My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 9 [Complete] by Satoru Yamaguchi

Author:Satoru Yamaguchi
Language: eng
Format: epub

After getting Arneau to promise that he’d meet me the next day, I went back to the restaurant.

I found Maria in the kitchen preparing to open for dinner, and Sora was there with her. The two seemed to be having fun talking. I was ready to walk inside and greet them, but I remembered just in time that I didn’t want to intrude on Maria and Sora when they were together. I don’t want to get myself doomed. I must root for their love. No interfering, I thought, and quickly moved away from the kitchen and into the restaurant’s main dining room.

Regina, as usual, was behind the counter and seemed to be skimming through a notebook.

“I’m back. Here are the groceries.”

“Thank you,” she answered, looking up at me.

“What are you reading?” I asked, curious.

“Oh, Maria neatly wrote down the figures of the restaurant’s sales,” she replied.

“She did what?!”

I asked why Maria would go to the trouble of doing something like that, and Regina explained that Maria overheard her complain about how difficult accounting was and offered to help. Maria turned out to be so good at it that Regina eventually just turned the whole task over to her.

I was surprised both by Maria having yet another skill and by Regina lacking yet another skill.

“Maria’s really incredible, isn’t she?” I remarked.

“She sure is,” declared Regina. “She can cook, she can keep the books, and she even gave me various suggestions on how to cut operating costs.”

Just how much does Regina plan to rely on a single temporary employee? I thought to myself. Still, no matter how much she was entrusted with, Maria was able to do it. I’d always known that she was smart, but she still managed to impress me.

“I wonder if she would stay to work here even after the mission is over...” Regina trailed off.

“Maria easily ends up working too hard without realizing it, so try not to ask too much of her, please,” I replied, knowing about her tendency to comply whenever people relied on her.

“You’re probably right... She looks like the type. I’ll try to be careful,” Regina replied, but then she followed it up with, “If only she wasn’t a Light Magic user...” and I wasn’t really sure I could trust her.

I went back to take a look at the kitchen and noticed that Sora wasn’t there anymore. He’d probably gone back to his room. Since now I could go in without interfering with their budding romance, I approached Maria, and she let me try her new dishes for the day. They were delicious. I took the opportunity to ask her about the fact that she was keeping the restaurant’s books for Regina and whether she wasn’t overworking herself.

“Not at all. If anything, now that those messy books are all nice and tidy and I have been able to think about how to reduce all that wasteful spending, I feel much better. I enjoy this kind of thing,” she said with eyes full of delight.

Now

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