Countess Cianella’s Male Slave

14. Hard road (1)

[Quest completed.]

[Shione Cianella’s talent bloom speed increases.]

[The bond with Sione Cianella rises.]

[Her resonance with her unlocks a small amount of your original power.]

With Sione Cianella’s smile, the long quest for rehabilitation has been cleared.

I couldn’t help but smile when I heard that Shione’s talent bloomed faster.

This is a world that will eventually perish.

As Sione Cianella’s development depends on the world’s survival, there is no choice but to be more concerned.

Moreover, part of my power returned due to her growing bond with her was also quite outstanding.

‘The amount of mana has increased a lot.’

I haven’t felt the power of spirits other than wind yet, but the total amount of mana has increased a lot.

At this rate, even if you use spirit magic 2 or 3 times, you won’t collapse from mana exhaustion like before.

Moreover, it will be easier to strengthen physical abilities as well as magic.

First of all, the reward of the quest is like that.

I asked about my master’s series of actions.

“Why did you cut your hair?”

“To cut off the gloomy past along with the hair. It’s a pity that the long hair has been grown… But eventually the hair will grow back. How is it, pretty good idea?”

“…It’s hard to find anything better than what you can be happy with. It’s a good decision.”

“Thank you for saying that.”

Trembling.

Sione went over to the table near her and set down her porcelain knife with which she had cut her hair.

She messed with her hair, which had been shortened to her self.

As expected, apart from the cut, the shortened hair didn’t seem to adapt.

“I have a question for you…”

“If you’re going to ask.”

“Name. I want to know your name.”

“…My name?”

Shione nodded her head slightly.

Anyway, you didn’t know my name until now… ?

I thought you didn’t call me because you were embarrassed to call me by my name, but you didn’t call me by my name in the first place.

After living together for a few months, it was amazing that he came and asked for his name.

“…You weren’t always by my side, even if I didn’t have to call your name.”

“I’m Ray. I don’t have a last name, of course.”

My name in this world, Ray.

Originally, it was called a product number, not a name like this, but it was a name decided by lottery by the guards right before it was sold to a nobleman.

“Layla…”

Shione muttered my name several times and chewed it over.

“That’s not a bad name.”

“Thank you.”

“Then, Ray. Wait here for a while. I have somewhere else to go.”

… Where can Shione go separately?

Suddenly without going to the shooting range and garden?

“If you’re going to go somewhere else.”

“I’m going to talk to my mother for a while. Let’s go to the office.”

“Okay.”

“At least clean the room while I’m back.”

After Shione left the room with those words.

I quietly cleaned up the hair that had been dumped on the ground.

You really cut a lot.

* *

Smart.

Knocked on the door of the office.

“…This is Sione Cianella, Mother. I have come to tell you something.”

“Shione? Come in first.”

I carefully opened the door and entered the office.

As expected, Ainel Cianella was sitting at her desk, handling piles of paperwork.

… Recently, the slum side and the upper ranks within the territory were said to be a problem.

Probably in the process of filing the paperwork for them.

As she finished signing a paperwork she was processing, she looked at her child, Sione, as her child Nel.

The deep sunken wall contained the image of Sione.

“You cut her hair.”

“…Yes.”

“You’ve finally become your own person. So, what did you say you were talking about?”

It was a common occurrence for me to cower when I was in front of my mother before, not being able to properly say anything.

I’m still a little nervous and nervous, but at least this time.

“…It’s about my personal servant, but I want him to be my personal servant, not my servant anymore.”

“I know very well that he stood by your side, like a servant, and assisted you like a loyal servant.”

“If it’s false-“

“But it’s also true that he was born in a lowly way. No matter how much you’ve lived an extravagant life, it’s an unchanging fact that you’re a noble from a count’s family.”

Ainel Cianella’s cold eyes pierced Shione.

Shione bit my lower lip little by little.

“No matter how much he likes him, I don’t think it’s right to make a slave who is not a commoner an exclusive attendant.”

“…I know. But…my reputation says that who else could be my servant if not him?”

“Whoa.”

“Would it be right for the men who are busy only smiling in front of me and cursing at me from behind to be my servants?

Shione took a deep breath before continuing.

“I would like to have such deceitful people as my personal attendant. I would like to appoint Ray, who understands me and gives advice even though I am of low status… As my personal attendant.”

“An attendant has to assist his nobles and lead them on the right path. That’s why there are many cases in which intelligent sons of lower nobles are used as attendants. Indeed, if an uneducated person like them could handle what I said enough? Will there be?”

“……Thanks to that, please know that I, who used to live like cattle, lost weight and am now shooting an arrow at a shooting range.”

Shione went so far as to add that at least he gave me advice to guide me on the right path.

Seeing Shione like that, Ainel’s lips went up with interest.

“To think that you, who always couldn’t say a word properly in front of me, would do this. I guess he liked him anyway.”

“……That’s right.”

“Raising him as your exclusive attendant was an act of your own will. You will have to bear all the responsibility for raising a lowly slave to the important position of an exclusive attendant.”

“That means…!”

“It means that I allow your will.”

“Thank you!”

Shione’s complexion brightened dramatically.

However, that wasn’t the end of Shione’s request.

“I have one more request.”

“If only I had one more?”

“Ray, I’d like to get his enslavement certificate.”

“Why do you want to burn the certificate and make me a commoner?”

As if Shione hadn’t thought about burning the certificate from the beginning, he calmly shook his head.

“In the certificate, Ray’s owner is her mother.”

“That means.”

“This is my first person. I know my mother won’t do that, but…”

Shione looked straight into Ainel’s eyes.

“I certainly don’t want to leave room for anyone to take him away, though.”

Ainel started laughing at Shione’s words as if it were funny.

Nel, the child who calmed her laughter, opened her mouth in a lighter atmosphere than before.

“Is that all you want?”

“Yes.”

“So, that’s all you have to say that made you come to my office for the first time in years, right?”

“…That’s right.”

Ainel chuckled while holding her chin, and Shione’s cheeks turned slightly red.

It was fun to see my daughter showing how much she has changed because of just one servant.

The male slave who made that Sione Cianella like this was amazing.

He was definitely a guy who only possessed the talent of being a man who had awakened mana.

“All of my requests will come true. The slave certificate will be corrected and sent separately soon.”

“…Thank you.”

“But of course there are conditions.”

“You mean conditions?”

“Yes, I delayed and postponed it, but I was going to call it separately because it can’t be postponed anymore. You came to me first with good timing.”

Ainel opened the drawer of my desk and took out an envelope.

From the splendid patterns engraved on the envelope, it was clear that the letter was no ordinary letter.

Ainel held out the letter to Sione.

“This is a letter addressed to you.”

“What do you mean…?”

“A letter from your fiancé, to be exact.”

Ainel caught sight of Sione, who was embarrassed.

Judging from such a reaction, I must have forgotten that my fiancé even existed.

It was a reaction that could not be shown otherwise.

“Even though it’s an arranged marriage, before holding the ceremony, he said it would be nice to talk to each other about what they think about this engagement.”

“No way…”

“Shione Cianella, go to the Marquis of Peiosha.”

“…Really?”

“Then, is the seal of the Marquis of Peiosha stamped here a lie?”

She said as the child Nell began to process her pile of papers again.

“I’ll have Dioria attached as an escort, so be ready to depart in three days.”

* *

How long has it been since I finished cleaning Shione’s room?

After waiting, the door opened and Shione returned.

I got up from her chair and greeted her right in front of her.

“Are you home?”

“……Yes.”

Shione’s complexion was not good.

Judging by the loss of strength in his voice, he seems to have broken quite a bit in the office.

She trudged over to her bed and lay down, staring up at her ceiling like a dazed person.

Seeing her looking at her with a puzzled look, Shione let out her cheesy smile and said,

“After 3 days, I will have to leave the territory and live in a carriage, so please be aware of that.”

“Suddenly?”

“… I have to go see her fiancé as a writer after Pei Osha.”

“……?”

No, wait a minute, this bastard had a fiancé?

It seems that I am losing my mind over words I do not understand.