chapter 183
As soon as I woke up from the dream of Isabella, the dream queen, after three days, I was able to greet a new morning that was different from the one I had so far.
The moment I opened my eyes, the person I saw in my room was not a pink-haired apprentice maid, but a black-haired senior maid.
“… tee?”
Thieh’s hand, which had been sweeping the room without a word, stopped, and at about the same time he began to turn his head toward the bed where I was.
“… young master?”
“I fell asleep for about three days… ? Today is… .”
“master! wife! miss! The Bocchan has awakened!!”
“… Tell me if it’s seven… .”
Tie, who hurried out the door without listening to my words, returned to my room shortly after with a bunch of the owners of the mansion.
Not only my father and mother, but also Cian, who was temporarily staying in our mansion, and Delfina, who I don’t know when he was in the mansion.
Seeing how they ran from the academy to the Perdalos estate in three days, the warp gate was definitely a good thing.
With a worried expression on his face, he once again showed the approaching parents that he had definitely woken up.
“Conrad, are you awake!”
“son!!”
“Here I am. As you can see, it is very fine.”
Even though it was only three days, that alone must have been enough time to make them worry.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her body, and that she had just slept for a long time, her parents finally put on a relieved expression.
“… … .”
It seems that Xian was worried about me too, but maybe he was considerate of his parents, so he just took a step back and greeted me with his eyes.
It seemed that only Delfina did not feel the atmosphere in this place.
As I found out later, it seemed that Delphina had only heard the news the night before I woke up and had just crossed the gate and arrived at the mansion at dawn.
I took the time to check my condition, but I can’t help but be dazed to see that I look better than I thought.
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Jack, the general butler, came up to me and asked me about my physical condition.
“How are you feeling?”
“I don’t feel so sore after being in bed for three days.”
“To prevent bedsores, I told the maids to change your posture every three hours. Mary and Biz, who took care of Mrs. Tanasia, were skilled.”
“Thank you, Mary. And biz.”
“Yeah.”
“thank you.”
The twin maid, who had a high level of patient care experience, calmly bowed her head to my thanks.
“Conrad.”
“Ah, Xian.”
“Why have you been sleeping for so long? I was worried.”
“… It’s a bit long to explain.”
First of all, it wasn’t something to talk about in front of the servants, so I noticed Jack and quietly signaled with my eyes.
The quick-witted general butler immediately ordered the servants to return to their seats.
“Now that the young master has woken up, everyone else should return to their respective duties. dissolution!”
match. As soon as Jack’s hands clapped together with the sound, all the employees in the crowd disappeared out of the room, and Jack also said his last goodbye before stepping out of the room.
“… Then I’ll step back too. Masters, please feel free to talk.”
When Jack finally closed the door and left, there were five people in the room, including me.
Father, mother, me, Delphina, and even Xian.
Among them, Xian was the only one who directly witnessed the existence of the Dark Church, so he hesitated a little about whether he should even tell his family about it.
It was something my family would know anyway, so I decided to explain what had happened the night before.
Already several years ago, the Dark Church had shown signs of moving here and there in the empire, and the world tree was polluted and the forest of the world tree was almost destroyed.
In addition, to solving various cases related to the Dark Church that occurred in the place where I was going.
And even the content about the fact that the Dark Church considered me a dangerous person and did this.
After hearing the whole story, the expression on the parents’ face changed somewhat seriously.
“… Is it true that the Dark Church considered you, Conrad, to be a dangerous person?”
“Perhaps. The guy I met when I was dispatched to the northern part of the country the other day seemed to already know me.”
“… Why didn’t you tell me until now?”
“It wasn’t something to talk about. After all, things about the Dark Church are dangerous, so if it was discovered that I was following the Dark Church by mistake, it would have an adverse effect on my family and territory.”
In response to my parents’ concerned questions, I calmly explained the reason for that.
“Then why are you stepping into a dangerous place while dangerously tracking the traces of the Dark Church?”
“… Sorry, it’s hard to tell you about this.”
In order to bring up this story, I would have to bring up the story that I came back after seeing a world that had once been destroyed, so it was a little awkward to talk about it, even if it was a family member.
Although there were times when I wasn’t sure if I would believe him or not when I told him to be honest.
The biggest reason was probably because of the constraints of ‘time magic’.
Why was ‘Time Magic’, which was virtually omnipotent, not handed down until now and considered impossible?
Even the time magic that brought me back to the past was not something I created after research, but the result of accidentally activating an ancient artifact I found in the Demonic Realm.
In other words, time magic itself has already been completed a long time ago.
But the reason it hasn’t been handed down until now is probably because the knowledge of time magic itself is limited.
For example, passing on the knowledge or concept of time magic itself is taboo according to the rules of the world.
In fact, looking back on the case that many of the mages who had been studying time magic had suffered a heart attack and had a short lifespan, I couldn’t carelessly mention this.
At best, in the process of completing a proper future, I didn’t want everything to go wrong with my cubic decision.
Of course, it was just a theory I made up on my own, but I wasn’t sure if it was 100% accurate knowledge.
“I can’t help it if my brother says so.”
Fortunately, Delphina, who knows how to notice, didn’t ask me deeply about the knowledge I was evasive of, and responded that she knew it in moderation and passed it on.
“Isn’t the dream horse queen who has been aiming for you, Conrad, no longer reappears?”
“Since I killed the main body hidden in my dream, it won’t reappear at least as long as I’m alive.”
If resurrected, wouldn’t it be at least 500 years later?
That was enough time to subdue the demon god Cardia.
“I’m sorry I’ve been hiding about my personal tracking of the Dark Cult until now. I did it because I thought that if I revealed it, it would only make me worry.”
“Are you saying that now, Conrad? What would you have done if something went wrong after messing with the organization in such a dangerous way? Even if it went wrong this time, wouldn’t it be impossible to wake up forever without knowing why?”
“… I have nothing to say about that, Mother.”
“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand what the hell the reason is for such a dangerous thing to do. Mom will ask you, so can you stop doing such dangerous things now?”
“… … .”
The atmosphere became solemn at the sight of my mother holding my right hand with both hands and speaking as if asking for a favor.
It’s a difficult situation where you can’t openly ignore your mother’s words, and even more so you can’t listen to what your mother says.
In this static atmosphere, it was my father who broke the silence and opened his mouth first.
“Stop it, Tanasia.”
“Dmitry… ?”
“Conrad is in trouble, Tanasia. Stop being stubborn and just go there.”
“Dmitri, aren’t you worried about Konrad? They said they would fearlessly pursue a dangerous group like the Dark Church, but of course we have to stop it!”
“It’s something Conrad will choose to the end, and it’s not something that I or Tanasia will force you to do.”
Mother, who had no words to say at father’s supporting fire, stopped talking and just stared at father quietly.
“You and I both stepped into dangerous places when we were young. On the subject of breaking off the duke’s self-restraint and ongoing engagement and participating in the war as a battle mage.”
“… It was just that I didn’t like my fiancé very much and was looking for an excuse to run away.”
“Considering that, Tanasia at that time was really enthusiastic. Even though he was a mage, he pushed the wire so far that he was isolated in the middle of enemy lines.”
“… … .”
“You, who have just risked your life recklessly like that, at least have no qualifications to stop Conrad from stepping into a dangerous place.”
Since you even mentioned the story of the war with the kingdom of Elijah, which the two of you participated in, it would be difficult for your mother to refute further.
“Did you hear that it was dried in the first place? A child born between you and me. She must have inherited the character of the count’s daughter, who participated in the war as a battle mage despite the family’s opposition.”
“… Well, even my father-in-law once said that when Dmitri said he was going to war, he would break his leg so he wouldn’t let him go. If it resembles your personality, you won’t be told to stop it.”
“My magical talent, my personality, and my calm personality. Perhaps Conrad was born with your stubbornness rather than mine.”
“I do not know. Wasn’t it your specialty to be blunt on the outside but bewitched this woman without realizing it?”
“… father, mother. Please stop now.”
I was even more ashamed of myself, not the one in charge, because I was having a love fight that I was embarrassed to show off in front of my children, even with Xian, an outside guest.
“Hmm. Anyway, Conrad. Whether you’re tracking down the Dark Church, or moving to root out the Dark Church itself. I will neither agree nor oppose.”
“… Is that so.”
“So, act according to your convictions. Just sticking to what you truly believe to be right is rewarded. … Thanks to that, I also got Tanasia, who was once like a flower on a cliff.”
“… Dmitry, what are you talking about in front of the kids?”
The place that started with me being attacked by an officer of the Dark Church eventually ended in a fuzzy way, only reaffirming the love of my father and mother.
… It was the moment when she thought that even if Delphina really became the empress, she would not have to worry about the succession of the Perdalos family.
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This morning, after being acknowledged by my father for what I am doing now, and having a little late breakfast.
I walked slowly through the mansion alone, as if patrolling.
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Jack had advised him that walking was good for rehab since he had barely gotten out of bed after four days.
I wondered how the training of the prospective servants brought from the Arwen estate was going.
I took a walk around the janitor’s room on the first floor, wondering if I would be able to meet children like Bell and Chris if I walked around the mansion leisurely.
The first apprentice maid I encountered was a pink-haired maid whom I had seen in my dreams until I got tired of it.
“No, Master Conrad! Oh, hello!”
“… … .”
He was so nervous that when he saw Linen biting his tongue and saying hello as soon as he met him after a long time, he felt his energy drain from his body in an instant.
Although Isabella did not really want a maid as perfect as Line, disguised in her dreams.
Seeing the maid making such a stupid expression all over again, it was inevitable that she would feel empty.
Yes, this is the line I know.
Line, who had been a trainee maid for seven years, was probably the kind of girl I knew.
“I didn’t seem to see you earlier in the morning. Where have you been?”
“Second, the general deacon told me not to go near the boy’s room because I shouldn’t approach the patient recklessly… .”
It’s like an exclusive maid sending her away in exile at the moment when she should be working the hardest.
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Jack’s unconventional personnel movement made me laugh out of nowhere.
“Is that really all?”
“… … Yeah?”
“As you said last time, didn’t you come to see me because you had a grudge against me?”
“Oh no! It’s true that I had bad feelings for you, but… Oh no! It’s not like that!”
“… … .”
“Anyway, not really! I was really worried that the young master wouldn’t wake up!!”
Even in the midst of this, he couldn’t fix her slip of the tongue, so he pushed her against the wall and hit her palm hard against the wall next to her face.
“hehehehe… !!”
“… … .”
“I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I was so bad at my job as a maid that I changed my position to attendant on the boy’s night?”
“… Could it be that?”
After pulling her palm, which made strange noises even in this situation, I placed two gold coins on the palm.
“Come on, Geumilbong.”
“Yes Yes?”
Anyway, the reason I was able to quickly escape from Isabella’s dream this time was because of the help of the blunder-filled apprentice maid, Line.
Even though Rinne herself didn’t do anything.
In an instant, her eyes widened as she received her four months’ salary.
“Now, wait a minute, Bocchan! If you suddenly give me this much money… !”
“Try to earn that much money next year or so, even if it’s not a daily wage.”
“S-don’t say that, take it back! It makes me scared when someone like that gives me a good expression!!”
“It’s not the money I gave you in a strange way, so just put it in.”
“I really am not?! It turned out later that it was severance pay or something like that, can’t you?!”
Leaving behind Line, who was talking nonsense until the end, he quietly smiled.
I never thought I would have thought that I was a competent maid enough to receive severance pay.
Dream big, really.