When Mina returned to the castle, she found Lucas was still in the study room with a bowl of polished rice porridge on the desk waiting for her. This scene made her smile brighter, and her killing intent, which had remained as an aftermath of her killings, disappeared very quickly.
“Welcome back.” Lucas said, looking up to Mina and smiling. “You must be hungry. This is the gift for your hard work.”
“Yes. I’m very hungry. And thank you, young master." Mina said, wiping her hands on the side of her coat unconsciously. Even her hands didn’t have any blood, but she subconsciously didn’t want Lucas, who she thought was gentle, to learn that she was someone that could kill without hesitation.
“This is just simple porridge. There isn’t any lean meat or any other stuff in there.” Lucas said with a smile and gave the big bowl to Mina which was filled with porridge.
Seeing Lucas's smile, Mina's agitated heart became more peaceful, she nodded obediently and sat on the desk with her buttocks. She started to eat while holding the big bowl in her hands.
From the first bite, Mina knew that this porridge was not prepared by Nicole, but cooked by the young master because the taste was exactly the same as the polished rice porridge she ate when she was released from the dungeon by Lucas. When she met Lucas for the first time.
“The past is the past. Today is a new beginning.” Lucas said gently. He could tell that there was something which was bothering Mina.
“Mm.” Mina paused briefly while eating porridge and said softly, “Young Master, the porridge you cook is more delicious.”
“Ha ha ha… Nicole’s gonna make me cook for everyone if you say that.” Lucas said while laughing.
“Nicole won’t do that. She’s not someone who’s going to make you work.” Mina said, shaking her head. She licked her lips. She wanted to ask something, but she didn’t know whether or not she should say it.
“Say what you want to say. Right now, you don’t look like the Mina that I know. You are like someone else. The Mina I know will always say what is on her mind.” Lucas said while folding his arms on his chest.
“Young Master, I’m talking about what if…” Mina blushed slightly. She stopped eating the porridge in her hands, and her purple eyes stared at Lucas’s black eyes seriously.
“What if?” Lucas asked, tilting his head slightly. 'Mina's behavior is strange.Is it because she killed someone today? I thought that killing Carter and Fez would help her get rid of some of the trauma they had left her when they captured and locked her up into the dungeon.'
"Huh." Mina suddenly took a deep breath and put her favorite polished rice porridge aside. Her cat's ears stood up and her tail swung more frequently behind her back. This was the sign of extreme nervousness for a cat beastkin.
Lucas was also infected by Mina's seriousness, and he also sat up straight, "Tell me, what do you want to say?"
“That… that…” Mina blushed even more, her cat ears shook repeatedly, “It’s that, Young Master, that… what kind of girl will you marry in the future?”
“What?” Lucas was stunned. He hadn’t expected Mina to ask that question with a serious expression. He hadn’t considered it at all, since he was very young. Of course, people his age in this world already have quite a few children.
“Why are you asking this?” Lucas asked Mina back. He looked up and saw Mina’s shy expression. He saw Mina with her hands twisting the corners of her clothes. This was the first time he had seen her making that expression.
“I- I just suddenly wanted to know,” Mina said, panicking a little. She hurriedly got down from the desk while getting the bowl of porridge in her hands and ran towards the door. “Young Master, it’s okay even if you don’t say it."
Lucas blinked and smiled gently. “I may marry a female beastkin.”
“Huh?” Mina, who had just gotten to the door, stopped abruptly. In the next second, she panickedly opened the door and fled the next moment while closing the door quickly.
"Slam."
Mina shut the door abruptly and stood in the hallway with her face red and misty eyes. She didn't know what happened to her tonight, but she actually asked what kind of woman the young master would marry as his wife. Even though she already knew the answer to the question. She thought that a noble man would definitely marry a noble girl. Even if the noble is different, he will marry a commoner girl, such as a beautiful and capable girl like Nicole.
Instead of a beastkin like her, a beastkin with no special skills, a beastkin who can only kill, and likes to eat polished rice porridge, even if she is very beautiful.
The nobles will never marry beastkin, and no one of the nobles of the human race had ever married a beastkin. If anyone does then he would become a laughing stock for the rest of the nobles.
But she still asked because she had some hope in her heart about the young master's answer. She was not qualified to ask, but she couldn't hold back in the end. Now, Mina felt lucky to have asked that question. Lucas’s answer was an outrageous one, but it was also the answer that she wanted to hear the most. She felt like she was in the seventh sky.
Mina smiled and walked away happily. She kept chanting the words “May marry a beastkin” repeatedly. Mina would be happy for many days even if it was just a lie, but she knew that Lucas wouldn’t lie to her.
Even if Lucas wouldn’t marry her, she would still stay by his side. Forever.
'Isn’t it also a kind of happiness to be able to be by the side of your beloved one? Is it love or what?'
Early in the morning, the castle was as lively as always. As for the deaths of Carter and the others, no one cared about them. The bodies were pulled and disposed of, and the five glasses were also brought back into the castle.
Lucas put the five glasses into an auction in the Shopping Mall, which he planned to open next spring. He had many things planned for the auction. Big nobles and merchants would be there to throw all their money in the auction for many things.
Lucas’s current problem was that the population of the city was too small. Just building houses in the city required two thirds of the population. They have finished nearly building 90% of the houses. Not to mention that it will be the time for the wheat harvest in a few days.
Besides, winter would come soon after the wheat harvest that would happen a few days later. The winter will be long. Did people really want to be idle in the winter? No, no one does; they just have no choice.
Just like that, Lucas woke up in the morning with a ton of things to think about in his mind. He didn’t know why he woke up early today, around seven o’clock. 'Maybe it’s because of Mina’s question last night', he thought.
"Creak."
The door of the room was pushed open, Nicole walked in gently, but just in time to meet Lucas’s black eyes, making her freeze for a second. She stopped in her tracks by seeing Lucas awake.
“Young master, you’re awake. I thought you were going to sleep until 9 o'clock.”
Nicole lightly breathed a sigh of relief, she had come in to take some clothes and bask them in the sun. After all, sunbathing would be a luxury in the winter.
The people in the castle used the watches Lucas brought over to keep the track of time. Lucas brought a lot of mechanical watches from Earth but only some people had them. They all hid them carefully, afraid that other people would see it.
For them, watches were divine objects. In this world, most people look at the sky to tell the time, while the nobles use candles to tell the time.
“Are Mina and Annie awake?” Lucas asked casually.
“No. I don’t know what happened today, but both Mina and Annie haven’t woken up yet.” Nicole replied in a surprised tone.
Mina and Annie usually got up very early in the morning. Mina got up early to exercise, while Annie got up early to help with official duties in the castle.
Not to mention after Annie joined them. Lucas left all the tedious and important stuff to Annie, and she handled them very well.
“Really?” Lucas asked, raising his eyebrows. 'Did I give her a bad answer last night?'
He was a newbie who has never been in love, whether on Earth or here, but he still had some IQ. He thought that there was nothing wrong with the answer last night, besides, he truly thought about what he had said to Mina last night.
Not only did he not reject the idea of marrying a beastkin, he was actually a little excited about it. Who doesn't want a catgirl, foxgirl as their waifus.
When Lucas came to the dining room, he saw both Mina and Annie were sitting on the chairs of the dining table. Both of them had dark circles under their eyes.
“Good morning.” Lucas greeted.
“Good- good morning.” Mina said, blushing slightly.
“Good morning~~” Annie responded, yawning.
Annie glared at Mina. 'You mutated catgirl, what the hell was wrong with you last night? You kept trying to talk to me last night and won’t even let me go to sleep until five.'
Mina had been excited by Lucas’s answer and couldn’t sleep last night. So she talked with Annie last night.
When Mina saw Lucas, she thought about the stuff that she had imagined. She had imagined herself wearing a wedding dress and sitting on a horse, waiting for Lucas to marry her.
The atmosphere during breakfast was a bit strange. Mina’s face was red, she almost put her spoon in her nose, and she giggled from time to time.
Annie’s eyes widened. 'Mina, what happened to you? You were just like how Andrew had been in the past days.'
“Young master, the kitchen is going to run out of salt soon." After eating breakfast, Nicole said suddenly. She was talking about the salt that Lucas had brought from Earth. The salt in this world was gray, not white. The taste of salt is not only salty, but also bitter.
“Then get some from the inner vault room.” Lucas nodded. After he tasted the salt of this era, he stopped eating it.
He suddenly remembered that the salt in this world was very expensive. He didn’t know about other places, but in Sedona City, half a kilogram of salt cost several dozen copper coins. Commoners take months to just use half a kilogram of salt.
“Is there a salt store over at the Shopping Mall?” Lucas raised his head and asked Annie. Because she kept all the records about official works.
“No, those salt merchants are not willing to pay tax.” Annie replied solemnly.
She remembered the servants’ reports that the salt merchants were quite arrogant, thinking that Sedona City couldn’t last without them.
The salt in Sedona City and other nearby cities was all imported from far away by merchants.
To enter Shopping Mall, you have to pay tax, and the tax is calculated according to the income. The higher the income, the more taxes will be paid. Selling salt was a very profitable business and was basically robbing people of their money. As such, they have to pay a lot in tax, and so they didn’t want to go to the Shopping Mall.
“Nicole, are there any salt mines nearby?” Lucas asked.
“Salt mine? Is there a mine for salt too?” Nicole asked, confused. She blinked her eyes and stared at Lucas.
“Young master, did you make a mistake? All the salt comes from the sea.” Annie said while sneakily grabbing a pastry from Mina’s plate.
“You don’t know about salt mines?” Lucas suddenly remembered that this world practically had no industry. Most of them were all struggling to fill their stomachs, so it was understandable for them to be unaware of salt mines.
“Immediately tell someone to ask around and find a nearby place where the rocks and clob are salty.” Lucas said. Currently, he could only search for salt mines using the most primitive method.
“Understood.” Nicole immediately sent someone to ask. She felt that something big was going to happen soon.
GreenBlue17 If you like reading this chapter then colour the heart red ️. You can also give this novel a rating. I am on a vacation so sorry for delay and irregular updates.
When Mina returned to the castle, she found Lucas was still in the study room with a bowl of polished rice porridge on the desk waiting for her. This scene made her smile brighter, and her killing intent, which had remained as an aftermath of her killings, disappeared very quickly.
“Welcome back.” Lucas said, looking up to Mina and smiling. “You must be hungry. This is the gift for your hard work.”
“Yes. I’m very hungry. And thank you, young master." Mina said, wiping her hands on the side of her coat unconsciously. Even her hands didn’t have any blood, but she subconsciously didn’t want Lucas, who she thought was gentle, to learn that she was someone that could kill without hesitation.
“This is just simple porridge. There isn’t any lean meat or any other stuff in there.” Lucas said with a smile and gave the big bowl to Mina which was filled with porridge.
Seeing Lucas's smile, Mina's agitated heart became more peaceful, she nodded obediently and sat on the desk with her buttocks. She started to eat while holding the big bowl in her hands.
From the first bite, Mina knew that this porridge was not prepared by Nicole, but cooked by the young master because the taste was exactly the same as the polished rice porridge she ate when she was released from the dungeon by Lucas. When she met Lucas for the first time.
“The past is the past. Today is a new beginning.” Lucas said gently. He could tell that there was something which was bothering Mina.
“Mm.” Mina paused briefly while eating porridge and said softly, “Young Master, the porridge you cook is more delicious.”
“Ha ha ha… Nicole’s gonna make me cook for everyone if you say that.” Lucas said while laughing.
“Nicole won’t do that. She’s not someone who’s going to make you work.” Mina said, shaking her head. She licked her lips. She wanted to ask something, but she didn’t know whether or not she should say it.
“Say what you want to say. Right now, you don’t look like the Mina that I know. You are like someone else. The Mina I know will always say what is on her mind.” Lucas said while folding his arms on his chest.
“Young Master, I’m talking about what if…” Mina blushed slightly. She stopped eating the porridge in her hands, and her purple eyes stared at Lucas’s black eyes seriously.
“What if?” Lucas asked, tilting his head slightly. 'Mina's behavior is strange.Is it because she killed someone today? I thought that killing Carter and Fez would help her get rid of some of the trauma they had left her when they captured and locked her up into the dungeon.'
"Huh." Mina suddenly took a deep breath and put her favorite polished rice porridge aside. Her cat's ears stood up and her tail swung more frequently behind her back. This was the sign of extreme nervousness for a cat beastkin.
Lucas was also infected by Mina's seriousness, and he also sat up straight, "Tell me, what do you want to say?"
“That… that…” Mina blushed even more, her cat ears shook repeatedly, “It’s that, Young Master, that… what kind of girl will you marry in the future?”
“What?” Lucas was stunned. He hadn’t expected Mina to ask that question with a serious expression. He hadn’t considered it at all, since he was very young. Of course, people his age in this world already have quite a few children.
“Why are you asking this?” Lucas asked Mina back. He looked up and saw Mina’s shy expression. He saw Mina with her hands twisting the corners of her clothes. This was the first time he had seen her making that expression.
“I- I just suddenly wanted to know,” Mina said, panicking a little. She hurriedly got down from the desk while getting the bowl of porridge in her hands and ran towards the door. “Young Master, it’s okay even if you don’t say it."
Lucas blinked and smiled gently. “I may marry a female beastkin.”
“Huh?” Mina, who had just gotten to the door, stopped abruptly. In the next second, she panickedly opened the door and fled the next moment while closing the door quickly.
"Slam."
Mina shut the door abruptly and stood in the hallway with her face red and misty eyes. She didn't know what happened to her tonight, but she actually asked what kind of woman the young master would marry as his wife. Even though she already knew the answer to the question. She thought that a noble man would definitely marry a noble girl. Even if the noble is different, he will marry a commoner girl, such as a beautiful and capable girl like Nicole.
Instead of a beastkin like her, a beastkin with no special skills, a beastkin who can only kill, and likes to eat polished rice porridge, even if she is very beautiful.
The nobles will never marry beastkin, and no one of the nobles of the human race had ever married a beastkin. If anyone does then he would become a laughing stock for the rest of the nobles.
But she still asked because she had some hope in her heart about the young master's answer. She was not qualified to ask, but she couldn't hold back in the end. Now, Mina felt lucky to have asked that question. Lucas’s answer was an outrageous one, but it was also the answer that she wanted to hear the most. She felt like she was in the seventh sky.
Mina smiled and walked away happily. She kept chanting the words “May marry a beastkin” repeatedly. Mina would be happy for many days even if it was just a lie, but she knew that Lucas wouldn’t lie to her.
Even if Lucas wouldn’t marry her, she would still stay by his side. Forever.
'Isn’t it also a kind of happiness to be able to be by the side of your beloved one? Is it love or what?'
Early in the morning, the castle was as lively as always. As for the deaths of Carter and the others, no one cared about them. The bodies were pulled and disposed of, and the five glasses were also brought back into the castle.
Lucas put the five glasses into an auction in the Shopping Mall, which he planned to open next spring. He had many things planned for the auction. Big nobles and merchants would be there to throw all their money in the auction for many things.
Lucas’s current problem was that the population of the city was too small. Just building houses in the city required two thirds of the population. They have finished nearly building 90% of the houses. Not to mention that it will be the time for the wheat harvest in a few days.
Besides, winter would come soon after the wheat harvest that would happen a few days later. The winter will be long. Did people really want to be idle in the winter? No, no one does; they just have no choice.
Just like that, Lucas woke up in the morning with a ton of things to think about in his mind. He didn’t know why he woke up early today, around seven o’clock. 'Maybe it’s because of Mina’s question last night', he thought.
"Creak."
The door of the room was pushed open, Nicole walked in gently, but just in time to meet Lucas’s black eyes, making her freeze for a second. She stopped in her tracks by seeing Lucas awake.
“Young master, you’re awake. I thought you were going to sleep until 9 o'clock.”
Nicole lightly breathed a sigh of relief, she had come in to take some clothes and bask them in the sun. After all, sunbathing would be a luxury in the winter.
The people in the castle used the watches Lucas brought over to keep the track of time. Lucas brought a lot of mechanical watches from Earth but only some people had them. They all hid them carefully, afraid that other people would see it.
For them, watches were divine objects. In this world, most people look at the sky to tell the time, while the nobles use candles to tell the time.
“Are Mina and Annie awake?” Lucas asked casually.
“No. I don’t know what happened today, but both Mina and Annie haven’t woken up yet.” Nicole replied in a surprised tone.
Mina and Annie usually got up very early in the morning. Mina got up early to exercise, while Annie got up early to help with official duties in the castle.
Not to mention after Annie joined them. Lucas left all the tedious and important stuff to Annie, and she handled them very well.
“Really?” Lucas asked, raising his eyebrows. 'Did I give her a bad answer last night?'
He was a newbie who has never been in love, whether on Earth or here, but he still had some IQ. He thought that there was nothing wrong with the answer last night, besides, he truly thought about what he had said to Mina last night.
Not only did he not reject the idea of marrying a beastkin, he was actually a little excited about it. Who doesn't want a catgirl, foxgirl as their waifus.
When Lucas came to the dining room, he saw both Mina and Annie were sitting on the chairs of the dining table. Both of them had dark circles under their eyes.
“Good morning.” Lucas greeted.
“Good- good morning.” Mina said, blushing slightly.
“Good morning~~” Annie responded, yawning.
Annie glared at Mina. 'You mutated catgirl, what the hell was wrong with you last night? You kept trying to talk to me last night and won’t even let me go to sleep until five.'
Mina had been excited by Lucas’s answer and couldn’t sleep last night. So she talked with Annie last night.
When Mina saw Lucas, she thought about the stuff that she had imagined. She had imagined herself wearing a wedding dress and sitting on a horse, waiting for Lucas to marry her.
The atmosphere during breakfast was a bit strange. Mina’s face was red, she almost put her spoon in her nose, and she giggled from time to time.
Annie’s eyes widened. 'Mina, what happened to you? You were just like how Andrew had been in the past days.'
“Young master, the kitchen is going to run out of salt soon." After eating breakfast, Nicole said suddenly. She was talking about the salt that Lucas had brought from Earth. The salt in this world was gray, not white. The taste of salt is not only salty, but also bitter.
“Then get some from the inner vault room.” Lucas nodded. After he tasted the salt of this era, he stopped eating it.
He suddenly remembered that the salt in this world was very expensive. He didn’t know about other places, but in Sedona City, half a kilogram of salt cost several dozen copper coins. Commoners take months to just use half a kilogram of salt.
“Is there a salt store over at the Shopping Mall?” Lucas raised his head and asked Annie. Because she kept all the records about official works.
“No, those salt merchants are not willing to pay tax.” Annie replied solemnly.
She remembered the servants’ reports that the salt merchants were quite arrogant, thinking that Sedona City couldn’t last without them.
The salt in Sedona City and other nearby cities was all imported from far away by merchants.
To enter Shopping Mall, you have to pay tax, and the tax is calculated according to the income. The higher the income, the more taxes will be paid. Selling salt was a very profitable business and was basically robbing people of their money. As such, they have to pay a lot in tax, and so they didn’t want to go to the Shopping Mall.
“Nicole, are there any salt mines nearby?” Lucas asked.
“Salt mine? Is there a mine for salt too?” Nicole asked, confused. She blinked her eyes and stared at Lucas.
“Young master, did you make a mistake? All the salt comes from the sea.” Annie said while sneakily grabbing a pastry from Mina’s plate.
“You don’t know about salt mines?” Lucas suddenly remembered that this world practically had no industry. Most of them were all struggling to fill their stomachs, so it was understandable for them to be unaware of salt mines.
“Immediately tell someone to ask around and find a nearby place where the rocks and clob are salty.” Lucas said. Currently, he could only search for salt mines using the most primitive method.
“Understood.” Nicole immediately sent someone to ask. She felt that something big was going to happen soon.
GreenBlue17 If you like reading this chapter then colour the heart red ️. You can also give this novel a rating. I am on a vacation so sorry for delay and irregular updates.
