Chapter 224: What Shall We Do About the Birthday Cake?
Chapter 224: What Shall We Do About the Birthday Cake?
Because the talk seemed to have settled for a moment, I asked about a cake for Stevie’s birthday celebration tomorrow."Actually tomorrow is the birthday of a maid who was supposed to come here with me and who died along the way. So I want to offer a cake as a memorial service. Do you know any good place?"
Does this middle-aged man who looks about forty know the item called cake? In the first place memorial service feels like a Buddhist term, yet will it get across? I thought.
"A birthday cake? Would you like a whole cake? What is the desired amount of money? Are there any requests regarding the fruit or decoration on top?"
Unexpectedly Rudolf asked the key points. Surprisingly, he may be competent at everything?
"Uuun, I don’t know the market price, but something around one gold coin, for example? As long as it looks like a birthday cake I won’t give detailed orders. I’ll leave that to you."
"Yes. A popular place in the capital is Pâtisserie Yoshida, and if we order now I think it will make it by tomorrow afternoon. And what shall we do about the name of the deceased maid?"
Pâtisserie Yoshida... just hearing it, the other-world feeling is thick. In some other-world novel wasn’t there a Yoshida-san running a pâtisserie shop and becoming a super-popular store? Is Yoshida a standard proper noun for confectioners?
"The maid’s name is Stevie Nix. I’ll leave how to write it to you. And I’ll give you two more gold coins, so buy a cake for everyone in the residence to eat as well."
It is important money I had saved from the part-time wages while working at the Accounting Bureau of the knight order, yet here I will use it! If this makes the staff happy it is cheap! Let’s think that!
"That is more than I deserve, yet I will take the liberty of accepting. Thank you very much."
At last Rudolf’s face softened. Rudolf also seems to like sweet things. Because the air brightened just a little I am glad I handed it over. I had been worried whether two gold coins would buy a cake for the employees from earlier, yet it seems all right. Incidentally, in the depths of my heart I had thought he would decline. Whether he would say something like "Let’s pay that much from the embassy’s public funds."
After that Rudolf said he would go out to deliver documents and left, so I was allowed into the ambassador’s private room. Lily, without showing fatigue, was putting luggage into the closet and drawers of the private room. I lay on the bed and watched it blankly. For the time being a room for conducting official duties and a private room are provided. Of course the private room and the official room are connected, and one can go out into the corridor from both the official room and the private room. Next to the private room is Rudolf’s room (meaning the room of the Schenker couple) and next to that is Lily’s room. Beyond that the rooms of the staff continue. There are said to be many vacant rooms.
I vaguely wonder whether I can take everything Rudolf said at face value. The common story of a good-natured master who is embezzled by the butler — isn’t that talking about someone like me? Is he not underestimating me because I am a child? When I start thinking in a bad direction, negative thoughts keep welling up one after another.
Yet even if that is the case, there is nothing I can do about it! I think. I know nothing about the Mainz Kingdom. Perhaps the previous ambassador borrowed money and committed suicide because Rudolf’s pressure was too severe and he fled into gambling to escape it. No, stop, stop! Thinking such things has no end. For now I will simply believe what Rudolf says and move.