HPDBC Chapter 86: Gold Coins and Sweets
Chapter 86: Gold Coins and Sweets
chapter 86: gold coins and sweets
a few days have passed since cecile’s runaway commotion. allen has come to the kurena village as the g-rank bird.
today i’m bringing in another batch of gold coins to send home. i started sending money last july, and till now i’ve sent money more than ten times.
ka-chin
the sound of allen, a.k.a. bird g, dropping a gold coin onto the garden floor caught theresia’s attention as she turned her back.
“hello, pippi. did you bring me another one? i see you have a letter for me today.”
“pi!”
at the feet of the g-rank bird was a single gold coin and a letter written on a piece of parchment. the bird had the gold coin in its beak and the letter tied on it’s foot.
theresia approached and picked up a gold coin and the letter that had fallen on the garden.
on the third time, g-rank bird was found by theresia. or rather, it allowed itself to be found.
the third time i sent money, i sent a letter for the first time. in my first letter, i wrote only one word.
“allen.”
that’s all i wrote. my parents could barely read. they could only understand the names of their family members. but that was enough for them to understand.
“pippi!”
muras, now four years old, came out of the living room to the garden to catch pippi. the name “pippi” stuck instead of the nickname i gave it.
as long as they don’t grab me, i’m fine.
g-rank bird has over 200 [agility]. even in a narrow place, it can brilliantly escape the clutches of my sister muras.
“stop it, muras.”
“yes.”
“oh! he’s here again? is he okay?”
rodan entered the house. he then started drinking water from a water jar.
it was around noon, and the family was about to have lunch. rodan, theresia, mash, and muras were having lunch. we are now commoners, but our house was still the same, and the meal scene was the same as usual as well.
“oh, a letter? let me see.”
as he said this, mash took the letter that theresia had picked up.
(oh? you can read now, can’t you?)
the reason why i started sending letters was not only because my family would get suspicious when gold coins fall out of nowhere. also from last year, mash started learning to read and write.
last year, a lecturer came to the village and began teaching kurena for the academy exam. it was a two-year course of study to get into the academy. by arrangement with the village mayor, mash was allowed to study with her. several other students, including dogora and peromus, were also studying with kurena.
i’ve never seen the study itself, but apparently, there were lessons on learning letters and arithmetic. mash brought parchment which had letters in it and desperately tried remembering them.
he read the few words i had written.
“father, mother, mash, muras, how are you doing?
cecile rewarded me for completing one year of being her personal manservant, and with that reward, i was able to take a magic class. thanks to her, i was able to learn about the relationship between mages and [intelligence] in this world.
last year i thought about asking for some sweets for the anniversary, but there was no second anniversary, to begin with. i thought maybe she forgot or got bored with the first anniversary, but it seems that there will be a third-anniversary reward for me, including her recent runaway case.
i sat on a chair.
cecile began to explain how she prepared this snack.
she asked the baron for some money and had the head chef make the sweets for me. it seems that these sweets included a thank you from the baron.
(oh! that’s our chef, a former royal chef!)
looking at the gorgeous sweets, i remembered what rickel had told me before.
i was told that there were two people in this mansion who used to work at the royal castle.
one of them was the head chef, who had worked as a royal chef at the royal castle until he was over fifty, when he retired and came back to his hometown, grandver. i wondered if he could still be a royal chef with that tone of voice.
the other one was cecile’s teacher. the old man who taught me a lot about magic used to work at the royal castle. the grandver was not his hometown though.
he said that his reason for his job here was all for cecile.
even if it is customary, if a noble has the talent to use magic, he would hire and teach to teach him/her magic.
however, cecile has the rather valuable talent of being a mage. if she was only a magician, no one would bother to come from the royal castle.
she had the talent of a mage, and since the old man wanted to retire soon, he chose to be her teacher. now, he gives cecile a lesson once a week and usually lives in seclusion at the residence he was given in the noble district.
“come on, eat up.”
“yes.”
i was told i could eat, so i crunched on some sweet baked goods.
(it’s so good!)
allen, who had a sweet tooth, to begin with, gobbled up the sweets without hesitation.
“allen, you don’t have to worry about that.”
“what?”
(what are you talking about?)
while i was eating, cecile seemed to still want to talk to me, so i stopped and listened to her.
“it seems that you were worried about the future and told me about being an adventurer, but you don’t have to worry about that.”
(adventurer? oh, you mean what i said in the alley.)
when cecile ran away from home and was sitting in an alley, i talked to her about becoming an adventurer to cheer her up.
“you are doing a fine job. so, i’ve told my father to make you a valet as soon as possible.”
boom!
cecile smiled and said she would promote me from a manservant to a valet. i could only reply with, “that’s too good to be true.”