Deadline Is Raining in the Status Window - Chapter 2

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So this is it….
“….”
Still. No matter what, this isn’t a historical drama tone. I can’t live like this—it torments me too much. To make it even slightly more bearable, I changed the way I spoke.
“Save me! Save me! Please save me! Oh, this works! Save me! Hey! Is anyone there?!”
So casual speech is allowed. How typical of Mitchell Neftis—a woman so utterly devoid of grace that even medicine couldn’t cure it.
“Ahhhhh! You brats deaf?! I said save me! Call the Duke of Neftis! I can just be removed from the family register!”
Using the skill to kick and bend the iron bars with my feet against the bed, the guards sedated me, and the prison’s commotion was reported all the way to the Emperor.
By the Emperor’s decree, I was expelled from the Nobility, received five lashes as punishment, and the terminal condition status was lifted. And I received experience points under the strangest of pretexts.

The development has changed ever so slightly. You have been awarded 1,000 experience points.

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Still, having once been the heir to House of Neftis, the Imperial Court provided me with a carriage home and healing salve. Attended by handmaidens who applied the salve to my blood-stained back, I wrapped myself in bandages and threw on a tattered shirt before boarding the carriage.
Pain was pain, but I opened my status window and carefully allocated my points.

Mitchell Neftis
Status: Blessing of Ursh
Experience: 100
N) Freezing Lv.5 – 500 until next level
N) Throwing Lv.3 – 300 until next level
N) Robust Constitution Lv.5 – 122 until next level
R) Noble’s Dignity
UR) Fusion

Now was the time to pour all my points into Freezing. Aristocratic Dignity and Fusion were passive skills that didn’t require point investment, but normal skills required 100 experience points to go from level 1 to 2, 200 points from 2 to 3, and 300 points from 3 to 4.
Since skill levels capped at 10, they’d probably convert to a higher-tier skill around there. For now, I needed to dump everything into acquiring Freezing magic. If I could use magic, I could survive on this continent one way or another. Even as a stateless person without a name, I could make money as an adventurer by subjugating monsters.
First, I needed money. I was currently the shame of House of Neftis, so I’d obviously be cast out without a single coin. Finding a means to earn was urgent.
“We’ve arrived.”
The Neftis Duchy’s Townhouse was remarkably close to the Imperial Palace. Truly befitting a house with so much wealth and power. This much was necessary to intimidate Seian Crown Prince.
“Goodbye! Take care!”
I bowed politely to the elderly coachman and entered the mansion with confidence. The maids were already whispering among themselves—news of what I’d done had apparently spread throughout the entire duchy. I needed to pack quickly and slip away before the Duke and Duchess arrived. If I gathered the few jewels I had and left, I should be able to afford lodging at an inn for a while.
I frantically stuffed everything of value into my travel bag for survival. Gold over jewels—I needed gold with good liquidity. Why on earth had I been obsessively collecting only jewels until now? I was going mad.
“Miss! Miss, what is the meaning of this!”
Oh no! Not the Nanny!
The woman who came running upon hearing of my return was my Nanny. Literally Mitchell Neftis’s wet nurse, the woman who had raised Mitchell since childhood with such tenderness, someone who could be called even more of a mother than my own mother.
My eyes welled up with tears. Both Mitchell and I were weak to the Nanny. But she was practically a mother to me.
“Wahhhhh, Nanny, Nannyyyyyyy!”
“Miss! Oh my dear Miss, what is all this! What is all this blood!”
“It hurts, it hurts, Nanny!”
I wept and handed the healing salve the Emperor had given me to the Nanny, then exposed my back again. I’d managed to endure it for a while, but as the blood spread and the salve’s effectiveness wore off, the throbbing became severe.
“It hurts so much, please apply it!”
“Oh my dear Miss! Oh, my heart! Oh, my heart!”
As I cried out in pain, the Nanny squeezed out tears and unwrapped the bandages. Her hands trembled as she wiped away the blood and reapplied the healing salve.
Now that I thought about it, if I left the house, I wouldn’t see the Nanny either. I didn’t care whether I saw the Duke and Duchess again, but not seeing the Nanny made me so sad. She was the Nanny, after all—how could I live apart from my mother?
As I wept again at the thought of living without the Nanny, I suddenly remembered Mitchell’s favorite food. Even if I had to leave, I should eat that one last time.
“Nanny, Nanny, listen to me.”
“Yes, Miss. What is it?”
“I want to eat the borscht you made.”
With tears and snot streaming down my face as I asked for borscht, the Nanny finished wrapping the bandages tightly, washed her hands, and hurried away saying she’d warm it up right away. She said that since yesterday, when she expected me to return from Prison, she’d been keeping a pot simmering and waiting the whole time.

The wound salve seemed to have pain-relieving properties too, so I managed to stop my tears and think for a moment. Strangely, the taste of kimchi stew kept circling in my mouth. When I suddenly wondered why I was craving kimchi stew, I understood the reason after eating the food the Nanny brought. The taste of the special borscht that only the Nanny could make was exactly the same as kimchi stew.
“It’s delicious. So delicious, Nanny.”
As I shoveled the food into my mouth and mumbled, the Nanny cautioned me not to get indigestion and to eat slowly. But this was really delicious. It was the most delicious kimchi stew I’d ever eaten.
“So good, really, really so good, Nanny.”
“Stop that. What’s with this mood? I heard something terrible happened. Did you receive a punishment of confinement?”
No, I just came back from the dead.
I nearly got executed for trying to attack Seian Crown Prince, severed ties with House of Neftis, was stripped of my nobility, and became a stateless person with no status. When I confessed everything, the Nanny’s face went pale, and she clenched her fists tightly instead of striking my back.
Good thinking, Nanny. If you hit my back right now, I’ll die from the pain.
“What are you doing! What will become of you, Miss!”
“Even as a stateless person, I can work part-time jobs and survive. There’s no law that says people have to die, Nanny.”
Speaking from my past experience, the Nanny again raised her hand to strike my back but clenched her fists tightly and squeezed her eyes shut.
“You, Miss, who’s never done a day of hard work in your life! How could you possibly work!”
“I know how to do a lot of things. It’s fine.”
I’m me, but I’m not the current me. Mitchell Neftis was a noble lady raised in House of Neftis, but I wasn’t.
After my parents passed away when I was young and I was left alone in a single house, and my guardian aunt took all my parents’ assets and fled overseas, there wasn’t a part-time job I hadn’t done.
Dishwashing and serving, of course, but I’d also worked construction sites, handled lions at a zoo, and even hosted dolphin shows.
When it came to working and surviving, I was an expert.
During the lean years, I’d divide up the ramen the Welfare Center provided monthly by the box into pieces, and when I was still hungry, I’d even catch cicadas and eat them. So what? They looked grotesque, but if you removed the head and scooped out the insides, they tasted like shrimp.
Compared to those days, my current situation was nothing. I had work experience now, and above all, in just three more years I’d be a legal adult. A healthy adult could survive one way or another—that was how the world worked.
As I loudly scraped the remaining borscht with white bread and ate it, the Nanny’s frustration seemed to burst as she thumped her chest and told me to wait.
Since I’d finished eating, I wanted to escape before the Duke and Duchess returned and caused a commotion. When I mentioned this, the Nanny said it wouldn’t take long and hurried out of the room, then hurried back in.
True to her word, it really only took a few minutes, but the Nanny put on her coat, packed a travel bag, and made a big decision.
“If you go, Miss, I’m going too!”
“…What?”
“You don’t know the world, Miss! Whether it’s sewing for hire or anything else, I’ll do it! I’ll feed us both! Let’s go to my hometown—my sister’s old house should be empty!”
I’d always thought the Nanny was impulsive by nature, but she was declaring something this drastic far too easily. The Nanny herself didn’t understand the dynamics of a noble household.
No matter how much I’m expelled from the family, the Nanny who raised the Duke’s daughter will receive a pension for the rest of her life. With the money she’s saved so far, she could buy a small house in the Capital, and with the living expenses provided by House of Neftis, she could live comfortably until death.
There was no need to double the number of people suffering. I tried to convince the Nanny of this, but she picked up the travel bag I’d packed and seemed angry.
“Why would I live without you, Miss! Without you, I’m nothing, and if you die, I die too! Let’s go quickly!”
Nanny, if you keep making me cry like this, what will I do? My lips trembled and I held back the tears that were threatening to come, then shared a sudden thought with the Nanny.
“Nanny, even if we leave, let’s leave smart. I have the key to the treasure vault.”
“Thank goodness. I thought our Miss, having come back from the dead, had finally fixed her wicked nature.”
I’m someone who even intimidated the Empire’s Crown Prince. What couldn’t I do? I wiped my eyes with my sleeve and retrieved the treasure vault key that only the legitimate heirs of House of Neftis could use from the safe. This key could be used for both the treasure vault in the main residence and the one in the Townhouse, and I was certain that artifact was sleeping in the Townhouse’s vault.
That artifact was valuable enough to easily buy a hundred Townhouses like this one, and depending on how it was used, it would be incredibly helpful to me now. If I sold it, I’d be caught on the spot, so I had no choice but to use it wisely.
I forgot about my aching back and ran with the Nanny to the treasure vault, where I stole the transfer artifact and fled. With the money the Nanny had, we rented a carriage and a coachman to take us to the Nanny’s hometown.

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