The Bride of the 7 Great Sins
Chapter 03 - Thank You and Dinner

The sound of classical music playing fills the silence of the room. In the room, a man stood in front of the medicine cabinet and took out some recipes from there.

The man brought the recipes in his hand onto the table and started concocting something there.

On the other hand, Airen had only woken up after having suddenly fallen unconscious. His gaze flickered looking at the ceiling he did not recognize before finally rising from a sleeping position.

“If it wasn't wrong I was ..”

Airen tries to rearrange his memories.

At first, he wakes up in a girl's room and finds out that he seems to have lost his memory. After the girl leaves, Airen meets Sarina who explains everything she wants to know. Then in those moments, a monster called Strike attacked them. Sarina confronts him while Airen searches for safety. However, Airen was also attacked by other monsters.

“... then I saved the girl.”

A red-eyed girl who was as red as Sarina. His black hair was tied in a low-twintail style using a pair of white ribbons.

“If you still feel unwell, you can go back to lying in bed, Mr. Airen. I've brought herbal tea for you, I hope it tastes good on your tongue.”

As Airen was deep in thought, the man who was busy with the recipes on the table came carrying a tea set on the trolley.

He was a handsome young man with a range of twenty-one years old. Her hair was blond followed by a pair of deep red eyes. The man was wearing a male servant uniform like a real professional butler.

“What's wrong?”

Realizing Airen continued to look at him, the man tilted his head.

“Ah, no. It's nothing.”

Airen panicked a little because she felt she had just been disrespectful to him. On the other hand, he who saw Airen's panic reaction chuckled.

“I've heard of your situation from Miss Sarina. Said you lost your memory while in this world, right?”

“Ya, maybe like that.”

Airen was quite hesitant whether his lost memories were limited to the memories he transferred to this world or not.

“Then let me introduce myself for the second time. My name is Kura, the butler at the Claudia children's residence is also the supervisor for your daily life.”

“Supervisor?”

Hearing that word made Airen ask what it meant.

“Supervisors to determine who among Claudia's children deserves to be the family leader. Well, even now that role seems to have been unnecessary.”

Kura laughed a little when he mentioned that.

“So …. By the way, why would I wake up here? If it was not wrong that time I saved someone, but the rest I do not remember anymore.”

“After Miss Sophia's rescue, Mr. Airen lost consciousness. This is as a result because you are too much surprised by things that are beyond your logic.”

That's how Kura is clear.

“So after that I fainted, huh? I just don't remember what happened after that. I think I'm better now. Somehow I have been able to accept the fact that now I am in another world and accept the strangeness that happened ...”

After his head got colder, Airen stopped to think too much about where he was now and decided to accept it.

“The girl's name is Sophia, yes ..”

Unintentionally, Airen's inner voice came out from his mouth. Kura who heard that instantly smiled mischievously.

“What are you interested in?”

“Eh? Uh! No, not something like that! I just .. emm .. want to thank you for being helped. At that time I immediately fainted, so did not have time to thank you.”

“Heh~ Like that~? In that case, you can convey your thanks right now because the person being talked about is eavesdropping behind the door.”

As soon as Kura offended her, a rowdy voice rang out from behind the door. Airen's attention was drawn to it out of curiosity as to what was happening there while Kura seemed to be smiling with satisfaction.

“Since when was he there?”

“Entahlah. About the time Mr. Airen asked what happened to you after his rescue. Miss Sophia happened to pass by and realized that Mr. Airen had woken up, but because she did not dare to enter she could only eavesdrop on our conversation at the doorstep.”

“B-so? I'm more surprised you know the situation outside the room while being busy with chat in the room.”

Kura who heard Airen's statement laughed.

“I'm a professional, so it's easy. Anyway, I just thought. Not completely precise.”

Airen smiled faintly hearing that, realizing that people from other worlds were completely out of his logic.

“So, will you continue to stand there, Miss Sophia? Hiding is now also useless because you have been found out. How about we talk about some things with us? After all Mr Airen would like to thank you for saving him, are you sure you want to ignore him?”

Kura gave a little provocation to the girl behind the door. A faint hesitant voice rang out from behind there before the door opened.

“Either I feel it or not, I hear that my name was called. What business do I have, Kura?”

The girl called Sophia came in. He decided to act as if he did not know anything, although the red hue on his cheek showed that he was embarrassed by the eavesdropping action earlier.

Kura held back her laughter after seeing Sophia's actions before she finally broke her laughter. Airen could only smile thinly because he did not know how to respond.

An annoyed Sophia laughed sneered.

“Apaan, hell.”

But he was also ashamed of himself.

Then, Kura swept her tears that accidentally came out when laughing loosely.

“Ah ..., sorry. I was a little out of control. You can get a little closer to Mr. Airen if you want, Miss Sophia.”

“No need! I stand here until the annoying waitress nearby disappears!”

Sophia crossed both hands in front of the chest, angry at Kura who nailed her.

“Yes already, then let this annoying waitress go so you can get closer to Mr. Airen. I'll help the others make dinner. So I said undur sel~”

Thus, Kura left Airen with Sophia in the room. Sophia who was still upset stuck her tongue out at the path that Kura had been going through.

“If not the most loyal subordinate of grandfather, I would have slapped for a long time!”

Hearing how Sophia sounded like that, Airen was a little surprised.

Sophia turned her face to Airen. The girl took her breath away before walking closer to Airen's place.

“So, you really lost your memory?”

“I-Yes. Emm, I'm sorry ..”

“Not apologize. You're not wrong anything. You lost your memory not because you chose it too, right?”

“... Yes, you are right.”

Even so, somehow Airen felt guilty. He himself did not know why he wanted to apologize.

Sophia then went back to breathing.

“Because you lost your memory, it seems that I should introduce myself again just like the others. My name is Sophia Claudia, just call me Sophia.”

“Yes. Hello, Sophia.”

Airen gave a smile at Sophia's introduction, thus making the girl throw away her reddened face.

“B-True too, as I recall earlier you wanted to convey something to me, right?”

“Something? Ah, yes.”

Airen wouldn't remember it if it wasn't mentioned Sophia.

“When I was almost attacked by a monster back then, thank you for saving me. If you don't come, I don't know what happened to me.”

“Well, actually I just happened to pass by. From the beginning I never meant to help you, I was just rooting out Strike who roamed the residence. But I will still accept your thanks.”

“B-So ...”

Sophia was quite rambling, but in essence she received Airen's thanks.

“Only this time did I help you. The next time, you need to be able to protect yourself. Life in this world is harder, it can't be compared to your old world. You must be stronger so as not to die easily.”

“I understand that, but how? Do I have a weapon like the one you guys use and have to practice using it? Besides, I am from another world can I do it?”

“Why? You don't want to?”

“No, not like that ...”

Airen was only hesitating. He was weak in sports lessons, his body was also never trained with heavy-duty work. It must have been very difficult for him, especially if the standard of strength in this world was more on top than it was in his world first.

Realizing that unconfident Airen, Sophia exhaled.

“Actually you were trained before you lost your memory now. Although it is still below the standards of the Claudia family, you are already quite decent compared to the children from other families. After all you have a brain that quickly captures lessons and likes to ask until you find a clear answer if you do not understand, so you will definitely be fine.”

Sophia talked long about herself until Airen was a little amazed.

“You seem to understand a lot about me.”

When Airen called it, Sophia's face immediately flushed red.

“H-Huh!? T-That's of course because I was the one who was told to teach you, so it's only natural! Don't think that I always pay attention to you for having a certain feeling!”

“A-I know it.”

Airen did not expect Sophia to react like that, so she was a little surprised.

However, Sophia's earlier words made Airen more confident. He will try because Sophia will support him.

Unintentionally, Airen's smile created from feeling more confident made Sophia look at him suspiciously, thinking she was laughing at him.

“What the fuck are you, smiling like that.”

“No, not nothing.”

Even so, Sophia's suspicious gaze was still not lost as Airen's smile grew more and more.

Then at that moment, a knock was heard from the direction of the door followed by the sound of Kura afterwards.

“Nona Sophia, Mr. Airen, I would like to say that dinner has been prepared.”

***

Various types of dinner arranged on the dining table. Everyone Airen had ever met was gathered in the room. There were only two women that Airen did not recognize, and they were two servants other than Kura.

Kura along with the two maidservants stood in the corner of the room after preparing dinner. Airen who saw that wondered.

“Do you guys not eat?”

Airen saw there were still 4 of the 7 seats still empty there. He thought it was for them, but Kura shook his head.

“We're just servants, Mr. Airen. We will eat at each place after you all eat.”

“So?”

Realizing that it was already a habit in the residence, Airen did not want to take a headache and let everything go.

Finished with his question on the actions of the servants, Airen now had a question for someone else.

So far, Airen has met 4 people. Increase 2 if the female servant on the side of Kura is counted. 4 the person is Sophia, Sarina, Kura, and Kamilah—the silver-haired girl he first met before, he said, Airen found out his name during a conversation with Sophia towards the dining room.

There were still 4 empty seats among the 7 available, but somehow the girl was sitting on Airen's lap.

Airen was originally about to make a sound, but everyone seemed to think of him as normal until Airen was confused and decided to wait for the time to stop him.

And after questioning the actions of the servants, this is the right opportunity, thought Airen.

“Hei Weilah, I was a little wondering, when there were many empty seats but why are you sitting on my lap?”

“What Brother feels uncomfortable?”

“You could say so .. but instead of being uncomfortable, I just. If there is a reason, I have no problem. But if there is no reason ... well ..”

Airen found it hard to say no.

It is we who seem to understand enough not to respond too much. The girl casually took out a piece of steak meat using her fork and thrust it into Airen's mouth.

“Forku?”

Airen asked his point. When we nodded, Airen put the mouth in his mouth.

“Enak ..”

This was the first time he had tasted steak meat, so Airen was quite surprised by the strong flavor of the seasoning as well as the tenderness of the meat.

“Wait, this is not what I want to know. You haven't answered my question.”

Consciously, Airen almost tricked us with the taste of food until he forgot what he wanted to know.

Knowing that Airen failed to be fooled by food, We sprinkled the tongue. He looked at everyone.

“Did no one among you explain about ‘itu’ to Sister?”

“Soal ‘itu’?”

Airen was curious about what they were discussing.

“It seems Miss Sophia and Miss Sarina have not told Mr Airen, huh?”

Hearing how Kura said that, Sarina and Sophia seemed to miss something very important for Airen to know.

“Sarina was deliberately so that Sophia alone explained it~”

“Kukira Sarina has already given her!”

Sarina and Sophia gave each other a reason to blame.

Seeing the two who were blaming each other, Kura could only waste his breath.

“So a little troublesome here ...”

Kura's view is directed at Airen. Airen could only wonder in his heart why everyone seemed troubled.