Chapter 24 - Sakuya’s Random Thought

Sakuya Izayoi. A name she should have discarded when she entered the service of another master. However, she unfortunately still retains it.

To say she was happy with her current employment is neither understatement or overstatement. It's just a job and nothing else. She only fulfills what is required of her. However, her new master sure is a quirky one. Not that her previous master isn't.

For a being as powerful as himself, he is satisfied with lazing around in the form of a cat and enjoys being surrounded by beauty and cute girls as he stated. Which in itself is not the weirdest from someone with power. In fact, it is very normal. But it's his motivation and his way of execution that made her wonder.

He claimed to wish to fill a garden around himself with 'flowers' that he would collect. As for the purpose? To simply entertain him. Either merely for gazing or to actually entertain him. Normally, those powerful kings, conquerors and gods did this for the purpose of pleasure and so did he. But, he rather be in an unassuming form looking like a cat and be pampered by his 'flowers' like the role Mistress Ravel is currently filling.

It boggles her why anyone would enjoy being pampered as an animal. He clearly stated he was at least, previously a human and currently a god.

For that reason, she thinks her master is weird. But she often heard strong people have even weirder quirk. Maybe that is true from what she observed from her own master.

Besides her master, there's her apprentices. The Fallen Angels who are spared by him and pay for their sins by toiling their body tirelessly for him as servants.

She is sure that her master is capable of bending anyone's mind to his liking. If he wanted servants, why not turn these Fallen Angels into willing slaves rather than retain their rebellious mind? Not that he enjoys or gains any pleasure from seeing these Fallen Angels bending themselves to his might. In fact, he seems to have totally forgotten about their existence completely and treated them like yet another nameless character in the background.

Perhaps there is something more to it that her miniscule mind is unable to comprehend? Her master didn't hide the fact he can see the thread of fates and destiny. He can even manipulate it to his wishes although seemingly warily as to not ruin it completely. Which he shows when he tried to interfere between the arranged marriage of the two Devils and later fixing the red headed devil that had fallen into depression.

If that is the case. Perhaps there is a deeper meaning of purpose to his actions which she couldn't grasp.

Besides that, there's the mistress she is serving. Each of them except for Mistress Ravel is saved by her master when they are under imminent danger.

The reason is understandable as it is the same as her. If he tries to save them when they are not in any danger, she doubts they will even accept his help just like herself.

Of all her mistresses, Mistress Sirin was apparently the one he doted the most. Perhaps for the time being.

She remembered the first few days when Mistress Sirin first arrived in this mansion, she had several bouts of nightmares. Her master was there each night to comfort her and helped her to overcome her nightmares. Literally.

Her master dived into her nightmare and killed the source of her trauma which helped her to recover that fast and become cheerful unlike Mistress Sakura. But, regardless of who he doted on, he acted more like a father for the two which is weird considering the reason why he even gathered them in the first place. As a glorified trophy in his garden of flowers.

For Mistress Asia, he treated her as a friend. To Mistress Ravel, he acted as her master as she is supposedly his apostle.

To herself, he treated her like a maid which is appropriate as that is the role she is fulfilling. Although he did not deny that she is one of the flowers in his garden and she isn't against serving her master as she is a maid and a proper one which she took pride in. But perhaps she is lacking any feature he deem desirable, he never desires her body.

"I am not flat. I have some curves too…" Sakuya looked at herself and groped her own body to confirm her words. "Maybe a little small but that's because my body is still that of a child." She voices out her denial with a slightly blushing cheek.

She admits that she feels a little. Just a tiny bit infuriated that she failed in her role as a maid when her master had to seek another person to fulfill that role she couldn't.

"Maybe I should use my power to age my body a little?" She contemplated and was tempted to do it.

But, she was stopped by the thought that it would look like she is desperate to gain her master's attention and approval.

"No. If master wanted that. He would have done it himself or ordered me to do it." She said to stop herself.

After all, her master is all powerful and wouldn't bother to hide his desire. If he truly desired her, he would have made it obvious or voiced it out. Yet he didn't. That means he didn't want to.

"But that made it sound like I am inadequate…" Sakuya's maidly pride felt stung by the thought of it.

This kind of thought is too difficult for her. Her pride as a professional maid wouldn't allow her to fail to fulfill what is expected of her. But her pride as a woman stopped her from doing anything rash and embarrassing. Thus, she is left with this dilemma that will continue for the foreseeable future.

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