The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 19

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The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Counseling Log Today – Episode 019
Only after finishing the evening report could Elysia head toward her quarters.
It had been a chaotic day, but above all, she tried her best to maintain her composure after speaking with Yulias.
However, she could barely remember what kind of face she had been making while working for the past half-day.
“Sister, sister!”
“Hmm?”
“Why aren’t you answering when I keep calling you?”
Joshua was looking at her with a grumpy expression.
Elysia smiled awkwardly.
“It’s just because I’m tired. Let’s go quickly, wash up, and sleep.”
As she naturally made an excuse and led him by the hand, Joshua stopped in his tracks.
“Oh, it’s the silver-haired sister.”
Standing in front of Elysia’s room was Labiena.
“Labiena.”
When she called her name, she faced Labiena, who was holding something in her arms.
Labiena had bandages and medicine.
“The Head Maid told me to bring these to you.”
“……Thank you.”
“Are you hurt, sister?”
“No. I’m not hurt, she came to help me.”
Aren’t those the same thing?
Joshua looked back and forth between the two with a puzzled expression.
Elysia patted Joshua on the back with the hand that had been holding him.
“You can go wash up by yourself, right? You must call me if anything happens.”
“Of course! Bye, silver-haired sister!”
“Y-yes. Goodbye…….”
Labiena responded awkwardly to Joshua’s bold greeting.
As Joshua quickly distanced himself with spirited steps, only the two of them remained.
“Shall I help you?”
When Labiena offered readily, Elysia waved her hand in refusal instead.
“I can do it by myself.”
“You aren’t injured in just one or two places.”
As a fellow maid, she must have seen everything, so Elysia could not dispute it.
“Then call me if you need help. My room is over there.”
The place Labiena pointed to was a room at the end of the hallway.
It was even before Elysia could express her gratitude. Having handed over the bandages and medicine, Labiena was already moving away.
Entering the room alone, Elysia first placed what she had received on the desk.
On the desk were the spare working uniform and shoes that Labiena had mentioned.
“There really is a spare.”
Elysia let out a sigh and sat on the chair.
After the injuries on her calves and knees, the worst part was both arms.
She had to apply medicine and wrap bandages not only on her arms but also up to her wrists and the backs of her hands. However, trying to do it alone was not easy.
Knock, knock.
Her head turned at the sound of knocking on the door.
Had Joshua returned after finishing his shower?
Because she had not cleaned up, the place was somewhat messy.
Elysia got up from her seat just in case Joshua was waiting.
As she hurriedly opened the door, an unexpected face appeared through the gap.
“Your Grace.”
“Were you in the middle of treatment?”
Yulias’s gaze fell downward.
The bandage, which she had stopped wrapping, remained loosely on her arm.
Elysia belatedly hid both arms behind her back.
At a late hour. Furthermore, if the family head suddenly frequented the quarters where the servants stayed, it was easy for rumors to spread.
Moreover, she was already in a state of being disliked.
Elysia pondered how she could speak politely while maintaining etiquette.
But Yulias was one step faster.
“I apologize for coming at a late hour.”
“Pardon?”
“I said I’m sorry. I came because I have something to discuss with you alone, but…… I have committed an rudeness.”
Yulias trailed off, deliberately staring into the empty air.
Elysia momentarily wondered if she had misheard the highly awkward apology.
She eventually opened the door wide as if yielding.
“Only until Joshua returns. I think we can talk only until then.”
“Let us do so.”
After hesitating, he entered the room.

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Would it have been better to meet in the office or outside instead?
But there was no telling when Joshua would return.
“What is the matter?”
“Sit down first.”
He pointed at the bed.
Elysia sat meekly on the bed in spite of herself.
The bandage that had not been wrapped properly was fluttering.
“Um, Your Grace.”
It was before Elysia could even say anything.
Yulias, who had dragged a chair over, sat facing her and wrapped the bandage for her.
As if it were not his first or second time doing it, he wrapped and tied it neatly.
“Does it hurt when I tie it?”
“……I-I am fine.”
Elysia simply found this entire situation awkward.
It was a relief that she had treated the wounds on her legs first. She inwardly felt relieved that a needlessly embarrassing situation had not further occurred.
Yulias continued to examine her arm as if it were nothing.
The brief silence felt terribly long.
“……The ringleader of the commotion has been dismissed.”
He brought up his business while wrapping the bandage on Elysia’s other arm.
“It is not merely a dismissal. Since there was no recommendation letter, it will be difficult for her to enter another place as a servant. The salaries of the others have been reduced by half for three months.”
Elysia only stared at her own arm where his touch lingered.
“The dismissed ringleader…… you mean Branda?”
“Yes. According to the Head Maid’s report, there have been quite a few such cases in the background. They said the ringleader was always her.”
“I do not know well, but she must be of the noble class, so is it alright? She might protest due to the sudden dismissal, or further, she might file a lawsuit…….”
“You are mistaken about something.”
“Pardon?”
“Branda is not a noble.”
Yulias tied a knot after finishing wrapping the bandage.
As his touch moved away, Elysia checked her arm here and there. It was perfect enough to move comfortably.
She lowered her sleeves and placed both hands on her knees.
“I naturally thought she was a noble. I understand that to work as a maid in a noble family, one must be at least a minor noble.”
Yulias naturally organized the medicine and bandages.
“To be precise, she is a commoner and graduated at the top of the Academy. That is also the reason she was able to work in the Grand Ducal House.”
Even amidst this, the conversation continued to flow.
Elysia, who noticed late, debated whether to stop him, but everything had already been neatly arranged.
Elysia tried to toss out a question to avoid showing her awkwardness.
“It is a rare case for a commoner to enter the Academy itself, right?”
“Even if the parents do not have a title, if they have a lot of money, there is no reason it cannot happen.”
Yulias stared at her intently and then asked.
“Was the answer sufficient?”
“Yes, well……. Ah! You said earlier that you had something to say.”
Elysia widened her eyes as if remembering.
Yulias spoke in a voice that made it sound like no big deal.
“There is a favor I would like to ask precisely.”
“Pardon? A favor?”
A favor? The Grand Duke?
With a dazed expression, Elysia pointed at herself with her finger.
“To me?”
“Yes.”
Yulias maintained a calm demeanor despite being the one asking for a favor.
In contrast, Elysia had a questioning look.
Seeing how he had gone out of his way to visit the quarters at a late hour, she could not predict at all what his favor might be.
Could it perhaps be something dangerous and immoral that must not be known to others?
Sweat formed on her nervous hands as she did not know what kind of words would pop out of Yulias’s mouth.
“What kind of favor……”
In contrast, Yulias, who noticed the frozen atmosphere, twitched his eyebrows.
He had helped with the treatment as a gesture of apology in his own way.
Yet the Elysia reflected in Yulias’s eyes was trembling like a small animal facing a predator.
Did he perform an action that could cause a misunderstanding again?
Yulias held out a paper he took from his inner pocket.
“Unfold it.”
Elysia unfolded the paper with nervous eyes and recognized that it was something familiar.
“The paper written by the Princess…… you kept it?”
“Why are you rejoicing?”
Yulias asked back at Elysia’s voice, which somehow sounded bright.
“Because you carefully folded and kept the Princess’s paper.”
Although the atmosphere was cold, Yulias did not refute it but shifted the topic instead.
“I get it, so.”
Yulias motioned with his chin without adding further words. It was no different from urging her to check the paper.
She must have already seen the contents.
Was there something she missed?
At that moment, the hidden part on top of the paper entered her sight.
The handwriting written deliberately over the scribbled spot.
[Don’t go.]
“This is……”
Elysia’s voice dropped.
Yulias, who noticed her mood, spoke shrewdly.
“You said you wanted to do the work you are currently in charge of better.”
“……I did, right?”
Elysia glanced and tried to make eye contact with him, but it was not easy.
The deep orange eyes were staring straight through her.
“I do not know how to treat the Princess.”

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