Hugo got up from his seat, leaving me too choked up to speak.
“Oh, dear. It’s already that time.”
Before he knew it, his pocket watch was telling him it was time for dinner.
He needed to hurry to the dining room, and serve Duke Wolfgang.
I hurriedly climbed down from my chair as usual, but Hugo bent slightly at the waist and asked me politely.
“Did that help you?”
“Of course. Thanks to you, I’ve found a lifelong role model.”
Nodding, I clenched both fists and shouted.
“Aisha will be the master of the back slap!”
Hugo smiled as he looked down at me. He didn’t forget to add some kind words of support.
He was a really good person, but as I left the room with him, I thought I should withdraw the remark that he had common sense.
As I walked down the quiet corridor to the dining hall, where not a single noise could be heard, I saw the pale complexion of the servants.
Cooks, kitchen assistants, and maids that were serving the meals, all of them were more nervous than usual.
‘Surely they couldn’t all be scared of that psychopathic young master.’
Did they think if they dropped a knife, they would be on the road to Hades?
Were they afraid if they made a mistake, or even breathed incorrectly, that it would bother him.
Even Betty, who was the most soft-hearted among them, hands were shaking.
Tsk. If she was this nervous, she’d make more mistakes.
I grabbed her apron and shook it, making a small fuss.
“Hyuk! Sister, sister! I dropped something over here!”
“Wh-What?”
I picked up my finger heart from the floor and showed it to Betty, who was looking down in panic.
“It’s my love.”
“….”
“Oh, here’s another one. Here’s another one. And another one.”
As I circled around Betty, showing her hearts here and there, before I knew it I heard some giggles.
Betty, who was flustered, was also swept away by the surrounding flow and laughed.
“Oh, Aisha.”
Betty, who was smiling while covering her mouth, stroked my hair. She still looked nervous, but her hands were shaking less than before.
‘She should be okay.’
At that moment, Hugo, who was watching over us, coughed loudly.
It was a sign for everyone to correct their posture.
Among the servants who straightened their backs, I also put my hands together and stood up straight.
‘He’s coming.’
My heart stuttered like an alarm.
I didn’t hear any footsteps. Moreover, there was no sign of them passing by from the sound of their clothes rubbing together.
Who wasn’t lucky? Not just their faces, but they were similar in this way as well.
“Welcome, sir.”
The servants bent at the waist as Hugo lowered his head.
However, I kept my back straight and my head up.
Wolfgang and Levi’s eyes were focused on this action.
In particular, Wolfgang, who’s one eyebrow rose as he shook his head slightly. Even though she faced the red-black eyes that glistened like glass beads, she tried not to let her hands shake like Betty’s.
“Neglectful.”
“….”
“Lack of perseverance.”
What? Why was there one more?
Oh, I guess he was quite unhappy with the fact that I didn’t chase after him earlier.
I should add it to the Wolfgang character dictionary that I was writing these days.
‘He sulks more often than I thought, and holds onto grudges for a long time.’
At a quick glance, I saw Wolfgang motion with his chin for Hugo to open the door.
They led the way out to the dining room, and just as I was about to follow them, Betty whispered to me.
“Thank you, Aisha.”
She seemed to have noticed that I’d deliberately made a fuss to soothe her.
Instead of passing over it like it was okay, or ignoring it, I answered like this.
“Later, if you get too scared like before, please count numbers.”
Betty was puzzled, but nodded as if she understood.
Yeah, that was enough.
I smiled softly, and walked away.
***
No matter the time, Wolfgang was always at the head of the table.
To the left of the head of the table, Levi sat in the seat where I usually sat.
Then, where was my seat?
You thought it was the right side of the head of the table, but that’s a lower position.
You thought it was the seat next to Levi, but you’re incorrect again.
It’s great if you thought it would be on Wolfgang’s knee, but it’s a little much under the current circumstances.
Of course, my choice as the master was…
“Hehe.”
It’s between Wolfgang and Levi!
I smiled brightly, and dragged a chair between the two.
The corner of the table that was hurting my stomach was the least of my worries.
I looked at Levi warmly and smiled, while constantly repeating numbers in my head.
It was a smile that proved insignificant beyond being tragic and harmless.
I thought I would be strangled right away if I didn’t grab the white flag of surrender first.
However, my fears were groundless, and Levi was quiet.
Without any emotions, he was literally staring at me like an amoeba that was passing by.
He had to be talented to be this indifferent.
I was a maid, who was sitting next to him and trying to eat, but he looked like he wouldn’t even care if I climbed up on the table and started to dance.
I wondered if he remembered my existence in the first place.
I disliked the idea of being remembered from how I looked when we met at dawn, but I hated not being remembered even more.
What was more hopeless than indifference when you were trying to entice someone?
So, first of all, let’s send Aisha’s special silly wink.
“….”
There was no response. Did he not see it?
One more time. Wink.
However, Levi didn’t respond again this time.
Why? I think it’s cute. You should at least react to how absurd it was!
While I was shaking with humiliation as if I had become invisible, Wolfgang, who was looking straight at my face, said.
“Son.”
“Yes.”
“When others are showing interest in you.”
“I need to at least react a little bit.”
It was a question and answer session divided into two parts, and it was as natural as water flowing.
Just like at dawn, Levi seemed troubled, just like a machine that had a short delay after a command was entered.
‘…They really are like dolls.’
From appearance to expressions, I was thinking that once again under the bright chandelier lights.
I still couldn’t believe that an eleven year-old was already a complete beauty. That’s why there were children like Vivi, who said it was okay to be a psychopath.
Wait… was I similar?
I wondered if this was the price I had to pay for what I said to Queensbury, that I only looked at the face without care about the personality.
Anyway, I thought to myself, ‘You’re guilty, solitary confinement for the rest of your life.’ As the verdict was being handed down, Levi spoke.
“Hello.”
Huh? Did he… did he just say hello to me?
While I stared at him, Levi faced forward again before I could think of a hasty response.
Oh, blood pressure.
It was clear that the doll didn’t know what a conversation was.
“The meal is ready to be served.”
At that time, Betty and the other maids brought in the trolleys of food, and placed the plates down one by one on the table.
I was tired of the diet where only meat, meat, and meat existed.
Levi had a similar taste to Wolfgang.
The maids stepped back and Wolfgang cut the steak with a picturesque posture, and naturally placed the plate in front of me.
I smiled at him brightly, as I often do these days.
“Thank you, Fath…”
Oh, no.
I closed my mouth, and looked at Levi’s expression.
I called him something that Levi called him, so he might not like it. Or something like that.
It’s been a while since he came home, and he found a strange child being cared for by his father.
I didn’t think it would be the case, but I didn’t know whether Levi would be jealous since he was still young.
I could be hated before being loved!
Impatiently, I quickly stabbed a piece of steak with my fork, and charmingly offered it to Levi.
“You should eat first, young master! Here comes the airplane! Zoom…!”
Turnaround. Emergency turnaround.
When I found Sauron’s eye, I turned the plane around and put the fork in my mouth.
‘I almost got shot down…’
Wolfgang turned his head, I heard a quiet chuckle, but he wasn’t as loud as usual.
Because Levi was still staring at me.
It’s brutal, brutal. Why was he glaring at me like that when I was just sitting there?
It was just time to force myself to chew the meat while I dripped with cold sweat.
“Airplane?”
Levi muttered quietly.
‘Oh, right. There’s no planes here.’
Fortunately, he didn’t stare because he was angry, but just tilted his head in confusion.
I also misunderstood for no reason because his eyes were 10:10 like Wolfgang’s.
I swallowed the meat, and spoke carefully.
“Are you curious? 5 gold if you want to know.”
Then I put my hand out, palm up. Levi slowly blinked.
Was he thinking about it? Seriously?
I gently closed my hand, worried that if I kept it open, he would really pull out some money from under my nose.
“I-I was joking…”
“A joke.”
Levi repeated the word, like it was unfamiliar.
Apparently, there was no one who usually said such nonsense in front of him.
However, children should grow up enjoying these kinds of appropriate nonsense.
If you didn’t do that and lived your life, you would face a lot of adversity and grow up to be an adult like Benjamin.
I was seriously starting to worry about Levi’s future, and asked.
“Just in case, do you know what a joke is?”
“Definition.”
“I don’t know the definition, I’m not a dictionary. When you’re at the academy, and look at your friends…”
Of course, I’d forgotten that he didn’t have any.
Father, was your son really okay like this?
When I looked at Wolfgang as if to ask, he just shrugged his shoulders.
Rather than giving up, it seemed that he hadn’t even tried.
Well, Wolfgang didn’t seem to have any friends either, so he couldn’t exactly tell his son what to do.
Phew. Anyways, this house.
With a sigh, I leaned my body towards Levi.
It was still uncomfortable and scary, but I felt strangely sad.
I was originally weak when it came to children.
No matter how much of a psycho he was, when he started to feel like an immature child, it wasn’t that hard to steel myself and move towards him.
“Instead of giving me money, ask me for my name.”
“….”
“Then I’ll teach you what a plane is.”
As I whispered like that, his eyes, which were a mix of black and red, stared at me.
He opened and closed his mouth once, then turned his head away.
What was this? I asked hopefully.
“Are you shy?”
He stared at his plate without replying, and I could feel the deadly force in his eyes.
Oh my, a psycho could be shy too. Was it because he’d never established a friendship?
But if you’re embarrassed twice, you’d crush someone.
Since we still weren’t that close, I closed my mouth because I was thinking I should play around in moderation, but a burning look flew in from somewhere.
It wasn’t from Levi, so let’s look around to see who else was trying to kill me.
“Oh, my.”
Vivi’s face peeked out from the doorway of the dining room, and she was biting down on her handkerchief, like she was the incarnation of jealousy.
Holy moly. I didn’t know that my day-to-day life could be so fulfilling.
I gloated while I pointed to the two men she admired, as if they were beautiful flowers in my hands. That was when she went crazy, it looked like she was frothing at the mouth while she gnashed her teeth.
After that, it was definitely a chaotic meal time.
Vivi’s curses poured out like a bombardment. The pranks that Wolfgang threw my way.
Then if I looked back because I thought the side of my head was stinging, as soon as our eyes almost met he’d turn his head away.
I tucked the red and round cherry tomato, which was the same color as his eyes, into my mouth.
When I chewed the tomato one after another, the sweet and sour juice spread pleasantly.
Hugo got up from his seat, leaving me too choked up to speak.
“Oh, dear. It’s already that time.”
Before he knew it, his pocket watch was telling him it was time for dinner.
He needed to hurry to the dining room, and serve Duke Wolfgang.
I hurriedly climbed down from my chair as usual, but Hugo bent slightly at the waist and asked me politely.
“Did that help you?”
“Of course. Thanks to you, I’ve found a lifelong role model.”
Nodding, I clenched both fists and shouted.
“Aisha will be the master of the back slap!”
Hugo smiled as he looked down at me. He didn’t forget to add some kind words of support.
He was a really good person, but as I left the room with him, I thought I should withdraw the remark that he had common sense.
As I walked down the quiet corridor to the dining hall, where not a single noise could be heard, I saw the pale complexion of the servants.
Cooks, kitchen assistants, and maids that were serving the meals, all of them were more nervous than usual.
‘Surely they couldn’t all be scared of that psychopathic young master.’
Did they think if they dropped a knife, they would be on the road to Hades?
Were they afraid if they made a mistake, or even breathed incorrectly, that it would bother him.
Even Betty, who was the most soft-hearted among them, hands were shaking.
Tsk. If she was this nervous, she’d make more mistakes.
I grabbed her apron and shook it, making a small fuss.
“Hyuk! Sister, sister! I dropped something over here!”
“Wh-What?”
I picked up my finger heart from the floor and showed it to Betty, who was looking down in panic.
“It’s my love.”
“….”
“Oh, here’s another one. Here’s another one. And another one.”
As I circled around Betty, showing her hearts here and there, before I knew it I heard some giggles.
Betty, who was flustered, was also swept away by the surrounding flow and laughed.
“Oh, Aisha.”
Betty, who was smiling while covering her mouth, stroked my hair. She still looked nervous, but her hands were shaking less than before.
‘She should be okay.’
At that moment, Hugo, who was watching over us, coughed loudly.
It was a sign for everyone to correct their posture.
Among the servants who straightened their backs, I also put my hands together and stood up straight.
‘He’s coming.’
My heart stuttered like an alarm.
I didn’t hear any footsteps. Moreover, there was no sign of them passing by from the sound of their clothes rubbing together.
Who wasn’t lucky? Not just their faces, but they were similar in this way as well.
“Welcome, sir.”
The servants bent at the waist as Hugo lowered his head.
However, I kept my back straight and my head up.
Wolfgang and Levi’s eyes were focused on this action.
In particular, Wolfgang, who’s one eyebrow rose as he shook his head slightly. Even though she faced the red-black eyes that glistened like glass beads, she tried not to let her hands shake like Betty’s.
“Neglectful.”
“….”
“Lack of perseverance.”
What? Why was there one more?
Oh, I guess he was quite unhappy with the fact that I didn’t chase after him earlier.
I should add it to the Wolfgang character dictionary that I was writing these days.
‘He sulks more often than I thought, and holds onto grudges for a long time.’
At a quick glance, I saw Wolfgang motion with his chin for Hugo to open the door.
They led the way out to the dining room, and just as I was about to follow them, Betty whispered to me.
“Thank you, Aisha.”
She seemed to have noticed that I’d deliberately made a fuss to soothe her.
Instead of passing over it like it was okay, or ignoring it, I answered like this.
“Later, if you get too scared like before, please count numbers.”
Betty was puzzled, but nodded as if she understood.
Yeah, that was enough.
I smiled softly, and walked away.
***
No matter the time, Wolfgang was always at the head of the table.
To the left of the head of the table, Levi sat in the seat where I usually sat.
Then, where was my seat?
You thought it was the right side of the head of the table, but that’s a lower position.
You thought it was the seat next to Levi, but you’re incorrect again.
It’s great if you thought it would be on Wolfgang’s knee, but it’s a little much under the current circumstances.
Of course, my choice as the master was…
“Hehe.”
It’s between Wolfgang and Levi!
I smiled brightly, and dragged a chair between the two.
The corner of the table that was hurting my stomach was the least of my worries.
I looked at Levi warmly and smiled, while constantly repeating numbers in my head.
It was a smile that proved insignificant beyond being tragic and harmless.
I thought I would be strangled right away if I didn’t grab the white flag of surrender first.
However, my fears were groundless, and Levi was quiet.
Without any emotions, he was literally staring at me like an amoeba that was passing by.
He had to be talented to be this indifferent.
I was a maid, who was sitting next to him and trying to eat, but he looked like he wouldn’t even care if I climbed up on the table and started to dance.
I wondered if he remembered my existence in the first place.
I disliked the idea of being remembered from how I looked when we met at dawn, but I hated not being remembered even more.
What was more hopeless than indifference when you were trying to entice someone?
So, first of all, let’s send Aisha’s special silly wink.
“….”
There was no response. Did he not see it?
One more time. Wink.
However, Levi didn’t respond again this time.
Why? I think it’s cute. You should at least react to how absurd it was!
While I was shaking with humiliation as if I had become invisible, Wolfgang, who was looking straight at my face, said.
“Son.”
“Yes.”
“When others are showing interest in you.”
“I need to at least react a little bit.”
It was a question and answer session divided into two parts, and it was as natural as water flowing.
Just like at dawn, Levi seemed troubled, just like a machine that had a short delay after a command was entered.
‘…They really are like dolls.’
From appearance to expressions, I was thinking that once again under the bright chandelier lights.
I still couldn’t believe that an eleven year-old was already a complete beauty. That’s why there were children like Vivi, who said it was okay to be a psychopath.
Wait… was I similar?
I wondered if this was the price I had to pay for what I said to Queensbury, that I only looked at the face without care about the personality.
Anyway, I thought to myself, ‘You’re guilty, solitary confinement for the rest of your life.’ As the verdict was being handed down, Levi spoke.
“Hello.”
Huh? Did he… did he just say hello to me?
While I stared at him, Levi faced forward again before I could think of a hasty response.
Oh, blood pressure.
It was clear that the doll didn’t know what a conversation was.
“The meal is ready to be served.”
At that time, Betty and the other maids brought in the trolleys of food, and placed the plates down one by one on the table.
I was tired of the diet where only meat, meat, and meat existed.
Levi had a similar taste to Wolfgang.
The maids stepped back and Wolfgang cut the steak with a picturesque posture, and naturally placed the plate in front of me.
I smiled at him brightly, as I often do these days.
“Thank you, Fath…”
Oh, no.
I closed my mouth, and looked at Levi’s expression.
I called him something that Levi called him, so he might not like it. Or something like that.
It’s been a while since he came home, and he found a strange child being cared for by his father.
I didn’t think it would be the case, but I didn’t know whether Levi would be jealous since he was still young.
I could be hated before being loved!
Impatiently, I quickly stabbed a piece of steak with my fork, and charmingly offered it to Levi.
“You should eat first, young master! Here comes the airplane! Zoom…!”
Turnaround. Emergency turnaround.
When I found Sauron’s eye, I turned the plane around and put the fork in my mouth.
‘I almost got shot down…’
Wolfgang turned his head, I heard a quiet chuckle, but he wasn’t as loud as usual.
Because Levi was still staring at me.
It’s brutal, brutal. Why was he glaring at me like that when I was just sitting there?
It was just time to force myself to chew the meat while I dripped with cold sweat.
“Airplane?”
Levi muttered quietly.
‘Oh, right. There’s no planes here.’
Fortunately, he didn’t stare because he was angry, but just tilted his head in confusion.
I also misunderstood for no reason because his eyes were 10:10 like Wolfgang’s.
I swallowed the meat, and spoke carefully.
“Are you curious? 5 gold if you want to know.”
Then I put my hand out, palm up. Levi slowly blinked.
Was he thinking about it? Seriously?
I gently closed my hand, worried that if I kept it open, he would really pull out some money from under my nose.
“I-I was joking…”
“A joke.”
Levi repeated the word, like it was unfamiliar.
Apparently, there was no one who usually said such nonsense in front of him.
However, children should grow up enjoying these kinds of appropriate nonsense.
If you didn’t do that and lived your life, you would face a lot of adversity and grow up to be an adult like Benjamin.
I was seriously starting to worry about Levi’s future, and asked.
“Just in case, do you know what a joke is?”
“Definition.”
“I don’t know the definition, I’m not a dictionary. When you’re at the academy, and look at your friends…”
Of course, I’d forgotten that he didn’t have any.
Father, was your son really okay like this?
When I looked at Wolfgang as if to ask, he just shrugged his shoulders.
Rather than giving up, it seemed that he hadn’t even tried.
Well, Wolfgang didn’t seem to have any friends either, so he couldn’t exactly tell his son what to do.
Phew. Anyways, this house.
With a sigh, I leaned my body towards Levi.
It was still uncomfortable and scary, but I felt strangely sad.
I was originally weak when it came to children.
No matter how much of a psycho he was, when he started to feel like an immature child, it wasn’t that hard to steel myself and move towards him.
“Instead of giving me money, ask me for my name.”
“….”
“Then I’ll teach you what a plane is.”
As I whispered like that, his eyes, which were a mix of black and red, stared at me.
He opened and closed his mouth once, then turned his head away.
What was this? I asked hopefully.
“Are you shy?”
He stared at his plate without replying, and I could feel the deadly force in his eyes.
Oh my, a psycho could be shy too. Was it because he’d never established a friendship?
But if you’re embarrassed twice, you’d crush someone.
Since we still weren’t that close, I closed my mouth because I was thinking I should play around in moderation, but a burning look flew in from somewhere.
It wasn’t from Levi, so let’s look around to see who else was trying to kill me.
“Oh, my.”
Vivi’s face peeked out from the doorway of the dining room, and she was biting down on her handkerchief, like she was the incarnation of jealousy.
Holy moly. I didn’t know that my day-to-day life could be so fulfilling.
I gloated while I pointed to the two men she admired, as if they were beautiful flowers in my hands. That was when she went crazy, it looked like she was frothing at the mouth while she gnashed her teeth.
After that, it was definitely a chaotic meal time.
Vivi’s curses poured out like a bombardment. The pranks that Wolfgang threw my way.
Then if I looked back because I thought the side of my head was stinging, as soon as our eyes almost met he’d turn his head away.
I tucked the red and round cherry tomato, which was the same color as his eyes, into my mouth.
When I chewed the tomato one after another, the sweet and sour juice spread pleasantly.
