54 - Chapter Xxiv -- When There Is No Yarn, There Is No Yarn!
"Thank you, Perris! Come on, come on, let\'s eat together!"
Bon appétit!"""Bon appétit!"""
"Yes, thank you..."
Meirias was almost forced to sit down, and he was very timid.
"Eat up, Meilius. Meilius, you should eat too.
He divided the salad among them and served the steaks to Meirias. At first Meilius is puzzled, but he seems to eat it little by little. I put the dragon steak in my mouth too. Yum! The umami of this meat is wonderful. Everyone is gobbling it up.
I look at Meilias, who is looking down and shaking.
"What\'s wrong? If you can\'t eat it, don\'t force yourself, okay?"
"Gsssshhhh... How could you give me, a slave like me, such delicious food? I\'m so sorry.
"You\'re one of us. You\'re one of us. Slave is just a coincidence. Don\'t worry about it.
"The master thought of everything in this dish. I made it today, but it tastes even better when cooked by the master.
Peris, don\'t raise the bar," he says, looking at Meirias. She ate all the food served to her, saying she was sorry.
After eating strawberries for dessert, we spend some time together. In the meantime, I tried to get Meilias to show Peris around the room, but Meilias refused.
"I am a slave of my master. I am sorry to have to borrow Master Peris\' room."
But there\'s nowhere to sleep, is there?
We can go in the hallway.
"Hallway? Peris says it\'s fine, so don\'t worry about it, okay?"
Meirias is silent, lying face down.
"Since it\'s so special, why don\'t you let him sleep in his master\'s room?
Gon interrupts.
"Ummm, wait a minute. Meilius has a lot of work to do. So can\'t you share a room with Peris for a while? I\'ll call you if I need you."
"Mr. Meirias, the master has said so. Or do you not want to sleep with Belial?"
Not at all! Meilius shakes his head. He seems to have been convinced somehow. If Meirias comes next to me, I will attack him for sure. I would attack Meilias right here and now.... Don\'t call me a lazy guy.
After that, Peris showed Meirias around the house, and it was quite amusing to see how amazed he was. It\'s a rare thing to see a bath in an ordinary house, and I\'ll keep it a secret that I unintentionally uttered "eeeeeeeeeeee!
The next day, I left the store early and went to buy clothes for Meilias. I bought them as the clerk recommended, but they seemed to be very good ones, and the price was quite expensive. Well, I don\'t have to worry about the money, and all the clothes I bought looked good on her and were very cute, so I decided to give it a try.
As for Meilias, we are planning to have her continue the research she has been doing. I have also decided to buy the necessary tools and materials for this purpose, and it is going to be quite large. The room of Peris itself is quite large, but it is going to be completely destroyed. As expected, I asked him to give up some of his tools, but I may have to think about building an additional house here.
As for the Holy Sword in the infinite storage, Meilius is going to do his best to make a sheath for it, so he took me to a specialized store (I was the one who ordered him to take me there) and we are going to buy some specialized materials. They said they were going to make a very sacred sheath. I am looking forward to seeing it.
Meirias is a reserved man, but he and Peris seem to get along quite well, and the two become fast friends. Since they are both level 3 educated, they seem to stimulate each other\'s intellectual curiosity.
Then Gon and I came again to the front of the house of the great-grandfather. I wanted to ask him about his skills, but he told me that "he knows best about such things". He said that I could go there anytime if Gon was with me, so I decided to go there. I stood in front of the shrine with more tribute than I could carry in my hands. As I stood in front of the gate of the mansion, it opened quietly. Perhaps it is an automatic door.
I was greeted at the entrance by Chie and Saae, the ladies attached to the princess, and shown directly to the princess\'s room. In addition to these two ladies, a fox wearing a hakama and a kamishimo (a ceremonial cloth worn over a kimono) was also present today.
"The princess is beautiful..."
"Let\'s dispense with the formalities. Good, good. Make yourself comfortable.
"I\'m glad you say so. I brought you something today. Please take it if you like.
I offered him some deep-fried bean curd, o-hagi, zenzai, inarizushi, and daikagaimo.
"I\'m sorry to say that they are all the same, but..."
"Good, good. Oh. Zenzai, huh? Well, well, well... Delicious! Such sweetness! The crunch of the beans! After all, I like things with a little crunch."
"Oh, hi!"
He seems to have liked it, despite the rebuke.
"My name is Sandille. I am Sandille... and I always pay my tribute to your highness. The princess and the ladies love sweetmeats. They look forward to your tribute.
"Thank you very much. In that case, shall I offer zenzai instead of abura-age?
"Hmm. Well, I think I\'ll just...
"No! Leave the deep-fried tofu as it is. It\'s really good for sake!"
Sandille interrupted, looking very hungry. Oh, princess, don\'t glare, don\'t glare.
"Yes, sir. Abura-age (deep-fried fish cake) tastes better if you cook it over a fire and make it crispy. And if you don\'t mind, please try the inarizushi.
"Mm. This is... this is... this is good, this is good. This is also an offering.
"Thank you, sir."
Apparently, the souvenirs were well received. The girls like the college potatoes. It\'s hard to give them all at once, so we\'ll just rotate them a bit.
"Well, I came here today for nothing else. I have a question I\'d like to ask you.
"Whatever you say."
"First of all, I heard that the warding skill can be transferred. How can I transfer...?
Oh, that\'s a special kind of thing, it can\'t be triggered by ordinary means. You have to conclude an operation."
"Tie the jutsu?"
It\'s what you call a spell. Sandille knows all about them. You can ask him to teach you."
"My lady, you have left it to a certain person to eat the tribute as soon as possible, have you not?"
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Sandille is awed. Oh, my dear, it\'s obvious that you\'ve hit the bull\'s-eye, isn\'t it?
"Also, I have one more question. One of my associates has been labeled "self-effacing." I\'d like to remove it.
"Jikkoukai? What\'s that?
Oh, my lord... that thing that failed to be released about 500 years ago..."
"...Oh, that. That one failed. No, no, no... it was not a failure! There is no such thing as failure, not even for a concubine! That was a success!"
"...a man saved your life, didn\'t he?
"Sandille, you\'re being disrespectful! Come on, back off! You will learn those things from this Sandille! You\'ve done me a great favor! You may step back!
They kicked me out of the room. Sandille led us to another room.
"Now, first of all, the warding technique is not that difficult. You just pour magic power toward the place you want to move, chanting <> while saying the name of the place you want to move to. Then, a transition point is created there. When you step into it, you will be able to move.
Oh, let\'s give it a try.
"Next, we need to cancel the "self-effacement" curse, which is a very advanced curse. This is a rather advanced curse, in which both the patient and the magician suppress their own growth while wishing to seal their own abilities. It is difficult to lift the curse because it is applied from both sides. It is possible, but too much of it will melt the person\'s brain. The best way is to activate the blessing skill when the person wishes to release the growth that has been sealed.
"What about the one where the hijinis failed?"
"...he tried to force it to be lifted. You almost undid it. I saved him.
He did not tell me how he saved me until the end. While we were talking, Chie, a courtesan, came outside the room.
"Lord Rinos, your highness has given me an order. From now on, the o-hagi to be offered must have the shape of a bean, and only the sweet ones can be used for deep-fried bean curd.
"Hey! You take away a man\'s pleasure! You\'re taking advantage of me!"
Sandille was appeased, and a shrine for Sandille was eventually erected in the mansion.
The removal of Meilias\' title depends on her will.... Now, how do we go about it? With these thoughts in my mind, I left the house of my grandmother.