The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 46

Chapter.12 Hidden Faces and Desserts

Count Gray’s second wife, Verna, is the second daughter of Count Dedran, adjacent to Gray’s city. As Count Gray’s butler mentioned, she quite liked tea and desserts.

However, when it comes to desserts in this world, they are breads filled with dried fruits or sugar. When making bread, bird eggs and farm milk are usually used.

However, even if bird eggs are made into bread, a bit of their unique smell remains. People in this world take that for granted and eat it.

So real eggs. In other words, it cannot even be compared to bread made with Palenque eggs.

L made blackberry tart and visited Yeongju Castle. The name of the blackberry tart here is Berere Tart.

Berna’s eyes widened when she saw the berere tart the butler brought her after the meal.

“Oh my, you’re so pretty.”

“I heard it’s a newly discovered dessert.”

The butler nodded as he explained. This butler was definitely on the Gray boy’s side ever since he began his path to becoming a lord.

“okay? That’s interesting. “Where are you?”

Verna, who married into the count’s family at the age of 20, is now in her early 30s. She was a woman whose only hobbies in life were tea and drinking desserts. At some point, it became like that.

Although it was a type of food she had never seen before, the tart stimulated Verna’s appetite without any mercy. Berna immediately started cutting the tart with a knife.

There was a round bread underneath, a shape I had never seen before. It was amazing how solid it was. And on top of that is an unidentified white cream. And berere.

Of course Berere knows.

First, Verna hurriedly took a piece of the quartered tart to her mouth.

And I was surprised. The sourness of berere, the sweetness of cream puffs, and the chewy texture of bread. Because the combination of flavors was so amazing.

“Oh my!”

Verna let out an exclamation without realizing it and naturally took her fork to the next piece. And I continued to eat. I haven’t had an appetite lately, but this tart whetted my appetite without any mercy.

In particular, the sweetness of the white cream combined with the sourness of the berere created a sweet and sour taste that I couldn’t help but eat.

It was by far the best dessert she had ever tasted in her life.

“What is the name of this food? “It’s really delicious!”

“Ma’am, I heard from the chef who made it that it was called a berere tart. And he said there are many more delicious desserts… .”

“Is that really true?”

Berna, who quickly devoured the quartered Bereret tart, forgot about her culture as an aristocrat and jumped up from the sofa.

“That’s right.”

“I really want to meet you. “I can’t believe there was a cook like this in Great City.”

“Actually, I am waiting at the Yeongju castle. Would you like to meet him?”

“okay? Call me right away. A dessert more delicious than this… .”

Verna came to her senses again and sat down on the sofa again, picking up her teacup. The final taste of the tart went very well with black tea.

“I will.”

The butler nodded and immediately brought El over. Verna looked at Elle as if she were very curious.

“Did you make this dish?”

“That’s right.”

Elle thought that Verna might be aware of her existence, as she had been frequently meeting with the Gray boy recently. However, the look in Verna’s eyes when she saw herself was like meeting someone she had never seen before.

“Hehe, it was really delicious! “I heard there are other types of desserts too?”

“Yes, it is.”

When El responded immediately, Verna nodded with a bright face.

She even likes it like a child.

Elle felt a little suspicious. With a face like this, they were trying to embezzle taxes from behind the scenes and turn Gray Boy into a scarecrow? It got to the point where I started to think that even if I really knew, I wouldn’t know.

Of course, the visible face cannot be everything.

What an incredible, two-faced woman.

***

“Count Dedran is visiting?”

“Yes, Master. In any case, if it is said that my uncle embezzled taxes, there is no way that it had anything to do with Count Dedran. The purpose of the visit is… . “There must be some ulterior motive!”

That was it. Since the plan to turn the boy into a scarecrow was over and he had been so quiet since he began to fulfill his duties as a lord, it is natural to think that he is finally up to something.

“There are still vassals attached to my uncle’s side. And those nobles seem to be related to Count Dedran… .”

“Well, it is an obvious picture that they were co-opted by giving them interest and money. “It seems that people unrelated to him have gathered again under the acting lord.”

“I think so too. My uncle… . My uncle… . I didn’t think that would happen… !”

The Gray boy trailed off in a choked voice. It seemed like it was because of the memory of being treated well when I was young.

“It actually went well. “I now know clearly what they are planning.”

“yes?”

The Gray boy tilted his head at my words.

“I have never had much conversation with Count Dedran. That person only goes to see his uncle all the time… .”

Perhaps because the boy recognized Count Dedran as his enemy, he was already omitting honorifics. Well, it’s natural.

“I mean it worked out better. “There is a magic in this world where you can hear conversations happening from afar.”

“Is that so?”

The Gray boy blinks in disbelief. I shrugged my shoulders and said to the boy.

“Know the exact date of Count Dedran’s visit. Do you understand?”

“Yes Master!”

The Gray boy nodded strongly, showing that even though he did not believe in magic, his belief in my existence was firm.

Count Dedran’s visit came just a few days later. It happened in the morning.

The Gray boy sent someone in a hurry, so I headed to the lord’s castle in the morning with the weak dragon on my back. It’s not because she’s weak in the morning, but because it’s really rare for Rurin to be awake in the morning.

If I try to wake him up, I can wake him up, but there is no way this damn Jambo Dragon would recognize my touching thought of letting him sleep a little longer.

“Master, what? “Are you here with your wife?”

“What did you say just now?”

“With that wife… .”

“Who is your wife?”

“The woman the teacher is carrying.”

The Gray boy looked at me in confusion. Even though I know that he denied it the day we first met, it seems like he was misunderstanding me again.

Did it seem that intimate?

“no.”

“yes? Then… this person is?”

“Hmm, well, it’s not a wife, but we share a life-long relationship with each other, so don’t worry about it. “This is the person who will use magic.”

“yes? Is this you? Besides, what exactly is the relationship between sharing Master’s life?”

A face that made me wonder, what kind of relationship is it that we share our lives with even though we are not wives? Of course I couldn’t answer. Because I don’t know the answer either.

“Isn’t that important now? Please guide me quickly.”

“Ah yes yes!”

The Gray boy began to lead the way, looking as if he had been hit on the head with a hammer. We arrived at the inner room of the 3rd floor of Yeongju Castle.

“This front room is my uncle’s separate room. But it’s quite big… Is it really possible? If you’re in the back of the room, you can’t get this far… .”

I didn’t learn it, but there is definitely a magic that allows eavesdropping among auxiliary magic. So the saying that it is magic is not a lie. It’s not something that will raise suspicion later.

Of course, the dragon’s hearing is about 1,000 times more accurate than that auxiliary magic.

“it’s okay. “Are you sure it’s this room?”

“yes. “Whenever Count Dedran visited the lord’s castle, he would always talk alone with his uncle in this separate room.”

“great.”

“Then, once I greet Count Dedran and go find my uncle, I will also come running this way!”

When I nodded, the Gray boy left the room with a solemn look on his face. First, I laid Rurin down on the sofa. He is sleeping well without any movement. Every time he breathes, his black hair flutters.

It’s easy to wake up, but it won’t wake up.

I poked my cheek.

“Hnya!”

Then he turns his body and turns his head, but there is no reaction.

When you see that he doesn’t wake up even after putting on all his clothes and carrying him all the way here, you can say that there really is no solution.

One interesting thing is that if someone other than me touches her while she is sleeping, disaster will occur. It becomes so sensitive that it immediately wakes up and releases its breath.

That fact can be clearly seen from past experiences.

Lulin, who left the Dragon’s Holy Land and followed me, had to stay with my colleagues. Since we were all heading to the capital, our destination was the same, and I didn’t necessarily let my colleagues leave first, saying that it would help Lulin develop affinity with humans.

Of course, when I think about how the bad habits I secretly learned back then still irritate me sometimes, I sometimes regret that our friendliness wasn’t the problem and that we should have gone separately.

The woman who Lulin still insists on from time to time said! The whole series was born around this time.

Anyway, that’s how I ended up traveling with humans, and then one day.

When Lurin did not wake up even though it was time to leave, one of her colleagues touched her arm to wake her up.

As a result, an uproar broke out.

“Don’t touch my body! human!”

Lulin’s line, which he jumped up from his sleep and used his breath, was ridiculous.

She’s like this, but she doesn’t even think about waking up when I touch her. A mystery within a mystery.

So, I was curious about the reason, so I asked Lurin outright.

“How on earth do you distinguish between me and other people when you sleep?”

The answer that came back was very clear.

“Your cellular composition is imprinted on the brain of this body!”

It was a somewhat scary answer.

Anyway, for that reason, I still don’t think it will happen. Usually, I just giggle, but sometimes the corners of my mouth turn up and I giggle as if I’m having a good dream.

While I was looking at Lulin, I heard a knocking sound from outside.

“yes.”

When I answered, it was the Gray boy who came in.

“Master, I just had a brief conversation with the Count. “Count Dedran immediately went to visit his uncle.”

“Then let’s begin. “Let’s hear what they’re planning.”

I nodded and answered and immediately started waking Lulin up.

“Wake up! Lurin!”

Since it doesn’t wake up even when you carry it on your back, there isn’t much response even if you yell at it on a morning like now. Then there is the trump card.

“The food is gone, Lurin!”

“My food! My food? rice?”

Then I open my eyes. How is the brain structured?

“What, where am I?”

Lulin looked around with half-closed eyes. And then I found myself. Then he looked relieved and muttered.

“It doesn’t matter as long as it’s you.”

He opens his arms and hugs me as I get closer. And then I closed my eyes again.

“Gorolong.”

He had fallen asleep.

“Get up.”

I gently placed my hand on Lulin’s temple.