Reincarnated as the Lady Prodigy

Forty-Three

Introduction of the Mishap

Istorya, I wish you have a wonderful rest after what had occurred. Rolfe told me your decision in regard to Prince Gavin's request from you. Truthfully, regardless of your decision, it will not hinder our built partnership, however, let me sincerely thank you for accepting the prince's request. I am ashamed to say this but the third prince indeed needs your help, this kingdom needs your assistance. I, along with Rolfe will absolutely do our utmost best to be of help lest you might need it.

I've received your letter; I give you my full support. I will mobilize the necessary resources that I can. The names of the people who asked are included in this letter, I hope it helps.

Franklin Bernard

She stared at the letter before she placed it on her table. Along with the letter is another piece of parchment, the names of the nobles involved with Konseho. Although the matter about her is settled that doesn't mean that Konseho is clear from her suspicions. If anything, she finds Konseho the more suspicious. She scratched her cheeks before reading the names listed, some of the names are familiar. Those names were included on the list the prince gave her.

'Is this some sort of fate? Haha!' she thought with a low chuckle.

Is it because they are nobles and part of certain circles of society that they're seeing these people's names on two different list? Anyhow, whether it's from the prince's list or the duke's, these people are undoubtedly suspicious.

"Huh, one of them is a baron but his wealth is on par with a duke? What the hell..." she mumbled while comparing the name of a certain noble on the list and then reading the detailed report from Blake.

This certain noble is related to Duke Alerra that's why she had Blake investigate anyone connected to him, take not, every single thing about the people related to Duke Alerra, she got them all thoroughly investigated that's why was able to easily spot this baron. His name's been mentioned often so she kind of got familiar with it.

"He's sus... really really really sus..." she whispered to herself before she continued analyzing.

The time slip by, Zaire only realized that she's been reading for good four hours or so when she felt her nape feeling sore. She leaned on her office chair before she decided to stand after tidying her table. It's now time for her to return to the Vesaurius mansion, Felicia and Clarence might notice that she's gone although she placed a sleeping moving puppet on her bed to pretend as her, there is still a possibility of them noticing the difference.

She activated the teleportation circle located on the corner of her office. Silver light shone, in mere seconds, she's back in her room.

She snapped her finger, just like that, the figure on her bed, the mimicry puppet lying on her bed disappeared. She sat on the bed and waited, before she hit the fifth number, her door opened.

"I'm glad that you're awa- "

"Stop."

The maid stopped talking and stared at her with a confused expression. She stood up and without saying anything...

PLAK

Slap the maid. The maid's face tilted.

"Wha..." the maid stuttered with wide eyes while holding her reddened cheek. "Lady Jozine- "

"That's right, I am Jozine, a lady of this house." Her eyes glower at the maid, "Who gave you the right to enter my room without permission?"

"B-But Mis-- "

"Fe- are you saying my mother told you to enter my room, a noble's room, your master, without asking for permission?" She questioned with a raised brow emphasizing her position. She almost addressed Felicia with her name rather than 'mother'. She bit her tongue, it's a good thing she was able to stop herself.

The maid flustered and frightened maid flop to the floor, her head placed against the floor while gripping her gown in panic. “L-Lady Jozine please forgive me. I was impertinent because you were lenient to us servants! I apologize! Please, Lady Jozine!” The maid continued to beg.

Zaire looked at the maid begging below her she felt annoyed. For some reason, seeing this maid bow in front of her annoyed her, and she personally doesn’t know why. Nonetheless, she had to stop herself from chiding the maid from bowing at her. Why did she raise her hand like that against the maid? For one, it was disrespectful for a maid like her to enter her room without her permission especially because she is not her personal maid, only Elise is her lady maid. Secondly, she is aware of the rumor around the mansion, the servants are neglecting her because she is locked in her room and is not allowed to leave unless Felicia says so. The servants no longer take her seriously, well, she expected that. After all, the majority of the servants are under Felicia. The servants are here minions, only a few are really on her side. Honesty, she doesn’t care about troublesome stuff but that doesn’t mean that she will let other people disrespect her like that. She is Zaire, the earthling but she is also Jozine, a noble lady. AND, she hates it when people enter her room without permission especially those strangers to her, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, not Felicia and Clarence’s lackey. 

 “I will let this go for now, but know that there is no next time.”

“Yes!”

“Leave.”

The maid scurries to leave the room. She watches the maid leave when she suddenly remembers that the maid hasn’t informed her of her purpose for suddenly barging in her room like that.

“Oh well,” Zaire shrug it off and lazily laid on the bed.

The next day,

She was called by Felicia to have lunch with them, she badly wanted to decline because, well, she just doesn’t like having to share a delicious meal with them because the meal turns tasteless when they’re in front of her.

“So, tell me, what is Duke Alerra’s plan next? Where will he take you?” Felicia started firing her questions. Zaire almost groaned in displeasure but she muffled her voice by stuffing her mouth with the steak. Ah, it was tasty but it’ll be more delicious if she wasn’t in front of them. “I received the jewels he sent to you as a gift, I will manage it for you since I know you are clueless about such trifling matters.”

“I agree with mother, sister. You were too busy mastering your magic that’s why you were not knowledgeable enough about jewels.” Clarence glossed with a small smile of assurance.

Keh. As if that really was the reason, she knew better. Still, she kept her mouth shut and only nodded her head in response. If they’re talking about jewels, she can buy jewels with her own money. Besides, if it’s from that creepy Duke Alerra, she’d rather not. They can keep those jewels to themselves, heck, she would not even ask about those.

She smiled at them, “please do so. I don’t mind you having those.” Who knows, Duke Alerra might have put something on them. She would like to add but she simply continued eating.

“By the way- “

She was cut off from asking about Kate’s condition by a loud explosion that shook the ground.

“Kyaaaa!” Clarence shriek in both surprise and fear especially when the ground continued shaking.

All of a sudden, the door of the dining room burst open, it was the frantic butler that unceremoniously opened the door in such way.

“What, butler! Where have your manners gone to?!” Felicia exclaimed.

She almost spits the food in her mouth after hearing that.

Who cares about manners when the ground is literally shaking NONSTOP?!

‘Felicia, where have your brain gone to?’ she wanted to ask.

The frantic butler bowed. “Forgive me, Mistress, however, we cannot waste our time any further! Hundreds of monsters are rising from the ground! We must evacuate!”

After the butler said that, the entire dining area fell into chaos. Felicia and Clarence immediately rose to their seats and without looking back, left the dining area.

She stared at the closed doors of the dining area with dead eyes and a slightly ajar mouth.

Wow. She knows that Felicia and Clarence aren’t saints nor do they possess a golden heart but who knows they are this… shitty?

So much for being family!

With a heavy and annoyed breath, she hurriedly went to her mother, Kate’s room but she found the room empty. Confused, she looked around and asked the panicked servants about her mother but they were unaware of her whereabouts either.

‘What the…’

Questions started filling her mind but she doesn’t have the leisure for those since monsters are marching around the city. She used search magic to scan the entire mansion in case Kate was locked up somewhere but she couldn’t find traces of her.

Zaire’s forehead creases as she tried to figure out her disappearance but remembering Elise and the others, she went back to her room and teleported to Faceless Auction House.