episode_0429

If a maid wanted to meet a warrior, she had to be quite careful from the very beginning.

First of all, since the situation where the two of us meet is usually awkward, there was a possibility that it would be annoying if other people noticed.

If I had to pick someone who would be particularly annoying when they get caught, it would be Ethan on my side, and Seraphine, Luke, and Silena on the warrior side.

At least for these four people, it was better not to let them know that I was talking to the warrior alone. I could probably get away with it with other people, but it wasn’t easy to convince these four people with words.

Even if I had been in the warrior party, I wouldn’t have been suspected of being a member of the same party, but the only connection between me and Gyeomyeon now was the secret that we were from the same place in our past lives.

However, it wasn’t that difficult to secretly contact the guy. After all, the items I had recently acquired were quite helpful in this regard.

Use the ‘Whispering Leaf’ to pinpoint the location of the target, and use the ‘Silent Dagger’s’ stealth ability to spot him when he has a chance to be left alone.

“Then, at this festival, everyone together… .”

Here is a picture of Gyeom and Agnes talking alone about the festival.

I hid in the shade of the tree, holding the silent dagger in my hand, and waited for the two people’s conversation to end.

“… Okay. Then I’ll tell him later.”

“Please, Agnes.”

“Instead, don’t forget your promise. Next semester’s exploration class is definitely a pyrotechnics exploration class.”

“I told you so.”

Agnes, it wouldn’t be a problem if I was caught talking to the warrior, but it would be difficult to talk comfortably like usual if she was watching.

After waiting for the two people to move away, I quietly approached the guy from behind.

“I’ve told Agnes now, and now I just need to convince Natalie and Thomas… .”

“What are you planning? What are you going to do at this festival?”

“… Wow, shit. I was really surprised. I thought it was Luke when he suddenly jumped out from behind me. ”

Well, in the original, Luke was a character specialized in stealth and infiltration. The fact that the guy was momentarily mistaken meant that the silent dagger was doing its job properly.

“This works well. I saved it for this summer vacation.”

“Isn’t that the ‘Quiet Dagger’?”

“Uh. Normally, this is an item you should have obtained when you visited the Blackwood Estate, but since it didn’t seem like you had any plans to visit the Estate, I just took it for you. It’s better than leaving it unattended and having it sold to a dangerous character.”

In the original story, it was an item that was given to Luke to raise his affection level, so it was necessary to report it first. If he made a fuss to retrieve the item from Blackwood Estate, his growth rate would slow down.

… It’s a shame, but if by any chance you need it for the story to progress, you may have to give it to me.

“Do you need it? If you need it, I’ll sell it to you for 200 gold coins.”

“Well, I guess I’ll get the Luke Dagger from this festival event anyway. And in the original, it costs 2 gold coins… .”

“… I made a joke because I thought you’d say you didn’t need it anyway. If it was a necessary item, you would have gotten it back during last winter break.”

“That’s right. If you need it, use it. I don’t really care.”

“Okay. Don’t say anything else later?”

With that conversation, I put the fourth dagger that was now firmly in my possession back inside my skirt and quietly walked to a bench in a corner of the park where there were no people.

Since I always come to him like this when I have something to say, he must have sensed that the conversation would inevitably get long.

“So, what’s it this time? Is there anything I should be careful of during the Luminor Festival event?”

“There’s nothing like that? Since I never intervened in the festival in the basic story, I think it’ll probably flow like the original. Well, the kidnapping of Seraphine that happened near the end of the festival will probably be canceled.”

“… That’s right. This world is not dead and Karaham is not corrupted. The Auguste upper class also seems to be running fine.”

Originally, the story in the middle of Part 3 was going to be about Seraphine and McHart disappearing one after another, causing a number of complicated incidents, but those two incidents probably won’t happen in this world.

I was expecting that perhaps, in the world line of 『Luminor Academy』, it would be the first time that a festival could be held where ‘no incidents occur’.

“I was just curious about what you do at the festival, so I wanted to ask. I saw you were talking about something related to the festival with Agnes earlier, but is there anything you do as a group of warriors?”

“… … .”

“… … ?”

He was focusing his gaze on the guy who was watching him closely as if he was hesitating to say something, and he was carefully explaining the festival plan of the warrior party with his own mouth.

“First, the hero party decided to have a maid cafe. It was a way to strengthen the bond between all party members without interfering too much with the original story.”

“What the. You pretend not to care on the outside, but you’re surprisingly faithful to your desires?”

“… In the first place, the only route listed in the strategy guide you posted was the Maid Cafe route. What else do you need to know to do it? You shouldn’t do the theater route because it will lower Seraphine and Silena’s favorability ratings, right? ”

“It’s not that you shouldn’t do it, it’s that it’s better not to do it. They have a hard time managing their favorability.”

“That’s it. There may not be a second playthrough, but I just don’t have the courage to make such a burdensome choice.

But I can’t ask you while keeping an eye on Seraphine and Ethan throughout the festival event.”

Well, I get it. This guy’s goal was to clear the game safely and return to Earth with the wish he received from the goddess.

If it were a real game, then maybe it would be different, but now that the game has become reality, it is natural to be this cautious. After all, I am not someone who has experienced the Luminor Festival event 25 times.

‘By the way, if you’re going to open a maid cafe with a party of warriors, it’ll be a bit difficult to get Agnes and Natalie out.’

Even if Agnes doesn’t know, Natalie is a character who contributes a lot to sales when she runs a maid cafe, so if I take her away without permission, that guy’s plans will be in trouble.

Agnes can also cook in bulk using fire magic, which is quite helpful when serving a lot of guests at once. … Although her appeal as a maid may be somewhat lacking.

‘There’s no choice. We have no choice but to prepare for the event that Ethan and I will be attending in a different way.’

As I was thinking that and was about to get up from my seat, saying that I had a rough idea, Gyeomjoseogi came to me and explained his festival plans to me.

“I already told Agnes about that, but if I had known this would happen, I could have just told you straight away.”

“… … Huh?”

“Last time, when I mentioned that I was going to open a maid cafe at the festival, your name came out of Luke’s mouth. He said that if I wanted to become a maid in a short period of time, it would be better to ask for advice from you.”

“… … Huh? Luke, that guy?”

“I heard last time that you were the role model for all maids? It seems like life as Ethan’s maid is actually quite fun, if Luke can say that.”

“… I’ve never really talked about my life as a maid in front of him… … Ah.”

… Come to think of it, there was one time. We shared a room last time during a humanities exploration class.

At the time, it was a story that I just passed by without saying much, but it seems like what I heard back then left quite an impression on me.

“Anyway, so we were talking about how if we were going to open a maid cafe, wouldn’t it be better to bring you too? Seraphine and Agnes agreed, and the rest of the kids said it didn’t matter either.”

“If I just work with you guys, Ethan… .”

“Of course I’ll bring her along. And since there are a lot more men if I include her, there was even talk of running it in a slightly different way from the original maid cafe.”

“… A different method than the original?”

“It would be a bit boring if there were only maids, so the men wear butler outfits and the women wear maid outfits. It’s run similarly to the maid cafe in the original.”

… Thinking about it, I remember that in the original work, if there were a lot of men in the party, you could have a Maid & Butler Cafe instead of a Maid Cafe. Of course, I’ve never actually done that.

In the original game, my party consisted almost entirely of women, except for the rare occasions when I couldn’t get a chance to play, so I could count on one hand the number of times that such an option appeared.

“Don’t you want to see Ethan in his butler’s uniform? Of course, we’ll have to wait and see if he’ll wear it or not, but I think he’ll wear it since it’s a festival.”

“Ethan’s, butler’s… .”

“Come to think of it, if you’re wondering what I’m going to do, you probably came here because you want to do something with us too. If you don’t have any other plans, we can all do it together. If there are ten of us, we can rent a bigger activity room.”

“… That’s right.”

Listening to that guy’s story, it definitely might not be so bad.

Since I, the maid, couldn’t ask Ethan to wear a butler’s outfit, maybe this would be better than the play.

Either way, it will probably be an unforgettable memory at the Luminor Festival.