Chapter 313: Slave Experience (6)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 313: Slave Experience (6)
“Mmm… mmm.”
Rami slowly opened his eyelids.
“Uuuugh~!”
He stretched his arms straight up, letting out a sound he’d never made before in his life.
Now that he’d become a pretty girl, he felt like he had to try it at least once. If not now, when?
‘Where am I….’
This wasn’t the maids’ quarters.
The luxurious interior belonged to Alberic’s bedroom.
The place Rami had gone to sleep was the sofa.
‘This clueless bastard.’
If a woman is sleeping uncomfortably on the sofa, you should think about moving her to the bed. To just leave me like this. What a good-for-nothing.
Of course, if he’d touched my body while I was asleep, that would have been creepy in its own way, but either way, Alberic was the problem.
‘Damn right. After all, I’m a woman now.’
Rami looked around.
‘Where’d this guy go?’
Did he already get up and leave?
Maybe he was scared of getting #MeToo’d and cleared out of the room.
He knew a thing or two about how the world worked.
I wanted to rest a little longer, but this wasn't a place I wanted to stay for long. I got up from my seat.
Swoosh.
The blanket covering me slid to the floor.
I thought maybe he’d shown some consideration after all, but then…
‘What the hell is this?’
Alberic was sprawled out on the floor.
I thought he’d left, but he hadn’t. Why was he sleeping here when there was a perfectly good bed?
‘Is he dead?’
I checked, and unfortunately, he was still breathing. Waking him seemed like it would just cause unnecessary trouble, so I left him alone.
Him sleeping was a help in itself.
Rami opened the door and left the room. His eyes met with the maids waiting outside.
“Good morning, everyone.”
But the maids, who clearly weren’t having a good morning, had bizarre expressions, as if they’d seen a ghost.
Is this estate filled with nothing but weirdos?
What a shame.
They must have all been normal at some point.
Rami shook his head.
I should go wash up and get some breakfast. He headed for the quarters with a light step.
The maids couldn’t take their eyes off his retreating back.
“D-did she just come out of the young master’s bedroom?”
“I heard they went in together, but it was actually true? And she came out in the morning… Don’t tell me the two of them?!”
A rumor spread through the mansion.
A rumor that the eldest son, Alberic, had spent the night with the new maid—the slave, Rami.
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The stares were quite piercing.
It was similar to when I was walking around the city back when I’d first earned the moniker ‘Slave Reaper’.
Everywhere Rami went, people stared and whispered.
I knew why.
It was because it wasn’t enough that I went to Alberic’s room; I also had to come out in the morning.
But so what?
Men and women can be friends, and a master and servant can have a wholesome relationship.
One only had to look at me and my slaves for proof.
‘Not anymore, though.’
Unfortunately, there were no longer any pure maidens around Rami. Only females desperate to jump their master’s bones.
How did things end up like this? Rami, who had absolutely no clue, sighed.
‘I wonder if it’d be less of a hassle if I just lived as a woman?’
Anyway.
A maid aiming to climb the social ladder might have enjoyed these jealous stares, but not Rami.
To have such ridiculous rumors spreading about me and some guy. To exaggerate, it was almost enough to make me want to make a… drastic decision.
Thanks to this, the maids who already disliked Rami became even more hostile.
“Hey, go fetch water. Fill all these water jugs by noon. Got it?”
I’d just finished one arduous task, only to be given another.
They’d told me to organize the warehouse, and after I worked hard to do it, they didn’t even check, as if to say, I have no intention of letting you feel any satisfaction.
Once again, the senior maids gave their orders and promptly disappeared.
There were no fewer than twenty water jugs piled up in the backyard.
My arms were already sore from moving luggage yesterday. If I had to fetch water too, I might really not be able to use my arms tomorrow.
Rami’s mind started scheming.
‘All I have to do is fill them with water, right?’
Of course, I had no intention of messing with the drinking water. In fact, I’d let them drink water that was too good for their health.
As always, Rami summoned a water spirit and filled the jugs to the brim.
He finished a job that would have taken hours in just one minute.
But reporting it now would be an amateur move. It would just arouse unnecessary suspicion. I had to procrastinate as much as possible to avoid suspicion and enjoy some free time.
Rami immediately clasped his hands behind his back and began to wander around the estate.
Slacking off alone while everyone else was working hard. One of the small joys of daily life.
‘This is the life.’
There’s nothing more fun than watching the world go by from a step removed.
Just then, while he was wandering around the mansion, he ran into Violetta, who was also out for a walk.
Rami politely clasped his hands and bowed.
“Greetings, Lady Violetta.”
“Why are you here? Weren’t you staying in Brother Alberic’s annex?”
“I was just taking a short walk.”
“A slave, taking a leisurely stroll? How utterly absurd.”
Violetta let out a scoff, dumbfounded.
“I wanted to believe Brother Alberic was different, but in the end, he’s no better than an animal. Letting a mere slave into his bedroom. Does he intend to mix lowly blood into the Laurentius lineage? He must be out of his mind.”
After her lament, Violetta glared at Rami.
“Looking at you reminds me of Lady Bryan.”
She meant a certain pitiful lady who had fallen from nobility to slavery.
It was a description that matched the Rami before her in many ways.
“Lady Bryan? You mean Narsha Bryan?”
Rami was slightly surprised by the sudden mention of the slave’s name.
“I knew it. You know her too. Then again, there’s no one in high society who doesn’t.”
It seemed she was misunderstanding something, but Rami just nodded.
“Lady Bryan and I have a deep connection… no, I should say a fateful, ill-fated one. We knew each other very well.”
Narsha and Violetta were the daughters of a count and a duke, respectively. As high-ranking nobles, they were in a position where they were bound to see each other often in high society.
Violetta did not like Narsha. She was always being compared to the overly competent girl.
The children of other noble families wanted to form connections with Narsha more than with Violetta.
Just thinking about the humiliation she suffered back then made her teeth grind, but it was all in the past. Violetta gave a venomous smile.
“But not anymore. Because the Bryan family has fallen.”
Narsha had gone missing after being attacked by bandits, only to become the slave of the Slave Reaper.
The Dawn Travel Company, led by the Bryan family, had collapsed after causing a massive incident.
Violetta’s lips curled up as she laughed with vindictive glee.
“Serves her right. I knew it from the moment she dared to talk back to me.”
She continued her badmouthing without stopping, as if venting her anger.
“Did you know? Lady Bryan—no, she’s not a lady anymore. Narsha is a two-faced person. She acts all elegant in front of others, but when no one’s around, she’s constantly spouting vulgar curses. She doesn’t belong among the nobility. In that sense, it was her destiny to become a slave.”
“Narsha does have that side to her,” Rami nodded in agreement.
“The way you talk, you seem to know Narsha well. What is your relationship with her?”
Narsha is my slave, and I am the Slave Reaper.
I couldn’t just reveal that like some unhinged giant. I was in the middle of enjoying my role-playing; I couldn’t have someone force-feeding me the red pill.
“Didn’t you hear me? I’m asking what your relationship is,” Violetta pressed.
Rami said something that wasn’t exactly a lie.
“We were lovers.”
“Whaaat?!”
Violetta’s jaw dropped. It was the most shocking thing she had ever heard in her life.
It was surprising enough that Narsha had a lover, but that lover was a woman?
No, they seemed like a match made in heaven.
Since they both became slaves.
‘Wait a minute. Could this be an opportunity?’
What if I stole Narsha’s lover?
Wouldn’t the look on her face be a sight to see?
Since I’m obviously more charming than Narsha, seducing Rami would be a piece of cake.
A chance to get revenge for all the humiliation I’ve suffered.
‘Though I don’t like the fact that she’s a slave.’
Violetta set aside her personal feelings and examined Rami with an objective eye.
Based on looks alone, she was quite pretty. Her jet-black eyes, which seemed to pull you in, were also quite charming.
Thinking about it that way, it didn’t seem so bad after all.
“Do you have anything to do after this?”
“I was told to fetch water, and I need to have it inspected.”
“Shu, tell them I have some business with this maid and I’m taking her with me. And that they can fetch the water themselves.”
“Understood, my lady.”
The maid called Shu disappeared toward Alberic’s mansion.
Clasp.
Violetta took Rami’s hand.
“Let’s go to my mansion.”
“Lady Violetta?”
“You should be grateful. The kind and noble Violetta is specially rescuing you from this labor hell.”
“But the young master…”
“You are my slave, whom I bought. My father said it was his money, but you were free in the first place. Therefore, without a shadow of a doubt, you are my slave.”
Rationalizing with this miraculous logic, Violetta looked at Rami with heavy-lidded eyes.
“Or are you saying you prefer that beast over me?”
If I have to choose, a woman is much better than a man.
“I like you much more, Lady Violetta.”
“Right?”
Violetta smiled in satisfaction at Rami’s answer.
“The hot sun is a woman’s enemy. Let’s hurry inside and have a cup of cool tea.”
“Yes.”
She was offering me something tasty, why would I refuse?
Like a child following a strange man who promised to buy them snacks, Rami took Violetta’s hand and trotted along behind her.