The Villainess Needs A Hero

Chapter 03

The Villainess Needs A Hero Chapter 03 

After Eight Years

“Princess! What are you doing there? You will catch a cold!” - I heard the hysterical remarks of my personal maid. What’s her name again? Well although she is my personal maid, I often forget her name. It is not that my memory is rusty, it is just I am still thinking. Thinking why am I in this place, what is this place and more importantly how can I break with this action-based system. I feel like a prisoner shackled by those choices. our personal maid Anna is telling you to come inside. > A. Obey her. B. Stay in the veranda and explain to her that a bit of morning sun is good for the body. C. Pretend to not hear her.

Here it is again. I decided to choose the second option since I don’t want to be a pushover, and the fact that it is indeed true that I also need a little bit of sunlight. And of course, because of this screen I was able to know the name of my personal maid.

  “It’s alright, Anna. It is not even cold and the heat coming from the sun is good for the body” - I said without even looking at her since my eyes is already focused on the garden ahead. And I can also see my brothers from here training how to wield a sword. I heard her heave a deep sigh, but even so I know that I haven’t offended her or anything because a screen appeared again. 

 You have successfully raised the affection points of your maid by 50 points >

After I read it, it immediately disappeared. And did I already explained that I am the only one who could see that screen *sigh* When will this actually end? I cannot speak what I want and I cannot act as I like— and it is really getting so toxic. 

 Honestly, I am still skeptical about this whole thing. I am a logical person and I still can’t believe that being transmigrated or reborn is real, although I already have a solid evidence right in front of me, which is none other than myself. The reason why I can’t still believe it up to this point is because it is really impossible!

 First how can a world completely different from my past life exists? How different? First this world still has an Emperor, an Empress, Dukes and Duchess, Marquesses, Viscounts, Counts and even Barons! Clearly there is still a societal hierarchy here which has been completely dissolved when modernization started to hit the world and especially when the people started to realize how cruel monarchy or aristocracy is.

 But in this world it, based from my observation will not realize this reality sooner or later. People here are satisfied with their current government. Not only that, there is also obvious hierarchy between genders. Of course, just like in the history in my past life men are regarded as the most important human beings in the world while women are inferior to men. Based from what I have recently read women are not allowed given a title of a viscountess, countess, baroness or etcetera. 

If the only child of a family holding a title is a woman, then that woman should be married first before she could inherit that title. And a woman could only be bestowed by the emperor a title is that she should have contributed a lot to the kingdom. And I am part of those children who was lucky enough to be born from a house of a Duke and Duchess. In short I have a silver spoon on my mouth. 

And my name in this life is Scarlett Mila Bicester. However, I am still unlucky at some point because of the fact that I am a woman, and if the time comes, I will surely be sold of to a political marriage. And because I am shackled because of this damned system I may not be able to refuse it. Since there are times that there is only one and absolute option which is definitely frustrating. I have two brothers, the oldest Shawn Theodous who is already thirteen years old and the second is Sean Michael who is still eleven years old. A simple way to describe them is that they are so childish. 

 I am not describing them as childish because I am older than them by soul and by mentality but because they should really act according to their age. Based from my observations, with Shawn’s age he should focus more on training and his studies while Sean should be able to know what he would want in the future. But those two, all they want is to play around, bother me when I am reading books about this country and ask me if I could play with them.

 Geez. If only I could tell those two that I prefer to study than to play because I am reborn in this body and I want to learn everything about this world as soon as possible because I want answers. While I am looking at the beautiful scenery, my eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of my two childish brothers running towards the front door. 

 s**t. I need to get ready. I am sure that they are going to pester me again to play with them. And just when I needed it the most, a new screen appeared right before my eyes. 

You saw your brothers running, they are about to visit you. What will you do?> A. Meet up with them on the way B. Wait for them in your room C. Hide 

After 8 years I am already used to these kind of choices. Letter C will always lead up to the affection points decreasing, the letter B will have a small increase in affection points and A would always have the best results. 

 And even if I don’t want to choose the first option, I still did because it is better than having a decrease in affection points of my brothers. When my finger touched the option, my body instantly moved towards the door, I opened it and I ran outside of my room. s**t! 

This is really quite troublesome. Why do I have to run when I could always walk at ease to meet up with my brothers? I was about to reach the staircase and just then the two was able to finally finish the last step.

  “Scarlett!!” - the two exclaimed and they ran towards me as well. I can feel that my lips went up to form a smile and that I am running faster than I was a while ago. And when the two are almost near me, my body moved on its own and it jumped to embrace the two.

 s**t. This is really unbelievable! In my past life I was never able to do this kind of stunt and this is so weird because I may have the body of an eight year old girl but I have a mind of an adult, not to mention I am being manipulated by this stupid system!

  “Did you miss us Scarlett?” - Sean asked and on again my body moved on it’s own by nodding my head as a sign that I did miss the two. But obviously , that’s not what I feel. I do not miss them because I always see and talk to them. There is no day that I haven’t been able to hear their noises and stories. If I am going to be honest, the person that I actually miss and I really want to see is the person who gave birth to me in this world. Our mother. Well, although I still can’t accept that I have been reborn or transmigrated here and the fact that I already have a new family. I still feel a deep connection with that person. I guess this is what they call as the mother and child bond. Before she is always with me, she was the one who taught me how to read and write and she even created a personal library for me to use. 

However these days, I wasn’t really able to see or talk to her because she and our father went to a place to resolve some issue regarding a mine. Form what I have heard, that mine is quite precious both for our family and the others so many wanted to get that mine for their own benefit.

  “If only we could bring you with us with our training then you wouldn’t miss us that much”  - Shawn asked with a huge smile on his face. I don't know how to react so I just let out a fake smile. Argh as if I will really go with them because I 'd rather stay inside my room or visit the library to read books to enhance my knowledge. 

Seriously, knowledge is also a power that people envy and people always wanted to have. Especially in this world.