18 Help me by helping yourself

Kiro finds himself once again lying on the flowers of the blossomed field . Esgrieth was sitting in front of him waiting for Kiro to say something .

-What's wrong

-I wanted to ask a question to you.

-What is it?

-What is love exactly?

Kiro gets up and sits on the flowers and says.

-You questions are getting weirder and weirder everyday .

-I demand an answer .

-I don't know much but....

-Tell me.

-Well , it's a feeling of affection and caring for another person , as a child loves his mother , or a husband his wife , That's all I know but , Where did this come from .

-I was thinking about everything I never had in my life .

-What did you expect? You are a life draining demon after all , you have to give love in order to receive it .

-Well , life is sometimes too fair .

-This doesn't have to do anything with life , it's all got to do with yourself .

-Have you forgotten that I feed on people in order to continue living myself?

-That still doesn't change the fact that you enjoyed people's suffering.

-Many things fail to entertain me , I'm a demon afer all and humans are just lesser beings brought to spice my entertainment.

-I guess you have a point there , it's pretty twisted but I guess I would never understand , I think I'll just pass this one .

-I guess you must go.

-I guess so .

Kiro wakes up on his bed. He heads to the kitchen and forgets it's empty .

"Back at the cabin I could catch some fish while at the lake , what am I supposed to do now"

His mind is blank for a second then he thinks

"I guess I'll have a trip to the lake , I could use some training after all . He leaves the mansion and heads to the lake . He arrives and does the same thing he does when he is there . Strips and ties a big rock with a vine , which he puts around his leg . He throws the massive rock in the lake and watches the light of the sun fade away as he is dragged deeper in the lake. He stares blankly at the surface , as he waits for the right moment to get there. He runs out of oxygen , in that moment he starts to swim back at the surface .He reaches it and then cuts the vine , drowning the rock .

"I always thought how deep it might be , well , I guess I'll find out the other time I get here , time to do some fishing . "

He gets a long stick and attaches a vine to it. After a few hours he has caught enough to call it a day .

"well , I sure know what I'll be eating for dinner , and then I can have a nice warm bath , since I got here the only baths I've taken are this cold dips at this lake"

-Kiro grabs the fishes and heads to the mansion . It had gotten dark already.

"Now that I think about it I didn't lock the door"

He arrives to the mansion , just to see muddy footprints entering the unlocked front door of the mansion.

"I'm screwed"

Kiro draws his sword and dagger then enters his mansion quietly .

-Bloodlust.

Kiro's eyes turn pitch black and he sees the silhouette of a person in the living room , he rushes to it then hears a girly voice .

-Please no , don't hurt me , I had no choice .

Kiro's eyes go back to normal , but he does not sheath his sword or dagger .

-What are you doing here .

-I'm being chased , I saw the door wasn't locked and I didn't expect anyone to live here .

-I see , who is chasing you?

-Man hunters , I escaped my previous master but he sent man hunters to find me.

-So you are a run away slave

-Yes , please don't hurt me , I'll leave but please don't..

-Kiro is about to escort the girl out but then an idea hits his head.

-Can you do chores?

-Chores?

-Can you clean , wipe , cook and take care of the garden?

-Well yes but....

-I have a proposition to make , If you do my chores around the mansion , I'll let you stay here , so what do you think ?

-Well I...

-The man hunters would be really interested in you...

-I accept

-Great, then follow me.

Kiro goes to the basement and searches for a maid uniform.

-There you go take a bath and wear this .

-This looks old , I..

-You can still go out if you want

-Fine -And she goes running out of the basement

-Wait let me show you were the bath is .

-Right .

Kiro shows the bath and says

-When you are done , wear the uniform and meet me at the living room of the first floor.

-I got it .

Kiro heads to the living room and lights a fire at the fire place . He approaches the fire and thinks.

"One problem solved , a hundred more left"

The girl approaches Kiro in her maid uniform.

-Now that I think about it , you seem so little how old were you again?

-I turn 14 this month

Kiro chuckles and says:

-You aren't just little , you are tiny .

You could see the anger in the girls face but she tried not showing it.

-Anyway , you can start with the mess you did yourself , then come back to me when you washed it off

-I'm on it

After 15 minutes she comes at Kiro again and says:

-I'm done

-Good , you still have work to do .

-Like what.

-Come with me.

Kiro heads towards the bathroom and when he arrives there the girl looks bothered .

"What have I gotten myself into , now I have to..." then Kiro enters the bath and slams the door. He opens half of it and throws his clothes and his coat at the girl .

-Wash my clothes and make sure to sew my coat , you can find the sewing equipment at the third drawer in the living room. After you are done with it , cook the fish in the kitchen , it's at the end of the hallway.

The girl leaves without saying a word .

"Well , It's better than being chased."

Meanwhile at the bath Kiro looks like he is having the time of his life in this world.

-Finally , I can't remember the last time I took a hot bath . I totally deserved this . Until she is done with the clothes let's take this opportunity to relax , but really , now that I think about it I haven't received any contracts from Vesper , I guess even people like Vesper rest too.

after half a hour the door of the bath opens and the girl enters with her eyes closed.

-I found this clothes in one of the drawers , since yours are wet , they really smelt bad.

-That's why I asked you to wash them, Now could you go cook the fish , I'll be starving once I get out of here .

-Sure , On my way

-Hold on , what's your name

-Luchia, My name is Luchia

-Alright , now go cook the fish , I'll be out for around half an hour .