Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 10] by You Fuguruma

Author:You Fuguruma
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Everyone cleaned the dishes from the table, and dessert was served. While it was being placed in front of everyone, Nadia lifted her cup of tea and sipped it with an elegant grace.

“I see,” she said softly, picking up where their conversation had left off. “In which case, you and I are quite alike, Miss Yae.”

As the taste testing session had drawn to its conclusion, the conversation had shifted from food to topics more personal. Talk eventually turned to the nations of the East and the current state of Mizuho, and it was the session’s guest of honor, Yae, who did most of the talking. Everyone asked questions about what they were curious about, but all of them were careful not to say anything rude.

“Ah, you too, Miss Nadia?” replied Yae.

Yae had just explained to them all that she was born the daughter of a minor regional lord. However, when Mizuho opened its borders, its former class system had been abolished in favor of a new continental class system. As a result, many domains were broken up due to political reform, and a great number of families lost the lands they once governed—Yae’s among them.

“Had my family done nothing, I would have ended up as just another concubine for a nobleman. I would have spent my life giving birth to his heir, or otherwise living not unlike a beautiful, ornamental flower. When the old system was abolished to make way for a new one, my family lost both our domain and our rank—we had no choice but to scramble to find a new way of life. However, losing what authority we had also meant losing prospective marriage partners, and we were very much at our wit’s end...”

Fortunately, Yae’s father had a knack for business, and was able to form a trading company together with his retainers—his trading success in that venture had then paved the family’s path to the present day. Then, when Yae’s own language and negotiation skills were recognized, she had been awarded the responsibility of her present job.

“Until then, I had lived my life solely for the purposes of marrying and giving birth to the next generation of our family. This new way of life was thus one of many surprises and new discoveries. It was often challenging, but I am proud of my work. It makes me feel alive. As for you and your place of birth, Miss Nadia...?”

“Well, where to start?” said Nadia, smiling, though the light of the magical lanterns reflected the slight hint of tears in her eyes. “I was born in the former kingdom of Litoanya, but an uprising transformed it into another place entirely. I, too, was a daughter of a modest noble family, but we lost everything.”

Litoanya was once known for its textile craftsmanship, but it had been brought to its end by the failings of its tyrannical last king. It had been a peaceful place—the citizens lived by working the fertile lands and forests, raising produce and livestock and creating textiles.

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