Chapter 205 – Back Attack
Instead of answering, the three maids just trembled with their heads bowed.
Is it belatedly that he feels guilty about the betrayal?
Or are they imagining the miserable end they will face?
Alicia looked down at the sinners with her arms crossed and a hard expression on her face.
Rebecca, Hannah, and Karoo.
If she was my person, even if she was just a maid, it was Alicia, who knew her name and her rough personal details. She means that she regards the users as personalities, not as tools.
Also, in the same vein, Alicia has never treated her subordinates resentfully.
Because she thought that in order to elicit true loyalty, a price worthy of it, not coercion, was needed.
Of course, that didn’t mean he had a naive belief that goodwill returns to goodwill.
In the first place, humans are very insecure beings.
Didn’t she have a taste that she couldn’t even tell others about Alicia right now.
So they will be the same. Whether for desire, threat, or any other reason.
They must have their own reasons for betraying them.
And that’s something you’ll have to figure out from now on.
“Keep your head up.”
The hesitant maids slowly lifted their heads and met Alicia’s gaze.
—Spot!
A golden flash shimmering in her cold blue eyes.
The sinners, who accepted this as the anger of the royal family, shuddered violently.
Before long, Alicia began to go through her maids’ memories, one by one, as if she were looking through her own artwork.
And there was a face that left a strong mark in common in everyone’s memory.
Radiant blonde. A young man who is beautiful but has a somewhat dangerous and decadent feeling.
It was Alicia’s older brother, the 2nd Prince Lupercal.
She has already heard from Hasene, but seeing it in person makes her feel even more complicated.
He seduced her maids with his sweet voice.
‘You guys are clumsy at hiding your desires.’
The maids who were too easily seduced by the offer to give them what they wanted most.
It was a proposal directly from the second prince of the same royal family, who was higher in rank than Alicia.
That must have played a decisive role in breaking down their psychological barriers.
The secret that could break the vow of silence for a mere maid also belonged to the second prince.
A vow of silence is not just an oath, but a magical prohibition.
The vassals serving the imperial family could never reveal information about their lord to others.
If you try to speak, your tongue sticks and the words don’t come out, of course, if you try to break the ban, you will suffer unbearable pain and eventually lead to death.
However, they circumvented the ban by using special means.
The oath of silence uses the royalty’s mana as its medium.
So, by overwriting the object of the oath to the second prince, the prohibition itself was renewed.
There are many meanings in the act, but to sum it up in one word, it was an elaborate planned crime.
Moreover, the culprits were maids of low status, not ladies-in-waiting from noble families.
How could he have predicted that two princes would personally step forward and appease them?
If it wasn’t for Hasene, who was accustomed to this kind of clandestine fighting, he wouldn’t have noticed.
If I had had a little more luck, I would have been constantly watching my every move without knowing it.
‘Why did my brother treat me like this… ?’
Looking directly into the memory of her sinners, Alicia bit her lip lightly.
Rather than feeling betrayed, she is rather embarrassed.
Just yesterday, I exchanged letters with my second older brother.
As her older brother, he congratulated her younger sister on their love affair and sent warm greetings to wish each other luck in their future careers.
You mean you’ve been messing around like this ever since?
This meant that she clearly defined her as the object to be checked, not her family who loved her.
No matter how positively she took it, she could only interpret it that way.
It’s like stabbing a family member with a knife. Then what should he do?
The shock that is hard to handle shakes the mental power. To Alicia, this was a very foreign kind of thing.
I want to see the master.
I feel like I want to howl like a bitch in his firm arms.
I wanted to be strangled, treated like animals, beaten until I bruised, and raped until I passed out with my baby’s bed soaked in healthy baby juice.
I just want to spend a warm and peaceful life with her beloved owner.
Why did such an ordeal come?
It was as if she had become a tragic heroine in Madame Noir’s novel.
But reality is not fiction.
She cannot stand still until the male protagonist saves her.
She had to fight to keep her and her master happy.
‘Older brother Lupercal… Did you start first?’
From now on, the second older brother was the enemy.
So, how should we respond to the enemy?
Because she was a woman’s body, she was Alicia, whom she had never encountered in her entire life.
‘If it happened, the same way.’
The ruler’s blood flowing in her blood quietly reminded her of the correct answer. It was almost instinctive.
It grew into a delicate flower, but its essence is clearly the king’s timber.
Alicia opened her mouth slowly, as if she were going to kill her for confirmation.
“Rebecca, Hannah and Karoo. You betrayed me.”
The sinners were startled and began to shout.
“It’s all a misunderstanding! A betrayal! We never meant that!”
“Eh, that’s right! We were just asked to check on Her Highness’s safety!”
“Rookie, that dark-haired rookie lied!”
The maids have already read their minds and the truth has been exposed, but they continue to lie again.
Alicia let them excuse themselves for a moment.
It’s probably not because they’re evil or cunning.
He’s just saying anything to get out of this situation.
If so, they need to be made aware of their situation once.
“The cost of betraying the imperial family is so great. I can’t pay it all with my life. I’m sure your family will be angry with you.”
“Hee, hee!”
And, Alicia was troubled.
It would be very easy to turn them into puppets using Hasene’s mind manipulation ability that she absorbed and developed.
But that shouldn’t be the case.
By the time she is the 2nd prince, it will be easy for her to realize that her own spies have been subjected to her mind manipulation.
If she was a brother who was cunning enough to do this to her sister, she might rather lay the blame on her in her bizarre ways.
Maybe she already had a few more tools Alicia didn’t know about.
At worst, she’d just have to pretend she didn’t know. Her spies are only her maids, so it’s all the more so since it’s easy to destroy evidence.
Then she has to approach it in a more certain and sophisticated way.
For a moment, a thought crossed Alicia’s mind.
It was more like a gamble, but Alicia decided to take a chance.
She said with a very sad expression.
“But, how could I possibly do that?”
“Yes…?”
The maids are visibly bewildered by the sudden change of atmosphere.
Alicia gave them a compassionate smile.
“I don’t want to lose you guys. Despite our different statuses, I thought of you as good friends. Especially Karoo. You even listened to my complaints when I was going through puberty.”
“Wow, I sure have such a memory, Your Highness!”
As hope began to appear, light returned to the maids’ eyes.
Alicia, with tears in her eyes, takes out her handkerchief.
“Okay, you guys are just victims too… How can I hold you guilty. It’s the second brother who’s bad, isn’t it?”
As Alicia begins to show her tears, her maids begin to fuss over her and cling to her.
“Your Highness, the princess, don’t cry…!”
“Oh, that’s right! We were the ones who committed the mortal sin, but why is Your Highness crying!”
“We have committed a great sin! Please kill us…!”
Want me to kill
Rather, such words only come out when you are sure that the other person will not kill you.
Alicia calmly carried on with her performance, even though she found it a little dumbfounded that the maids changed their attitude so easily in just a few minutes.
“Once. I’ll forgive you just this once. I never want to lose my people. No matter how sinful you are, no matter how dear you are, I will never see you die or suffer.”
“Go, thank you! Her Highness the Princess…!”
“Instead, from now on, you can never do that. You know?”
“Yes! Of course Your Highness!”
Cry and laugh
The maids were so happy that they wondered if horns would come out of her buttocks.
“Instead of that, I’ll have to work harder in the future, okay?”
Alicia untied the maids with her own hands and hugged them once in a while.
Then, their facial expressions became very complicated.
From the outside, it seemed as if he couldn’t be more thrilled than this.
“Go away and do your job again.”
“Thank you! This grace is absolutely…!”
However, I could read everything they were thinking inside.
‘Aren’t you stupid?’
‘Well, it’s like a flower in a greenhouse… ‘
‘You can just run away tonight. The 2nd Prince… ‘
Alicia was about to be furious at that moment, but with her patience, she managed not to express it.
Alicia looks with cold eyes at the maids as they run away from her seat.
She quietly called Hasene, who was waiting outside her.
“Sister-in-law.”
“Yes.”
“I have a very important task for you. Can you do it for me?”
Then, Hasene answered lively.
It was a smile that was clearer and purer than anyone else’s.
“Cleaning the trash? Just leave it to me!”
