Save Me

“Miss, Miss, It’s time to get up.”

I had a splitting headache. No, It was more than just a headache.

I shook my shoulders and pushed the person shouting at my ear away, then I wrapped my face with my palm.

My body felt like a mess.

Even if I collapsed it would have been better if I was in the bed, but I was on the floor. My body didn’t feel good because I had spent the whole night with my head on the floor towards the door.

When the pricking pain became bearable to some extent, I removed my palm from my head and opened my eyes

My eyes met with the maid who was by my side and she took a step back.

“Why are you sleeping here, Miss?”

“… the kettle didn’t have any more water in it”

Even I could hear that my voice was horrible. I coughed to try and fix my voice but it didn’t make it wasn’t very effective.

“That’s why you went out on your own? You should have called for me.”

The maid was talking to me as if she was scolding a child, As her voice echoed through my head it made my head hurt again. I made a gesture towards her as if trying to get rid of a fly, and said in a low voice

“Shut up, please just help me get up”

“Ah? Okay”

Thanks to her help I was able to enter my room safely, sitting on the bed I stared towards the window. The curtains were closed so there wasn’t any light coming in.

The maid followed my gaze and quickly removed the curtains. It was still dark outside

“What time is it?”

“It’s 6 o’clock in the morning.”

“I have to start getting ready”

I gently pressed under my eye, today I had to be the most beautiful and gorgeous girl in the world.

I would be Charlotte. Usually It didn’t take much time for me to prepare, I always had to get up early in the morning and dress myself up from head to toe

It was no wonder that the maids gathered in my room so early in the morning. There was no sign of me getting my voice back so I slowly got up and picked up a kettle that was nearby.

Naturally, the kettle felt light.

“My Lady, I…..”

The maid who pulled open the curtains came towards me. I raised the kettle high while quietly looking at her face that was approaching me.

The maid looked embarrassed as I tilted the kettle over her head while looking at her eyes, It looked as if i was pouring water on her head

At that moment, the maid froze. But no one got wet

“I told you there is no water”

“…. I see”

“Is that all you are going to say?”

Seeing me, who haven’t had many outside relationships since I was adopted, others might have suspected that they weren’t allowed to see even a strand of my hair due to the Duke of Linne raising me with care
(T/n: This sentence was a bit confusing, it either says with care or on behalf of the fallen daughter, but i chose care because of the next sentence)

However, the reality is way different from imagination. I was raised for the sake of today

A pretty doll that could be thrown away at anytime, a loyal dog made to obey any words that comes from the family.

That was my position in the Linne family, and the people who work for the family were also aware of that.

They called me “Lady” with their mouths, but felt that they could ignore me with their actions.

Even today, the day I enter the palace

I remembered how she looked when I collapsed for the first time and was trying to keep the blood away from my clothes.

Her eyes were not worried nor embarrassed

“….I’m sorry”

“…”

“It was my fault, miss”

As my silence grew longer, the maid kept on apologising. The maid couldn’t hide her anxiety as if she was embarrassed from me being silent for so long.

“Are you admitting your fault?”

“Yes, miss, It was my fault”

“You admitted to your guilt, so now decide on your punishment.”

“What?”

“You said you were wrong, so its only natural for you to be punished.”

The maid opened her eyes wide, She looked as if she couldn’t believe what I just said

“You said you knew you were wrong, but you are just going to let it go?”

“Ah, no”

“Then hurry up and decide. The punishment you will get.”

Her answer didn’t come straight away, I wasn’t saying anything but I could see that her head was rolling faster than ever. I could see that she though If she wanted to be punished too weakly I would get mad and punish her greatly instead.

However, if she asked to be punished severely she was afraid it would actuals happen, so she couldn’t decide. It would have been nice if there was a middle point, but the silence kept on going, perhaps because nothing was coming to mind

The longer the silence went on for, the more anxious the maid became. She knew that she couldn’t stay silent for forever, I was looking at the maid without changing the expression on my face.

She couldn’t stand my gaze and I was getting tired of keeping it up.

After some time, I forced the kettle i was holding onto the maids arms. Unexpectedly, when she saw the kettle on her arms she looked up at me

“Get some water”

“….Yes?”

“The wrong doing must be fixed.”

My intention wasn’t to scold her in the first place.

For many people, the nobles were those who had a unapproachable status. If the royal family was considered to be gods, then the nobles and the duke were in a position similar to that.

Although I was born a commoner and got adopted, I was still considered a Linne. Negligence of work deserved a punishment.

But the moment I entered this house, this was always how I got treated, and I even took it for granted.

The maid infront of me wasn’t the only person to ignore me, everyone who lived and breathed in the mansion of Linne was no different than the maid who stood in front of me

If you belatedly asked for the price of milk for what should be taken as granted, you have to put forward the authority you have with only the name

I was still a noble, so I wouldn’t be blamed even if I punished a maid or two. But I never did anything

It was a mistake I had done in the past, a trace of the me who knew nothing.

Although it wasn’t blatant, would it be a fair punishment for condemning minor discrimination?

Whatever I might do to her, all i could do was borrow the name of the family and push it for authority.

How funny would it be to borrow power from the family I am determined to leave from rather than escape from the shadow of the family.

I looked at the maid who was rolling her eyes with a look of embarrassment.

What was truly important to me was the path forward, and I was the one who would leave this place, following along a new path.

“Come on”

After me urging her, the maid quickly made a move different than before. She left the room while holding the kettle dearly

After the maid left, as soon as the door closed I sat on the bed.

Does she know?

Numerous conflicts were going through my mind in a short moment. The fear that at one second felt like shame, driven by an unknown feeling of fear.

The punishment that was ignored till now was all of a sudden judged, so the feelings I felt were normal

I don’t think she would ever know

She would just think I am weird before entering the palace.

It was the dusk of dawn

The dawn was passing through the window, feeling the faint light, I sat down on my bed until the maid eventually came back.

After she came back with the kettle full of water, I began to dress up.

It was the sixth time.

I was wearing the same dress for the sixth time.

Until the fifth time, I always sat on high alert, but this time was different.

Nothing changed just because I watched my surroundings.

I just dozed off when i felt tired, and when I felt thirsty, I had the maid bring me water

Every time I woke up after dozing off, my appearance would become prettier in the mirror

This face didn’t impress me that much, as time went on the sun rose high.

I was dozing off as if I was a sick chicken pretending to be a salot, but the maid woke me up with a low voice.

A guest came into this room where only the maids were busy moving.

I already knew who it was

Even if I didn’t know, it wouldn’t have taken me too long to notice due to the frozen atmosphere

I looked towards the mirror with a small yawn. I could see the Duchess of Linne

“I slept outside the door instead of a good bed.”

I could see him coldly looking down on me through the mirror.

As always, his gaze was filled with contempt

“You are being stubborn. But today you have to go to the palace.”

He was saying the same thing as Remigio

I also knew that.

Unless I ran away from the mansion right now, I was destined to enter the palace

It was something that was decided ever since I got adopted by the Duke of Linne

Wasn’t I adopted for the sake of this in the first place?

Looking at the Duchess of Linne through the mirror, I asked her a question that already had a answer

“Is it possible to not go?”

“Are you scared all of a sudden?

“No”

People thought I would be too afraid to face the emperor.

To be more exact, they thought I would be afraid of the reality that I had to die helplessly to a crazy person

Death.

The word death itself no longer held any value to me

“I’m not afraid of death”

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“Then what are you afraid of?”

“What does it look like I am afraid of?”

I returned his question with another question

The me, who had never asked a question before suddenly asked one without obediently answering hers, my mother, who was staring at my eyes, sighed.