Chapter 108

My name is Vilma. I will be 17 years old in autumn, so now I am 16.

As a side service to Mine, an apprentice of a blue priestess, we have been working for several days before taking care of children before baptism.

“Did you go to all of you? Now let’s pray and thank God’s grace. The supreme god that governs the sky as a high-ranked bower that blesses tens of thousands of lives as our food.” Thanks and prayers to the deities of the five pillars of the great gods who govern the land, which will be widely used, we will have this meal. “

Following me, the young children sang and sang together and started to eat lunch together. Everyone seems hungry and eats all the time. I’ve finished it first, so while the kids are eating, they only teach them how to eat and get rid of the spills, but it’s surprisingly difficult to take care of the six kids at once.

“Today’s rice is also delicious”

“That’s right”

The meals brought to the orphanage are eaten by adult priests and shrine maidens, then by apprentices, and the last leftovers are eaten by young children before baptism. It will be the last.

It makes me wait so much that I feel sorry for being hungry, but even if I don’t even have a meal that hardly remains, I can always eat it. Is n’t he just happy?

“The soup is delicious”

“Today there are vegetables, so may I have Lizzy?”

I always think of Mine when I look at the soup that is always lined up on the table, on days when there are many gods. I think that everything that changed the way the orphanage is packed in this soup.

“Mine tells me how to make this soup, and everyone buys the ingredients with the money they sold the ingredients and paper they made in the forest”

“Vilma is always that. Isn’t it after that? Thanks Mine”

“ The kids are laughing and saying so as to tease me, but it is this child who is thankful to Mine. They are cleansed, fed, and taken to the outside world of the forest.

The place where the blue priests and shrine maidens pass is a subordinate job to cleanse every day, but the orphanage where the blue priests do not enter has not been the target of cleansing until now. It took time to clean myself if the surroundings were too dirty, so I only occasionally cleaned my surroundings.

That’s why the rooms and cafeteria above the apprentice are not so dirty that they look frowned, but there was no idea of ​​cleansing the children and their surroundings before the baptism. It was decided that the pre-baptized children were cared for by the gray priestess who gave birth, so there were no young children in their sights or consciousness.

I think it wasn’t just me who was surprised to hear the situation of the children before the baptism from Fran, who was served by Mine. Those who came from outside the orphanage also knew that there was no shrine maiden to take care of, and that they were only cared for by the apprentice and only putting a little left on the plate. Because it was done.

“Wilma, can I go to the workshop now?”

“Well, clean up your tableware and cleanse your hands and face. If you mess up the paper, you will be beaten by a gil”

“Lutz is less than Gill”

Listening to the story of being beaten or picked up by Gil who holds the Mine workshop, I have heard that the merchant apprentice Lutz who goes in and out of the workshop is Mine ’s trusted boy. I didn’t know.

“That’s right. I think how many days and effort it takes for this one! Is it yelling?”

“Oh, I don’t think I can sell it for this price! I don’t touch the product with my dirty hands! I was angry before I touched it. I won’t give you. “

“I was violent during this time. If you’re careful that you don’t want violence, you can’t tell if you’re told, it’s bad.”

I am not good at the shrine and hardly show my face to the workshop, but the inside of the main workshop does not seem to be a temple. It seems that Mine’s original rules are mixed with the rules of merchants and temples.

…… Recently, there are many moving parts in the original way of Mine-sama, who is also the director of the orphanage.

清 To clean the orphanage like a temple, to prepare meals so that everyone is satisfied to some extent, not only to wait for the grace of God, but to earn money by themselves .

It seems that all the things that Mine taught us are commonplace for ordinary people.

Mine says, “I just taught me. If I could make my life better, it ’s not everyone, but everyone ’s efforts,” says Mine, but in the temple where there are only aristocrats and orphans, who else does it? Could you teach us? I am grateful to God for using Mine in the temple.

[Mine-sama praised me for taking care of children like a saint, but for me, she looks like a saint. …… From the point of view, is it the son of God rather than the saint?

After laughing, I remembered the story of Mine who came before noon. This is the story of Rosina who served with me.

Christine and Mine have too different perceptions of side serving. I don’t think Rosina, who sees Christine as the primary Lord, can serve Mine. I heard my wish and told me to “consider”, but Rosina felt that she would be returned to the orphanage.

Rosina is a really beautiful girl. Christine’s favorite, who loved beautiful things, such as an adult face, soft maroon hair, and blue eyes like jewels.

And not only was it beautiful, but in the same year, he was equally interested and talented in performing arts. That is why Christine, who was separated from her family and entered the temple, treated Rosina like her friend.

Demanding the same treatment from Mine cannot be accepted by Mine.

“… Is it about time?”

After lunch, Mr. Mine said to hear the opinions from all the side servants and discuss them. If Rosina’s idea has not changed since she was serving Christine, it will be a difficult time for Rosina.

When I finished sending lunch to the workshop, I took out the board for making carta in my room. Carta is a gift from Mine to children. It must be drawn carefully. My arm rings.

Mine-sought Carta was wonderful for Gil to learn. Gill sometimes brings it to the cafeteria and is proud to play with it, but while playing, the children naturally remember the letters and the names of the gods. And since I remember my picture as the gods, drawing a Carta picture is a little nervous.

On a board that has been carefully polished and smoothed, we will draw pictures of gods and sacred items with ink and pens from Maine. Since I have read the carda reading cards many times, I almost remember the reading cards. Even if I don’t know, if you ask the children, someone will tell you and you will know what picture to draw.

Hours to look after the children are fun, but the feeling of excitement when immersed in the picture is also special. I feel comfortable to know how much I was hungry for painting.

After drawing some pictures, the door of the room was struck lightly with the computer. Ah, after all. While thinking so, I urged Rosina to enter. As soon as you enter the room and close the door, your blue eyes start to accumulate tears. How long have you been patient?

“Vilma, Mine is terrible. You tell me to work like a gray priest!”

“Rosina, I don’t know that alone. Can you tell me what happened?”

“Yes, please listen. Only Vilma, who served the same Christine’s side, understands my heart.”

Stopping my hand, I turn my chair and turn towards the bed. Rosina sat on the bed face-to-face and began to sue with tears and tears.

“The worst thing is Delia”

“Rosina, I don’t know Delia. I don’t know all of Mine’s side services, so can you tell me who you are?”

As a side service to Mine, I can no longer go out of the orphanage, and there is no information coming in from outside except for conversations and information from children. Fran and Gill moved as Mine’s side services when they cleaned the orphanage, and since they were famous people for a long time, they knew their face and name.

“Delia is an apprentice shrine maiden who was originally at the temple’s head. It’s a strong child with impressive red hair.”

8 years old should have been in the basement when we returned to the orphanage. However, there is no such apprenticeship in my memory even though it has the characteristics of impressive red hair.

“I should have seen an 8-year-old apprentice, but I don’t seem to remember it at all”

“Delia was taken away by the temple head shortly after the baptismal ceremony, so he went to the nobility area without going up to the first floor of the orphanage. I was proudly saying that, what would Christine say if I would be embarrassed when I became a mistress? ”

Christine-sama hated the gray priestess who gave flowers, except that the flower tribute was to be done by someone who had nothing to do with it. So we don’t want to be called a blue priest.

However, the gray shrine maiden in the orphanage does not seem to have sang the flowers. He said that he would like to have a satisfying meal because he could be a flower tribute or a mistress as long as he had little grace and had a hard working life.

“If you were a child in the basement without a gray priest taking care of Delia, wouldn’t you be wondering if you want to get out of the orphanage and get a stable life? Rosina, what if you were locked in that basement? ”

“Stop it, Vilma. You will feel sick.”

Despite being ordered to wash the children in the basement, Rosina escaped the most by saying she was cleaning the girls wing. The influence of Christine, who often said that she only wants to see beautiful things, would be great.

Even though it was a coincidence, I cannot forbid the sigh, as the difference between Mine-sama, who found the children and sent Gill somehow to save them.

“Delia expresses the sound of Feshpeel as a noisy piece, does not understand art, and expresses the sound of Feshpeel. Moh! Moh! Just laughing a little like a problem, you don’t have to talk … “

Rosina and Delia are the same in the sense that they moved to the aristocratic area without undertaking temple work. However, in general, the side-serving apprenticeship work is a subordinate work centered on the care of the Lord, so unlike Rosina, Delia’s proof seems not bad.

“And Delia appealed me to Mine badly.”

Rosina arranged the words that Deria said during the meeting one after another. There are many duplicates, and it feels like it is still a sign of Delia’s irritation and anger.

“What did other people say to Delia? Did you say that Delia was right? Did anyone come to support Rosina?”

“Yeah, Gil was a friend of Delia. Those who have to work, don’t eat, or don’t want to play the instrument at night, like that …”

If you are playing the festival until the same time as Christine-sama, you will not be overwhelmed. Delia and Gill are still apprentices, and they must sleep early like orphanages.

“The late-night musical instruments would be annoying to children around that time. I would be in trouble if played in the children’s room at the orphanage.”

“Vilma !?”

“Christine’s room was slow in the morning, but like Orphanage, is Mine’s room too early in the morning?”

Rosina was slightly blind. Probably the same thing was said.

“Even so, I just remember that Gill was a mischievous, mischievous and bad boy, but the impression has changed a lot?”

There is only a memory that was often put in the reflection room by the gray priest who led the work of the temple. The orphanage was suspicious when he heard Gill would serve the blue priest.

“Vilma will be more surprised if he crawls in front of Mine and sees Gill being given up.”

After seeing Gill for a long time, I found that Gil was engrossed by Mine. I can only give Carta to the reward, so I think Gill is well served and has a good master-slave relationship with Mine.

“What did Fran say? Originally serving as the priest’s side, isn’t he still watching things with fair eyes, unlike young children?”

As everyone in the orphanage knows, Franc is originally the side of the priest, who helps, teaches, and guides Mine, a commoner. He is also the only adult gray priest in Mine ’s side. You can see that Mine is trusting and relying on.

“Fran is a gray priest, but it doesn’t move even if I give him instructions. He doesn’t do hard work. He orders me to do something.”

“… Is it natural that Fran orders Rosina?”

“Why, why?”

Rosina tilted her head with a clear expression, as if she really didn’t understand. With this, I can get a sense of antipathy from Mine ’s side service and Mine can come to consult me.

“Fran is Mine’s first serving, Rosina is a new apprentice”

“But I’m Feshpeel …”

“Rosina, Mine and Christine are different. If you want the same thing, you cannot be accepted”

“… Mine told me the same thing.”

Mine seems to have told Rosina that “I can’t be your Christine.”

“What else did you say?”

“Late night instruments are a nuisance to everyone, so if you don’t want to work down, you can understand that it ’s important to have a hand to handle the instrument, and that you should end it when the bell of the 7 rings. “I want you to do it in practice.”

“Practice?”

Rosina whispered greatly when I listened back.

“There are too few side servings in Mine’s room, so Fran is in charge of the work in general, Gill is about the mansion of the workshop and the orphanage, and Delia is in charge of the work inside the room.

“… definitely less”

Originally, it is a side service that only takes care of life, but Mine is the director of the orphanage and the director of the main workshop. There are a lot of work contents, but the number of people to help is considered to be too small compared to the amount of work.

“Is Virma doing the work of the orphanage girls’ wing and painting? I tell you to do music and other work. I can’t afford the music alone.

Primarily, it is difficult to do the job that the side should serve. Rosina is already an adult and she said she wanted to do some of Fran’s work. If there isn’t enough manpower, it is natural. And the ability required by the serving servant is different.

“What is business?”

“It is written in writing, and then it is the calculation of books in rooms, workshops and orphanages. You said you wanted to reduce the burden of francs”

“That’s … It’s difficult for Gil and Delia who have just been serving and can’t read and write. It would have been possible for Rosina who was close and well-educated …”

Huh, I sighed.

Reading and writing calculations can be taught when serving on the side, but in the case of Christine’s side serving, even if you can compete for the beauty of the characters and write poetry, practical writing of the writing has experience There is none. It is not good at calculation and hardly becomes a strength. It ’s really a side specializing only in art.

I felt like I could see their faults that I had never seen before.

“If you want to reduce the burden, I’d like you to increase your side service, but I want you to remember …. I don’t know, I can learn what I can’t do from now on, but the side service that I can’t say I don’t work for Mine told me that it is not necessary. “

“Yes, that’s right. Unlike Mr. Christine, Mine is a commoner. Isn’t he a nobleman, and isn’t powerful enough to have more than 10 side servings?” 19459002]

Talking to children who have not finished the baptism ceremony, “If you want to eat your stomach, you should earn the cost of the orphanage yourself.” There seems to be no financial power to call for side servings as much as necessary.

“Mine-sama is a blue priestess? That should be …”

“Is the blue priest in the temple about 5 servings? Christine was special”

The side serving is usually about 3 to 5 people, and then it is normal to have a chef or assistant.

Employees hired 2 parents, 6 gray priests to enjoy art, 4 gray priests to work and work, cooks and assistants, hired several tutors Don’t think about Christine.

“Rosina, you may not be the side-serving of Mine-sama for you? Is n’t it hard to live with dissatisfaction with each other?”

“Will Burma tell me to return to the orphanage?”

“If the criteria for thinking so far were different, I thought there was only one choice for Mine.”

Ah, after all, the thought of occupying my heart. Mine would have told Rosina to return to the orphanage.

“… Mine told you to think by tomorrow. Return to the orphanage, accept a different environment from Christine’s time, or choose the one you like”

“Yes, then it’s already Rosina’s problem”

Listening to my words that I wanted to give Rosina time, if Mine-sama has made a concession to that, I can no longer say. Rosina just chooses.

“Wilma … don’t you think it’s wrong to make the priestess the work of the gray priest?”

[Rosina calls out with anxiety when I start drawing. It seemed that I was confused without my approval, which was Christine’s side service.

“Yeah, it’s natural in rooms other than Christine”

“… So I’m wrong”

Rosina has gone so hot. For Rosina, Christine was everything. I knew only the life after leaving the orphanage, and continued to crawl life with Christine after returning. It would be hard to deny what has been cultivated there.

However, I have to know that Christine-sama’s common sense does not work anymore, that there is no longer life.

“Rosina, you’re not wrong. Christine-sama’s decision can only be passed on at Christine-sama. It will only work. “

“Pass, don’t …?”

“Hey Rosina, think about it. If you were called to serve another blue priest, not Mine, you might not have had a musical instrument. Do you complain about it? ”

In front of the blue priest, the assertion of the gray priest apprentice, such as “I don’t want to go where there is no musical instrument” or “Flower dedication is not a well-educated priestess”.

“I didn’t tell you that you shouldn’t play music? You just can’t afford to play music all day, and you just wanted to do other side-serving work. I think that Rosina told me that she wanted me to learn the business, and that Rosina said that she would serve Mine from the bottom of my heart, but it was just a lip.

It would be easy to truncate if you don’t need side servings that don’t fit your will. However, it seems to me that Mine has made as many concessions as possible.

“If you make a concession to the Lord to serve, and you are still dissatisfied, Rosina will not be able to do anything other than Christine’s side service. You should return to the orphanage before inconvenience others.

Rosina quietly shed tears with a stunned face that seemed to give up everything, and slowly lowered her long eyelashes.

“… If you become a sidekeeper for an apprenticeship, you can’t go back to that time.”

“Yeah, Christine doesn’t come anymore. No one else can be Christine.”

While I was drawing several pictures, Rosina sat down on her bed and crying quietly. I will keep crying as if it has swept away various emotions, until the tears naturally wither.

“… Vilma”

When Rosina raised her face, she was hiding her resolve.

Apart from the past, the expression of Rosina looked forward was particularly beautiful, and I was regretted that there was no art supplies at hand.

“I want to get involved with music as much as possible, so I’ll go back to Mine-sama and learn the practice”

“Mine will appreciate if you make an effort. Like the first time I gave you a reward at an orphanage … I can only listen to it, but do my best.”

A few days later, Mine came to the orphanage laughing happily. Although it is a shrine maiden apprenticeship, Mine has a physique that does not change much compared to pre-baptized children.

“Will Burma garnish me? Rosina, I’m not good at it, but I’m doing my best. Thank you, Vilma”

Mine, who laughs with her golden eyes and laughs, is innocent, very cute, and wants to hold her up like children, but Mine is the main.

Because they are ordinary people, they are friendly even if they are polite. Mine is not without dignity, but it lacks the dignity and dignity of the main compared to Christine who was a genuine nobleman.

“I heard that the priest was giving Rosina as a side dish to help Mine learn the culture. As the model blue priest is not in the temple, The role model is Rosina who was educated together like a friend of Christine-sama, and as Rosina worked hard to overcome her weakness, Do you have to be well educated? “

Uh, Mine is stuck in words and wanders around as if in trouble. However, the person who stands on the top should not show the place where he was angry.

“Mine, when you gathered side talks and talked with each other, did Rosina look away? Did anyone cry and cry with no side?”

“…… You raised your face straight up and expressed your opinion without bending?”

leans his head as much as Mine doesn’t understand well. The gesture as a young child is cute, but it shouldn’t be.

“That’s the right way for the nobility … Rosina came to me and cried. Until then, she continued to endure.”

“… I have to be like Rosina?”

引 き Mine looked up at me with tight lips. The eyes look very similar to those when Rosina decided.

“Even a gray shrine maiden who was raised in an orphanage can wear a standing behavior, so there’s no way Mine can’t do it. Please learn Rosina’s standing behavior well.”

“…… Yes”