# 42
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You might want to talk. In fact, he wanted to make fun of me and insult me, not at Diana, but at me, whom Diana admired.
“You should do stupid things like this in moderation.”
Allen shouted before Sophie could continue.
“Butler! Don’t let this kid see me again, okay?”
The butler, who heard the commotion, stopped and exited the main building, and looked at Sophie.
Helen realized that this was the child she had brought and taught herf.
But he immediately lowered his head and answered.
“I will ease your anger, sir.”
“Ha…! No! Butler, I was wrong, forgive me just this once, please!”
Sophie hurriedly knelt down and ed Allen, but Allen coldly turned his back, taking Diana with him.
Of course, I was there too, holding Diana's hand tightly.
I didn't know at the time.
How I would be reflected in the desperate eyes of Sophie and the shocked staff.
* * *
"Yes."
I sighed and turned my head with a sad face.
The servants and maids who come and go busy, the gardener who takes care of the flowers in the garden. …
Even the coaches!
The people who were looking in my direction turned their heads as soon as they made eye contact with me.
“Do you really think I'm an evil person...”
I felt a wave of sadness and curses internally and said that it was all Sophie's fault.
Sophie, who caught Allen insulting me in public, was kicked out of the palace that day.
He asked them not to show it in front of him, but he didn't ask them to throw it out, so I thought it would be put in one position, like the laundry room.
The salary was also reduced significantly.
“Sophie’s words were ultimately directed at me.”
But Sophie was completely destroyed.
This too, by Helen.
“How dare you be so rude to this girl! Is this what I taught you to do?”
When Helen heard what happened to Sophie, she became very angry.
They then personally threw Sophie's belongings out of the dorm and kicked her out without any severance pay, saying they couldn't have someone like her at Duke Elad for even a moment.
“I truly cannot deny my loyalty to the Duchy of Elad.”
But the problem is that the atmosphere in which the staff treat me has changed since then.
They often pretended not to notice me when I tried to talk to them, and now they turn their head away whenever we make eye contact.
They hit a wall so I couldn't even ask why, so I ended up hiding myf and started to piece together what they were talking about.
“I didn't want to test my abilities again like that.”
However, the surprising thing I learned in the process was that, contrary to what I thought, Sophie had a very good reputation among users.
Sophie apparently aimed to become Diana's dedicated maid as well as the next head maid, and appears to have gained popularity by generously donating money to other employees.
That's why they were able to attack me openly in front of several employees.
“Because Diana was young, she probably thought things would go her way.”
We couldn't count Allen's appearance.
Maybe, if it weren't for Alan, Sophie would be able to make fun of me any way she wanted.
And that was the problem.
Only young Diana didn't know, but everyone there knew that Sophie had attacked me.
They thought it was impossible for Allen not to know this.
“So in the end, I thought the reason Allen moved forward was because of me.”
I thought they had a really stupid idea.
I didn't know how much Allen respected his younger sister Diana.
Above all, you had the audacity to mess with a precious young lady for attacking me in the first place.
And like Allen said, do you really not realize how stupid that was?
But I'm the only one who feels frustrated.
Most people thought so, and so...
I ended up being a bad girl with Allen and Diana on my back!
“Ha, why on earth is my situation always like this?”
Even in my past life, my classmates hated me a lot because I was favored by the master and superiors.
The bosses don't know, but the master was really not good to me.
On the contrary, there were many times when I was treated harshly, and there were times when I felt sad and resentful.
"Yes."
It was a time when I couldn't hide my annoyance and sighed again.
“Leah?”
While standing in front of the main building, I encountered an unexpected person.
“Oh, the Viscountess!”
“You really are Leah, it has been a long time.”
Viscountess Bardot, physician to the Duke of Elade, looked at me and smiled faintly.
"how have you been?"
For the past few days, I had been on the verge of bursting with grief over the staff who treated me like I didn't exist, so I was glad she pretended to know me first and asked me nicely.
“Yes, I'm fine, since you didn't come to see me, it seems like you were fine and not in pain, right?”
asked the Viscount, his smile becoming brighter, as if my pleasant behavior was not bad.
She looked at the worker behind the Viscountess, smiling mysteriously.
His arms were filled with bundles of medicinal herbs, probably delivered from the Herbal Medicine Company.
“Coun, can I help you?”
“You? No, you don’t need to...”
Maybe it meant that he didn't want to spoil me as a child, but I became a bit sullen at the Viscountess's disapproval.
then.
“Good evening, let’s go together, please help me.”
"truly?"
I was so excited by the unexpected acceptance that I ran after her.
“If anyone sees this, it looks like I'm coming to help you.”
Viscountess Bardot shook her head and laughed, but I was really happy.
The office of the Viscountess, the Duke's physician, was an annex to the right of the main building where her aides also resided.
“Now, take the herbs here as written in each column....Ah.”
Upon arriving at the office, the Viscountess, who was trying to tell the worker what to do while looking at the herbs the worker had placed, stopped.
I said quickly.
“Senator, I know, your name is on the package, so you should just put it in the box that says the same thing, right?”
The Viscountess looked at me surprised at my words and nodded.
She watched me tidy up.
I think she was worried she might make a mistake, but it wasn't difficult at all because I was helping to organize and organize the herb garden with old Ted.
I can tell what kind of herb it is just by looking at it.
“Leia, you are really smart, no, that is what I thought until now, but you are much more than I thought.”
Feeling embarrassed by the repeated compliments, she pretended not to hear them and the Viscount burst into laughter again.
After a while, the Viscountess burst out laughing and sat in front of her desk, which was filled with books and documents, making her doubt her ability to work properly.
“I think you're very busy.”
“Hmm?”
After I quickly finished organizing everything, I asked the Viscountess, who was frantically scanning her books and writing something on a document.
She nodded, taking off the silver-rimmed glasses on her nose.
“In fact, everyone is going crazy these days because of the Spliceia research I discovered.”
Splicia!
My ears perked up.
“The magicians were confident at first, but now they say the training is difficult, I’m worried that since they are asking me to try it myf and forcing me to wait, the results are not as good as I expected. If at least one root is cultivated properly, I will have to do research on how it produces medicinal properties or not.”
She blinked in confusion at the Viscount's words.
"Have you grown anything yet? What did you discover then? Didn't this grow too?"
“That's right, in fact, it would be a miracle if you could find even a small root.”
The Viscount listened to my words and explained that he and the magicians had gone on an expedition to the Tezar Orphanage and looked cloy at the surrounding area, but they could not find any other Spliceia.
I was listening to it, feeling a little embarrassed.
It was true that it was difficult to find and it was true that it was difficult to raise it, but I thought there would be some progress if it was at the level of the members of the Duke and Mages' Council.
It was completely unexpected that the Duke said that he would give me a portion of the profits from the treatment done with Splicea, so I had no regrets about the money.
However, I was very curious about what wizards found difficult.
Moreover, when I listened to the Viscount's words, I noticed another strange part.
“Researching how to make the drug effective, you don't seem to know how to use it.”
It is time to provide more details on this topic.
“Uh, huh? Senator!”
She quickly ran to the Viscountess, who was bleeding from her nose.
The Viscountess quickly took out a handkerchief and covered her nose, but the blood continued to flow.
Feeling embarrassed, I looked around and went to the herbal section that had just been cleaned, took out an herb, quickly crushed it, soaked a cotton ball in the herbal juice, and blocked the Viscountess's nose.
Shortly after the bleeding stopped, she looked at me with surprised eyes.
“How do you know which herbs are good for hemostasis?… Ah.”
She made a short sound as if she realized something and then closed her mouth.
As I was wondering, I immediately heard a sad voice.
“I heard the story from Your Highness, how did you discover Spliceia? I saw for myf what the facilities were like in the orphanage you were in...”
I can tell what the Viscountess was thinking.
'This is not something I learned in the orphanage.'
However, when I kept my mouth shut because I had nothing to say to make an excuse, the Viscountess's eyes changed to look at something sadder.
“How hungry you were...”
"Is there anything you want to eat? What else would you like to get?"