First Mission

After the people from the agency had left.

Xi Shenlian asked the three Ye Qisao sisters, who stood before him waiting for his instructions:

"Since you've lived in the Sakura District for many years, you should know where the best local furniture and daily necessities are sold, right?"

Ye Qisao answered respectfully:

"Yes!"

"Moreover, we have premium memberships at various high-end stores. Even after leaving the Sixteen Nights Family, those memberships were never canceled, so we can still have them deliver everything directly to a designated location."

Xi Shenlian was even more satisfied:

"Very good."

The reason Xi Shenlian had chosen Ye Qisao, Ye Qishi, and Ye Qili—the three sisters—as his maids was partly because of their appearances.

But he had also considered many other things.

For example, the three of them were practically locals in the Sakura District and knew many things about the area that ordinary people would not.

Another example was that, as members of a major family, they possessed a certain depth of knowledge—knowledge inherited from a prestigious family, including various things understood only by the noble class.

Those were all things Xi Shenlian needed.

At that moment.

He casually reached into the air and squeezed, causing a Super Card to appear in his hand:

"I'll give you your first official mission now."

Xi Shenlian pointed with his other hand at the various things in the room.

"The sofas, chairs, wine collection, beds... I need you to replace all of them. Replace them with brand-new and top-quality items."

After saying that.

He lightly flicked the Super Card in his hand like a playing card and sent it flying toward Ye Qisao.

She reached out and caught the object flying through the air.

Facing the Super Card Xi Shenlian had given her.

She only glanced at it briefly before understanding what kind of bank card it was.

After taking a deep breath.

She confirmed:

"Everything—the furniture and all the furnishings—needs to be replaced?"

Although she had only taken a rough look around the hall, she was completely certain that everything in it was worth at least hundreds of millions of yen in total. Most of it was also quite new, with almost no signs of use.

"Yes, replace everything."

Xi Shenlian answered once again, his tone extremely firm.

"I bought this house yesterday. Everything inside was part of the original furnishings and had been sitting here for a long time. Although there aren't any visible signs of use, countless prospective buyers have already used and touched them. I don't like treating things used by others as my private possessions, so we might as well replace everything in this house."

"As for where the replaced items end up, I don't care."

"You can sell them for money yourselves. I have no objections."

"Also, besides a six-hundred-square-meter outdoor swimming pool, there's a small garden of around two thousand square meters on the rooftop. You can replace or handle the plants and decorations there as you see fit. You know about gardening and things like that, don't you? Then put your specialties to use and make it look nicer..."

Listening to Xi Shenlian speak so casually, as though he cared nothing about the expense.

Ye Qisao exchanged a glance with her two younger sisters.

She understood one thing.

Their new employer was, to some extent, rather willful.

Then she answered somewhat helplessly:

"In that case, do you have any particular style you prefer for the overall decor?"

Xi Shenlian answered frankly:

"No."

"As long as it looks good and feels comfortable."

"All right... I think this will take several days. During that time, please don't stay here for the time being."

The indoor area covered more than two thousand square meters, with dozens of rooms of various sizes. All of them needed new furniture and decorations.

On top of that, the rooftop garden had all kinds of flowers and plants to deal with...

It had to be said.

This really was somewhat troublesome.

"That's fine. I'll stay at the five-star hotel not far away for the next few days, and I'll book rooms for you as well."

The three Ye Qisao sisters answered:

"Understood."

With that.

Xi Shenlian stood up and said:

"It's almost noon already."

"So, let's go eat something first."

"Consider it a meal to get acquainted on our first day together~"

"Do you have any preferred flavors?"

Ye Qishi, one of the three, answered:

"Anything is fine. Ordinary food will do."

Compared with her eldest sister's gentle voice, hers was clearer and more melodious.

Then she added, sounding slightly apologetic:

"As maids, failing to prepare food for our employer was indeed dereliction of duty. Please forgive us."

Xi Shenlian waved his hand casually:

"It's fine. It's only the first day."

After that.

The three sisters said no more and began pondering how they would have to observe Xi Shenlian's various eating habits during the meal.

His preferred flavors.

The dishes he liked.

As professional maids.

Not knowing their employer's dining preferences would be extremely discourteous.

Then.

They discovered something.

Xi Shenlian had a very good appetite.

Or rather, his appetite was a little too good.

As long as food was served to him, he would eat it all, whether it was hot, cold, raw, or cooked.

It was impossible to tell what foods Xi Shenlian preferred.

Then.

They discovered that his appetite was not merely "very good"...

He was completely abnormal!

No matter how much he ate.

His stomach never showed the slightest sign of swelling.

He even chewed and ate the table knife while waiting for the next dish to be served.

Watching the chefs, who were sweating profusely as they cooked, looking as if they were trying to feed a black hole.

*...*

While feeling somewhat speechless, the three sisters simultaneously thought:

...It looks like preparing food every day from now on will be exhausting physical labor...

However.

All three of them were capable martial artists, so this level of physical activity was nothing to them.

They could treat it as exercise.

Instead, Xi Shenlian's stomach, which did not bulge even slightly, made them more curious.

Was it some kind of enormous furnace...?

How could he eat so much without showing the slightest reaction?

As the eldest of the three.

Ye Qisao maintained a calm expression as she secretly marveled inwardly:

Awakened people really are fascinating...

At first.

She had assumed Xi Shenlian's unusual pupils were merely special colored contact lenses, but he had silently proven through his genuine appetite that those unusual pupils were real, one of the physical traits naturally possessed by an Awakened person.

As for the fact that their new employer was an Awakened person.

Although the three sisters were curious, they did not ask any questions.

When they had been maids in the Sixteen Nights Family, they had already seen several Awakened people.

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