Chapter 231: Stevie’s Birthday
Chapter 231: Stevie’s Birthday
"Rudolf, I think you are doing it while thinking of the embassy. I am sorry for forcing you and causing hardship. Yet if from now on my medicine gets on track and becomes sellable, please quit that work. When I think ’What if something happens?’ I cannot keep letting you do such a thing forever."Inwardly I cannot say "Include me as well."
"Of course!"
Perhaps because confessing lightened him, Rudolf’s expression brightened.
"However, Robin-sama. I cannot accept all the money, can I?"
"No, all the money I receive I will entrust to Rudolf. I will manage with twenty gold coins each month, and if it is insufficient I will receive from Rudolf. Therefore keep it."
Rudolf did not move for a while, then bowed his head and said,
"Understood. I will take custody of it. I will use it carefully."
I could not say "Someday let me also do bodyguard work." Yet,
"Because you do bodyguard work your skill must be high. Will you be my opponent? I do not know what use it will be, yet I want to become stronger."
I intend to be sufficiently strong, yet no matter how strong one becomes there is nothing troublesome about it. At my words Rudolf replied,
"Most certainly. If I can be of use, by all means!"
After that, accompanying Rudolf, we made various rounds of greetings at government offices. For the nobles one must take appointments in advance, so I left that side to Rudolf. Because a large cash flow had entered I was thanked many times by Rudolf with "The operation of the carriage has become easier."
At the end of that day we stopped at Pâtisserie Yoshida and took delivery of the cake boxes. I stayed inside the carriage and Rudolf went in to fetch them. Already it is the very image of a Japanese sweets shop. Is Yoshida-san still alive? Rudolf is holding the cake boxes and wearing a happy face. It is the first time I have seen such a happy face.
Returning to the residence and looking at the cake boxes the maids immediately understood what boxes they were and made faces of hoping for leftovers, yet when they were informed by Rudolf that there was cake for all the embassy staff a cheer rose. It is happy when they are pleased.
The atmosphere of the entire embassy brightened at once and the staff is filled with an air of "I want to see the cake quickly! I want to eat it quickly!" Unable to ignore such an air we ate dinner at top speed, and the two of us, Lily and I, carried the cake boxes into the private room. When we entered the room at once a "Waaah!?" voice rose inside the residence, so it is probably the cheer at opening the cake boxes.