Your authoress had been really busy from writing school project reports and she hope that everyone can forgive her for being slowpoke… (Bows in apology)
And…
Since everyone wants to protect Allen from being preyed upon his master, I will take the stand here as an authoress to protect our dear innocent little Allen chan from being eaten by the wolf!
Allen: HE'S NO WOLF!! THAT MASTER OF MINE IS AN AKUMA!! AKUMA!!
Me: Chill chill… Allen chan!
(Some evil aura starts to emit throughout the entire room from a random corner)
C.M: Allen... kiwi… What did you say…
Allen: mmma… master!! (Turns white)
Me: opps… (steps back)
(Both start to run away like crazy)
Allen & me: AHHH!! Let's continue on with the story!!
Chapter 2.75: Allen's 3 Impossible tasks (Part 2)
A tiny figure was dusting the racks of the gigantic book shelves in the room, she was dressed in a long sleeves black dress with a lacey white apron and matching white head dress. Her socks were white and frilly too. It was an overly cute outfit that complimented the girl's short snowy white hair and ivory white skin. She sneezed as she accidentally sniffed in the dust from the shelves.
Her eyes began to tear, not because of the dust but because of what had happened to her earlier…
"Allen… for today, I'll like you to finish these chores here…" Cross Marian presented his apprentice with a "what to do list"… the apprentice scanned through the long list and her jaw dropped at the task in which it was almost impossible for her to do…
Cooking dinner…
"You got a problem?" Cross asked menacingly…
"Err… No not at all…" Allen replied fearing that her master might just lengthen her punishment…
"Fine… finish everything I assigned you with before I return… Lastly, I don't want that dress ruin or stained…" he said as more red and black aura began to emit from god knows where…
Allen couldn't believed that this was all happening to her… there she was stuck in a maid outfit doing all the household chores within a day, with a condition that the dress should not be ruined at the end of the day. She tugged at her frilly collar as she dusted her dress before heading onto the first impossible chore of the day…
Buying liquor without using the money earned from gambling…
Allen was so used to cheating at cards to earn the cash for purchasing stuff for her Master. And now that she was in a dress, it made it impossible for her to enter gambling dens to get her finances. The girl sighed as she thought about the task…
"Mummy… Mummy… can I have an ice-cream?" a little girl asked her mother as she gave the cutest puppy face in which no one could resist.
Allen couldn't help but notice… it was then and idea struck her…
She walked up to the vendor and made the most pitiful face in which she asked, "Sir… my father is dying soon… and the last thing he wanted to have is a wine of one of the finest wine he could savor before he could… but apparently due to his long term illness, our family's fortune had depleted drastically… and I had to work it off as a maid…" and she began to sobbed on her knees. The kind old man of the shop knelt down to comfort her.
"Here my dear child… you may have any of the finest wine here without having to worry about it…" the man said as he patted her head.
"But… I can't… you're trying to run a business here… why don't you leave it the debt under my name…" Allen said. She didn't want to cheat the kind old man.
"Don't worry my dear, I there is always customers coming to my place… don't worry… money could be earned again but life is lived once, I see no reason why I can't present this wine to your father as his last gift." The old man comforted Allen…
"Thank you… sir I shall never forget your kindness." Allen replied as she accepted the bottle gratefully. Although it was mission accomplish, she felt her heart ached as the old man reminded her of how was it like to have a father… she should really repay the old man one day the girl thought as she move on with the next most impossible task of the day…
Laundry time…
Allen stared at the pile of laundry that cross had left for her to do. It was an unusually enormous pile of laundry she had ever since in her life…
"How many times does this man change in a day?" Allen thought as a giant sweat drop formed behind her head.
There were many different kinds of clothes in this pile… plenty of white silk shirts and scarves, black fur coats, red velvet suit and underpants… "Damn you…" Allen twitched at the sight before her…
"Hmm… how hard can this be? All you need is soap and water." She dumped everything into the single bucket and started rinsing… however little did she realize… the red velvet coat started to bleed into the bucket with the other clothes. The white started to turn pink and this made Allen panicked. And she took the bottle of bleach and poured it into the bucket hoping that it will make the pink shirts white again…
Well… it didn't quite work out as you can see… it didn't exactly make things white again because anything that was white became pink with white patches on it. At the same time, the bleach gave the red velvet coat a few pretty pink patches on it.
"Shimata…" Allen paled at the sight of the mess in front of her… so doing laundry wasn't as easy as she thought. The reasons of it might be that her clothes don't bleed that easily when washed.
It seems that she's going to suffer from the consequences when her master comes home for dinner… and talking about dinner…
"Oh no! I got to prepare dinner!" Allen gasped and quickly made her way to the kitchen to complete her last but most impossible task of the day…
She stared at the spaghetti and tomato paste. There are also vegetables around her and she took the knife and poked at the onion hoping that it will teach her how to cook. Knowing that vegetables will not talk, she sighed and read the recipe book.
Steps:
1. Chop onions and garlic.
2. Dice tomatoes and meat.
3. Heat pan and fry onions and garlic.
4. Add in meat and tomatoes and stir it evenly.
5. Add a pinch of salt and pepper for taste.
6. Pour water and let sauce simmer.
7. Boil water with oil and salt.
8. Add spaghetti and leave it to cook.
9. Strain water and rinse it with cold water.
10. Serve with sauce.
"Alright… it's all just about following the instructions…" Allen thought as she took a deep breath and started the cooking.
(kiwi: the following belowmay cause you to lose your appetite for spaghetti. If you guys had read the manga, you guys will know about the omake where Allen chan was working part-time in Jerry's kitchen and he served kanda with the unidentified soba. And from this experience, we can conclude that Allen chan is pretty much clueless when it comes to cooking a decent meal…)
She chopped the onions and garlic with the skin and she also diced, chopped and minced the tomato and meat together into a heap and set it aside. Then she heated the pan without oil and tried to fry the garlic and onions but it got slightly burnt. She added the heap of meat sauce into the pan and it looked a little better but she scooped a generous amount of pepper and salt to the sauce and poured in enough water that will make spaghetti sauce look like spaghetti soup. She prepared a pot of water poured a generous amount of oil and salt into and boiled it. Later, adding in the spaghetti strips and she left it to boil until the spaghetti turned fat and soggy. After straining the hot water she poured the cooked spaghetti into a bowl and some cold water and rinsed it thoroughly before straining it again. Now that the spaghetti looked a lot shorter then it was, it is then served into a bowl and the soupy sauce is poured over it.
(kiwi: okay it's safe to read from here onwards…)
Allen stared at the 'spaghetti' and thought, "Hmm… this doesn't look like the spaghetti I usually see people having… why does it look like minestrone soup?"
Before Allen could taste the soup… or correct anything in which she had done earlier today, her master came home and this was the last thing in which she had dreaded for…
"Allen, I can see that the dress is still clean. Not bad. Let's start with the inspection. Let's see the room is clean and speck. Next, the wine. Good. The laundry... ALLEN WALKER WHAT HAD YOU DONE TO MY CLOTHES!!"
Well… if it weren't for the dress and soft sob from Allen chan, the situation could have been ten times worst than it was. At least, Allen had managed to get away with it with more debts rather than a hammer on the head.
After cooling down from the ruined clothes it was time for dinner. Cross Marian looked at the bowl and said, "Minestrone Soup with Spaghetti?" He raised a brow as Allen kept her silence.
He took a spoonful and tried the soup. And an indescribable expression began to from on his face and he splat the spaghetti into the sink. And he came out of the toilet with an unimaginable aura of rage…
"THAT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE SOUP I HAD EVER TASTED. ALLEN WALKER YOU ARE BETTER OFF AS A BOY!" he threw Allen's luggage back at her.
That was it. Cross Marian had concluded that Allen wasn't really cut for a homemaker. Allen was pretty stunned by her master's reaction but his anger had caused her to feel somewhat disappointed. She was glad that she got her clothes back. But a thought hit her, was she really hopeless? Unexpectedly tears began to well up in her eyes.
Being a gentleman, Cross Marian could not bear to see a lady or child cry after all. He cleared his throat and said, "Other than the 2 failed tasks you had managed to handle the other two well. So let's just say that you managed pass. And thanks for the wine."
"Really?" The girl looked up and dried her tears.
"Yes. Come apprentice… Seat by me and serve me wine." Cross said as he sat on the couch and gave his usual smirk.
"Hentai jiji…" Allen snorted and made her way to the room to change of out of the frilly dress.
"Mana you sure had raised an interesting child. And you had bought her up well." Marian thought and smiled in amusement as he helped himself onto a glass of the finest wine he had ever tasted.
For those who are clueless:
Shimata: I'm so dead… / oh shit…
Minestrone soup: is a kind of Italian tomato soup.
Hentai jiji: Perverted old man (a commonly used terms to describe pervs)XD
Allen and Kiwi: (had fainted from receiving the hammer)
c.m: Allen sure makes a terrible cook.
Reviews please or get the hammer.
Don't worry; I'll make sure our dear authoress does her chapters. She knows what she'll receive if she doesn't finish… (Flashes hammer)
Allen and kiwi: He's scary… (rubs bruises on head)
Kiwi: I hope you guys enjoyed the short in between scenes of chapter 2.5 and 2.75 (smiles)
And it's time to get back onto the story...