05. The Mad Queen Talking to the Mirror (4)
[Episode 5] – The Mad Queen Talking to the Mirror (4)
After getting out of Vivien’s room, Ellie walked down the hallway, smiling broadly with the joy of living rather than her expression of sadness, and walking quickly down the hallway.
Ellie didn’t care if her forehead was dripping with blood. Rather, she was rather happy that it ended with only this amount of wounds, so she didn’t even feel the pain.
‘Live! I’m alive!’
It was almost a miracle that she was able to come back alive with only her forehead broken even after fighting against ‘Her Highness the Queen’. She usually had to hit her head on the floor ten times and be beaten to get out of the room.
“Ellie? What’s wrong with your forehead?”
“Ah… This?”
As she ran away with her frantic steps, a maid passed her hallway and called her Ellie to her stop. Seeing the blood dripping from her forehead, she had a vague idea of what had happened to Ellie.
“…Could you round up the resting children? I have something to tell you.”
Ellie looked at her fellow maid, who called to herself, and she vowed to tell her what had happened. Her maid, who believed only in her ‘rumours’ just like herself, and fought against Her Highness the Queen, she had enough of herself.
*
“Is that true?”
“Really? It’s a total lie that Her Majesty the Queen lost her memory! Whopper! You still have that b*tch-like personality, right?”
Ellie told her fellow maids about her story from before, almost as if she had just returned from the battlefield alive, and as if she was bragging about her own feats.
And Ellie put her bangs up and proudly showed them to her fellow maids, as if her own forehead scar was a badge of honor for her.
“I’m still envious, you didn’t forgive me even though I f*cked you 10 times the other day.”
“Only three times… I was whipped an additional ten times. My wounds still sting when I dip my hands in cold water.”
“Which of us is not like that? Have you ever hit your head on the floor and broken?”
Her fellow maids also swallowed dryly as they listened to Ellie’s story.
To be honest, it wasn’t that she didn’t have the same thoughts as Ellie. She wondered if Her Majesty the Queen had lost her memory, wouldn’t it be okay for her to confront her a little?
However, the maids changed their minds when they saw Ellie’s broken forehead. Ah, if you still fight against Her Highness, you’ll break her head like Ellie, get her palms torn apart, and curse her parents.
‘The sky is indifferent, how nice it would have been if he had died just as he was drowning in the lake.’
The maids all thought the same thing, and at the same time let out a deep sigh. While talking about various things, including the rumors of Her Highness the Queen, the story of the ‘witch’ flowed from a maid.
“Come to think of it… is the rumor true? Rumor has it that ‘Her Highness the Queen’ is ‘that’.”
“Well… Honestly, everyone saw it, right? Her Majesty the Queen jumps up from her coffin and comes to life. I got goosebumps… I was cursing inwardly, but I thought you heard that and woke up.”
“You too..?”
“Who wouldn’t look at that and think ‘that’? Didn’t Her Highness, from the beginning, have such ‘rumors’ spread even before she remarried Her Majesty? Everyone just kept quiet because there was no evidence.”
“But this time, we even have that ‘evidence’… so it’s strange that the story doesn’t come out.”
The maid who brought up the story of the ‘witch’ clicked her tongue and tutted.
The rumor that Her Highness the Queen is a witch did not spread in a day or two.
In the beginning, numerous noble ladies gathered to select a new queen. Those ladies were selected, sorted, and as if they were panning for gold, five of them were selected and selected among countless young ladies.
However, among those five young ladies, except for Vivian, all of them had a problem somewhere and gave up their seats on their own. Mental problems, or family discord.
In particular, a young lady’s family went bankrupt. Needless to say, the corruption caused by Youngae’s father at the most important time, the obscene s*xual orientation, and other gossips broke out all at once.
Corruption is the authority and symbol of the aristocracy, to the extent that common people say, ‘What kind of aristocrat would not come out of dust by shaking it off?’, But…
In the end, the young lady had no choice but to step down from her position as the prospective queen, and other young ladies had no choice but to give up her position as queen for similar reasons.
And among them, there were no issues or rumors, none other than Her Highness the current queen. It was ‘Vivian Liliensole’. Everyone said that Vivian was suspicious, but in the end no proof came out.
A lot of doubt and distrust.
It was Vivian who applied them all over her body and became her queen.
But Vivian didn’t try to calm down those rumors about her, and as soon as she became queen, all she did was beat and assault her own maid… No one could ever like her Vivian.
Well… There was a rumor that the reason she assaulted her maid from her first day was ‘because her majesty didn’t come back to her room in the first night’… But that’s just words that come out of the mouth of a maid. It wasn’t.
Anyway, that’s why she wasn’t even given the ‘castle’ of the royal family. Instead of ‘Snow White’, the royal surname, she still used the surname ‘Liriensole’.
“Ha… Do you really want to get rid of it and go back to her hometown?”
“…If I could, I would have beaten her up a long time ago and gone back to her hometown.”
Ha ha.
At that, Ellie and her fellow maids let out a deep sigh at the same time. I didn’t say it, but everyone was in the same situation. Why is Vivian’s maid’s job paying the highest among royal maids?
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I could understand it with just a little thought.
And, all of Vivian’s maids had a ‘background’ that required a lot of money. Whether she is paying off her family’s debts, or that she has to feed her family because she’s a fallen nobleman, etc…
Jukuk jjuuk
Just as she was about to let out another deep sigh at the dark reality, someone pulled Ellie’s skirt. Wanting someone, she turned her head, but there was no one in Ellie’s gaze.
As her head lowered naturally, Ellie’s gaze caught her eye on a little girl. Ellie and her fellow maids all looked at the little girl in breathtaking amazement.
“Go, princess?! Uh, why are you here…?”
A little girl, with hair darker than her ebony trees and twinkling eyes that sparkled in her ruby red eyes, grabbed her skirt by her skirt and looked up at her.
“What are you doing..?”
“Oh, I was taking a break with my colleagues. Princess, what are you doing here?”
Ellie crouched down on the floor and made eye contact with the princess. Then the princess hugged a book as big as her own torso and rolled her eyes to look at her Ellie.
As soon as Ellie saw the book, she could figure out where the princess was heading and why she was here. She finally noticed that they were talking in the corner of the hallway, and she asked the princess cautiously.
“Oh… You were on your way to class?”
“Yeah…”
The princess half hid her face with her book, as if embarrassed. Ellie looked at her, then she smiled and then took one of her candies out of her pocket and put it in the princess’s hand.
“Since it is a secret from the teacher, do I have to secretly eat it after class?”
With her candy in her hand, the princess smiled contentedly, then turned and ran at her gun pace. Seeing how worried she was as she ran away with a bunch of books in her arms, Ellie shook her hands in her fidgeting.
“Be careful, princess!”
It was one of the little happiness she could feel in her dreary life as a maid for her Ellie, that she would sometimes put her treats in her little hands whenever she met her princess.
The other maids saw her and pouted her lips in envy. The princess and her close maids are many, but opportunities like this don’t come often.
“Ha, but I’m glad the princess didn’t listen to Her Highness the Queen.”
“Huh? Why all of a sudden?”
Ellie suddenly asked what that meant.
“Didn’t you know? I heard that ever since that funeral, when the princess hears the story of Her Majesty the Queen, she froths to the point of frothing? Watch the person who thought she was dead jump up in front of him. Even if you don’t, you’re still a young princess, won’t you be traumatized? Even just looking at Her Highness’s face is scary, isn’t it?”
“Ah…”
Upon hearing her words, Ellie put on a bitter expression.
‘Even if it wasn’t so, His Majesty ended up like that… The princess is very pitiful too.’
There are rumors that it was Her Highness’s fault that Her Majesty became sad, but Ellie didn’t think so. If Her Highness, the Queen, could really take care of Her Majesty, she would never make things like this.
“…Let’s do some work, who’s in charge of Her Highness the Queen for dinner?”
“Do you have dementia? It’s you all day today.”
“…I broke my forehead today. Can’t someone change it?”
Her fellow maids shook their heads in unison. After that, he was busy avoiding his seat, saying he remembered something busy. Looking at those colleagues, Ellie thought.
Oh, friendship between maids is as thin as paper.
*
Bangsho went out of the room, and I looked at Ainsel, crossed my legs and put my chin on my chin, and fell into trouble. Isn’t it too much to be subjected to a ‘witch trial’ for doing something similar to ‘resurrection’ at a funeral home?
The witch trials in this world are nothing special. If you can’t prove that you’re not a witch, the cruel way is to burn them to death. How do you prove you’re not a witch in the first place?
It was clear to me that no matter how many excuses she made, she would catch the pod and drive her to be a witch. Did I resurrect because I wanted to? When I wake up, what do I do when I find myself at a funeral home?
“…Really?”
-I see, it seems the matter has gotten bigger than I thought… Can I cancel my words of help?
“……Are fairies always this unkind?”
-Even if you say that with Vivian’s face.
It’s like a mirror without emotion.
First of all, as a result of thinking with a slightly chilled head, I was able to come up with a few ways to deal with this situation.
First, persuade the elders.
The Council of Elders was something like a gathering of old nobles, with many families with enormous power at their backs. Because of power, they competed with the king, or in any case, they were a little annoying in the game.
It might be difficult to convince the elderly people who are stuck like that, but somehow, if I appeal to the elders by saying, “People have changed,” And win one by one the elders of the Senate on my side, it might work out somehow.
Second, I beg His Majesty not to divorce me.
No, I’m not married, and it’s ridiculous to beg a man I don’t even know and ask him not to divorce me, but it was one of the easiest and surest ways I could live.
But… There was a problem with this too.
-The king is now confined. He told me not to let anyone in the room… It’s been about 2 years. After remarrying Vivian, she suddenly started living alone, so everyone thinks Vivian did something. Actually, Vivian didn’t do anything.
The king, the ‘player’ of this ‘parenting simulation game’, is a jobless man in the corner of the room.
The king says he’s confined, he doesn’t see anyone, he lives in his room. So, it is said that the prime minister, Vinshaw, and the council of elders actually manage the country…
Until now, just listening to the story of the royal castle, there were more than one or two strange things. Isn’t the king an unemployed person, but unlike what I know, his first queen’s condition is also strange.
How the hell is this country going?
“…Crazy. Really.”
And the third one.
The third method was very simple.
“…Ainsel, would you like to run away together?”
Escape from the castle with a certain amount of property.
It felt like all my senses were telling me to run away from this place right now.
If you stay here, you might get caught up in something really strange.
