming ten years, she learned and trained in various skills in order to become a maid of the Demon Lord.
How when she became old enough, the collection of the sacrifice from the village had already ended, and how she came using the agreement of 「Deliver girls every decade」from Spina and Mari’s village.
The reactions after she had finished talking about everything were different.
「For the sake of your first love, from such a young age, and ten years……that is so romantic」
Johanne seemed to have being deeply moved from her breath.
「was it Self-taught? Did your teacher not say anything about this?」
Reuel bickered on the parts that were not clear to her.
「This snacks, are sweet」
Melia doesn’t really understand so she just kept snacking on pastries.
「No, would it not have been great if you had enlisted like a normal maid. We only ended the sacrifice collection, but we still recruit?」
Lasara just threw in the most important retort.
「Umm…… If I came as a sacrifice, I was wondering I might be able to receive his affection」
Everybody present raised their voice「Aah~」all at once at Belle’s words.
「In truth, that thought process is indeed wrong, but consequently it brought about the best result」
「What do you mean?」
Belle tilted her neck in confusion at Johanne’s contradictory words.
「Demon Lord Highness may look like that, but he is not a libido fiend that violates just anyone as long as she is a woman. He is a type of libido fiend that violates anybody after properly selecting them」
「Uhmm……」
Belle was troubled as to whether to reproach Lasara’s irreverent words or inquire further about the content.
「Sacrifice requires virgins from a magical point of view, but that’s why the Demon Lord does not lay his hands on virgins quite easily. Because they will lose their worth otherwise」
「I see, I am quite convinced」
But it probably means that there are exceptions to it.
And that’s, when you are suspected of being an assassin or a spy.
It is not doubted that their biggest chance is when their skins are in contact with one other.
That’s why Aur deliberately invites them, and gets rid of them after getting proof.
「That mean I was quite fortunate. It wouldn’t have been weird if I had been disposed off as an assassin if I am unlucky」
As Belle says that, Reuel and the rest looked at each other in the face.
「Was there anyone who had been dealt with as an ex-assassin?」
「As far as I know, there is not one」
「……Are there that much, ex-assassins?」
As she asks involuntarily,
「Aren’t about three Percent ex-assassins?」
「That is a lot more than I expected! ?」
Belle shouted at the unexpected answer.
「In other words, it just shows that many number of people are Lord Aur’s……」
「Ah, the number of maids that he screws are even more than that. The ones that I am aware of alone are about six, seven percent」
「Isn’t that almost everybody! ？Then what about the talk where he doesn’t lay his hands on virgins easily?」
「I said it didn’t I. That he is the type of libido demon who violates anybody after properly selecting them」
For some reason Lasara said so proudly.
「Umm, he doesn’t really refuse us If we ask from our end so……」
Said a somewhat embarrassed Johanne.
「Gaining status by getting pregnant……or ideas like that are better of erased from your mind though. Cause the countermeasures for it are rock solid」
There was probably a maid like that in the past. Thus, Reuel casually gave the warning.
「Sex with Lord Aur, feels very incredible」
Everyone right there was silenced by Melia’s words that was said carefreely.
Perhaps, they were probably recollecting those extraordinary pleasures——just like herself.
So Belle thinks.
「But if there are so many people, it seems like it will be quite difficult to sleep with him」
「Well, about that. In the first place, we are maids, not wives or concubines」
Lasara munched on baked sweets as she makes a crunching sound.
「The ladies alone are in dozens」
Johanne murmurs in a somewhat lonely voice.
「Well, there is a way though」
While banging Melia’s shoulders, Reuel smiled sweetly.
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