That’s what she would like to say. Actually, it wasn’t Diana, but Sophie wanted to mock and insult her, who Diana loved.
“You should do stupid things in moderation.”
Allen cried out before Sophie could speak.
“Butler! Don’t let me see that girl again, okay?”
The butler, who just happened to hear the commotion, came out of the main building and looked at Sophie hesitantly. He recognized that the maid-in-waiting had brought her and taught her. But he immediately lowered his head and replied.
“I will. Calm down your anger, young master.”
“Ha…! No! Young master, I was wrong. Forgive me just once, please!”
Sophie hurriedly fell to her knees and begged Allen, but Allen took Diana and turned his back coldly. Of course, Lia was also holding Diana’s hand tightly. She didn’t know then how she would be reflected in the eyes of despairing Sophie and astonished servants.
* * *
“Ehh.”
She sighed and turned her head with a sad face. The busy attendants and maids, the gardener who took care of the flowers in the garden… Even coachmen! People who had been glancing at her turned their heads as soon as they met her eyes.
“I guess you really know what kind of dark person I am…”
Feeling her sadness creeping in, she cursed her inwardly, saying that it was Sophie’s fault.
Sophie, who was caught by Allen for publicly humiliating her, was kicked out of the Duke’s residence that same day. She was told not to show it in front of Allen, but she didn’t ask to cut it, so she thought she would be assigned to a low-key job like a laundry room. Also cut the salary a lot.
‘After all, Sophie’s words were aimed at me.’
But Sophie was cut with a single knife. That too, by the head maid.
“How dare you be so rude to the young lady! Did I teach you that way!?”
The lady-in-waiting, hearing about Sophie’s affair, was very indignant. And she threw Sophie’s luggage out of the inn and kicked her out without severance pay, saying that no one like her could ever be left in the Elad duchy.
‘I really can’t deny her loyalty to the Duke of Elad.’
However, the problem was that the atmosphere in which the employees treated her had changed since then. They often pretended not to notice when she spoke to them, and now they turned their heads whenever their eyes met. She hit the wall without even asking why, so she hid her presence and started collecting what they were talking about.
‘I didn’t want to confirm my abilities like this again.’
Anyway, the surprising thing she learned in the process was that, contrary to her thoughts, Sophie had a fairly good reputation among workers. It seemed that Sophie was aiming for not only Diana’s exclusive lady-in-waiting, but also her next lady-in-waiting, so she seemed to have earned her popularity by giving generously to other servants. That’s why she was able to openly attack her in front of many servants.
‘Since Diana is young, she must have assumed that things would go my way.’
She just couldn’t count Allen’s appearance. Maybe if he wasn’t Allen alone, she would be Sophie. And that was the problem. She not only didn’t know little Diana, but she knew everyone present knew that Sophie attacked her. And they thought Allen couldn’t be unaware of this fact.
‘So in the end, she thought it was all because of me that Allen came out.’
She thought they were really stupid. Not knowing how terrified Allen was of his sister, Diana.
What’s more, she touched a precious lady to attack Lia in the first place. As Allen said, did she really not know how stupid it was? But Lia was the only one who’s frustrated. Most people thought so, and so… Allen had just been the dark side wielding Diana’s back!
“Haha, why the hell is my life always like this?”
Even in her previous life, her colleagues hated her because she was favored by the master and executives. The executives didn’t know, but the Master actually wasn’t very nice to her.
There were many times when she was treated rather harshly, so there were times when she resented him with a sad and unfair heart.
“Ehh.”
It was a time when he could not hide his upset heart and sighed once more.
“Lia?”
Standing in front of the main building, she encountered an unexpected person.
“Mr. Senator!”
“You really are Lia. It’s been a long time.”
Viscount Bardo, the attending physician of the Elad duchy, looked at her and smiled lightly.
“How have you been?”
She was on the verge of bursting with sadness at the servants who treated her as someone who hadn’t been there for the past few days, and she was glad that they pretended to know her first.
“Okay. I’m doing well. Seeing that you don’t come to me either, it seems that you are not sick and have been doing well, right?”
The Viscount, whose smile grew even thicker, asked if her friendly manner was not bad. SheI smiled vaguely and looked at the worker standing behind the viscount. He had a bundle full of herbs in his arms, probably from the herbal medicine merchant.
“Sir, can I help you?”
“You? No, you don’t have to…”
It must have meant that he didn’t want to pamper her, but the Viscount’s refusal made her a bit sullen. It was then.
“Good night. Let’s go together, help me.”
“Really?”
She ran after her, excited by her unexpected consent.
“If anyone sees it, it looks like I’m on my way to help you.”
Viscount Bado shook his head and laughed, but she was really happy. The office of the viscount, the head physician of the duchy, was an annex to the right of the main building where the aides also stayed.
“Now, take the herbs here as written on each column… ah.”
Arriving at the office, looking at the herbs the worker had put down, the viscount, who was trying to tell her what to do, hesitated.
She said quickly.
“Sir, I know that letter. The name was also written on the package, so she just put it in the box with the same thing written on it, right?”
The Viscount, who looked at her with surprised eyes at her words, nodded his head. And he watched her clean up. She was worried that she would make a mistake, but it wasn’t difficult at all because she had helped old Ted and the herb garden in the past. Just by looking at it, she could tell what kind of herb it was.
“Lia, you are really smart. No, I’ve thought about it until now, but it’s much more than I thought.”
Embarrassed by the constant compliments, she pretended not to hear, and as she was tidying up, the Viscount burst into laughter again. After a while, the viscount laughed and sat down in front of a desk piled high with books and papers, doubting whether he would be able to do his job properly.
“You must be very busy.”
“Hmm?”
After finishing everything, she asked the viscount who was frantically checking the book and writing something on the paper. She nodded her head as she took off her silver-rimmed glasses draped over her nose.
“Actually, everyone is distracted these days because of the splesia research you discovered.”
Splesia! Her ears flashed.
“The wizards were confident at first, but now they just say that cultivation is difficult. I’m worried that it won’t come out as well as I thought because I insisted on doing it myself and told me to wait. At least one root needs to be properly grown to find out how to get the medicinal effect.”
She blinked her eyes in bewilderment at the viscount’s words.
“Have you not succeeded in growing one yet? What did I discover then? Didn’t that grow too?”
“It is. In fact, it must be a miracle that you found even a little bit of a growing root.”
The Viscount listened to her words and explained that he and the wizards went on an expedition to Tesar Nursery and looked around closely, but they couldn’t find any other Splesia. She was listening to her with a bit of perplexity. It was true that it was difficult to find, and it was true that it was difficult to grow, but it was because she knew that if it was at the level of the Duke’s council members and wizards, there would be some progress. It was completely unexpected that the Duke offered her a portion of the proceeds from the cure made with Splesia, so she had no regrets about the money. However, she was very curious about what mages had difficulty with. Besides, listening to the viscount’s words, there was one more strange part.
‘Studying how to make a medicinal effect? You don’t seem to know how to use it.’
It was time to ask more about this part.
“Uh, huh? Mr. Senator!”
She hurriedly ran to the viscount whose nose was bleeding. The Viscount hurriedly took out his handkerchief and covered his nose, but his blood continued to flow. Embarrassed, she looked around, approached the herb drawer that had just been cleaned up, took out an herb, hurriedly crushed it, and soaked cotton in the herbal juice and covered the viscount’s nose. As soon as the blood stopped, he looked at her with startled eyes.
“How do you know which herbs are good for hemostasis… ah.”
She let out a short sound as if she realized something of her own, then shut her mouth. She wondered, but soon she heard a sad voice.
“I heard the story from my Excellency. How did you discover Splesia? I personally saw what the nursery school facilities were like…”
She could see what the viscount was thinking.
‘I didn’t find out about this at the nursery school.’
However, as she kept her mouth shut because she had nothing to explain, the Viscount’s gaze at her changed to one that saw something more salty.
“How hungry you must be…”
“…”
“Is there anything you want to eat? What else would you like to have?”
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