Chapter 42: Attack

I’m back home safely from the Devil’s Forest. Oops, excuse me. I’m Fleurety, the wonderful maid who brings you smiles everyday, but for some reason, when I smile at anyone, they often look away. ……..It’s strange.

Regardless of such trivial matters, I would like milady ,who worked so early in the morning ,to take a break from the three days and three nights of sweetness festival. We have to prepare for that event, which is only a few months away.

“Milady. How would you like your dress for the graduation party to be?”

“Well yes. It’s that time of year already.”

Milady gave a slightly distant look at me.

That’s right, milady spent five years from the age of 10 to 15 years old in the dormitory of this academy. Even though milady was not treated very well, milady must have a lot of deep emotions.

Well, for me, since I will be able to go from my current status as a [temporary] partner to becoming the official partner of milady, I can’t help but feel a sense of joy that makes me want to jump a little.

”I used to dream about it when I was little…”

Milady mumbles this and lightly taps the seat next to her.

This is a signal for me to ‘sit next to her’, and I am not the same person as I was back then when i was told to ‘take a seat with her’ and sat face to face on top of milady, so I honestly take a seat with tears of blood in my heart.

“My mother also graduated from this magic academy. I heard that she looked very nice in her slender figure and beautiful dress at the graduation party.”

“It’s a story about your birth mother, isn’t it?”

“Yes. I’ve heard stories from my mother and the queen when she was alive, and I’ve always dreamed wearing my mother’s dress to the graduation party…”

I have seen a copy of miladys mother’s picture taken with magic tools, and she was a beautiful person, very much like milady.

“That dress…”

”I put it away with great care, but while I was at the academy, Miss Gidel threw it away…”

“Is that so?”

……..It’s that stepmother again. I broke her spirit and beat her into a hospital room, and she still makes a nuisance of herself, doesn’t she?

I let her live because I didn’t want milady to be concerned about it, but shall I crush her soul now, even if it’s now……..

”………Letty, your face is a little scary.”

“I beg your pardon. I was thinking of something a little amusing, which naturally led to a refreshing prickly face.”

“How could it be?”

“Be that as it may.”

“Would you make that dress?”

“…What?”

What’s gone won’t come back, but why don’t I make a dress for milady in the same design?

“…Letty.”

“Can you tell me what the dress looks like?”

“Yeah … thanks.”

Since I’m going to make it, let’s bring a memorable dress back into the world with my threads as a dress exclusively for milady.

Compared to Lady Kiria (Shanons Mother), who probably had a height of nearly 170, milady is quite petite. And if we assume that Lady Kiria’s chest armor has a grade B fighting strength, then milady’s fighting strength is about four levels higher.

In short, Lady Kiria had a slender model’s body shape with a bit of a broad shoulder, so her dress was simple in shape and showed her body line clearly.

If the milady were to wear it….

“Milady. Weapons are not allowed in the venue.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Through my heartfelt persuasion, the life of many pure-hearted boys was saved. Milady is truly a terrible person, isn’t she?

“And so, Mr. Andy. I would like you to help me see how milady dresses.”

“Why is this happening?”

The next day, while I was shopping, I visited the waiting room of the Kingsguard.

When a knight I didn’t know tried to walk towards me with a grin on his face, a familiar knight stopped him with a pale face.

As expected of a knight of the Kingsguard, most of them are gentlemen. It’s helpful that they don’t interfere with my conversation with Mr. Andy.

So when I explained the danger of the dress of milady’s mother and the dress that clearly showed her body shape, Mr. Andy nodded with a red face as he imagined that figure.

”Well that’s dangerous, isn’t it?”.

“Thank you for your understanding.”

“So, what do you want me to do for you?”

“It’s not that difficult. The basic form will be Lady Kiria’s dress, but I’m going to change the shape slightly for milady, and I’d like you to direct her to it.”

“…what exactly?”

“We have dresses of that shape on display in several stores. Milady has agreed to look for a design that suits her, so I thought it would be best if we just let Mr. Andy give her a push.”

“Then why don’t you and Sharon, being of the same sex, just look around?”

Shy men seem to be embarrassed to go along with women shopping, but if you don’t show your manly side every now and then, she’ll dump you, right?

“No, Mr. Andy. Women become beautiful when they are praised. It is the role of men to encourage that.”

“Yeah, right.”

“Or would you prefer to turn your duties over to another man?”

When I threw him just a few cold glances and words, Mr. Andy, who had slightly withdrawn, turned serious.

”Okay….”

This is a good time to ask both of them out on a date.

Since the two of them are not very good at the romantic side of things, I had to use a bit of a forceful approach.

“So, milady. I’ll tolerate a little more than a take-home, so please do your best.”

“What are you working on?”

Apparently, Milady didn’t know the meaning of the word “take home”.

When I told Milady about her date with Mr. Andy, she was very upset, but when I explained to her the meaning of “take home” with a lot of emotion, she was really cute with her face as red as a boiled crab and her head pulled back under the covers on the bed.

I’ll polish her up to a shine before the day of the event, so I hope he is prepared for that. In the meantime, I have to do something about her pudgy arms.

“Let’s refrain from sweet treats for a while, shall we?”

When I casually blurted that out, milady had the most despairing look on her face that I had ever seen.

Now, the day of the date.

“Milady. Mr. Andy is here to pick you up.”

“Uh-huh.”

When I told her that in her room in the dormitory, milady nodded with a look of determination on her face.

For today’s date, I will be joining them. By nature, a noble princess like milady would not be left alone with him, even if they are engaged to be married.

As a matter of fact, milady is a candidate to be Mr. Joel’s fiancé. Even though he is Mr. Joel’s childhood friend and a knight in the Kingsguard, if they are left alone together, there is a risk of causing unnecessary scandal.

There is one senior steward on Mr. Andy’s side who is an old man.

“Good day to you.”

“It’s nice to meet you too.”

The able maid and the butler don’t need an extra word. We exchanged eye contact with sharp eyes and bowed silently to each other.

From now on, we will accompany them like shadows and watch over them.

“Sharon, give me your hand”

“Yes, Mr. Andy.”

The other side over there, is showing us the sweet and salty romance of a middle schooler.

The high-class shopping district is not too far from the academy, so the Mercia family’s carriage is parked here and we’re going out on foot.

“But still………”

“Is there something wrong?”

“The weather’s starting to get a little worse, isn’t it?”

“We don’t need rain.”

I exchanged idle words with Mr. Senior Butler.

Its wrong to call it a cloud, a thing like mist was faintly spread across the sky.

………I can feel something unpleasant. And a faintly sweet smell too. The butler also seemed to have sensed something, and seemed to be wary of his surroundings.

The high-class shopping street does not have any stalls, but only high-class shops for nobles or merchant families. Therefore, there are not many people on the street, but isn’t it a bit too few…?

“Do you mind if I ask you to go ahead?”

“I’ll take care of them.”

I felt some kind of presence behind me, and when I said that to see what was going on, the butler, who had guessed, headed towards the two of them.

He’s quite capable, after all. It looks like he can be relied upon in terms of combat.

Still, as milady’s maid, I can’t take my eyes off milady completely. I take out a small pebble-like object from my pocket and place it on my palm.

”You are to follow milady.”

On my hand, a spider about two inches long raised its paws menacingly.

This spider is my subordinate that I scouted in the garden of the academy. It is somewhat aggressive, but since it is a female, I have dressed it in a small maid outfit.

Normally, I have her exterminate any insects that come around the room, but let’s see what else she can do to be useful.

“Shigya.” (Spider sound)

The spider maid raised her paws menacingly and headed towards milady, leaving a single thread in her way.

”……..You’re here.”

I look back quietly as I feel the presence of the previous one behind me.

I was the only one left, not because I felt it was dangerous, but because I couldn’t read the intent of the presence.

Let’s call it a vague hint of multiple emotions mixed together…. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not normal.

“‘……………………..”

With the sound of footsteps, several silent men and women emerge from the alleyway, from the store, and from behind the thinly filled fog.

Although they were looking forward, their eyes did not reflect anything, all of them had their faces turned towards me.

”Sweet smell……… are they being controlled?”

They were full with that sweet scent that I felt faintly earlier.

”……..Oh?”

Three slightly faster people came forward from among the people approaching like puppets. And we know each other.

“We meet in a strange place,”

I don’t know why they are in this place, but they are the three royal maids who were in charge of Miss Minami.

Do they appear to be unconscious, but are they subject to subconscious influences? I can sense a hint of hatred towards me from those three.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t remember it at all.”

”Aaaaaaah!”

Suddenly, those three and the manipulated people attacked me with strange voices. Well, they are on foot.

Against slow-moving, bare-handed civilians, I wouldn’t be afraid.

Nice shot.

“‘Gah!’

Well, only those royal maidservants are different.

I launched at them from below, so the three rolled down the road surface.

I don’t know what happened to those girls, but if I dissected those three, would I find something?

Then….

…earthquake?

Feeling a faint tremor, I stop and look up at the sky.

The fog above me is getting thicker and comes down. I have a bad feeling about this…….. It’s better to give up on this dissection and go back to milady.

The moment I thought that and turned myself around.

Gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga gaga!

A series of earth-cracking sounds sounded from afar, and a huge plant vine that seemed to cover this entire district stretched to the heavens.