Chapter 219: Chapter 66 - Unknown Invitation
"That really cuts short the explanation you were going to give me," I replied in a calm tone after hearing the message from the Butler in front of me.
That title...
Its remind me, something...
A world that has been destroyed by a black hole...
The past that I want to forget because I am too busy carrying big responsibilities to save them all...
For some reason, it felt like it coming up me who had been reborn as a Weiss Guderian. A story from the past that resurfaced in my memory, hidden within the Fujimoto family.
I don’t know who the woman... this Butler is referring to is, but I’ll definitely find out soon.
"So, that woman really knows you well, Master Weiss?" the butler asked as he closed the limousine door and gestured for me to enter the living room of the Fujimoto family residence.
"That woman.. Well, she does know me well... especially if she truly understands the meaning of ’Ghost of Narzik’ which I have long wanted to forget," as I walked beside the Butler who was in charge of welcoming me, my body’s instinct to get more information about this ’woman’ was triggered.
"Is it something bad that shouldn’t be known publicly, Master Weiss?"
"Not really, it’s not related to my past or anything else. It’s just... It’s related to my maids being unruly to killing anyone or destroying anything that is troublesome in their eyes." By adding false information that concealed my past life, I attempted to establish a new, less serious flow of conversation.
"Master Weiss’s maids? O-Oohh!! I-I’ve heard the rumors that are spreading on social media and are currently being hotly discussed in underground forums. With that many enemies, it’s no wonder that Master Weiss will be troubled by various threats coming from investors who lost their dirty money in other businesses, Hahaha!!" said the Butler while laughing cheerfully and not caring about himself, who was playing the role of a charismatic Butler.
I’d met this man several times before, during visits to the Fujimoto family’s main residence. The man posing as a butler was a trusted aide to the Fujimoto family head, whom I’d somehow become close to after spending time fishing on the high seas with him.
From the start, this man should have had a cold demeanor and a facial expression that was always wary of his surroundings. However, inside the Fujimoto family residence, which was filled with various layers of security, he relaxed his guard a little and became this uncharismatic butler.
"Another business for a CEO who produces idol groups, huh?"
"I’m definitely in big trouble every day if that really happen, somehow I’ve managed to survive until now."
"Doesn’t this look like I’ve received divine blessings from an otherworldly goddess?" I joked and followed the butler into the luxurious living room.
Tap...
Tap...
My little joke was well received by the Butler, who chuckled.
"Hahaha!! That’s so funny, Master Weiss. You don’t look like someone who believes in the Goddess from another world or a religious person who is devout to the teachings of Goddess religion!"
"Is there a Goddess who would bestow her divine blessings upon Master Weiss, who upholds logic and critical thinking?" the Butler asked, causing me to smile faintly.
If it were my past self as Weiss Guderian who had vague memories from past lives, I would probably have answered out loud that I didn’t believe in a Goddess and her divine blessings.
But after creating the homunculus vessel and being used by the fallen Goddess, there is still room for logic and reasoning in my head to believe in divine blessings.
Especially after I met the Akashic Record Keeper, who said that divinity was still not open on Earth because the tenth floor of the Tower of Fate had not been conquered, the possibility of the belief in Goddesses from other worlds was still open in my mind.
"Well, even if there was a Goddess, would you like to make a bet with me?"
"About... the Goddess, who would be my maid or not?" I asked jokingly, glancing at the Butler walking beside me.
Tap...
Tap...
Even just playing the role of a butler, he didn’t do a good job, already forgetting the respect he’d shown earlier. Several snide glances were directed at the butler, as if whispering that he needed to be one step ahead of me to escort me to my destination.
"What an quite interesting bet, Master Weiss."
"But I don’t want to get caught up in it."
"Because Master Weiss definitely has a way to conquer a Goddess as his own maid."
In times like these, his instincts were right on target.
"You’re not easily fooled into a bet that’s already been made, huh?" I replied with a faint smile on my face.
"..." the Butler who was walking beside me suddenly fell silent after hearing my answer.
He looked surprised and approached me as if he wanted to whisper something.
"That’s quite a bold statement, Master Weiss. Did it really happen?" the Butler asked in a low voice, his hand covering a microphone on his uniform collar.
"Almost, because she is a fallen goddess who has lost her divine blessings," I replied in a low tone as well and looked away to pretend to be looking for someone.
"By the way, where did my maids go?" I asked the Butler in an effort to divert the sensitive topic he had heard.
"Don’t worry, Master Weiss. They are with Young Miss Ellen to take care of some matters related to the main theme of today’s dinner," replied the Butler as he released his hand from the microphone attached to his collar.
"You guys really intend to do this kind of thing, huh?"
"Yes... How can we refuse an order from the head of the family, right?"
"Try to refuse it once in a while."
"If I had the guts to do that, my head would have fallen to the floor, and I would have retired in peace."
"Your retirement savings still aren’t enough to repay your debt of gratitude to the head of the Fujimoto family, are they?"
"You know that yourself, Master Weiss."
While chatting on normal topics, I occasionally observed the situation around me.
The Fujimoto family residence I knew had undergone renovations. Its unfamiliar appearance almost made me believe it was another Fujimoto family residence.
Some interiors still maintain the classic style that I still remember in my head, even though it is too contrasting with the modern style touches that make my eyes twitch when I see it.
As I walked with the Butler and passed through the living room that was as large as five normal houses, now my footsteps were guided to a strange place... a small hallway that I didn’t know about.
I glanced at the Butler and asked him.
"As far as I can remember..."
"There’s no small hallway in this place, right?" I asked the Butler while observing his facial expression.
Right next to the spacious living room and tucked away in a hidden space between the buildings, there is a small hallway that can accommodate two people to walk inside it.
I, who was separated from my maids, now felt a pretty bad feeling about the strangeness that I had just discovered.
"U-Uumm, do we have to go in?" I asked the Butler again, but no answer came out of his mouth.
His body suddenly stopped in front of me, and the people around me also stopped, as if they had been caught in a flow time that had suddenly stopped.
Glooom...
Glooommm...
The magic cane that I was carrying suddenly released powerful magic energy that came from the black hole.
[ Maid Order: Master Weiss... ]
[ Maid Order: Looks like we got an unknown invitation. ]
My Maid Order system screen suddenly opened and displayed a message containing an unknown danger sign.
"An unknown invitation from a frozen time stream?"
"If this is an invitation, it seems very rude..."
[ Maid Order: Should I fight this time stop as a form of resistance? ]
"There’s no need to do that."
"I will come and fulfill the invitation."
"I’m sure this won’t last long."
I don’t know where the confidence came from, but I walked into a small, unknown small hallway. The sudden appearance of the small hallway and the frozen flow of time were undoubtedly the work of an entity capable of distorting reality.
An entity I don’t want to meet in the world of Narzik or within the Tower of Fate, because it’s too troublesome to be understood by normal logic.
My footsteps walked down the small hallway, and a door created from mirrors crept up before my eyes.
"This is an invitation, huh?"
"Now I get annoyed when I don’t get anything to understand this," I grumbled as I walked through the mirror door that appeared before my eyes.
My body felt like it was being sucked into something cold and pressed by a gravitational force different from Earth’s.
This unknown invitation seemed to answer my previous joke.
[ Maid Order: Oh!! This is more interesting than I expected! ]
[ Maid Order: Master Weiss, you are truly very lucky! ]
Without blinking my eyes and trying to adjust to this heavy gravitational force with my relaxed footsteps, I had moved into a reality space inhabited by unknown entities.
In front of me, there a figure who resembles an adult woman...
Positioning herself kneeling in front of the sword stuck in the rock...
Her naked self without any signs of covering her breasts and pussy in shame...
I feel like I’ve been thrown back into the past...
"E-Eeeehhh?? M-Master Altair? N-No... I mean, Master Weiss?!!" said the naked adult woman in front of me.
"Why Master Weiss in here?"
From her beautiful face and straight body posture, like a trained female knight...
And the old name I used in the past...
What has happened?
