Time slowly passed by, and Ken slowly wake up with a slow yawn, raising up both of his arms, the night have finally come up, but it's seems like Ken's memory still go back to square one.
"What, a horrific dream to have, I should stop reading Webnovel for a while"
But as he was just about to feel relieved, he heard a voice in his heads that he don't want to hear at all.
[System : wakey...wakey my beloved host]
'Ekkk...I thought it was a dream!!!'
[System: you should just wake up to reality Host and accept your current Fate]
'Wake me to reality huh, this is a fantasy world!!!'
[System:....]
'Anyway, I ask you to wake me up right, you arent even reliable being an alarm clock'
'i wake up on my own'
[System : Well you know host the concept of time here are different from your world, so I am bit confused on which part of the night should I wake you up]
Ken just became flabbergasted by the system, it's becoming more human and human by each time they interacted. And he felt annoyed.
'You should just wake me up when the night arrive okay'
[System : Yes Host i will do what you want next time]
Don't want to argue any longer with the system, and because his stomach is getting more violent, he just want to go for a hearty meal and continue to do his planning for the upcoming days. As he walks and grab the doorknob he slowly peak to his right and left until his gaze stuck upon a short figure.
The short figure was standing at the corner, trying to control her heads that bubble up and down. She seems to be in a mood to sleep.
But there's no time to care for that, because Ken was already feeling really hungry. It will be ashamed among transmigrated character novels for him to die only because of starvation.
Whispering to Marie that seems to be dozing off, he feels conflicted. As the 'Small Reaper' seems to be really vulnerable in that state, but then he just brushed off his thoughts, maybe it is just a facade to lower down her enemy guards.
'psssh..pssh..Marie...'
When he whisper for the second time, the eyes of Marie suddenly became sharp, becoming more tense while readying herself in combat position which made Ken flinched a bit.
'I was right, her title is not a things to be looked down'
When Marie eyes was scrubbing off quickly to her surrounding, she then see the young master face in front of her, waving his hands frantically. In which made her relax and lower down her arms.
"Ow, it's the young master"
"What can I do for you, young master?" She asked with languid pose,
"you see Marie, I just feel like it's time for me to conduct my first step for being the supreme chef"
"That is I need to firstly gather information regarding all the delicious and exquisite foods in this world, and the first best way would be tasting every food in this mansion first"
"hmmm is that so, but why the night time tho, master?"
"Ummm, yes.. I don't want my sisters to take notice and it's a surprise for them afterall"
After Ken say that, Marie just raised up one of her eyebrow, not agreeing nor disagreeing with his words. But she just sighed and make a hand gesture, indicating for Ken to follow her.
[System : Minor Bluffing succeed✓✓✓+2point]
[Suspicion : 0]
Having that notification, Ken just fist up, happy even though it's only racks two points from Marie. And he followed suit.
But Ken was quite intrigued by the Crimson Mansion, it was far larger than he thought. Every structures in this Mansion was a masterpiece from the pillar, roofing, walkway and even the garden which have some big statue that makes him curious to know.
And without realising it, they have been walking for about 30 minutes, which makes Ken slowly loosing his patience. As he was about to voice his complaints,
'most likely, ill die from starvation before I reach the eating table'
"Umm, Marie..."
As he was about to utter his next words, Marie stops in front of big door that will surely open into a large dining hall.
"Yes Master??"
"Umm...Nothing..let's go"
Then he steps into the large hall, and what awaits in front of him was a typical glorious noble house settings, a long decorative table for eating with some exquisite looking chair and silver tableware, just makes him gasped in admiration. Not mention those glorious weird painting stamped on the wall.
'whoever paints this shit should be struck by lightning 3 times'
Secretly complaining about the painting, he walks slowly towards the dining table and flopped down to one of the many chair that prepared there. Unconsciously he start tracing the exquisite wood table surface which makes him engulfed in another instinctual epiphany.
'Luxurious'
While thinking about that, the corner of his eyes watch Marie, as she throded to the kitchen seemly going to cook something for him. Before long, he cloud hear some sounds of cluttering and cutting sounds from that area while he just wondering few things on his heads.
'seems like I need to wait for some time more huh'
'what do I expect from a fantasy world?, a fridge to store foods or even an oven to heat it up?'
Before long, Marie was already in front of him, bringing lots series of foods for him to eat, he don't know any of the ingredients used, but as long as it taste delicious it doesn't concern him at all. When he was just about to dig into his foods, he just thinks about some probability. The probability of her poisoning his foods. As he stops, Marie looks into him seems disturbed a bit.
"Is there anything wrong Master?"
"Umm.. not at all"
He still hesitated, even though the probability of Marie poisoning the foods seems low, there's no harm in being just a little careful. In this world everything is unpredictable and dangerous.So he asked the system.
'system, do you have any poison detecting ability?'
[System : Not at all host, I am a bluffing system not a poison detecting system]
And Ken just grimaced.
[System : But from the suspicion level of Marie, I can 100% certain that the food is not harmful or have poison at all]
Just after the system stated that, Ken without any further thought, just dig up into the foods, not even paying attention to his surrounding. From that, just a sounds of gulping and scrunching are the only viable sound produced. While Marie just stared at his young master eating enthusiastically.
' seems likes he is really passionate about his dream that he just forgets dining etitique and eats like a dog'
Few moments later, Ken finally finished eating, feeling satisfied while patting his bloated stomach and burp loudly. Seeing his master finishing the whole dozen of foods Marie just feel shocked and quite intrigued.
"You seems really passionate on gathering your information master"
"For sure Marie, it's my dream to be supreme Chef afterall"
"But seems like you forget your dining etitique"
'yep, I just made a blunder, how could you just stay calm when you are so hungry '
" Well, from the books that I read about supreme chef, you will have a moment of epiphany when your express your honest reactions when eating"
[System : Bluffing succeeded ✓✓✓+3 points]
[Suspicion : 0]
'hahaha, easy points'
"Hmm, that's new, just don't do that in front of the ladies master"
"Hahaha, I'll take note of that"
"By the way Marie, that foods was truly delicious, I never thoughts that you are such a good cook"
Being praised, Marie just responds with a puffy cheek,
"Geez, it's because the master never asked for me to cook, but I am glad you like it"
Even though Marie was the maid in charge of Anon, she actually never cooked for him, as the maids which is in charge of cooking everyday was tasked for are different people which are, maid dedicated only for cooking. But every maids was already trained with every skill including cooking so it's quite easy task for Marie.
Feeling safe, Ken just wanted to racked more good impressions from Marie so he continue to praise her.
" It's really delicious Marie, I think I'll be having an epiphany if I continue eating the food your cook everyday"
"From my experience, you are the best in cooking in this mansion right now, I think you can be a really good wife for your husband in the future"
When he says this, he himself just froze, while Marie fastly went to the kitchen with dirty dishes. A bit of blushes was coming from her face.
' what the hell did I just say that, I just raised my own death flag'
'thats not the thing I was about to say, system explain'
[System : For the host information, this is the preset for the character named Anon]
'wait, this guy is good and flirty with girl???'
'i thought he was just a dull and tight guy'
[System : No, it's only triggered on certain conditions and situation]
[System : Because of defense mechanism..]
'Ahuh..seems like I need to learn more about this guy, too mysterious'
[But, aren't you supposed to be happy with this romance progress Host?]
' happy?, this girl is the small reaper, what if one day she say, master you heart only belong to me...'
'and proceed to dig out my heart so she could treasure it'
[System : you are to paranoid host]
The Ken just reply the system with a good 'hmmmphh!!!' while turning his head.
Few minutes later, Marie just came to him but seems like she is a professional maid and seems to forget about the so called praises from the young master from before. When Ken was just about to go retire to his room and had enough for the day. Now he have stumble upon another urgent matter to attend. It's been hours already for him in this world and he realised that, in his room it doesn't have the perfect facility as it is, which is.
' damn it, I need to go to bathroom, but there's none on my room'
'such a luxurious room but no bathroom installed adjacent to it, such a bad design'
Noticing his master peculiar behaviour, Marie just asked.
"Is there anything else matter master?"
Saying such things, made Ken a bit sweaty as he don't know what reason for him to ask Marie to get him to the bathroom. He just can't ask her maid such thing after saying such unintended flirty words a while ago. And it will be too suspicious for him to not know where the bathroom is located at, considering his position as the young master.
'will he says, Marie I forget where the bathroom are hahaha, can you help me or'
'Hurry Marie, let's go to the bathroom, my bladder is bursting open'
To add up, can he even ask the maid to accompany him to the bathroom. It is such an embarrassing thing for him to say and it will surely hurt his pride as a man.
'But go hell with pride when my life is on the line!!!'
He thought again, and now he needs to find the perfect excuse for things to work out.
Then, he just try and error this time.
"Umm, young master?"
"Yes Marie, well you see the food that you cooked was too delicious that I seems to be eating too much"
"You see I feel bloated right now, its seems like my stomach is rejecting a few, so could you help me get to the bathroom please, I seems to can't stand up at all because of this bloat"
[System : Bluffing Succeed ✓✓✓+4 points]
[Upset level : + 3]
'thats new...'
When he utter this words, she seems to be upset a bit seen from her dejected expressions, but seems like she is more understanding than usual. But what can he do, it is a natural instinct from a man, it's one of the thing he feared he will die to, dieying from a gall bladder outburst.Then she helps Anon to get up from his seat, grabbing his arm and putting on her shoulder, they slowly throded to a certain direction.