Mad Rosetta - Chapter 6

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Mad Rosetta

Episode 6

Those Who Obey Well Have Nothing to Fear (2)

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The state of my room was still an absolute disaster.

The annex where I resided was less than fifty steps away from the main manor where Father and Lianna stayed, and even this was connected by a bridge linking the buildings.

I don’t know what its previous name was, but they said it was renamed Rose Manor right after I was born.

Befitting that name, roses from the main manor garden extended densely all the way to Rose Manor, and I heard this was the first thing Father ordered after purchasing the rose cultivation rights.

Thanks to that, whenever the Empire ranked beautiful gardens, this place always made the list.

‘Whether he thought he shouldn’t discriminate between his two daughters, or if Lianna made the request… He also gave Odette the western annex.’

In any case, since it was within Father’s sight, the garden still boasted its splendor.

The bitter reality was that my room was nothing like that at all.

Ridiculously, rather than knocking on the door out of concern for his mentally unstable daughter, waiting for her to come out on her own… also contributed to maintaining this filthy room.

“I need to clean up.”

“Yes, yes?”

When Penny pretended she had misheard, as if she were deaf, I emphasized again.

“I said I need to clean my room.”

“Huh.”

“That’s quite a rude reaction, Penny.”

When I raised an eyebrow once, discipline was quickly restored, and Penny spilled out apologies one after another.

The sight was quite amusing, so I decided to let it slide.

She was at most thirteen or fourteen years old, so I felt a strange guilt about treating her the way I did others.

“Penny, go immediately and find out if the head maid has returned. If she has come back… tell her to bring the maids who have been in charge of tidying my room here.”

“Yes. I’ll be right back, Lady.”

Penny, who had been about to leave quickly, soon returned and mumbled that she had something to ask.

“If, if the head maid says she’s busy, how should I urge her…?”

“…”

Have you ever seen such disloyal servants?

【Pfft! Puhahaha!】

Penny asked in a sincere voice, and the damn ghost burst out laughing with his whole body.

I truly felt shame at this… It was an utterly frustrating reality.

Where could there be anything more important to handle than the orders of the master they serve?

Penny wanted to know what action she should take if the head maid expressed refusal, for the sake of swift task completion.

Looking at her again, she was truly a sharp child.

“…Whip.”

“Pardon?”

“Tell her I’m practicing with a whip.”

At my indifferent urging command, Penny seemed to gain great enlightenment and cheerfully shouted “Yes!” before leaving the room.

Sing sprawled completely on my bed, saying his stomach hurt from laughing too much, scratching at my nerves.

【Ahahaha! Ah, really… The way Benitra is running is quite something, isn’t it?】

“…”

【Hmm? What are you looking around for, darling?】

“The whip, where did I put it really…”

Can’t you hear it from somewhere?

The sound of someone’s back getting torn up.

Now that only Sing, who boldly occupied the lady’s bed, and I remained, I decided to satisfy my curiosity.

“Sing. I have something to ask.”

【You truly have many curiosities.】

“The more I know, the easier it becomes to handle things. I’d like to hear the reason you hold a grudge against Cessia. Can you answer that?”

I stared down at him, whose expression was hard to gauge.

Whether by chance or fate.

The fact that Sing and I shared the same target for revenge was good, but somehow left me feeling uneasy.

To be honest, the Cessia I knew wasn’t someone cruel enough to turn someone into a vengeful ghost.

Of course, aside from what he did to me, my fiancé was a famous figure known to any noble in the Arkanis Empire.

His position as the only son of the Montague Marquis family, which accumulated wealth through active maritime commerce.

Above all, his father, Marquis Montague, was a long-time right hand of the current Emperor, who had supported Empress Dowager Carina Perigia since she was the First Empress, doing business together.

In other words, Cessia was the heir to a family with tremendous political influence.

‘And his face is killer too.’

Recalling Cessia smiling at Odette while well-dressed, my face naturally crumpled.

Annoying as it was, I had to acknowledge what needed acknowledging.

My fiancé was a renowned beauty and had shown outstanding prowess in martial arts, receiving knighthood at sixteen.

With a good family, exceptional looks, and military skills, Cessia usually liked being praised.

However, conversely, he was a man who avoided taking on big responsibilities and couldn’t step forward directly.

This was because he always worried that even a small mistake could tarnish his face and family name.

So I couldn’t help but be curious about the grudge Sing held against Cessia.

【The one who made me like this is Podocus Cessia’s mother.】

“…What?”

Unlike what I expected—that he’d dodge with wordplay again—Sing immediately gave me an answer to my question.

Though it was somewhat shocking.

【So shouldn’t I also take away her precious son?】

Saying he looked forward to the expression she’d make when she learned her son was dead, Sing spoke in quite a cheerful tone.

The reason he held a grudge against Cessia was because his mother had killed him.

– “How did such a deficient thing enter our family? It would have been better to match him with Bonita!”

Cessia’s mother was someone I knew very well too.

– “Foolish thing. This is why Cessia can’t open his heart and refuses to consummate the marriage!”

She would raise her hand at me for missing morning greetings.

Perhaps it remained a constant regret that her precious son had ultimately married me, who was called a scoundrel, Montague Duchess had continuously hurled verbal abuse from right after the wedding.

Even I, who had acted like a madwoman, didn’t want to ruin my married life with Cessia whom I loved, so I was busy bowing my head at least in front of the Marquis’s wife.

‘Though I didn’t always endure it.’

When I found it particularly difficult to maintain sanity, I would scream and visit during her cozy tea time with Odette to overturn tables, or cause a scene saying that the moment Cessia inherited the marquis title, I would lock her away in some western villa.

Each time I was confined to my room with Cessia’s curses, and when I came to my senses, I had to look back on my actions and fall into self-loathing.

Recalling that miserable married life brought back the humiliations one by one, and I bit my lip.

“If it’s that woman who’s crazy about Cessia, she’d certainly be grief-stricken. But is that all?”

【What do you mean?】

“If Cessia’s mother killed you, you should think about revenge against the Marquis’s wife herself. Why specifically target Cessia?”

【Haha. Sometimes there are beings one loves more than oneself, darling. She would rather I appear to her instead, wouldn’t she? While boldly demanding I not touch her son.】

I felt a bit chilled by Sing’s voice explaining that this was the way to make the one who killed him most miserable.

Because he spoke so lightly, I couldn’t gauge the depth of his resentment until now… but from that brief conversation, I realized he wanted true revenge.

【So, Rose. Sweetheart. Now I want to ask. What do you plan to do from now on?】

I couldn’t say much in response to Sing’s question.

Because I couldn’t think of any proper plan.

When I first opened my eyes, I intended to break off the engagement with Montague first, but thinking about it, wouldn’t that also eliminate contact with Cessia?

Then it would obviously become very difficult to plan revenge against him, so I couldn’t easily speak up.

Bad deeds are best done by bad people. For a kind and innocent young lady like me to suddenly torment others with thorough schemes—isn’t that a development you’d only see in commoner books like ‘I woke up and found myself possessed by a scoundrel princess!?’

I just wanted to return the same betrayal and pain I experienced to them.

“Lady, it’s Penny.”

At Penny’s knock during my troubled moment, I hastily ordered her to come in.

Whether she made statements like ‘The Lady is practicing with a whip!’ or not, I don’t know, but the head maid came in with three other maids in a line.

Only three servants to handle this vast room.

I experienced frustration once again and asked the head maid first.

“You must have heard early on that my confinement has been lifted. Do you understand why I’ve summoned you all?”

“I believe it’s to have your room properly cleaned and organized, my lady.”

The head servant gave the correct answer more obediently than expected.

Her name was Marahan Denaize.

She had been in charge of this place since I was 9 years old—that is, since I came to reside at Rose Manor.

She was also someone who had witnessed the entire process of a perfectly normal young master transforming into an unprecedented troublemaker of a lady.

Given Marahan’s stubborn personality, no matter how much the lady she served threw tantrums, she would have at least ordered the attendants to keep the room tidy to a minimum degree.

That’s why the spider webs hanging in every crevice couldn’t be explained.

“I can imagine that my poor health made it difficult for you all to perform your assigned duties… but I never ordered you to show such negligence, so I wish to know the reason.”

“…I apologize, my lady. We simply followed your wish to be left alone.”

My eyebrows naturally furrowed at her retort.

‘I said I wanted to be alone, but when did I ever say I wanted to live coughing in a dust pit?’

Sing kept giggling annoyingly beside me, so I shot him a look telling him to shut up, then tried to scold Marahan again.

“That’s why you shouldn’t visit at all except for meals, and should only inspect the interior minimally when there are important events…”

But I was left speechless by her subsequent response.

“Didn’t you convey that through Lady Bonita?”

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