Winter Mansion [2]

"--Marth, Master Marth~!" 

With entranced expression and flushed face, Rosetta gazed at the young boy who was fallen butt first and stretched her hands. Her soft finger caressed the long and still twitching shaft.

"Ahh ..., don't! Rosetta-san, I feel weird! Don't touch there! Ahh!"

"There is no need to worry~, Young Master Marth. Do not worry, I will make you feel pleasant just like before! How is it ..., does my hand feels good? You want it again?" her eyes showed a dangerous glint, unlike the usually gentle eyes, but it was a carnivorous gaze to a prey.

"Rosetta-san! I think we need to stop ...," He grabbed her shoulder and tried to push her away, with his tiny bit of strength.

"Ah!" Rosetta backed down after letting out a short exclamation.

The feverish look on her face just a moment ago was long gone and replacing it was a serious facial expression. She took the discarded wet towel and proceed with her job, which is wiping his body clean.

'Uhh ..., you're not going to continue, Rosetta-san? According to the script, you should push me and take my virginity here and now but ..., no?'

Marth gazing at her beautiful face with a sliver of hope. But Rosetta pulls his body to make him stand up and continued wiping his body, not caring about his puzzled gaze at all.

Knock knock knock ... There was the door knocking sound from the outside. 

'Is it because of that? Who the hell is this person!? How dare he/she to ruin my beautiful ero-morning!' 

Marth took a glance at the maid while asking so with his gaze, and she nodded curtly. Rosetta took new underwear and help him wear it. The big thing on his crotch still hasn't yet got limp, so it made the underwear a bit stuffed.

"Come in!" said Marth after he finally wears the short pants.

"Excuse me, Young Master Marth." it was the butler Reno.

"Reno, huh? What is it?"

The butler bowed and asked, "Young Master Marth, I heard some disturbing noise from your room, is there any problem?"

"No, I don't hear anything at all. Are you not mistaken for something? Rosetta-san, did you hear it?"

"Hai! N-no!! There's nothin, I heard nofin!" and just like a startled rabbit, she was flustered with the sudden question. Her hand that was holding a sheet of the white shirt was trembling slightly.

'Why are you panicking? You're ruining the whole act! sigh ...,'

Marth glanced at Reno who was glaring suspiciously at Rosetta. He looked at Marth and bowed, "Is that so, then I will excuse myself. The breakfast is ready, please come into the dining room after Young Master finished changing your attires."

"Aa ..., I know." Marth nodded his head.

And with that Reno left the room. The blonde maid let out a sigh of relief and then she widened her azure eyes. She was trembling just like epilepsy patients.

"I-I am sorry for my insolent behavior Young Master Marth! Please punish me!" Rosetta with her body still shaking in fear prostrated in front of him.

"Hmmm ..." Marth tilted his head, puzzled with her behavior. No, actually he knows what happened here, he just still with his role that was acting like a child, "Why is Rosetta-san apologizing? My wee-wee just before ..., it's become big like that because of some illness, right? Look here, now it's all normal. So, Rosetta-san just cure my illness, right?"

"Aaa~~!" perhaps she was shocked by his innocentness, she gazed at him with wide eyes, "Young Master Marth, it is not illness ..., this is really normal, as I said before, every adult male can do this. Young Master Marth's penis become like this is because you have grown up. It is a good thing, so Young Master doesn't need to worry about anything. It is not an illness."

"R-really?"

"Ee ..., so do not worry about it." she smiled beautifully. 

"T-then," Marth stopped his mouth and not saying anything anymore after that one word.

"What is it, Young Master Marth ...?"

"T-then ...," he stuttered his word, "if next time it got bigger, can I ask Rosetta-san to help me?" and sent his final move that is pleading gaze with teary-eyed. 

Nine out of ten tries, this trick worked ..., only if you are a cute little thing or a beautiful girl.

"Oohhhh~!!" Rosetta widened her azure eyes for a moment, she then sent her most beautiful smile and said, "Hai~, of course! I will always be there for you, Young Master Marth."

"..., thank you, Rosetta-san." Marth smiled in a cheeky grin.

'One f*ckable maid, get!'

The grin on his face was distorted facial expression like that of a pervert.

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In the dining room. After the maids cleared all of the plater and the dishes on the table, Marth asked Hilda to show him the floor plan of this mansion.

She handed him the paper roll. Marth carefully observes the drawing. He didn't only ask her to draw the rough drawing of the floor plan. But the details added such as the furniture.

She would draw every object inside the room. But it was greatly exceeded his expectation. It was not the simplified drawing like a square and then add some notation 'table' or 'cabinet', or something. She drew all of them in detail so that person who sees it would understand instantly that this was a table and that one was a cabinet.

For some reason, it was like seeing a bird-eyes view of a roof-less house.

'Just ..., how could she draw this beautiful?'

The Winter Mansion was a two-story building with three smaller one-story buildings for the servants, soldiers' house, and the storehouse. The buildings were arranged into something that looks like this.

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With the lush pine woodland in the surrounding area, this mansion was built directing to the south, to where Korperkorb city was. From the second floor of the mansion, one could see the bustling city sight of the Korperkorb.

Aside from the ground and the first floor, there was also a basement storing Martinus' wine collection. 

After carefully observed the floor plan of this mansion, Marth decided to use one of the rooms.

"Reno, I want to use the spare guest room next to the study and change it into a workshop, can I?"

"If it is Young Master's intention, then I will obediently comply." Reno nodded his head with 

"Good, and ..., can you please send some men to buy the things on this list?" he handed a small paper note filled with a list of names.

"This ...," Reno scanned the paper and creased his brows, "I beg your pardon, Young Master Marth, but I cannot guarantee that I will get all of the things on this list, some of them are rare herbs and materials. I cannot be sure it is available in the city."

'I've heard that some of those are rare ingredients. Well, whatever ..., what I need right now is the ingredients to make the soap. The herb will come after that.'

"Alright,... "Marth nodded, "Don't worry about it. As long as you got the first three things, then it will be fine. Just ..., when you find those materials in the market, buy it. Get the first three things in bulk, and I need it by the end of this day, can't you?"

"Ha, but ..., may I ask, for what purpose do you need these unusual things?" Reno asked.

The thing he asked was cow fat and wood ash. The other one was a perfumed oil or if there isn't anything like that, it could be changed with some other thing such as flowers to get rid of the smell of animal fat into soap fragrance. He could extract the essential oil from the flowers himself.

He could do with other types of fat, most of all using cow fat as soap wasn't the best choice. But it was really cheap, though it was troublesome to get rid of the smell. 

He could get three kilograms of cow fat for only about two to three Geld, if he asks the butcher to separate the fat for him, perhaps he could get it cheaper. And from that fat, he could gain at least five to six liters of grease.

If he wanted, he could just buy olive oil or other oil extracted from some kind of nuts. But, again, it was pretty expensive. One bottle of olive oil containing about 400 mL was priced at 40 Geld. It was ten times the price of the animal fat.

"Hmmm ..., Young Master Marth, this wood ash, can I just ask the servants to gather it from the fireplace?"

Another ingredient he needs to create soap was the hardwood ash or the lye. The chemical reaction of saponification was basically fat or oil(glyceryl tristearate) reacted with a strong base such as NaOH or KOH. The product of saponification would be soap(L-stearate) and glycerol. 

'I wanted to do it with sodium hydroxide, but well ..., I haven't got a hold of electricity yet, so electrolysis is impossible for now.'

"Aa ..., you can do that, actually I don't care from where you got it. I need the things on that list and I've given the money to you, just bring it to me, I won't bother anything else."

"As you wish ..." Reno bowed his head once again.

"And also ..., please wait for a bit." Marth took a new paper scroll and with charcoal pencil and ruler, he began drawing something.

With its strong four feet, it was imposing albeit looks very ordinary ..., it was a table. More precise it was a laboratory table with a dimension of 80 x 220 cm, and height reached adult man waist. 

For Marth right now, however, it was parallel to his chest. But all is good, even if it's only reached his chest. In the first place, the table was not for him, but for the workers(slaves).

Aside from that table, he also draws another furniture, like cabinet and specialized acid table. He also drew some sample tubes, glass beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, and some odd-looking glassware only chemists understood what the heck were those.

"Can you get me carpenter to make this table and furniture for me, and also ..., find some glass craftsman to make this glassware."

Reno took the paper scroll while amazed by Marth's skill in sketching. Albeit it wasn't as detailed as Hilda's sketch, it was still beautifully rendered. Since when did this seemingly lazy Young Master, who even refused to learn and train to become this amazing? 

He shook his head to let go of the thought, and he said a word of objection. "..., it will do if it is only a table and a simple cabinet, Young Master Marth. But, as expected I need to make a trip to the City of Craftsman to order these glassworks."

"The City of Craftsman ..., Drea?" asked Marth.

"Yes, all of the glass in this city was imported from Drea. For something as complicated like these ..., cup, it can be ordered to the glass craftsman over there."

In the Osterreich Kingdom which spans in the eastern part of the Eliru Continent, there lied four large cities. The Kingdom's Capital City - Praha, the Port City - Rotessegel, the City of Light - Hagia, and lastly the City of Craftsman - Drea. The four large cities located in the east, north, west, and south respectively.

The Zwarteschwan family domain was located in the south of the kingdom, bordering with the Uthgard Empire in the Alvian Mountain Range. Although it was quite close to Drea, it needs about three days at best to go into Drea from Korperkorb.

"Alright, you can make a trip the day after tomorrow. For today and the next day, you organize a few miscellaneous things for me in this mansion."

"Ha! What is it that you need, Young Master?"

"Not much ..., I want to refurbish this mansion. Starting from this servant's house, I can see that this place lacks servants. So move them into the soldier housing. Aside from that, I want you to cut some of the pinewood around this area ..., and this ..."

Reno listened to his order, but after some time he dripped a cold sweat. Marth didn't only want to refurbish the mansion, he wanted to tear down the whole mansion and the surrounding wildlife!

"B-but Young Master Marth, to renovate the mansion at this time of all, I can't keep up with your order if you suddenly told me to do so. Did Young Master Marth has received permission from Head Master?"

"Aa ..., father told me I can remodel this place as I like. Mother also ordered you to obey my every word right?"

"R-right, Madam has clearly stated that yesterday... Excuse my rudeness, I will send some people to complete the task."

"Good, you may go ..." Marth waved his hand.

"Then, please excuse me." Reno bowed and left.

Marth turned his attention to the slaves. The dwarves, the cat-tailed beastman, and the three slave girls. There was still no work for them aside from heavy-duty work. But before they went into that work, Marth wanted them to do something.

"Which one of you can write and calculate!?" it was not in a questioning tone, but more like forced interrogation.

Instantly, Hilda raised her hands, "I can write but in the Uthgardian."

"Master, I can write if it's in Hijayah abjad, and I also can calculate up to three digits." the blue-haired slave-girl Sahara also said.

"Moon script, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, power, and square root." lastly, Diana the herbalist's apprentice proudly stated.

"Ohh, great! What about you guys ..., does any of you can do it?" he asked the rest of the slaves, the dwarves, and cat-tailed beast.

"Master, we can write, but not in Osterreich letter, but in the dwarf rune."

"Hmmm ..., which one of you the most proficient with it?"

"It's her, hey Reoru! You go forward will ya!" the dwarf uncle pushes the back of one of the dwarf women.

The white-haired dwarf girl walked forward and stated, in a stammering and trembling voice, "I-I can read the modern dwarf runic letter and also learned some about ancient rune."

"Ohh, okay ..., you will do," Marth gazed at the cat-tailed beastmen, but they all lowering their gaze didn't dare to raise it.

"I see, so none of you are able to read a letter. It's fine, so be it then ..., the rest of you may help butler Reno with his duty. Hilda, Sahara, Diana, and Reol can stay." Marth leaned his back on the chair and then send the rest away.

'Well ..., for now, I want to make them literate with the writing system that I used the most. As for the rest, they could learn it later on.'

The slaves were there for his convenience, if they couldn't do a simple task such as reading his scribbling, then they would be useless for him. Thus, he wanted to introduce the writing system that he understood the most, and that was the modern Latin alphabet.