I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 173

“Welcome back miss Leathina.”

Greet the knights who were still standing guard in front of Leathina's room then immediately open Leathina's door and let Leathina in.

“Thank you, today you have worked hard. You should also go back and rest, you will get sick if you work too hard.” Leathina said then immediately entered.

Exhausted Leathina did not think too much about what she said, the words that came out of her mouth just came out without her noticing.

“Ba-well Miss Leathina, we will rest after our guard schedule is finished and thank you for worrying us.” Answer the knight who guards the door of Leathina's room.

“Iya, yes, do what you want to do.” Said Leathina indifferently.

After Leathina entered the guards immediately closed the door of Leathina's room back.

“You heard Miss Leathina is really a good girl.” whispered the knight gave her friend after closing the door of Leathina's room from outside.

“Yes you were right, I was worried about what people were rumored about. But everything went well.”

“Hei! You didn't like it.” The other knights chanted.

“It was because it used to be him ..”

“Huss!” don't gossip on your watch you get in trouble. Miss Leathina may have heard you too.

After one of them reprimanded, they remained silent and focused on their work.

“Haiss! I can still hear you guys know! Why everyone loves to gossip behind others.” Leathina muttered annoyed at hearing the guards back talking about her when she had just entered and was still standing at her door.

“Nona Leathina!”

“Ah, Anne?!”

“Duh I will be in trouble again this time, why this child is still in my room anyway, even though I have told him to rest today.” Inner Leathina as she looked at Anne who was in her room and greeted her with a sullen face.

“Nona Leathina from anywhere? Why go out and just come back at an hour like this?” anne asked Leathina who had just arrived.

“Anne, let me rest. You also go back to your environment and rest.” Said Leathina who walked up to her bed and immediately threw herself down.

“Can't, Miss sweat a lot you have to shower first before resting and you also haven't had dinner.”

“I'll take a shower but dinner will I miss.”

“But Miss Leathina has to choose the condition of your body so have to eat more!”

“Then I will skip both, sleep is more beneficial to restore the body back.” Leathina then buried her face in the pillow and slowly her eyes began to close.

“Alright Miss Leathina may skip dinner but Miss has to clean up first, your skin can be damaged if not treated.”

“Iya, it's up to you.”

“Come, come on, wake up first!”

Anne helped Leathina who had been half-asleep to go to the bathtub and after Leathina began to clean herself, after which Anne helped to tidy up other things.

“Thanks Anne.” Leathina said after being able to fall back asleep in her bed comfortably.

“Happy rest Miss Leathina, good night.” Anne said softly and fixed Leathina's blanket then slowly walked out of the room to keep Leathina from being disturbed.

“You're fast once done working today Anne?” said the head chef welcomed the arrival of Anne who entered the kitchen.

“Nona Leathina sleeps faster so I finished working faster also hi this.”

“Why is that fast? We're just about to prepare dinner.”

“Nona said she was going to skip her dinner today, which is why I came. I'd like to ask you to make some food for Miss Leathina tomorrow morning, because she'll definitely be hungry for missing her dinner.”

“Well will I remember.” Said the head chef who then returned busy struggling with cooking tools assisted by other servants.

“Then I will return to my room.” Anne then walked out of the kitchen.

“Anne!” Call the other waiter.

“What's up?”

“Jagan sleeps too fast, help us peel the food ingredients for tonight.”

“Heh? Why should I, it's not my job.” Anne refused her friend's offer.

“Haiss, you're outrageous Anne. “

“I'm also tired, know!”

“Then join us, sit here. We have a good story to share, besides you will be bored in your own room.”

“Alright, but I won't help you guys well.”

Anne nodded then one of them immediately pulled Anne and sat down with her.

Moments later after Anne sat down and joined the other servants, Anne peeling off the onion skin with the others.

“Hah! I should have been suspicious when you guys gave me a seat.”

“Hahaha, forgive us. We don't know if the butler will see you and ask you to help the people who work in the kitchen.”

“Yeslah.” Said Anne upset while still peeling the onion skin for cooking ingredients.

“But you know we really have a good story to share.”

“Iya, we will let you know if you want.”

“What is it?” asked Anne while peeling the onion skin.

“It was lately there is a story circulating that there is a good place in the city, actually the place is not in the city as well but in the suburbs.”

“What's in there?”

“There said there was a nice place, maybe like a restaurant. Nobles and ordinary people can freely enter there without having to know their individual identities, everyone who enters must use a mask.”

“Didn't that sound weird?”

“Eh, what do you mean Anne. People from the lower classes used the place to attract rich nobles to raise their status, do you want to go there?”

“I'm not interested.”

“Ah, you're not cool Anne. You also need a vacation, you haven't been out for a long time.”

“We are planning there Anne, you also come for fun, right he said you also have to entertain yourself.”

“Yes, but I can't leave Miss Leathina alone.”

“Let's have a day off tomorrow, we're all off tomorrow.”

“Alright I'll ask Ms. Leathina's permission first, but I don't promise yah.”

“Iya, of course.”

“Well, I've finished peeling the bring I'll be back in my room now.”

Anne cleaned her hands and kept the knife she used and went straight back to her room afterwards.

“Do I really have to go well?” anne muttered on her way back to her room.

“Alright, I will prepare the clothes I want to wear tomorrow. If Miss Leathina doesn't let me go then you don't have to go and if allowed it will be much better, I will sometime take Miss Leathina for a walk to the city.”

Anne unpacked her closet for the clothes she was going to use to go to town with her friends tomorrow.

“Tok.. tok... tok.

“Anne, are you inside?” Someone called Anne from the outside.

“It's dinner time, Madam Duchess asked you to call Miss Leathina to eat together.”

“Ah. Didn't the head chef tell you? Miss Leathina missed her dinner today, she's asleep.”

“So like that, well I'll go back to the dining room to tell madam duchess.”

“Iya, tell Nyoba that Miss Leathina is asleep and please don't wake her.”

The waiter then went to the dining room where Madam duchess, Nicholas and Nora were present.

“Why are you coming again?” ask Nora to the waiter.

“Where's Leathina?” Nicholas spoke while looking back but found no one there.

“Have you not told Leathina that we will eat together?” ask Duchess.

“I'm sorry madam, Miss Leathina told me she'd missed her dinner and is now asleep in her room.”

“Good.”

“Thank you madam, I'm back.”

“Why does Leathina sleep so fast?” Nicholas Gumam.

“Maybe she's exhausted, I heard after we came to visit her room earlier she went around.” Nora answered Nicholas's question.

“Ah, mom what father still hasn't come for dinner?”

“Your real father is coming.”

“What's up?” just talked about Duke Leonard had already come and sat down on his dining chair.

“Where's Leathina? Has he not come to dinner yet?” asked the duke after seeing Leathina's empty seat.

“Leathina's asleep, maybe she's exhausted. Just let him not you disturb.” Answer the Duchess who started eating her food after the Duke touched her food first.

They were silent and focused on their own food.

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“What's there progress?”

“Not at all.”

“We must find a way to prove the rebellion of duke Leonard, however!”

“He rightly said, but how do you know a place like this?”

“I heard it from my friend, here our identity will not be discovered because it is mixed with nobles and commoners, which is important to meet some conditions, such as this.” He said, showing the mask he was wearing.

“Are there no other reports of the people you hired at Duke Leonard's residence?”

“Nothing, but one of my people said that there were two foreign guests roaming in their mansion.”

“Indeed the stranger can prove a rebellion that the duke did not do, anyway why do you insist on proving what never happened.”

“Duh, whose side are you on. Don't you remember what happened to the grand duke a while ago?”

“Iya I know that, what does it have to do?”

“The half of the royals are doing dark business, corruption and illegal slavery, if the duke remains standing firm then we will be in trouble. So to anticipate it we have to cut the root of the problem first.”

“All right, all right, I understand I'm coming.”

“What is suspicious about the two foreign guests that the duke brought to his residence?” Ask the others who are starting to focus on their conversation.

“The words of the informant who worked for me, the two people did not seem to be from the noble circles, and one of them even looked like a criminal and the other one looked like a fool but strong.”

“It seems suspicious indeed, if we can reveal the identity of both of them our path will probably end seamlessly.”

“Don't be too careless, we only have a little time given by his majesty the king.”

“Until when chance we have to prove the accusation of rebellion committed duke?”

“Until the party to be held as the anniversary of Queen Juliette. Our time is up, we must hurry up.”

“Follow you said, then our meeting until here, we will meet again here tomorrow.”

“Alright, I'll be back soon there's still some business I have to finish.”

“Be careful on your journey, I will stay even longer to enjoy the young ladies here.”

“Do not delay, lately many incidents of nobles impregnating commoners.”

“That's because of the lowly ones who gave up her body first on people like us.”

“Just don't let you be careless and make things mess up!”

“No will! Just go there, don't take care of other people's business.”

The association they did broke up, some of them stayed and some chose to return.

“Shelf!”

Inadvertently the person who had walked out hit a woman who was about to enter the restaurant.

“Ma-I'm sorry sir, I didn't accidentally. Again forgive me sir.” Said the woman who had accidentally collided.

The woman immediately covered her face and kept her head down apologizing to the person who hit her.

“Haiss! This is so dirty.” He muttered angrily then took off his gloves and threw rudely at the woman who was still bowing apologetically in front of him.

“Agrease! You must have deliberately crashed your filthy body to seduce me, didn't you! He said sarcasm to the woman in the hood.

“You should pay attention to your path poor.” Said the impactor then about to throw a slap at the woman he hit.

“Tap!”

“Master you shouldn't be rude to women.” A man suddenly blocked and brushed off his hand that was about to throw a slap.

“Who else this lowly creature, want to play heroes and villains!” he said he sniffed and then pulled his hand rough.

“You want to finish it here right now? But not with this woman, with me let's slap!” said the other man standing up to challenge the rude man.

The rude man looked up because the man who blocked him earlier turned out to be much higher than him, to make his guts shrink.

“This is why I don't like having meetings in the slums of commoners like this, it makes my body allergic. Step aside don't be in my way of trash!” he left after being satisfied to insult the woman he had hit and hit the man who was blocking him earlier.

“What an attitude of arrogance it.” The woman murmured then immediately fixed her hood to cover her head well after it went straight away.

“Hei miss!” the man who was helping out earlier suddenly pulled out his hand and stopped him.

“Don't you owe me something?” asked the man close his face trying to check the face of the woman wearing the robe and mask.

“I didn't ask you to help me sir, I'm not a rich woman so find another woman for you to spare her fortune.” Say the woman and forcibly remove her hand from the man's.

“Nona shouldn't you thank me after getting help?” said the man who didn't accept the hooded woman's treatment.

“Haiss, this is annoying.” Murmured the woman slowly.

“Alright, Thank you for helping me kindly master, then excuse me now may we not meet again!” Said the woman then bowed politely after that immediately ran away from the man.

“Eh! Wait a minute. ah already. Strange woman.” The man muttered and finally left and did not care about the incident he had experienced.

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