The servants weren’t allowed to eat in the drawing room, so Simon followed the head maid to the butler’s room to enjoy the food left over from the salon.
Those fancy refreshments didn’t taste much better than ordinary ones, but ice cream was different. It was something commoners might never get to taste in their entire lives, especially in summer.
While eating the ice cream, Simon opened the [Character Editor] and tossed in the fountain pen Elisa had given him.
The +3 Intimacy followed by -3 wasn’t Simon messing with the young lady. Although he had indeed been tempted to do just that, the real reason was that, unlike the other features that merely displayed text, [Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons] involved transcendent power, and he currently had no way to create it.
He needed some transcendent data to edit the feature, which was why he had asked for Elisa’s fountain pen.
In this era, a fountain pen was the equivalent of a modern keyboard. An extremely personal item that its owner handled for long periods every day.
No matter what the object was, after being handled for long enough, it would take on traces of its owner’s aura. Fountain pens in particular were used for writing, so they also carried a measure of their owner’s spirit.
In short, the fountain pen contained residual transcendent energy left behind by Elisa. In [Black Tide], this energy was known as spirituality, and it could be converted into a tiny amount of transcendent data.
Using that tiny amount of transcendent data, Simon created [Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons]. He managed to finish it before his ice cream was gone and sent it to [Ultimate Male Servant Training Plan].
This feature was essentially the classroom function found in rasing-sims, allowing characters to acquire skills and improve their abilities.
And that was precisely the feature Simon needed most.
The reason Simon hadn’t introduced it from the very beginning was partly because he hadn’t had any transcendent data and partly because Elisa would have been extremely wary if a feature like this had appeared right away.
Now was the perfect time to introduce it.
***
[Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons]
[Please note: This feature can only be used while Simon is asleep.]
Elisa stared at the screen, feeling that there was something rather improper about this feature.
What was with the name “Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons”?! And what did it mean that lessons could only begin after the male servant fell asleep?!
Was this even a proper kind of lesson?!
Elisa had seen plenty during her time in the Archipelago, including a service known as “Sleeping Beauty” where innkeepers would drug their female attendants and then send the sleeping girls to the appropriate rooms.
There were two kinds of customers for this service. The first were people with peculiar fetishes who specifically liked unconscious young women.
The second were those who had lost their ability to perform and wanted to be intimate with beautiful young women without being ridiculed. Most of this group were elderly men.
I don’t have any weird fetishes, and I’m not some old lady. I don’t need that kind of service. Elisa made up her mind to uphold proper manners. If this turned out to be some indecent feature, she absolutely wouldn’t touch it!
She continued reading the description.
[By using this feature, you will teach Simon the selected lesson within his dreams.]
Oh, so it’s just teaching through dreams!
Even though she hadn’t been thinking of anything like that, Elisa still felt a little disappointed.
Entering dreams was an ability in mysticism, and teaching within dreams was one application favored by certain scholars.
This kind of teaching could only be used to explain abstract subjects, such as mathematics and language. It was certainly useful, and Elisa herself couldn’t do it, but knowing that other people could made it feel somewhat ordinary.
Elisa continued reading.
[Available Courses: Etiquette LV2; Firearms Shooting LV3; Wilderness Survival LV5…]
Huh? These weren’t abstract subjects, but abilities that required physical coordination, and some even required the right environment.
Wasn’t that basically the same as taking lessons in the real world?
It meant turning a dream into an actual, fully realized world!
The power of creation? That was at least within the realm of demigods!
Elisa began to panic. Although she was already a fifth-rank transcendent, she was still a considerable distance away from becoming a demigod.
This screen was actually that powerful?
Elisa instinctively wanted to run. When demigods were involved, running away was the only correct choice.
No, wait. Running wouldn’t do any good.
This screen already has its sights on me. Even if I turn into a bat and hide in the shadows, I still won’t be able to shake it.
It should be fine. Looking on the bright side, maybe this is actually a fortuitous opportunity for me!
After reassuring herself for a while, Elisa finally relaxed a little.
The bathwater had already gone cold. Elisa called for her personal maid, changed into her nightgown, and returned to her bedroom.
She continued studying [Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons].
[Available Courses: Etiquette LV2; Firearms Shooting LV3; Wilderness Survival LV5; Investigation LV4; Combat LV5; Archipelago Dialect LV4; Mysticism LV6; Theft LV7…]
These are all skills I know. How terrifying. Every single one of my abilities has been exposed. Miss Elisa pulled the covers more tightly around herself.
So I’m supposed to teach Simon my own abilities? No wonder it’s called [Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons].
What are the numbers after each ability? Levels?
I only started learning [Etiquette] recently, so it’s only LV2. [Mysticism] is what I’ve studied the hardest, so it has the highest level at LV6…
Wait! The highest level is [Theft]….a whopping LV7!
Elisa clenched her fist, wanting to punch the screen and demand to know what it meant by that.
Since when was I a thief?! I’m an adventurer! Sometimes I just happen to rob the rich and help the poor, or take back the compensation and payment that rightfully belong to me!
As for theft, I have absolutely never done anything of the sort! This is slander! Pure slander!
Besides, I’ve already turned over a new leaf. I stopped doing that ages ago…
A sudden pang of guilt struck Elisa as she remembered how she had paid a visit to the butler’s bedroom a week ago and hadn’t left so much as half a penny behind.
The courses could be reordered, so she moved [Theft] to the very bottom and pretended it didn’t exist.
Turning her attention back to the other courses, Elisa considered which lesson she should arrange for Simon first.
Her highest-level skill was [Mysticism], but Mysticism wasn’t something that could be taught recklessly. Even in a dream, it was an extremely dangerous field where the slightest mistake could lead to an accident.
She still didn’t know exactly how [Young Lady’s Late-Night Lessons] worked, so she couldn’t teach him [Mysticism].
Besides, why should I teach him [Mysticism]?! Miss Elisa folded her arms.
Transcendents held power over this world, and [Mysticism] was the path to becoming one. She herself had only been taught [Mysticism] after slaving away for her teacher. Giving it directly to a male servant would be letting him off far too easily!
At the very least, it would take 5 more Intimacy… No, 10. Only then would she consider giving Simon a lesson!
After ruling out [Mysticism], Miss Elisa turned her attention to the other courses.
She quickly made her decision.
[Course Scheduled: Combat LV5]
Miss Elisa rubbed her hands together, a sinister grin spreading across her face.
Since it’s a combat lesson, beating you up is perfectly normal, right?
Who takes a combat lesson without getting beaten up a little?
That’ll teach you to decrease my Intimacy! That’ll teach you to say I have a small chest! Today, I’ll show you what this young lady is capable of!
[Please infuse spirituality.]
Elisa didn’t hesitate. It was perfectly normal for Transcendent items to require spirituality to activate.
She extended a finger and tapped the screen, channeling her spirituality into it.
A wave of drowsiness suddenly washed over her.
Remaining vigilant but offering no resistance, Elisa entered the dream.
She found herself in a grayish-white space. Simon, dressed in his pajamas, was looking around in confusion.
Found you!
Prepare to die!
Elisa charged at him with her fist raised.
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