I Became a Childhood Friend With the Villainous Saintess

214 – Side Story – The Happy Maid

[Henna]

My mother died a few days ago.

This happened just three months after my father died.

My father’s thinking was extremely unnatural.

Well, no matter how young I am, I’m not stupid.

After the lord became close to our mother, we could often hear the adults working at the castle gossiping.

He said that his mother and the lord had made eye contact.

I don’t know for sure, but it didn’t seem like a good idea.

After my father died, the security guard I had no contact with often took care of me.

Yet the old man never made eye contact with me.

When I was a little younger than I am now, like when I would do something that would make me sick and hide it.

I still don’t quite understand what the old man was hiding.

No. Actually, I think I knew a little bit.

That’s why I hated the old man.

Give me back my dad.

“Henna, just a little bit more and you and Mom will go to a better place.”

“Really? Now you can eat two pieces of bread at a time?”

“There’s more to it than that. There’s much better to come. Now we too… … ”

“Wow!”

I must confess honestly that my mother was a liar.

I often lied to my father, to the lord, and to the guard.

Because of the lies, I didn’t even know who my mother truly loved.

Was it true that you said you loved me?

I don’t like that. It hurts my heart.

It was much later that my mother realized she had been dreaming.

Because my mom didn’t answer my questions very well.

He told me never to ask that question again, as if asking it was wrong in itself.

It was scary to see my mom angry.

What was really scary was that the last time I saw my mom was when she was angry.

My mother, who hated moving around a lot, fell to her death in the mountains, and her funeral was held in a hurry.

I think the captain of the guard came to see me at that time.

He had a dark, sullen expression on his face, just like when his father died.

“So… so young. If you ever have a hard time, just tell me. I’ll definitely help you at least once.”

Things got a lot harder after my mother died.

The maids working under the Baroness harassed me, and the adults I knew acted as if I was invisible.

I got a stomachache from eating moldy bread.

I thought about telling the captain of the guards… …but I gave up.

Somehow I felt like I shouldn’t do that. I felt like I would regret it a lot someday, so I couldn’t open my mouth.

I felt a pain as if my heart was being stabbed again and again.

anyway!

Today was an important day.

A very, very high person came from a far away place.

He is the kind of person who can erase something like this with just a gesture.

It was the first time I saw the lord so anxious.

How great of a person is this?

“Ugh, the breeze is refreshing. The weather is nice too.”

Everyone in Seongan is busy these days.

I was sitting on the roof of the building, stretching out in a good mood.

It was thanks to finding out something good.

Now adults don’t pretend to know me.

Great people like you, Your Majesty, never even paid attention to a lowly person like me.

As if he had never existed in the first place.

So, no one would blame me for being a slacker like this.

It’s okay because the ladies who harass me harass me whether I work or not.

Now that I’ve become invisible, there’s something I want to do.

I was planning to play a bad prank on the guests who were arriving soon.

I jumped off this building and slammed down!

It’ll surprise your guests. Won’t it feel like a corpse suddenly appeared?

Then the lord and his wife will be in a very difficult situation, and I will be in a very happy mood.

You can’t punish me, can you?

My body is already a mess, so do whatever you want with it!

Because I didn’t jump down yesterday to play this prank.

I was just waiting for the guests to come closer.

It seemed like the young master, who was walking with dignity, was looking this way.

“Dad. People here don’t laugh. Over there. The kid on the rooftop has a really dark expression. He looks dangerous. Can’t we bring him in?”

“I see.”

Huh? Oh, no, right?

I can’t hear the voices very well here.

“Terion, you have always been very observant of your surroundings. Your vision will be a great asset to you someday. What does Sirien think?”

“The alley next to the main street was a mess. It smelled like blood. The main street seemed to have been cleaned up because we were coming, but the alley must not have had enough space. It doesn’t seem like a very nice place.”

“You… … will one day become a greater lord than me. Then, Arzen? Will you give me that child? Treat it gently.”

It wasn’t a mistake. Now it was pointing directly in my direction.

How did you see me? Aren’t all nobles not interested in people like me?

Those guests were said to be people of much higher status than our lord.

I don’t know.

I felt like I’d been caught, so I started getting anxious for no reason.

At that very moment, as I was about to jump up, my body floated up and the world changed in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, I was in front of the lord, and the gruff knight released the arm that was wrapped around my waist.

I couldn’t figure out how this happened.

However, the face of the young master who extended his arm to me looked so bright and curious.

It seems like he was just staring blankly.

“Hello? I am Terion Illencia. What is your name?”

“Henna… … It’s called henna.”

* * *

Lord Therion was a curious man.

No, both the Illencia siblings were strange people.

Even the young master of the Bertus family, who was always with his siblings, was amazed.

Why… why are you being so nice to me?

If only the master was strange, it would have been easier to understand.

There are many surprising things in the world, so it was only natural that there would be at least one special species that would even spare the bugs on the roadside.

But why Miss Sirien?

The young lady I first saw was clearly someone with a cold and aristocratic air.

It is incomparable to the lord I served before.

So I thought he would be a difficult person to deal with.

– This will be a good lesson for you, Sirien. What should we do? It seems like Therion wants to take this child, but this child is Baron Tigo’s servant. We can’t do as we please.

– You can take him away by giving him a large sum of money. It should be large enough that he doesn’t feel like he’s been robbed of his position. If it’s that much, it won’t be a problem even if it’s talked about outside.

– Even if it’s not wrong, you’ll end up spending a lot of money. It’s not good to always think about solving things with money.

– No. Money is just like an investment. When I brought him here and talked to him, it seemed that the poverty of the people of the empire was serious compared to the number of people. So, I said I would do some formal research. He is thin and looks like he has suffered a lot.

– If there is nothing, it will end as a happening, but if there is something that catches you, you can tighten the leash. Good. Even the rights of a lord under His Majesty the Emperor have limits. Those who cannot fulfill their responsibilities have no rights.

At that time, she was definitely a great young lady who could easily tell difficult stories.

The young lady who came to serve him closely was just as stubborn and difficult as Lord Therion.

“Miss… … I told you that if I get caught having s*x with a young lady, I’ll get in big trouble. I’ll stay by your side while you eat, so please. You can’t do that.”

“No! Tea time is something we both have to sit down for!”

“Well, I’ll sit on the floor then. I like the smell of flowers, so I think the floor would be okay for me.”

“Then I’ll sit on the floor too. Try this first. It’s my favorite cookie!”

“Gyaaah! No, miss. Your dress! There’s dirt on your dress! You said it was your favorite piece of clothing!”

To be honest, it was hard.

Although it was definitely not as bad as where I worked before, the siblings who acted as if they had forgotten their noble status were by no means easy opponents.

“Do, Do-ryunniim. If you run, huh. No. Huh. How can you be so fast? Huh. La, Lazen! Help me! Do-ryunniim is too fast. Huh. I can’t keep up!”

The mischievous and wild young Master Therion.

Miss Sirien, who becomes especially cheerful in the castle.

Rajen, who seems gentle but gets along well with the young master.

Everyone has troubled me in different ways.

But I never once thought of disliking it.

How dare I entertain such a thought.

Even these chaotic and chaotic days were happiness to me.

I couldn’t thank you enough for giving me this happiness.

“Miss. Rajen is coming for tea time today. Please walk carefully so that you don’t get dirt on your pretty clothes.”

“Uh, uh! Got it!”

“Lazen is still not good at eating desserts, so I think it would be good if you taught him how to do it.”

“Okay! Thanks, Henna!”

And little by little.

I learned how to deal with the Illencia siblings.

“Master, if you keep running, I’ll get very tired. If I get too tired, won’t it be difficult to keep the secret of forgetting the homework you did with the history teacher last time?”

“Hey, Henna? You too… …!”

I enjoyed these days so much.

It was so much fun that I was convinced that I could do it for the rest of my life.

So, Master. Miss. Rajen.

I want to continue to be with you all in the future.

I will serve you with all my heart until the end of my life!