Chapter 33
Chapter 33
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 33
Chapter Title: Exclusive Maid (4)
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The day after receiving the order from Harold to become Ethan's exclusive maid and reluctantly accepting it.
Separate from me becoming Ethan's exclusive maid, there was a small piece of news for my roommate, Isabel, who shared the same room with me.
She was being assigned a single room of her own, not the bedroom with the bunk beds that we had shared.
It was truly minor news compared to the event of me becoming Ethan's exclusive maid, but it didn't feel that way to Isabel herself.
As she left the bunk bed room, she let out a reluctant sigh.
"This room was small, but it was nice having you here with me, Lilith..."
"No helping it. We have to leave it empty for the new maids who'll come later. Besides, you'd just feel lonely staying in a double room all by yourself without me there."
"Yeah, maybe you're right..."
This was basically a done deal from a few days ago anyway.
With Aeria and Alicia gone, two single rooms for junior maids had opened up.
Isabel, the replacement maid, taking one of those spots was just the natural order of things—nothing more, nothing less.
And originally, I was supposed to get a junior maid single room just like Isabel...
"Lilith starts living on the fourth floor today, right?"
"...Yeah, pretty much."
Because of the rule that exclusive maids must always stay by their master's side, my room was being moved from the junior maids' quarters on the third floor to the exclusive maids' waiting room on the fourth.
...What a shitty situation, really.
"L-Lilith! Is this all your stuff? Sh-Should I carry it up to the upper floor for you?"
"...I'll handle it myself, so just leave it there."
"Uh, y-yeah?! I didn't catch that, so I'll take it up to the fourth floor anyway!"
"Haa... I'll come up too, Isabel."
"Okay..."
Katarina, oblivious to my mood, picked up my luggage and headed up to the exclusive maids' waiting room on the fourth floor.
I wrapped up my conversation with Isabel and followed behind her.
Up to the top floor of the mansion, the fourth floor where Ethan and Harold's rooms were.
'Fuck.'
Even after moving from the double room on the third floor to a single on the fourth, my mood was even more in the shitter for various reasons.
In the end, all I'd gotten from confronting Harold was a momentary brush with death and this exclusive maid position locked in stone.
Maybe it would've been better if I hadn't gone to argue with him at all.
In Luminor Academy, playing through Lilith's route meant you inevitably ended up on the fourth floor of the Blackwood mansion many times.
I took a quick look around the familiar scenery, then unlocked and entered one of the rooms next to the stairs.
The room right next to the pig's bedroom—the dreadful place known in the game as 'Lilith's Room.'
"W-Wow...! So you're really living here starting today, Lilith?"
Katarina, who had come in with my luggage, looked around my room like she'd discovered something amazing, poking at this and that.
I dumped the bundle of luggage she'd carried up for me in one corner of the room, sat down at the table, and pondered what to do next.
'In the end, I've ended up in this room after all.'
Lilith's Room.
Stepping into this unpleasant room that I'd have to enter multiple times unavoidably while playing Lilith's route immediately soured my mood.
Of course, since this was still before Lilith got 'trained' by Ethan in the game, the room itself wasn't much different from a standard exclusive maid waiting room right now.
But in just two or three years, this room's atmosphere would change from its current plain vibe to one decked out with all sorts of decorations.
The problem was that those decorations were all disgusting items that could drain your sanity just by looking at them.
Handcuffs, ropes, collars, and other restraints, of course. Plus tools for sordid play like triangular wooden horses, chain beds, and aphrodisiacs.
Imagining the scene where the room would be filled with adult toys like dildos and vibrators made a nauseating feeling rise up from deep inside me.
For the record, complaining about why such adult toys exist in a fantasy world is pointless. This game was ultimately an eroge visual novel disguised as an SRPG.
More people would get hard watching Lilith moaning with a dildo stuffed in her than those protesting the lack of medieval authenticity.
I never once imagined in my past life that I'd end up as the one 'stuffed and moaning.'
"L-Lilith! As expected of an exclusive maid waiting room—the furniture is all different! Th-The bed is way bigger and fluffier than mine, and the mirror too..."
Seeing the back of Katarina's head as she excitedly wandered around my room, oblivious to my complicated feelings, I suddenly felt the urge to smack her.
She probably wouldn't resist much if I did smack her or yell at her here.
Should I just do it? I'm already pissed—might as well smack her once?
'...Sigh, forget it.'
I shook off the bad thought that had popped into my head and reflected on myself.
Taking advantage of someone's weakness to act however I pleased was one of the things I despised most.
Besides, doing that to Katarina would make me no different from Aeria.
Still, Katarina prancing around my room all happy by herself was annoying enough that I smacked her a good four or five times in my mind.
Since it was just in my head, cut me some slack for that much.
"...Don't run around too much. It might echo downstairs."
I gave her a casual warning to tone it down, then seriously pondered my next moves.
Katarina, having seemingly looked around my room enough, turned to me and cautiously asked,
"It feels kinda amazing. Are noble ladies' rooms usually like this?"
"I don't know much, but most noble ladies' rooms would be bigger than this. Especially for clothes—they don't have wardrobes in the room; they have separate dressing rooms, with maids or butlers fetching them. This seems like it's just made for exclusive maids' convenience and to let them pretend to be nobles."
"Y-Yeah, Lilith knows all this because she's a noble! I-I naturally thought this was the kind of room only noble ladies use..."
"For a viscount's daughter or a poor baron's girl, it wouldn't be much different from this. Not all nobles are rich with prosperous lands."
"I-I see... As expected of you, Lilith..."
To be precise, it wasn’t because I was a noble—it was knowledge I’d gained from conquering noble heroines in my past life.
Since commoners couldn’t use magic, all mage heroines were nobles.
And conquering them naturally meant entering their private rooms.”
Even among Luminor Academy's heroines, there was a princess or imperial daughter somewhere, so having cleared every route in my past life, noble ladies' rooms were a familiar sight to me.
This Lilith's room, however, felt utterly alien despite sinking over 500 hours into her route.
'...Well, it's still before Ethan's training starts.'
Once the training began under the pretext of being that pig bastard's exclusive maid, it wouldn't be long before this room turned into a den of depravity.
Avoiding that would be my main goal going forward.
I couldn't escape the fate of becoming Ethan's exclusive maid, but that didn't mean I was helpless to do anything.
Right now, I had level 5 stats, three skills, and mana reserves pushing into the four digits.
It sucked not learning Mana Blast, but I didn't strictly need it to get things done.
Above all, I was fundamentally different from the original Lilith Rosewood in the game.
The Lilith who failed to refuse the young master's orders in time and woke up as a sex slave was worlds apart from Lee Ji-hwan, a college student from Korea.
So unlike the idiot who just took it, I'd resist that damn pig bastard the moment any opening for training appeared.
I absolutely wouldn't end up like the 'Foolish Maid Lilith' from the game.
"Ah, I-I should head back to my room now! R-Rest easy, Lilith!"
"Yeah, see you."
Katarina headed back down to the third floor where her room was, after thoroughly exploring my room.
Left alone, I leaned forward over the table and quietly pondered.
Since I couldn't avoid the exclusive maid position, I'd have to conduct myself carefully from now on to survive.