The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 174

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Chapter 174

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Whoosh.

A cold wind blows.

At that, a bright yellow candle flame flickering in the dark space suddenly wavered. The woman who had just put a new candle in the lantern and transferred the flame stopped getting up from her chair and raised her head.

Had she just turned twenty? A young-looking maid with a pouty expression was looking up at the woman.

“The dishes?”

At the short question, the maid answered in a tired voice.

“All finished. Can I go back to my room now?”

“No. You need to finish cleaning the overdue stairs before going in.”

When she firmly refused, the maid’s complexion instantly turned pale. With an incredulous expression, she opened her eyes wide and followed behind the woman who was about to leave, whining.

“But Head Maid, it’s almost midnight now! Besides, it’s too dark to see properly…”

“Well, who told you to slack off when everyone else was working? This is already the third time, White. If you keep this up, it’ll be hard to continue working for the Sereniye Family.”

“What if it’s too dark and I accidentally slip?”

“Then you should clean carefully.”

“Head Maid!”

The Head Maid didn’t even listen to White’s aggrieved cry and left the kitchen.

White, who had been fuming in place for a while, eventually gathered her cleaning cloth and wax and headed to the stairs. It was already hard enough doing all the dishwashing in this cold weather. And now she had to clean the stairs before sleeping!

“What a nitpicky old woman. As if people would die or the household would collapse just from skipping stair cleaning for one day? This is why Head Maids are…”

Sigh. She sat down on the stairs and opened the lid of the wax.

Just then, she heard movement from the blind spot below the unlit stairs. Startled, she looked down and made eye contact with a lean-looking attendant.

After a brief silence, the other person greeted first.

“Hello.”

“…Oh, hello.”

White knew that this reliable man was quite popular among the maids.

Well, if nothing else, his face was quite decent. While having such trivial thoughts, the distance between them gradually closed.

White swallowed nervously with an inwardly trembling heart.

‘He knew I was working late and kept waiting.’

The attendant who had approached with large strides smiled gently and comforted her.

“Are you doing this alone? I happen to have time, so I’ll help you.”

“Really? Th-thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

The man took out the remaining cleaning cloth from the basket. Then he knelt beside White and whispered.

“The key?”

White, who had looked around, answered in a voice as quiet as an ant crawling.

“I haven’t found it yet.”

“The floor where he’s confined?”

“…That too.”

“Dian Sereniye?”

White’s dejected eyes suddenly lit up. Recalling the events of the previous evening, she threw the cleaning cloth she was holding onto the stairs.

“Dian Sereniye, that troublesome bastard! He happened to skip his meal today because of an upset stomach and neatly avoided the trap…”

“Sigh. You failed again this time? Look here, White. What exactly can you do properly?”

She glared at the attendant, gritting her teeth at the blatant disparagement. However, when she actually met the attendant’s cold eyes, her lips curled inward. She had forgotten what to say due to her own incompetence.

White’s true identity was an intruder disguised as a maid.

Although she was currently crouched down cleaning stairs, she had been given a rather important mission.

Namely, rescuing ‘that man’ trapped in the spire.

“It’s already been a week since the Leader was trapped in that damn spire. While you’re pathetically getting scolded for cleaning stairs here, who knows what kind of torture the Leader is enduring. Damn it. I knew bringing you as my partner wasn’t…”

“How ridiculous!”

White, who had shouted as loudly as possible in a small voice, poked the attendant’s shoulder and burst out in anger.

“You’re the one who gave the wrong poison. I definitely put the right amount of poison in Dian Sereniye’s food! It was enough to kill someone as small as the fourth son of Sereniye instantly!”

The attendant let out a small sigh.

This was White’s problem. She wasn’t meticulous in everything, always making them do things two or three times.

The reason for bringing such an unreliable partner on this mission was simple. Despite her delicate appearance, she possessed deadly martial skills. Enough to preserve her life in emergencies.

The Sereniye Family actively helped with Rogue’s biological experiments, making them no different from human butchers from their perspective.

They absolutely couldn’t stand by and watch their colleague who had failed a mission become isolated in such a castle and used as experimental material. The Leader wouldn’t allow such sacrifice either.

“White.”

“…”

“Remember, this is the last chance.”

Swallowing nervously, White received the glass bottle the attendant handed her.

Glass violet, one of Astrosia’s three great poisons. The transparent liquid that would drive Dian Sereniye to death soon disappeared into White’s pocket.

“If you fail again, you’ll have to assassinate him using your body directly. You know, right? If we can’t kill Dian Sereniye, the resistance experiments will begin. And when the resistance experiments end…”

He would be reborn as Calepa’s host.

Their reliable Leader would disappear, and a vicious murderer wearing the Leader’s shell would return!

White, who became anxious just imagining it, asked the attendant.

“If we fail this time too… ‘that plan’?”

“It will definitely be executed regardless of your success. So if your cover is blown, somehow preserve your life and survive, White. When our companions come, they can save you.”

The attendant who left his advice put the cleaning cloth in the basket and went back down the stairs.

Watching his back, White recalled the disaster she experienced three years ago.

The Rogue demons hunting villagers in the burning flames. Villagers, adults and children alike, being dragged away innocently. The voice that shouted at her family to become sacrifices with an indifferent face.

“Consider it an honor! You will become precious sacrifices dedicated to our unification of the continent! God will gladly embrace and love your sacrifice!”

White, who recalled the horrific scene from that time, clenched her fists.

‘Just wait. Even if I risk my life, I’ll definitely rescue the Leader here.’

The Leader was their only hope and beacon who would save the Kingdom of Astrosia that had turned into hell.

‘So this time I must succeed in assassinating Dian Sereniye. I must.’

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The next night.

After long deliberation, White decided on the method to assassinate Dian Sereniye. Namely, assassination using force rather than poison.

Indeed, this method was certain for her. She didn’t want to worry about success anymore.

White’s plan was as follows.

1. Leave a note to the Head Maid saying she’s returning to her hometown and disappear.

2. Secretly hide in Dian Sereniye’s bedroom and wait until sunset.

3. Assassinate Dian Sereniye and leisurely escape.

‘Good, perfect.’

Winter at Serenity Estate was harsh, so people rarely looked up at the sky.

Thanks to this, while the target was away from the bedroom, White was able to climb the wall from the downstairs window, break the glass window, and enter the bedroom interior.

After filling the broken parts with mud and covering the window with curtains, she hid under the bed and waited for a long time for the room’s owner to return.

Click.

‘…They’re here.’

Two presences.

White quietly gripped the dagger she was carrying. Soon, when that one person leaves…

“Repeat after me. I’m sorry, Lord Dian.”

“I’m, I’m sorry, L-Lord Dian!”

“Someone like me isn’t even family.”

“Someone like me isn’t even f-family!”

“Someone like me deserves to be hit.”

“S-someone like me deserves to be… Ack!”

“Since you deserve to be hit, take one more.”

As the conversation continued with content that was hard to guess, White was confused.

‘What are they doing?’

The presence in the bedroom continued to maintain two people. She thought they had both fallen asleep since it was quiet for a while, but to make matters worse…

“What? Why is this broken?”

Much earlier than expected, Dian Sereniye discovered the broken glass window.

‘I’ve been caught.’

This is dangerous.

If the state of the glass window became known to the Head of the House, he would try to investigate the bedroom, and her position would be discovered soon.

‘I need to deal with this before that happens.’

Right now.

White slowly crawled out from under the bed. And then she attacked Dian Sereniye from behind as he was examining the window…

“…Huh?”

She was supposed to attack him…?

White froze solid with a dumbfounded expression, unable to move.

In front of her, having just crawled out from under the bed, Dian Sereniye was standing there as if he had been waiting.

“So it’s you? The one who poisoned Dian.”

His calm smile sent chills down her spine.

White instinctively swung her dagger, but the blade’s tip couldn’t reach Dian. The second and third attacks were the same.

As White swung her dagger in a trance, she realized at some point that there was a massive wall in front of her.

‘I absolutely can’t win. Th-this is ridiculous… I can’t even lay a finger on this kid who’s younger than me!’

It was utterly unbelievable.

To feel the same overwhelming pressure she felt when first meeting the Leader against such a small, frail kid? White was born a warrior and raised as a warrior. Her five senses as such were telling her.

This person is not someone I can handle.

She tried to take her own life immediately upon realizing this, but her judgment was too late. Dian Sereniye, who had instantly knocked her down, had put her in an armbar!

The fallen White made eye contact with some Ugly Man next to her who had his eyes open but seemed unconscious. Could he be dead? Her heart pounded frantically.

“Choose one of the two. Do you want to die in agony, or die in pain?”

At the chillingly calm question, White swallowed her tears and screamed.

“Kaaack, kek… P-please spare me!”

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