A young girl in a village without protection - Chapter 83

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The winter cold let up and spring has come.

Selin village was lively and had just received sheep the other day, which was a token of apology for what Meria did in the past.

Selesina felt like she almost forgot about being a villainess.

“Lady Sele, it seems Anna will be off work for a while.”

“What?”

Hisui told her while making tea when Selesina was relaxing in her room of the Rinklat house in the capital. 

Anna is Selesina’s maid.

“Do you know why?”

“She said she didn’t feel well.”

“That’s too bad… She’d better take a good rest.”

It was the turn of the seasons when people were easy to be out of shape. She asked Hisui to tell Anna that she could take an enough break without worrying about work here. 

Selesina Rinklat was busy every day as the village had been going well. 

Her silvery white straight hair reached to her waist with the forelock braided. It was rolled up into a ball at the side that was attached with a black and white lace ribbon and a jade hair ornament. Her rose-pink eyes showed a touch of concern now that she heard about her maid. 

While Selesina is a daughter of a Marquis, actually here – in a girls’ game ‘The maiden from Asgarl’, she is also the villainess. 

If her fiance and the heroine had a happy ending, she would be banished from the country. If they had a bad ending — she would be executed. The choices of her fate were hard to pick for her.

It was an apprentice butler Hisui who made tea for her. 

He had soft amber hair and jade eyes. A year had passed since he became an apprentice butler for Selesina. His early awkward choice of words had gone entirely now. 

And he was the only one that knew who Selesina really was. 

“As for Lady Sele’s maid…..”, continued Hisui, while checking in his notebook. 

Since her mansion had other maids, Anna’s short absence wouldn’t be a problem. On the other hand, it would be better to have one for her. 

“How about asking Odette?”

“Oh, that’s a good idea!”

She clapped her hands and nodded convincingly.

Odette who mainly worked for her in Selin village had once stayed and worked in her mansion to learn. 

As long as it was only while Anna was away, she wouldn’t hesitate to fill in her place.

Then a few days had passed since Odette came to the mansion as Selesina’s maid.

“Excuse me, but I feel heavy somewhat… I’m afraid if I may have caught a cold.” 

Surprisingly, Odette had gotten ill too. She usually worked vigorously in the village and boasted that she had been hardly sick.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

Selesina let her sit on the sofa, worrying. 

“Are you all right? Won’t you sit down on the sofa?” 

“I’m sorry… Thank you, Lady Selesina.” 

Odette sat on the soft sofa apologetically.

She was a pretty woman who wore her light chestnut hair in plaits. She took care of Selesina as her apprentice maid in Selin village.

But now, she looked painful feeling sick. 

Hisui tilted his head in confusion while pouring hot milk for Odette, worried about her. 

“Is a cold going around?”

“What?” 

What Hisui said startled Selesina. 

‘I’ve been too busy to care, but come to think of it…..’

Thinking hard, she noticed the number of servants in the mansion has gotten slightly less. She had never imagined they were off work from a cold. 

Odette nodded at Hisui’s words. 

“That’s right. Probably a little less than half of the servants have taken a break from their work because of illness.” 

“That many?” 

The large number only startled Selesina again. 

If the number was small, it could be as simple as the turn of the seasons or passing from someone… But almost half of the servants’ contraction was a different story. 

‘There might be a cause.’ 

She would suspect food poisoning if it was stomach-related….. According to Odette, most symptoms were a fever and the heaviness of a body, with a normal appetite and without vomiting or diarrhea. 

There was no such event in the game which was also excluded as a possibility. 

‘Could it be flu or something like that…?’

If that was the case, the entire people in the mansion would be all infected. 

But Selesina was perfectly fine although she had contacted with Odette physically, had talked with her, and had been close to her. Toi must have had quite a few contacts with her too.

It was odd that only Odette had mysteriously gotten infected. 

‘Of course, it still could be coincidence…’

It might be better to check up on food and water just in case. If it showed the cause, the cure should be determined.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]