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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Yuziro
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What was the condition for happiness?
Recently, I’ve come to believe that the ability to live an ordinary life was the true condition for happiness.
It sounds so simple, yet it was incredibly difficult to achieve.
Yes, even now, that thought hasn’t changed.
Even if you were given immense power and a high position, if your life lacked an ‘ordinary routine’, it would be nothing but hardship.
That’s why I hoped that I, and those I care for, could find their own ordinary lives.
Many things changed after the failing class won the All-Out War.
No, it wasn’t just a simple victory.
Valerie was exposed as a demon, and because of that, the failing class became known as ‘The class that even triumphed in a Mana Sprint against a demon.’
‘Headmistress Violet, she really has a big heart.’
The biggest change was in my living environment.
The Headmistress said that the professor who turned the failing class into a hero class deserved a fitting reward, and she bought me a huge mansion, the kind only nobles could afford.
It was vast.
Spacious and vast.
It was a mansion far too large for me to manage alone.
Therefore, I now had servants.
They all seemed diligent, which was a great relief.
Yes, a great relief, but.
There was a problem.
Just one problem…
“O-oh dear…? I need to dust here, but I can’t reach! I, I can’t reach!”
“I’ll do it.”
“Oh my~ Regita, you’re so tall and reliable.”
What on earth was this scene?
Regita, holding a feather duster, cleaning every nook and cranny of the mansion.
It was one of those scenes I still couldn’t get used to, so I rubbed my eyes without realizing it.
“Lulu. Lululu…”
Who taught her that?
Regita was now humming a tune, fully immersed in her duties as a ‘maid.’
Working hard was certainly commendable, but thinking that the Radiant Dragon, who once ruled in the demon world, had come to this, made me feel strange.
But then…
› You have overcome many events.
› You are given the reward of 『A Week Without Crisis.
A week without crisis.
As the name suggested, it meant a week without any danger.
I let out a sigh of relief, but how should I spend this week productively?
While I was thinking about such things, a maid brought me something.
It was a letter that exuded luxury just from a glance.
“Excuse me, Adrian-nim.”
“Where is it from?”
“The Professors’ Association.”
A message from the Professors’ Association.
Since I had recently achieved impressive results, it was unlikely that the content would be unfavorable.
I opened the letter without hesitation.
After all, I was safe from any danger for a week.
Luigh Kiran.
Although the invitation was sent by the Professors’ Association, it wasn’t a gathering exclusively for professors.
Luigh Kiran was a gathering filled with renowned mages, with the Professors’ Association merely acting as the host.
Negotiating with them would be very advantageous in overcoming future crises.
There was no reason not to go.
“But there’s one thing that bothers me…”
Celebrating the thousandth gathering.
And also discovering talented mages.
Was that the intention?
However, Luigh Kiran wasn’t a social gathering you could attend on a day trip.
It would take at least three days.
‘Who should I bring as an assistant?’
The first names that came to mind were, of course, Charlotte Forte and Michelle Meinens. But since I could only bring one, I needed to think more about who to take.
While I was lost in thought.
Crash—!
A sharp shattering sound struck my ears.
At the same time, the head maid’s voice rang out.
“Oh my, how could you break this!”
It seemed Regita had broken something.
Blonde hair and golden eyes.
Regita blinked, as if she didn’t understand what she had done wrong.
“…Can’t we just, clean it up?”
“Of course we have to clean it up! But you shouldn’t have broken it in the first place! Do you know how expensive this porcelain is? It was a gift from the Headmistress of Rahel Academy herself!”
Well, at least the head maid seemed quite passionate.
I didn’t feel too bad watching it.
“I really can’t believe this. When I tell her to clean, she creates more mess! She can’t cook at all! And she’s not good at attending to guests either!”
But even so, it wasn’t right for Regita to be scolded so harshly.
She wasn’t born to be a maid, after all.
“Stop. Stop it. I’ll guide her myself.”
I stopped the head maid.
She looked somewhat flustered.
“Wh-what? Adrian-nim, you will?”
“Yes.”
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I called Regita to the drawing room under the pretext of disciplining her.
I considered having a comfortable conversation in my room, but…
…She was undeniably large, and most maid outfits didn’t fit her, and even if they did, they were far too revealing.
If I brought her to my room, who knows what kind of scandal might arise.
So, I entered the drawing room with Demeri.
“Hello. Hello. I am Regita, serving Adrian-nim.”
Demeri’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.
“Wh-whoa… I can never get used to this. How can Regita be like this?”
“Demeri.”
“Y-yes?”
“Can’t you do something about this?”
It was the first time since Demeri became Adrian’s assistant that he had asked her a question so ‘genuinely.’
It was touching.
Truly touching, but…
“…I really don’t know.”
“You can’t not know.”
“What can I do if I really don’t know? Huh…? Ack!”
She shook her head, then her eyes met Valerie’s.
Only then did she seem to understand the meaning of my words.
“I’ll find, I’ll find out. I just need to find out, right? Yes. I’ll definitely find out.”
“Right.”
Adrian nodded a few times.
“So, how long will it take for you to find out?”
“Yes…?”
Demeri asked back with a bewildered face.
“I need to know the timeframe. You said you’d definitely find out. So, by when?”
“……”
Demeri broke out in a cold sweat.
“B-by the time you return from Luigh Kiran. Yes.”
“Good. You’re truly excellent.”
Adrian patted Demeri’s shoulder.
Demeri just wanted to cry.
I was lost in thought, staring blankly at Regita, who was looking up at the ceiling.
‘Is it okay to leave her in the mansion?’
While I was thinking about such things, Demeri handed me a stack of documents.
“Ah, right. By the way, while you’re away at Luigh Kiran, I’m supposed to conduct student interviews in your stead.”
“It won’t be difficult. I’ve written down in detail how to deal with each student and what aspects to focus on in the conversation.”
“Yes. That’s why I’m doing it instead. You’ve prepared so well. The problem is…”
“The problem?”
“Since it’s vacation time, I’ll probably be conducting the interviews in this mansion’s drawing room, but is it okay to have ‘that…’ in this mansion?”
‘That’ that Demeri was referring to was, of course, Regita.
Indeed, that was the case.
Was it okay to leave Regita in this state in the mansion?
I couldn’t be sure it was okay.
“So, Demeri, what you’re saying is…”
Regita and my eyes met.
The cross-shaped pupils on her golden eyes.
They were as captivating as jewels, seemingly drawing in anyone who looked at them.
“…You want me to take Regita to Luigh Kiran?”
Demeri let out a deep sigh.
“Well… what choice do we have? I’ve thought and thought and thought about where to hide that thing most safely, and no matter how much I think, the safest place is next to you, Jekkiel-nim.”
“Hmm.”
Hearing that, I also let out a deep sigh.
She wasn’t wrong.
“Alright. Then I’ll keep her with me, so find a solution as soon as possible.”
“Yes. Of course.”
In the end, I wrote this at the bottom of the invitation:
‘Regit’
It was the alias she used in the human world.
The greatest magical social gathering on earth, Luigh Kiran, and here I was, a vampire, not even a human mage, attending.
It was a ridiculous story.
And the person this vampire was accompanying was none other than the Sin of Greed, the Dragonkin, the Radiant Dragon Regita.
If the human mages knew, they would really throw a fit.
‘But it should be fine.’
I would be safe from any danger for a week, after all.
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[Dragon maid life]
