ALL NOVEL Ch.9 Start of Activities!
After the tour Dahlia gave me of the mansion, I plan to liven up this magnificent estate. Like me you might think this is presumptuous but because I was personally told ‘by all means freely do as you please’ by the Duke himself, I am allowed to freely do as I please☆
Moreover, the mansion staff are ‘Servant Experts’ so, if I able to receive instruction on housekeeping, even if the time comes for me to leave this estate, I believe I’ll be able to live because I will have ‘work experience’! I wonder when that happens, if they will write a letter of introduction for me?
“Mistress~ are you really going to wear this?”
said Mimosa with a raised miserable voice, in my room.
“Yes, I do. Even this way, it is easy to move and even if it gets dirty it’s of no concern”
While saying this I put on the bodice in my hand, the official uniform of the Physalis’ servants. It has three-quarter sleeves for easy arm movement, the skirt is A-line and made of pretty fabric, it comes just below the knees. Even while working it is not ugly, and is a tidy deep blue. Dirt doesn’t stand out, it’s great~ although dust will stand out.
In a good mood I change into the garment that Mimosa reluctantly supplied to me while humming a tune.
“Even so if it’s Mistress, a lovelier dress is more suitable”
It seems like Mimosa would like to dress me up but unfortunately, I am plain so I don’t have interest in dressing up or such things.
Mimosa, although reluctantly, helps me to change.
“That’s not the case. This is also very good”
She looked displeased but I involuntarily ended up giggling at Mimosa’s cute sullen face. With this scene, if I say she doesn’t look older than me, she will most likely get angry.
“But it is curious. When Mistress wears it I can see my uniform as simple and elegant. You are naturally tall and your body is slender, so the simpleness makes Mistress’s neat and clean cuteness look better”.
The sour look from earlier went away and, looking at me after I finished changing, Mimosa began to smile.
However, that was somewhat of an overestimation. Because in reality it does not matter who wears this uniform! It is designed so anyone who wears it looks that way, even with a thin and tall figure like mine, it looks pretty. It is okay there is no boobs! No rather, those without boobs look tidy so, this uniform’s ability is amazing, I’ll have to admit.
“Well! thanks”,
I smile and obediently take the compliment. With my personality the adjective ‘cute’ is a bit……
From then on I give my energy to various things.
Cleaning.
Obviously the expensive decorations are left to the professionals but besides those I give it my best! If I was to break them I wouldn’t be able to reimburse it. In the places I think are deary I decide to decorate them with flowers. The garden’s flower beds are blooming with flowers of various colours, so I borrow those. I chatted with the gardener, Bellis, who is very good-looking but has the atmosphere of a wolf in sheep’s clothing (his gaze is sharp so, I thought he was some sort of mercenary☆), and I receive flowers from a superb greenhouse facility that my family house does not have.
Laundry.
The advanced laundry technology has impressed me from the first day I came here! When I consider the future, by any means I want to become a master so, I earnestly clung to the servants here. Laundry is hard work but it is worth it. I work up a good sweat☆
Cooking.
The head chef is called Carthame, his skills are very top-notch but he is a older and burly man. He is the complete opposite of Bellis, he is also good-looking but is the body and soul embodiment of a gentleman. As one would expect because there is a first class chef there, I could not meddle concerning the cooking, so I consult about the menu and make dessert and sweets.
Which reminds me I met Lotus on the way and he told me, “The master will be going on a urgent business trip for around a week starting today”
I think I mentioned this before but the Duke is a knight. A military authority. He is the leader of the special duty division. That special division is where the so-called intelligence actions are conducted. NOT the cerebral muscles[1] YES secret information. So the mission is basically a secret. You can only inform a few family members. Even that is only ‘I’m going to ○○ for a mission’. So the details would not be told to a decoration wife like me.
For now, I can only reply with ‘I understand’, even though I do not understand a thing about the work. If there was something ‘I knew’ it would seem like I’m meddling.
While doing various things just like this the day comes to an end. Of course I do not think on my husband’s existence or atoms. Sorry for being a heartless wife.
This just like that a week passes by.
I am relaxing in my room until dinner when,
“Master returned”
Said Mimosa as she entered.
“Oh, the master returned? Where?”
I stupidly question. But, since coming to the duke house, the Duke has not returned, so I do not know how I am supposed to deal with it.
Then,
“For the time being, he is at the entranceway. He always shows his face for a moment at the entranceway, after talking with Lotus he returns to the detached building”
Mimosa explained without delay. Thanks, for the nice follow-up.
“Well then, I wonder if it would be good if I also went to greet him?”
“Yes, certainly. So please simply change your clothes!”
“A, that is true”
I am still in the servant uniform.
In hot haste I change into a simple dress Mimosa prepared. Because it is a pop over the head dress it was easy to get changed☆
I also had to fix my hair tidy up behind my head so it wasn’t a hindrance, I quickly simply rolled it up and go towards the entranceway.
“Welcome back, Master”
I hurry to the entrance and the Duke is talking with Lotus. He notices me and,
“I am home. Above all I have been in good health. Well then”
While smiling, he turns around and briskly left the entranceway.
Boーーーom.
“……it was a moment wasn’t it~”
“Yes, well……”
I say to Lotus while looking at the pattern of the closed door. Still more refreshingly cold as always!
Lotus and I somehow have the feeling of being left behind.
“What did you and the master talk about?”
I ask Lotus.
“I gave a report of the things that happened in his absence”
Well he is somehow or other the head of the duke house. He has to care about the estate once.
It could be he does not completely neglect it.
Ah, but the things that were reported……
“No way, you didn’t say I have blended in with the servants in this and that?
In confusion, Lotus gave affirmation.
“No way no way! That kind of thing, even if my mouth split I would not say!!”
“Is that so~”
Me, who is a wife and make-believing being a servant, and the butler hasn’t stopped it, ne?
It’s my selfishness, so it is not Lotus’ fault.
“From now on please be discrete about it”.
“Of course I will be!”
It is not difficult to imagine that surely Dahlia would say the same thing, I hope.
Authors note:
Thank you for today as well （*＾－＾*）
At last the characters appeared all together, a~nd the Duke made an appearance. Even if for a moment (haha)
T/N:
[1] She means here ‘Not mental intelligence but secret intelligence’ also the NOT and YES are in English in the Raw.
Surprise!! these two were supposed to be posted with Ch.7 but they weren’t quite ready so here they are.
I am really enjoying translating Viola’s antics and seeing as I’m on uni break and have nothing to do for the next few weeks, I’ll be trying to post chapters semi-daily. Thanks heaps for all the support already! Another chapter is on it’s way soon ~♪♪♪ d( ´∀｀)b ♪♪♪~