The young lady left the room together with her servant Grace.
"W-where are we heading to young miss?" Grace asked her even though she was shaking with fear.
"Where am I supposed to go?"
I gave her an irritated face while we are walking.
"....U-uhm.." Grace was fiddling her hands behind me.
"What?!"
She looked at me with sympathy in her face.
"I apologize for what I did, young miss."
I stopped walking then looked at her.
"You apologize for what?" I raised my right eyebrow. "Do you think everyone forgives?"
'I'm not in the mood to chit chat right now.'
Grace was lowering her head looking at me.
She was about to bow and kneel again.
"Grace, you need to stop. You look like a fool." I put my right hand on my forehead, giving her a frustrated look.
"B-but, y-young miss. I'm really sorry." Grace moves her hand to her chest.
[ It's a method of apologizing in this era. ]
"If you really wanted to apologize, we'll talk about this in my room."
'I can't forgive her just like that after she walks me in circles at the temple'
"Thank you for consideration, young miss." Grace replied.
I turn my head again to the pavements and start walking, so Grace.
'Consideration? ha!'
You shouldn't have done that if you've ended up like some scared shit.
Grace might be thinking that I don't know how the world works. but she's wrong.
'I just possessed a child's body and that's unfortunate.'
As the both of them walk, Grace can feel the young lady in her front snickering as she follows her.
Grace was quivering in the back of the young lady.
She was nervous and scared at the same time.
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○↛ In the solar room where the meeting was held. ↚○
After Sabrina the young lady and also their daughter left, the countess couple were glaring at Helbert, the adopted one.
"Sabrina was acting very strange, wasn't it?" Her mother, Kanii Collin Elsteel was a bit worried.
Helbert tried to open his mouth.
"M-mom-"
"Don't call me your mother!"
Countess Kanii was furious of Helbert's appearance and his demeanor angered her, perhaps because he wasn't one of her child.
Sabrina's brother, Damuel Samel Collin, was folding his hands watching his family feud.
He's six years older than Sabrina making him next to the title of a count with an age of sixteen.
"Mother,"
Damuel moves closer to the table and grabs the teacup.
"It's because you didn't teach Helbert a lesson that's why the accident happened."
His mother sighs.
"It's okay darling."
Marc'us Cusar Elsteel, their father who was sitting close to their mother suddenly said.
"Sabrina was okay, and she was fine." Damuel added.
"Still, I can't help but to be worried."
His mother looked beside him.
"Who knows another accident will happen soon."
She was staring with a fierce look at Helbert who was standing by his side.
"Mom, you're gonna put a hole in his face."
His mother turned her face to him.
"Damuel, you're his older brother, why are you siding with him?"
"Mother, they are still children!"
Damuel answered with a shrug in his shoulder.
"With that age, accidents happen."
"You don't get it!"
Damuel added his mother's fury.
"Sabrina just got engaged recently!"
His mother shouted in rage.
"His fiancé will obviously blame us!!"
The count was tapping his hands on the table while looking at his wife and son quarreling.
"Your son is right."
He turned his face to his wife.
"I'll explain everything to his fiancé, darling."
With his father's sentence, the whole room became silent.
◇◆◇
I was back inside my room again and I sat into my bed facing Grace who was standing and fiddling her hands.
"Grace..."
"......y-yes!"
I stared at her brown eyes.
"W-what I-is it, y-young miss....."
Her voice quivered with nervousness.
"Why do you talk as if there was a hyphen in your words?"
'I don't like the way she talks. She speaks like a robot.'
"I apologize y-young miss, It's because I made a mistake." Grace was trying to talk like a normal human does.
"A mistake?"
I curled my lips at her bitterly.
". . . ."
Grace looks at the ground and she bows her head again.
"You didn't make a mistake Grace."
"Young miss I-
"You made a sin worthy of your life!"
Grace twitched her shoulder and she starts to tremble with terror again.
I crossed my legs and folded my arms.
"You shouldn't have done things to me if you're just going to shake in front of me!"
Grace starts to kneels in front of me.
"What can I do to you young miss?"
Even though she was trembling, she opened her mouth while kneeling and looking at the ground.
"Are you talking to the ground??"
"N-no." She answered then turned her face to me with tears flowing in her cheeks.
"Great!" I rolled both of my eyes looking at her. "Now I look like the villain here."
'But, I am the villainess though.'
Grace was kneeling showing her ugly crying face in front of me.
"W-what can I do so that you will forgive me young miss?"
I stand from my bed and move closer to her. I then touched her delicate rough skin on her arms.
"I wanted to cut your hands."
Grace turned white like a person with no blood.
"Kyaaa!"
After she heard me, she shouted and withdrew her hands.
"...N-not my hands please!"
She begs me for mercy.
"....P-please don't kill me young miss!"
She was pleading like a crazy person begging for her life to be saved.
'She looks like a mad dog.'
She's not scared of me, but my title as a patrician scared her to death.
looking at her kneeling in front of me makes me proud of myself.
'I had the villainess' face after all.'
"Grace..." I opened my mouth. "You need to serve me forever and die for me."
"B-but I'm part of the temple...."
"Then how about a guillotine?"
Her eyes became bigger.
"......I-I will just serve the y-young miss." She answered without a second thought.
'Pffft. She's scared of death!"
I moved back to the bed again and lay down.
"Well then, go ask the arc priest to be my personal dog. I mean servant and ask for some parchment with a sealed contract."
Grace stood up from kneeling.
Her legs were bruised.
"Y-yes."
"Remember if you never come back, I'll give you a guillotine as a surprise!"
Grace then walks towards the door trembling, she bows lightly and she closes it gently.
'I obtained a new pawn.'