101. Engaged? You just need to bring your body (4)
101. Engagement? You just need to bring your body (4)
The carriage accident ended as a brief incident.
Only the wheel fell into a hole, and there was no other problem with the carriage.
That’s why I think Nadia listened to my words and saved the coachman’s life.
‘If a serious problem had arisen, I would have had others kill the coachman when I arrived at the mansion.’
Fortunately, I was able to prevent that future that did not happen by persuading him, but I thought that his lack of hesitation in killing people needed to be changed.
If such situations come together, they may end up grabbing Nadia’s neck.
“Well, we’ve arrived. “Matriarch.”
Kkiik-
The carriage stops as the driver’s voice is heard.
Starting in the morning when the sun rose brightly, the moon rose deep and cool at dawn.
‘I was at home until yesterday. ‘Why am I here?’
Instantly kidnapped by Nadia.
I opened the carriage door, went out, and waited for Nadia to come out.
Nadia reached out her hand to me with a tired look on her face.
I gently took her hand and helped Nadia out of her carriage.
“Good job, Nadia.”
“… Yes, Damian did a good job too.”
Nadia got out of the carriage gracefully, maintaining her dignity.
Then she looked at me with her emotionless face and said,
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“I was able to come a little more comfortably because Damien was by my side. “I think it’s right that Damien should be by my side.”
“I think you are giving too many reasons why I should be by your side… “
“But is it true? I felt comfortable riding the carriage today with Damian next to me. As if even my only weakness had been resolved.”
Tak-
Nadia took my hand and walked towards the mansion.
“So, don’t say anything. Because that is an obvious fact. “To me, that means something that doesn’t change.”
Unchanging meaning.
Taxidermy.
Nadia seems to feel at ease when she has every situation in her hands and under control.
I was led by Nadia’s hand and entered her Verdium mansion, where I had lived with her when I was her servant.
“Let’s go. Because there are a lot of things I have prepared for you, Damian. “I’m sure you’ll like it, Damian.”
Nadia recited to me with confident words.
Her confident words had a different meaning to me.
‘You have to like it.’
Her tone of voice was similar to a threat, as if she was hiding a knife in her words.
I thought to myself as I was being led by that coercive action.
‘There is no way out, but in order to reverse the situation where the initiative has been taken away… ‘
At that time, when I was imprisoned, I guess I would have no choice but to respond strongly, just like Bluebell said.
That thought occurred to me as I looked at Nadia’s small hands.
***
The Verdium mansion was still gorgeous and wonderful.
Interior with classic decorations and Nadia’s aesthetic sense.
I felt an overwhelming feeling, as if it could be considered a painting.
“I think I’ll make a lot of money if I sell the mansion later, right?”
“Damian, don’t stay still and follow me.”
“Uh, okay.”
Only after the door to the mansion was closed tightly did Nadia let go of my hand.
She walked in front of me, gesturing with her hands to give orders to her servants.
“Prepare a light meal. Since it’s early morning, it’s light food. Also, make sure you take a bath right after you finish eating. “So that I can wash away my fatigue.”
“Yes! All right! “Matriarch!”
“And you are preparing for what you said last time, right? Be careful. “Do it right because it’s something you can’t afford to fail again.”
Is this the charisma of the matriarch?
There are a total of three matriarchs around me.
Nadia, Bluebell, Yuri.
Bluebell gave up her job in the family home and came to the north.
Yuri is probably still adjusting to becoming the head of the family not long ago.
But now, seeing how Nadia is carrying out the work of the head of the family, I thought that Nadia might be the most outstanding person as the head of the house.
“Nadia.”
“Why, Damien?”
“Are you good at your job as the head of the house?”
Nadia responded harshly to those words.
“I just did the obvious thing. As the head of the family, you should be able to give these basic commands. And, the servants who have been given orders must carry out their orders well.”
“If you say you didn’t perform properly, like the coachman… “
“You must be punished. “Because that’s natural.”
He must be punished.
After hearing those words, I could see the inside of Verdium Mansion again.
‘Acolytes working under strict rule. I wondered why those people had such stiff expressions… ‘
I was working to avoid dying.
As I was quietly looking at the attendants, Nadia told me not to misunderstand and added one thing.
“Take care of your money well. Those people just work for what they get. You also have to take responsibility for it. “There are many applicants.”
“Hmm, I see.”
Life allowance.
That’s what it feels like.
Well, if you just pamper them without giving them anything, there will be no one left in the mansion.
I decided to think of it as a rule of the mansion with Nadia’s own philosophy.
Just like that, we arrived at the restaurant while walking behind Nadia.
“Sit down, Damian. “Next to me.”
Tuk Tuk-
Nadia knocks on the chair asking me to sit next to her.
Since it seemed like there were no impure intentions, I sat down next to Nadia without saying a word.
All the food was already set on the table.
“You cook faster than I thought… “
“I’m also interested in gourmet food. The chefs are also good. Damien will be satisfied when he lives in the mansion. “Take a bite first.”
Nadia scooped up some simple potato soup with a spoon and brought it to my mouth.
“Open your mouth, Damian.”
“… Not a child. “I will eat alone.”
Nadia frowns when she refuses.
“Open your mouth. “Can’t you hear me?”
“I eat it myself-“
“… “Okay, I understand.”
Clatter-
Nadia placed her spoon in the soup.
Then, he gestured to one of his servants and gave an order.
“Punish the chef who made the potato soup.”
“Wh, what?”
“Damian doesn’t want to eat. “I have doubts about what the chef did with the food.”
Crazy.
Are you threatening me with the chef’s life just because I didn’t take it?
‘But, if I get to eat food now like last time… ‘
The initiative would be taken away again.
You must come to your senses.
Nadia’s actions now are to take the initiative from me.
It is a process to make me like a doll so that I cannot do anything after killing my spirit.
‘At that time… Even when I was imprisoned… I used this method… ‘
I will not suffer anymore.
I made that promise and spoke to Nadia.
The words I thought of from the carriage.
“I said I didn’t want to take it, but I never blamed the chef, Nadia.”
“That sounds the same, Damian. Since I said I didn’t want to eat the food, it’s the chef’s fault. Am i wrong? “Then it goes without saying that the cook should be punished.”
“… I think not. Nadia, if you punish the cook… I am… ”
I think I’m going to hate you.
“What… ?”
“Literally. “I think I’m going to hate you for not valuing life.”
Nadia blinked her eyes, as if she was embarrassed by my words.
It seemed like I had never imagined such words would come out of my mouth.
When he finally came to his senses, he shouted in an incredulous tone.
“Damian… You now… He was saying that he hated me… ? How dare you… ?”
“I’m not saying I don’t like it.”
“Then what is it!!”
“I mean, you might end up hating it. “If you punish the cook.”
“… “
Nadia was embarrassed by those words and pursed her lips.
She seemed to have forgotten what to say.
And, she didn’t seem to be very pleased with the situation of losing the initiative.
“… “I didn’t know you’d turn out like this, did you, Damien?”
“I just spoke my mind.”
“Ha, that’s fun. Yes, this is how it is like Damian. My Damien always tried to escape from my hands. But you know what?”
Boom!!
Nadia put her hands down on the table and glared at me with fierce eyes.
“You can never get out of my hands, Damian. Because the engagement will take place unconditionally. I’m tired today so I’ll skip it. It would be best not to mess with the engagement. “At that time, I was the real one.”
Because if I kill you, I could die too.
“Because I never plan on missing it twice. You’d better think straight. Okay?”
“… “
I nodded cautiously at Nadia’s words.
Then, as if she was at least satisfied, she got up from her seat and left her restaurant.
She left an order with her servant.
“… When Damian finishes eating, he takes us to his room. Make sure you can enjoy your meal slowly to recover from fatigue. And, I know you’ll die if you touch her. Be careful.”
A voice containing commands and warnings.
Just like that, Nadia left the restaurant, and I ended up eating alone at the huge table in a restaurant where there were about 4 people left.
I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“Ha, my heart hurts… The intimidating feeling is really the head of the family… “
I thought you would either kill the real chef or kill me.
Still, one hypothesis has been proven, so can we consider ourselves fortunate?
“Even Nadia is strong inside and out. “You’re afraid of being disliked by me.”
When she didn’t say it out loud, she just did it because she didn’t know that I didn’t like it.
When you apply the brakes to Nadia, who is going straight, she tries to go backwards.
Still, I made the soup myself with a satisfied smile, thinking that I had succeeded.
I used my own body and put it in my mouth.
“… As Nadia said, the food is really excellent. “He’s a good cook.”
It’s delicious.
This is the most delicious potato soup I’ve ever had.
I filled my hungry stomach and drank potato soup.
With as much noble courtesy as possible.
But, did it look different in the eyes of other people?
“I happened to catch the eyes of the head of the family… “
“You must be pitiful…”
“…
For some reason, the servants were looking at me with pitiful eyes.
No matter how much he was a servant, he seemed well aware of the fact that his master was strange.
