"Lalalaa..lalaa..."
Dev a young servant was walking down the hallway humming a sweet melody. His voice wasn't that good but it made the surrounding servants Happy. He has such a unique collection of songs that even Marquis's wife praise him as a musical genius.
The reason why he was so happy today was also because of Aqua's mother who promised him a wealthy lifestyle if he obeyed her and follow her lead for promoting business at some special places.
( I wondered if I should drink to celebrate the night...)
The treatment he used to receive was already good enough, three meals a day, two paid Holidays after every full moon and an increment on the Regional festivals.
And since he is a full time servant of the house, the lodging is also paid by the family treasury and he can also save a fair share in it.
The problem is the way the nobles treat people, who don't even consider them human--
( Still the head of the family doesn't do anything too reckless.)
As far as Dev knew, hhe had never seen a maid subjected to violence since he began working for the Marquis Volt household.
Of course, there were times when he was overworked and looked down upon, but he never felt like my life was in danger.
(I heard that in other mansions, you'd have a terrible experience...)
The class system in this country is strict.
Royal family, nobility, commoners, slaves.
These are the four main classes.
In particular, it is said that there is a clear difference between the nobles and commoners.
Commoners cannot defy the nobles.
Therefore, no matter how tyrannical the nobleman may be, he cannot resist.
(Well, that's not my concern!)
The Marquis and his family is generally good-natured.
Only the eldest daughter, Lubuis, is violent, but she never raises her hand against the servants.
In fact, they actually make it better for you.
(Now then! What's for dinner?)
With such thoughts in mind, he walked through the large mansion.
That was when it happened.
"--Ahhh"
Suddenly, someone bumped onto his shoulder with a heavy impact, the other party was running in a hurry and it didn't give him enough time to dodge and so the accident happened.
Just as he was to scold the person for thier reckless behaviour, he noticed the attacker has fallen on the ground with his hips.
"What....why ?"
He was surprised to find the emblem of Volt House on his clothes.
"Young master, why are you running through the hallway ?"
And there was the person most cherished in this household.
Requiem Bam Volt also nicknamed Aqua Volt.
A 13 year old boy who has only come of age the day before yesterday.
Unlike his violence loving sister Lubuis, he has a quite and nice personality.
However, because his aptitude for magic and weapons mastery are almost non-existent, he is a bit of pushover.
But... For some reason, he was holding a broken vase.
"Master !! Master !!"
Dev tried calling but he didn't get a response.
Instead, Aqua only gave him a look of despair.
Worried, he might have hurt the young master, he squated down, checking if there are any injuries.
Normally, other servants would have gathered after such small incident. But strangely he can not see a single soul on his sight.
The young master wasn't responding, so he has no choice but to shake his body.
Normally, such act can be called a vicious crime and Dev might be heavily punished. But he care no less about it and kept trying to awoken Aqua from this strange situation.
"What are you doing ? Do you have no manners at all ?"
Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder causing him to shudder with the voice alone.
A guard of fairly high status was looking at him with anger and contempt.
Apparently, Dev's action made his wrath reach it's maximum potential.
No...why are you angry. Dev's face seems to screaming this for a second.
( F*ck, I screwed up. )
Dev was confused.
It wasn't particularly unnatural for an guard to behave like that towards a commoner like him.
But he had never seen someone this angry before.
Even when he accidentally spilled tea on family head a few years ago and stained his clothes, he never got angry.
His only response at that time was, "Don't worry about it."
But this time it's different.
This guard clearly look so angry that if he could open his mouth wide, dev would be swallowed alive in a matter of few seconds.
"Umm... I'm sorry..."
Dev try apologizing for now, but it doesn't seem to calm his anger. On the contrary, he only becomes more and more irritable.
(W-what should I do...)
As dev became increasingly flustered, Aqua eventually spoke up.
"You insolent fool. It was my parent's anniversary present."
"What ??"
It was such a bombshell that it made dev silly.
Seeing him acting like this, Aqua's eyebrows tightened.
"You must have done it on purpose, right ?"
After standing up with the help of guard, Aqua stand up and looked at the broken vase in his hand with some sadness.
"No, young master. I didn't mean it."
"You are lying, you even tried to hurt me."
"NO... that's also not true.."
Despite continuously denying the allegations, the boy's mood eventually gotten worse.
"So, you mean I am lying."
"That's..."
Dev hesitated answering this one.
It's not that Aqua was making unreasonable trouble but now he had to think a way to escape his wrath but he can't think of any excuse.
" I know it, you did it intentionally. Guard take him away and punish him according to the current law."
There was clearly hostility in his eyes. When he said it, he didn't even blink twice.
By the time Dev realised what happened, he was already dragged away by his hair to the hidden dungeon in the basement.
"Young master.. please forgive me...I won't do it again..I am really sorry."
"Fuck, bitch. Someone make him shut his mouth."
Saying he throw away his shoe to the guard, who after caughting it with a swift motion shoved it down into Dev's throat.
.....
The next day, in early morning.
At entrance of Aqua's room, a voluptuous snow skinned woman was about to step in but was stopped by the guards on duty.
"Excuse me, but the young master is sleeping right now. Unauthorised personnel are not allowed for the time being."
Thinking carefully, there was indeed some time before the young master wakes up, she gave herself a nod of understanding.
But her child....
Remembering the horrible events taken at last night she can't help but shudder.
"Excuse me, I work with the Teaching assistant for young master, can you please make an exception for me ? My name is Su Yaoyao, the other servants can make give you testimonials for the work period, it's really urgent."
"This...I don't think it's appropriate"
The guards don't know how to respond and can only exchange glances with each other.
"Excuse me, Young lady ? I don't know if I heard it correctly but did you say you are Su Yayao ?"
The black lightning guard who came to check on Aqua in the morning asked suddenly and when Su YaoYao gave a nod, he led her into the room with utmost respect.
His presence made Su Yaoyao somewhat overwhelmed, her legs kept trembling and she could barely take a seat on sofa.
"The young master is washing currently and will meet you shortly."
"Sorry for the trouble...."
Not long after that a person came out of the bathroom with steady step and when he looked at the nervous Su Yaoyao shrinking at a corner on sofa, he laughed wickedly in his heart.
...
( As expected, she came right away. )
Indeed, the reason why Su Yaoyao came to him has something to do with incident happened last night.
I initially thought it would be somewhat sweet start and I can enslave this woman by coaxing her with some songs from my previous life.
But who would have thought, an adopted of this brother- sister duo of would appear as a musical genius. Not only that, he has shown great talent for spear.
Frankly speaking, he should be a great asset for my family but he did several gravemistakes. Not only he has inappropriate thought about his adopted mother who is my target of pursuit but he has also harrassed my sister quite a number of times.
Even though my sister isn't a person with the heart to punish a capable subordinate but I care less about it. Since this guy has shown his fangs, I can only destroy him.
But before that, let's make use of his existence for completing my first enslavement.
Like using his fat friend for spreading rumours of his demise..no, arrest within the household and indirectly notifying Su Yaoyao.
Su YaoYao looked at me, her face slightly turning red.
There is no helping in it. It's definitely because of my damn charm. With dark blue hairs inherited from my mother and a perfect body obtained from vigorous training, I was simply a maiden killer especially in bath robs with drops of warm water falling from slightly wet hair.
Not to mention, for someone like Su YaoYao who is practically an old virgin as per this world criteria, I can charm her with my looks alone.
"Good day Miss Su" I gave her a polite greetings
"*ummh..Yes, Good day, Young master. You look handsome today."
She tried to flatter me but it got a little awkward.
It was given since this woman hardly came close to male, even I can only see her from far away but that was old me.
"Is that so ? Thanks for the compliment, I wish I could reciprocate it." I sit opposite to her and pick up a cup, taking a sip of fresh tea, I felt relieved of my mental fatigue. In short, it kept rising because I was about to do something so immoral.
"I...I." She hesitated, finding it difficult to speak.
"Miss, if you have something to say, just say it directly! I, Requiem of the Volt household, am famously benevolent and charitable in this area. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me!" I put down my cup as I finished saying it
Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Su Yaoyao's eyes.
Yesterday, after my people took away Dev, I have someone sent his clothes to his adopted mother.
At first, she didn't believed it. But when she heard the rumour in the early morning, coupled with the fact that Dev hasn't returned in the male dormitory since last night, she had no choice but to belive it.
At first, she wanted to visit my mother for help but thinking if she said the wrong word, she herself might be also taken away. She decided to come to me to make amends.
Fortunately, my impression on her is that of a person who is good for nothing but has capable parents and a beautiful face.
So, she didn't hesitated for too long.
"Young master, it's like this, my adopted son made some mistake. It wasn't his intentions, can you let go of him, please ?" Her body was trembling but her tongue didn't even stutter once.
"About that ? It's fine if it was a mistake but what if it was intentional, do you plan to support him ?" I asked with a chuckle.
"No... it's not possible. My son has always been a very good kid although a little frivolous but he has never curse someone let alone hitting." Su Yaoyao said anxiously, as if she didn't said this in one breath, the world will fall down on the next one.
"In that case, here are some investigation reports and testimony" when I finished speaking a servant brought some documents and a couple servant from different occupations.
Seeing, I didn't make things difficult for her, Su Yaoyao was naturally at ease but seeing so many people made her doubt on her own son.