"Master..."
When this small and cute voice reaches his ear he unconsciously watch the girl or to be precise the maid in front of him. With a stature of 160cm tall, a cute and big blue eyes along with bobcut blonde hair and mostly known feature, the classic black and white maid uniform. She is Marie Thorn, the maid that is serving Anon Crimson Argaut probably. If normal people sees this girl they will surely 100% fall in love at first sight.
But not Ken, because from the novel information and his revision from the system, this girl have another identity not known by many, not even his family. This short blonde girl are called the 'small reaper', although the name contain cute abbreviation, this girl have the tendency to butcher your gut in a split second if she felt wronged. The reason for this girl to serve the family is because of an old contract with his mother, but he don't know anything regarding the contract. He needs to find out the contract information from the system soon. Which makes him panic and stressed out.
With gentle movement, Marie slowly comes towards him. With an eye as sharp as eagle, she just stare at Ken, every movement and gesture that he made are being monitored continuously. Seeing that, he feels that if he doesn't calm down any soon. He will surely expose himself miserablly. But considering that he have made a commotion a few hours ago, he also needs to consider his next action and words carefully.
'breath in, breath out, thinks about my goal and my gacha-waifu cheering me up'
After calming for a bit, he regain his calm while his brain neurons starts intersecting with each other. Bit by bit he thinks a few plan and ideas, but the maid just came near and near to him until she stands just a few inches in front of him. She needs to looks up at his faces because this Anon guy was quite tall at 175cm. She looks at him with piercing gaze and utter her question.
"Master...looking at you now, you seems to be a bit different from usual, no maybe a lot different"
"Are you my still my master or..."
When she starts to ask questions, Ken still considering whether to use this Anon personality or make a whole new personality that more suited to himself. But considering Anon personality he will surely get caught in no time, because this guy is just dull and quiet guy, a typical mob character. While Ken is a bit bold and overbearing sometimes. This will surely broke down the character as soon as something unpredictable happen because their personality contradicts each other. So he decided to gamble.
"Hahaha, Marie it's still me of course, doesn't you recognize this face?" He says while pointing his face,
When he says this words, the air in the surroundings room suddenly turned cold and this girl just became tense, and Ken could see she is taking out a shiny things from her long black leggings which made him shiver.
'Beat me, that's a hidden knife!!!'
[Bluffing Failed×××]
[Suspicion +5]
When he sees the notification he became more serious and starting to blurt out his not so good ideas.
"Marie it's me!!!, it's just that I suddenly wanted to change myself!!!" But to not avail,
[Bluffing failed×××]
[Suspicion +8]
Not giving up he try to continue his bluffings.
"It just that I finally realised that doing nothing will not change my life, that's why I decided to be more bold and brave in order to fulfil my dream"
Marie just stared at him while responding,
"The master that I know never talks about any dream that he have and your change is a bit too sudden"
[Bluffing Failed×××]
[Suspicion +10]
This words from Marie makes his expressions solid and frozen.
'curse you Anon, you are the mobbest of the mobs character, be a bit 3d dimensional !!!'
Then Marie just continue,
"I see, you sure have a symptom of someone being possessed" Marie say while the shiny thing is pointed at Ken's neck.
'Damn it, help me system, aren't you OP!!!'
[Tips : The host should not be vague with the answer given, a precise and detailed information needed to be conveyed]
'huh, what details I need to add, cant I just blurt out, I am just a lost soul transmigrated into your master's body'
'or even good is I am Ken from earth, nice to meet you'
[Then it's game over for you host, maybe you should considered being transferred to the other novel Instead]
'Damn it, this system doesn't take sarcasm or help me at all'
Figuring several ideas and lies that could work, he figure out that in order to convince this girl he needed to use other character that have involvement with him for the bluffs to work.
'wait this one might work'
After calming down for a bit, he just sighed and prepare a believable solemn expressions,
'sigh'
"You know Marie, all this years I've been silent and ignoring everything because I've been thinking about my dream"
"What I need to do, what I need to be, I want to be happy like everyone else, that's why a little change to myself could make it happen"
Marie eyebrow flinched a bit. While Ken needed to add more facts,
"Living in this house is not a easy task you know, living with a talented and monstrous sister while I am just an ordinary person makes me wants to give up on life"
"You also know how my sister treated me right, every once in a while, Adelia will bring me to the training ground and beats me up until I can't stand up and bruises are all over my body the next day"
"Or when Alma locks me up in her laboratory for weeks and feeds me all kind of poison and treat me later like it's nothing, while I repeatedly vomit and collapse like a broken Barbie doll.."
"Don't mention Agnes, that's totally another whole type of different torture, that's why I decided I want to go against them and defy my loser self, so I could live up to my dream"
After saying that, Ken just squint his left eyes secretly, looking into Marie expressions, his bluffs just now contain an unknown information that he miss word because of burning his brains too much. Then, as if nothing have happened, the tense situations just calm down entirely and Marie put back the knife into her leggings once again.
[Bluffing succeed✓✓✓ +5 points]
[Suspicion -7]
[Congrats Host for earning his first points]
Marie just sighed and her expressions turns normal once again, the cold atmosphere around her just changed to a bright and lively aura. But still her suspicion still there he guess.
"Then, why did you expose yourself and tell me master, or did you just make an excuse for removing my doubt"
"Don't you know that I could tell all of your complaints and this sudden changes to your sisters?"
But Ken just put his hands behind his backs and turned around while asking her.
"How long have you been serving me Marie?"
" 8 years, 3 months and 216 days master..."
'thats detailed!!!'
"Then isn't the reason there, all of this year your never go to serve my sisters and never once betray me, that's why I trust you and will continue to do so"
Then he just directly looked out from the window, looking into the long horizon, searching for a moon or star to make a dramatic scene, but sadly it's morning so he just stare at the sun that is blinding his eyes which makes him teared a bit. When Marie saw Anon sad expressions she just feels touched for some unknown reason.
'All of this year he have been bottling up his emotions???'
'Damn it, the blinding light is burning my eyes, just get it done fast Marie'
[Unintended Bluffing suceed✓✓✓+ 2 points]
[Suspicion - 12]
'huh, what just happen'
"Anyway master, may you share what dream you want to chase or to be in the future?"
Being asked this question, Ken just froze and hesitantly don't want to turn his back, afraid that all of his bluff just now will be exposed, Thus, he starts racking his brain up again.
'what should I say? An archmage? A Swordmaster? Healer Saint?'
None of the occupation that he thinks of match this guy named Anon, because this world recognize him as one of the untalented person ever existed. Expectations Vs Reality, his dream needed to believable and achievable by this Anon. A merchant is a good choice but why he needs to be merchant if he is already rich.
[Hurry up Host or Marie will get suspicious again]
'Damn it, whatever comes to mind'
Then slowly, Anon turn his back and looks straight to Marie's eyes with confidence, with a little bit of tears still on his eyes because of watching the direct sunlight for too long, he just mutter what ever comes to his minds. With a sincere smile and happy expressions.
"My dream is to became a Supreme Chef"
[System : :+]
Marie : :0
Anon/Ken : ;)
[Unintended Bluffing succeed✓✓✓ +8points]
[Suspicion 0]
'huh, that's works???'
'Whats a Supreme Chef anyway?'