Suarez gritted her teeth and came to Elise. Elise pointed to a chair. Suarez lifted her nightgown and climbed onto the chair.
Whoosh. The sound of the whip cutting through the air was clear.
“Ugh.”
Suarez’s groan burst out. A clear line appeared on her calf.
“The sin of not being able to control the lower ones.”
The whip cut through the air again.
“The sin of taking the master’s punishment lightly.”
The veins bulge in Suarez’s fists that were holding her clothes.
“The sin of casually evaluating the master.”
“Ah, I, I was wrong.”
Under the harsh whipping, Suarez began to apologize for her sins. She was a quick-witted woman.
Elise heard Suarez’s apology and threw the whip on the floor. The noise made by the falling whip made Suarez’s shoulders flinch.
“Remember today’s event well.”
Suarez, still standing on the chair, wrapped her body with her arms to calm her trembling body.
The dropped hem of her clothes brushed her calf.
“Eugh.”
Her calf burst after only three hits, so harshly were they delivered.
It was throbbing and uncomfortable, and she broke out in a cold sweat.
Elise stared intently at Suarez, who was distorted with pain.
Emerald eyes were deeper than ever today, and Suarez felt fear.
“If something like this happens again, you won’t have a place in Worton. The kids who hit Regina need to apologize properly. Got it?”
Logically, Suarez would have realized that Elise had no right to drive her out of Worton, but Suarez, overwhelmed by Elise, just nodded.
Elise coldly stared at Suarez and turned around.
“Let’s go, Regina.”
Elise, who startled the stiff Regina, was vastly different from when she was dealing with Suarez.
****
“Miss, is this really okay? Head maid Suarez won’t stay still.”
As soon as she returned to the room, Regina poured out a bucket of worries.
The head maid and the butler have quite a lot of power in the mansion.
The more incompetent the master and his wife are, the more so.
Lady Worton preferred to hang around the social circle with Iris as an ornament rather than taking care of the house.
As a result, the lady’s work has been Suarez’s work for a long time.
From hiring maids to selecting and distributing the items used by the masters.
So the things Elise used were terribly poor.
For example, the lady and Iris used high-quality soap with fragrance, while Elise used unscented soap with poor moisturizing function.
From small things like soap, towels, bedding, curtains, the head maid took care of many things, and with the saved cost, Suarez provided better items to the lady and Iris.
“I have to get the soap to use right away…”
Regina worried about what would happen if Elise received the cheap soap that the maids use, but Elise was calm.
Because if Elise hadn’t experienced and taught Suarez today, she would be expected to treat her contemptuously in the future.
Strong to the strong, weak to the weak. It was very easy to stand on the superiority of such a person.
There was no need to show physical strength.
Just hinting that I am in a position where I can harm you, they flattened themselves.
“I’m sorry, Miss. I couldn’t hold back my anger because it’s you…”
Regina, who still couldn’t get out of worrying about Elise, kept apologizing.
“Don’t hold back in the future.”
“Huh?”
“The feeling of someone fighting for me, it’s pretty good.”
“Miss…”
“But don’t get hit. I’ll take care of the aftermath somehow, so if you’re going to fight, be sure to win.”
Regina’s face, who expected to be scolded, brightened. She nodded her head vigorously.
“Of course, Miss! I fight really well! I’ll knock them all down. For you, really.”
It wasn’t that she was told to keep fighting. Regina was ready to knock down anyone who would speak ill of Elise right away.
It was funny and lovely, so Ellis followed Regina, who was laughing with a messed-up face, and laughed.
As Elise expected, Regina brought fragrant soap the next day.
And Iris’s maids came to apologize to Regina.
Iris didn’t even know what was going on among the maids. She wasn’t interested.
“Miss Iris went shopping.”
Elise gained another benefit from scolding Suarez.
She got to know the schedule of Iris and the master and lady.
“Good job.”
Elise gave Suarez a gold coin. Suarez blushed with wounded pride, but gratefully accepted the gold coin and put it in her pocket.
“I’ll count on you next time.”
Elise gestured for her to leave. Then the room became quiet.
And quietly, but not quiet for others, days continued.
In the meantime, Elise exchanged letters with Karan.
Karan was still staying at that inn.
Even though Chase had prepared a room in the palace for the official invitation date, he spent his time in a shabby inn.
Elise wrote to Karan about the places worth visiting in Bedrokka, but she couldn’t know what he was doing.
And every day, the love story of Iris and Chase was published in the newspaper.
Iris was bedridden with the fact that she had to marry Chase, and Chase often sent letters full of resentment to Elise.
The two were not yet ready to accept each other as companions, but Viscount Worton and the royal family were pushing their engagement.
Thanks to the intended public opinion manipulation, the story of Elise and Karan was buried under the surface.
It was a good thing for Elise, who only took advantage and avoided criticism.
She wondered if a letter would come today, but a familiar owl knocked on the window.
It was just when Elise was about to lie down in bed.
When she opened the window, a black owl came into Elise’s room as if it owned it.
The owl, which Karan had caught and tamed himself, was larger than a normal owl.
How surprised she was when an owl the size of Elise’s upper body first appeared at night.
Even thinking about it now, Elise’s heart was still pounding.
Because the black owl knocked on the window as if to break it.
But unlike its appearance and size, the owl was quiet.
While Elise was reading the letter and preparing a reply, the owl kept her company.
Sometimes it rubbed its head against Elise’s body and chased away bugs or insects that came.
Like a reliable knight.
During the few times the letters came and went, Elise became fond of the owl.
And she was proud of the owl that delivered the letters without getting lost and without being caught by others.
Elise started preparing snacks for the owl, and since then, the owl has been even more friendly to Elise.
“You’ve worked hard.”
Elise pushed the prepared snack towards the owl and opened the bag hanging on its back.
Inside, as always, was Karan’s letter.
[ His Majesty has replied.]
Elise put down the letter for a moment and took a deep breath.
It’s been over two weeks since she wrote a marriage contract with him.
Karan had recently contacted Tetris to marry Elise.
Even if the King of Tetris opposed, Elise was going to follow Karan, but if possible, she wanted to set foot in Tetris with official recognition.
What would the King of Tetris have replied?
Elise’s heart pounded as she lowered her gaze to the letter.
The words ‘marriage not allowed’ came into her eyes as if they were stuck.
“I see.”
Despite the disappointing content, Elise was quietly thoughtful and not disturbed. She neatly folded the letter and put it in the bottom drawer of the bedside table.
She placed the letter she received today on top of the numerous letters she had exchanged with Karan.
And then Elise took a pen and paper and sat down in the chair by the window.
Elise untied the string hanging on the wall. Then a wooden board came down and a small table was made.
Elise, who brought the chair, was lost in thought.
The King of Tetris, Tyllo Lisandro Titris, was a quick-witted person.
He must have decided that there was nothing good about forming a relationship with the Viscount Worton.
“I thought he was not a ‘marrying man’ because Karan didn’t get married even until he was thirty.”
In her past life, Karan did not get married.
So Elise thought that Tyllo had no particular interest in Karan’s marriage.
‘It was just that there was no suitable marriage partner.’
When writing the contract, asking to be his first wife was also considering Tyllo’s caprice.
‘People’s minds change.’
It was fortunate that she did so.
Looking at Tyllo’s actions, there was a possibility that he could have sought another marriage partner to prevent his marriage with Ellis.
‘It’s hard to turn His Majesty Tyllo’s heart right now.’
The important thing was Karan.
Tyllo gave a new mission to separate Karan and Elise.
It was to subdue the monsters appearing in the wasteland of Tetris.
‘It’s where Gate 1 is.’
It’s the place that receives the influence of Ragnaros the fastest, and even though Ragnaros is still far from fully awakening, monsters are already popping out and causing damage.
‘It’s a land that’s hard to live in, and monsters are appearing…’
He entrusted him with a headache-inducing land.
‘In fact, it’s a gold mine.’
For Elise, who wanted to visit there at least once, it was a good thing.
‘He must have expected that it would take a tremendous amount of time just to clean up the place. And he must have thought I wouldn’t follow.’
Tyllo’s calculation was completely wrong. He set the formula wrong from the start.
Of course, there was something that caught her off guard.
It was because Karan wrote in the letter, [I’m sorry, but wait until I get my father’s permission.]
But Elise was not the type to sit quietly and wait for someone’s permission.
“I have to make it so that he has no choice but to allow it.”
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