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Atelier Tanaka – Volume 3 Chapter 4 Part 3

Baronage


I pressed my body against the wall and got close to the doorway leading to the kitchen.

I peered inside the room and strained my ears to try to hear inside. They were already talking. Sophia-chan was standing at the stove boiling water and Ester-chan was quite close to her.

“Sophia, there’s something I wanted to ask you. Is that okay?”

“Y-Yesh, what is it!?”

Ester-chan looked serious.

Sophia-chan straightened her back and corrected her posture.

“I’ve been thinking, and I think the person he likes…is you.”

“Eh?”

Something entirely unexpected happened.

A fastball right down the middle of the plate.

“Back in Doris’ city, he said he had someone he liked.”

“Ah, r-right….”

“I think he really likes you.”

The loli bitch was looking at my maid.

Due to their difference in height, the former was looking up at the latter.

However, given the distinct power difference between the two, it looks like the opposite. Rather, Sophia-chan looks like she’s about to start crying. Ester-chan’s eyes were serious and she had the imposing look of a noble that would cause any commoner to tremble.

“No, there’s no way that’s possible!”

“Are you sure?”

“I’m j-just a simple town girl! There’s no way an amazing person like Tanaka-san would ever fall in love with me! Y-You’re much better suited for him E-Ester-sama!”

“No, that’s not true. My love for him is unrequited.”

“But….”

“Honestly, you’re much closer to him than I am. Haven’t you noticed his eyes often move to you when he thinks you’re not looking? You can’t tell me it’s not at all possible.”

“That’s, umm, I-I guess I’ve noticed….”

What!? She noticed that!?

I read about that in some magazine. Women are sensitive to the gaze of the opposite sex. I never thought women would pay enough attention to me to notice me looking at their chests.

Damn. I’ll have to be careful from now on.

Well, whatever, I need to focus on their conversation.

“Exactly. If you’ve noticed, I wonder if you’ve thought about how you feel about him.”

“N-No, I don’t think about Tanaka-san like that! Besides, I-I work as his maid, umm, a-and there’s s-someone else I like….”

“…really?”

“Y-Yes! It’s true! It really is!”

It’s like that.

Sophia-chan has someone she likes.

I see. That’s how it is.

“…may I ask who it is?”

“No, I’m not sure I’m ready to say….”

“Is it Allen?”

“Eh!?”

Sophia-chan’s body trembled.

Your reaction is too obvious maid-chan. Even a virgin like me can read you.

“You really are a good girl, Sophia. You’re worried about my own feelings towards Allen.”

“No, u-umm….”

“I was in love with Allen at one point, but those feelings are in the past. Please, don’t worry about me.”

B-But, well…isn’t there a chance that you two will get back together?”

“I don’t think so.”

The blonde lolita’s response was immediate.

I have no doubt that she’s only saying that in order to avoid hurting Sophia-chan’s feelings. That blonde couple should just get back together. Reconcile with Allen already and leave me Sophia-chan.

“Umm, I believe you.”

The blonde loli gave Sophia-chan a satisfied smile.

“Sorry for making you feel uncomfortable. Sophie.”

“…it’s fine.”

I’m shocked.

I’m completely shocked.

How else can I say I’m shocked?

I understand how she feels now but it still hurt me to hear it.

“However, Allen is a lady’s man, so you may have a hard time with him.”

“Eh? W-Well, about that, I’ve never….”

“What? Sophie, have you never been with a man?”

“….”

The loli bitch asked the question that had been weighing on my mind. I guess she does say some good things on occasion. This is it. I’ve been anxiously waiting to hear the answer to this question for several days now.

Then, Sophia-chan nodded.

“…I never have.”

It’s here.

She still possesses her hymen.

“Then you should cherish your first time. There will be only one ‘first’ for you.”

“That’s…true. But I…with Allen-sama….”

If she still has her hymen, I have a chance.

Nevertheless, after seeing Sophia-chan’s reaction, my situation is equivalent to being in the ninth inning with bases loaded and two outs.

This situation is regrettable.

Recently, I’ve been taking my happiness for granted. I was living under the same roof as her with her working as my maid. I never took the time to truly appreciate how great it was.

I don’t want this.

“….”

I have to do something.

I don’t have time to wait for the elixir of youth.

“By the way, Sophie, what’s in that bottle?”

“Eh?”

“That bottle filled with yellow liquid beside the stove.”

She was talking about a transparent glass bottle filled with a mysterious yellow liquid.

“….”

As soon as Sophia-chan realized what Ester-chan was talking about, her face went rigid.

“I-It’s nothing! It’s something Tanaka-san likes. Umm, I-I always mix it in with his tea, but a lot of other people don’t like the taste!”

“Oh, how interesting. I want to try it too!”

“….”

Oh, this is the first I’ve ever heard about this.

Has Sophia-chan been making me her special tea this entire time? I’d be incredibly happy if that were true. A maid who went the extra step to make extra delicious tea for her master. Even if it’s something so insignificant, it means there’s still a chance.

That’s right. It’s still too early for me to give up.

“Can I have some?”

“No, t-this isn’t ready to drink.”

“Is that so?”

“Y-Yes. It needs to ferment for a while.”

“I see. Well, that’s too bad.”

“Eventually, o-once it’s ready, I’d be happy if you’d try some. Until then, p-please forgive me.”

“You don’t need to panic. I wasn’t angry.”

“Thank you very much.”

I need some time to think.

I need to find a solution as quickly as possible.

I guess I’ll take a walk.

***

I left the dormitory and took a walk through the crowded streets of the capital.

Thoughts of love between a man and woman swirled around in my mind.

I was obsessing over everything I felt was wrong with me. First, I thought about my appearance. I’m a busamen in his mid-thirties, I’m not very tall, and I have a below average body. No, in a medieval world like this where most of the men work hard jobs that train their bodies, I’m sure I’m at the bottom when it comes to looks.

Would it be possible for a man like that to win the heart of a beautiful young woman?

Of course not.

I’ve become deluded by having all of these beautiful girls surrounding me. A woman in her thirties could be with an ikemen in his twenties, but if think about it rationally, it’s not possible for a man like me.

Then, how can a man like me win the heart of a beautiful woman?

I have to make up for my lack of good looks in other ways.

“Other ways….”

The only thing that comes to mind is money.

I remember reading in a magazine that money equals love.

After all, look at how lavish weddings are. Hundreds of flowers, everyone throwing rice, releasing doves, a grand hall, and releasing a thousand balloons to finish it all off. How nice, an extravagant wedding that costs several months salary.

“…that’s why it will be bad for me if I don’t have a lot of money.”

I still have around two hundred gold coins from the dragon extermination party. One gold coin is worth one hundred silver and one silver is worth about ten thousand yen. That means I have around two hundred million yen on hand.

“Sophia-chan should have about the same amount….”

A couple hundred gold won’t be enough to impress her.

She’s also the daughter of a family that owns a restaurant in the heart of the capital. If her parents own that land and that building, she and her family probably have a lot of valuable assets.

They’d want someone with just as much money or assets to marry their daughter.

And if I consider Sophia-chan’s beauty, she could easily marry a noble.

When I consider everything I have to offer….

“…I have no chance.”

In the first place, I want someone that will love me back. I don’t want to buy someone’s love. Even if I use money to create an opportunity for love, it won’t matter unless the girl actually loves me back.

“….”

Still, if I start a relationship with money, I’ll never be able to get the idea that she only wants money out of my mind. I don’t think I could ever expect a person like that to develop real feelings for me. I want someone that can love me and not my money. If I married someone that loved my money, I’d expect to receive divorce papers before our honeymoon.

“….”

What should I do? I don’t see any clear path.

Should I ask the noble mage for love advice?

I continued walking through the streets, desperately trying to come up with a way to win Sophia-chan’s love when I realized where my legs were taking me.

I walked down a certain street that I recognized before coming face-to-face with a building I hadn’t seen in a while. It was the house I once owned.

“It’s been a long time.”

It was Edita Sensei’s atelier.

It seems that my legs carried me here while I was lost in thought.

My mind must be desperately seeking the comfort of the blonde loli elf.

The loli with the body to heal my soul.

“…should I stop by and say a few words?”

I don’t want to bother her, but she did say I can stop by any time.

I walked up to the front door and gave it a light knock. After waiting a brief moment, there was no response so I knocked a few more times a little harder this time. When you’re on the second floor of this house, you can’t hear someone knocking on the front door. It’s something I’ve learned from experience.

Then, Sensei appeared.

She cracked the door open just enough to poke half of her face out. I’m guessing she was still sleeping. Her eyes looked sleepy and she had bedhead.

“…oh, you’re here?”

“Were you asleep?”

It’s already past noon.

Her daily life really seems to be abnormal.

It kind of adds to her cuteness though.

“What’s wrong? Suddenly coming to my home like this….”

“Umm, I just happened to be in the area and thought I’d stop by and say hello.”

The blonde loli that just got out of bed looks as if the softness of her hair and skin has increased by thirty percent.

Thank you, God, for bestowing this beacon of cuteness on me.

“…you came to say hi? Is that really all?”

“Yeah, well, I had some free time.”

“….”

Edita Sensei kept staring at me.

I wonder if she’s in a bad mood after I woke her up. She looks sort of annoyed. Her eyebrow even seemed to be twitching. This annoyed expression actually suited her European look with her blonde hair and blue eyes.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t think you’d be asleep. I can come back another time.”

“I-I get it. Wait a minute, okay? Wait right here.”

“Eh, are you sure?”

“Wait here properly!”

I silently nodded as Sensei went back inside without fully closing the door. I was able to hear the sound of her rushing about inside. Occasionally, she’d run upstairs to the second floor before quickly coming back down.

She must be quickly trying to clean up after I surprised her.

Maybe she’s a messy person.

She’s the type of loli that has a messy room. The most attractive kind. I wanted to dive naked into a pile of her dirty clothes.

“….”

Then, the sound of her sprinting downstairs and to the door.

There was a brief pause before the door opened and Sensei reappeared.

“All good. C-Come in.”

“Umm, I’m really sorry if I’m causing you trouble….”

“I told you it’s fine. Just come in already.”

“Pardon my intrusion.”

Following Sensei’s instructions, I stepped into my old home.

***


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  • Thanks for the translations.
    Ester did call Sophia Sophie, was that a typo or did Ester forget the commoner's name?

      • Depending on how old it is, and if she has been inadvertently actually "fermenting" it, she very well could be giving him meningitis if the solution got the wrong bacteria in it from the air.

    • I mean, his logic is honestly sound. Tanaka is an ugly SOB considering his mediocre-at-best looks, his friends and the general population he's around, where he's the sole Asian man any of them have ever seen (and not discussed enough in isekai series, where MCs end up in magical not!-Europe). His lack of confidence in his looks is justified.

      As well, aside from the women who actually DO like him, they sort of all have issues with conversation with him. Dragonloli is a dragon who Tanaka legitimately fears, Esther is indeed not a virgin (outside physical technicality) and her 180-degree turn from Allen directly to Tanaka screams "you're the rebound guy," Sophia is his goddess but she's terrified of him for various reasons (since he also keeps getting her into trouble), and sensei is so tsundere it means she pathologically cannot tell the truth about her feelings.

      It's probably best if Tanaka accepts his burgeoning brocest with Allen and turn this into a yaoi series. (/s)

      • Thats part of why I enjoy Tanaka, no one fell over for his dick just because he was nice to them once, he actually had to pull of a bunch of BS to actually get one of the most crazy psycho bitches to fall for him. Honestly the best that could happen is that Tanaka finishes that youth potion and it gender bends him and ends up with Allen.

        • Can't say that wouldn't be a great ending to this whole thing. Or make it an alternative ending like in Sengoku Rance.

    • I wonder why sophia gives tanaka a lot of her body liquid...
      What if he gets STDs, he's gonna be so confused lol

      • Initially it was her revenge, it is not that she hates him, she really respects him, but he always brings her troubles, but after watching him drink her pee she got excited and after some time she realized that she had a fetish to see Tanaka drinking his pee.

        Reasons she wanted to ger her revenge.

        She was forced by her dad to go to hunt a dragon.
        She don’t want to be his maid but she needs the money and because of that she was bullied by the maid of the now dead bully.
        Almost all of Tanaka’s friends creeps her out (Fahren, Mercedes a.k.a. Lesbian Knigt, Loligon).

        • nope, it was just a matter of escalation, remember when she accidentally cut her finger and her blood ended in Tanaka's food?
          He loved the taste and Sophia feed him her blood several other times while feeling excited about it, eventually she switched to pee because is more convenient

  • Le Tanaka eavesdrop on the door to hear their conversation

    Tanaka is Shock upon hearing the truth about how Sophia liked Allen even though he is aware of it

    Tanaka is heartbroken badly

    He goes outside filled with Wrath and Despair over the ikemen

    He disregarded the law and Float in the middle of the town to vent his frustration and viewed the scenery up high

    then shouted ” This world have forsaken me countless times than what my hand can count now This world would learn my PAIN!… PAIN TO THE WORLD ”

    He puts all of his Magic into summoning Meteors to destroy the corrupt country

    Noticing the impending doom many mages tried their best to put up a barrier including the noble wizard but alas the barrier didn’t last even on stopping a single meteor

    The country disappeared on the map together with his lament and despair

    …. I wish that happened instead

    • hes been beaten down with 40YO if virgin INCEL wage slave life, all the fight has been kicked out of him. he will never go full edge.... unless someone gets him drunk enough.

  • Initially it was her revenge, it is not that she hates him, she really respects him, but he always brings her troubles, but after watching him drink her pee she got excited and after some time she realized that she had a fetish to see Tanaka drinking his pee.

    Reasons she wanted to ger her revenge.

    She was forced by her dad to go to hunt a dragon.
    She don’t want to be his maid but she needs the money and because of that she was bullied by the maid of the now dead bully.
    Almost all of Tanaka’s friends creeps her out (Fahren, Mercedes a.k.a. Lesbian Knigt, Loligon).

    • Just wanted to make sure you knew this eventually got through. I saw you tried to comment this three times. Idk why but WordPress automatically trashes comments with certain words even though I've removed all blacklisted words.

  • Hmm… What's happen to the two loli slaves Sophie want to give to Tanaka and finally gave to Sophia instead ? Did I miss something ?

  • Wait, she upgraded to feeding him pee and STILL says she loves Allen? You literally want to be apart of him. But he's ugly so yeah. But if you get with Allen then you won't be able to feed Tanaka parts of you. A conundrum.

  • I’m still just wondering if Tanaka was able to regenerate his head and basically revive himself can’t he just regenerate Ester’s hymen and like artificially make her a virgin or something along those lines?

    • People keep commenting this but are kind of missing the point. For Tanaka, it's not the fact that she doesn't have a hymen, it's the reason why she doesn't have a hymen. Giving her a new hymen doesn't make her a virgin.

      ...such a serious comment for such a ridiculous thing.

      • Now if there was a way to changeher back to the body she had before she started to date allen. Maybe a year before Tanaka showed up then that would fix the issue. But I have not seen any time reverse magic in this world.

  • Donations still disabled ? I want to donate you so much to the point that I would make you deliver 1 full volume within a month !!!!!! Seriously !!!!!!

    • Thanks for wanting to donate, but I'd feel bad taking donations when I know I don't have time to release at a faster pace. I want to be able to release more frequently but I have a lot going on in my life right now. Hopefully that will change soon.

  • So am I the only one wondering if the elf had gentleman entertainers for the night/morning and because of that she was so flustered & angry to see Tanaka appear behind her door for no apparent reson.

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