Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

That was definitely before the summer. Was it about two months before His Majesty's fall?

One night, for the first time in a long time, I received an invitation from His Highness Alexei. I've seen you in the distance and passed each other in the hallway many times, but it's really been a while since I've spoken directly.

I need to talk to you. It was a call in such short letters.

I got up. Even though it's been a long time since we met, I thought it was more important than anything else that you finally asked me about my wife.

After I finished my job, I took a bath, cleaned myself up, put on a little more gorgeous makeup, and went to my promised place.

His Highness was already waiting in the usual east room. For the first time in a long time, His Highness was quite shy. You must have been busy with business.

As I approached, Your Highness held me as usual. When I was hugged, I felt a little lean. However, at that time I felt overwhelmed with happiness and the moment of my wife's inquiry that I would visit, and I felt that I could not even afford to take care of His Highness's health.

His Highness gave me a mouthful just to touch gently. When I looked up at my face with dissatisfaction that it wasn't the kind of thing that I always devoured deeply, I looked down at me with a serious look.

(--oh, it's finally time.)

After that, he knelt down like a knight, took my hand, and asked my wife questions and swore an oath - that was the moment I expected.

"... I'm leaving the castle."

I didn't know what they said for a moment. His Highness once again said that I would remain silent without understanding the meaning of what had been said, rather than the words I had expected.

"I'm leaving the castle. Throw away your inheritance and leave the castle to put an end to this nasty inheritance struggle. I'm not coming back here."

"... what do you mean...? Oh, you think I'm going down to the minister?

Does that mean that you will be demoted? When asked, His Highness shook his head and denied it.

"I will not descend. Even if you renounce your right to inherit and fall to your minister, the situation will not change much. As long as I exist, this struggle will continue. So I decided to go down to Ichii and hide. Levi, I'm sorry to bother you-"

My thoughts have stopped completely.

I waive my right of inheritance. Nor will they descend. Go down to Ichii - that's it.

Not royalty, not nobility, but only man. I don't have any identity, I'm the only one.

When I took the time to fully understand the meaning of what was said - I realized that the future I had imagined had been completely closed.

In Your Highness's words, is this a decision now? Perhaps after consulting with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Majesty.

- I can't be a princess or a duchess.

And the bastard prince, who was a lover, became the only one. Return to the child of a woman with no public identity, the only man who may be the bone of any horse.

What about me?

What about me left behind?

Wait till you're eighteen, wait till you're too late as a noble daughter, and this is the result?

"... not really."

"... I'm sorry. But now that I'm at the city well, I can't marry you, the daughter of the Vicomte."

"Of course!

His Highness shrugged his shoulders as he interrupted and shouted in the middle of his words.

"... I feel really sorry for what I did. There are no lies or lies in my desire to be with you. [M] But for Olivier and for the country, there was nothing more we could do."

"You chose not me, but your brother and country."

"--I 'm asking Olivier to help you get along. So, as a reminder of me, it's new..."

Don't get me wrong.

I didn't even want to hear the crap of a man who abandoned his noble royalty and went down to the city well.

"What is it worth to you to renounce your right to inheritance and even to renounce your royalty?"

As soon as he heard my spoken words, His Highness took a breath, and all his expressions fell off his face - retreating as if he were stepping on a dance.

"It's uncomfortable. Don't ever talk to me again."

I don't want to waste any more time talking to men who aren't princes. At least that's what I thought then.

I turned my heel and stayed behind without looking back again.

- Leave His Highness standing still.

I could hardly sleep that night. [M]

I felt terrible. I was terribly angry with the man who had abandoned me without hesitation and turned into the only one, whilst flirting with the identity of the princess and wasting my precious time as a girl.

With a frustrating feeling, but still lying down just a little near the dawn, I heard a bang on the door. Even the castle servants are still here, mostly during the morning sleeping hours. At first, I thought it was because of my mind, but I heard the door slam again. Next time, stronger.

I wonder who's early this morning.

Suspicionarily, but in a hurry, I adjusted my hair and opened the door, and there were two Kintetsu knights standing there. It's not just a Knight of the Guards. Advanced Kimikaze with royalty.

"Miss Revecca Halostin, are you sure?"

"... yes"

When I checked my name, the two of you nodded lightly after looking at me, and then turned to me again. With a very steep expression.

"You have a restraining order. Stay with me."

"... eh"

A restraining order. What do you mean?

I was puzzled, but the two of you urged me to hurry up and get dressed, and I followed you behind me. Just a restraining order, but not very friendly atmosphere. When I walked around me, I realized something terrible had happened, like bringing a sinner with me.

Advanced Kimikaze with royalty. And a restraining order. Obviously an attitude like taking a sinner with you.

For whatever reason this happened, even foolish me could have predicted it.

If the Senior Kintetsu Knight with royalty came to pick me up and not just the Kintetsu Knight, it means that I did something to offend the royalty. In other words, what comes to mind is definitely yesterday's...

I was brought to a room on the upper floor, on the edge of the royal settlement. Though the furnishings were well constructed and well furnished, it was a very simple room with only one sleeping table, one writing desk, and one small cupboard. This room is used by royal servants and maids.

When I got in there, I spent the whole day with a female knight who looked like a watchman. I just sat at the edge of the bedding without doing anything with vague anxiety, and a woman knight standing by the wall without expression.

The movement was near the dawn, when I slept hard without sleep.

When I was woken up by a knight like yesterday, I was told to get dressed and wait.

After a while, he appeared as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who looked terribly steep, and his pale father. My father, who works as a junior official in castle service, was brought here by the Senior Kintetsu Knight just like me.

When my father saw me, he said something, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stopped me and shut his mouth.

"--Do you know why they called me here?"

His Royal Highness said in a strangely flat voice. The tone was quiet, but the purple blue eyes seeped with horrible colors that could also be called crude killing intentions. One day, I saw a chestnut-haired boy floating in a fierce mood.

"... yes"

The disrespect of answering royal questions silently is unacceptable. I tried to squeeze out the anger and killing of His Royal Highness Prince Wang, but I answered just that.

"There is a crime of royal insult."

"... yes"

"Probably in most countries. The maximum penalty for this crime is the death penalty. However, capital punishment is rare in practice. Even if you insulted the royal opponent face-to-face. At best, caution or a left transition, or worse, a descendant. Sometimes it is returned to its original position if it is judged that it has been fully reflected upon after seeing the situation. Do you know why?

"No...."

"The world of nobility is a struggle between legs. It's a world where we seek more power, where we hold each other back and crush each other in order to show and maintain power. The royal family is no exception. Sometimes royalty fights with each other, and sometimes criticism comes from those below. Sometimes you can throw words that can be called insults."

……

"But that's why I was applying the maximum sentence for insult, while losing valuable human resources. Especially in faction fights like this one. That is why capital punishment for crimes of royal insult is rare. But..."

After that, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cut off his words. The words that followed were terrifying, and I had no choice but to stand still in tremor.

Capital punishment is rarely imposed for crimes of royal insult. But in my case...?

The continued words were still as terrifying as expected.

"But in your case, it was a level of insult that you couldn't complain about even if you were sentenced to death. I asked Alec. It was often not cut off on the spot. Even if he doesn't do it, I can do it myself right now."

With his hands on the handle of the sword on his hip-His Highness said so.

"--Revecca, you! What the hell are you doing to His Highness Alexei?

My father shouted violently, but I am far from it. Because I finally understood how terrifying I was to my royal opponent.

Even if we go down to Ichii, he is still a royal man at the moment. I've done terrible things. I was so angry at the royal family...

"--You said you were worthless to the guy who decided to run away and couldn't continue socializing with you."

"Oh, my God!

In His Highness's words, Father shouted a voice similar to a scream with a pale, earthy face. My father knew I had a date, but he didn't tell me who he was. I was so upset to hear that my daughter's opponent was royalty and that she threw harsh insults at him.

"Words that deny the existence of a royal family, even if the opponent is not a royal family, should never be said to people. You said that to the royal opponent."

"... ah, ahh..."

I could only exhale without much fear or words. I have crushed the royal opponent with words that should never be said and that deserve the ultimate punishment.

The maximum penalty for the crime of royal insult, the death penalty. I may be beheaded, and perhaps even punished by my father, or on the contrary, by my mother and brother. Good and crushed the house of the Vicomte, and worse, my family shall die as I did.

If this had been another country, you would have been punished long ago without being called to such a place.

That's all I've done.

"Alec has asked me to send you a friendly message that you won't be in trouble in the future. And for the sake of my country and mine, I was prepared to throw away all my stature, the position I had won through my efforts, and even the woman I loved. On the contrary, even after I went down to the city well, I said I would choose a job that would be of little use to my country and people. So, what about you? How worthless are you to judge him as worthless? How much effort did you make to stand next to the royal family? What will you do for the country? What can we do better than that? Say it!

There was no way I could answer it, and I was finally caught in the act. Just tremble on the spot.

"Your Highness! The sin my daughter committed is also the sin of me and my wife who raised this. So punish us too. I will return my title and give my entire fortune to the nation. Instead, please, just miss out on your son."

I apologized desperately until my father sat down, instead of me, who could not say anything but trembled and sobbed in disgrace.

His Royal Highness the Prince looked down on us in silence for a long time. Keep your right hand hanging on the handle of the sword. How will my response be immediately removed and truncated?

- Oh, that's Alec's sword of the same design. - In the corner of his head where he stopped thinking, he thinned out to escape reality.

"― ― Alec is also responsible for this matter. It would not be so humiliating for the sons and daughters of the aristocrats to let their good fortunes hang in front of their eyes, and to be reckoned with by the words of those who waited too late to reach their age. Besides, it does not seem to have reached a physical relationship, but it seems to have done something close to it. I don't know how you feel, and he doesn't want you punished. I also appreciate the Count's steadfast work. So there is no punishment for the Vicomte and the Vicomte. However,"

After a period of silence, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was silenced. All we do is listen to it in silence.

"You've come to know our plan. I cannot overlook the fact that he is also responsible for talking to Miss Levecca about this matter. So, until it's all over, Miss Levecca will stay in this room. I'll have the Vicomte do business as usual, but I'll keep an eye on him. I can't even go back to the Mansion."

"... yes"

"And Miss Levecca. You deserve to pay for your crimes. [M] No matter how much Alec doesn't want punishment, it can't be a total acquittal. That's all I did."

"... yes"

"You are dismissed from your maid's post and given three years of discretion in the Territory. Forbidden to enter King's Landing for life. And allow the Count to remain in office, provided that Alexei's name and previous affiliation are not lost in the future."

"... is. Thank you for your generosity."

My father managed to restore calm and expressed his gratitude. However, I was dismayed by the weight of the content of the disposition, which seemed to me to be a generous treatment when it came to exemption from capital punishment.

By the dawn of three years of prudence, I will be twenty-first. As a noble lady, I am completely late. In addition, being banned from entering King's Landing for life is not allowed to come to King's Landing even during social seasons, that is - substantial expulsion from the social world.

Fatal as a nobleman. Now, using night clubs where many nobles gather to seek the next good friend will never come true, and even if the daughter-in-law is found, the relationship between the nobles will be quite limited. How valuable is a wife who can't be taken out of the social world?

However, in addition to the plain appearance, there can be no good luck in receiving me with such a reason. At best, it's a side room to accompany people after they've stopped living, or else to increase their chances of succeeding generations.

My future was as closed as ever.

Foolishly, I've been thinking about keeping myself for this period. Earlier, when His Highness Alexei was prepared to sacrifice himself for his country, I was just asked what more I could devote to it.

I wasn't as interested in good luck as I used to be. I even thought it would be good if I could continue serving the castle like this, even if I didn't have a bride. However, I was completely reminded that the unforgettable country aristocracy had begun to see me as a gentle person, and that I had received a passionate favor from him.

I am now a miserable and shallow woman who insists that I will not miss the glorious future I was grasping. The figure must have been quite ugly.

"His Highness Olivier. Please forgive me for apologizing to His Highness Alexei. I could not make amends for him. So I'm a posterity, please."

His Highness Alexei was kind. So, if you make a sincere apology, perhaps you will try to make the punishment a little lighter.

In that way, shallowly and shamelessly, I begged you.

His Royal Highness the Prince stared at me. There was no expression on that beautiful face, as beautiful as a statue. Flat expression.

"- I can't let you see Alec. He's lying down right now."

"... eh?

No way, somewhere, please.

The mouth that tried to ask me that was silently shut. The face of His Royal Highness the Prince was not a flat face with no emotions as it was before, but a creepy feeling of tranquillity before the storm that endured something.

"The night before yesterday, as soon as I got back from my encounter with you, he fell. I had a high fever and was badly depressed all night and it was painful to watch. He was exhausted enough to modulate his body in this inheritance contest. The fact that my meeting with you was interrupted wasn't all because I was busy. [M] All my free time was so bad I had to spend on the floor. The truth is, it must be hard to sit down and go on business. You poisoned him and stabbed him to death."

I have roughed up many words. [M]

"Oh no! I'm not poisoned! It is certain that I was insane at that time. That's why poisoning is so terrible."

"The poison is the poison of your words!

I bowed myself to the sharp words of His Majesty's cold, cold voice.

─ You are deeply affectionate, and therefore have a terribly harsh side. Many have forgotten it, despised it, touched it, and disposed of it. "

I remembered my father's words like this. I - I despised, despised, and touched upside down His Highness Alexei's tenderness - despised his position.

"Passed words become poisonous and easily erode the body. Alec is suffering from the poison. Do you have any idea what he was talking about? I apologized to you in my dreams for asking you to forgive me. [M] Besides, I don't deserve to exist, cry like a scream! You hunted him down until he did. [M] Since I came to the castle, I've been told" worthless bastards "and" worthless "is a word that should never be said to him. That's why you stabbed the weak one with the poison of words. I can't forgive him for letting you see him!

With so much peeling anger and lethargy, I had no words to succeed - all I could do was sit on the floor and tremble.

... yeah, that's right. I knew it was a worthless, lowly bastard and that he was very hurt. When I first met her, I cried like that, and it was me who comforted her - but I filled her with words that I knew would hurt her deeply.

"--It seemed like unusual suffering, so at first I suspected someone had poisoned him. The attendant's diagnosis showed that the symptoms were not due to poisoning, but because of the excessive mental stress, but yesterday he was terribly ill and could not ask what had happened. However, from the testimony of the nearby guard he was wearing, I can only see that things went wrong right after I met you. That's why I took you into custody. It wasn't until this morning that we found out. Alec finally regained consciousness today. I finally forgave him for not trying to break his mouth."

I was too stupid. She was shallow and foolish enough to say stupid. He tried to protect me from what he did so badly.

"I'm sorry. If only you had the option to bring him back when it was almost cold and be with him. But it was you who destroyed that possibility."

--At such a difficult time, did you two sew between busy moments and think about my future? --I wonder if you've done a shallow imitation. I was just thinking about being happy. This is the result.

"You treated the royals as worthless. The blade and poison of the words hurt my body and mind enough to cause abnormality. The royal family is the Lord of the Nation. To deny the existence of the LORD, and hatred, is tantamount to rebellion against the nation itself. But I'm sure you've always supported him. Even in adversity, he has come because of your support. So this is the maximum concession. Marriage is permissible if three conditions are observed. Of course, it is possible to have children and raise them. I don't mind going anywhere but King's Landing. It all depends on how you think."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who finally gave me such a warm word of affection, was quietly taken out of the room when he urged his lying father to stand.

--Then I was imprisoned in this room.

Nevertheless, the meal was served properly, and I was allowed to take a bath several times a week. I was not allowed to see the view outside because I was afraid that someone would see me, but I was nevertheless careful not to harm my health by exposing myself to the sunlight over the thin lace curtains.

I also received some books and embroidery tools at the suggestion of someone, and the elderly lady who took care of me occasionally talked to me, so I was able to spend so much time without any inconvenience.

It seemed like a long time ago to treat a daughter like me, who could not complain even if she had been sentenced to capital punishment.

I felt as if I had seen the generous side of His Highness Olivier, who was later described as the "calm and fierce king".

Initially imprisoned, there was no arrangement of feelings, and sometimes it was rough with dissatisfaction with His Highness Prince Alexei and His Royal Highness Prince. Even if you think of it as thick, you can breathe out when you dream of yourself standing next to His Highness Alexei as a princess.

But as we spend quiet days repeating only a few details - I think we have room to look back at ourselves.

After a few weeks, I was returned to the realm. I was surprised that she was freed much sooner than I thought, but the lady who spent the last few weeks with me told me a little bit about the situation.

His Highness Alexei left earlier than originally planned.

"On the surface, I tried to behave fine, but the truth is, your physical condition is much worse than I thought. That's why they said it was too early to leave. They say they move quickly to a quiet place while the weather is good and rest for a while."

"... that's right..."

I felt unspeakable. [M] It was definitely me who made his condition worse.

--The Mansion in the Territory was still under surveillance. I came regularly to make sure I was home.

With caution, I spent my time solemnly. Until then, I didn't do much, but somehow I spent days reading the mansion's books, occasionally helping with writing and paperwork, and at the end of the day offering my prayers to God.

Then, after the three-year deadline had passed, my father, who had returned home on vacation for the first time in a long time, came to me to continue living the same life as during the prudent period.

It is accompanied by my father and his unchanging twice year-old predecessor, the ancestor of one of the Earls. He wasn't even old enough to live in hiding, but he gave up the governor to his son sooner rather than later, and he worked on his hobby plant research every day. He and his wife were separated from each other when he was young.

Recently, I learned about me, and even though it was a simple clerical task such as helping with writing and summarizing papers, etc., I wanted to be accompanied by the other person and research assistant. I'm not interested in socializing, and I don't need to have an heir. That's why I told you to come and relax.

I was confused by the sudden conversation, but I had no reason to say no. I was invited to a face-to-face dinner that I called a date, where I began my life as the eldest husband's stepwife without going back to the territory.

Living in a detached house so close to the Earl's was more comfortable than I thought. There was only the minimal number of servants other than the elder master, there was no need to have troublesome relationships, and it was an unusual place for me to be troubled by prying.

I let you go except when you work with someone you're talking to and your assistant. One day I asked my elder husband to allow me to go to an orphanage in the Territory at my free time.

--Sometimes in my peaceful life, I remember that person's severely wounded and empty face. Saying he was lonely, he looked like a boy with tears in his blue eyes.

Among the books you inserted while living in captivity in the castle, there was something about the country's orphan policy. I suppose that book was inserted with some intent. The book described how many orphans have children who question the significance of their existence, and how important it is to be close to their broken hearts.

I was beginning to remember it by folding it into something.

The orphanage, which covers part of its operating expenses with a donation from the Earls, had many orphans. Most of them were children who had died separated from their parents, but many of them were unexpectedly children who were placed in orphanages under some circumstances and whose parents or single parents were alive.

- I don't want it. An intrusive child.

That's how I was treated, and I was shocked by the way children worried about why I existed and whether my existence was worth it. There was a boy who didn't eat because he didn't want me to die. Some girls escaped from the orphanage many times because I was a disturbed child.

They continue to deny their existence, and they deny their own - many of these children feel like they've been caught in the heart by eagles.

Growing up loved by my parents, I can't understand exactly how I feel. But you can feel that feeling. You can feel it and get close to the grief. Some children are saved just by being close by.

I learned about it long before I went to the orphanage.

When I met him, I still felt like I had a childish purity. So I was able to honestly accept him and get close to him. That very person who was worried about the significance of his existence at that time, he must have loved me because I was such a person.

However, how much did I hurt that man and woman when I grew up with that feeling of approaching and turned it into a man and a woman, and I was only proud of the royal favor and began to feel ruthless?

Just one word, just one word, and he broke both his body and his mind. The strong one who stood up straight without losing adversity, screamed and wounded his heart in one word.

At that time, I finally understood clearly the gravity of my sins, perhaps for the first time.

That's why I often tell a child who fought and said terrible words to a friend.

Words that are invisible or shapeless can easily hurt people. Sometimes it kills the heart. Once you say something, you can never undo it again. In one word, it can destroy the other person and their future.

That's what I can tell you.

--I hope you won't be a fool like me.

Speaking of which, as I learned a long time later, thank you very much for preparing this friendship with His Royal Highness Prince Wang - no, it is now His Majesty. He was a close friend of His Majesty's, and once involved in the research and improvement of crops, he also trusted His Majesty.

Perhaps this marriage was my surveillance.

But still, I was happy.

Grandfather not only gave me food and clothing, but also gave me work and free time, and allowed me to go to the orphanage. When I went on a plant gathering trip, I was accompanied by a lot of beautiful scenery and rare plants. It was rare, but sometimes they gave me jewelry as a reward to help me with my research.

It wasn't the gorgeous life that I had hoped for in my daughter's time, when I was loved by him, but the calm days surrounded by grass and flowers with my gentle elder husband seemed to have passed for me as much as a sinner.

--irreplaceable days.

That day - the promise that was supposed to have gone unnoticed on that terrible day of repudiation. I cannot help but think that His Majesty has fulfilled his promise to find good luck after his departure for me.

I don't know where he is or what he's doing right now.

The whereabouts of the missing Third Prince, who has occasional rumours in the social world.

Some were assassinated at that time, while others were joined by exotic princesses. Some people say they are traveling around countries in exile, or that they have died while traveling, but the truth is uncertain.

I am calm now.

I live happily ever after.

Therefore, I fully understand that it is a shame for him and for me to be equal to the sinner, but I cannot help but hope that he will live somewhere and remain calm.