Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

Pass through the first sheet, drill holes with a perforator for each piece of paper selected for storage and disposal, and attach a cardboard cover to the bundle and spell it out with a string. Olivier, who had been repeating the work all morning, put his hand on the last bundle.

"... oh dear, finally one more."

Peru, who had been told to rest in the bedroom earlier, didn't tell me he was here, and he ended up waiting for Olivier to fall asleep at his feet.

The number of documents handled in a year is enormous. Therefore, I have been trying to organize documents from day to day so as not to struggle at the end of the year, but there have been many cases involving the Empire in the past few years, so it often took till late at night.

By the way, the secretary sent him home about two hours ago. He said he couldn't do it alone and then he left. His mistress just gave birth to a third child a few days ago. Some people will take care of maids and nurses, but it would be more comfortable for their husbands to be around.

I thought of his face, which reported with a smile that a long-awaited girl had been born, and I dropped my gaze on the documents at hand with a thin smile that I was too. Exhale briefly and breathe in. We're almost there. This is the end of our business this year. The four days leading up to the first day of work are vacations.

So when I put my hand on the first document, I heard a bang on the office door. The guard guard knight peered at him as he urged him into the room. Next, a woman with golden brown hair wrapped in an easy shape slipped into the room without making a sound.

It's my wife. She comes to the office late at night worrying about her husband. I am told to rest first on a day when I am late on an assignment, but occasionally I come to see them. Of course, you can watch the timing so that you don't get in the way of the work, and the person can put in snacks and tea without visiting.

"Cecilie"

Calling her beloved by her nickname, she smiled brightly. Place the bowl of tea ware on the table and walk quietly to your husband.

"That's all I have left. Just a moment, please."

"Well, that was just great. I'll be waiting for tea."

Cecilia grabbed the tabletop's tea ware, holding it as she sat down and dropped her lips just to touch it.

The soft sound of kopokopo resonates indoors, leaving a very slight fragrance of fruit. It's Olivier's favorite scented herbal tea. You were worried it wasn't tea because it was before bedtime.

Olivier breathed deeply as the room was wrapped in a sweet fragrance.

"Good day."

In front of Olivier, who put the spelling on a bookshelf, put together the documents to be disposed of, and packed them in a box for incineration, was placed a tea ware with hot air rising. I'm glad you brought me a little snack.

"Thank you. You can sit down."

"Yeah."

Cecilia, who borrowed the secretary's chair, sat down next to Olivier and mouthed herbal tea in the same way.

A moment of silence. But it's never uncomfortable, it's pleasant silence because we've been together for a long time.

Olivier opened her mouth as she reduced the contents of the teaware by about half.

"... where are the kids?

"I'm already rested. Bern wanted to stay up late because he wanted to read a book... but he told me to go to bed tomorrow."

New Year's holidays are a valuable way for officials who are busy with their official duties to grow their wings slowly. Some servants entrusted with work in the castle and knights involved in national defense do not go along with that, but they are also given regular holidays by shifting the days.

The royal family does not leak to the example. Since all the training and official duties imposed on Prince Wang are exempted, you can enjoy reading slowly during your vacation without staying up late.

"A novel book illustrating the now and then female painter Annelier Robnell. I'll lend it to you when I'm finished."

Written for young people, the novel gained popularity with a story of bloody adventures and an immersive illustration that matched it well. Some people tend to think it's because they hired popular painters, but why is the story so important that it can also be read? A new magazine is scheduled to be released in the spring. I wish I had finished reading all the existing publications by then.

"It was very interesting. I cried so much at the end."

"Mm, when did you...?"

I don't think she had that much time to go to work as a queen.

After some regret, Olivier wrinkled between his eyebrows, but relaxed his expression to Cecilia, who laughed joyfully.

Gentle air.

"... I hope we can all spend the rest of next year in peace."

"... that's right."

It's so much more expensive to spend a quiet time before bed.

Thinking of the knights who were waiting on the cold border at the moment, Olivier narrowed his expression slightly.

Now that the knight of his country is carrying out a top-secret mission on a national scale, the King himself cannot resist sitting in a safe place and sipping warm tea.

But Edvard said he didn't care.

Don't be solemn, you can do as you always do. I'm not asking you to do anything luxurious, it's just as long as you really live your normal life. Just show me how prepared you are to trust them. And when you come back, do your best. "

Maybe they'll be happy.

Some of you may be a crook, but Edvard concealed his status as the Duke's illegitimate son and knocked him up for the Knights Underboss. The sensitivity must be close to that of the knights on the front line.

So this is how you carry out his words.

Moreover, he was well aware of the problems caused by solemnity.

When the royal obituaries were followed by the fall of his father's king. He also taught me that the domestic economy has slowed down due to the solemnity of the upper class, and that it has an impact on the direction of life of the city well. Having been influenced by his half-brother of free temper, Edvard, who often went down to the city well to play, watched the situation directly and knew it.

When I heard that, I thought Olivier was going to be fine. I can't see the truth unless I have the same eyes as the people.

--So go out directly and check with your own eyes in order to know the truth of things. Edvard would not have thought that one of the causes that would lead him to be persecuted as a king with a fleeing habit was his own.

Thinking of a man with bad flax-colored hair who would still be packed in the Knights headquarters, Olivier smiled lightly at the edge of his mouth.

"... the emperor worked so hard that I didn't have to intervene directly with the Allies. I think we can raise our own troops by February."

Organized in secret by Emperor Vranov, who ruled the southern part of the Dorgastic Empire, the rebels gathered the support of many lower-ranking nobles and people to expand their forces in an instant. They drove the major cities one after the other, approaching the Imperial Capital just three months after the enlistment and destroying the Imperial Army in the first battle to intercept.

The Emperor, who had managed to stay long just by sipping the remnants of glory, would be in a castle protected by a large outer wall, but it would also fall in a few weeks.

I wonder how much public dissatisfaction there was. The rebels continued from the superior nobles that the Emperor was supposed to give them, and within less than six months of their rise, the Empire was almost suppressed.

"The Emperor must have been a fake."

Cecilia's tone changed to a firm one. Maybe there's something I think of as a former knight. When she gets emotional, she goes back to the tone she once knew.

"Nobody would have thought that legalism would have stopped twenty years ago. I can't believe the bypass was a substitute for the legacy."

An emperor who rarely appeared before a minister for fear of assassination or sacredness. The vision did not come true to worship the honorable face beyond the curtain, and only a small number of people knew that face.

It became an enemy, and no one realized that the true emperor had been assassinated and replaced by another in the past. When this fact came to light, many of the aristocrats who had followed him to the end rebelled against him.

Only a very small number of superior aristocracy gave to the Prime Minister knew the facts. It was not uncommon for a strange emperor to replace the pet queen of the rear palace, and it was also one of the reasons for the long deception that it was routinely captured within the Empire.

"Besides, the real power was held by a bystander who was in the position of prime minister, and the court clown who served as the emperor was a laughing stock. It would have been an insult no more than the nobles of a prized empire."

It would have been enough to kill the Imperial army's wars, which had been held hostage by protecting the sacred emperor.

"There will be a slice next year. Now... finally the Alpha Dis continent is free from the nightmares of the Empire. After centuries of dominating the continent and spreading poison like smoked remnants of modern times, we are finally free."

--Liberation from the Empire. The grief of our ancestors will soon come to fruition.

Olivier drank the remaining herbal tea.

A little silence.

"If you say you will be released..."

Olivier, who now brewed the second cup by hand, poured it into an empty teapot for two.

"Maybe it's time to let Alec go."

My brother-in-law.

Cecilia glanced at the tea ware that stood up with warm water. She was telling her wife the truth about the disappearance after the wedding. Of course, I've been face-to-face several times. It was a tight face to face with each other, but as the same swordsman, it seems that there is something that leads to each other.

"What do you mean?

"Yeah."

For a moment, Olivier worried about what she had to say, but she honestly said that it was enough to tell only the facts she now knew.

"It seems that there are people who seriously want to be together. I haven't heard from him yet. But... it looks like I'm serious. I think I finally got rid of everything in the past, and I think I can prove it to be positive. So..."

"I see... That's more than anything else."

"Yeah, and..." Madame Lindvari. "It means that it will be the end of spring or the beginning of summer."

Mrs. Lindvari is a woman who served as a research assistant to the late Count of Lindvari, who made a great contribution to the Kingdom's agricultural development.

Former Ms. Levecca Halostin.

- Alexei's lover.

"That's..."

Cecilia, who made an unspeakable expression, eventually smiled with a slightly painful face.

"You must have been my age. The first birth after thirty-five years will be painful... but that's a good thing. Are you giving me a gift?

"Of course. I want you to help me with the selection. [M] Most likely."

Although I was a little complicated personally, Olivier smiled bitterly, adding that it was so small.

"On the other hand, it's a complicated feeling that she got happiness first."

"There's no way."

Cecilia smiled slightly, but turned and tightened her expression.

"I understand that she was never solely responsible. But the royal palace at the time was not in a position to tolerate it. The royal palace was quite unstable when the ancestral emperor fell ill after the obituaries."

A succession of accidental deaths of the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, and the rise of young Olivier to first place in succession to the throne, greatly changed the faction chart. On top of that, the king fell to death and illness, and Olivier, who had not long been a prince, took over the administration on behalf of the king.

It's only been six years.

Many aristocrats rushed to ground consolidation on the faction map, which was repainted many times in a very short period of time, causing political turmoil. In addition, there was a long wave of triple royal obituaries and festivals and other festivals, and the domestic economy was depressed. Some of the neighboring countries, including the Empire, saw this turmoil as an opportunity to show uneasy movements, as the rich kingdom, which had been stable for a long time, fell into political anxiety here.

"It's a national crisis, so to speak. In the midst of this, those in a position obliged to protect and stabilize the country thought only of their private interests and scolded even the prince who ran to government for no profit - this is not acceptable."

In the event of an incident, the queen is in a position to defend and extract the castle on behalf of the king. Cecilia's words are fiercely harsh when she is in that position and is the son of a Cederval border uncle who once served as a knight in national defense to protect the southern part of the kingdom.

At that time, many of the ladies who climbed the castle wanted to work together for the country under the young new king. Of course, there would have been a few who had some ambition, but many of them became women and maids, and still make use of their respective fields of expertise to encourage them.

Cecilia was also a knight defending the country. Contributed to national defense in a different way than his parents and brothers.

― ― But how was Levecca? It was a maid's job, but didn't you just spend your days in peace? Didn't you notice Alexei secretly sent his few guards to protect you, just waiting for the "day" to come?

"There is no reason that there was no knowledge or education, and there was no educator attached. In normal times, that would have been forgiven, but a royal companion is not a person who just sits in danger of the country and waits for the good news. They must be able to think and move themselves. I have heard that she is a cautious and gentle woman. But unfortunately, she didn't have the qualities to be a concubine - that's all. There was nothing wrong with your exploitation on behalf of the King."

"... Cecilie"

The will to value the public more than I do, and the strength of this shaking. Olivier thinks this is the queen's qualities. Besides, I have the ability to protect myself if I have to.

I thought this woman could protect and support the country together.

That's why Olivier was so attracted to Cecilia.

Smile, and when you get up, you bend over Cecilia. At that moment, it was thought to touch your glossy lips.

The stretched, supple fingertips pressed Olivier's lips against her. The eyes were filled with love for their husbands, and complicated colors of blame appeared.

"- But I'm also a woman. There's something I think of as a woman. So let me just say a few more words."

Until recently, my eyes were slightly shaking with strong light.

"I want to be with the people I love all the time. That's how we discuss everything. I want to share my concerns and discuss them until they are convinced. It's your arrogance to decide all the important things on your own."

That's why.

Cecilia murmured while holding Olivier's lips with her index finger.

"Oniisama, I hope you don't make a mistake this time. We have to face the people we care about and make sure they're willing to do it. Otherwise, each one of them is just asking for one-sided thoughts and interchanging them."

"... my ears hurt."

"Do you remember?

"Uhh... nh. I can't tell you that I won't. No, maybe... there must be."

Fufu, Cecilia laughed.

"Of course I can't hope for all that from you, the king. So, as much as you can."

"Oh, I will. I promise."

The index finger pressing against her lips was separated.

Quietly overlap each other's lips in a calming evening office.

--Alexei and Revecca would have been together in normal times.

And that confusion gave Olivier and Cecilia a chance to meet.

It is easy to clean up by saying that it was around the stars. But I don't want it to be good. It is up to him to choose the turning point that he will visit many times in his life.

At least Olivier thinks so.

(... I'm sure it's the reversal of the regrets I had when I was patiently confronting her)

I don't think Alexei wants to be different anymore.

Then there is only one thing I wish for as my brother.

Please tell your brother that you're lucky.