NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 181.2
“Ah, seriously. It’s the same wherever you go.”
Especially among these ladies with a criminal background, envy turns directly into malicious harassment.
“Who’s in charge of cosmetics, is it you?”
Soon a small commotion broke out among the maids. The youngest-looking maid trembled intensely.
“Apologize!”
“You did it, didn’t you?”
I held my chin and wiped my lips with a handkerchief as I watched the scene unfold.
“What could she have done? It was probably one of you.”
You think I’m naive?
“Why are you getting so angry over this? Come here.”
As the youngest maid approached while trembling, I immediately slapped her.
Slap!
“Please, spare me!”
The youngest maid continued to tremble.
“Nigel.”
“Huh?”
Nigel seemed startled by my action and responded a few seconds late.
“Ahh!”
Slap!
I slapped the other cheek of the maid.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
Nigel looked at me as if he* was shocked. What’s with that look? (tl/note: I think they played with Leticia memories while rewriting them, because another time Nigel was said to be a ‘woman’, and other time Nigel is a ‘boy’)
“You look like you didn’t expect this from me?”
“…”
“Nigel, we’re friends, right? Doctor Siebel said so.”
“That’s, that’s true?”
“Cut off her lips.”
I gestured towards the youngest maid as I spoke.
Everyone in the room swallowed hard.
The maids began to tremble.
“That’s too much…”
“Do it now, Nigel. With your own hands. Or I’ll tell Doctor Siebel in great detail. I’ll question if we really are friends since you can’t even do this for me.”
The corners of Nigel’s mouth twitched.
“If you can’t do that, then Doctor Siebel lied, right?”
“No way. The Doctor doesn’t lie.”
Nigel looked elated, as if he was enjoying this.
Every student of Doctor Siebel is strange.
I pointed at the youngest maid with my foot, revealing my bare feet wrapped in red silk shoes.
“Not doing it?”
Nigel walked up and kicked the oldest of the maids in the stomach.
“Ugh!”
As the maid fell to the floor, he continued to kick her.
“Ah, so you’re attacking her?”
As expected. I chuckled.
“You ordered the youngest, right?”
Nigel kicked the older maid again.
“I’m, I’m sorry. I just did as I was told…”
“Nigel, don’t show off.”
“…”
“Hey, I know you tested me by ordering the maids.”
I leaned back in my chair and looked at Nigel, a smile slowly spreading across my face.
“It was fun, so I’ll let it slide.”
“How did you know?”
“Why wouldn’t I know? You always wanted to test me. Even a friendship test?”
I stretched leisurely.
“And I saw everything. How you bit the youngest maid downstairs. Did you really not expect that when you ordered the maids to torment me, you’d push the task onto the youngest? I’m not a fool.”
“…”
“You thought I’d defend the youngest maid when she was attacked. Typical.”
I winked at Nigel.
“You’re such a pervert. But I like perverts, so it’s okay.”
I giggled and stood up.
Nigel stared blankly at me.
“At first, I thought it was an act, but wow… it’s impressive.”
Nigel, pointing at me, spoke with a smirk forming at the corners of his mouth. Facing Nigel’s gleeful smile, I laughed and then frowned.
“What are you doing? I told you to cut off her lips.”
The youngest maid collapsed to the floor. She might cry soon.
“Can’t do it, Nigel?”
I tilted my head to look at him.
Nigel stared back, speechless.
“Then hit her. Until I tell you to stop. Or…”
I took out a pistol from my thigh and pointed it at Nigel.
“Would you like to take her place?”
Hah, Nigel responded as if he was incredulous. Then, he approached the youngest maid.
“Normally, when learning one’s place, there’s pain involved, Nigel.”
I kindly advised Nigel, in a consoling tone. It’s called establishing the pecking order.
After that day, not only the maids but also all of Siebel’s subordinates in the castle began to treat me with caution.