“…I shall take my leave, my lord.”
“We’ll et again next ti. Miss Lilith Rosewood.”
“…Yes.”
Along with a creak, the door to the study room of the Blackwood manor closed carefully.
With that, the view of the departing maid disappeared, making Harold Richard Blackwood quietly lost in thought.
“……”
No matter how he thought about it, she was a strange woman.
At a glance, she just looked like a maid with a cute appearance, but she showed a completely different deanor and conduct, as if soone else was inside her.
She had been a suspicious woman in many ways ever since she helped retrieve Thanasia’s stolen necklace by speaking up at the disciplinary committee eting.
That suspicion was further heightened by the monster extermination incident in the comrcial district three days ago.
Through the Q&A session he just had with her in private, Harold could sowhat evaluate this person nad Lilith Rosewood.
Unlike ordinary civilians who would be scared and run away from a huge monster, her bold personality allows her to risk her life resolutely.
Even in an ergency, she can calmly identify the enemy before her and find their weaknesses with composure.
She has a strange character as she might not hesitate to sacrifice herself for the sake of others.
That was Harold’s straightforward assessnt of Lilith Rosewood, who had just left the study.
“It might have been better to raise her as a knight rather than just a maid.”
She was a commoner girl who was sold off due to debt, so lissa probably hired her as a servant without much thought to fill the shortage in the estate.
Her judgnt wasn’t wrong by any ans.
Most debt-dependent commoner girls had a predetermined fate when they arrived sowhere. Probably anyone other than lissa would have made a similar judgnt.
In fact, Lilith Rosewood’s appearance itself was optimized for hospitality in many ways.
Since Harold had already sworn not to love any woman other than Thanasia, he didn’t feel any particular excitent.
Still, objectively speaking from a man’s perspective, she owned a considerably attractive appearance.
Perhaps if she had more skill, instead of being sold off as a debt maid, she could have easily married into so remote noble family by enchanting them.
That a woman with such potential beca a servant of the Blackwood family must have been a re coincidence.
…But.
“She resembles her.”
She was just a re commoner maid, yet he felt as if he was facing soone he had dearly missed and parted with long ago.
A woman who doesn’t care about her own safety or status and stands against injustice and danger.
Harold had known only one such woman for a very long ti.
He’d loved her for a very long ti.
“Thanasia…”
Harold muttered quietly as he looked at the frad portrait of a woman on his desk.
Thanasia Louise Bracewell.
The second daughter of the remote Bracewell Marquis family, which only had farmlands and undeveloped forests.
Also, she is Harold’s late wife, whom he has loved for so long and still cannot forget.
“I thought I had no more lingering attachnts since it’s been so long.”
Yet the fact that the most beautiful period of Thanasia’s life ca to mind when he saw soone who resembled her ant that his heart still harbored so feelings.
Perhaps it felt even more so because that girl had helped retrieve the necklace holding mories of Thanasia.
“So there was a reason why Ethan was obedient to her.”
Maybe that girl could take Thanasia’s place as Ethan’s mother figure.
Of course, he couldn’t ask for too much of a re maid, but she could at least help comfort Ethan, who had started going astray after losing his mother.
He had already confird through lissa’s report that there was no flaw in her ability as a maid.
He had also witnessed firsthand her loyalty to Ethan and tight-lipped nature during the previous incident.
He noticed her keen observation and mory recall regarding Thanasia’s necklace at a single glance.
Although it may not be necessary, she also seed to have the ability to protect his son if needed.
After going through these thoughts in his mind, Harold nodded and made a decision.
“While she may be too young to attend directly to Ethan…she still seems to be the best choice.”
It was the mont when an exclusive maid was appointed to assist his only son, Ethan Richard Blackwood, who had just recently woken up from a long curse and recovered.
“Ugh, I’m dying…”
The next day, after returning to my duties at the Blackwood estate.
After being released from the etiquette training room on the basent floor for three hours, I rubbed my aching legs and painstakingly made my way upstairs.
“I expected a lecture, but isn’t making kneel for three straight hours while ranting a bit too much…”
After about an hour, I could barely rember what lissa said. Most of it was just repeated, anyway.
At least last ti, there were four of us listening together, so her attention was sowhat divided.
Now, though, listening to that dragon’s roar of a voice alone for three hours really drained all my energy.
My legs were aching quite a bit from kneeling for so long.
“If I was just going to be given a curfew, then a lecture wasn’t necessary…”
Even in this world where double or triple punishnts are typical, wasn’t this too much?
The outing was only possible thanks to Head Maid lissa’s leniency, so the curfew was understandable.
When I think about it, this punishnt was the default for a debt maid like Lilith.
If I had actually gotten into an accident outside, it would have been troubleso for the head maid who granted the outing permission.
She must have been shaken when she heard I was taken to the church.
…Still, a three-hour lecture marathon did seem a bit excessive.
“With that ridiculous stamina, doesn’t she ever tire of constantly spouting it out?”
The silver lining was that I raised my level to level 5 before the curfew was imposed.
It’s a pity I couldn’t reach level 6, but I’ll get another chance soday.
Even if I weren’t a debt maid and had the freedom to go out during holidays, gaining five levels in such a short ti would probably have been impossible.
As Lilith, without any basic magic and having to just physically attack, it would have taken forever to defeat a single sli.
“In that sense, I guess it’s still quite fortunate…”
“…What is fortunate?”
“Uwaaah!!”
The deep voice beside my face made instinctively jolt backward in surprise.
There stood the young butler, his expression completely unchanged as he looked at .
“……”
Ah, crap. I forgot his na again.
I rember it was Collin sothing, but not the rest…
“Dittyer Collin Evercroft.”
“My apologies…”
Even though he’s a butler, why does a re servant have a middle na?
It’s already hard enough to rember his na, and the short middle na makes think about the most useless part.
“……”
Dittyer, the butler, made a strange expression as if he didn’t know whether to accept my apology.
Thinking he might be annoyed that I forgot his na twice, I looked at where his eyes were directed and saw his pupils slightly aid below my face.
As I reflexively moved my hands to cover my chest, he hurriedly averted his gaze upwards, pretending he didn’t see anything.
‘Yeah, he is a man after all.’
As I ntioned before, the only man in this estate who didn’t look at with lecherous eyes was Harold.
With his expressionless face, this butler also seed unable to easily ignore Lilith’s chest.
As a fellow man, I understand. Instinctual urges can’t be helped.
“Miss Lilith Rosewood.”
“Yes?”
The butler, who had allowed his gaze to linger on my chest, calmly t my eyes again and called my na as if nothing had happened.
I didn’t point out his wandering eyes and simply responded.
“There is a ssage from the master.”
“…Huh?”
Didn’t he summon just yesterday, too…again?
No, why would Harold take an interest in a re maid two days in a row in the first place?
An uneasy feeling sent a chill down my spine, and that ominous feeling didn’t take long to beco a reality.
“Wh-What is the ssage…?”
“Starting tomorrow, Miss Lilith Rosewood’s position will be changed from the current junior maid.”
…Don’t tell .
“In the master’s judgnt, he believes there is a position more suited for Miss Lilith than that of a junior maid…”
No, it couldn’t be. Surely not.
“Please perform your assigned duties until today, and starting tomorrow, you will be leaving the junior maid position to…”
No, no way. Not that.
Stop beating around the bush, Dittyer, you bastard.
“…be appointed as the exclusive maid to the young master, Ethan Richard Blackwood.”
Ah.
Shit.
Is this a joke? It has to be a joke, right?
“Congratulations, Miss Lilith Rosewood.”
“……”
Shut the fuck up, you oblivious asshole.
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