“It’s already been 3 minutes since I served the tea. It must be cold by now, I’ll go warm it up right away!”
“It’s fine. The temperature should be perfect right now.”
But despite my refusal, the tea that hadn’t even settled down was replaced in front of .
And after a while, it started again:
“Oh no! There’s dust on the carpet…! I’ll get that clean imdiately.”
“No, it’s fine.”
“I cannot possibly leave you in such a filthy environnt! Leave it to !”
I quietly stared at the carpet which the castle worker was hurrying to clean.
Where the hell is the dust?
I couldn’t see it with my eyes which were better than normal people, but it seems experts are a different breed.
“It’s already 3 o’clock. Will you be going out? Or shall I bring you a snack?”
A while later, another employee ca up to and asked.
But at least, this person looked much calr than all the others who had co into the room so far.
“No, I ate a lot for lunch and I’m full.”
But as soon as my words fell, the lady’s eyes went wide and gasped loudly.
“I’ll get you digestive dicine right away! No, maybe a doctor…!”
“Wait!”
I stopped the person who was about to dash out of the room in a fluster as if her previous calm was all a trick.
“You don’t need to do that; I don’t have indigestion. I’m just digesting slowly.”
“Then I’ll bring you tea that helps with digestion!”
Were all the people who work in the castle originally like this? They took care of attentively without missing the slightest thing.
I could tell I was receiving special treatnt, probably because I was a guest that Lakis brought himself.
But honestly, it was a little burdenso.
They acted like it was unacceptable if there was a shred of dust in my path. I felt like they might even try to feed at this rate.
“Miss, you don’t have to lift a finger! I’ll hand you the papers!”
“No, it’s fine, really.”
“But what if you get a paper cut…!”
Finally, I closed the book and looked at them seriously.
“If I need sothing, I will let you know first so before that, you do not need to worry that much about it.”
When I spoke firmly, they seed to realize that I did not like this kind of treatnt.
But why did they turn pale and start fidgeting again?
“What the, why are you all gathered here?”
Right then, Lakis ca into the room.
His eyes swept over the people in front of and he raised his brow in displeasure.
“I-I’m sorry, Master!”
They were startled by Lakis’ appearance and quickly bowed their heads to apologize.
Seeing them like this, Lakis clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction. But he didn’t send them out right away.
The next mont, Lakis turned to and his face blood like a flower. His eyes, which were like a 10,000-year-old iceberg when he was facing other people, changed like a lake that lted in the spring.
“Ms. Yuri, how has your stay been? Is there anything uncomfortable?”
He asked in an incredibly soft voice.
Instantly, the people who were bowing their heads behind Lakis looked up. The thin faces that entered my sight looked like a bunch of sheep before the slaughter.
They watched , trembling as if their lives were at stake with my reply.
Lakis was smiling harmlessly in front of like always but…
Seeing them so nervous, I could tell what kind of existence Lakis was to them.
“I am more than comfortable; they have been very attentive to .”
When I replied, Lakis looked into my eyes for a mont as if to verify I was saying the truth. Then he smiled and said.
“Is that so? If there’s anything at all that you don’t like, you can tell anyti.”
His tone was still very affectionate, but the contents of his speech were enough to intimate those behind him.
As they trembled, Lakis leveled them a cold gaze.
“What are you doing? I shouldn’t have to tell you to leave.”
“Yes, yes sir!”
They were startled again and hurriedly left after giving their salutations to Lakis.
“Have a good day, sir!”
As I watched them leave, I inwardly shook my head.
“Ms. Yuri, if you don’t like the people working for you, I can get rid of…I an, should I change them?”
Lakis walked up to and asked.
He said ‘get rid of them’ just now, didn’t he?
I’m sure I heard that right but Lakis’ expression was natural, so I just acted like I didn’t hear anything.
“No, you don’t need to.”
At that, Lakis mumbled, ‘Hmm, is that so?’ then he lightly fiddled with the paper in my hand.
“Did you find what you were curious about?”
I was looking at the remaining data concerning the ruin’s fragnt that Lakis talked about.
“I’m not sure…”
My words trailed off as I looked down at the docunt I was reading.
Lakis said that he rarely entered the castle, so he didn’t even know that sothing like this was still here. Then when he was doing major cleaning and refurbishing of the castle because of , he happened to discover these docunts in a corner of the library.
I recalled the contents of the docunt I just read.
[On June 8, 442 A.D., an unknown ruin was discovered. The terrain was changed after a violent sandstorm, so the traces of an ancient ruin buried in the desolate land was revealed.]
The docunts which seed to be journals were not organized at all and the order was a ss. So of the docunts were so damaged that it was difficult to read what they said.
[We felt a mysterious energy within this ruin and there were signs of damage everywhere although the cause was hard to discern. Nurous people were sent to investigate the ruin’s origin, but in the end, we could never decipher the exact ti it originated from.]
But after reading it myself, it wasn’t hard to get a rough idea of the order they were supposed to be in.
[An astonishing power lay dormant in the ruin. A researcher’s hand was accidentally pierced by debris while investigating the ruin. And that researcher’s physical properties imdiately changed.]
This was the exact account of how the ruin’s fragnt was discovered to have mysterious powers which led to the extensive experints.
[Eventually, researchers assud that the mysterious ruin was a remnant of the ti when ancient alchemy prevailed.]
So far, there were only interesting facts and nothing that actually stood out. However, the next part drew my attention.
[There were indecipherable letters spread throughout the ruin. We assud them to be a set of prayers or magic that was used in ancient tis. Attached below is a transcription of the original text as is.]
And when I checked the ancient language’s original text, it made my blood curl.
[No entry…zone.]
The letters were crooked like it was written by a small child. And the shapes were unclear in several places.
[Safety…gent.]
[12th nuclear power plant.]
But since it was a language I already knew, it was easy for to tell what it said after taking a closer look.
[Exit careful…]
[Nucl…power plant sta…]
There were many other letters written down, but these were the ones that caught my eye. And this was added at the end:
[—So of the writings wore off and are impossible to verify.]
After looking through all the things that were said to be written in an ancient language, I was a little confused.
This was definitely the language I spoke in my previous life. So how co it was the ancient language?
Although a few words were missing from the record, it wasn’t hard to figure out what the contents were about. It gave enough information to guess the identity of the ruin which was suddenly discovered one day.
I almost got chills at that mont.
Because with this, I could guess exactly what power was contained within the thing called the ruin’s fragnt.
“Ms. Lakis, how many years did you live in the ruin again? Please tell a little about it.”
I turned to Lakis and asked.
Lakis readily told about it.
And after listening to him, I was more convinced of my guess.
However, the changes that occurred in people because of the ruin fragnts were very different from the side effects I knew from my previous life’s knowledge.
I quietly pondered over it.
I simply couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on.
Could the ancient tis where alchemy prevailed be the age of civilization that I knew about? Then didn’t that an that the ti I was living in was a thousand years in the future from my previous life?
However, I still had so doubts.
The novel never revealed the identity of the ruin which was suddenly discovered one day. So it was impossible to know whether the author had set the background of the novel as the world in the future.
“Hm, just as I expected, there isn’t much here.”
Lakis flipped the pages a few tis and soon lost interest.
“How much longer are you going to look at this? I’m bored.”
The voice whispering in my ear grew subtle. Lakis quietly leaned his torso towards . His face glistened beautifully under the sunlight from the window.
But because I was focused on sothing else right now, Lakis’ beauty trap didn’t work on that well.
“Mr. Lakis, I’m going to go out for a bit.”
“You’re going sowhere again?”
When I rose up from my seat, Lakis frowned slightly in dissatisfaction.
“I’m going to check the location of the other ruin.”
Lakis’ mouth opened slightly as if my words were unexpected.
“Another ruin?”
“Yeah, another ruin.”
If my deduction was correct, there should be another ruin that was still around.
Lakis soon sighed under his breath and followed .
“I’ll co with you.”
Like that, we left the castle.
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