The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70

The question was so unexpected that Malicops unconsciously licked his lips.

“What do you mean by the body breaking down…?”

At the same time, a realization struck his mind like a blow.

‘Could he be talking about that maid who looks half-dead?’

Astonishing. It was hard to believe.

‘Such a young man?’

Malicops pondered Lu’s question with confused feelings.

Based on his brief statement, the maid Daisy seemed to have just reached the second stage.

‘The second stage is where the body is restructured. If there was enlightenment after being pierced by a sword like now, it should heal quickly leaving only scars.’

Malicops carefully raised his head to examine Daisy. Her face was pitiful enough to make him unconsciously click his tongue.

Moreover, far from scars, the blood from the sutured area was still wet. At a glance, it was clear that physical restructuring had not occurred.

‘…If her body condition is so abnormal that the truth of mind-body unity doesn’t apply.’

He had his suspicions.

“Renya? Go to the room and bring the Lereria telescope. It should be in the blue-green metal box.”

“Yes, yes.”

Renya, who had been standing like a shadow, quickly left the room.

The Lereria telescope was a magical tool that could peer into souls.

Originally developed for soul research purposes, it had been abandoned long ago due to lack of results.

Malicops carefully opened the box Renya brought and said.

“Kalerpa. I believe I can offer some insight regarding the case you mentioned. However, I would need to examine Miss Daisy’s soul. Would you permit this?”

No answer came.

Kalerpa’s silence meant consent.

Malicops lifted the Lereria telescope with somewhat nervous feelings.

Daisy’s soul, examined in detail, was exactly as he had expected.

“As I thought… Miss Daisy’s soul appears to be entangled with some unknown force from outside. What tremendous power.”

Souls take the form of spheres.

Daisy’s soul seen through the telescope was surrounded by opaque mist, which was precisely the unknown force that had flowed in from outside.

‘…No, wait. Something’s different.’

Looking closer, the mist wasn’t surrounding the sphere, but filling the gaps of a shattered sphere.

“Good heavens.”

Malicops instinctively let out a pitiful exclamation.

“This young lady, is she really alive?”

The shocking sight left him struggling for words.

“Her soul is broken. Shattered unsightly like a glass vase that fell to the floor and broke into pieces. If the energy flowing in from outside hadn’t acted as adhesive…”

She wouldn’t have been able to maintain a normal soul form. Meaning she would have died.

“Ten years at most. If this maid doesn’t reach the demigod stage within ten years, she will die.”

Daisy, the maid of Weatherwax, was fated to face death.

Sadly, there was no hope.

The demigod stage was a realm that couldn’t be reached even with a lifetime of dedication.

‘Poor thing.’

Somehow Lu seemed to already know this fact.

“So, what was that insight you could offer about the damaged soul?”

Malicops slowly swallowed his dry saliva.

In truth, he had memories of seeing a soul similar to Daisy’s long ago.

A past that remained vividly clear despite not being a pleasant experience.

“Kalerpa. The reason Miss Daisy’s body broke down as soon as she crossed the second barrier is… because her soul is collapsed like this.”

“You seem to have seen a similar soul before.”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

Malicops nodded heavily.

“I… spent nearly seven years during the Mage War era spying on Mephistopheles’ army. Their purpose was to reach the stage of mind-body unity without enlightenment, to extend their lifespan. For that purpose, they didn’t hesitate to conduct any vile biological experiments.”

Immortality is humanity’s ancient dream.

Some of the believers who flowed into Loqwe were those fascinated by immortality.

Humans who became demigods by surpassing the four stages of mind-body unity enjoyed lives close to immortality.

However, the wall of mind-body unity was high, and for some people that wall felt even higher.

Those with fewer ups and downs in life, those who had enjoyed peaceful lives, found it harder to overcome the wall of mind-body unity.

Because it was an insurmountable wall, they became more desperate.

Because it was unattainable power, some believers who became more resentful began to rebel against Loqwe’s teachings.

“Loqwe’s methods are outdated! If we keep insisting on methods that only favor certain believers, we’ll continue to be left behind!”

The rebellious believers began searching for new ‘methodologies.’

In that process, bizarre and terrible incidents occurred one after another, and the believers were branded as apostates and permanently banished from the North Continental Union.

The land where the banished apostates arrived was here, the Pen Rota Empire.

The Empire called them Mephistopheles’ Army.

“The experimental methods were varied. Mixing two or more souls in one body, or dividing one soul into two or more souls. There were cases of taking souls from those who had already crossed the wall or from animals, and they also devoured the purest souls or hearts. You can say they employed every cruel and disgusting method.”

Malicops recalled the terrible biological experiments that took place in the underground temple.

“At that time, I was maintaining relations by supplying miscellaneous items like Lereria telescopes and maps to Mephistopheles’ Army. Once, to prove authenticity, I used the telescope on children who were being experimented on…”

“Did you see similar souls?”

“Yes. They weren’t shattered like Miss Daisy’s, but they were souls riddled with holes large and small, disturbing to look at.”

“…”

“And unknown forces spread like mist surrounded their souls. I remember there were quite a few of them.”

From what he overheard, children with damaged souls were particularly vulnerable to physical experiments conducted on their bodies.

“They had the characteristic of easily extending or shortening their lifespan depending on the experimental process… but generally died young.”

It seemed Daisy had safely passed the first stage.

The unknown force that densely filled the gaps between Daisy’s broken soul pieces. She probably survived thanks to that power.

Lu, who had been listening with closed eyes, asked him.

“What about the force that surrounded the souls with holes?”

“Are you asking about the identity of the force? I don’t know exactly either. However, it’s certain they forcibly fed the children something unknown. I vaguely remember hearing cries of not wanting to eat.”

If it wasn’t his imagination, a faint strange light seemed to flicker in Lu’s eyes upon hearing the story.

“…’Eating.'”

However, Malicops pretended not to notice that look and didn’t open his mouth any further.

‘Curiosity killed the cat.’

For unknown reasons, Daisy was someone Kalerpa cherished. There was no need to invite trouble with unnecessary words.

‘That maid was probably… one of the children who underwent biological experiments in Mephistopheles’ Army. Coincidentally, the age fits perfectly too.’

Malicops, who made this assumption alone, felt deep self-loathing and self-disgust for the first time in a long while.

If he had boldly tried to save those children, regardless of spying or whatever. If he had, more children would be alive now.

‘Daisy becoming a maid at Weatherwax is also fate in a way.’

Then it would be right for me to take care of her.

How much time had passed? Renya’s face brightened slightly as she spoke up.

“Miss Daisy’s breathing has stabilized a lot! I’ll go out and buy medicine. Please take good care of Miss Daisy, master.”

Renya left the estate with a much lighter heart.

Though it seemed Kalerpa and her master had a very difficult and complex conversation, she couldn’t properly understand it and simply hoped Daisy would be safe.

‘He said ten years at most, right?’

She recalled Daisy’s confident eyes when accepting her reckless request.

‘Still, with proper eating habits and healthy food, she might live longer than ten years.’

I need to take good care of her.

Daisy is a friend who granted a difficult request and a colleague who taught excellent ironing techniques!

Renya clenched both fists with firm determination and left the estate.

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I’m thirsty.

I’m so thirsty.

My throat is so, so dry.

My throat is so, so, so….

Exhausted from enduring the thirst, I snapped my eyes open.

“D-Daisy! Are you conscious?”

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