“Anyway, now please really do something.”
What on earth are you asking me to do?
Besides, what can you do?
Erica couldn’t even figure it out, so she just pursed her lips and didn’t answer.
“I think it would have been better if I had figured it out first before speaking up.”
As if Bonpiju was listening, he sighed loudly and looked around again.
After confirming that the knights were not paying attention, she glanced at Erica.
“You said that at the Marquis, so are you going to be this oblivious even when you go to the Grand Duke?”
The series of small but harsh blows eventually caused my small body to tremble.
BongPiju’s shrewdly pointed out the part that Erika was currently most worried about and spoke as if to point it out.
She knew better than anyone else what it was like for the nanny’s daughter, who always kept an eye on the marquis.
The child, who had been stamped by a real young lady and had been scolded by the Marquis’ people, wanted to prove his worth all along.
The nature of not wanting to be hated by others will not change much no matter where you move.
As expected, the insidious idea was correct.
Erica gulped down her dry saliva and answered weakly.
“Oh, today… … I’ll talk to the Archduke… … .”
“Sageunsageun, please speak carefully. yes?”
Erica nodded hesitantly and turned around helplessly.
Bonpiju looked at her with triumph.
Honestly, I don’t know if it will work or not yet.
However, it would be much more likely for Erica to say it than for her to say it herself.
‘Because that girl has a tendency to make people feel sorry for her.’
And even if the Archduke refuses, since it was Erica who spoke up, she would be completely exonerated.
But there was something Bonpiju didn’t know either.
That was Erica’s true feelings.
‘How should I move on?’
In fact, the girl had no intention of complying with the maid’s request.
Of course, it is true that Bonpiju is scary.
However, Erica knew better than anyone else that this was not the Marquis’ residence.
In other words, Bonpiju’s influence is not that great.
I don’t know how much further I have to go to the Grand Duke, because no one has told me.
I had no intention of letting go of that comfortable time, which could be said to be unique, with my own hands.
However, in order to avoid Bonpiju’s suspicion, he had to at least pretend to do it.
Erica began to turn her small head eagerly and look around.
The knights were each doing their jobs as if they were familiar with them.
Someone started a fire, someone picked up firewood, and someone went to fetch water.
And not far away, I saw Sebastian talking with Milod with a serious expression.
Gulp.
Erica swallowed again.
Sebastian is a character who always makes people nervous just by his presence.
Beans, beans, beans, beans!
Erica quietly walked towards him, trying to control her rapidly beating heart and her rapid breathing.
The two people noticed the girl’s approach and stopped talking.
As both pairs of eyes turned directly to me, Erica’s steps also stopped.
“excuse me… … .”
Sebastian asked earnestly.
“What’s going on?”
Milod glanced at both sides, then politely bowed and retreated.
“You two, please speak comfortably.”
Sebastian openly looked Erica up and down.
The only thing that resembled the Marquis de Blanche was that bright red hair, and the girl was always busy looking at me.
It seemed like he was so afraid of himself that even Sebastian didn’t bother to approach him.
Even if you are married, the relationship is only on paper.
Other than that, I have no particular business and I have no intention of becoming friends. I had no intention of dealing with him at all.
But you approached me first like this?
He raised one eyebrow as if he was quite surprised.
Meanwhile, Erica’s lips became dry as her cool red eyes fell on me.
The two hands held tightly together were full of strength, as if they were holding on to a rope.
“I have something to tell you.”
“What?”
“that is… … “The head maid wants to ride in the carriage with me.”
At that moment, Sebastian’s straight and dark eyebrows furrowed.
It wasn’t difficult for Erica, who had always been aware of other people’s feelings, to read the changing atmosphere in an instant.
“hey. The story didn’t end when we set off… … .”
“Of course, from the Grand Duke! You won’t change your mind, right? “Right, right?”
Erica hurriedly opened her mouth.
Because I was so nervous, I realized too late that I had cut Sebastian off mid-sentence and said, ‘Oops!’ He made an expression like this.
‘What if you get angry because I stopped talking?’
I had no idea how harshly the marquis taught me that a noble lady should listen to what others say.
‘No matter how anxious I was, that’s true! ‘How dare you forget that!’
Erica felt like she was crying because of her foolishness.
‘if… … ‘You wouldn’t doubt me because of that, would you?’
Since Erica wasn’t the type to lie well to begin with, even a small mistake made her nervous.
That was when I glanced at Sebastian.
“… … ?”
Contrary to what I had feared, Sebastian did not look that upset.
Rather, the eyes looking at Erica seemed to be full of curiosity.
It was just as Erica had guessed.
Sebastian realized that his conversation with her was quite strange.
‘Why did he say that?’
I thought back to what Erica said when she first spoke to me.
“The head maid wants to ride in the carriage with me.”
If riding in a carriage together was something Erica wanted, she wouldn’t have said that.
They would have thrown tantrums, saying, ‘I want to ride in a carriage with the head maid,’ or ‘I’m going to feel so uncomfortable without the head maid.’
But Erica’s words did not belong to either side.
The girl’s opinion was proof that the request that was left out was not her will after all.
Sebastian’s gaze moved away from Erica and lifted slightly upward. From quite a distance away, I could see the Marquise Blanche’s head maid constantly observing the atmosphere here.
The way he looked away in surprise when his eyes met his was no different from a guy who had been caught doing something wrong.
The corners of Sebastian’s mouth became slanted.
‘It seems like the master-slave relationship is strangely reversed.’
Well, I asked Milod to investigate that, so I’ll find out naturally as time goes by.
He sighed lightly, looked at Erica again, and asked.
“Can’t you handle it on your own?”
Erica immediately understood what Sebastian’s question meant.
The girl stared at me for a moment with her red eyes focused on me, then lowered her head and averted her gaze.
After intertwining the fingers of the hands that were holding each other for a moment, he took a short breath and answered in a low, barely audible voice.
“… … “Not yet.”
Look at this.
A strange look appeared in Sebastian’s red eyes.
Naughty kid.
His evaluation of Erica increased one more time.
Sebastian looked at Erica again with narrowed eyes.
‘Despite working hard to rescue the rescue, it looks like we don’t get along very well?’
In fact, in some ways, it was a common story.
This is because in noble families where the hostess was absent, there were many cases where the head maid took over the real power.
Since the Marquis Blanche also did not take a second wife, the head maid’s influence may have been stronger than Erica’s in the Marquis’s residence.
Sebastian deliberately made a low, ‘hmm’ sound.
Meanwhile, the red eyes continued to look at Erica.
It was like the gaze of an evaluator trying to gauge her qualities.
‘Let’s try it out first.’
Right now, you can help the girl with good intentions.
However, it was obvious that if this happened again in the future, I would be the only one bothered.
To prevent that, Sebastian tried to point out Erica’s current thoughts.
He asked a question with one corner of his mouth twisted up.
“Does that mean you can do it if you put in the time?”
