The next day it was decided that Sierra and Amelia, and one other member named Nana was to go to the kingdom of Ranbadeia in order to gather some information.
As a way we can keep in contact with each other, I retrieved a special scroll from the guild house, this “mailer scroll” is an artifact that was handed to investigation party.
This scroll works as a set of two pieces, when something is written on it, it will transmit the written characters to the other side regardless of the distance between us, and basically it’s like a fax machine that runs on magic.
However, this piece of paper can only be used to communicate once before the magic runs out and it becomes a normal piece of paper. The science of the earth seems to be more advanced than the magic of this earth and a strange deep emotion wells up within me. I feel a sense of loss when I think of the possibilities of having a device like a smart phone or being able to connect to the internet.
The people that remain in the base are: Kirika, Palmyra, Nina and lastly me.
In the end I chose not to send either Kirika or Palmyra as they stood out in public way too much, furthermore I actually needed them next to me so that I could improve my Enslavement Magic. Nina stayed behind because she acquired a new ability of being able to enchant things and naturally I needed her to prepare a variety of things for me.
Well, I wonder what kind of information the girls will be able to bring to me…………….Well no matter the case, my objective is to outwit the demon Iblis and make Princess Sistina mine before he can get to her, and this plan has not changed.
「Oh?………..What are you doing in such a place, Himeno-san? 」
When I peeped into the Kitchen room a faint savory smell drifted into my nose, Kirika was in front of the saucepan whilst moving her hands to stir the contents of whatever she was preparing.
She was wearing a white blouse and a rather short skirt, complemented with a black apron which really suited her.
「Can’t you see from looking? I’m cooking. Amelia-san taught me the recipe to making stew before she left on her trip」
「Heeeh, I didn’t know you could cook」
「How rude…..Well I’m not as good as Amelia-san, and it’s the first time I’m cooking since I’ve arrived in this new world, however, when we used to go to school I’ve made a bento or two for myself, you know?」
Indeed, for someone like her who was an honor student, it matches her personality.
I sat down on the wooden chair, and began staring at her slender back figure as she cooked.
Behind that Apron, what was hiding behind that was her E-cup breasts……
「uh-huh, it would seem that your sense of rivalry has ignited and you want to become my favorite wife by cooking for me, right?」
「I have absolutely no idea how you came to such a conclusion………..I am simply distracting myself with cooking, from the fact that an evil perverted Slavemancer has caught me to use for his own amusement」
「Hmmm, I thought that I could say something back but, your argument seems to have no loopholes in it……」
「After all, I have only spoken the truth」
Whilst I leaned back on the wooden chair, for a little while I just listened to the sounds of the pot boiling as it cooked.
Looking at her back as I sat down like this, reminded me of an old memory where I used to stare at the same figure back in school during class.
Originally she was an existence which I couldn’t even approach and barely had the chance to strike a conversation with, she was like an unattainable flower, she was my Class President and the most beautiful girl at school.
By some twist of fate, she was now in a Master-Slave relationship with me in this new world, it was finally a relationship between a man and a woman.
「………..Say Himeno-san, have you ever thought about returning to our previous world before? 」
When I casually asked her a question, she stopped stirring the pot for a single instant.
「I guess…….But having hope in something that seems impossible to achieve is useless. When you mention it, I have never really thought about such a thing」
「Heh, is that how it is? I didn’t expect that of you」