Chapter 76: 76
Milka’s Talent
Milka looked fixedly at the fragments from above .
She sometimes moved in closer or moved away when looking, without any regard for the smell .
Her expression was seriousness itself .
“Milka, what is it?”
“This and this, right? And then you put these together, and these two, here and here…”
Milka started to quickly put the pieces together .
There seemed to be a few pieces missing .
However, at least 80% of it was complete .
“…That’s amazing . ”
“That was great, Milka!”
“Cluck-cluck!”
Luchila and Serulis were impressed .
Even Gerberga was clucking from a short distance away . He was probably praising her .
“Ehehe . It’s nothing at all!”
“No, that’s really amazing . I never would have thought you had such a talent . ”
“Oh, you . ”
Milka looked very embarrassed . Her face was all red .
After that, I inspected the finished object .
It was the size of an adult man’s hand .
“What is it? It’s such a hideous shape . Is it a cursed item?”
“I don’t sense the power of a curse . ”
“I see . ”
As the material was similar to the medals in vampires, I had feared a curse at first .
However, it did seem like it wasn’t actually filled with curses .
That was a small relief at least .
“Hmmm . Maybe it’s an octopus . No, it’s not . ”
“Hmmm . Serulis, you think these look like legs? It does look like an octopus if you see it like that…”
“If these are legs, then is this part the body? I can’t tell what it is at all . ”
Serulis, Luchila, and Milka were unable to figure it out .
Serulis had speculated that it was an octopus because it had something like octopus legs . But there were more than eight of the things that looked like octopus legs .
“Hmm . Let’s count the number of legs then . ”
“There are seventeen . ”
Milka said just as I suggested it .
I counted them and she was right .
“Milka, that’s amazing . You could tell at a glance?”
“Though it’s a little hard if there are more than a hundred! But I used to separate vegetables as my job a long time ago . ”
“Milka . You’re a genius!”
“Oh, you . ”
Well, this was a surprise . Maybe she was actually very smart .
Milka looked embarrassed as she continued,
“Bu-but what about this upper part? It doesn’t look human . Is there such a creature as this?”
The upper part of the body was quite humanoid . However, it had seven arms .
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And it had bat-like wings on the top .
“And this thing doesn’t have a head, does it?”
“Yes . But you can see that it was broken, so there must have been something there . ”
Serulis and Milka discussed this seriously .
Luchila said,
“Mister Locke . Do you know any monsters like this?”
“I’ve never seen any . ”
“If Mister Locke doesn’t know, then maybe this monster doesn’t exist . ”
“Hmmm . I don’t know . ”
Then Serulis said,
“It’s interesting that it broke away like this in spite of being metal . ”
“Well, metal does usually bend . ”
Maybe it was a hard yet brittle metal .
Just like some swords break instead of bending . There was obviously some kinds of metal that broke .
“In any case, shouldn’t we wash them?”
“That’s a good idea . ”
“Then I will go and wash them . ”
“No . Milka, you can clean the desk . ”
“Understood!”
While I had no choice, the desk had become quite dirty now .
It would be quite gross until it was cleaned .
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I took the strange object to the kitchen .
And then I washed and scrubbed it to take away the blood .
After some time, the smell started to disappear .
However, it still felt quite unclean, and so I put it into a wooden box .
Now it would not touch anything directly .
“I cleaned the desk!”
“Thank you, Milka . ”
And then we washed our hands .
“My hands got all stinky!”
“Yes, washing your hands is important . ”
As we washed out hands, Grulf started looking at me .
“What is it, Grulf?”
“…Grrr…”
He wasn’t satisfied . I washed my hands more thoroughly .
“How about now, Grulf?”
“Groof!”
With Grulf’s seal of approval, I ended the hand washing session .
I had Grulf smell the artifact as well .
Apparently, it was good enough for him .
I carried the wooden box and returned to the drawing room .
Luchila, Serulis, and Gerberga were waiting there .
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Gerberga was sitting on Serulis’s lap .
“Lord Gerberga is so cute!”
“Cluck . ”
Serulis gently petted Gerberga .
Gerberga closed his eyes and cooed softly .
Luchila nodded with satisfaction .
“Lord Gerberga is not only the embodiment of dignity, but he is also very cute . ”
“You’re so cute, Lord Gerberga!”
Milka said as she petted him as well .
In the meantime, I place the wooden box on the desk .
Luchila saw me and said,
“I guess there is nothing to do but ask the palace alchemists to look into it?”
“Hmmm . But I don’t want to bring such a suspicious object into the palace . ”
“That’s true…”
Serulis nodded gravely .
The magic summoning circles had allowed vampires to enter before . There was a possibility that this was a similar item .
It was also possible that it could disturb the barrier of divine protection .
It was too dangerous to bring to the palace .
As I was thinking this, Shia’s voice rang from the front door .