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Description

I possessed a character in a novel that I stopped writing as a hobby when I was in high school.

My mother died in an accident, and my father is rumored to be dead right after he went to jail. Thanks to that, I became an orphan girl at the age of seven without a name.

While living in another person’s house, I was exhausted from working and was caught running away. Then sold to s*ave traders. I was wondering if this life is meant to be ruined. The reputable Duke, the Empire’s greatest villain bought me.

“She’s 7 years old, but was small and too thin.”

Henriette, the worst villain in the original, whose hobby is making everyone act like a puppet, playing tricks on the imperial family, and threatening the neck of the aristocracy, it turned out that scary man is my real father who went to jail!

But you seem a little different from the original villain.

“Well, duke…”

“No.”

“…..Oh, father?”

“That, too.”

“……uh, Daddy?”

“Yes, my daughter. What do you want to have today?”

Henriette, who I thought was scary, is more friendly than I thought.

“If anyone bothers you from now on, you have to tell your big brother, okay? I’ll drown them at the bottom of the lake.”

“Shall I go see flowers with my little sister today? There are so many ornamental mermaids in the glass greenhouse. I thought you would like it, so I caught it myself. Did I do a good job?”

“This slow girl! Dad called you…. No, I’m not mad! Damn it, don’t be s*upid! Ahhh! Yeah! I’m wrong! Okay?”

The new brothers were definitely villains in the original, but they are much nicer than I thought.

“You can do whatever you want. Anyone in the family, if you say so, will listen carefully and do what you say.”

But it’s weird. The novel I wrote wasn’t originally like this.

***

“….If you promise me a few things, I’ll stay with you again. I won’t leave you.”

“You can see me anytime without an appointment.”

“Should I? I can always run away to a place where you will never find me again.”

He frowned his eyebrows.

If I had known that a small word of expression would have caused such a terrible reaction, I would have kept my mouth shut then. It was when I was in the middle of regretting,

“You’re mistaken. Do you think I will let you go in the first place, shouldn’t that be possible first?”

“….What?”

“Who said I’d let you run away?”

……No matter how much I think about it, I think I got it wrong.

“If you’ll really run away, you shouldn’t be caught by me again.”

Chapter 1: Prologue

I guess I died and fell into hell.

“Get ready quickly! It’s only a few steps away!”

“The girl must be fine, right?””

“It looks like half of the guests are here to buy the kid today. Keep an eye on her!”

Otherwise, is there any reason to go through only these terrible things from the moment you were born until now?

Raaaaaaaaaaaa.

Soon there was a roar from the outside.

Feeling the ominous atmosphere, her shoulders slumped by itself.

“Hey, it’s time.”

A man with a wobbly voice behind her back said, banging the wall.

I’ve seen his face for the past few days, and I’ve always felt scared whenever I see that man without one eye.

Either way, they just looked at the light purple dress I was wearing, whether it was wrinkled or there was no defect in my body.

Finally, they checked the condition of the handcuffs that tied my wrists tightly.

The handcuffs weighing heavily on the skinny forearm heated up my wrists.

The handcuffs were not soft enough and were enough poison for the tender flesh of a child.

“Oh, my God. Somebody get the medicine!”

As soon as they took off the wooden handcuffs for a moment, the red mark showed swollen flesh.

The other man who brought the plaster put it on my wrist, wrapped it in a cloth and covered the swollen spot.

“Don’t be too scared. If you go out there and cry, you know Ruri who we just threw away in the gutter? You’re going to be a meal for the rats like him.”

Ruri was throwing into the gutter. As soon as I heard it, I was choked up.

Slave wagons came from a week’s end through the Kepa Birch.

Meanwhile, the children who fled the slave trading market were mercilessly killed as soon as they were caught.

Ruri was one of them, and he ran away with me as bait and died before my eyes.

When I remembered the body, I was in a terrible mood and I felt like all my blood was draining from my body.

A little later, when the shouts were heard again, the slave traders dragged me away in a ruthless way.

“You’ve been waiting a long time. The next item is what you’ve been waiting for!”

As soon as I was dragged out of the tent, a strong beam of light came as if I were about to break my eyelids.

As I narrowed my eyes, I was dragged to a high platform.

The aristocrats, who covered their faces or wore masks, gathered in one place to stare at me all at once.

“Daughter of the monstrous duke, whose life and death are now unknown due to the tragedy of seven years ago!”

My biological mother was killed in an accident. It’s because of the tragedy they’re talking about seven years ago.

My biological father was sent to prison in connection with the incident. Some people say he really died there.

Anyway, I, who was just a baby at the time, became an orphan.

“I’m sure there are a lot of people who are here who have lost their heart to him! I promise this would be a great opportunity today!”

Unfortunately, my father didn’t seem to have been very close with his relatives.

It is clear from seeing that he entrusted me to the family of Count Semond, who was not even blood related to us.

Count Sémond took great care of me until he heard of my father’s death.

Even if I’m not as good as his real daughter, he still feed me with rice.

But right after the news of my biological father’s death, their treatment changed completely.

There are a total of three roles that have changed.

To be in charge of all sorts of chores in the mansion, or to become a toy for Shady, the real daughter of Count Semond’s couple.  Or maybe the countess maids’ anger dolls.

Unable to bear such treatment, I risked my life one day to flee from the Count.

But I could not go far because I was a child and hid in a mountain located right behind the County, and was soon captured again.

Count Semond was furious and had his servants beat me todease their frustrations.

Finally, when I woke up from a faint, I was crumpled in the wagon of slave traders.

That’s how I came here to the slave auction house.

“It will be a great opportunity. No matter how you use this child to your heart’s content.”

People usually call such a place hell.

“500!”

“700!”

“800!”

The light penetrating into my field of view was too harsh.

I wanted to close my eyes, but that wouldn’t change the reality.

Just looking down at the handcuffs that were sinking in the wrist heavily, I murmured a word.

‘This life is ruined.  Really ruined.’

“1,500.”

At the moment I thought so, the voices that shouted their countless desires were silenced at once.

Even I was surprised and raised my head reflexively.

Beyond the few pale pink hair flowing down the chin that hid the trembles, a shadow of a streak rises through the dazzling rays of light.

The young man’s voice penetrated the auction house clearly.

“If it’s not enough, I’ll add another 3,000.”

He was presenting an amount of money that would no longer be necessary for the provocation or verbal ingenuity of the hunters who had been placed all over the auction house.

The inside of the auction house, which had stopped responding, was just in endless confusion.

As if he should not miss this opportunity, the man who was hosting the auction shouted in a hurry.

“One thousand five hudred and three thousand more! A total of 4,500! Is there anyone else?”

I, who had been trying to be indifferent until now, was suddenly seized with fear.

What a great man he is to give gold to a child only seven years old. Something like that.

I don’t even want to know the frightening things that i would experience once I’ve been sold.

Fortunately or unfortunately, no one offered a higher price.

Thanks to this, my turn quickly ended, and the slave traders took me to the waiting guest.

When a young man, who I could not recognize his face with a mask, beckoned lightly, the servant standing next to him handed a bag of money to the slave trader.

“Then I hope you have a great opportunity.”

It wasn’t once or twice that I think the future was unpredictable, but at this moment I feel more clearly buried deep in the darkness.

There was no window in the waiting room, and there was no place to run away except for the door I entered.

And the only people in the waiting room were me and that man.

What will happen to me now?

Feeling scared and slumping my shoulders, the man who was just watching me threw a question.

“What’s your name?”

It was a cold and beautiful voice. I managed to answer.

“…….that…name, I don’t have one.”

The man seemed mad when he heard it.

As it was, he hadn’t said anything for a long time, and then he sighed very slowly.

“Don’t move in case you get hurt.”

Soon the man lowered himself and sat down. He reached out his hand.

He took my tightly tied wrists and untied the handcuffs, then unfastened the fabric that had been rolled up and threw it away.

When the red mark on my two wrists, which had been swollen, felt the cold air, I got goosebumps on my back.

Thanks to this, my shoulders are shivering and the man wrapped his hands around my wrist and spoke in a low voice.

“……First, Chehilb Semond is responsible to fully protect Henriette Cittlitt Wensgray’s fourth child. In return, the Semond family is supported by the Wensgray family.”

Kuang!

Suddenly, a loud explosion broke out outside the door.

I looked behind his head, breathing heavily in surprise, and something cold came into my wrist.

Now, I saw a faintly bluish energy flowing from the man’s hand, gradually sinking the red swollen flesh.

Before long, a scream broke out over the halls.

“Second. Name the fourth child as carefully as possible. And the last.”

The sound insulation of the door was not very good.

There was a series of terrible noises outside.

The voices of slave merchants who we became accustomed to hear because we were trapped in a carriage for a week and heard them throughout the journey, was heard.

‘Please, have mercy on my life! I have a child, ahhhhhh!’

And still,

“……you’ll be in charge until I go to see my daughter.”

The swelling on my wrist had subsided completely before I knew it, when the man held it.

The broken handcuffs were spread out with the cloth on the floor.

He lifted himself up and took a step back and took off his mask.

An aristocratic face that never suits the messy waiting room was revealed.

Pale and cold like a piece of glass, but it was a beautiful face.

“……This was the promise I had with Count Semond when I entrusted you to him seven years ago. But now it’s a broken promise.”

His short hair looked as black as night.

The man with an elegant impression has a face with a different and mixed beauty, as if it were a mysterious being far from human beings, with a faint smile.

And the golden eyes, resembling the fragments of the sun, clumped each other clearly.

It was the same color as my eyes.

“Just like those who break that promise, everyone who has brought you here will be held accountable.”

The door opened wide behind his back, and hot heat came from beyond.

The sweat-soaked and blood-soaked armor was seen strangely gleaming under the dim light.

The eyes of the knights, who appeared from outside of the door, met my frightened face for a while, then quickly looked away, and then moved to the other person and looked silently.

The man took me and turned toward them and said,

“I have secured the target, so we will now return.”

Like a grim gift of fate,

I became the daughter of Duke Wensgray, the most notorious villain in the Empire, while being pulled up from hell.

Modern people are bound to have depression at least once in their lives.

So was I in my previous life. But in my case, the condition was a little serious.

This is all because I went through all kinds of things at small and medium-sized companies when I graduated from college and joined the company.

As a result, what I gained varied greatly from depression, lethargy and obsessive compulsive, falling self-esteem and self-hatred.

Only then did I decide to quit, but in fact there was a horrible reason.

At the last get-together, I was so drunk and the head of the department manager, who usually used to commit sexual harassment, knocked me out.

Since then, I entered the job market with no time to be treated for depression, vowing to quit drinking.

However, since I had already left home after cutting my relationship with my parents, my job preparation period was like hell for me, who had nowhere to lean on.

As a result, I died.

It was a cold winter.

After completing the 20th interview, I couldn’t endure the sorrow, and after drinking three bottles of soju without snacks in the park near the studio where I lived, I fell asleep.

The cause of death was hypothermia. It was a ridiculous ending.

When I opened my eyes after I died, I was lying alone in a shabby room with a baby’s body.

I thought I was born again, but when I was about two years old, I realized that this world was in my novel.

It was just, I used to write stories that I thought of when I was in high school and read them with my friends.

Who knew I would live in my novel?

***

“There are some facts that you have to follow in this castle from now on.”

After seeing the slave auction house explode with the bodies of merchants and nobles, I was taken straight to the drawing room as soon as I arrived at the castle.

After that, I immediately sat alone with Henriette, the villain in my novel.

As an original writer, facing the villain in the novel was not a pleasant feeling.

I’m grateful that you saved me from being sold as a slave, but somehow I feel like I fell into a lion’s den while trying to avoid the fox.

“As I said, I am your father, and you are my own daughter. But in the future, you should behave in this castle and you shouldn’t act annoyingly in front of me.”

And that was like not asking for affection as a biological father.

“I hate annoying children.”

I didn’t have any expectations in the first place, so I understood and nodded.

Henriette Cittlet Wensgrey.

He who once killed nearly hundreds of nobles and raised his authority on the present Imperial family of Zert, was far from the bottom of aristocracy.

He is the great wizard of the Zert Empire and one of the three dukes called the pillars of the Empire.

With countless families, the royal elders’ association and the elders’ association supported him.

None of the nobles in the empire could treat him carelessly.

Even the emperor was swayed by him, so in reality Henriette was no different from the main owner of the empire.

····· I remember always hearing it.

It must have been until he went to jail.

But that Wensgray, who is known to be dead, was still alive.

Anyway, maybe he brought me here because he thought he couldn’t let me be sold as a slave or something and ruin the reputation of the family.

To the point of such speculation, he was staring at me with a grim look. He even frowned.

“……did you say you were seven this year?”

“Yes, sir.”

“You’re seven years old, and small…..you’re too skinny.”

Henriette stared at me for a long time then he wrinkled his eyebrows.

“What a sight.”

*gulp

The sound of me swallowing my dry saliva seemed to resonate all over the quiet room.

While all the other servants in the room remained silent, Henriette, who tapped the handle of the chair with his fingertips, sighed.

“Take her and wash her. Dress her properly and feed her. That’ll make her a little bit worth seeing.”

Saying so, he stood up from his seat.

I looked casually at the tip of his head so high like a mountaintop, and bowed my head reflexively when his eyes were pointed at me.

“I will go to the yellow island from now on.”

“When will you be back this time, Master?”

“It won’t take long. I’ll have to solve the problems while I was ‘dead’ and clear up the situation in the past.”

As he stepped out of the drawing room, the silent sound of his feet drifted away.

“I hope you aren’t doing bad things up until then.”

Once again I gulped down my dry saliva.

Soon I heard the door shut completely. Boom.

“Then, my lady, from now on, I will introduce you to the people who will serve you. First of all, my name is Peina Emmel, the exclusive maid of honor who will serve you.”

Henriette really left me to these people and left the castle.

You’re a cold-hearted man. As an original writer, I wanted to hit myself in the past, who set up a character personality like that.

“I’m also Mary Selene, your exclusive maid of honor.”

“My name is Shelia Hemelton. I will also serve you with all my heart.”

“I’m Brodyne Calip, Butler of the Duchy of Wensgray. I look forward to your kind cooperation.”

While many servants introduced themselves, I kept my head down with my knees tightly folded.

Henriette’s existence that bothered me was already gone, but there was another difficulty left.

“…Finally, I’m Pocelli Garcien, the lady’s tailor in charge. From now on, the lady will have to wear new clothes and eat at the order of the master…..”

I heard the middle-age lady vaguely blurring the end of her words.

Actually, I’m not seeing their faces at all right now.

Because

“…so, can you please come out of the closet now?”

It is because I am hiding in the closet.

After Henriette left, the servants took me out of the drawing room shortly after.

However, I didn’t have any good memories of the people who had the job of being servants.

Count Semond’s maids used to beat, kick, or pinch me.

If you don’t listen, you often starve, and even if you don’t work properly, their hands will hit you right away.

So I was surprised to see many servants reaching out to me at once and ran away without realizing it.

“Lady, I apologize if I surprised you. Please come out.”

Seeing that I have not been forced to leave the closet right next to the drawing room for about 30 minutes, I felt like they are people with good character, just like those who said soft words and friendly voices.

So I thought I should just go outside, but my body didn’t move.

Although I remember being an adult, I wondered if it was because I’m still young, but sometimes I felt that my mental age was more tailored to be a child. It was usually when I was scared. Like now

“Lady, please come out of the closet. This is a big deal…”

A woman who introduced her name as Peina was heard sighing.

Well, if I don’t go out like this, they’ll be in trouble for being ordered to wash, clothe and feed me by their owner Henriette.

I knew well that I couldn’t stay like this.

But I don’t want to go out. Strangers are scary, and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me. I also thought that everyone might suddenly change their attitudes and hit me.

At that time, Peina sighed.

“This way, the hot, crispy apple pie baked by the chef will cool down. The chef even prepared it after hearing that the lady is coming.”

“······”

A rumbling sound.

Just in time, a hunger-infested sound burst out of my stomach.

I hugged my stomach with my arms in a hurry, but come to think of it, I haven’t eaten anything since yesterday.

While I was at Count Semond’s house, I thought I would be able to endure it even after a day of starvation.

Slave merchants, however, always let us eat one meal a day while traveling with the children who will become slaves.

It must be because the thing they will sell should not starve to death.

Maybe it’s because I got used to eating one meal a day, but I was very hungry after starving.

“A sweet peach tart with whipped cream on it….”

A rumbling sound.

“A juice made of fresh fruit with honey, and a dish filled with baked fruit.”

A rumbling sound.

“Also, we have a buttered roast chicken and a roast turkey.”

“········”

“The chefs made it all for you.”

I hugged the stomach that kept rumbling out and was briefly troubled.

I don’t know what they’d do with me after tricking me out with those words. However, I was too hungry to hold on anymore.

Peina put one more word on it and hit the decisive blow.

“For dessert, we’ll have cookies full of chocolate and lemon macarons.”

“….”

*creak.

I had no choice but to open the door to the closet.

If you lose to an empty stomach like this, you will have nothing to say even if those maids or other servants suddenly change and beat me up and laugh at me.

However, how can I stay still after listening to the menus? I’m so hungry!

I closed my eyes tightly and lifted myself out of the closet. The moment I opened my eyes, I was caught up in the imagination that they would look at me with mockery and they would all laugh at me.

But what I saw at the moment I opened my eyes again was a gentle stretching touch.

“Now you’re here! My lady.”

The woman with her black hair tied nicely was welcoming me at the front. When I heard her voice, I thought she was Peina.

Other servants now looked at me with a relieved face.

The light from outside was so bright and blinding that I almost closed my eyes again without realizing it.

“Shall we go eat something delicious from now on?”

Peina reached out and naturally held me in her arms, and my eyes widened in surprise.

“Uh, I, I…….”

“Yes, miss?”

I was very dirty now.

Slave merchants only served food well, but they didn’t wash the children properly, so my hair was messy and there are soup spilled on my skin.

Nevertheless, Peina held me so naturally.

“I········ I, I smell.”

“Lady. People always smell.”

But I think Peina is smiling.

“All living life has no choice but to smell. Then, shall we go to the dining room now?”

She took me outside, answering me with a very nonchalant response, even though her statement was a little strange.

Other servants followed in a row, and each of them breathed a sigh of relief.

I looked at them with puzzled faces and bowed my head over Peina’s shoulder. She had a very fragrant smell of flowers.

But before long, I could quickly realize that they had deceived me.

“Don’t be so disappointed. My lady.”

I was fooled. I was really fooled.

I don’t trust others easily but I didn’t expect to get hit in the back of my head like this.

“Lady, now the clothes are ······.”

“I, I don’t like it…..!”

“It’s okay. I’m not scary. Ta-da, there’s a toy here who can be your friend.”

Peina spoke with a smile on her face, sticking out a small yellow rubber mass with black eyeballs and a pouty mouth in front of me.

As Peina held it in her hand and pressed it, a sound resembling a scream came out. Pretty cute!

Behind her back was a bathtub full of hot water spewing steam.

I thought I was going to the dining room but the maids immediately brought me here.

I felt like crying a little bit.

“Come on, miss. Now you have to take off your clothes.”

“That’s enough········!”

But let’s make a last resistance.

Honestly, it was so unfair. How can you fool a child like this?

“I, I thought we were going to the dining hall first.…!”

You’re not feeding me first, you’re bringing me to the bathroom to wash up!

A small rubber duck doll in Peina’s hand made a strange noise again. I smiled embarrassingly.

In the meantime, another exclusive maid Mary, quickly peeled off the dress I was wearing.

“The closet you were in has been left unattended for more than two years. You have to wash up because you’re covered in dust. Otherwise, you’ll get sick!”

“That’s right. Pretty clothes are also prepared! Then, would you like to say hello to your duck friend again? Hello, Miss! Quack Quack!”

Quack quack. The duck doll says hello.

I was so offended that I couldn’t answer, but I decided to accept the situation itself for now.

I feel lightened after taking off the cheap dresses that slave traders forced me to wear.

I didn’t wash up for a week, so I don’t want to wash up because I got used to it again, but I changed my mind a little after I was transferred to the hands of the maids and entered the bathtub.

Warm water, set to the right temperature for my body, eased the muscles of my entire body, which had been tense.

The soap bubble flopped into the bathtub, and the scent of flowers spread naturally in the bathroom.

I was looking at the foam that was floating round and rising in front of my eyes, and several female maids rolled up their sleeves.

Peina, who tied her skirt together, reached out to me.

“Then, miss, we’ll wash you up now.”

I remember hearing that aristocrats usually wait in the bath from a very young age.

Shady Semond, a year younger than me, was also served in a bath by three maids.

I only experienced it when I was treated as a guest, but I mostly grew up being treated as maid or toy by the Count, so this bathing service felt burdensome.

In addition, it is uncomfortable to put your body in the hands of people you saw for the first time today.

“I, I’ll do it.”

“What?”

“Well, I can wash myself. It’s true.”

Above all, you should show that you know how to wash yourself, so you can tell them that I won’t bother them in the future.

Taking care of a child is annoying.

It was a saying that Count Semond’s maids will always tell until it I marked it on my brain.

I shouldn’t annoy or bother people who seem to be nice to me after a long time.

The maids seemed embarrassed, but when I continued to appeal that I could wash well on my own, they stepped aside slightly.

It was not until the door was closed that I began to wipe myself with bubbles.

After washing up, I started cleaning the bathroom after removing the floating duck doll from the bathtub.

The Duchy of Wensgray’s bathroom was very spacious compared to Count Semond’s, but I’m already used to cleaning.

The spacious bathroom looked shiny when I wiped everything clean and even the water on the floor so that there was no foam left.

I’m a little proud. The steam escaped when the window was opened.

“Lady, are you finished washing up?”

Just in time, the maids were entering the bathroom again.

They’re carrying a towel that was prepared to cover my body, and another one that will be used for drying my hair that was still wet.

And they stood frozen, I could see them looking around the bathroom with shocked faces.

I looked at them nervously, hoping for a nice compliment.

I washed myself clean and cleaned up. It’s not that much trouble to take care of, is it?

So don’t hit me from now on. I’ll eat a little bit, and I’ll know everything about organizing and cleaning.

“Oh, lady,”

But why are they shocked?

I looked around the bathroom to see if I had cleaned up or made a mistake, but even if I looked again, the bathroom was only shiny and clean.

As I looked back at the maids with an anxious face, Peina hurriedly leaned down to meet my eye level and asked.

“Oh, did you clean the bathroom all the way?”

“Woong, yes·······.”

“Lady.”

Peina suddenly clasped my hands.

I thought she was scary, but now she looked worried.

“Who taught you to do that before you came here?”

Now I see other maids eyes’ looking at me worriedly.

Suddenly, scars were seen all over the body through the towels.

Oops, I didn’t want to show this to others.

As she quickly bowed, nodded, and looked up, Peina was unexpectedly smiling softly.

She spoke in a calm voice.

“Lady, you don’t have to do this from now on. It’s our job.”

When I opened my eyes wide, Peina loosened the towel that was wrapped around my head gently and began to wipe my hair with a soft touch.

The wet, light pink hair curled and stretched under the shoulders.

“You are one of our precious masters from now on, so you don’t have to do anything. Okay?”

Rather, I was a little embarrassed.

It was the first time I was told that I shouldn’t have cleaned up.

The maids cleaned my body carefully and then took me to the dressing room.

The seamstress, who was waiting inside, began to measure my entire body in a loose gown.

Then, there was a sound of ‘rumbling’ in my stomach, she tried to stop her laughter and said that she would make a new dress.

Right now, I wore a pre-arranged dress that fits me perfectly.

The luxurious dress was not as heavy and frizzy as the slave traders made me wore, but light and soft.

It was a gold dress with jewelry decorations, and a red ribbon was attached to the waist to give the  expression of cuteness.

When I stood in front of the mirror, a pretty noble lady I had never seen was seen. I was so surprised that I couldn’t talk for a while.

“Then, my lady, enjoy your meal.”

The meal that was finally served was also surprising.

As Peina said, it was a main diet of meat such as large chicken, which was baked crispy on the outside and sprinkled freely with savory sauce.

A line of sauces were served with fresh flavors so that they were not greasy, and a cup of all kinds of juice and clean water was served.

Everything seemed appetizing, but there was something else that led to my eyes.

“I,…….What’s that?”

I tried to speak informally even though it was still awkward, because the maids told me to stop talking formally.

It a large bread, filled with baked fruits, and they poured honey on top of it.

Peina saw the food pointed my fingertips pointed at and explained it right away.

“It’s a food called ‘The Holy Grail of Roasted Fruit’ I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but our estate is covered in snow, right?”

It was hectic, but I remembered it on the way.

The Duchy of Wensgray was covered with snow as a whole, and a huge mountain stream with snow surrounding it, so it didn’t look like fruit would grow well if you look at it.

“So there used to be a bad harvest, and the Duke magically adjusted the climate so that fruits and grains could grow better than in other regions in the season. The Holy Grail of this baked fruit was made to honor the Duke’s achievements at that time.”

“Wouldn’t it be possible to make the snow not fall at all?”

“The magic of climate manipulation is very difficult. That’s why we can’t keep it from snowing at all. The Duke is a great man, but if he does, the ecosystem could be disturbed.”

Even though Henriette is a personally flawed child, I can see that he is a great wizard and cares about his own land.

Among the things in the Holy Grail of the baked fruit, she shared a piece of bread inside the baked peach and placed it on a plate in front of me.

I took a bite of it, and the combination of a surprisingly dense, deep sweet taste, rich nectar, and the crispy and soft texture of the bread made a fantastic harmony.

The bread was lavish with expensive butter, and it tasted too luxurious.

I’ve never tried this for the first time. The inside of my cheek was sore.

“Lady, enjoy your meal.”

The maids began to serve my meal.

Then, whenever the cook cut the large chicken with a long knife to make it easy to eat, white smoke soared over the ripe meat.

The soft part was picked and put in front of me, and I ate it very slowly.

Originally, I was going to eat very little, but it was so delicious that I ate everything I put on a plate like a starved grown up.

Still, I was worried that eating too much would make the servants annoyed so I kept looking at the maids.

But whenever I ate enough food to make my cheeks bulge, they just wiped my mouth. They also brought me a new one whenever I dropped my fork.

I felt like crying for nothing. It’s not because I’m sad or scared, it’s my first time eating something delicious.

After eating enough to fill my stomach, I felt sleepy.

Peina took me somewhere.

“From now on, this is your room.”

I felt a little sleepy after hearing that.

It was too wide a room for a little girl like me to use alone.

It was much bigger than the studio apartment I lived in in my previous life.

It was all luxurious, and the wallpaper was decorated with gold and apricot colors.

All the chandeliers on the ceiling are jewels.

“Uhm, is this really my room here?”

“Yes! Of course. The Duke told me to give it to you.”

Is it because it’s a room that wasn’t used?

My head, which had been struggling with the hard life in the past, was simply unable to accept this situation.

The same was true even after Peina kissed me on the forehead, leaving me on the bed and saying good night.

The room was wide, and the bed I lay on was so wide that I felt like my body was floating in the dark.

I peeked out of the window and saw the night sky looked so blue over the curtain.

‘Can I continue to be here like this in the future?  Really?’

Maybe tomorrow, they will suddenly take everything away. I felt uneasy because of the sudden happiness.

Or maybe it’s all a dream right now.

When I open my eyes, I might go back to being a maid who was doing chores at the Count.

The Count kicking me, saying that I had been abandoned, slapped by the Countess, pinched by Shady, and persecuted by the maids.

With the life of starving and being beaten to death.

‘……I don’t like such things.’

If the whole day was just a dream, I might die of injustice.

It was such a happy time even though it was confusing.

I don’t want to be more greedy here.

I don’t want to be loved by Henriette, so don’t give me back to Count Semond.

I closed my eyes, surrounded by chaotic thoughts and a sense of happiness that made the inside of my heart ache.