All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 294

294. Episode 294

147. Side Story – I Don’t Want To – 2

[November 2nd]

[It’s been a month since I started serving Master, and I’ve come to realize something.

He is the greatest being in the world, but his daily life is so… can a person even live like that?

Master can go days without eating or sleeping if he puts his mind to it.

Sometimes, he sits in the same position for days without moving.

He says he’s going hunting for a bit and comes back with the master of a forest thousands of airon [a unit of distance in this world] away.

I’m realizing anew that what’s normal for me isn’t normal for Master.]

[January 17th]

[The New Year has come and gone, but Master hasn’t returned since he left at the end of last year.

It’s lonely being alone in this big house, but it’s still Master’s house.

So, I need to take good care of it.]

[January 30th]

[Master returned after several months, looking no different than usual.

He sits still as always, and leaves as suddenly as always.

Sometimes, he does things I don’t understand.

I can’t understand Master’s actions.

Can I really do this well?]

[February 14th]

[Master gave me something strange and black.

It was a very pretty thing with a black background.

He said that originally, a woman was supposed to give this to a man.

When I asked for more details, he said it was an event called Valentine’s Day from another dimension.

There’s nothing like that here.

I feel like a fool for not understanding.

Anyway, that black thing.

That chocolate? It was really delicious.]

[February 17th]

[Today is Seollal, he says.

When I asked what Seollal was, he said it was the Lunar New Year [a traditional Korean holiday].

I thought it was a day to celebrate the New Year, but hasn’t the New Year’s festival already passed?

But Master explained the concepts of the solar and lunar calendars and said today was the right day.

It’s hard to understand.

Would I be able to understand Master if I reconnected to the Truth?]

[March 14th]

[Today is White Day, and he brought me a bunch of sweet candies.

They were colorful and mysterious candies that I don’t know how he made.

They were on a different level from the candies I saw when I went to the human city with Master before.

Sour and sweet.

And even the shapes were pretty.

When I told him that, Master said it was obvious.

Since it’s candy made in a different dimension, it’s bound to be on a different level.

Another dimension, huh.

Is it because Master’s actions are based on another dimension that I have a hard time accepting them?]

[March 29th]

[When I went into the lab to brew the tea my mother sent me and serve it to Master, I thought my heart would stop.

Master was collapsed.

I was so surprised that I went to him, but his heart wasn’t beating.

No pulse either.

He wasn’t breathing.

He looked as peaceful as if he were asleep.

I was so shocked by that sight that I burst into tears.

How long had I been crying like that?

Master, who I thought was dead, suddenly got up and started making medicine.

I was so surprised that I asked him, and he said he was doing a corpse act because there was something he couldn’t figure out.

He said it was a play, but I thought he was really going to become a corpse.

I felt like I would become a corpse before Master did while serving him.]

[April 1st]

[Master called me.

I wondered what he was going to make me do this time.

Master’s condition was strange.

Black energy was swirling around his body, and a black dragon tattoo had appeared on one arm.

And Master’s right eye was dyed red.

I was so surprised by his different appearance that I asked.

What’s wrong.

Why did you change like that.

Then Master said that the Black Flame Dragon inside me was about to awaken.

If that Black Flame Dragon awakens, the world will be destroyed.

Run away, he said.

This Black Flame Dragon is so cruel that it will kill me first, who is nearby.

But how can I leave Master alone and run away.

So, I tried to fight with the power Master gave me.

I took out my staff and grabbed the God-Slaying Sword.

I was going to fight to catch that Black Flame Dragon.

I was going to risk my life.

I could do anything for Master.

Just as I made that resolution, Master’s condition returned to normal.

I was stunned, wondering what was going on, when Master said confidently.

He just told a lie because it was April Fool’s Day.

I wondered what that meant, but it was a day that existed in another dimension as well.

Goodness.

A day when you can lie as you please.

No, but can I even see this as a lie?

Anyway, it seems like even if I had ten hearts, it wouldn’t be enough to serve Master.

I want to understand Master a little more.]

[May 5th]

[Master called me.

I wondered what it was this time.

When I went to Master’s lab, he was getting ready to go out.

I wondered if he was going somewhere again, but he told me to come with him.

I wondered if he was going grocery shopping, so I prepared a shopping basket, but that wasn’t it.

He told me to take off my maid outfit and put on the dress he had prepared for an outing.

I don’t have anything like that.

When I said that, Master handed me a bundle.

Inside was a very pretty dress for going out.

I was so happy.

It was the least valuable of the things I had received from Master.

It wasn’t imbued with power like the robe I had received, it was just a pretty dress.

But I was happy.

So, I quickly changed into it and came out, and immediately went out with Master.

The place we went was a large town near the forest.

That place, which I often go to buy things, is quite large for a town.

I asked the village chief why it had developed so much even though it wasn’t the kingdom’s capital.

He told me that it used to be just a small village, but things had changed since Master settled in the Great Forest.

Occasionally, Master would come out of the Great Forest and teach them various skills.

In addition, he controlled the Great Forest and allowed the village to cut down trees or hunt.

On top of that, he made sure that all the monsters that were originally in the Great Forest couldn’t come out of the depths of the Great Forest.

Thanks to that, the damage to the village was reduced, and mercenaries and adventurers came to obtain the monsters’ parts or cores, but Master also stopped their rampages.

That’s why the village was able to develop like this, he said.

As expected, Master is an amazing person.

Ah, anyway, that’s not the important thing.

Master, who took me to the village, was different.

He kept smiling, and he bought me a lot of gifts.

On top of that, he said that we shouldn’t cook today and just eat out, and he even took me to an expensive restaurant.

The children who had become a little friendly in the village gave me envious glances.

And I even received a luxurious doll as a gift that I had only ever seen.

After spending such a pleasant day, I came home and asked why he was doing this, and he said it was Children’s Day.

When I asked what that was, Master said it was like an event from another dimension.

It’s still hard to understand.

But I wished every day was Children’s Day.]

[May 17th]

[June 4th]

[June 11th]

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“Haa.”

Kirke closed her diary.

Looking at the diary she had written in her spare time since she started serving Master, she was reminded of old times.

“It used to be like this……”

It was difficult to understand her master, Keltud.

She tried to just ignore it and accept it, but there were many times when that was difficult too.

So, whenever she asked why, Keltud would calmly say.

It’s just that the dimensions and cultures we were in are different.

It’s because you’re not trying to adapt, he said.

Of course, Kirke was in a position to serve him, so she had no intention of asking him to adapt to her.

But there were many times when it was difficult.

Even today.

He said it was Christmas [a holiday from another dimension] and we had to have a party, so he made a lot of food.

Of course, it was fun to cook with Keltud, but I wondered why he was making so much food for a house with only two people.

On top of that, he even cut down a tree and said he was going to make a tree [a Christmas tree], so I wondered what he was doing.

It was fun, but I still couldn’t understand why he was doing this.

“That was delicious.”

Keltud quickly made something called a cake for Christmas.

Fluffy bread with pure white cream.

And a cake with red raspberries on top.

It was really delicious.

So delicious that I wanted to feed it to my mother and other witches.

“Ugh. Let’s get a grip.”

I want to ask him to make it again, but is that something a maid should say?

Especially since I decided to do things like cooking myself since I decided to serve Keltud.

I didn’t want to bother him unnecessarily.

“……I even received a room like this.”

Kirke glanced around.

A large, clean room.

A fluffy bed that I don’t know how he made, which Keltud called an ace [likely referring to its high quality].

And even rare items like ink and precious items called pens.

When I think about how I lived with my mother in a room like a shed when I was living with her, this room was like a luxurious palace.

“Is this okay?”

Kirke smiled as she looked around the room, which was too good for a maid’s room.

I should go to bed soon.

“I wonder what will happen tomorrow……?”

Muttering softly, she went into the fluffy bed.

As soon as she got into the thick blanket, her body quickly warmed up.

This was also one of the things Keltud made.

“He said it was an electric blanket……”

He said it was a special machine that boiled water and used that warmth to keep it warm.

I laughed when I remembered Keltud saying that he could make something better, but this was the limit in this dimension.

This is amazing to me.

‘Master and I…… definitely don’t match.’

How many dimensions has he traveled through?

And how long has he lived alone?

It hurt my heart to think about that.

Because he will always be alone as he travels through countless dimensions.

Kirke closed her eyes tightly, enjoying the warmth she felt in the blanket.

‘So, I have to take good care of him.’

It was then.

She heard the sound of the door opening.

Is it a thief?

But this is the Great Forest.

What crazy person would come to steal from a house in the Great Forest?

Then a monster?

She pretended to be asleep and gathered her magic power.

I’ll blow away any strange guys right away.

Then she carefully lifted the blanket so she wouldn’t get caught.

‘Master? Why is Master……?’

It was Keltud who had entered the room.

Why did he come into the room?

He’s the kind of person who just shouts loudly when he calls me?

What should I do.

Should I get up?

Should I not?

Should I pretend to sleep more?

Should I pretend to be talking in my sleep?

While Kirke was worrying, Keltud put a gift on Kirke’s bedside and just left.

“……What.”

Kirke raised her head slightly and looked at the gift box.

“……Merry Christmas? Santa Claus……?”

The box still only had words that were difficult to understand written on it.

“It’s really hard to understand……”