Chapter 115 : The Head Maid's Work
When it comes to noble young ladies, afternoon tea is naturally indispensable.
After the cleaning work was completed, Nora indicated that as Chris's personal maid, I had the obligation to prepare afternoon tea for her.
"Lady Sister's weekly quest time is very boring, so we must always have afternoon tea ready that suits her taste."
"The tea leaves here are high-grade."
"How could inferior tea leaves have the qualification to touch Lady Sister's tongue? Lady Sister's jade body is flawless, so the main meals, desserts, and fruits that enter her mouth must all possess corresponding quality..."
I could see that Nora had raised her tea-brewing skills to match Chris's taste to Lv. Max. The color, aroma, and flavor were all impeccable. Even if I tried, I probably couldn't surpass Nora.
But regarding tea snacks, I was more confident.
Chris prefers pineapple buns, and her favorite tea is a high-grade tea with a refreshing fragrance. Combining these two points for nutritional pairing, I thought choosing a mousse-style cake popular in the Kingdom of Michel would be quite suitable for tea snacks.
"Mousse cake?"
Nora recognized it at a glance.
"Yes, I think mousse cake can be paired with seasonal fruits and would be very suitable for Lady Christiana."
After all, although pineapple buns are called pineapple buns... there's actually no pineapple in their ingredients, just like how wife cakes naturally contain no wife. (TN: Also known as sweetheart cakes.)
I prepared a small piece for Nora to taste. She put the small piece of mousse cake in her mouth, and her surprised expression was fleeting.
After elegantly wiping the corners of her lips, Nora looked at me with confusion.
"Your cooking level is very high. Were you originally a kitchen maid?"
"I'm more of an all-around development type."
"All-around development... that's impossible, right?" Nora was obviously incredulous. "Your [Cleaning] skill and [Cooking] skill performance are both at the level that only maids with specialized experience would have."
In other words, how did you manage to raise all the skills a maid should have to Lv. Max at such a young age? Skill level improvement requires experience points, and technical aspects often need large amounts of time to accumulate. Young and beautiful maids and skilled techniques generally can't coexist.
"Could it be that your maid techniques are actually very impressive?"
"Well, I do belong to the professional maid category. What about you, Head Maid Nora?"
"I want to stay by Lady Sister's side... As long as I can stay by Lady Sister's side, that's enough. Status doesn't matter."
While speaking, Nora arranged the refreshments. I couldn't appear in person, so I could only let Nora deliver the afternoon tea to Chris.
Several minutes later, Nora returned with the tray, and the coldness on her face had melted somewhat.
"Lady Sister praised your tea snacks highly. I'll consider this round your victory."
"The afternoon tea was clearly prepared by both Head Maid Nora and me together."
"Me? I only understand Lady Sister's habits. You were the one who prepared the snacks."
"But without excellent tea, an afternoon tea with only pastries couldn't be called perfect either."
"Hmm..."
Under my strong insistence, Nora reluctantly changed it to a tie.
She seemed to be competing with me, but I think Nora was also sincerely thinking of Chris.
After Chris tasted my pastries and praised them highly, seeing that scene, Nora attributed the victory to me, even though I hadn't thought about competing at all.
I could understand that feeling. As long as the master could be happy, it was fine, even if that joy wasn't brought by oneself.
Nora and I really did have many things we could communicate about.
Nora didn't seem to dislike capable maids. Although she still deliberately kept boundaries with me, communication on a professional maid level was no longer a problem.
Later came the head maid's duty time.
"We're going to... inspect rooms?"
"Yes, come with me."
"To check if there are any slacking maids? I understand."
"Not just that. We also need to check if there are any vixens harboring improper thoughts about Lady Sister."
Nora narrowed her eyes, and I had the feeling she was frantically hinting at something.
Intruding into others' rooms without permission is very impolite behavior, but since it was the head maid's job requirement, I had to comply.
In noble households, maids are just ordinary servant class. In an era before human rights awakened, they even belonged to the master's private property, so they didn't have dedicated rooms. Even later, when maids' human rights improved, most were only arranged in group dormitories.
Nobles like Chris who arranged dedicated private small rooms for each maid were truly rare. Although the rooms weren't large, allowing maids to have private space was already a rare favor.
Entering one of the simple rooms, Nora systematically searched while doing some simple cleaning. Soon she found a book in a hidden compartment in the cabinet.
"Hmph... I knew it."
On the book's cover was a maid in disheveled clothing, and behind her was a figure whose face wasn't shown. A beastkin?
The title was something like "Master's Beast Transformation! Maid Falls into Pleasure (Volume 5)."
"What is this?"
"A novel popular among maids. It tells the story of a master in a certain mansion who suddenly transforms into a beastkin under moonlight, gradually unable to suppress his bestial desires, until finally on a dark and windy night, the beast-transformed master makes his move on his own maid..."
"An erotic novel?!"
And it's already up to Volume 5!
"This kind of terrible novel that insults the master should be confiscated. How could the noble Lady Sister be compared to those smelly beastkin?"
No, no, no—I think Head Maid Nora has some misunderstanding and prejudice about beastkin...
"Turn over all of these to me when you see them. Confiscate them."
Saying this, Nora without changing expression...
Put that novel into her storage space.
