Chapter 1769: Tea Party with Illness ⑦

Chapter 1769: Tea Party with Illness 7

Having learned Illness-san’s motivation for starting her journey, although she said there isn’t much about it, it still felt like kindness was the root of her actions, so I was a little happy to think that Illness-san back then was no different from the Illness-san I knew so well.

[Since the time I was traveliiiiiing, just as I’m currently a maaaaaaid, I had been serving someone simply because that was easieeeeer. Various people had asked me various requeeeeests, but for someone like me who had a weak sense of purpoooooose, it would be easieeeer to have someone present a path for me to follooooooow.]

[I see...... By the way, how long have you been working at Symphonia’s Royal Castle?]

[Speaking in terms of time, it hasn’t been that looooong. I was recruited by Symphonia’s Queen Consort 5 generations agooooo, so it’s been about 400 years.]

For me, 400 years feels incredibly long, but for Illness-san, who undoubtedly has lived for tens of thousands of years, it doesn’t seem like such a long period.

Well, indeed, assuming Illness-san has lived for 40,000 years for the sake of simple calculations, 400 years just be a hundredth of the time she has lived. It may not be extremely short, but looking at that perspective, it might not feel that long either.

[Have you been living in the Demon Realm before you became a maid in the royal castle?] Delve into the §ource of thïš dat@, deepl¥ r00ted in n0v(lb¡n★

[No~~ I moved to the Human Realm right after the Treaty of Friendship was siiiiiigned...... and before I became a maid at the Royal Castleeeeee, I worked at various jobs here and there. II had became an accountant for a trading companyyyyy, and I had also worked as an ecological researcheeeeer.]

[No, it’s probably more like Illness-san just didn’t have many desires before. Even now, I still don’t feel like you have become selfish at all...... Ahh, incidentally, for Illness-san, does inviting me to this tea party feel like a selfish request to you?]

[Yeeeeees. This is my desiiiiiire, and I had Kaito-sama go along with meeeeeee......]

[Hmmm. That isn’t the case though. I’m not just going along with Illness-san’s selfishness. It was because this tea party you suggested was something I desired as well, so I willingly participated. And so, this isn’t being selfish at all, and it’s quite the opposite———- I would even welcome more requests from Illness-san.]

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It seems like Illness-san has a tendency to refrain from imposing her desires on me, but I’m not really being forced to comply, and I willingly participated in this tea party because it aligns with my own wishes, so this definitely isn’t her being selfish at all.

Hearing my words, Illness-san looked unusually stupefied for a moment....... before she gave me a small smile.

[......This really is troubliiiiiing. When I’m with Kaito-samaaaa, I find myself becoming more and more selfiiiiiiiish. However, the thought that I couuuuuuld come to like this selfish side of me kind of makes me feel tickliiiiiiiish.]

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [T- That’s enough already, right? It should be enough...... We can end it here and start a new act , right? Right?]

? ? ? : [Oya? If that’s what Serious-senpai says......]