Life as a Tower Maid: Locked up with the Prince - Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Translator: Yonnee

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The door opened with a bang.

“Good morning!”

At the cheerful greeting, the two men exchanged glances with puzzled faces.

I inspected them carefully and finally saw something behind them.

“Oh my! I think I can see something moving right there. What’s that?”

“Nothing you need to know. Here are the ingredients you asked for.”

The knight on the left pushed the bags through the door. Inside one bag were some poultry, pork, seafood, flour and some other daily necessities.

I asked for these ingredients because I wanted to make fried chicken, but I also wanted to make pancakes.

It’s really convenient having everything I want delivered like this.

The satisfaction I have as a customer reminds me of C**pang rocket delivery! It’s a luxury that I never thought I’d ever experience here.

The other bag had clothes in it, and I realized again that Rose was a maid who really knew how to throw her weight around here.

The maid’s clothes were as colorful and ostentatious as a noblewoman’s dress, while Albert’s were so shabby that you wouldn’t think he was a noble himself.

But I know—the most important aspect of fashion… is the face!

Some say that fashion could make a statement all on its own, but with Albert, it doesn’t matter what he wears, he’d shine either way. And I’ll just be here and continue to be a faithful fan.

“I can see something moving behind you.”

“We’ll take care of it. It followed us on the way.”

The knight on the right sighed.

The animal behind them made a kyuu sound.

“Oh my…”

How cute!

It looked like a reptile, but it was so cute.

It wasn’t any taller than my knees, but its sparkling eyes alone were already a source of so much cuteness.

Seeing it standing on two legs and wagging its tail looked so adorable to me.

It reminded me of something.

I closed my eyes.

The reptile in front of me kept reminding me of something.

What was it?

As I was in deep thought, the animal and I made eye contact.

It crawled past the knights and then easily went into the door of the tower to come inside.

“…Huh?”

The animal ran straight to me as though it liked me.

It was only after I saw its wagging tail closer that I realized what it really was.

…Isn’t this a dragon?

I didn’t even think of a dragon when I saw it because it was so tiny, but it really was one.

It was similar to the dragon I saw in that cartoon before, but it was hard to tell that it’s a dragon because the animation had a fully-grown dragon.

Did dragons exist in this novel?

Since it’s a fantasy world, it wouldn’t be strange if a dragon appeared, but I wonder… Was there any mention of a dragon in the original?

Isn’t it just a tale of romance between Albert and Seo Ina after Rosteratu dies? I’m not too sure because I couldn’t read until the end…

I shifted my gaze and looked at the knights, who were contemptuously looking at the animal at my feet.

Do they not know that this animal was a dragon?

“Mister.”^[1]

“Huh?”

The knight on the right responded to me, and I pointed to the dragon that was still circling around me.

“What does this look like?”

“A black cat.”

Huh? But I’m looking at a white dragon right now?

The man on the right was called Bob, but I asked John on the left this time.

“Do you also see a black cat?”

“You don’t like black cats? Looks like it can enter the tower.”

“People say that cats are really smart. I guess that’s right.”

The two misters talked to each other and just accepted it.

What? Did it look like a dragon only to me?

Do I have what they call… a transmigrator buff?

“If you don’t like it, you can send it back out. We’ll take it.”

John grew worried as he saw my complicated expression.

I stared at the dragon that was still scurrying around. If it’s a dragon, isn’t this the best…?

Dragons were always described as the strongest animal due to its omnipotence and sheer power.

If I raised this animal well, wouldn’t it give me a gift later to thank me? Or an ability?

I transmigrated here, but I’m just an extra without any buffs.

But it would all change if I suddenly gained a dragon companion.

And how could I possibly shoo it away and potentially get it to hate me? That would just mean I’d be further away from my goal of having a long and safe life.

I was planning to get a pet anyway…

Isn’t it great that this dragon seems to like me?

And wouldn’t it be cool to be an extra who can ride a dragon?

“I’ll try raising it. Thanks for delivering these to me again this week.”

Afraid that they would take the dragon away from me, I smiled and quickly closed the door.

The kitchen grew quiet as only the dragon and I were left together.

Albert couldn’t come down here, so it was a perfect place to talk to the dragon.

The small dragon climbed over to where the cutting board was, its movements light and agile like a cat’s.

The dragon stared at me with its head tilted to the side.

Oh… oh my gosh. I grabbed my chest and felt my heart almost stopping.

“Hello, Sir—no, Lord Dragon…?”^[2]

I heard that dragons usually live really long lives, but I wonder how old this one is? It could be my great grandfather’s or even my great-great grandfather’s age if they were alive.

The dragon continued to have its head tilted to the side.

“…Do you not know how to speak to humans?”

Dragons usually talk to humans, right?

That’s always the case.

¹ Rose calls the two knights ‘ahjussi’. I never know what to translate that to, it’s such an all-encompassing word with so much context lmao ↩

² Dragon-ssi / Dragon-nim are both gender neutral. I’m not actually sure of the dragon’s gender, so I’m keeping it as sir/lord for now. This can change later~ ↩