Published at 27th of March 2023 9:23 am

Chapter 305: Summer Breakfast

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「Alfried-sama, please wake up」

As I surrender to the comfortable feeling of my bed, I was called and my shoulder was shaken.

As a result, my consciousness slowly returns to me and I slightly open my eyes.

In front of my eyes is the beautiful maid with long black hair, Sara.

「Hm? Sara, what is it?」

「It is time for breakfast, please wake up」

While I still can’t get my head around my surroundings and reflexively asks her that, Sara indifferently told me that.

「Ehー, it’s fine for me to sleep a little longer, right? I just returned from a trip to the Sylford territory, you know?」

「So you say, but it has been three days since your return. I overlook it yesterday and the day before yesterday, but you have to return to your regular life as usual from today on」

Even when I whine about it, Sara still heartlessly tears the futon off of me.

Sara is a bit strict as always. If it were Mina then I can confuse her by just talking about some appropriate topic for the occasion.

As I think about such a thing, my brain gradually wakes up and I suddenly realize something.

「Eh? I should have locked my room last night.....」

I‘m going to sleep as much as I want today so I should have used Psychic to lock the door to my room last night and slept.

And yet, how could Sara come inside my room?

「That is because I always bring the master key when I’m about to go to Alfried-sama’s room」

「Master key you say, they said not to use that unless it’s an emergency, right?」

And using it so freely like that, that means I won’t have any privacy, doesn’t it? I’m worried that after some time, people will just forcefully open the door.

「That is because Alfried-sama will lock the door and sleeps」

That’s true, but isn’t there the option of giving up?

Since it has come to this, now I need to do something with the master key. I’ll secretly steal it next time and change it to a fake key.

「I don’t know what you are thinking right now, but everyone is waiting in the dining room, so please wake up」

「Dun' wanna. I still want to sleep here」

As I resolutely reply like that and turn back from her, Sara walks in my direction.

N, no way, the well-mannered Sara, she won’t violently wake me up like Eleonora-neesan, right?

As I’m a little worried about her next action, Sara passes my bed and opens the curtain.

Then, she unlocked the wooden window and with a grin on her face, she says.

「This room is extremely cool, does it not」

「N, no way.....!」

Not comprehending Sara’s thoughts, I call out to her in panic.

It’s been three days since we returned from Sylford’s family territory. It is now the last part of the eight months, and the season is still at the height of summer.

The summer temperature still does not decrease, and the intense sunlight and the hot air temperature are tormenting people.

It’s impossible for me to sleep in such a situation, so I use Ice magic every day to lower the temperature inside my room.

「You will be unable to sleep if the room becomes hot, right?」

「S, stooo――」

Without letting me finish what I’m about to say, Sara forcefully opens the window.

Along with the sound of insects buzzing from outside, the air that contained heat invades the room.

Uuh, stifling air came inside with just less than 5 seconds since the window opened. In the blink of an eye, it drives away the cold air inside the room that was cooled with Ice magic.

「W, with this much Ice magic, it should.....!」

I cast Ice magic to fight against the coming heat. The cold started to spread around me, pushing back the heat coming in from the window.

「Even if the air turns warmer, you will not be able to avoid the sunlight」

Sara announces as if to laugh at my effort.

Right, my bed was arranged so that the sunlight coming in from the window will naturally shine on it. Even when I try to lower the temperature with Ice magic, it’s hopeless since the light from the sun will continue to shine down.

Or rather, it feels unpleasant with only the air around me feeling cool while the room got exposed to the heat of the sunlight. My body’s internal temperature will just gonna be out of order.

「Kuhh! What power from the sunlight! However, I can prevent it by getting off the bed!」

I got off the bed and hide in the shadow to escape from the sunlight coming through the window.

Fufufu, with this now I can spend my time comfortably without being exposed to the sunlight.

As I chuckle to myself, Sara grabbed my arm.

「All right, now you got off of your bed. And now let’s have breakfast if you can no longer sleep」

「Ahh……」

Thus, I realized that I fell into Sara’s tactic.

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「Morning」

「Al! You’re slow! Wake up faster than usual, will you!」

As soon as I enter the dining room, Eleonora-neesan’s sharp voice comes flying my way.

Already understanding the meaning behind that, I quickly cast Ice magic to lower the temperature inside the dining room.

「Ahー, it’s cool」

「As expected, Al is indispensable in summer」

Eleonora-neesan and Elna-kaasan mutter with relieved expressions on their faces.

I’m sure that she was annoyed by the heat, thus her first remark when she saw me. People won’t get angry over small things as long as they are calm. And they look like they are not going to criticize me by saying I’m late or whatnot if that is so.

「I can also use Wind magic to make it a bit cooler but still, it can not be compared with Ice magic isn’t it」

「Somehow Sylvio’s way of thinking about using his Wind magic has become similar to Al, does it not」

「That was because kaasan and Al said that it will make my magic become better if I use it daily」

Right, right. Magic exists to enrich people’s daily lives. Therefore, it is really a good actual practice in an effort to make yourself spend your time comfortably in your daily activities.

「That’s true, but.....don’t become like Al, all right?」

「Ahahah, even I don’t think I will go that far」

Sylvio-niisan smiles wryly when Elna-kaasan said that as though to remind him.

Can you please stop calling someone a weirdo?

「Haa.....I don’t want to leave this place anymore」

「Regrettably, today is the day when Sara and I wait on everyone. You can clean up the other room first」

「W, what!? Mel-senpai! Please let me wait on everyone too!」

Seeing Mina requesting to work is quite a valuable scene. But, it is clear that it was all for the sake of the cold air in this room.

「We do not need three people to wait on everyone. Come on, quickly do your job」

「……yeeーss」

Mina was looking to be quite comfortable at the back, but then Mel-san chases her away with her hand *shooshoo* as she comes in.

After Mina left with a sulky face, we can hear Mina yells 「Uwaa! I knew it, the hallway is hot!」 from the hallway.

It’s not hot enough that you will collapse due to the heat without Ice magic, but hot air is still hot. It looks like it’s tough for the maids working in midsummer.

As I send some ale in my mind to Mina, Mel, and Sara continue to push the tea wagon and arrange the dishes on the table.

There are pork shabu-shabu, tomato spaghetti, corn soup, and bread placed on the table.

Hmm, pork shabu-shabu is easy to eat even on a hot summer day.

As I’m thinking like that, curiously asks.

「Eh? The spaghetti and soup are not warm today?」

「Ara, they are cold」

When I try to get the tomato spaghetti and corn soup, I found both of them to be cold.

「Hey Al. Why did you make them cold without asking first?」

「No, that’s not me」

Since Eleonora-neesan completely misunderstands this, I deny it and shake my head.

And then, Sara - who arrange the plates - let out a giggle and say,

「Bartolo-san chilled the meal using the Ice magic tool. Since it is summer, it seems that he tried to chill it so it will be easy to eat」

「Is that so?」

「It’s the first time I will have cold spaghetti. I’m looking forward to this」

Nord-tousan and Elna-kaasan appear to be very curious about it.

Cold things will be tastier in summer. Making tomato spaghetti, Bartolo, nice. And I guess it’s partly because it's a noodle, I’m sure we’ll be able to eat them easily.

Setting that aside, my neesan doubted me first.

When I quietly stare at her, Eleonora-neesan awkwardly mutters.

「……it’s confusing」

「Why did you doubt me first then」

Although I cooled the air inside the room with Ice magic before, I won’t suddenly chill the meal like that, y’know.

「That’s cause Al always cheats using magic」

Muu, I can’t deny that.

「My my, breakfast was prepared already, let’s eat, shall we」

It’s just as Nord-tousan said. Let’s forget about the small details now. Let’s eat the tasty-looking meals in front of me.

First I scoop out the corn soup with a spoon and bring it to my mouth.

The cold and rich taste of the corn spread inside my mouth, and it continues smoothly to the back of my throat. I can feel that it's heavier compared to when it’s warm, but thanks to this being cold, I don’t care about that, and if anything it seems like the taste is more concentrated than usual.

The sweetness from the corn is concentrated and it’s really delicious. The spoon moves automatically, again and again.

「Sara! Another helping of corn soup!」

「Certainly」

And as I was still absorbed in the taste of the corn soup, it looks like Eleonora-neesan had already finished hers.

Then Sara took the plate from Eleonora-neesan, and pour more soup from the pot on the tea wagon.

That’s right. There is no need to hurry in eating it all, I can have a second helping. I’ll take my time and eat without rushing.

It would be a shame if I only eat the corn soup without bread to go along with it. I dip the slice of warm bread I took from the basket of sliced bread into the corn soup and eat it.

The soft sweetness of the bread and the sweetness from the corn extremely match well with each other. When it’s hot, the bread will absorb the moisture and it’s hard to swallow, but now that the bread had absorb the corn soup’s juiciness and cold, it has become easier to swallow.

「Sure enough, it is easy to eat a cold meal in summer isn’t it」

「Yes, hot soup is fine, but cold soup is also nice」

Un un, warm food in winder. Cold food in summer. That’s the right way, isn’t it?

After eating a bit of corn soup and bread, I reach out for the pork shabu-shabu salad next.

Each of us can take this ourselves, and then we can eat it with our favorite dressing placed nearby. After I took my portion, I soak them in the sesame dressing I have on hand and eat them.

Un, the sweetness of the sesame dressing goes well with the taste of the pork. It’s kinda heavy food when you have things like hamburg steak in the morning, but you can easily eat the refreshing pork shabu-shabu.

As I eat the pork shabu-shabu by wrapping it in cabbage, the juicy cabbage spreads inside my mouth and makes it even easier to eat.

After refreshing my mouth with the salad, it’s time to get the main dish, cold tomato spaghetti.

There are not only tomatoes as the summer vegetables prepared, there is also eggplant, and cucumber, as well as dry-cured ham and cheese on top of them. They have a really vivid coloring and look delicious.

I lightly mix them up, roll them around with my fork, and eat them.

The cold sourness of the tomato spreads inside my mouth. When you bit into the food, you can taste the crunchy texture of the cucumber and the sweetness from the eggplant oozing out and excellently mix with the sourness of the tomato.

Aah, this is another must-have summer meal. Not just being cold, it also has high nutritional value as it uses fresh vegetables from the village. This is a perfectly suited food for summer.

Moreover, the compatibility of this dry-cure ham and cheese is awesome, not just the combination of tomato and other vegetables.

You can eat it with dry-cured ham and cheese, with vegetables dry-cured ham, or with a mix of pasta with cheese, there are plenty of variations.

「Cold spaghetti is also tasty, aren’t they」

「I, might prefer cold spaghetti!」

「Right. It’s really delicious even when they are cold」

Sylvio-niisan, Eleonora-neesan, and Elna-kaasan appear to be delighted with the meal.

A food that can taste good whether they are warm or cold is truly amazing.

「But you might say the opposite if it’s winter」

「I’ll think about it again at that time. We will just eat warm food in winter 」

Nord-tousan cheerfully laughs at Elna-kaasan.

Well, it can’t be helped, humans are smooth-talking creatures after all.

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