Witch Special

Chapter 284 The maid of Scarlet Devil Mansion is a housekeeping superhero

The Garden of the Dead was a world of lush greenery, practically everywhere. Meadows, woods, even the water's edge was covered in lush vegetation, swaying in the breeze, creating ripples like the surface of a lake.

Before Hayashi Maki lay a vast, mirror-like lake. Mist Lake is also known as Mirror Lake, a reflection of the sky that seems to be contained within it.

Lin Zhenxi was lucky; now was the time when the Mist Lake was at its brightest. Except for the period from noon to late afternoon when the fog could not exist due to the strong sunlight, the rest of the time the Mirror Lake was covered in a thick layer of icy fog. Only then was it truly a Mist Lake.

In the Mist Lake, lives an ice fairy, who only emerges on foggy days. Though she's a top fairy, a fairy is still a fairy. She can't even add or subtract numbers within ten, let alone multiplication and division. She's a complete idiot.

Although she's a bit of a fool, she's quite fond of playing pranks. She'll hide in the fog and throw an ice hockey puck at passersby. Lin Zhenxi once fell victim to her prank. If it weren't for her superior intelligence, Lin Zhenxi might have suffered a setback. Now that she can fly, Lin Zhenxi really wants to get back at her.

Noon was the time when that troublesome stupid monster went to bed, so Lin Zhenxi knew that she couldn't touch her.

The timing is wrong, so just let that idiot go.

What's more, she's just an idiot, why would you bother with her? Lin Zhenxi thought about it and felt that she was a little petty.

Before taking off across the misty lake, Lin Zhenxi turned his head to take one last look at the torii gates that separated the blood moon world from this normal world. They still stood there quietly, stretching all the way to the top of the mountain, and had not disappeared because Lin Zhenxi had returned to the normal courtyard of death.

In other words, they really exist. If that's the case, then that world with a blood moon hanging in the sky and madness everywhere must also be real.

Lin Zhenxi gave up thinking. Why think so much? With insufficient information, it was impossible to reach the correct conclusion. Instead of thinking too much, it would be better to meet with her teacher as soon as possible. She believed that she could answer most of her doubts, if not all of them.

Lin Zhenxi flew up, crossed the vast surface of the Misty Lake, which was so vast that even the other side could not be seen, and flew towards the red-roofed Western-style mansion on the other side of the lake.

Its name is, Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Mirror Lake was indeed at its quietest at noon, without the boisterous voice of that stupid ice fairy. Lin Zhenxi successfully crossed the vast lake and spotted the iconic tall clock tower of the red-roofed mansion in the distance.

Seeing something doesn't necessarily mean it's close. The saying "looking at a mountain and running a horse to death" is true. However, Lin Zhenxi now possesses the ability to fly, and this ability has been greatly enhanced in the special world of the Garden of Departure. This allows Lin Zhenxi to cross the distance between the two at an extremely fast speed and arrive near the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Flying is prohibited at the door, as it is a courtesy to the owner. Those who do not follow the rules and fly in will be regarded as bad guests and expelled by the owner of this Western-style house.

Of course, if we can't win sometimes, we will get a lesson, but everyone is used to it, and even that kind of fighting becomes an excuse to get together for a banquet and eat and drink.

Anyway, the owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion is one of the richest people in the Garden of the Dead. He has as much money as he wants, and no matter how he squanders it, he will only make more and more. It is really easy to use the money to bribe a poor shrine maiden who can sell herself for only 100,000 yen.

Yes, the Hakurei shrine maiden who serves the gods is the official manager of the Garden of the Dead, but she lives a very poor life.

After all, being a manager was voluntary, and no one paid her a salary. Besides the bounty for suppressing the anomaly, the only real income she had was the meager shrine offerings.

Building a shrine in such a remote mountain area, with the possibility of encountering various monsters on the way in, practically eliminates the possibility of ordinary people visiting. It's a wonder our park's miko-san has any money, guarding a shabby shrine that almost no one visits.

The gatekeeper at the Scarlet Devil Mansion is a red-haired girl wearing a green and white top and skirt. Her hair is braided on both sides with red ribbons tied at the ends. She wears a hat with a metal star-shaped decoration with the word "dragon" written on it.

She looked quite cute... but honestly, Lin Zhenxi had never met anyone ugly in the Garden of the Dead. Even the fairies were all beautifully dressed, which would definitely inspire some copper-smelting idiots to commit crimes in the Overworld. Lin Zhenxi was actually quite confident in her looks; at least she wasn't ugly. But in the Garden of the Dead, Lin Zhenxi always worried about whether she met the average standard here.

What kind of people are these in the Garden of Death? How come they are all so beautiful and have such unique personalities? Compared to them, Lin Zhenxi felt like she was just a brick on the curb.

In a simple word, it is envy.

But now the condition of the Miss Menban in front of Lin Zhenxi seems to be rather delicate.

Judging from her posture alone, Miss Menban was leaning against the doorpost behind her, with her hands folded in front of her chest, staring straight ahead with her bright eyes. No one could find any fault with her work.

But Lin Zhenxi can feel the fluctuations of the soul. In Lin Zhenxi's perception, Miss Menban's soul fluctuations are long and gentle, which is obviously the reaction of a sleeping person.

This guy actually fell asleep standing there with his eyes open.

This can be considered a skill.

Lin Zhenxi didn't know whether Miss Menban was in a bad mood after waking up. After all, her main activity area was still in the large library underground, and she was not very familiar with the people on the ground.

The Scarlet Devil Mansion is functionally divided into two parts, the upper part is the Scarlet Devil Mansion. As the name suggests, it is the mansion of the red devil, and its owner is a powerful vampire named "Scarlet Little Moon".

By the way, it is rumored that she has the ability to control fate and is very good at making money, so she is one of the richest people in the Garden of the Dead.

Right below the mansion is the "Bavaru Library" of Patchouli Noreki, Hayashi Maki's great teacher.

Without disturbing the red-haired Miss Menban who was sleeping soundly, Lin Zhenxi pushed open the half-open side door beside her and entered the garden in front of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Some cute-looking fairies were doing gardening work in the garden with watering cans and pruning shears. When they saw Lin Zhenxi, a stranger, these silly fairies immediately dropped their work and surrounded Lin Zhenxi.

"Who are you?" "Who are you looking for in the Scarlet Devil Mansion?" "Do you want to inform the head maid?" "Who's going? You go." "No, the head maid is so mean." "So who are you?" ...

A large group of fairies were pestering Lin Zhenxi and chattering, but they were all talking about their own things. There was no room for Lin Zhenxi to speak at all, so it was particularly noisy.

These fairies are all employed by the Scarlet Devil Mansion. They are supposed to be all-rounders in cleaning, cooking and security, but in reality they are all good-looking but useless. It is a blessing that they can do their job well.

Although the Scarlet Devil Mansion is huge, this huge mansion is actually mainly managed by one person, and that person is the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

It sounds incredible, right? How could one person possibly take care of such a large house? Just cleaning alone, it would take more than a day. It wouldn't even take enough time to clean the hallways.

But what if the maid's time is long, can it be extended at will?

While studying in the underground library, Hayashi Maki often felt strange fluctuations in space and time above her head, like slicing a grilled sausage, as if being chopped arbitrarily. When Hayashi Maki asked her teacher about this, she was told that the head maid of this mansion had the ability to stop time and move freely within it.

It was an unexpected answer, but in the context of the world of the Departed Courtyard, where gods and demons roamed wildly, it didn't seem so far-fetched. It was just a pause in time, after all. Even the creation of the universe could be achieved, so what was the big deal about pausing time?

There was no point in reasoning with fairies. Their memories were like those of fish; they'd forget everything they'd said and then repeat it all over again. Lin Zhenxi couldn't understand why the owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion hired these useless fairies as maids. Could it be that they just wanted to liven things up?

It was also easy to get rid of these fairies. The head maid had a deterrent power no less than that of a tigress in the fairy maid circle of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Lin Zhenxi simply said, "The head maid is here," and the fairies surrounding her immediately scattered and ran away.

Without the goblins getting in the way, Lin Zhenxi walked into the mansion smoothly, and then ran into a tall girl with short silver-gray hair, wearing a maid outfit, who looked elegant and calm.

But her temperament is totally inconsistent with her age. It feels like she has experienced hundreds of years of life, calm and majestic.

The maid outfit is mainly dark blue and bright white, but the hem is above the knee, obviously emphasizing flexibility over modesty.

Today, the head maid wore black stockings and low-heeled round-toed leather shoes, which made her look cute yet sexy.

Seeing Lin Zhenxi pushing the door and walking in, the maid lifted the hem of her skirt, bowed to Lin Zhenxi and knelt down gracefully.

"Hello, Miss Lin Zhenxi. It's been a long time."

Ah, she is the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Sakuya Izayoi, who was the one that Hayashi Maki just scared the fairies with.

I didn't go to work in the morning, but I didn't do anything either. I just fell asleep.

As a result, I had a headache when I slept, and it seemed like I was still not awake. I guess it was because the pillow was a bit hard and it made sleeping uncomfortable.

Then take a nap at noon, Zzz