令嬢はまったりをご所望 (HIATUS)

V1 Chapter 7.4

2 Sign of a Good Omen**

(朝蜘蛛は吉兆 lit: the morning spider shows a good omen)

Awakened by the sunlight, I arose feeling refreshed. After the usual morning preparations, I went down to the first floor to start preparing to open for business. Today’s menu includes chocolate cake with mousse and shortcake. Recently, there have been many female customers concerned about eating too much, so I made mini-sized ones as well.

Since there was whipped cream on my hand, I ended up licking it. The Roto who was helping with making the cake then begged for some while saying ‘aaan’. Scooping out a dollop of leftover whipped cream, I held it out in front of the Roto’s mouth. Glomp, and so the Roto ate the cream. It placed both its hands on its cheeks and made a big grin. Looks like it was delicious.

After that, I could hear the sound of the spirits from the shop floor, but it was different from the usual cheerful singing. It was kind of boisterous. Moving out of the kitchen to the floor, the Rotos hands stopped cleaning, and I scolded them in a louder voice than usual, ‘Bad!’

The reason was none other than a small spider. It seemed like they wanted to chase away a spider who slipped its way in. Closing off the pathways here and there, they were struggling to guide the spider to the exit. But the spider only moved left and right, and the guiding was not going well.

Hence, the Rotos started to chase it away by screaming ‘Waaa’ altogether while frantically flapping their hands, but that failed as well. Instead, they bumped into each other and fell down.

The pleasant view made me loosen up.

Squatting down to thank the Rotos for their work, I then caught the spider slowly by encasing it in my hands and gently placed it by the window frame. I silently opened the window, and the spider then jumped out through the gap.

It is a fine weather today, with a clear blue sky with no sign of clouds.

Morning spiders are a sign of good omen even in this world. Uplifted, I took a deep breath of the morning breeze.

Some time before afternoon, I had the usual rush hour full of customers.

Recently, there are more female customers, while the male customers come over for a takeout of coffee.

“I heard another squad of mercs came over yesterday? After making a fuss around town, I heard they came over to this shop…. I’m so glad Rhonya and the shop is all right”

Handing over the takeout cup of coffee, the customer said so.

Yesterday, while I was relaxing together with Sena-san, four mercenaries had come over. Whilst in a drunk state, they got into a bad situation with Sena-san. Since it was inevitable, I chased them away by activating the barrier, and they are prohibited from coming ever again or entering this shop.

Putting up a smile, I replied the customer with ‘All is well’.

“Really, this is why those barbaric mercs are so much trouble.”

“…Compared to the ones who came over yesterday, the members of the DemiMercSquad are all nice people.” (Rhonya)

“Ahaha, Rhonya-chan is always standing up for those in the DemiMercSquad.”

Although they truly are nice people, my words were ignored.

After seeing off the customer with the takeout and returning to the kitchen, my eyes stopped at one of the customers.

She is a female customer with red hair, alone at a table seat. She is a regular who frequents my shop with a group of two others. It looks like she is by herself today.