Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 421: The Iruma Family

Having lived my entire life as a butler, I was beginning to consider my retirement when Xervus invited me to try to manage for this family.

According to what I have learned, they were not high ranking nobles, but commoners. Moreover, Jeeves was also invited.

My interest piqued, I made use of the connections I have fostered over many years to gather information.

The information that came back was a series of surprises.

The person responsible for the development of the Purifier MD and the toilet with the same function which have suddenly changed the sanitary conditions of cities in recent years was……

Surprisingly, people who wanted to serve the Iruma Family were gathered today in the training grounds of the Knight Order of the Volton Margravery.

Did they numbered roughly two thousand? Moreover, seeing the line-up of people applying to be a butler, I realize yet again that Iruma-dono is not an ordinary person. 80% of them were connected to nobles. Furthermore, it was clear that hey were sent by good-for-nothing nobles.

Well, speaking of which, I was also belatedly approached by His Excellency the Prime Minister, as well as His Majesty though……

The interview of butler candidates came first.

I was surprised. I have lived a long life and was confident that I could always stay composed, but I was speechless in astonishment.

Sitting side by side at the interviewers’ table were the manifested Great Spirits.

To my surprise, the butler interviews ended in a blink of an eye.

Only two remained. Only I, Sebastian, and my grandson, Jeeves.

The maid interviews also ended in around the same time. That many people dwindled down to about 30 people. Oh my, isn’t that Maribelle? If even she applied……

It would seem like the remainder of my life would be quite interesting.

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My name is Maribelle. Pleased to make your acquaintance……

Now, I heard there was a gentleman that wanted maids.

That gentleman was strangely unknown even in Volton. A healer as an alchemist who changed Volton into a hygienic city with the Purifier MD, as well as distributed cheap, high efficacy potions aimed towards adventurers and the sick. That was not all. He was said to be the driving force of the great advances of Volton Margravery. There was no one in Valkyra Kingdom that didn’t know about the construction of Wedgefort City and the creation of the Sanctuary, the land of miracles.

I had caught wind that that gentleman, despite his young age, was searching for maids to manage his mansions in Volton and in the Sanctuary.

Oh my, is that my grand daughter who came to Volton to apply I see over there? If I recall correctly, wasn’t that child serving an Earl’s family? So was she tasked with making a connection with Iruma-dono?

Is that Sebastian-sama? He should have been the chamberlain of a Duke’s family…… though I understand that the Iruma family was important to Valkyra Kingdom.

I was able to keep my composure up to that point.

The Great Spirits? What joke is that?

Eh! The Great Spirits were doing the interviews? This is no jest…… yes, the Great Spirits were indeed screening the applicants. And they did so speedily..

You know what was so jaw-dropping? From two thousand applicants, it decreased to only 30 people.

The butler candidates were Sebastian and one more person, a young man. The maids were myself and Mabel, and another four experienced maids. The rest were orphans whose origins would be difficult to tell from their appearance? Children who left orphanages because of their age.

Valkyra Kingdom has been booming recently, yet it was still difficult for children graduating from orphanages to find decent employment. Even so, the boys could likely still expect to find a job that was labor-related. Though when it comes to girls……

Why did those Great Spirits choose those kids, I wonder? Listening to Iruma-sama converse with Great Spirits, it seems they would all be employed.

If it was a respectable noble family, it could be seen as a contribution to society, but……

Ahh, it’s my turn to introduce myself. It seems like it’s going to be fun from here on.

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