Chapter 20 – Getting Started (4)
As if Isabella asked what was wrong, she returned to the table with only one plate. She paid no attention to Cianna’s gaze, and she sat down at the table and began slicing her bacon with a knife.
“Are not you hungry?”
Cianna smiled and glared at Isabella as she stuffed a piece of her bacon into her mouth.
She knew that she wouldn’t listen to anything she asked anyway, and that if she persisted, she would eventually come back with something even worse.
Cianna deliberately kept her straight posture, and she walked over to the spot where Isabella had dropped her meal and lifted her overturned plate onto her carpet. The floor beneath them was already a mess of grease and gravy.
She turned the plate over again and gathered the fallen food onto the plate one by one. Eggs with only traces of yolk, toast with dust on the floor, and roasted tomatoes crumpled by impact when they fall.
There were no plates and knives. Her teeth trembled at the thought that this was also Isabella’s intention, but Cianna regained control of her insides.
That you won’t show me what you want
She thought to eat it proudly, and Cianna held up a piece of her bacon. The moment she was about to put into her mouth an unpleasant meal with dirt and unknown crumbs clumping on its surface.
“Oh right!”
Isabella continued, clapping her palms together as if she remembered now.
“Can you eat with her mouth and not her hands?”
Cianna stops her hand from bringing it to her mouth and looks at her Isabella.
Like a child watching an exciting play, Isabella’s eyes sparkle with excitement.
“Siana, can you not hear me? Don’t use your hands, just eat with your mouth.”
It wasn’t until Isabella spoke her coyly again that Cianna finally put her bacon back on her plate.
The more she rebels, the more retribution comes back. If the more she endured anyway, the worse she got, she’d rather end it quickly and not show weakness.
Sianna forced her swelling humiliation into her. With both hands on her floor, she lowered her head over the plate, grabbed a piece of her bacon between her teeth, and quickly tossed it into her mouth.
She closes her eyes tightly and chews as fast as she can. She accidentally chews her tongue and cuts it, but she doesn’t stop. She quickly shoves it back down her throat and catches her breath, trying as hard as she can to avoid the thought of falling to her floor.
Only after all the food in her mouth is gone, standing up, she looks at Isabella. Her expression of satisfaction that she hadn’t shown weakness, her expression as she looked back with a feeling of having won a feeble victory—
“Puff.”
It was a look that forced me to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out.
…Why?
Haha!”
In the end, the laughter that came out was a resonant sound. Laughing in her clear voice as if she were amused, her fisheye dumbfounded, she looked at Isabella, who laughed as if she was having so much fun.
What’s so funny why?
I won You didn’t cry or beg like last time. This is what I won
But she, Isabella, seemed to have a different opinion of hers. She had to wait for her to smile contentedly, wiping her eyes with her fingers.
“Ha, ha… Shiana, you, are you really trying to satisfy me? Do you want to give at least 100 extra points?”
“…Why?”
“Do I need to pick up something that has fallen on the floor? Wouldn’t you like to share it with me?”
Isabella dipped a piece of her sausage onto her fork and held it in Cianna’s direction.
“Are you that hungry? To the point where he lay down and eat something that fell on the floor like a dog?”
It was forced. It was an unbelievable freak.
“I was even going to slice my own and put it in her mouth if my Sianna asked me to-“
Don’t lie
“As expected, you were just a bitch by nature? Enough to covet food that has fallen on the floor?”
The taste of blood in my mouth and the oil on my hands were unbearably unpleasant. Nausea welled up inside. But still, she had to be patient.
Collapsing here is what Isabella wants to see.
“I also wanted to ask for it to be brought back, but I thought that if our Sianna went to the kitchen, the kitchen people would be scolded~”
How on earth can a person be so twisted?
“Still, did it suit you? It was as cute as a puppy! I shouldn’t have an upset stomach.”
Isabella’s laugh faded.
She showed her wits, it was an act she said she would not give in to Isabella, but the condition she offered her foot seemed to laugh at herself.
As if, all my thoughts are grasped.
Her whole body was drained of strength.
Isabella puts a piece of sausage she had held out towards Cianna and puts it in her mouth. Tok- and the taste of the meat inside the popping shell was excellent.
Is it because you like the person you eat with?
“Siana, but from the first day I picked up what was on the floor and my stomach hurts. Then the first impression won’t be good, so let’s eat mine from now on?”
Deliberately making fun of Siana. Because she enjoys watching her unbending will crumble.
“Come over here and sit down.”
It took a little while, but she generously agreed to wait. Because I am a merciful owner.
Ciana, who had slowly approached, tried to sit on a chair at her table.
Isabella had no intention of leaving it that way.
“No, you mean sit on my lap instead of there?”
She bent over and hesitated, then came back to Isabella’s chair, looking just as she did that night, the first day she had spent with Ciana.
“My Sianna seems to like bacon.”
She sliced off a chunky piece and shoved her fork to the side of her Cianna’s mouth.
She pulls lightly forward before opening her mouth to bite into her bacon. I hear her click and the sound of her teeth clashing against each other.
“The owner himself sits on his lap, and even eats…”
“…Thank you, Master.”
To cut off the master’s words rudely. She felt slightly offended, but she intended to tolerate this much. Bring her a fork so she can eat her bacon again.
She closes her eyes for a moment and imagines being invisible. She sees her closed mouth open, her teeth set and her pink tongue taking in the food she gives her.
“Bon appetit.”
After Shiana ate, she put her fork in her mouth for a moment. There was no special taste. The taste of silverware and leftover gravy. Leaving behind her slight regret, she looked over her shoulder at Sianna’s tray again.
What does Siana want to eat?
“Siana.”
As I quietly whispered the name in her ear, Cyana turned her head away.
Two beautiful peridot eyes stared at me full of rage.
Cute.
My Becky used to look at me that way too, but now she’s just my bitch.
“Siana, what do you want to eat next?”
“…”
“Quickly, tell me what you want to eat.”
“…Potato.”
“Are you short?”
“…”
“From now on, please always use respectful words and replies. I won’t forgive you any more.”
“…All right. Master.”
Put the mashed potatoes on a fork and give it to Cyanna. She moves her face slightly, and she enjoys the sensation of her weight briefly lingering on the tip of the fork.
“Delicious?”
“…It’s delicious, Master.”
“Yes?”
Isabella buried her head in the nape of her ciana’s neck. Her soft hair and body scent made me feel good.
So the two finished the rest of their breakfast. After drinking all the black tea that Germaine had brought, Ciana allowed them to sit down separately.
“…It’s out of shape.”
It was Isabella’s first words to her since they were facing each other across the table again.
Traces of grease and food on her hands, the corners of her mouth were just as dirty, and although she hadn’t cleaned them, there were already traces of oil dripping from her hands.
“…I need to wash up. Follow me.”
Isabella took Cianna to her first floor.
“There!”
Startled by her call, a maid who was mopping her window comes running. She was a little girl with red hair and freckles.
“Yes, lady?”
“I will use the bathroom from now on. Please bring clothes for me and my friend to change into, towels and other things we need.”
“Yes! I will prepare it soon.”
Hearing the footsteps of the lady-in-waiting, I headed for her bathroom.
Isabella’s house, which had acquired a lot of resourcefulness in the period of a simple country farm, was also the most luxurious of her mansions, because after making this luxurious mansion, she enjoyed spending the day in her bath.
“Welcome, Siana. This is probably the most glamorous place in our house.”
As she pushed through her two doors with both her arms, Cianna, who had followed her, drew in her breath lightly. Certainly, I thought she was a place worthy of Isabella’s boast.
In her saintly days, Cianna used to bathe with her other sisters. The baths there were grand but modest, and the only decorations were murals depicting sacred anecdotes.
The inside was definitely gorgeous. Of course, it was smaller than the bathhouse operated by the church, but it was too spacious for a family to use.
But what surprised her most of all was her decoration. The mosaic picture embroidered with beautiful colorful tile pieces starting from the entrance was a shape that ended in a dome-shaped ceiling rising from the floor.
Siana, who had spent most of her time learning theology, noticed at once that her paintings were depicting stories from legend.
In front of the five baths, statues were placed one by one. Like the mosaic, it depicts the stories in the tale, and the dynamic heroes’ lifelike poses, which have changed to greenish blue with the traces of time, aroused admiration.
In addition, the water pipes installed in each bath were decorated with silver ornaments carved with the head of a roaring beast. Lions, fish, deer, birds, and wolves glowed softly in the light of colorful lights along the walls.
“How is it?”
Cianna, who was taken aback by Isabella’s question, hurriedly changed her expression, but Isabella’s coy smile already said it all.
“Do you like it?”
Isabella smiled broadly and put her hand to her neck. Slowly, one by one, she unbuttoned the buttons on her frilled collar that had come up just below her neck.
It wasn’t until the hem of the one-piece dress that had been supporting her eyes gently fell under her feet that Shiana realized that she had never seen Isabella’s under her clothes before.
“What are you doing? Take off your clothes quickly.”
Isabella’s eyes, dressed in black underwear, shone enchantingly in the soft light of the electric lamp. As if they had matched the signal, the five beasts began spitting out hot water from their mouths.
