I Ran Away And The Reverse Harem Started

Chapter 21 After returning to the mansion, I had dinner at the hostel and left for a short walk. I came back to the mansion feeling moderately tired but calm. Thanks to Lucas, I can pamper myself with expensive desserts. “I’m still not sure. Whether I’m going to the party with Daniel or not.” I got some fresh air and ate delicious food, but I still couldn’t make a clear decision about what to do with my contract with Daniel. ‘No one can make decisions as easily as me.’ I scanned the surrounding scenery with a feeling of frustration. If Daniel had known that I had become such a boring adult worrying about what would happen next, he would never have offered me such a contract. Daniel and I, who were worried about how The difference between me worrying about how to live a long, good life without going hungry and him worrying about how to live a long, good life was as stark as if we were from different worlds. Even if we’d been in the same situation before, he was a nobleman leading a group of people. “Is that why Colin made that joke too?” The joke is that if I marry him, I can become a rich woman. Certainly, living as a rich woman rather than a commoner would be a way to enter a world closer to them. Of course, I didn’t take that joke seriously. I thought about Colin, who came up with such a dull joke, then turned the corner of the mansion’s outer wall to return to my quarters. “Aah!” At that moment, I bumped into someone coming around the corner. “Ugh.” The opponent also bumped into me and stumbled, but I lost my footing and sprained my ankle, so I fell down on the grass. “Oh, ouch…” A sharp pain came from my ankle. As I grabbed my ankle and frowned, the person I bumped into suddenly came up to me and knelt down. “Oh my god. Are you okay? Let me see.” “Uh, I’m fine…” I wondered if I had bumped into the same maid, but the woman standing in front of me was a woman with a beauty that was incomparable to my fellow maids. Her beauty does not fade even in a simple dress. The female protagonist, Deborah.As soon as I saw Deborah’s face approaching me, I jumped up in my place. “De, no, saint?!” “Are you okay? I’m so sorry. I should have paid more attention when I walked.” “Oh, no. I didn’t pay attention either!” It turns out that the person who bumped into me was Deborah. I looked at her beautiful face, with a puzzled face. Deborah looked at my ankle with a raised eyebrow and a worried look on her face. “It looks like you sprained it, come with me, I’ll take care of it in my room.” “What? No, it’s fine, I can take care of it in my room!” I waved my hand and refused Deborah’s favor. I was grateful for the favor, but I didn’t want to have a serious conversation with Deborah. Plus, Daniel told me not to meet Deborah! I stood up, deliberately avoiding Deborah’s gaze. But as soon as my sprained foot touched the ground, I felt a sharp pain. “Ugh.” “Don’t be stubborn and come with me. I have an ointment I brought from the temple, and it will be effective.” “no, it’s okay…” My feet hurt, so I couldn’t run away and leave Deborah behind. As I stood clinging to the ivory exterior wall of the mansion, Deborah looked at me intently. “… Maid, are you uncomfortable with me?” For some reason, her eyes became strange, and soon sadness filled those purple eyes. “What? Oh, no, it’s not that I’m uncomfortable… It’s that you’re condescending…” “I see you’re uncomfortable with me, I get it, not everyone can like me, it’s fine.” Oh no, when did I say I didn’t like you? huh? I forgot how hard I was avoiding her gaze and looked at Deborah in confusion. Then she stared at me with wet lavender eyes. It was as if the poor cat was looking pitifully at me, begging to be brought into the house. “Maid, if you don’t like me, please allow me to treat you wounds.” “…….” “What, why not? How can I send the maid away when she’s been hurt because of me? Surely God wouldn’t want me to leave her like that, leaving her injured!” “Well, that’s right…” I tried desperately to avoid those eyes, but… It didn’t turn out as well as I wanted. A beautiful woman with a glamorous look gently greets me, but Daniel is probably the only person in this world who can easily reject her. Crucially, even though she was taller than me, she bent down to meet my gaze. Then she tilted her head cutely! I bit my lip and trembled, and eventually gave up. “… I understand, saint. I’ll just get treatment and leave.” “Thank you for allowing me!” “I’m really just going to get treatment and go back.” Deborah wiped her watery eyes and smiled brightly. Somehow, she found it refreshing. Just get treatment and leave. I followed Deborah, making a promise I couldn’t keep. * * * Deborah let me into the room alone, without any maid to attend to her. Then she immediately took out some ointment from the bag she had brought with her. It’s an ointment or something that she often uses when doing volunteer work in a workhouse. She rolled up the sleeves as if she was going to apply the ointment directly to my ankle, so I hurriedly took the ointment from her. “I’ll apply it myself! Thank you for caring for me. Then I’ll just…” “Oh really? Then I’ll make some tea. Since you’re here, please hang out with me for a bit.” “…….” I was just going to apply ointment and leave. Deborah seemed to find it funny that I was trying to avoid the place at all costs, and before I knew it, she was making tea with the tea leaves that she had brought herself. ‘How did I end up like this?’ I dabbed the ointment on my ankles while smelling the fragrant tea scent wafting nearby. It was an added bonus to be embarrassed by her persistent gaze. Deborah looked at my ankle with concern, with eyes reminiscent of a doctor. “It’s swollen a lot. I think it would be a good idea to tell the head maid and take a day off from work.” “Thank you for your concern. I would do that.” Deborah smiled at me even though I said something roughly to avoid the situation. ‘You even give tea to a maid and worry about her. She’s really the female protagonist.’ Well, in the original work, Deborah was a woman who never said a harsh word to Daniel, no matter how much he looked down on her and harassed her. She is truly a saint. After I finished applying the ointment, I lowered my skirt and looked at Deborah again. She set down the brown teacup in front of me. “Here you go. It’s black tea.” “Thank you, saint….” Okay, just have one glass of this and go back. I looked at the black tea and placed my lips on the teacup. The hot, fragrant tea went down my throat. It was Deborah’s tea, so it wasn’t a luxury item, but for a commoner like me, it was quite profound. Deborah also moistened her mouth with tea and opened her mouth quietly. “So, maid…” “Yes.” “You were Count Drunia’s friend from the orphanage, right?” Cough! “Cough, cough!” “Are you okay?” … How could I be okay? I wiped the tea that had spilled from the corner of my mouth. I glanced at Deborah and saw that she had a smile on her face. “… Dani, no, did the Count say that? I was his friend from the orphanage?” He clearly told me that he didn’t want her to know that we were friends from the orphanage. There is no way Daniel would have told the saint. “No, it’s just my guess.” “… … .” “I often hear people say I have good senses.” Surely, Daniel said something like that before. But someone with this much sense is just a shaman. “I see that you don’t deny it right away, is that correct?” “…….” I wondered if I should have just denied it right away, but the look on Deborah’s face convinced me. I shrugged and scratched my cheek. “… Yes. Well, even though it happened 10 years ago. But how did you know? Daniel doesn’t want to talk about me.” Then Deborah smiled suspiciously. “The fact that the Count is spending time and money looking for someone is something I can learn after visiting this mansion a few times. I have known the Count for some time.” She said she was actually a fan of mystery novels. It didn’t really fit her face, which looked like she’d grown up to read nothing but philosophy books. “What I felt after visiting this mansion several times is that the Count doesn’t have much interest in the people in the mansion. Leave everything to the head maid. But I heard that a maid came in through his connections.” In short, the Count’s maids who took care of Deborah spilled it. And I knew intuitively that it couldn’t be good news. And she knew instinctively that it couldn’t be anything good about the inexperienced maid who’d gotten a single room! Deborah even asked Mrs. Rosa, she heard that the new maid was connected to the Count. Deborah said that during the short time she stayed at the mansion, she became very curious about my identity. “So that’s why you wanted to see my face?” “That’s right.” I looked at her with a shocked expression. “Still, I don’t think Daniel told the saint directly about me, and the only clue you have is that I was a maid related to Daniel. It’s amazing that you recognize me right away.” I answered with a mixture of admiration and puzzlement. To be honest, isn’t her reasoning nothing more than the imagination of a mystery novel fanatic? It was surprising that she immediately recognized that I was the person Daniel had been looking for and a friend from his time at the orphanage with the skills of a great detective, but it still lacked any basis. But Deborah looked at me with a calm face. No, more specifically, I was staring at one spot as if there was something on my face. What? What’s on my face?That was before I asked Deborah what was wrong. Deborah lowered her eyes, as I wanted to ask her why she stared at me so hard, and then she smiled meaningfully. “I know, right. In fact, what I really noticed was the Count’s heart.”