Chapter 12
Translator: Jawbrie
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Translator’s note: I’m terribly sorry, but I just can’t do this anymore. I refuse.
‘Mariywa’ will be written ‘Mariwa’ from now on so I can actually rember how it’s spelled.
After parting ways with my new friend Charles, I was able to return to the dancehall without anything else happening.
I felt so re-energized after I made my return that I executed a succession of perfect courtesies to the other guests. Though, at one point a daughter of a Marquis pointed out that a flower petal -which I had not successfully brushed off in the garden- was stuck to my hair ornant, I was able to get passed this with a genius excuse. Ultimately, I had been very successful in playing the perfect lady at this palace ball.
The next day.
I was standing proud and tall in the mansion’s garden.
Not just in the garden, I was standing in the front of the huge garden that lay between the great gate that would welco our guests and the Noir mansion. Because I was outside, I had a maid stand next to and hold a parasol so that I would not be burned to a crisp by the shining light of the sun. As I stood under the shadow created by our faithful servant, I waited impatiently for the gates in front of us to open.
According to the ti, it should be any mont now. It was the first ti I would be receiving a guest like this, but the person that I was expecting would co at the designated ti.
“Fufufuh. Co already.”
I didn’t know what to do with this overwhelming feeling of excitent, so I just smiled. After a mont I heard the sound of carriage wheels coming from the other side of the gate.
“They’re here!”
“My lady, co over here.”
The gates opened as I exclaid in excitent. The servant who had been watching pleasantly, saw the carriage coming towards us and frantically tried to get to move off of the path.
It was a most perceptive suggestion, but unfortunately, I would have to reject it point-blank this ti.
“No, I will wait here.”
I firmly refused the maids proposal and continued to stand proudly in the middle of the road.
After all, I had co here just to receive her. I would hate it if she sohow failed to notice and drove past. Additionally, depending on the qualities of the person that I was waiting for, she may notice and still decide to drive passed on purpose.
To that point, she would in no way be able to ignore if I stood in the middle of the road that leads to the mansion. Even the driver, who was under our employ would surely stop the horses if I was standing here. As long as there wasn’t so kind of worst-case scenario of the horses going insane, then I had no fear of being trampled. There really was no issue in terms of my safety.
“But, my lady…Oh, alright.”
The maid had no choice but to give-up trying to persuade . I would stubbornly not give in. Even so, I felt grateful at her loyalty as she good-naturedly continued to hold the parasol over my head.
Finally, the long-awaited carriage ca through the now completely opened gate.
“Welco. And halt!”
Just as the carriage had gotten through the gate, I shouted for them to stop. The driver who was holding the reins looked at in surprise.
However, he was our driver and so that did not last long. Once he saw that it was I who had shouted, he imdiately assud that I had so business with whoever was in the carriage. He turned around and spoke a word or two. After a mont the door to the carriage opened.
“…Fuu.”
The person who stepped out of the carriage was our private tutor, Mariwa Toinette. For so unknown reason, she sighed very rudely upon seeing that I had co out to receive her. And with her usual rigid posture, she started to walk towards .
“How very unusual for you to try and receive soone so close to the gates. This must an that you are quite enthusiastic about today’s lessons. I’m impressed, my lady.”
“Hmph. You do say the most absurd things Mariwa. It is no matter for a genius such as I to master the rules of etiquette, even without effort. But let’s leave that for a mont and talk of sothing else.”
“What you should be despising at this mont are your own words, my lady. Being a lady is not so easy as you assu.”
Both the maid who held the parasol and the driver of the parked carriage now averted their eyes at hearing this light exchange between Mariwa and , which was really just an ordinary greeting.
“I agree with you on the point of it not being easy, but….fufufufuh. But don’t you have sothing more important to tell , Mariwa?”
“Indeed I do. It’s Miss Toinette, my lady.”
No. That’s not it at all.
Did she know and was only refusing to say it? Did she really not know? In any case, it seed that it would be necessary for to put it into clear words.
“Mariwa. At this last ball, I was able to exceed your teachings by far and conduct myself in a more than perfect manner!”
I ignored her usual corrections and boasted to her of my accomplishnt.
Perhaps she could not focus due to the brilliance of my report, because Mariwa squinted her eyes ever so slightly.
“Oh. Far exceeding my teachings, is it?”
“Yes! I was flawless like the full moon that will rise in tonight’s sky! You can ask my father, he was with the whole ti, if you do not believe it. I was able to showcase a lady that far exceeded your expectations!”
I continued to boast. After all, even my father had asked, ‘Are you really Christina?’ Sooner or later, the na of Christina Noir, daughter of the duke, would spread with her fa through all of society.
And so it was only natural for to smile and demand Mariwa to give what I deserved.
“Now, Mariwa! Shower with praise. And you should also give many pats on the head!”
With a big smile, I offered my head to her.
While Mariwa tended to believe that hitting had its benefits, she would never strike without purpose. And now I was not only blaless but deserving of much praise. Mariwa would surely have no choice but to say ‘good child, what a good child’ and pat on the head.
“…Let see.”
That warm palm that I felt that day in the pantry. I smiled with expectations of that warmth being placed on my head.
Finally, Mariwa’s hand was placed on top of my offered head.
For so reason, in the shape of a clenched fist.
“Huh?”
I looked dumbfounded by the inconceivable shape of Mariwa’s hand.
Why was it in the shape of the rock that strikes all in this world, instead of the paper that sweetly accepts everything? My heart wondered at this pure question, but the sight that my eyes viewed was one of cruelty.
For before my eyes stood the man-eating fiend Mariwa, whose icy glare held not a shard of kindness.
“Um, Mariwa…?”
“Yes? My lady, Chris.”
My uncertain voice should have triggered an instinct to protect, but instead, a voice so frightening that it turned my blood cold was what ca back.
At this point, my instincts were telling that I was in grave danger, but it was too late. Without warning, her fist drove straight into my scalp.
“It is exactly as you say. Leaping into the royal flower gardens and destroying the flower beds was an action far exceeding anything that I have ever taught you. Yes, just as you said. You so thoroughly exceeded my expectations. I am sure that you are resigned to your fate now?”
“Agahadadhaghh. But how did you find out!?”
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