“Well then, here is your place. From now on, you are the servant of our house.”

“O-oh…”

Right now, I was brought to a shack by the boss. I said it was a shack, but it size told me that it was a big sized house instead.

Hm? Shack? House?

Thinking back again, I never even saw them. I wonder if I ever saw them before I lost my memories.

(Well, if I forgot everything, I couldn’t even talk or remember myself.)

The boss pat my head and looks as if he remembered something.

“By the way, I haven’t introduce myself, huh?”

The boss fixed his red tie and introduced himself to me.

“Zara Eisenberg. Nice to meet you.”

“Y-yes, I’m Saka.”

“Fumu..? What a rare name you got there.”

He gave his right hand to do a shake hand. I grabbed his right hand, and suddenly, it fell off.

“W-wha?!?!”

“Hahahaha!!! Got you! Good ol’ trick always works! Ahahaha!!”

He laughed loudly as I fell to the ground.

That was nasty trick, you jerk!

Or at least that’s what I want to say.

He picked the hand up and placed it on his right arm again. It was lifeless a moment ago, but after it attached back, it moves naturally.

“Shocked, eh? This is a fake hand.”

“I see, it’s a fake…”

Let’s make a note, ‘Beware of Zara ad his tricks.’

“That’s it for the introducing. Now, before you work, you’ll have to learn Humans Language. You can’t speak with the rest of the residence if you can’t even use it.”

He talked while opening the door and let me in. Its interior was elegant, and it doesn’t dusty at all.

“It was cleaned just a while ago. What do you think, Saka?”

“This place… might be more comfortable than what I imagined..”

“Hahaha! Good reaction! Oh right, I almost forgot!”

Zara went to one of the room and called out an old man. His face has wrinkles here and there, his hair and beard too were white as snow. He used a black suit, and it suited his hair and beard colour, which were white, greatly.

“This is William, he was assigned to be your trainer and supervisor.”

“Best regard, young man.”

“Yes, m-me too.”

As I answered, he quickly raised his body from bowing pose and raised his eyebrows.

“Master, is he?”

“I don’t know yet. That’s why.”

“… I understand. I shall abide your word.”

They were whispering and it makes me don’t understand what they’re talking about. But I certain now that my speech was foreign to the normal people.

The bodyguards, the butler, they all couldn’t understand what I’m talking. Meanwhile, the boss Zara understood what I was saying. I don’t know why, but I think I’ll found out sooner or later.

“Will, can you teach him the Humans Language? And don’t forget to shape him up into a good servant. He has to be able to do all of that in a week.”

Wait, what?

“Certainly, Master. A week is already enough.”

Uh, I’m here you know? Please ask me first before you decide something for me.

“Well then, Will. I leave the rest to you.”

“May the God bless you, Master.”

He-hey! Where are you going?! Don’t leave me with someone who doesn’t understand my words!

“Young man, I was entrusted to train you. I may be old, and I can’t even understand what you said. But I will not hold back to make you as perfect as possible. Be ready.”

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

“… Time out?”

With that, my training to become a proper servant has begun.

I wonder where’s that damn Ruby who made all this messes gone?

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“Intriguing…”

Zara left his butler William to teach a boy he accidentally caught, Saka.

Two days ago, Zara ordered many expensive potions and told his subordinates to take them to the villa. But suddenly, he receive message via letter brought by pigeon from his subordinates that one of the crates was fell and broke the potions inside it.

Zara thought it happened because of beast or something like that. He wasn’t shocked since he knows they have to pass the Death Forest, which filled with beast and death.

But he was never expect that the one who broke his crate was a boy. He looks dirty and using clothes made by animal leather that stitched together.

Then, when the subordinates told him that the boy was founded near the forest, Zara got surprised. But, right after that, a smile appeared on his face.

The boy was looking here and there like a curious little kid. He touched the crates, the floor, even the horses. He got kicked by the horses almost immeadiately after that though.

Watching the sight, Zara got interested into him. He told his subordinates to tell the other residence,

“From now on, he will be under my care.”

Thus, he talked to the boy and found more and more interesting things from him. Apparently, his name was Saka, and he never met humans before. It was amusing to see his timid way of talking.

(…He was supposed to be around Saka’s age…)

Zara pondered while thinking about a certain someone.

He told Saka that he will take cares of him, and Saka gladly accepted.

Zara arrived in front of his office while he reminiscing about the things that just earlier. He couldn’t help but think that the arrival of Saka will change him and the family current situation.

“Let me see what you will become, Saka.”

He sipped the tea while looking out from the window, looking forward for the unexpected future to come.

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“Here is your uniform. It’s the clothes for servants here. Don’t forget to wash it every three days. I’ll give you a spare too. By the way, this is your home from now on. There are three rooms, one for bathroom, one for bedroom, and the other is for storage and washing room. You follow me?”

William giving me things while guiding me through all of the former storage which will become my home. He opened the door to a room and let me go inside it.

“This is your bedroom. I’ve prepared the neccessity for you to use, such as bed, wardrobe, a set of table and chair, a mirror, and some pillows. Anything you need more?”

“…. I think not.”

“I understand.”

I shook my head and William stepped back to let me look around the room.

To be honest, I don’t know what to say when he ask me if anything missing. In the first place, I never even sleep inside a room like this. Living under the starry sky is what I’ve only experienced.

I mean, where should I sleep? On the bed?

I touched it a bit. The white sheet was very smooth and when you push it, you could feel the softness. This… I will sleep on this thing?

Then, I look onto the mirror and saw myself. When I looked at the cuts on my arms, I finally remembered.

(My arms! It was burned before. I’m pretty sure I could saw my bone throught it before.)

But now, all it left was only cuts here and there.

I kind of forgot about my wounds, since I was distracted because of Byakko and my days after that night.

“…Byakko.”

I wonder, does he applied medicine on my arms? But it’s not possible. I was running away after I met him. He doesn’t seem to do something to my hands.

“Excuse me, Saka. I’m afraid that you have to take a bath first.”

William reminder took me back to reality. Right… There are dirts and minor wounds that already dried out. I have to take care of my body first.

“Okay, where should I go?”

I asked him while giving some gestures to make William understand.

William nodded and started guiding me once again.

“I understand. Follow me, please.”

I brought my new uniform and took a bath. The bath was completely different from the river. You have to switch on this, turn on that, and spin this left, or turn that to the right.

(Does every human have to remember this complicated things just to go bath?)

Even if I was confused at first, I started to get the hang of it after repeating it twice. I filled the bath with the hot water and balance it with cold water. The result was a perfectly warm water.

“Please put off your clothes and enjoy yourself. I will be waiting outside.”

William bowed and left the bathroom.

I opened up my clothes and entered the bathtub. Starting from my leg, it felt hot, but it’s relaxing and very warming. I continued to dip myself further until my neck.

“Fwaah… If only they didn’t put many complicated things before, maybe I could enjoy this feeling sooner…”

(Wait, or maybe they purposely place all of those complicated things before bath, so that you can feel all of those things before really worth it for the relaxing bath..?!)

“Humans are clever…”

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After 10 minutes inside the bathtub and another 10 minutes to cleaned my body, I went outside my brand new uniform. William helped me wear it though.

I looked at myself in the mirror. The white shirt couple with a black vest on the outside, a long, flexible longpants and a pair of jet black shoes.

My long hair was cut short. Before, it reached my back, but now it was only until my neck. William told me to sit and started tidying up my hair. It was quite hurts, but after it done, It was really cool.

“is this really me?”

My hair was slicked to the back and looks sparkling.

It felt… So stiff.

“Now it’s done– Wait, what are you doing?!”

No, I can’t bear using this hairstyle! I shake my head violently and ended up getting a messy hair again.

“Ah… sorry, it just an instict…”

Noticing that William got shocked, I felt guilty. he done what he could to do my hair, after all. I apologize to him, but he told me to keep that hairstyle instead.

“It looks perfectly fit to you.”

He said that with his glittering eyes. Does he have something with hairstyle?

“… Ah! Sorry for my rudeness. Ehem! For now, please come with me.”

William corrected his pose after apologizing to me. Then, he takes me to another big building. There are many rooms that I don’t even want to know what they used for.

“A week from now, you will begin your training here. be prepared, I will not hold back to make you a great, perfect servant.”

William fixed his glasses with his index finger and opened out his notebook.

“This will be your schedule, listen carefully. Wake up at five in the morning, daily neccessity until seven, language lesson until nine, rest until ten, servant’s lesson until 12, servant’s practice until 2 in the noon, rest until three, servant’s lesson again until 5 in the evening, daily neccessity until 7 in the night, Language lesson until 9. After that you’re free to sleep. Do you understand?”

“…”

Just how can I remember all of that in a single stroke like that?

And from what I heard… isn’t that practically a torture? I mean, I have to wake up before the sun rise and trained myself even after the sun set?

“I’m going to suffer…”

“I don’t know what are you saying, but this is the optimal way.”

Ruby, I swear I will throw you to pack of wolves later.