Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai

Chapter 242: The Importance Of Sofa And Bed

After the self-introduction is over, us children were guided to our room where we will spend our time during our stay here.

We were guided by Eric and Luna-san, we went up from the first floor to the second floor. After going down the long hallway, there was a door that looked impressive.

As we went inside, it was as if we entered a spacious room in a high-class hotel somewhere. It’s around two times as spacious as our living room. Judging at the structure of the room, they might have been knocked down the wall of two rooms and turned into one room.

Taking a glance at the window, I can see the beach and sea from there, the view is very nice. It’s like we came to a southern country.

「Sylvio-niisan, you can see the sea there」

「Really!?」

When I tell him that, Sylvio happily rushes over to the window.

「Hey Alfried, do you know? The sea has a lot of water――」

「Yeah yeah, it’s actually not water but salt water, right. I know about it」

「……what the, so you knew about the sea?」

「I know. So, it’s impossible if you try to make us drink the salt water」

「……che, how boring」

Eric openly clicked his tongue and make a face as if it was boring somehow.

I felt like making people who haven’t gone to the sea drink salt water is already the usual thing.

「……uwaaa, this is the sea. I’ve never such an amount of water spreading out to the distance like that! This is amazing! Al!」

When Eric and I were having such an exchange, Sylvi-niisan is looking at the scenery outside with such pure-looking eyes. His expression was so innocent that he looks like a kid who had been given his first toy.

「Eric, don’t you feel embarrassed at yourself, trying to trick someone so pure like that?」

「……stop it. I fully realize it now.」

Good grief, Eric is such a bad person, trying to trick someone who looks forward to the sea so much.

「To begin with, it’s your fault for having such a personality. I can’t help but judged that your brother will also have the same personality as you, right」

What a rude guy. Hmm, so that means I have a bad personality and so you're saying that it would be okay if I were to get deceived, huh?

「Luna, where is my room?」

「……here」

I guess Eleonora-neesan is not that interested in the sea. Or perhaps she grew tired of looking at the sea from a distance since she went to check on her room, being guided by Luna-san.

「Eric, where is my room and Sylvio-niisan?」

「Your room is on the left side after leaving this room. Are you going to check your room now?」

「Nah, it looks like Sylvio-niisan is still absorbed in looking at the sea, I’ll just stay and relax here」

As for our luggage, Mina and the servants of Eric’s house are going to bring them in. I’m not going to take a nap right now, so there’s no need to quickly head to my room.

And most of all, it seems that Sylvio-niisan doesn’t want to move from here yet.

「Eric, make me some tea. I’m thirsty」

「Yeah yeah. I’ll call a servant now」

When I ask for tea from him, Eric rings the bell placed at the table.

「Can’t you make your own tea?」

「We have servants here, why should I make it by myself?」

E, eh? So it’s like that? But I’m the one who makes tea like it’s the most obvious thing to do.

Of course, we have the maids like Mina, Sara, and Mel, but everyone basically asked me to brew them tea when the maids are working in the daytime.

While I was puzzled over that, there was a knock on the door and the butler Largo-san enters.

「Eric-sama, did you call?」

「Prepare some tea for five person and some suitable baked sweets to go along with it」

「I thought that you would ask that, so I have already prepared it. May I bring them here now?」

「As expected from Largo. Please do」

「Ooh! You understand and already took action on the command that the master will tell you, huh!」

「Fufun, that’s ‘cause Largo is an outstanding servant」

Eric pridefully said when I praise Largo-san, while Largo-san has a gentle smile on his face.

「Not at all, you will immediately notice this much if you think about the other party’s thoughts」

「……I see, so when we were tired after the journey and after being taken to our room to relax, the next thing we want is something to drink and soothing sweets, huh」

So you’re acting with the other party’s thoughts into consideration? As expected, the words of the elderly are helpful.

「But Alfried-sama, you are truly clever for your age, to be able to sense the other’s feeling」

「Isn’t Alfried better suited to being a servant than a noble?」

「Shaddup」

Hey, even I also thought like that, so stop it. It makes me sad.

As I was in such a state filled with grief, Largo-san brought the tea and baked sweets then withdraw from the room.

Let’s switch this gloomy feeling. At any rate, I’ll just sit on the sofa first and have the warm tea and baked sweets.

I sit down on the large sofa as though I’m going to take a breather.

Then, when I take the teacup, Eric muttered as he rubbed the corner of his eye.

「Even so, to think that I have to do this kind of troublesome thing just because of the incident at the royal capital. Why do I have to entertain you?」

Eric deeply sighs, but I also feel the same way.

Due to the fight using tongs, it was rumored that the Sylford and Slowlett house are on bad terms with each other. Because of that, we had to end up going to such a distant place. I’m the one who wants to sigh.

「Speaking of that incident, it’s Eric’s fault for rushing at me」

「What are you saying? You’re the one who tried to unreasonably take the meat I was aiming for, didn’t you?」

「No waーy, Eric is the one who made a move first」

「「Aahh?」」

Our foreheads touched as we scowled at each other.

We were scowling at each other for a while, then our emotions cooled off somehow and we separate ourselves.

No matter what’s the cause, I honestly can’t even remember who started the tongs battle back then.

「Oh well, it’s already done anyway there’s no point in digging it up now」

「Right」

We nodded to each other, then we took the teacup and take a sip of the tea.

「Hm? It’s not a Royal Feed?」

I tilted my head since it doesn’t have the usual smoothness and depth in flavor.

The tea leaves are coarse, but could it be the taste pushed to be on the line of neither good nor bad due to Largo-san’s skill? Even though he has this kind of skill, what a waste that he can’t use good tea leaves.

「You think you can buy such high-grade tea leaves that are only sold in the royal capital unreservedly?」

「Really? But I drink it every day back home, you know?」

When I took the opportunity to brag about our financial situation, Eric makes an annoyed expression.

「Gununu, it’s your territory that is strange. Your family got money coming in by making the unprecedented stuff like pasta and reversi through Toriela’s Company. Just what the heck is going on?」

That’s right, thanks to those goods, the Slowlett family has such assets that you wouldn’t think of them as a normal Baron house.

Wouldn’t he be surprised if I told him that the reason for such a high income is me?

Nah, let’s not do that, Eric will, for some reason, not believe me anyway.

Picking up the baked sweet and eating it together with the tea, I exhale and lean on the sofa.

Then, my body weight is taken in by the sofa――not, somehow there was a repulsing force that felt as if it was rejecting my body. And for some reason, the cushion is also thin.

「……Eric, isn’t this sofa a bit hard?」

「This guy is just an invited guest but he’s been complaining since a while ago. To begin with, all sofas are the same, right? There is no problem for you to sit down if there is a certain amount of cushioning」

「………」

I unintentionally lost my words after hearing Eric clearly telling me that.

「……oi oi, could it be that you also think the same way with a bed? Something like ‘A bed just has to be spacious enough that I can sleep on it’?」

「Wh, what’s with you, so suddenly! Don’t come any closer with those dead eyes of yours! It’s creeping me out!」

「Nevermind that, answer my question」

「Guh! Be, bed and sofa are the same. There’s no difference! It’s fine as long as I can sit on the sofa, and it’s fine since I’ll just sleep on the bed! I’d rather use it to buy delicious stuff if we have the money to be used on those things!」

I can’t believe it. Even though he’s a noble, to think there is a guy who’s saying this kind of rubbish……

I fold my arms and sincerely talk to the uncooperative Eric.

「Eric. No matter how much people want to do their best, they will only be able to concentrate on something for one hour. One has to take a break after concentrating. And as for a person who needs a break, sofas and beds are the necessary things to make their break time worthwhile. It’s stupid to disregard them and think of them as wasteful in spite of all that, you know?」

「……oh? Ooh」

「And you need to pay special attention to the bed. It’s a place where you spend your time a third of your day. And if you repeat it in like a year or five years, do you know how much time you spend on your bed? So what would happen if you don’t spend money in a place where you pass that much time then?」

「Ce, certainly, I guess we really spend a lot of time on our bed if you think about it」

「Right? That’s why, it’s strange if you think that it’s fine as long as you can sleep on it」

And just like that, I continued to persuade Eric about the wonders of bed and sofa for some time.

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