The Personal Maid

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(*Knock!*) (*Knock!*)

("*Young Master, may I enter?*")

When Ace was happy with his gifts like a child getting a present for the first time, he heard the sound of knocking on his room door, and he looked toward the door that was ten meters from his bed with some confusion, the voice from behind the door, was strangely familiar, but the language of this voice was strange to him, The whole time he was speaking in Japanese, which is his native language.

In a split second, Ace thought of a countermeasure, he had already realized that this world was fundamentally different from his previous world, so he needed to fully comprehend the language of this world, before trying to communicate with other people.

Ace recalled Huo Ye's memories again, since their souls had completely fused it was ridiculously easy for him to learn the language of this world as if he had spoken it for hundreds of years, looking at his somewhat dumb original personality, this was an amazing feat if Luffy and Sabo knew about him. They would have just laughed in disbelief, thinking he was talking nonsense.

(*Young Master Ye!?*)

("*Are you fine?!*")

The female voice reappeared, but this time it was mixed with some anxiety.

Ace returned to reality after feeling anxious in the female voice on the other side of the door, so he finally responded.

Before that, he had put the two items in his hand back into the box and thought of taking the box away and magically disappeared, he had vaguely realized what kind of the third gift he had obtained from the mysterious entity but he would verify it later.

"Yes, I'm fine. You can come in."

A pitifully weak voice came out only showing how bad his health was, but that weak voice brought the poor maid's heart back from her throat, she quickly pushed the door gently and gracefully entered.

She raised the fiery red curtain that was behind the door and entered with a gentle smile on her beautiful face, her steps were graceful as she was wearing a cheongsam, the maid outfit showing the features of her sensual body, the outfit was a fiery red with the black sides and the maid's white accessories, this was the normal uniform for personal maids in this world.

In her hands, she held a big tray of food and quickly made the ten meters from the beginning of the room to the end, beside Ace's bed.

From the moment she entered, her sight did not depart from the man seated in the bed, although her face was smiling, but the look of sadness and pity was quite clear to him who saw from through the life and the death, this woman was sad for him and this gave him a positive impression of her, he found her familiar because she is the personal maid of the former owner of his body, she has been taking care of him for the past fifty years, he peeked at his memories, Ace found the reason why the woman's gentle look at him seemed to be that Huo Ye was treating her kindly and had helped her more than once when she was in the worst situations of life.

Although he is completely paralyzed at the moment, he can save the lives of many people simply by relying on his father's authority, in fact, everything is up to his father, since he lost his strength, he has basically become just someone waiting for death in the eyes of others if it wasn't for his father he wouldn't exist until now.

The maid sat on the bed beside Ace and left the tray of food on the side, then gently glanced at Ace, her eyes still carried the same kindness and tenderness that the dead Huo Ye always he see, but for Ace that was the first time a beautiful girl gave him such looks like this, it was beauty in this world so strange to Ace, this maid who is obviously just an ordinary beauty in this world seemed so charming, even his heart was beating right now especially after she got close enough for her wonderful perfume to tickle his nose, she smelled really very good.

Ace knew that this physiological response was caused by Huo Ye's memories, obviously, the owner of his current body is a lost case, he was deeply in love with this girl.

"How were you today, young master, are you feeling a little better?!"

Huo Min said with a little hope in her voice, which made Ace shiver for some reason, he felt really guilty for this girl who apparently also loved her young master and it didn't look like it was just a little love...

The feelings of Ace were complicated at this moment, he really wanted to tell her that he was not her young master, but it was a foolish act so he quickly withdrew the idea, he not knowing what to do any more, on the one side, he felt with the accept and the attract to this woman because of the mental and physical memories and on the other hand he felt rejected because the true Ace is clearly quite stupid in matters of the heart.

Ace sighed and put the matter in the back of his mind, for the time being, returning the gentle gaze to the maid as he said kindly.

"I feel really refreshed today, although my body still feels weak but for some reason, I feel as if I will recover the next day."

"Hehehe"

"It is good to hear that from you, young master, I am really glad that you are not pessimistic today either."

Huo Min was surprised by the mood of her young master today, He's completely different from what she used to feel, the former Huo Ye was feeling frustrated and desire for death every minute that passed, if it wasn't cause her he would have died of sadness only, she instinctively feels as if something has changed, but since it is a change on the positive side, she is happy that such a miraculous change has occurred.

"Well, life is something everyone should be happy to have, they won't know its meaning until they lose it."

A brilliant glint appeared in Ace's eyes as he looked toward the ceiling, he was lying on his back because his physical condition required him to remain in bed motionless.

"Whether it is a good or bad life, it is the same private life for which its owner has to fight because without life allthing else is meaningless."

"..."

"What?!"

Ace looked back at the woman and found that her little mouth was wide open and her eyes wide in shock, he almost jumped out of fright, thinking that something was behind him, but he used a little observational Haki and found nothing beside him except for Huo Min and then breathed Sigh.

Huo Min came back to reality and she hurriedly apologized for being rude for acting stupid while explaining herself.

"I'm sorry young master excuse my rudeness, but I was really surprised by your wise words, for a moment I thought you were possessed by one of the elders of the Heavenly Mystery Realm(1)."

"Oh no you don't have to apologize, but that's not something to be surprised about it, anyone would be wise or crazy after sitting in the same bed for a thousand years."

After merging with Huo Ye's memories, Ace was already getting used to his new reality, without even knowing he had considered himself sitting in the same bed for a thousand years...

After hearing this, a sad expression appeared on Huo Min's pretty face which made Ace suddenly want to console her, but his mind went blank after he felt a heavyweight on his body.

Huo Min hugged Ace tightly as she was shedding tears of sadness and unwillingness, when Ace said those words she felt a stifling pain in her soul and she couldn't keep her smile anymore, for the past years she was sad for her young master who did so much for her but she didn't Anything worth mentioning for.

After coming out of a state of empty mind after sensing the huge assets pressing on his chest, Ace finally felt this woman's grief towards him, he really wanted to calm her down and tell her that he would be treated soon, but he felt bad because the one you grieve for is already dead.

Ace gently pulled the woman out of his arms and sighed as he looked at her, her teary-eyed face was really beautiful, her skin was white and flawless, she had fiery red hair like his, and she had red eyelashes and eyebrows in addition to her pure red eyes, her aura exuding fire, She looked like a true goddess of fire, had it not been for the wound running below her right eye, she would have been absolutely perfect without any blemishes.

In the pirates world, such a small wound would be a normal thing because his little brother had one like him, but in the cultivation world she would have to bear the title of hideous, which is exactly what she carried all her life that wound is only a reminder of her painful past because she is the one who left it there without curing him, she has already cured the most serious wounds after all and it is all thanks to her young master who was keen to help her and to avenge her and to cure her was given her a home to return to since he is the only man who was not disgusted after seeing her former face as she made sure to serve him wholeheartedly until the day she died, even vowing to follow him even in thedeath.

After Ace recalled all these memories by looking at that little wound he felt a shiver that made his flesh prickly and so many warm and sad feelings flowed into his heart for the first time he truly felt alive, he was grateful that the owner of his previous body, he was a kind-hearted man just like him.

"C-come on young master let me feed you the food will be cold if we wait too long."

After feeling his gaze overflowing with emotion, her face turned red from embarrassment and she even stammered and said a feeble excuse like food is going to get cold, how can food get cold in the Flame God Realm?!

What a joke it was over 50° in the room, even if it didn't affect the two people because they were already used to it, the last thing it could do was let the food cold.

Without saying anything, Ace allowed her to feed him because his body was already used to this treatment and besides, he currently couldn't eatng by himself anyway.

Huo Min always fed Huo Ye by herself and washed his feet by herself. She even took care of his excrement and body fluids when he was in the worst stages of his illness. After he returned to being a ordinary human as well as being completely paralyzed, there was nothing he could do but get help. Throughout his thousand-year illness, many maids and even male servants took turns serving him as commissioned by his father, he always saw a very subtle look of disgust and contempt hiding behind their kind masks. But only Huo Min, from the moment he received her and he gave her current name, she has served him faithfully and treated him differently, maybe that's why he had such feelings for her in the first place, but he refused to confess to her because he did not want to associate such a kind woman with a paralyzed person like him.

Ace obediently opened his mouth, and after Huo Min puffed on the food to cool it down, she began to gently feed him. The food was the meat of mortal profound beasts that might not go beyond the Earth Profound Realm because he could not eat the meat of stronger beasts because it would affect him negatively and hasten his death, The food was delicious because it was Huo Min who cooked it personally.

Ace silently enjoyed such care because he knew it was the last since he would be on his feet soon enough.

While swallowing the food, Ace grumbled inwardly at his helpless state otherwise according to his nature that plate would be finished in a second and he would probably demand extra plates and a lot of meat, because after experiencing death, he felt a kind of hungry on diferent level... Even his soul was hungry for the meat.

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(1): Heavenly Mystry Realm: Another realm like the Flame God Realm which is a higher ranked realm than the Flame God Realm, for fans against the gods, they would definitely know the Heavenly Mystry Realm.