Read Novel Full Chapter 60, The Hired Servants
Chapter 60, The Hired Servants
Translator: Lizz
The hired senior servants were very capable.
As expected of professionals, and of people introduced by a Marquis house.
It was wonderful that all of them spoke both the neighboring country’s language and this country’s language.
Among those hired, the most capable was Beffa.
He worked under Calogero and handled various tasks, but he was truly a man from a loyal family. For the master he swore loyalty to, he acted thoughtfully and carefully to be useful.
He also seemed skilled at gathering intel.
“Of course from the neighboring country, but if you request it, I can easily gather intel from this country as well. I was trained for that!”
He said that.
He was so capable that Edward actually became worried.
“…Won’t Marquis Onofrio and your family come to take you back? No matter how I think about it, you’re more capable than your older brother who was a butler candidate. I know because I do it too, but gathering intel is pretty tough, you know? If you can gather from this country too, that means you have routes, right?”
“Hahaha. I was glad to be valued by you, Mr. Edward! And thank you for recognizing how difficult it is! Yes, it took me quite a lot of effort to build them. And these routes are my own, neither my family nor the Marquis’s house use them at all, so please rest assured!”
“That makes me even less reassured. If you disappear, they can’t get any information. Eventually, it’ll become troublesome for us – they’ll make excuses to demand us to give you back.”
Edward worried, but Beffa lightly waved his hand.
“Since I was told to work here by Marquis Onofrio’s recommendation, it would be impossible for them to come take me back. In the first place, they didn’t value me as highly as you do, Mr. Edward, and that’s why they sent me here. Even if by chance they said something, we could just ignore it. I was promised lifelong employment here! If my family tried to say anything, I would just tell them I was bound by magic and drive them away.”
It was true that he was bound by magic, so nothing could be done…
But that contract magic didn’t actually have penalties. It only made Lady Sylvia’s voice audible when she called. Well, for him, that had been quite a penalty… Ah, maybe for this guy too. If Lady Sylvia called, he would probably fly straight to her… Edward thought to himself.
Even so, Edward, just to be safe, said,
“…Still, to be thorough, you should keep track of your family’s movements. I do the same. Blood ties are fragile compared to a father’s pride. If your loyal father found out that your loyalty had shifted to Lady Sylvia, he might see it as a disgrace and try to take you back, or in the worst case, try to dispose of you.”
He warned him.
Seeing Edward’s serious face, Beffa was first surprised, then gave a wry smile.
“…You’re right, I can’t afford to cause trouble. I’ll look into it, just in case.”
He answered.
Furthermore, Edward wrote and sent a letter to Marquis Onofrio.
‘All of the candidates you sent were hired. They all worked with great excellence, and those who showed especially remarkable performance were given lifelong employment contracts. These were magical contracts, so they cannot be overturned, but they accepted them willingly. My gratitude to Marquis Onofrio is endless. I hope we can continue to build a friendly relationship.’
He didn’t know how much they would understand from this, but at least they should have realized that none of those sent would ever return.
Thanks to the work of the senior servants, an aristocratic atmosphere had begun to show, and Edward started to think about measures against the Marquis’s daughter who would be sent as a tutor.
Of course, they couldn’t put [Domination] on a tutor.
She wasn’t a servant or a subject, but would be treated as a ‘guest’.
All the more so since she was a Marquis’s daughter.
First, he consulted Sylvia about remodeling a room.
“The guest room is here, close to the entrance. I don’t think the Marquis’s daughter herself would play at being a spy, but they might mix one in among her attendants, like a maid. And the maids are also part of her education staff, as well as caring for her. …I’d like to restrict the areas they can enter inside the fortress, but…”
While Edward was troubled, Gina, who was listening beside Sylvia, offered an idea.
“Since the number of servants increased, why not assign one of the newly hired senior servants to the Marquis’s daughter who comes here?”
In fact, among those hired this time were two senior maids, so Gina learned from them, and thus the issue of maid education was resolved.
At present, those two maids, Daphne and Romy, along with Gina and Emma who had already been there, served as Sylvia’s maids.
Both of them were, as expected, highly skilled, and Gina and Emma had much to learn from them.
Moreover, they respected Gina and Emma.
Edward wondered if it was just an act, but since Calogero said nothing, it was probably genuine.
Calogero also observed the servants’ movements for a while and judged that there were no particular problems. On the contrary, with more people covering tasks, things became much easier.