Ella

Ella (エラ Era) is Hugo's assistant chef, hired by Benno, to train with Hugo in the temple for his Italian restaurant. When Myne becomes Rozemyne, she becomes her personal chef and travels around Ehrenfest with her, primarily staying at the temple or the archduke's castle.

She is an ambitious chef and likes to polish and improve her cooking skills.

Ella met Benno in the Eatery Guild where Ella was running an errand for her uncle. She overheard Benno's conversation stating that he is looking for an assisstant chef for Hugo. Thinking about the upside and downside of working in the temple she thought that it wouldn't be too different from working at her uncle's nighttime bar. Her position there was of an apprentice chef, but when she comes of age, she would have to work there as a waitress like her cousin Lea. Apart from the actual waiting, this would mean also working as a prostitute for customers who payed her uncle enough money to have her sent to their rooms. Not wanting to be forced to sleep with strangers was one of the main reasons she even considered working at the temple and ultimately caused her to steel her resolve and offer to become Hugo's assisstant. As her goal was to become a noble's chef like Leise she showed great determination and persuaded Benno. Her uncle protested, but her mother supported her, who herself was forced to work as a waitress after her husband, Ella's father, died. Having her mother's support, she was able to sign a contract with the Gilberta Company at the Eatery Guild, where she met Hugo for the first time.

Ella became Myne's chef during her blue apprentice shrine maiden era. She believed that Myne is a rich noble girl. Therefore, she wasn't surprised that Fran taught her alongside Hugo how to prepare Myne's recipes without speaking directly to Myne. Myne only ever wrote instructions on wooden boards, which Fran read to them, since like most commoners other than merchants, neither of the chefs knew how to read and write themselves.

When Myne became Rozemyne she was in need of a personal chef. Ella honed her skills during Myne's blue shrine maiden era and was skilled enough to become Rozemyne's personal chef. Becoming a personal chef meant to travel to the locations where one's master or mistress travelled to. So, Ella accompanied Rozemyne everywhere, be it to the castle, to temple related businessess or to material gathering.

While Rozemyne was sleeping her two-year-sleep in the jureve, Hugo proposed to Ella and the two decided to marry. Though with the two of them being personal chefs to nobility, they can not marry without permission by their master or mistress. With Rozemyne being unconscious and her legal guardian High Priest Ferdinand unwilling to make this decision, the wedding had to wait until Rozemyne woke up again, much to Hugo's dismay.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 2 When Rozemyne attends the Royal Academy, Ella acompanies her as her personal chef and returns to Ehrenfest when Rozemyne is called back one week before the start of the Dedication Ritual.


 * When Ella and Hugo met for the first time, she thought he looked like a nice guy. But she also thought that he was cool.
 * Ella didn't realise why she wanted to catch up to Hugo and why her eyes were set on Hugo.
 * Her hands are covered with calluses due to her passion for cooking.
 * She was shocked after hearing how Myne's recipe are prepared.
 * Like many people in this world, she thought that using the water vegetables were cooked in resulted in illness, miscarriage or infertility.
 * When Myne first met Ella, Myne thought she was 10 . However, she came of age (turned 15) the following spring.
 * When Ella came of age, Rozemyne gave her a portable meat grinder as a gift, which is one of her new inventions. Meat grinders in this world are generally big machines that can't be easily moved, so this is a very valuable present and Hugo was quite envious upon learning of it.