Chương 17: Let me work for you!
"Ha? Isn't that just dust?" I asked again to make sure I'm not mistaken that this little speck is all the spiritual essence that I gathered.
"No, it's not. That is the actual spiritual essence inside you. Even if we know your level is not where you can cause harm, we still can't let you go where ever you please. For that, we will need to have you confined until we know more about your origin." Master said.
"Please! You don't need to confine me! I can clean and somewhat cook, let me work for you! I don't want to go back to that prison!" I pleaded.
"Ha! We don't need you, we already have plenty of servants to clean the mansion and cook for Master! And as if you know how to cook my Master's food?" Chisa my nemesis interrupted.
"I may not know what Master's preference in food or in cooking I can clean and do the laundry. And don't tell me you don't need a cleaner, this room alone has plenty of dust! I shiver to imagine the other rooms' state in this 'mansion'. And besides, I'm not asking for any wages I just don't want to be locked up in that scary prison!" I rebutted him.
It's not true that this room is dusty but I need to make an excuse for the master of this place to take me in. I just hope that this master of his has OCD or a neat freak that he will be disturbed by the thought that there's a potential health hazard in this room so that he will not have time to realize that it's not dirty here.
"Fine. Chikafusa, lead her to the servant's quarters and help her settle in. Show her to the Peach Garden, that will be the place she needs to be in charge of." He ordered Chisa and left the room.
Chisa didn't have time to reject since the Master of the place had already left. He turned around to face me and stared daggers at me. I just rolled my eyes at him, he won't be able to throw me out since there was already an order from the superior.
"Follow me." He said through gritted teeth and walked out of the room.
I stuck out my tongue at his back and hurriedly followed him outside. This 'mansion' is like a traditional Japanese style house like what you see in historical dramas. And it's HUGE! He took me to the farthest room at the back and pointed to a door.
"This will be your quarters. You can pick any bed you want since that room has been vacant for years now. And this way is the garden that you will take care of." He headed towards a hall.
We turned to the left and there is the outer kitchen. I wanted to look inside but he kept going passing by the kitchen. We turned at the corner and see a trail made of smooth pebbles.
We followed that trail and see a fence made of bamboo. The fence is about as tall as my shoulders and even if they are used as a fence the color of the bamboo hasn't weathered out and is still somewhat dark green. We walked along the fence and there is a small gate. It doesn't have a lock just a string tied up at the two bamboo wood distinguishing the gate and the fence.
He untied the string and opened the gate. He went inside the garden first and I followed after him. I was shocked to see the state of the garden, or rather it was like a small forest with overgrown weeds and trees that needs to be pruned.
"Wah!" I shouted when I bumped my knee into something! I rubbed my injured knee and looked at what I bumped into.
It was a small stool, that looked like made of shiny stone? I'm not sure what it's made if but it looks expensive! I looked around again. The weeds are so high it reaches up to my waist. And you know what that means… Snakes!
With overgrowth like this, there will be a chance that snakes will be lurking around and I'm afraid of them the most especially the poisonous ones! Hey, I might be a ghost but I'm in a different place now and there might be some sort of spiritual snakes that can harm me!
I stood rooted to my place scared of encountering and might agitate a lurking snake nearby. I looked at Chisa smirking at me, he must've thought I was dreading cleaning this place when the truth is far from it.
"What? Can't handle keeping this small garden clean? If I were you I will just beat it." He haughtily said.
"That's not it! I can clean these weeds within a day old man!" I boasted nonsense to him, my mind freaking out because of my imaginary snakes in the place.
"Why you-! I said I'm not old! Fine! If you can clean the place within a day I will let you call me whatever you want but if you can't, I will lock you up and turn you over to the Hags to have their way with you!" He shouted.
"What? No way! That's all I get if I clean this place?! If I clean this whole place within a day I will call you whatever I want AND you give me free food and drinks. If not, you do what you said and I will not snitch on you to Master, how's that?" I added my conditions.
He looked at me as if contemplating what I said. I guess he's confident that I can't clean it because he looked arrogant. "Okay deal!" He answered.
I reached out my hand for a handshake. "Deal!" He took my hand and shook it.
"Wait!" I remembered something and didn't let go of his hand and gripped it tightly with both hands now.
"What is it now?!" He grumbled and was trying to shook my hands off of him.
"We need a written document in case you go back on your word!" I told him.
"What?! What do you think of me?! You know what? Okay fine, let's do it!" He said and then he took out a piece of weed.
"What are you go- Ouch!" I wasn't able to finish what I was saying when he pricked my right hand that was gripping his.
"There, done!" He said after my spiritual essence leaked out and dropped on the piece of weed he was holding. The color of the energy that leaked out of me has a somewhat grayish almost luminescent color. And he did the same with his hand, he pricked it and there was a red-orange colored essence that dripped out on the weed.
Outraged at what he did, I shouted at him. "Are you fucking with me?! That's the spiritual essence that I painstakingly gathered! How is this a documentation of our bet?!" I want to strangle him!
He didn't bother to look at me and just stared at the weed. After a minute, the weed changed it's brownish-green color and changed to a luminous looking stick with a red-orange script appearing on it.
He did something to it and like a hologram, the red-orange script appeared out of thin air. I looked at it and I don't know the text but I can understand what's written! It stipulated our bet and the punishment and my rewards. And as for the signature, I saw that transparent looking ghost emoji and a drawing of a red-orange coiled whip.
It's a no brainer that I'm the ghost emoji and he is the whip drawing since I saw him use that on Mayu. "Is that fine now? If you can't read it just tell me I will read it out loud. I don't want to be accused that I cheated you since you can't read it!" He said.
"I can read it! Can you put there that I start from 12 midnight to 11:59 PM tomorrow so that I can maximize the day? And also to be fair give me a watch synchronized with yours so that I won't get confused with the time difference here." I added.
"Aren't you too demanding?!" He said in an irritated tone.
"Aren't you whining too much?! It's just a simple request and you can't do it?! You are too petty! I see why the Master scolds you often." I snapped back at him.
"I am not! Bitch! Wait till I won this bet and I will torture you myself!" He said angrily and added the terms and the requested clock. He even showed me that it's in sync with his.
"Good! Let's see who will cry and who will laugh in the end!" I said confidently and returned to my room. I will show you the power of my hard labor!
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