The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

- The fourth morning came after the entry of the 'Embassy of the Kingdom of Elland' into the palace of the Stanza Empire.

"Dear Deanna..."

"Here we go again... It's a flashy day."

Waking up at the same time as the sunrise, Deanna confirmed with the samurai what was going on outside the room, leaking a feeling closer to impression than bewilderment, like the roughing of a corridor that would become de flamboyant day by day. Beautiful marble corridors are filled with sand, mud, borough cloth, debris, etc., leaving you unable to step outside to not clean them. It is also polite and easy to understand that only in front of the room given to Deanna.

"You're going to be busy today."

"Will it start with cleaning? You can't go anywhere without cleaning this hallway."

"Right.... Though in this situation, cleaning alone may be tough. Hey, could there have been a mop?

"I don't know if they had it in their room, but it was in the luggage the Crestors made me carry."

"That's your father"

While it's still dim, I see Deanna trying to pick up the cleaning tools as a matter of course, every time, but Mia and Yuri have heads. Their common sense has remained destroyed since the second day, when Deanna, back from Iftanne, saw the situation in the vandalized room and first said, "Oh, my God, we have to clean it up".

"I say every day...... Deanna, the lady in the good house usually doesn't clean up her own room or have cleaning tools, does she?

"I know, but please get used to it. There are only eight of us together, so it's better to have one more worker. Sure, the lady in the normal good house won't have any connection to cleaning, laundry or cleaning up, but only in my house, that" normal "doesn't make sense.

"That's right. Honestly, Deanna is better at cleaning and cleaning up than the kid who just entered the royal palace."

"Here, Eina!

"Because, Yuri, it's true. I didn't know Deanna was so familiar with the chores until I came here."

Rosalie is also snorting at Aina's words, which she has brought the number of people.

Lurie laughed bitterly at her fellow sentiments.

"I didn't have to be so surprised this time because I knew Deanna was out of common sense a little earlier than everyone else, but I was still surprised at first. Sure, in the Crestor family, it's normal for the Lord family to do their own chores, too, right?

"That is, the traditional of the Crestor family...?

"Yeah. It's simply understaffed, and the spirit of the 'Lord use those who stand' is stained with servants"

Deanna answers as she moves the mop she unearthed from the back (politely with a drain bucket) to the front of the door, with the eyes of a royal palace group that knows what's going on for the first time.

Kai laughed as he held a giggle.

"When I disturbed you in the summer too, I freaked out at Hutu. Sure, it was a small mansion for the home of the ancient Ginseng aristocracy, but even though it's definitely a sufficiently big building, there weren't ten servants, including Rita, who work in the dwelling, were there?

"If you include the street, you'll get a little more. But still, it won't reach the twenty. Kids who come as apprentices have stronger aspects of manners than workers, so they are replaced more often."

"In that sense, I wonder if it's about 'darkness' with everyone who lives in it that serves our home exclusively. But there's no way I'm going to have 'Darkness' clean it..."

"When I'm free, you're helping me take care of the garden. Just Grandpa Lan and Elizabeth can't get around to it."

"- It's full of scratches, but first of all, it's odd that the garden maintenance staff contains the name of the Countess as usual."

The samurai follow Mia, who sweeps the hallway with skill and skill. I've only been working on the front lines of the Royal Palace for years and their hands are really vibrant. There were two mops, so from the part where the royal palace group and Kai swept it up, we hand it over with Deanna and Rita and wipe the water.

Staring at them like that from afar and leaking couscous laughter...

"... Yeah, I knew it was the usual MENTS"

"They're the ones who made the hallway this way, aren't they?

"From the signs, first of all, I'm sure. Side rooms, samurai, they seem to be in the wrong place. I guess the executioner's pretty much fixed."

"All I can say is thank you in the morning..."

Like the nobility of the Kingdom of Elland, I heard that the rear palace of the Stanza Empire (Harem) was more active and longer at night, and that morning was later for that matter. Are you up early or thorough just for harassment on purpose?

- The day after Stanza's arrival, Deanna was surprised when she used her full afternoon time in the Glades before returning to the rear palace (Halem). Because the inside of the given room was so or so vandalized. The roughness was so flashy that even the empty nest would be a little more concerned, that 30% of the clothes brought in were made so troublesome that they did not fasten the prototype, some dishes were slapped and cracked, and jewellery was also pulled away from the hardware, which really clearly embodied resentment. Is it fortunate that Deanna's personal effects were mostly the only ones targeted and that the damage to the maid's room wasn't so bad?

Deanna isn't so obsessed with things that she doesn't actually get that much damage where she's been vandalized the room. It's just that I have trouble losing what this goes on every day and wears, so from the next day on, I made a detailed schedule for everyone to make sure the room didn't make time to be completely deserted, and they stopped breaking into the room until they ignored the voicemail.

However, it is hard to hope for such a convenient development that the stanza side will give up harassment itself. Replacement of hands and harassment of the 'Embassy of the Kingdom of Elland' continued uninterrupted yesterday, today.

The chipmunk attack on the residential area, thus tainted the hallway or thrown debris into the balcony, is dignified, and I tried to dry the laundry plainly, and it was thrown into the mud and just ceased to be used as clothing. If you walk down the hallway, people will tell you to yam, and you can hang a plain but troublesome little thing like stepping on the hem of your dress. If you are a young lady accustomed to Elland-style far-flung figs, direct harassment of the stanza-style may be quite acceptable.

(Well, it doesn't do us much good)

Whether they dirty the hallway, trash the balcony, or ruin the clothes a little, Deanna doesn't care. The hallways and balconies had to be cleaned, and even the clothes were half like sprinklers, so things that would be seriously troublesome if they were tainted hadn't dried outside in the first place.

And -.

"Really, an Ellander is a lowlife. Cleaning isn't the kind of job you or your entourage do."

"Look at that gesture. I'm quite used to it. Is Elland the land of cleaners?"

To his daughters, who dare to couscous laugh at the sound, Deanna mopped and polished the rubbish swept marble as she remembered the feeling closer to clapping than frustrating.

"I don't know... I don't feel like I'm being harassed because Iyami is over the dot direct ball"

"Because that criterion of discernment is strange, right? By the way, what are you saying?

"Cleaning isn't something you or your entourage would do. You think I'm used to cleaning? Elland is the land of cleaners."

"In a way, you're not wrong. The Kingdom of Elland is a country very concerned with hygiene."

"Regardless of laundry and food, no one knows how to go up to the royal palace samurai and clean them. Essentially, cleaning the Lord's room is the job of a samurai with a room"

To Mia and Yuri's frank sentiments, the three royal palace samurai of the day nod yeah yeah.

"If you are a good house lady from the beginning and have also become a royal palace samurai with an apprenticeship, though you will not experience laundry or cooking. Still, just cleaning is a good knock in, right?"

"Of course I do. Making the Lord's room cozy and beautiful is the least necessary skill as a samurai."

"You used to say that common sense is different when countries are different... on the contrary, I'm starting to wonder what kind of work this samurai does"

"It's a reasonable place, is it a general miscellaneous matter around you, such as the Lord's discipline and taking care of his meals? Otherwise - I thought these attacks on the disturbers would probably be part of the job."

Rita answered Rosalie's simple question very seriously, but the content is noisy for the price. The person answered, of course, all around him sighed deeply.

"Really... Deanna said so, but all I can say is thank you for your hard work"

"It's also a discipline or something to come all the way out to where you're cleaning and say yami"

"If you think about it, you're not a jerk, are you? Cleaning may be a lower class job in the Stanza Empire, but it's a compliment, at least for the Elland Royal Palace Samurai, to have good cleaning skills."

"Indeed."

Deanna can only laugh bitterly at the royal group, who didn't stop to chat and finished sweeping down the hallway in a really tedious fashion on the unleashed Yami Street. Deanna wasn't the only one who didn't care about this series of "harassments," she was tougher than everyone here thought.

Yuri, who collects the garbage and finishes using it, pulls the mop out of Deanna's hand with the words "thank you for your help". Following that phrase, which could also be interpreted as "It's not the Lord's job." Deanna returned to the room in a very personal way. The other samurai have already made the transition to cleaning the rags with one hand.

"It's amazing. I knew it, but the" Between the Red Roses "samurai are super capable"

Kai, who seems to have been under "soak up" pressure just like Deanna, was sometime next door in the attitude of sight. Until the end of the day, it seemed tough to rag while tracing the samurai's standing behavior. The unique modus operandi of the royal palace samurai, who quickly and carefully brushes the floor with her posture and footwork that does not show any inside the skirt, is certainly unlikely to be imitated overnight.

"All four of them, Yuri, Lurie, Aina and Rosalee, don't seem to be from that high rank. I came out from a junior samurai to a senior samurai with a room on tap, and naturally it was something I didn't like about former Chief Maris, but because I was too competent and able to work, I couldn't even find an excuse to persecute her, and she ended up with" Between the Red Roses ". The famous" Princess Ice Flame Rose "would treat the samurai badly, so even if you shut up, you should be able to kill the blind ones."

"So it was such a lucky candidate for Dee?

"That sort of thing. I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to former Chief Maris for making us all so hard as a pile, but with 'Between the Red Roses'. For my neglect of aristocratic common sense, we are all helped."

"In fact, I'm helping, too. This time, too, but knowing that I exist doesn't panic, doesn't make a scene, doesn't move, and he normally accepts and treats me. No matter how much Dee's mouthfeel, the longer he works in the Royal Palace, the tougher his eyes will be to see the heterogeneous. Especially if she's a born royal samurai, because she's noble or related."

"... surprised. You've always had a sense of common sense."

In a less surprising mood, Yuri shrugged as she came to wash the mop. The person told laughs lightly at his shoulder.

"That's what people tell me all the time, but it's not like I don't know the common sense of the world or anything. I know, and I still ignore it."

"I see that's a worse pattern than touching. - Anyway, as far as dealing with you is concerned, if we accept it fully as long as we are on Deanna's side, we have already reached a conclusion within us. Indeed, from the world of the Royal Palace, you are a foreign molecule, but there is no more reason not to accept it than to be certain that it is essential to Deanna.

"... the interests of the Lord take precedence over identity."

"It's about no matter. … and we don't know the voidness of being measured by who we are and who we are."

I have never asked in depth what days the royal palace samurai of "Between the Red Roses" have spent in the royal palace until they met Deanna. Still, somehow, it was predictable that Yuri, who had emerged from the junior samurai to the position of Deputy Samurai Secretary in a beat-up, would never have been smoothly sailed. No matter how hard she tries, what she feels in front of the Wall of Identity, which she finds competent.

Deanna grinned slowly at Yuri, who was farther away but had said that she was properly "Kai" admitting herself.

"... it's really good to see Deputy Warden of" Between the Red Roses "at Yuri. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have introduced Kai in peace."

"Of course, it's not like you weren't surprised. But you can see that Karin is doing everything she can to protect Deanna.

To Yuri's words, everyone who seemed to be listening to the conversation while finishing cleaning around each other nodded yeah yeah. - Soon, the hallway regains its original beauty, and on the contrary, even more beautiful than yesterday, with marble reflecting elegant and sober light. The daughters as Iyami, who confirmed the condition, walked away early enough with a regrettable look on their face.

- I just finished cleaning up my cleaning tools, and from behind the hallway reflecting the beautiful morning light, as if I had been waiting, a few rear house (Halem) maids with breakfast crept in. Diving the door as they had done, putting the meal aside, they slipped back again.

Where the signs were completely distant, everyone gathers in front of a table for meals without words.

Rita slowly looked up after staring at the luxurious meal silently for a while.

"... what do you say, Deanna?

"... yeah. After all, it's a regular dish today. There's no poison in it."

"There's no mixture of extracted poisons, right?

"Except if it's so cleverly hidden... as long as I can feel it, there's nothing in there that's harmful to life. Safe and secure, Stanza food."

"I appreciate saving you the trouble of detoxifying it, but it's even creepier than that"

"Yeah, really."

Yes, Deanna and the others saw the problem rather than "harassment", which is easy to understand and deal with. The first morning I picked him up at Stanza, he was so openly poisoned that he stopped fitting the next day. It betrayed me brilliantly, even though I naturally expected harm to my diet to be something that was also empowering, because I was so grandly vandalized or thrown in garbage.

While Deanna moisturizes her throat with Rita's brewed tea, she divides the meals the other samurai have been transported into plates for Deanna in small amounts. The remaining meals are lowered to the samurai as they are, so the large plates were promptly transported to the samurai room.

Before a neat table, Deanna thinks a little.

"- Lurie. You said the daughter who brought the meal on the first day was a maid attached to an individual side chamber, not the rear palace (Halem)?

"Yes, Deanna. Apparently, she was a working daughter, serving a side room from a prestigious family called the Ranchia family. Rumor has it that the side room of the Ranchian family is not so deeply loved by His Majesty the Emperor, but he can't ignore the existence of the Emperor because he is a famous family with a stanza at any rate, so much so that you go by and have several children."

"... as usual, Lurie's information-gathering skills are out of order. I don't mind if it's exotic."

"Different countries don't change the place where servant class rumors gather. Once you know the place and the time when people are gathered together, all you have to do is go there and listen."

"It freaked me out that I ran into a situation in Dompisha where I wanted information to flow because I needed a verb. Mr. Lurie, that skill alone will give you plenty to eat in the back world."

"It's a great honor to say that I'm still proud of the work of the royal palace samurai, so I don't have any plans for a career change so far"

Soothed by his friends' conversation, Deanna handed her memories about the "side chamber of the Ranchia family" that appeared in Lurie's story.

(Indeed... some of the side rooms that attended the "Welcome Party" held the first night were named "Ranchia")

She looked older than Elizabeth by more than ten years, dressed in luxurious costumes, jewellery that distinguished her with a clear and beautiful face, and was a woman who could see the power of her parents at a glance. He talked aggressively with His Majesty the Emperor, and behaved in a manner that was always brilliant, but in retrospect, only against His Majesty the Emperor, without even trying to keep an eye on Deanna, except for her first greeting.... She wasn't the only one in the side room who didn't try to get close to Deanna, so I didn't even think it was otherwise unnatural.

(I wonder if Lady Ranchia has changed her harassment methods. Or is that poisonous meal and the subsequent room vandalism the work of another force? Or it's possible that even the first poison had nothing to do with Master Ranchia and was deliberately designed to use her maid to turn suspicion on Master Ranchia)

... It is still inconvenient that you cannot move freely because you are exotic. All I know is that all the "harassment" since room vandalism has been carried out by the same group due to the signs Kai has detected for me. The central figure of that force, too, is yet to gain certainty, albeit with predictions.

I guess Deanna, who can manipulate Stanza freely, could expand the scope of her exploration a bit if she joins the gathering of information, but in fact, although I tried walking out yesterday and yesterday in the morning, it seemed certain that the Miyagi (Halem) would basically start its activities in the afternoon, with less satisfactory results. In the afternoon I have a duty to inspect the city of Iftane as a national envoy, so Deanna and the other maid really have to get out of the rear house (Halem). Though it is not sneaky to burden everyone any more in the midst of a shortage of manpower.

"... after all, to some extent, we should probably grasp the force map within the posterior palace (Halem). I'm not interested in the power structure of the Stanza court, but I need it in self-defense."

"You mean the intent of poison mixing and why it's suddenly gone, right?

"Yep. What I don't know is the motive for mixing the poison, or why I stopped it, is something too creepy. Whether they trash the hallway or hit the yammies directly, it's not going to kill you for that, but it's not good mental health for the poisons involved in life and death to appear or disappear at random. - Who is the mastermind of all harassment, is the mastermind alone in the first place, and if there are more than one, how is our relationship with each other, has it not developed into a force struggle that has hidden" harassment "against us? If we don't know, we can't even get ahead and protect ourselves."

"In every country, the relationships between the upper classes are drooling. - It's troublesome, but I can't help it."

"In the sense of knowing what's inside that country, it's not necessarily a national mission job."

The royal palace samurai laugh and nod at the serious Mia's gavel. Deanna bowed her head again to her dependable companions.

"Please. - We'll have to do something about all this because if we get interference outside the rear palace badly, we'll be" borrowed. "

You can't show any weakness when you want to stop in the rear palace (Halem) and be harassed when you are moving to make the "reciprocity" of Jiangmae come to fruition. If you tell Exiger, it's obvious that he'll move toward a solution to protect Deanna as long as he's been waiting, but it's also obvious that it's more risky to "borrow" from him later.

My colleagues, who understood Deanna's thoughts without saying anything, were rather bitter about Deanna's condition.

"Deanna really isn't a nobleman."

"Deanna is our lord, because she is the head of the side chamber, 'Red Rose', and now she is even a quasi-royal. You don't have to keep your hips down like that, you just have to give me a word."

"Lurie is right. - Even so, I know very well that Deanna is not the one to convince and order."

"Deanna wanted to support you, so you crossed the ocean."

Rita and Kai laughed joyfully at the words of the four royal samurai.

"Let's make it breakfast first. I've always said you can't fight when you're hungry."

"So, then you can work out specific information-gathering measures. - By the way, what are Dee's plans for today?

"I'm free in the morning, so as usual, I'm going to use it for pretentious intelligence and shaking for a stroll in the rear palace (Halem). If I stand out, it's easy for everyone else to move for that matter, right? - I plan to leave for the northern district of Iftane in the afternoon to inspect the lives of royal citizens other than the poor. Before I do, I need to make sure Porte's okay."

"Sounds like Rick's recovering pretty good already, doesn't he?

"Yep. I think he's in remission, because I can't say for sure until I see him properly."

"Copy that. Then I'll follow Dee in the morning. If you're going to act alone, it's better to keep a good guard, and Rita and the others are at ease, right?

"Right. Dear Deanna in the afternoon..."

"You'll also need an interpreter, so let Rita stay. - Would you mind if I offered it to you?

"Absolutely. Nice to meet you, Yuri."

Lurie, Aina, and Mia are strong informants in the royal palace group. Not that Yuri and Rosalie can do it either, but they seem to be bad at it one way or the other. Either way, one needs to get to Deanna, so Yuri would certainly be the right person in this case.

Where the story came together, Mia put her newly brewed tea on the table.

"So long, Deanna. Breakfast please."

- Finally, the day was about to start.