19-the melancholy of Natalia...





It is a calm afternoon after the bustle of the daytime.

Natalia, who was sitting lazily on her cheekbones at the table, suddenly utters a few words.

I'm bored with something.

Right now, Letty and Mom are out shopping. My father is in the kitchen and I am the only employee in the cafeteria.

The fact that she mumbled as soon as I passed by her, must mean that she wants me to leave her alone.

What are you tired of?

'I'm in my room.

I asked, and Natalia answered emphatically.

Natalia has brought a lot of her personal belongings with her, so I guess she's not as bored as most people, right?

Of course it is fine to bring your personal belongings to our inn.

You can buy your own furniture and set it up instead of using the chairs and tables we provide. Of course, when you move out, you have to bring them back or sell them, and there are some rules such as not to put too much furniture so that it can be cleaned, but basically, you are free to bring your own furniture.

It's true that we have everything we need, but it's still boring,' he says. It's not like there's no change. ......

Natalia traces the grain of the table with a somewhat melancholy expression.

A beautiful woman is a dangerous thing, because even such a languid expression seems beautiful.

I work at night, so my life cycle is different from others, and I often sleep at the inn. That's why I want to have the same sense of life and security as other people when I come back.

Well, it is true that Natalia's life cycle is different from others. She is often tired and sleeps in her room during the day.

It is natural for her to miss her daily life when she is away from it.

It is important for her spirit to give her small pleasures when she comes home.

Natalia's room is a large room for a single person.

Naturally, it costs more than other rooms, but Natalia has been paying her rent without any delinquency.

Well, if Natalia's room is bigger than the other rooms, it seems to me that she can get by with some rearrangement of the furniture.

'Well, I can change the interior of the room, can't I? Just by changing the position of the furniture and putting in some new accessories, I think it will give a very different impression.

It's like a common redecoration. We don't want to do something as big as changing the color of the walls, but we can do something small.

'...... Well, that would certainly give a different impression. Then, can I ask you to do something for me?

'Okay, but you want me to do it? I think it would be better to ask the same woman, Letty or my mother.'

'No, I think it will be more interesting if Tori does it, so I'll ask Tori.

Despite my confusion, Natalia does not seem to be bothered by my request.

Well, I am a child to a grown woman like Natalia.

I guess she doesn't care about that.

I wonder if Tori would be happier with my underwear as a reward?

'...... keep your personal belongings, including underwear, packed. I'll leave them in Mom and Letty's room.

I knew he was playing a joke on me.

Natalia scratched her cheek awkwardly as I denied it and told her to put it away,

I'm not very good at cleaning up.

Oh, I see.



I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that.



Since Natalia is not capable of cleaning up, we had to do it before redecorating the room.

It would have been better if Mom or Letty, who are also women, had done it, but they had just left for shopping. When the two women go out, they also look around for clothes and sundries for a change of pace, so they are usually back late.

So Natalia and I go into the room together.

Natalia's room was cleaned by Letty last night. She has just come home and gone to sleep, so the room should be clean and uncluttered.

I thought so, but when I opened the door, I found a lot of clothes inside.

Was it the dress she had worn last night? They were not even put on hangers, but taken off on the floor. Not only dresses, but also heels of different colors, underwear, cosmetics, and cases of perfume were scattered around.

This is the interior of a tired woman living alone.

'...... Letty must have cleaned up last night, right? Why is it so messy?'

He must have just come home from work, gone to bed, and eaten breakfast and lunch.

How could it be in such a state?

'I was picking out today's plain clothes and dresses, and that's what happened.

'Let's put it away when we pull it out properly. Don't you think you'll end up with expensive dresses and wrinkles?

I have so many things that I can't be bothered to put away every time. Besides, the whorehouse buys all the dresses, so they'll be new soon.

I see, so you can keep that uncluttered mindset because of the substantial guarantees from the whorehouse.

The whorehouses don't speak harshly about it, either because they know or because they are aware that it's the way it's supposed to be.

If it's wrinkled, but the whorehouse is willing to buy it anew, it's understandable that they'd throw it out.

huh? Let's put the dresses on hangers and put them in the closet for now. Fold up the underwear and put them on the shelves too.

Yes.''

Natalia replies somewhat unwillingly.

She is not very good at tidying up.

Natalia begins to move slowly and hangs the dresses on hangers.

However, she has not stretched the dress properly before hanging it on the hanger, so it is likely to be wrinkled.

'Hey, give me that. If you don't put it on the hanger after stretching it a little more, it will get wrinkled again.

'I see. Then I'll leave the dress to Tori.

I put the dress on the hanger neatly, open the closet, and put it in the closet to avoid wrinkles.

Some of the dresses were hung in a messy way, so I took some of them off and put them back on.

When I am done, I pick up the clothes on the floor.

I put the heels and accessories at the end of the closet, because I don't know where to put them.

The wrinkled leggings are folded and put on the edge after being wrinkled well.

As I reach for the next piece of clothing, I find a very thin piece of cloth.

Is this a handkerchief?

I thought so, but when it unfolded, it turned out to be a pale purple negligee. It was decorated with elegant ruffles and was very sensational.

Just imagining Natalia wearing this was very destructive.

Oh, Tori likes scanty negligees?

'No, it's not like that.

'If you want, I can put it on for you right here and now.'

'It's okay, I'm not going to clean up.

'Too bad.'

d*mn, if I were just a horny old man, I would have asked for it immediately.

I didn't show any such feelings on my face at all, and promptly put them on hangers and threw them into the closet.

After that, I handed Natalia some very large underwear and some extremely thin underwear, and proceeded to clean up.

Then she noticed a pot-like object sticking out of the bag.

It looked like something she had seen in a store somewhere. She reaches for it,



'What! This is a magical tool for making hot water, right?''

I'm sure of it. I saw it in a grimoire store near the market.

It's a handy thing that can make hot water in no time, even for ordinary people like us who have only a little magic power.

A customer gave it to me the other day. He said it was our product and that he would give it to me. It seems he's a big guy in a magic store.

Natalia mutters something about nothing, much to my surprise.

Isn't that someone important, like a president or a branch manager?

He must be rich to be able to give away something that costs dozens of gold coins.

I mean, Natalia's whorehouse is a high-class place.

It's the ordinary things I do in my daily life that make me realize once again how great I am.