CH 9

Duke, Please Repent! chapter 9

3. Train travel with the Duke (1)

It's finally the first weekend.

In the meantime, the advisory council visited once more.

'Why do you miss the fortune teller for the first hour while you're going to fight anyway?'

Perhaps it is customary for one person to start the engine with a filibuster and the others to start punishing that person.

Serpens kindly added

According to the explanation given by Jun, do we have to compete only with pure physical ability, excluding all divine powers and magical powers?

The tools that can be used are limited to single sheets of unfiled documents, and the use of any weapons is prohibited... .

'Are you doing martial arts X sessions? No, why do the meetings have combat rules? Are you a fighting nation?'

This could no longer be called a meeting.

Seeing my absurd expression on my face, Serpens says it's okay because there are a lot of holy power holders in the field, so safety is guaranteed

gave

'Is that important? Safety is not an issue! This country is crazy!'

As I continued to stare at him with a puzzled face, Serpens spoke these words with a shy expression.

"Actually, Count Pgnuto recommended me before."

'Is there anything else you would recommend?'

"I had no choice but to participate only once "

Are you participating in it again?!'

In the end, I'm left alone...

'The massacre of civilians!!'

Ummm... it's a bit embarrassing.

Somehow, no one ever touched Serpence, so there must have been a background like this.

I guess it was just a champion preference.

'If the last person comes out again, will I be competing with Serpens?'

I've heard shocking stories, but that's not the kind of information I need to get.

That's why I pack the bare minimum

After work, I wandered around asking the remaining peasants about this and that.

At the same time, he also handed over the snack that he had promised to Mary.

He bought me a fresh cream cake from a well-known store, and he was very happy.

'I wish Serpens had been as simple as half her.'

Even if it's my own paraphrase, I'm proud to say that I understand the meaning of Serpens' words more closely than anyone else in the world.

Even so, it's really embarrassing that he sometimes behaves out of control.

In particular, I couldn't even imagine the advisory meeting.

'Ignore that kind of advice!'

I already know enough that I'm pretending to be good.

However, even considering that ?' There were so many things I wanted to do.

As if you have to be considerate of others and continue to spread something to someone

' Is it something like the Good Child Complex?'

Anyway, I thought it would be suspicious if I asked too openly, so I decided to get close with them and go out with a sneaky luck operation.

' A, about the good deeds of Serpens

I've only heard stories and praises.'

If I listened directly to it, I felt like I would be brainwashed into being a Serpence zealot.

I had no choice but to cut them off as they flowed through one ear moderately.

Just listening to it, it has more conciliatory power than most thieves.

I approached the maids first.

I, and most of the maids who worked at that time, seem to have already retired.

'No, why isn't there even that common nanny?'

There were a few kitchen maids who had worked for more than 10 years.

But since he lived almost exclusively in the kitchen, no one knew what happened at that time.

'Something that happened openly in a place where users see it, like the bug incident, is likely to go into the hall... .'

When you see that no one knows

or did good control.

Or maybe it just happened when Serpence was younger than I expected.

'Well, actually, it doesn't really matter what Serpence has been through in the past.'

It's not that it doesn't matter what happened to him.

You already know, so you don't have to dig for information.

Nevertheless, I am asking this question out of personal curiosity, wanting to know why they neglected the situation.

'Actually, the main thing I asked them was about the current Serpence.'

If you want to know his past in the first place, you can ask Hans or the older administrators.

The reason I don't ask even though I know is because I don't think they will give me an honest answer.

'Above all, because their loyalty is directed not to the Serpens, but to the Prasidus family itself.'

It's rather fortunate if it's to the extent of being alert and telling Serpense.

think i know something

Trying to deal with women secretly, or torturing them to find out how... .

'Ugh, just thinking about it makes me cringe!'

Therefore, I am a person who is loyal to the Duke of Prasidus ; 1.

Only the maids and servants who have a favor for the current Duke Serpens are carrying around Jangcheon day and night.

Later, he asked Jack, 'Should I ask you to let me see your father, saying, 'How old was the duke was?

'But why does Serpens keep them around?'

Trying to know a past that others don't know, instead raises another question.

Putting all doubts aside, what I need now is an opportunity to get closer to Serpence.

'I'm an aide, so I'll stick around with you, so we'll get to know each other over time, right?'

If you think like that, you can't escape like a humanus.

If only the time we spent together can be close, Humanus once succeeded in becoming Serpence's best friend.

should go

The more favorable condition for me is that I know both the past and the future of Serpence?

He's the only one who knows he's fake.

'Ugh . Can't we just bump into each other?'

I sighed inwardly and loaded my things into the wagon. What the author's coat of arms of Prasidus was drawn!

He said he was going to go home on the weekend to finish moving his luggage, so Serpens gave it to me.

gave it

How can a person be kind? It's really like an angel... .

one pair

He slapped my cheek with his right hand. It was dangerous.

'Is this what a thought infection is?'

Could it be that these days, while sympathizing with Serpence's past, he heard stories about his good deeds?

I wonder if there are symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome.

Yet I am aware of myself

So, is it difficult to see?

'Serpens are the bad guys! It's double! It's a set-up!! Such suspense!'

I cursed Serpense inwardly and remembered his appearances described in [Master of the Holy Sword].

It was creepy, but Serpens no longer felt like an angel.

I was trying to curse the owner for the subject of renting a carriage, and I felt a little bit of remorse, but what can I do?

You have to keep your mind straight in order to survive. Let's not forget the purpose.

When I arrived at the duke's residence and loaded all my belongings, it was already past lunch time.

I should have gotten up early and moved, but it was because I overslept thinking it was the first weekend.

'Lunch time is already over... .'

Originally, I slept late on the weekends and masturbated because I only skipped one meal.

However, I have to wait until dinner to go out, so I'll go and ask Popina if there's anything to eat.

She said that she was Mary's roommate, a 10-year kitchen maid, who is now 32.

Because of that, we couldn't meet at the restaurant during lunch time on the second day, but we got to know each other through Mary's introduction after walking around collecting information for the past three days.

'If you get to know someone who is good at cooking, food rolls in even when you're sleeping!'

When I arrived at the kitchen, it looked as if I had just finished washing the dishes for lunch.

Unlike the regular maids who wore hoods, the maids working in the kitchen were using sanitary hair to tuck all their hair.

For this reason, distinguish only the back

It was difficult to call him out, so he went into the kitchen and greeted everyone and found Popina.

What are you doing up to here, aide?

I missed dinner... so I came to see if there was something to eat.

Saying that with a modest smile, Po Pina handed me an egg with a sad expression on her face.

Wait a minute, I'll bring you something to eat.

thank you.

a kind person

I sat in the chair that Popina had recommended, and smashed the egg she had handed me to my forehead.

- Crisp one.

Why is it a raw egg, this?

Feeling the stickiness of raw eggs flowing from her forehead, she looked at Popina with the eyes that she had been betrayed.

Her pupils facing each other shook.

You said you had a bruise on your cheek. I told you to rub it there, but why...?

Did you hit me too hard?

When I said that I was looking at him sadly, I guess he thought that he couldn't even eat because he was getting hit somewhere.

I was about to wipe the eggs off my face and clothes with the wet cloth that Popina gave me, and she immediately brought me an apple pie.

"Who did you hit?"

No, I'm just... just trying to calm myself down?

Popina still doesn't believe me when I say, 'Okay, if it's hard to say, I won't ask you right away.' and look at me with pitying eyes

it was

Serpense as well as Popina. Why doesn't everyone believe me?

Does what I'm saying sound so unreliable?

"But, do you think your aide likes this?"

"Apple pie?"

Popina shook her head at my question and said, 'Just sweets or desserts?'

It's like that. It's also very tasty.

For a meal, the light side of the bread went better and did not bite.

However, as I continued to eat only those kinds of bread, I thought of the breads I enjoyed eating in the world.

He pretends to be from Paris, but in fact, even if he enters a franchise bakery that is produced in Korea, it is sweet and salty. It is one color of stimulating bread/confectionery.

After all, if you are Korean, map, sweet, salty. You have to be able to enjoy all these stimulating flavors.

That's great! I'll serve you some cookies or pies when you leave the car.

would you? Sometimes we bake for ourselves to eat, but since there isn't much to make, I think my skills are going to die.

Yes?

was that okay?

Serpense only drinks tea, but the aide asked if it would be okay.

Actually, the duke doesn't eat snacks at all. Even the meals he eats are hardly seasoned... From a cook's point of view, doesn't it taste good?

she replied.

But I heard that there is no such thing as food you don't like.

Then I guess you don't like spicy food!

Having learned something new, Popina clapped her hands and liked it.

'No, what the hell... . Serpence This guy doesn't have any hobbies, doesn't he like anything? Besides, I sleep less and I'm bored with the food I eat. What kind of taste do you live your life with?'

Maybe the fun of living life itself. Could it be that he had never felt it before?

The thought of 'Ah, no way.' crossed my mind.

'Yeah, that's quite possible.'

He was raised by parents who tortured him for developing patience.

Such as to cultivate self-control and self-control, or not to indulge in stimuli.

I thought I might have driven Serpens by talking like that.

'But that doesn't mean they're dead and I'm still protecting them... .'

If that's the case, Serpens. You are a boring bastard like no other in the world!

By the way, who prepares the Duke's diet?

It's not really who decides the menu. Previously, the Duchess was the Bachelor, the former Duchess and the current Duchess. Anyway, I was told that his meals should always be prepared that way.

There was nothing more to hear.

If you feed them moderately while adjusting the concentration of the three, spicy, sweet, and salty, something will catch on you.

'In the first place, humans live to eat, don't they?'