Akuyaku Reijou ni Nanka Narimasen - Chapter 400 (Patreon)

First love letter and hard-working spirits.
Today I entered the office of the Barton estate to help Dirk.

My current tasks include accounting for the Burton estate, the new plant and breeding business that I co-manage with my Elder brother, managing the orphanage, and my half-hobby, the clothing business.

When I have more time on my hands, I support Dirk as a sort of secretary.

“Rosarin, is your own work okay?”

“... I have some work to be done, but I don’t.”

“... What do you mean?”

Dirk looked at me sublty. But it's true, so it can't be helped. When I had finished sorting through the documents, I heard a familiar voice.

“Rosarin! I need your stamp on the form!”

“Rosarin, I’m done.”

(Rosarin, please confirm this for me.)

“Mama, I did it well!”

“Oneechan, please check it.”

Darkness-ama, Sui, Holy Beast-sama, Arisa, and Kuurin all brought documents for me to check.

“Okay, can you put them here? Darkness-sama, it’s perfect as usual. You are the quintessential great spirit. Thank you very much. Sui, can you just fix this part? Thank you as always. Sui's work is so meticulous, it really helps me out. Holy Beast-sama… you've been coming to work a lot lately… no, you've been very helpful. Let me treat you to lunch. Arisa… as expected of Mama’s girl! You are great! Thank you as well, Kuurin. You wrote it very thoroughly. You should fix this part and this part, though.”

And the hard-working spirits left. By the way, Kou was flying around as an adventurer with Jend and others. Haku works on a farm. Gora-chan and Chita are helping Elder brother with his research. Haru is traveling around transporting documents and other things.

And recently, Darkness-sama wanted to help me with my work, so I thanked him for his generosity. Then, Sui took up the challenge, and the Holy Beast-sama, while working because he thought it would be fun, watched their battle from the sidelines, and the cuties who wanted to be praised by me also joined in.
“Umm… In other words, the spirits are helping you with work, so there’s none left for you… Or something like that?”

“Everyone is so capable… but, even if I want to compensate them for their work, they return it! Especially Darkness-sama! What is he doing, paying me instead!?”

Arisa and Kuurin, for example, buy toys and snacks. It's fine to share a few sweets with me. But Darkness-sama brings expensive jewelry and such. He doesn't have any bad intentions. He just wants to make me happy.

“... He himself is having fun, and he’s happy when you praise him, isn’t he?”

“It’s not good! I will become a useless person if I only receive!”

“... Then, maybe you could write letters… or make some clothes again.”

“As expected of My Darling! What a good idea! Ah, it’s about time you took a break. Let’s have a cup of tea. I baked a pound cake for you to eat.”

I went out into the hallway to prepare the tea.

“... I think I’m in the same situation as Rosarin right now, though… a useless person, huh… I should thank Rosarin properly as well.”

I didn't hear Dirk's bitter muttering at all. When I went out to the hallway, the butler, who was very capable himself, had already prepared tea for us. In return, I shared the tea cakes with him.

“... Thank you very much. Bocchan… no, Young Lord has gotten himself an excellent wife.”

“N, not at all! I am still a novice! If there’s anything I’m lacking, please guide me well.”

I returned to Dirk's office to escape the butler's smiling gaze.

I set up a separate table so that Dirk could have tea. Dirk seemed to be writing some kind of letter.

“... Yeah. That should be good.”

He seemed to have finished writing, checked the letter once over, and put it in a cutely designed envelope. It was a very bulging letter.

“Rosarin, here.”

“Yes?”

I received the letter. Eh? For me?

“That… I wrote about how grateful I am… and how happy you make me feel, how much you help me, and so on and so forth, and it ended bulging like this.”

I love a wryly smiling Dirk too much. I'm super happy!

“In other words, it’s a love letter for me?”

“...... Well, I… guess? I have never written a love letter before, so it might have turned out weird, though…”

“Let me read it no—”No.”

Tsk! So I can’t read it now. Then, I will read it while grinning all by myself? No… might as well…

“Dirk…”

I sat on Dirk’s lap, and looked up at him. My voice was sweet and flirtatious.

“What is it? Rosarin.”

“I’d like you to read it to me instead.”

“............ Seriously?”

Dirk turned red and blue.

“If this letter contains your feelings, I want to hear them from your mouth… can’t I?”

“Kuh… you are acting cute on purpose…!”

“Dirk… please?”

In the end, Dirk read the letter to me while turning bright red. The contents are a secret. Well… it said things like thanking me for helping him with his daily life, what he likes about me, and other things that he would never be able to say in a straightforward manner because of his shyness.

I wish I could write a letter for him too, but I would die of embarrassment if he wanted me to read it out loud. But I was so happy… I almost pushed Dirk down in the office. I was so moved that I cried. Dirk is truly the best husband I could ever have.

“Rosarin!? Why are you crying!?”

“...... Ugh~ I’m too happy… Dirk, I like you… love you!”

I hugged him, and he gently stroked my back. I licked his lips… and smiled like the Villainess that I am.

“I won’t let you sleep tonight, okay… you can count on that. My Darling.”

Needless to say, Dirk was red up to his neck, and after that he started to behave very suspiciously.

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