Life in Another World as a Maid Mage
08 Gentleman's Comfort Party
"That's all the cooking. This is the salty flavor, and this dish is a little spicy with spices. Whatever you like."
So Siori put the plates on the table, and the cheers began to boil. The thinly sliced potatoes fried in a pile of oil give off a nice aroma of freshly fried potatoes.
"Oops, it looks delicious! Please!
It was the bowman Linus who quickly reached out. Throwing it into his mouth, he made a slightly creepy sound, and the newcomer who was looking at it swallowed his throat and spit.
"... you."
With a bitter smile, Alec took it off the plate and turned it around to them, who were reluctant. I smiled at them and then called out to Theori.
Siori, it's time for you to sit down.
Yeah, but...
"Oh, that's really good. I almost washed it with magic. We'll be all alone in the aftermath, so you can go."
The ladies in charge of the cafeteria pushed her back, which she hesitated to clean up. Nadia and Marlena pull their hands and drag them into the circle of laughter.
With a smile on his face, Alec took a triangle scarf and a front cover, and noticed that his colleagues were all looking at him with their subtle expressions.
"... what is it?"
"Nooo...... hey"
Ludger chewed and swallowed a bite of fried thinly sliced potatoes, and smiled bitterly at the neighboring linus.
Clement was also silent about drinking - even though the frequency was considerably reduced in case of an emergency request - but this is still similar. She has a meaningful smile on the edge of her mouth.
"--Oh, my God! Come on, Clemens, push them against me and I'll run away... what's wrong with you?"
Zack, who had somehow escaped from the circle of newcomers and young people surrounded by a seemingly enthusiastic look, looked at them with a subtle half-laugh and looked at Alec on the traffic and looked suspicious.
"No, what? I thought it would change if we changed."
Clement rode a freshly fried thinly sliced potato and nobody said, "Mm, delicious." Then she glanced at Alec.
"So what happened? What the hell?"
"You seemed embarrassed at first sight, and you were surprisingly nice, but I rarely cared about younger people. I don't know because I was aiming to get into the kitchen without my equipment."
Everyone nodded at Clement's words.
"I don't know. I don't know what to say, but Alec's husband was a tough young man."
"Hey, I'm good with people, but my husband had a bit of a hard time speaking up. Actually, it wasn't, but it seemed a little uncomfortable."
"Really? I see....."
Alec twisted his neck at the words of Rudger and Linus, saying what he wanted to say when he said it was difficult and hard to speak.
"... no. Maybe so."
Looking back, Alec lowered his eyebrows and buttocks.
"I don't seem to like being surrounded by young people. I don't think it's because I don't have any good memories... but that's right. I don't really care anymore these days....."
Young people in their teens and early twenties. This is not the case with obvious children like the one I was dealing with in the orphanage, but I was not good with the calorie gaze when I was surrounded by a few people to make arrangements and teach. The memory of the Prince's time surrounded by the children of the nobles came back to life - the next moment, I think, I was unconsciously thrown out of consciousness.
Perhaps the attitude at that time gave young people the impression that they were difficult to approach.
But what about now? I wasn't very conscious, but I was never uncomfortable with the recent orientation session. I think I was dealing with them quite naturally earlier.
"But... there may have been times when I was disturbing the circle with my attitude. If that's the case, we'll have to make a real change."
"I may be a fool... but I've never felt it in my work. But if you have an idea, apologize."
Saying it was important to save yourself, Zack smiled and slapped Alec on the shoulder.
"--That way of caring is similar to Shiori. I'm a little influenced because I'm with you all the time."
"There are some things that no one is good at, but it would have been nice if they had been overcome. Especially when it comes to relationships."
"... that's right."
Alec smiled a little at the warm words of his friends.
Was it influenced not only by healing and satisfying each other?
(If Shiori is affected by anything but me... if so, that would be a pleasure.)
--If things are going in the right direction, I want to be with her more than ever.
Whether or not you realized Alec's feelings, ahh, Linus shouted enviously.
"My husband became round thanks to Shiori, and Shiori smiled more after my husband arrived. It's alright, I want someone like that too"
"It's nice to have someone to protect you. I don't know what to do, and I don't know when life is moisturizing."
Linus glanced at the women as he said, and proudly announced the words that Rudger, his wife's lover, could be taken in love.
Like Alec, the magical swordsman has an anecdote that he joined the adventurer after three older children who were secretly thinking about him. Marlena, his wife with a spear, who initially had a childish attitude, was eager to put herself to work and someday began to think about him.
But these are all Ludger's valves. There may be subjective footprints on the story.
Alec smiled secretly in the shadow of the glass and shook the subject to Linus, who was eating thinly sliced fried potatoes.
"But I'm surprised. It seems like a woman would have let go if you hadn't done your job and had a good person. You never had a partner before?
"Hmm, they often say that... I've been called several times, but I've never felt that way before because I enjoyed my work. But when I saw Cili with my husband, it wasn't so bad, and I started to think about it recently."
Linus licked off the salty and greasy fingertips and laughed.
"... I see. Humans don't know where or how to influence them."
My encounter with Ciori changed me. She was the same. By engaging with each other, I became inclined to face the past I had been trapped in.
Maybe they're about to change someone else's mind - Alec smiles thinly and falls down.
Good or bad.
I wonder if people live under each other's influence.
― ― The field is filled with soft and gentle air.
"... ah. Speaking of influence."
Until then, Orov, a rancher who had been listening to everyone while silently consuming dishes, barely opened his mouth.
"Alec, you were ringing in the whorehouse you were going to. It seems like it's still quite a night out, but for that... Theori, you're really influencing me, I guess you'll always be fine. Are you still saving that? There's a big difference in body, and I can't hold it if you stick it to me."
The atmosphere in which the atmosphere was so good suddenly became subtle to the question, which was too blatant.
Linus and Rudger are intriguing, but common sense people like Zack and Clement are clearly upset. Zack, who was supposed to have passed a long time ago such as his beginnings, convulsed around his mouth, and Clement pretended to be calm, but his hand trembled little by little, creating a ripple in the glass.
Apart from that, Alec raised his eyebrows, completely unaware of what was said.
"... what are you talking about?
"What... what are you talking about?"
Alec puts his arms together and thinks.
"I haven't (...) done anything with her yet... but what the hell are you talking about? Am I mistaken for someone?"
"I don't care about that yet (...), but that's what this is about."
"That's right. He said he was staying at Ciolin's as soon as he got back from Brovito and went home in the morning. In the morning, she came out of the room satisfied."
"And my husband, you've been staying with Theoli many times. Nothing, right?"
Linus and Rudger joined Orov as he leaned his head. Soon, the colleagues who surrounded him nodded deeply.
"Me too....."
Zack said with a sleigh.
"... I heard your voice. It's midday."
Everyone watches Alec, who has finally made a serious thought, with a stubborn spit.
"- No, I don't think so. I haven't had anything with her yet."
All I wanted was for her wounds to heal, and I imposed a constraint on myself. I may have licked, stroked, or rubbed a little, but I don't remember any behavior that reached enough to hear my voice leak.
"As soon as I got back from Brovito, it was because Cili was sick, so I stayed and looked after her. To my satisfaction, well... maybe at that time, you were invited to party with me, so it might have appeared on my face somewhat."
Anyway, I've never had anything to do with her.
"... but I heard your voice coming from his room"
Still, Ruli came to her feet a little while ago, pointing out what Zack was talking about.
"Oh, what's up, Lori?"
Ruli stretched out her tentacles and pushed his back several times.
Alec, who had been watching it in silence for a while, finally nodded with a point of convergence.
"Probably the voice of a massage. That's all I know."
Ha...
Zack stunned and Clement pressed her fingertips between her eyebrows to exhale deeply. For a moment, my colleagues around me burst out.
Angry, Zach slapped Alec on his back.
"... what are you doing? You must have been mistaken."
Alec, who had exhaled a chunk of air, glanced at him in disgust with the voice and breath she leaked during the massage and the fact that she was inadvertently on the shelf.
Looking back at the growing laughter around him, Theoli and the others were laughing at the other table.
― ― Tris Branch in Ninose. This is the comfort party that opened the scene with some nonsense, but it is also the flavor of this event.
Anyway, Alec wanted to have a conversation until he ran out of food and wine.
This year of building new relationships will be over and a new year will soon be celebrated. I hope that the new year will also end safely with my loved ones and these coworkers. Then, today, a year later, you can have a pleasant drink with everyone at this comfort party again.
With that in mind, Alec still poked his brother at the top of the Buddha's elbow.