"Please come in," I started walking to the house, opened the door and turned on the lights and started walking in and the woman was surprised, but she just smiled knowing that I had got manners and she just stepped in the room.
I made Eve sit on a chair and the woman stood around her and I dragged another chair and kept for her and brought the dinning table and kept it in front of them and the woman was more surprised, smiling with a sweat and I started walking to the kitchen and said, "Please take your seat, I will be preparing the tea for you all and then we'll talk, till that Eve is already there to talk, feel free to consider her as your friend, she's a nice girl."
I walked to the kitchen and Eve smiled, looking at the woman and she was more surprised, "Your big brother has grown...I really didn't think he would be so mature, Eve."
Eve smiled, looking at the woman and replied, "I was also surprised, but he was always the same. No idea why he is so strange, but he is what he is, and he is a nice boy."
The woman smiled, "I know that he's a nice boy, just surprised...although he is still the same like he was ten years ago, but I guess I am surprised just because I am seeing him after a long time. Maybe can't digest that he's still so mature."
But Eve didn't agree with maturity. She shook her head slowly and looked at the woman and said, "It's not about maturity...just the thing is, he has made his own rules, his own philosophy without being influenced, I don't know about maturity but he just follows what is right in his view."
The woman smiled with a sweat...like the big brother, the same is the little sister, smart and enough capable to decide what's right and wrong and can also make her own beliefs and thoughts, without being influenced but by observing the situation and the people.
Emi came to the huge garden of her mansion and started walking to the entrance gate where two people were standing with their guards. Emi smiled and walked to them and the girl smiled and asked, "Do you have some free time, Emi?"
Emi smiled, "I am always free--"
The guy standing in them looked at Emi and said, "Slacker, have a job Miss--"
"You shut up Nobela!!!"
I served the cups and poured the tea over the cup and I took my seat in front of the dinning room and the woman smiled, took the cup of tea and said, "Thanks for the tea, Ichiro."
The woman was going to sip...but she started sweating, watching Eve staring her with a sweat. She looked at Eve and asked, "Do you want to have some tea, Eve?"
But that wasn't point, Eve immediately denied shaking her head and the woman didn't understand her. She looked at the tea and just took a sip...and she was suddenly frozen...she split all the tea out of her mouth and I smiled with a sweat...she also doesn't likes my tea?
"What...What is that Ichiro?!!! Do you still don't know how to make tea?!!!" The woman shouted with he taste completely spoiled and I smiled, no one ever liked my tea, and Eve laughed, she has tasted my tea and she knows that if it comes to tea, then I am the worst at that and even she hates my tea. Eve couldn't stop laughing and the woman looked at Eve, finally realizing that she was trying to warn her already but she can't say because she didn't want to hurt me either, at the end she couldn't save the woman but her expressions made her laugh loudly. The woman looked at her with a little bit of anger and said, "On whose side are you, Eve? On mine or none?"
But Eve apologized straight, "I am sorry...I couldn't save you..." And she laughed more loudly and the woman sighed and just smiled at the end, watching Eve's laugh, but I didn't understand, do I make so bad? I don't think so.
The woman kept the cup of tea on the table and looked at it properly, it was looking perfect, the tea was having the perfect color, and everything looked perfect but at the time consuming...it is not even eatable. She looked at me seriously and said, "You still didn't learned to prepare tea, did you?"
I smiled with a sweat again, but this was always repeated at the past when I was at the mansion. One day what the servants gave me the duty for tea, they all were going to lose their jobs at that point. The tea was gone to blood related father and mother and they just drank it and immediately split it out and shouted, "Who had made it?!!!"
I admitted that it was me, because it was my mistake...although I never understood what's the mistake in my tea. The servants' didn't lose their jobs because I told it straight in front of the nobles of the mansion and they accepted it immediately as well because they never accepted me as their own child and didn't expect much from me, always considered me as a loser, but they couldn't take out their anger on me because I was still a child and they somehow knew...I will reply them straight on their faces, which could spoil their mood more bad so they choose silence and they just take out their anger by throwing the cup, it broke down and the servants had to clean it and I helped them because somehow I was also responsible for that.
The woman and I started sweating, looking down and remembering that past and she just gave a sigh and I looked at her and asked, "...Any feedback? To improve in the tea?"
"You should put a little bit less sugar, check the milk is fine or not...and I guess the tea leaves were also wrong, I don't understand how your color was perfect but I guess that's only the problem in your tea. And don't test for improvement on little Eve."
Eve smiled with a sweat, "Even if he asks from me, I will still deny...he promised that his tea would be great, all the three times, but all the time...he broke my trust, I won't."
And the next fun was of the woman, she started giggling and I sighed, no one likes my tea.
Emi, Yuki and Nobela were walking in the garden, discussing and Emi looked up at the sky and said, "Why did she moved and left us again?"
Nobela also looked up the sky, thought for a while and replied, "Maybe, she would have her own reasons?"
Yuki looked at Nobela, "She would have a reason Nobela, but what would be her reason is the question. We want to know for what reason, not to ask why she would have left and you would reply because she has a reason, she wouldn't leave without any reason."
Emi and Nobela looked at Yuki...and she started sweating, but maybe, she would have left because of no reason? No one knows, but maybe...maybe...?
I sighed, how long would they just insult me because of my tea. I looked at the woman and finally came on the main topic and asked, "Well then, ma'am...how did you plan to come to me? Any reason?"
The woman stopped giggling and she just smiled, looking down...Eve also looked at her and said, "I would stop him, but I am also curious...you saw big brother when I was just born or maybe before that, and I will guess big brother would be somewhere else back then...any reason miss for coming here?"
The woman nodded her head, "Um...you may know, that you both are going to be alone for now, when I realized it...I was worrying for you both, but I guess...as always I knew Ichiro, he will still be fine, and I hope Eve would also be."
Eve didn't understand much, she was confused a little bit, but I understood, she was just worrying about Eve and me as they would have noticed that grandparents would have came without me and her and she would have came to see me, but by knowing I guess she had forgotten who I was when I was at the mansion. Many times the nobles had threatened me but I was just like, "Fine, kick me out, I will leave on my own one day anyways. " And then grandparents would enter, taking my side. I have heard many words from them after the end of the fight , to never speak on the face, to never say such things, but I was just telling the truth what I think, I never speak bad behind the people's back, that was what my former life parents taught me and whatever I have learned, I have learned from myself and from the past experiences. I won't change myself anyways.
The woman looked at me and said, "I can't stay here for too long, I will have to reach back to the place before the midnight, but it has a long time so if you need anything or any help, feel free to ask from me, I will try to help you out, do you all want me to make dinner for you both Ichiro, Eve? Or anything?"
I stood from the seat and shook my head, "No, I don't need help. But you should stay here for a while, I will make the dinner for everyone, is there any driver as well, join him or her as well."
I left and moved back to the kitchen and Eve and the woman were left, sweating and shocked...they both looked at each other and asked, "Is...it right to let him make the dinner...?"
The sky was becoming the darker and darker as the time passes and the night was coming. The woman tried to convince me to not make the dinner and she could manage it, but I was denying all the time and focusing on preparing the dinner. The woman was worrying most about Eve, because she was afraid if I made bad dinner and Eve got sick by all that, it won't be good in her view, but she should also understand that even if she helps this night, she can't help Eve all the time and Eve will be with me and I will only make food for her unless she learns to make on her own, so till that she would have to eat my prepared dinner and she would have settle with it only.
After one hour of the woman's try, she finally gave and came back to Eve, giving up..."I can't help you, Eve...I am sorry..."
But Eve was lost somewhere, looking down with a sad face and the woman looked at her and then at the driver who dropped her, he was just looking away trying to ignore them and Eve was hearing his mumbling saying that why he has to come to such a poor family, abandoned poor children and one disabled, Eve was sad because whatever her life is, she is happy with it but why others are judging that her life is bad, she is not sad about her life, she is sad about the people's view on her life.
The woman felt a little bit angry on the driver, he doesn't knows me and he was just a new worker at the mansion and by just being a slave of noble, he is thinking that he his standards are way higher than those who are free like Eve and me. But the woman didn't want to fight and she just sighed, looked at Eve and asked, "Eve, tell me...will you be fine with your big brother's dinner and food?"
Eve was surprised, she looked at the woman and she was already sweating...Eve also started sweating, she doesn't knows but does she even has any other choice?