The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 87

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Episode 87

It’s already been three months since I started working at the Baron’s house.

Life here suited me quite well.

“I told you to get out!”

Crash!

Even though Michelle screamed and threw whatever she could get her hands on, it was a fairly decent life.

My life was very secure.

“Miss, please be careful not to hurt your hands when throwing things. Especially watch your wrists.”

“Are you crazy?”

“I’m just worried about you, Miss.”

With the mindset that you can’t spit on a smiling face, I smiled cheerfully anywhere and everywhere.

Michelle had a look that said, “What kind of person is this?”

‘This is all experience.’

The Baron’s house with just a bad-tempered young lady was better than the Marquis House where incidents and accidents were daily occurrences.

Lady Michelle just had a nasty personality. Sometimes… no, often she threw things, but still.

“…How annoying.”

When things didn’t go her way, Michelle threw a tantrum and then collapsed from exhaustion.

When she’s quiet like this, she really looks like an angel.

Michelle with her light brown hair hanging down looked dreamy and lovely, as if she belonged in a fairy tale.

“Why do you smile so annoyingly?”

“Smiling brings good fortune.”

“Fortune?”

Michelle frowned as if she didn’t understand.

“Then how much do I need to smile for enough fortune to come and chase away one old snake?”

“…”

I didn’t give any answer.

Michelle threw tantrums tirelessly every single day without fail.

It wasn’t just because the Baron’s house was better than the Marquis House that I quietly watched over her.

‘Because she’s pitiful.’

The servants here were generally fed up with her tantrums, but some others felt sorry for Michelle.

At the end of last year, Michelle lost her parents.

The Baron’s house runs a food trading company, and Michelle’s parents encountered bandits while crossing the mountains for an important deal.

That’s how Michelle lost her parents so meaninglessly.

When the head of the family and trading company disappeared overnight, Michelle, the only blood relative, had to take that position.

No, that’s what was supposed to happen. If her uncle hadn’t appeared.

The man who suddenly showed up seized control of the trading company and family, citing the reason that Michelle wasn’t an adult.

Michelle had to watch helplessly as the family and trading company her parents had built were devoured right before her eyes, unable to even escape.

Her story evoked feelings of pity.

【So that’s why Lady Michelle’s personality became like that…】

【No? The Miss always had a bad personality.】

【…Oh.】

Anyway, this isn’t important, so let’s move on.

“Why can’t you answer? I’m asking if smiling can get rid of that snake.”

Michelle vented her irritation on me for no reason.

The snake she was referring to was her uncle, Gilbert.

“…Hmm. Should I be honest?”

Michelle’s eyebrows twitched. However, she gestured for me to speak.

“I’m cleaning up the plate you broke right now.”

“So?”

“How am I cleaning up the plate right now?”

“…You’re cleaning it up with your hands?”

“That’s right. I’m smiling, but I can’t clean it up with my mouth. Well, even if I could clean it up with my mouth, wouldn’t my face get cut?”

Michelle had a face that said, “What are you trying to say?”

“It’s the same with the snake.”

“…”

In fact, nothing gets solved with just smiling.

If you just keep smiling, your insides just rot away.

The only advantage of smiling is probably that it can make the other person let their guard down.

At least a brightly smiling face would look stupid to the opponent.

They wouldn’t think such a face could dare do anything to them.

After finishing my words, I wondered if I had said too much and glanced up at Michelle.

Sure enough.

Crash!

A vase flew past me.

…What a surprise.

No matter how pitiful Michelle’s situation was, when she acted like this, I couldn’t help but frown.

However, when I looked at Michelle, my dissatisfaction naturally disappeared.

Through the inside of her exposed sleeves, I could see her bruised arms and the bluish marks barely visible on her collarbone.

【You’re not kind to patients, Maid. You’re just kind to those you feel sorry for.】

As I stared blankly at Michelle, a voice that seemed both mocking and sorrowful passed through my mind.

“Get out right now!”

“Yes.”

It seems like today isn’t a good day for cleaning.

I quietly got up from my spot and looked at Michelle, who was fuming.

‘She’d be flustered if she actually hit me.’

She clearly had a regretful expression, yet I don’t understand why she acts like this.

On one hand, I could understand.

Michelle really hates me.

More precisely, it would be correct to say she hates everyone in this manor.

Because there isn’t a single person on Michelle’s side in this place.

Looking at Michelle, strangely, it felt like someone was about to come to mind.

Blue eyes filled with terrible resentment.

I shook off the stray thoughts and left the room.

Then a maid who had been nearby quietly approached and spoke to me.

“Shabrina, the master is calling for you.”

“Yes.”

At the maid’s words, I immediately headed to the office.

The servants in this manor called Gilbert either master or baron.

But ridiculously, he was neither the actual master nor baron.

He was merely Michelle’s proxy.

As I entered the office, a snake-like man was handling business.

Michelle’s uncle, Gilbert.

“I heard you called for me.”

“Ah, yes. How is Michelle?”

“She’s no different from usual.”

The man smiled with satisfaction and stood up from his seat.

Then he approached me and handed over a pouch.

I accepted it without refusing.

The pouch was heavy.

“Continue to keep a close watch on that child.”

I wonder how much was in the pouch I received this time.

Because of the money in this pouch, many servants had been tempted to deceive and betray Michelle.

And I too had received this money pouch several times, so I was no different from them.

“Understood.”

Michelle hates me.

She also thinks of me as her uncle’s lackey.

‘It’s not wrong either.’

I bowed my head and left the room.

As soon as I left the room, I unexpectedly made eye contact with someone.

Michelle, looking down at me from the top of the stairs.

She glared at me intently, then straightened her body.

* * *

“You’re fired.”

I knew this would happen.

Michelle opened her eyes fiercely and glared at me.

“You’re fired, I said. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Lady.”

What could I do when the lady of this house says I’m fired?

The servants of this place ignored Michelle, saying she had no real power.

Whatever Michelle said, if they went to her uncle and explained their grievances, they could be rehired by the uncle and remain here.

It might seem strange that a powerful person like her uncle would listen to every word from the servants.

However, there was no surer means of imprinting Michelle’s position than this.

Gilbert was making it clear.

The fact that she didn’t even have the right to fire a single servant.

“…I said you’re fired?”

“I understand.”

“But why is your reaction like that? Are you going to tattle to that snake too?”

“No. I’ll pack my things and leave today.”

Michelle looked at me as if she couldn’t believe it.

“Thank you for everything until now.”

“…What.”

I bowed my head to her and went outside.

And I began packing my belongings.

“Shabrina, what are you doing right now?”

“I was fired by Lady Michelle.”

The maids around me looked at me in surprise.

“The Lady is really going too far. You treated her so well… She really doesn’t know how to be grateful!”

…Does a noble lady really need to feel gratitude toward a servant she hired?

She gets labor in exchange for money, and I just need to work for my wages.

“Shabrina, you don’t need to pack. Let’s go to the master right now.”

“No. Since the Lady fired me, I’ll just leave quietly. There’s no need to…”

“We can’t just stay still like this!”

Since when did you care about me to get so worked up?

It was a bit annoying.

When I showed no particular reaction, the maid eventually left on her own.

However, it would have been good if it ended with the maid, but soon the butler came looking for me.

“Shabrina, you haven’t been in this manor for long, but you’ve worked very well. We can’t let you go like this…”

I don’t know since when they’ve cared about me to act like this.

To my eyes, it only looked like they were making a fuss to trouble Michelle.

“No. I’m leaving.”

However, they couldn’t back down in the face of my firm attitude.

Before leaving the manor, I glanced briefly at Michelle’s room and then departed.

“Michelle! I can’t stand to watch your wickedness any longer!”

I heard Gilbert shouting from behind.

The sound of things breaking and screams filled with terror.

Before leaving the manor, I called over a servant who was nearby.

“Could you please tell the Baron that Lady Piela will be coming soon?”

The servant nodded at my words and entered the manor.

After a moment, the noisy sounds stopped.

Piela was the Baron’s mistress. When she came, Gilbert would transform to seem like a good person.

Piela was like a kind of tranquilizer.

I left the manor without any regrets.

Upon leaving the manor, I saw merchants and lively people on the streets.

Befitting a city with developed commerce, this place had particularly many shops.

Carrying my luggage bag, I was passing through those streets when I happened to discover a post office.

From the post office, a man came out carrying a bundle of letters as if to deliver them.

I stopped briefly on the street and stared blankly at the post office.

After much deliberation, I finally entered the post office.

Two weeks later, Michelle came looking for me, absolutely furious.

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