The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 177

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Chapter 177

“What?”

“And torture him to find out his purpose for infiltrating the castle. If the young lady who has always been frightened by such matters succeeds in today’s task as well, the Lord will be very pleased.”

You’re telling me to torture this attendant right now?

Thump. Thump. My heart beat rapidly. I could feel Dian’s body strongly rejecting this. This was exactly why he had fainted for 2 hours.

‘No.’

All this time, I had experienced firsthand just how weak and fragile Dian’s heart and soul were.

How could someone who found even manufacturing poison agonizing agree to crushing a life with his own hands?

“I… I can’t do it. I’m not confident enough yet to go that far…”

As I stepped back, the man burst into loud anger.

“Get a grip, young lady! Wasn’t fainting once enough for you!”

I clutched my chest and slowly caught my breath.

Calm down, Dian. There’s nothing to fear. I’m here. I can protect you…

“Are you planning to waste this precious opportunity? The Lord has been evaluating you very highly recently! Do you think he doesn’t know that you climb the spire every night and gave young master Loke a thorough beating?”

“…”

“Doing your best in your duties, and the decisiveness to cast out trash that crawls up without knowing their place! Now that you’ve finally come to your senses, you should accomplish even greater things! Rip off the heads of those who dare rebel against Sereniye and hang them in front of the castle gates to demoralize the trash! Show those rat bastards the terror of Rogue and Sereniye!”

As I continued to silently catch my breath, the man gave a fierce look and signaled to the old man standing behind me.

“Since the young lady seems to be hesitating, you help her.”

“Yes.”

The old man who bowed respectfully slowly pushed my back into the cage. Then he firmly grabbed my hand and opened the lid of the glass bottle.

“After making him drink this medicine, we’ll pull out his molars one by one. I’m the best expert in this field, so follow along well, young lady.”

“…Let go.”

“This poison is a drug that blocks movement. Even a small amount causes paralysis, so for those who resist strongly, first hit them in the head once… Gak!”

The pulse I felt through my grip gradually quickened. I applied strong force to the hand gripping the old man’s neck and warned him.

“I told you to let go. Didn’t you hear me?”

“Guh, guhak!”

Torture? Fine, I could do it if I had to.

But what about Dian?

If I obediently tortured this man, what came next would be Dian’s responsibility. He might end up trapped in Sereniye for life, manufacturing poison and gaining the job of torturing people. I couldn’t allow such a future.

When I swung my arm, the old man’s body was thrown to the floor.

“I need to leave this place. Whether you report today’s events to Father or not is up to you…”

“Ah, ahhh…!”

Then, chilling laughter erupted from behind me.

“That’s exactly it, young lady…!”

The man who had been breathing roughly was approaching me with eyes drunk on ecstasy.

“As expected, my eyes weren’t wrong. That… that unwavering, resolute gaze! The look of contempt for the weak! I thought your mindset had completely changed since you collapsed, and my judgment was right after all. Yes, you can cast out even more coldly those bastards who dare lay hands on your body!”

What is this perverted bastard?

The perverted bastard who closed his eyes and trembled pointed at the fallen attendant with an excited face.

“I have mountains of torture methods I want to teach you, young lady. Come now, hurry and make him drink the medicine! From today, you will rise as Sereniye’s new star…”

Thud.

The perverted bastard’s complexion turned blue from my forceful kick.

“Star… I…”

Covering his vital area with trembling hands, he roughly furrowed his brow and collapsed weakly.

“Haaah. Bastards.”

I pressed my forehead with my index finger and let out a long sigh.

‘I ended up causing trouble after all.’

And what’s already happened can’t be undone. After pushing the two pieces of trash away with my foot, I gestured with my chin to the attendant accused of being a spy.

“You, do you know the black-haired maid?”

“…”

Passing by the wary attendant, I picked up a dagger from among the torture tools lined up against the wall.

“Follow me if you want to live. Or just die here.”

I brought the dagger down, cut off the perverted bastard’s pinky finger, put it in my pocket, and went up from the basement.

Was this the right choice?

I don’t know.

But the Sereniye I had witnessed with my own eyes was a pile of filth that whipped Dian like livestock, threatened precious companions as hostages, crushed dreams, encouraged indirect murder, and even forced torture.

If Dian resents today’s choice, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Separately from that, I didn’t want to abandon my life’s savior in such a disgusting household and return. That was my final judgment.

Returning to the bedroom, I pulled White out from under the bed and completely untied all the locks and ropes that had been restraining her.

“White!”

The attendant who had been carefully following behind confirmed the maid assassin’s face and rushed over. The two embraced each other and checked on each other’s well-being.

“My goodness, how did you get all the way here? Why is your face like that? Someone whose only asset is their face, how did you… Did you also get beaten by Dian Sereniye? You got caught like me!”

“Seeing you talk nonsense, you really are yourself. Phew, I never imagined. That you’d be trapped in a place like this…”

While the two were chattering, I packed my bag full to bursting, and finally held Ash’s cage in my arms.

Ash, who had woken up, tilted his head with a “Squawk?”

“Dian Sereniye. What’s your purpose?”

Cold metal like frost touched under my chin.

The attendant who had approached close behind me was threatening and pressuring me, but to me right now, it was just an endlessly annoying act.

“Hey.”

“For what purpose did you confine White and me…”

“Don’t mess around. Not if you don’t want to die.”

Was it because my nerves were on edge that my words weren’t coming out nicely? Was it just my imagination that my personality seemed to have gotten twice as nasty since coming here?

“What?”

“Wait! Wait, wait a minute. D-don’t touch Dian Sereniye. You can’t touch him.”

An absurd reaction came back, but fortunately the quick-witted maid assassin stopped the attendant with eyes that said ‘Are you crazy and want to die?’ I passed by the two and said.

“I need to climb the spire. If you want to save the monster, both of you follow me.”

There was no time to explain. I dressed more thickly than ever and moved to the spire.

Perhaps because my body had entered a state of tension, despite having much more luggage than usual, I was able to climb the stairs faster than usual.

“Haa. Haa.”

F-finally arrived. While I shook off my dizzy head and caught my breath, the two spies who had followed without complaint rushed to the cage.

Clang!

“Leader! Is it you, Leader? Are you okay, Leader? You’re alive, right? Right?”

“Wait. Stop, White!”

The attendant who hastily stopped the maid assassin clinging to the cage like a cicada looked at me warily and asked.

“Now reveal your real purpose, Dian Sereniye! For bringing us to this place…!”

Fist.

“What is your reason… Puek!”

“Phew.”

The attendant who flew pathetically and crashed into the cage fell to the floor with a thud. I was already out of breath and dying, so why did he keep getting on my nerves? It was hard to understand.

“I told you not to mess around. Why do you keep making my personality worse?”

“Squawk!”

“Ash says to take good care of your friend. Got it?”

The pointed-out maid assassin nodded with a flustered face.

“Ah, y-yes…”

Geez. Just from throwing a few punches, my wrist and shoulder are already aching.

I opened the cage door and stood in front of Lu.

He had rarely surprised eyes. His usually long, light, and leisurely breath was rising to the ceiling in short intervals. After confirming that Lu’s condition was relatively fine as before, I let out a sigh of relief.

‘Haaaah.’

Indeed, there was no one like Lu for mental health. Seeing him confined and tortured, my head cooled down and all anger and excitement crumbled like dust.

Lu didn’t get excited like someone else, or ask about my business in an impatient tone to understand my intentions, but just quietly gazed at me. This trivial waiting slowly calmed my anxiety.

Right, Lu is always Lu. Whether 150 years ago or later.

“Make a promise with me, Lu.”

“…How do you know that name?”

“I’ll free you from this spire.”

Lu’s eyes widened.

“In return, take Dian… take me outside this castle.”

Dian is young.

Unlike me, who would finish by saving a dying soul and returning to the original world, young and weak Dian needed a protector. An adult who would hide and protect her from these filthy barbarians.

Lu, who had been silent for a long time, moved his lips with a suspicious expression.

“What could someone like you possibly do?”

“Just tell me if you can promise.”

Lu. He answered the second question without hesitation.

“That’s what I’ve been hoping for.”

I took out the severed finger and approached Lu. I placed my hand over the stone embedded in the back of his neck and squeezed it like wringing a rag.

Soon, as the blood drop that had formed at the tip of the skin fell.

Kiiiiing.

The magical device melted away with a resonance.

After the blue stone disappeared without a trace into Lu’s skin. If it wasn’t my imagination, I seemed to hear an intense pulsation.

Lu folded his long fingers one by one, clenched his fist, and twisted his shoulder. Crack. The iron chains embedded in the wall came loose helplessly. It was strength absolutely unthinkable for someone who had been powerlessly imprisoned until now.

His freed body rose to the ground, swallowing the moonlight falling through the bars. Lu’s body receiving the light was delicate and beautiful. With his eyes closed, he drew in breath as if savoring it, then exhaled again.

Haah…

It was breath drawn up from deep within his lungs.

He turned his neck slowly like a phantom. With each large movement, the back muscles that had been crouched stretched out long like a ravine meeting heavy rain. As their master led them, all the blood and flesh that made him up stretched leisurely and methodically without hurrying.

Had Lu always been this big?

As if mocking my doubt, golden eyes filled with vivid light of life looked back at me.

“…Did you ask me to take you outside this castle?”

A large hand that suddenly approached pulled my chin up. It was a touch so soft it was alien, contrasting with the rough action.

Lowering his head to meet my eyes, he whispered with a fierce smile.

“As promised, I’ll keep you by my side until death, green eyes.”

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