I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 172

“Dragon room my room for me, don't let anyone in as long as I'm out!” leathina told the guards before going around.

“Nona Leathina you want to go where?” ask the guards.

“I just want to train my leg strength by walking around the mansion for a while so don't worry.”

“We understand Miss Leathina.”

“Don't follow me keep watch in each of you.” After saying the goal the guards followed Leathina to make Leathina uncomfortable and disturbed because they could not move freely to find information.

“We can't leave miss Leathina wandering around alone, this is the duke's master's order directly to guard miss Leathina.”

“It can't be like this, if I want to get more information I have to get away from everyone who keeps following me.e.lcn.” guards Inner Leathina who then thought hard to find a solution so that she could go alone wherever she wanted without having an escort from the guards.

“So you mean my command is no more important than duke?” said Leathina who deliberately relocated the soldiers.

“Bu-not like that Miss Leathina” replied the guards while looking down for fear of making a decision.

“Alright I understand what worries you, but take it easy I'll be fine. So you don't have to constantly recognize me like this. I've also been better than before.”

“But Miss ..”

“Ah, it's already well. I go first, just don't follow me if you don't want to get into trouble.”

Leathina hurried to leave the soldiers, occasionally she looked back to check and as the guards began to move about to follow her Leathina immediately glared at the guards until none of them dared to move, and in the end they all obeyed Leathina's words and kept watch around Leathina's room, letting Leathina go around alone.

“I'd better go where ya to get information.” Leathina muttered while looking around her.

“Ah, I'm going to the kitchen to check. Usually the waiters like to gossip while cooking.” Leathina muttered then rushed into the kitchen.

It didn't take long, Leathina had been at the kitchen door. From the outside, you can hear the voices of people chatting to kill boredom while on duty in the kitchen.

“Nah, my guess is right. The waiters usually like to gossip in the kitchen.” Inner Leathina then deliberately stood at the door, she did not want to appear herself because her purpose came only to hear the talk of the servants who were being warmly talked about lately.

Usually the servants have their own gatherings, and have a way to gossip with each other.

“How long has Miss Leathina been aware?”  ask a waiter to his friend.

Leathina sharpened her sense of hearing trying to hear well what the waiters were talking about working in the kitchen.

“It's been almost three weeks, Miss Leathina is still in recovery.” Answer a servant.

“They talked about me.” The inner Leathina when she heard the servants often talked about her.

“Didn't the mansion feel more alive?”

“Betul, you know since Miss Leathina was unconscious in the mansion so gloomy. Madam Duchess just went back and forth to Miss Leathina's room to continue checking her body condition, the two young masters were also always looking gloomy. It was really a hard time.” Said one of the servants.

“Duchess and the others actually did such a thing just for me? They shouldn't treat me too well, it'll be hard if the feelings are mixed.” Inner Leathina who was still listening to the Servants talk.

“That's what you said, young master Nicholas even always gets annoyed at the little things after miss Leathina gets sick. Once I was asked to bring tea for him but the young master looked at me with a dislike gaze, I thought that time I would be fired immediately. Thank goodness Miss Leathina was able to regain consciousness.”

“According to you until when will it take place? Do you think that lady will continue to be good that way. You should be worried if that magic granny will suddenly change and bully the servants again.” Suddenly the female servant in a hoarse voice chimed in the conversation, making everyone instantly speechless because of what he had said.

“Ah, of course. No matter how good I am now there will definitely be people who still hate me especially because it was Leathina who used to really like punishing the servants.” The resigned Inner Leathina was spoken of like that by the servant earlier.

“You shouldn't talk bad like that about Miss Leathina!”

“What do you expect from that woman? Even if you defend her desperately, she will never notice you so don't act stupid.”

“You should do your job, don't cut our conversation. If you don't like to hear it then just move on, don't even make a fuss like this.”

Some of the publishers who disagreed with the words of the waiter who told me bad things about Leathina became angry, until there was a small quarrel among those who still did not like Leathina and the publisher who already liked Leathina.

“I feel guilty with them for fighting because of me, but I must not show my existence to them this will be a big problem later, thanks for defending me. But it looks like I have to leave now, someone will definitely stop their quarrel later.” Inner Leathina after hearing the conversation of the floats working in the kitchen section.

Leathina quietly left the kitchen area for another place that she thought could be a place to gather information for her.

“This Washing area, the servants also usually gather and share stories if washing clothes.”

Leathina took a walk around the wash area and the cloth drying area, seeing that there were not many servants there. Only a few people were drying a napkin and a blanket.

“Not many people here.” Murmured Leathina, then chose to sit under a shady tree to rest.

“I'll rest for a while.” Inner Leathina.

“Huff ..”

Leathina breathed a long breath and leaned against the tree branch, occasionally pulling out the grass that grew around where she sat resting to kill her boredom.

“You heard the waiter from another family, it came out ..”

“Husst... don't you mention his surname, if anyone hears you might be punished for speaking down another noble family.”

“Ah, yes. Ii'm sorry. But you know the story?”

“Iya I know.”

“Last-lately a lot of servers returned from other families.”

“True, he said they were all troubled.”

“Do you think like that that they are indeed returned?”

“My friend who experienced it at his place of work, said that there was one of his friends who was sent home because of problems, he said, but when this friend of mine came home and looked for his friend it turns out that his friend never came home to his village.”

“You mean your friend's friend just disappeared?”

“Yes, no one knows where he went.”

“What was the mistake he made to return?”

“They started gossiping.” Inner Leathina who unintentionally listened to the stories of the servants in the washing area because the place was not far from them.

“Close I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone?”

The other waiter nodded enthusiastically and then immediately brought his ears closer so he could hear what his friend was going to say.

“He was pregnant, and the wife of the noble who was his master was very angry so the servant was immediately sent home.” Whisper the waiter slowly.

“I know, that the end of gossip like this must be like that.” Inner Leathina who was still listening,

“We also have to be careful from now on.”

“Yes I'm a little scared too, although I'm sure that we're safe here but who knows men are still men.”

The two servants shuddered and then immediately returned to their respective jobs.

“Hey, hey, the family Yarnell family wins like anything until you say that!” leathina was upset to hear the servant's words.

“Hah, I'd better get out of here. If you long hear such gossip my ears may be damaged.” muttered Leathina slowly then moved from her resting place.

“Hei! Oi! I have great news!” another waiter who had just arrived with a dirty laundry basket shouted to his servant friend who was in the washing area, make Leathina who was about to go undo her intentions and stay because she was curious about the story that the waiter would tell.

“Ah, yes forgive me. But I really have a good story to share.”

“What say, if not pull we will tickle you to tears.”

“Hey, Hey, don't overdo it.” Said the waiter who had just come with his laundry basket.

“I heard this from the knights who just came home from the city.”

“What do they say?”

“Say in the city there is a place that can change your destiny overnight.”

“What do you mean? You're telling us a fairy tale. Don't fool us deh.”

“Really, I'm not lying! I heard this from the knights.”

“There really is such a place?”

“Yes, he said it was like a restaurant used as a gathering place. People who enter the place must use a mask until they do not know each other.”

“Keep what's so great about that place?”

“Ah, this is if you have a friend whose thinking is short.”

“You don't scoff at me huh! just tell me why that place could change destiny overnight.”

“That's because a lot of nobles who also often come there, if you happen to meet one of them and fall in love then maybe you will be taken and made his wife or made his concubine then overnight your life will change. Do you want to go there?”

“Wah! It was really a good opportunity, although it was almost impossible but it never hurt to try it instead. Then let's go when the holidays arrive.”

“You know the name of the place?”

“Ah, yes I almost forgot. If not wrong the knights were gushing his name with ‘Secret cafe’ he said the place is around the entrance slum area.”

“Isn't it dangerous there? What if the bad guys also come.”

“It's like you're betting luck if you're lucky then you can win a lot of prizes at once, but if you don't then we have nothing to lose. We just need to be careful. So how do you guys want to go there?”

“Then I will come along for fun only.”

“I also.”

“We have agreed well! Be careful if you don't go.”

“Iya we will go, anyway we are also curious what kind of place is there.”

“Well, we have a deal. Then we go together on holiday.

“Good.”

“Then I go back inside again, there are still many dirty fabrics that I have to deliver to wash immediately.”

“Yes, be careful. Don't fall.”

After making a deal with the waiter, he immediately put down his basket containing the dirty cloth he brought from the inside after which he immediately returned to the mansion again.

“The servants are too innocent, trusting such things. Isn't it obvious that it's just a trick to lure customers in, and if it's true then only the first two chances are you'll be lucky to meet a wealthy noble and take you with him, both of you will be framed by the criminals.” Leathina muttered and shook her head in concern at the expectations of the young female servants.

“But, even if you meet a noble who likes you, not necessarily he will take you. Since it is impossible for a noble to marry an ordinary woman unless he has completely lost his healthy mind, even your child who will be born will surely be tormented for the rest of his life by being born with mixed blood. I hope they come there for fun, not to lure young nobles. I hope the girls are okay.”

Leathina no longer wanted to hear the strange rumors spread by the servants, she finally chose to return to her room.

“Secret cafe? Sounds interesting, do I have to go there to look around?” muttered Leathina on her way back to her room.

“Hah! Today it is still the same, completely useless information.” Leathina then stretched her body because she was bored.

“What is useless!”

“Woah!”

Someone suddenly spoke right in Leathina's ear making Leathina reflexively punch the person because it appeared suddenly.

“Winter?!” leathina exclaimed as she found out who had suddenly spoken nearby earlier.

“Ah, as I expected you are really strong Leathina.” Said Winter while covering her nose which was removing from the fist effect that Leathina gave her.

“Oh, Jeez! you're bleeding Winter. I'm sorry, I accidentally hit you.” Leathina panicked. Leathina immediately helps Winter to stop the bleeding on her nose.

“Sit firmly and position your head slightly leaning forward Winter, this will load the bleeding stop quickly.” Leathina then pinched her winter nose briefly to stop the bleeding.

“Leathina?” call Winter as Leathina crouches right in front of him and touches his face carefully.

“Stay like this a little longer Winter, your nose is still bleeding.” Leathina was still focused on stopping the bleeding on Winter's nose, while Winter could not dodge and followed Leathina's words.

“What has stopped now?” muttered Leathina while looking down and deadening Winter's nose, “I'm sorry that I got your clothes so dirty.” Leathina said as she saw a lot of blood on Winter's clothes.

Leathina immediately took her handkerchief in her pouch and cleaned Winter's nose, which was no longer bleeding.

“Hold this.” Leathina pulled Winter's hand and asked her to hold her own handkerchief to cover her nose that was soiled with blood.

“Are you okay?” leathina asked worriedly because Winter had just fallen silent.

Winter did not speak he just nodded slowly but his eyes were still focused on seeing Leathina who was still worried about him.

“Are you really okay Winter? Looks like I hit you too hard until your communication skills become damaged should I call the doctor well ..” muttered Leathina who was getting panicked because Winter behaved strangely after he hit her earlier. Leathina hurried to her feet and was about to take Winter to the treatment room immediately.

“Leathina wait!” winter's exclamation pulls Leathina back until Leathina stops walking.

“I'm fine.” He said then his eyes were fixed on Leathina's hands that were filled with her blood.

“Ah, I'm sorry your hands got dirty because of my blood.” Winter then took a handkerchief out of her pocket and carefully began to clean Leathina's bloodstained hands.

“Are you okay?” leathina asked Winter once more. “Your face is flushed, what's that hurt? We should go to the treatment room.” Leathina looked up at Winter's face.

Winter who had been bowed because of the focus on cleaning Leathina's hand then met directly with Leathina's eyes who looked up to see it.

“I'm fine!” Winter's remarks then immediately pushed Leathina slightly away from him.

“Leathina you'd better go back to your room this is going dark, I also have something I need to finish.” Said Winter then hurriedly leaving Leathina.

“So almost, what's wrong with me.” Winter muttered after turning around and leaving Leathina.

“What's almost there?” leathina asked herself because she heard Winter mutter before leaving.

“What did he mean earlier that he almost beat me back because I had made his nose bleed?” leathina muttered as she saw Winter had now disappeared after making a turn.

“It is better that I should be careful with Leathina.”'s body reflexes

After Edward left Leathina immediately returned to her room, and when the guards turned out to be still standing guard in front of her room.

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