The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 280

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Part 2, Chapter 78

There’s a problem.

While I’m moving forward wherever my feet take me, my vision is far too blurry.

What had been lakeside dawn fog level visibility was getting increasingly blurrier as I went, to the point where it felt like it was pressing down on me.

This wasn’t the only problem.

“Ash!”

Fake Lu. You’re way too persistent.

“Get it together. What are you wandering around here for? Don’t forget that we need to catch Rien to save the residents of Solitorc. Let’s go.”

I coldly brushed away his hand that had somehow followed behind me.

“Ash, Ash!”

Don’t call me so desperately. It makes you seem even less like Lu.

When the fake Lu who had been clinging and trying to persuade me several times finally disappeared into the fog, I let out a sigh of relief.

But that was only momentary.

“What? Sister, why are you acting like this?”

A burly man appeared on the opposite side and casually stood beside me.

Light brown hair and sharp green eyes. Even the long scar on his face was so similar to the real thing that it was hard to distinguish, but…

“Get it together! The sister I knew wasn’t like this. Go quickly and save the people. Are you planning to disappoint me?”

“Has this guy lost his mind.”

Before I knew it, I had smacked the fake Andert on the head. Andert touched his head with a dazed expression, then bumbled after me before disappearing. Crazy bastard.

Every single one of them is utterly clumsy.

‘First of all… this is definitely not a trap that invades and breaks down my mind.’

The evidence was that all the surrounding figures were being misinterpreted. That meant the entity doing the misinterpreting was controlling this world…

“Ash.”

Now who is it this time?

“Ash, do you remember me?”

Without even a moment to ignore them, someone appeared in front of me and approached.

‘Who is this?’

Perhaps because of the unexpected appearance of an unfamiliar figure, my steps gradually slowed. Who is this woman? Now even someone I have no connection to is acting like they know me.

“My goodness. You’ve become a full adult. You’ve really grown so much I almost didn’t recognize you… How is Andert? Is that child doing well too?”

The woman with a loving smile approached right in front of me.

In her gentle green eyes, sadness and joy showed through. I was caught by the woman’s hand and for a while couldn’t say or think anything.

“I’m sorry, Ash.”

Cold hands carefully caressed my cheek.

“I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry for abandoning you both. But please listen to my story. I had my reasons…”

“Stop.”

“…Ash?”

I pushed the woman away and stepped back into the fog.

Running endlessly, endlessly like that… I couldn’t hold back my rising breath and stopped.

“Haa, haa.”

When I lightly shook my head, my blocked breathing became much easier. Right. This is good. It’s gone, so let’s not think about it complicated.

I was flustered at first, but thanks to that, I realized the creator of this unrealistic world.

As expected, this place isn’t some trap.

The being that created this fog. Its master is…

“Rien.”

Stop hiding and show yourself.

Crackle-

Suddenly, an eerie spark flared up through the white fog. The spark that gradually swelled like waves threatened me with leaping flames and pushed me back.

The moment I instinctively stepped backward. I felt my heels become dizzy underneath.

A cliff had somehow positioned itself behind me.

This flame.

‘It’s trying to bounce me out of this world.’

Why? And so suddenly at that?

Whether it’s magic or something of a higher dimension. This place is likely a world under Rien’s control.

‘But the fact that he’s trying so hard to force me out…’

Doesn’t that mean there’s a reason he must get me out?

There’s something here that Rien can’t let be discovered. If I could break free from Rien’s control, I might be able to find that something.

I gritted my teeth and resisted.

The flames struck more fiercely, threatening me. They became waves, then spears, and now became a fierce storm trying to push me out.

“Coward.”

Facing the hot heat, I wore an openly mocking smile.

“Look at the fog all around, you idiot. Do you have so much you want to hide? What exactly is so shameful? Even so, the fact that you’re pathetic will remain the same!”

For just a moment, the storm of fire stopped its momentum.

Not missing that moment, I escaped from the cliff. I ran deeper into the fog with the increasingly violent storm of fire at my back.

Deeper.

Even deeper.

Into the deeper depths below…

…

…

‘…Huh?’

Suddenly I felt a terrible sense of reality that cut to the bone.

Looking around, the thick fog was nowhere to be seen, and I could see a beach where turquoise transparent sea waves crashed.

In the middle of it, a man stood staring at me.

Cold golden eyes like metal. Vivid blue hair fluttering in the wind. An indifferent gaze. A slowly rising hand.

‘Lu.’

It was an unfamiliar face. No, it was certainly familiar, but the atmosphere he gave off was strange. Did he know how to make such an expression? As if…

At that moment.

Light flashed brilliantly, and a golden sword was grasped in Lu’s hand.

Without even time to call his name, a sharp offensive poured straight at me. Following an admirably clean strike, attacks bursting from all directions instantly destroyed the defensive magic circle surrounding me.

Feeling a sense of crisis, I pulled out the corpses buried in the sandy beach.

Whiiiish-

…Wait. I’m pulling out corpses?

‘How?’

Red flames surrounded the area.

Lu, who lightly stepped back and retreated, examined me with a sharp gaze. Around that time, I felt that something was seriously wrong.

An illusion? Or was Rien’s delusion unfolding before my eyes?

As the magic circle made of corpses activated, dozens of binding spears fell from the air. While Lu knocked down the pouring rain of spears one by one with his sword, I, or rather, is this really me?

‘Isn’t this Rien?’

For some reason, I felt like I was inside Rien’s body.

Whether it was Rien or what, anyway I began drawing up mana and sketching something in the air. It seemed like I was moving according to someone’s will rather than my own.

‘Alchemy magic.’

Though known as one level below silent magic, for a great mage like Rien it was closer to tuning for deploying more delicate and powerful magic.

Rien’s thoughts floated up in my head like balloons.

Wariness toward Lu who had invaded his territory, the face of the morning star who had failed to steal his heart, amazement that despite fairly plausibly stealing Calepa’s identity, he had been discovered in such a short time.

Son of a bitch.

‘So Rien was that identity thief after all.’

But how do I know that fact? Am I really Rien right now?

No. That aside.

“Haha… I’ll turn you into rags, damn Calepa…”

Rien, could you please stop that magic that looks obviously dangerous?

I tried desperately to pull back my hand, but it wouldn’t budge. Rather, my body began heating up with intense excitement at the thought of trampling Lu! Damn it, what the hell!

Whiiiiiiing-

Dazzling alchemical magic circles too magnificent to take in at a single glance decorated the sky in succession.

My God.

No one could escape from that.

‘No, Lu! Get away!’

Following the binding spears, thorns wrapped in lava were about to strike Lu riding the fire whirlwind.

Suddenly, everything stopped.

As if it had been that way from the beginning.

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