The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 39

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Chapter 39

I felt like a child caught staying up late as I tried to persuade Lu.

“I’ll just take a quick look and come back.”

“I clearly told you to rest, darling. I understand your anxious feelings. Fragile humans can’t properly control their mind and body. But have you ever seen me say something wrong?”

“….”

“You haven’t, right? So just go to sleep nicely. You’ve barely slept since the first day. If you keep going like that, you’ll have nightmares and hallucinations again. When the body weakens, the mind weakens too.”

How did he know that too.

“I understand, so please don’t use that horrible term of endearment in that form.”

“Watch what you do.”

Lu, who said that, pulled out a new book from his bag. It was 【100 High-Class Pen Rota Empire Dishes for Skilled Cooks】.

I watched Lu’s face as he concentrated on reading, then obediently lay down on the bed.

Seeing his usual appearance strangely calmed my heart.

‘Was I unknowingly anxious?’

Lu.

He was definitely a suspicious person, but paradoxically, he was also one of the few people I could trust.

The Swordmaster also wasn’t someone who would be easily taken down when a terrorist attack occurred.

So me stepping forward here might have been unnecessary meddling.

If I pretended not to know, it would pass quietly as if nothing had happened….

…At some point, I seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

“Haaam.”

Ah, I slept too well.

I stretched lightly and stood in front of the window.

Since this was a villa located in the mountains, I expected morning birds to be chirping as I drew the curtains.

But outside the window was pitch dark.

The lake, the Milky Way, whatever. The world was dark and quiet as if submerged in the Deep Sea. Along with this feeling that the world had somehow become blurry and hazy.

“Hmm. Is this a large-scale mental magic trap?”

A mental magic trap. It’s been a while.

‘I often got caught in them on the battlefield.’

During the Mage War, there were quite a few mages who worshipped Grand Sorcerer Mephistopheles.

They called themselves Mephistopheles’ Priests and systematically interfered with the Allied Forces’ movements. One of their methods was mental magic traps.

A mental magic trap, simply explained, is magic that puts those who enter a specific space into hallucinations.

As the number of casters increased, the magic’s range and density became higher, making it harder to escape. Usually six people would form a team.

‘Twelve would be double that.’

This became very troublesome. If the assassin took the nobles caught in the trap as hostages, even the Swordmaster wouldn’t be able to move easily.

‘Lu is… not visible. Did he go to dismantle the trap?’

Our bedroom seemed to be free from the trap thanks to his arrangements. Judging by how I couldn’t feel even a bit of the stuffy and hazy air characteristic of traps, it was certain.

If I spent time here blankly, the trap in the villa would eventually be lifted.

But this moment was actually an opportunity for me.

‘When you fall into hallucinations, your mental strength weakens.’

Because of this, the military secretly tortured spies with mental magic. Opponents weakened by mental magic would relatively easily reveal secrets.

‘Enter the trap to save people and also extract information about Dian Cecht.’

This was killing two birds with one stone. Good, my task was decided. Then first.

“Let’s wash up.”

I went straight into the bathroom and thoroughly washed my body with warm water that had a soft fragrance.

“Saving people is saving people.”

The problem was in what form to save them.

From experience, all sorts of rare things happen inside large-scale traps. I might need to draw my sword to overcome difficulties.

There were two possible options.

【1. If I maintain the Weatherwax Baroness appearance.</p】

Return to the estate and tell the Head Maid about today’s events.

The Head Maid scolds me for causing trouble with the Weatherwax Baroness’s face without her permission. The Head Maid’s trust in me drops significantly.

If I unluckily encounter the Swordmaster, the Weatherwax Baroness and Andert Pager would be suspected of being the same person.

My identity would be exposed and I’d be fired for insubordination.

I’d starve to death because I couldn’t earn money.>

‘Ugh.’

It was literally the worst.

The Head Maid wanted the Weatherwax Family to be quiet and peaceful. A maid had to follow the Head Maid’s orders absolutely.

So it couldn’t get noisy. I thought of the next move.

【2. If I return to my original appearance.</p】

Return to the estate and tell the Head Maid about today’s events.

The Head Maid praises my hard work in sacrificing myself for others. The friendship between the Head Maid and me becomes even stronger.

Maybe my salary could even increase.

I’m a woman and Andert Pager is a man, so there’s no chance of being suspected as the same person.

When urgent situations arise, I can change my appearance with Lu’s magic, so it’s safe.>

‘There’s nothing more to think about.’

Unless one was an idiot, they could distinguish which was the better choice.

‘Everything is for friendship with the Head Maid!’

After drying off with a towel, I broke the wedding ring without hesitation.

With a horrible cracking sound of bones adjusting, my field of vision rapidly lowered.

Having returned to Daisy’s appearance, I was wearing my only set of clothes.

“This body is uncomfortable after all.”

I slowly left the room while adapting to my returned body.

And as expected, the world that spread beyond the bedroom was dark, so dark that I couldn’t even see the floor.

I familiarly stepped into the darkness.

‘This darkness always feels unpleasant.’

In the endless abyss, tearful phantoms reached out their hands to me.

[Save me, Andert!]

[Help me. Come here. Help me….]

I ignored the familiar screams and proceeded into deeper darkness.

After walking endlessly for several minutes, beyond the endless field of vision, the first victim was waiting for me.

It was Volkawin.

“Hello, Volkawin.”

Next to the dazed Volkawin stood an unfamiliar middle-aged couple.

As if my existence didn’t matter at all, the gazes of the two people glaring at Volkawin were full of displeasure.

These two were Volkawin’s hallucinations.

The hallucinations scolded him.

[Volkawin, how can a man like you be so unambitious? Don’t you realize yet that our family business’s future depends on your marriage?]

[Isn’t it because you’re timid and shy that you can’t catch the eyes of noble ladies? That young lady your aunt connected you with was the only daughter of a baronial family! You kicked away the family’s fortune!]

Volkawin shook his head with a tired face.

“I’m sorry. But I tried my best too….”

[Quiet! You’re spending your efforts dragging around people of unknown origins, aren’t you? You should be cultivating connections in Pen Rota high society, but you keep going outside and this is what happens!]

[Your father is right, Volkawin. Reflect on yourself. Teaching the children of mere merchants rolling around in the market. Is that what you, the heir of our family, should be doing?]

[You’re grounded for the time being!]

Volkawin gritted his teeth and swallowed.

“They’re not without roots, Father. We’re the same as them. I know our family business also started in the market….”

Was Volkawin’s father a bank president?

‘Hmm.’

His biological father seemed to be projecting his desire to advance into higher society through his son Volkawin. Even while crushing Volkawin’s own desires.

[And as I’ve said before, don’t continue your relationship with Yegersee Pafnula. Why keep associating with someone who fell out of favor with his biological father?]

[Your father is right. Even if you associate with someone, it should be with the eldest son of the Panuila Family. If you associate with such a pleasure-seeking young man, you’ll definitely be influenced badly too.]

‘This trap seems like one that targets a person’s reverse scale.’

It’s a common method. There’s no illusion that deals greater damage to mental strength than touching someone’s reverse scale.

If the illusion persists for a long time, even after escaping the trap, one could live like a vegetable for days or fall into a hypnotic state where they truthfully answer every question.

It could truly be called the optimal magic for neutralizing multiple opponents at once.

Mental magic traps are easy to understand if you think of them as a kind of board game.

Regardless of the process, one could escape the trap by breaking the illusion and finding the exit. However, while under a powerful illusion, it was extremely difficult to find the exit on one’s own.

In such cases, an intruder who enters the trap from outside must help.

“I came to help our Volkawin, didn’t I?”

And the easiest way to break an illusion is, of course, physical force.

“Sorry, Volkawin. I’m going to hit your father and aunt a bit.”

I apologized in advance and threw a punch into Volkawin’s illusion.

“Hueuk!”

The two illusions screamed in pain and rolled on the floor.

Volkawin looked at me with shocked eyes. A ‘crack’ called me had formed in Volkawin’s illusion.

“You…!”

“Volkawin, do you want to be free from your father and aunt?”

Volkawin, who had been at a loss, finally nodded after a long while.

“…Yeah.”

“Hmm. Come to think of it, I had a friend who couldn’t easily escape from family constraints either.”

Volkawin’s expression slightly contorted. Regardless, I continued what I had to say.

“That friend had over ten siblings, and every single one of those so-called siblings tried to use my friend as a political sacrifice. There were probably over twenty men she was forced to meet because of political marriages.”

“…”

“No matter how much she refused, the siblings wouldn’t listen to her. My friend was too kind, you see. They thought she was easy to push around. Then a pretty big incident happened. My friend, who couldn’t stand it anymore, caused trouble. A very, very significant incident. It was more than enough to turn everything upside down.”

Unable to contain his curiosity, he subtly asked.

“…What kind of incident was it?”

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