Chapter 17
<strong>Ch . 17 Harmony</strong>
After Lotus’s words we decide to go towards the dining room .
Things like eating in the main dining room, only happened on the first day . From the second day I intruded into the servant’s dining room . This morning I ate there also, this way suits to a T but I can’t say this .
From Lotus’s guidance, father-inw and the Duke, behind then mother-inw and I follow their figures and start moving but as soon as we leave the entrance way mother-inw suddenly stood still,
“Wow, such pretty flowers! I wonder, were there these flower varieties at the house?
She said while looking my way .
Ahead of my mother-inw’s gaze are the entrance flower vases I ced there this morning . The flowers arranged there were the variety I asked Bellis to order and grow . They are a neer so it is no wonder mother-inw does not know .
“These are thetest I asked Bellis to order”
I answer and,
“Huuhhh?! Bellis did??
Mother-inw is exaggeratedly surprised .
“Yes . Bellis has ordered and grown flowers to my liking”
Bellis (Demon king), is skilled so he grew them very skillfully~ . It’s bad about his unsociable deferential treatment!
“Ohhhhh!! Bellis has opened up?!
Mother-inw puts her hands on her cheeks . Is it that much of a surprise?
“Yes, he is a extremely gentle person”
“Vi-chan, you are doing well . Haha, these flowers, are very very lovely!”
Mother-inwpletely changes from a surprised face, now to a tender, sparkling, smiling face . Uh huh, it seems like something in my mother-inw has been acknowledged . Was there some sort of barrier?
“Truly . It is a good thing to be greeted by flowers in the entrance”
Father-inw also turned towards this way, giving a smile .
“I am very happy you said that! Bellis will also be delighted”
I also became happy . Because Bellis’ great work is being praised!
“Ah, not Bellis, are we not saying that Vi-chan has made the mansion gorgeous like this?”
“Oh, me?”
“That’s right,”
Mother-inw is smiling and giggling . But I, only decorated with the beautifully bloomed flowers~?
It somehow feels like I am snatching Bellis’ achievement .
In that manner, we are stopped in front of the flower vases but,
“Look, the meal willpletely cool down . Let us go”
Said the Duke’s calm voice, once again starting movement . Ooh, the Duke was here! Until now he was very quiet (because he didn’t make an utterance!), his existence hadpletely changed into air .
We follow behind the Duke and father-inw but, the Duke is looking here and there smiling . He is himself and, yet, not himself? Well, for the Duke it as been quite a long time since hest lived in the main residence . Furthermore, isn’t it the first time entering since I came here? I did things like decorate with nice flowers everyday and reced the fabrics and furniture, I enjoyed spending my time customizing with the servants, so I think the impression haspletely changed . It has wholly gone in the direction of ‘feels young again’ .
“Oh~ itpletely feels young again! Uh huh isn’t the cheerful atmosphere great!”
“Yes, yes! Vi-chan, your sense is great~!”
Mother-inw and father-inw also praised me again . Just the Duke remained reserved as ever .
We hardly sit down in the dining room, the maids lying in wait, carry in the lunch .
This is a roughly a rtive lunch so, the arrangement is father-inw and mother-inw are matched up on the inner side and the Duke and I are matched up this side .
Today, as expected, it is impossible to eat the servants food . It will be a one-on-one fight with intestinal terrorists . Do your best my good bacteria!!
Once when consulting the menu beforehand,
“Please make my dishes slightly less”
“Vi, Mada~me”
“Certainly . I will pay attention to make a mistake with the tters!”
I secretly made necessary arrangements with Carthame and the maids in charge of the errand boys!
“The main dish is herb stir-fried chicken, from a Reinean source”
Lotus with a elegant movement serves the tter in front of father-inw .
Ooh, today’s cooking is as proposed by a cook from the region of Reine! Aah, I wanted to eat today’s servant meal .
There is also a dish brought in front of me who has made petit trips to the servants dining room .
The lovely light brown fried colour is quite beautiful . As expected of Carthame, his skills are super......well, great . The Reine specialty herb is used and that unique aroma also incites the appetite!
Staring at the te and thinking these things when,
“Oh? Isn’t this the Reine region’s local cuisine?”
Father-inw gave a happy voice .
“Yes, that is right”
Lotus answers .
“As I thought . We went on a trip before and the cuisine there was delicious”
“Yes, it was”
Father and mother-inw, gaze at each other and smile at each other and blush......, please do this somewhere else . I had heard they were actively in love but it has developed in front of my eyes...... eew, violently sweet .
“I never thought I would be able to eat it at this house”
Said father-inwing out of their two person world,
“That is right . Lately, various ces with local cuisines has been increasing . Has Vi noticed this?”
The Duke who had been quite up to this point suddenly spoke . Furthermore he called me by my pet name! Ah~it startled me . I was unprepared because he had turned into air .
On that subject, the ‘travelling feeling from local cuisine and supplies’ has been secretly adopted into the meals taken to the Duke and Calend . I think it’s not to the degree of noticing but, in the manner of things like source and art of cooking .
“Ye,yes, well...... the cooks are also studying and because these apprentice cooks, seem toe from various regions”
Well, I cannot talk about it in detail so I sugarcoat and exin .
“Really? So that was how it was”
Oh? The Duke seems a little surprised and raised one eyebrow quickly* . The Duke is personally surprised to be aware of this! He is secretly surprised at Lotus and others, it just does not show on his face .
“You have thought of very interesting things, Vi and Carthame have”
Father-inw said in a admiring like way but I merely just wanted to eat unusual and rare things~ . Studying and so on is a postscript just cause!
“Cercis do you call Vi, Vi?
Mother-inw . Is that the ce you held onto! We are talking about local cuisine right now? Talking about studying cooking? And yet, why that!
I endure copsing when,
“Yes, that is right”
The Duke answers nonchntly smiling . Amazing acting ability! His face is entirely as if what?, as if he has always calls [me that]!
“That’s adorable! I wonder is it alright if I also call you Vi-chan?”
Mother-inw petitioned me with a sparkling smile . Wow! It is a sight for sore eyes [1]
“Of course”
Smile . I respond, as a ordinary daughter-inw, giving a smile with all my might . Uh huh, a smile is zero yen(dors) a smile isn’t a crime . Even though I’m ordinary a smile is good . Uh huh .
My eyes were hit by beautiful sight for sore eyes face, and I am a smidgin sulky .
Harmoniously lunches to an end, even moving to the reception room the father mother-inw couple’s waa–kya–[2] (mainly mother-inw’s) continue . At any rate, in name and in reality, the trousseau [things a bride brings with her] from the warehouse have been revived and are enshrined in the reception room . Mother-inw atst cried!
If I were to speak of the Duke, when he entered the reception room, once again after a little while he turned into air . Turning into air seems to be the state of affairs in which he spends time processing his intracerebral data . . The result of my personal observation .
Because though he did know I had customized as I pleased, he did not know to what extent I had~
The results of the home visit . I am very pleasing to the parents-inw couple .
I have be a good daughter-inw! I have done a good job!
T/N:
[1] This was in thest chapter but the kanji for the sore eyes she is talking about means from seeing something beautiful or precious . Not how in english we would say ‘sight for sore eyes’ is when we see something after a long time .
[2] These are exmations of wonder . Like ‘wow’ or ‘ooh’