It's been a month since Katara learns that she is reincarnated in another world. She doesn't know how, or when but for sure god gives her a chance to live again. She learns that the real owner of this body got in an accident months ago, and then this happened.
She's pretty sure her soul chose this body, she is ten years younger now unlike before. She's twenty years old today, while in the other world she's thirty and died a virgin. Nobody knows how she is thankful for her second life, she's sitting at the table with her family and they're eating together. She had five cheerful siblings, her parents are kind and warm. For the first time, Katara felt the warmth of the family that she never had before. She's happy, her heart filled with so much joy that she could die.
"Here, eat this Kat. So that you'll gain more strength." Her mother put some dishes on her plate, she smiled.
"This too, sister." Her five years old sister said and put some sunnyside side-up eggs on her plate.
"Thank you, Hanna." She thanked her, and then pinched her cheeks. A month passes and she has already adjusted herself to the new environment. Sometimes she wakes up from a nightmare and finds her gun but then she realizes she doesn't need it anymore. She has already adjusted how to live this life. At first, she was hesitating to be comfortable with anyone because she thinks this is not her family but then this is her home now. This is what she prayed and hoped for every single day when she was in her previous life.
"You don't have to force yourself Katara, you can rest here." Her father said she inclined her head.
"I'm already okay papa, I can work now." She learns that she is a maid of a duke together with her mother they work there, while her father is a farmer. Even after months, they are still worried about her, so this feels like someone is worried about you?
Everything is new for her, but she likes it very much.
After they eat, Katara and her mother move to the mansion of the Duke together with their baggage, it's a little bit far because they use a carriage. They entered the mansion, some maids welcomed Katara and hugged her because she is back. She followed to enter the mansion of Duke. It's her first time here, so she can't help but be amazed by the place. They have a garden with wild rage, the hallway is full of luxury vases. The floor is shining, she feels like she's on Disney land.
They went into the maid quarter, she changed her clothes to her maid uniform, while she changed when someone entered.
"Katara, you're already here, we need your help. The duke's daughter is awake, let's prepare her bath." She nodded to the woman who's likely the same age as her and then followed her, they entered a room and then they prepared the bathroom for the duke's daughter. They put some rose petals on the bathtub, and they also prepare different dresses for her to choose from and different soaps, also milk.
What a life!
After she made a choice, they accompanied her to her bathroom. It took almost an hour for her to take a bath, and then the next thing they did was to assist her to put on some clothes.
While she's in front of the mirror right now. A fellow maid is brushing her hair but even though she's carefully brushing her hair, she accidentally pulls some strands that make the duke's daughter yell in pain.
"Ouch!" She groaned, and then looked at the maid. She quickly pulled her hair, and the maid cried in pain.
"I'm sorry Miss, I'm sorry." The maid begged, Katara was about to enter the scene when one of her fellow maids stopped her. The duke's daughter let the maid go and then kicked her.
"Get out of my sight before I kill you." She said, the maid immediately went out while sobbing quietly. They continue what they're doing after the incident like nothing happened like it's not a big deal to them. Maybe this happens every day
"Everyone gets out!" The duke's daughter said, so they carefully moved.
"Exempt Katara, you'll be accompanying me." Katara was confused, wait? Why did she want her to stay? She blinked a few times before approaching her.
"What could I do for you, Miss?" She asked.
"I need your advice, wait. Are you alright, are you really fine?" The mistress asks, Katara is more confused but she manages to nod herself.
"I'm fine mistress, thank you for your concern." The mistress nods as she sprays some perfume on herself. The scents from her perfume spread to the room, as Katara sniffed it suddenly her headaches.
"Is it true that you didn't remember what happened to you? I was really worried about you."
"Yes, I can't really remember." She replied.
"Too bad, but let's not talk about it. What should I do? The selection for a crown queen is near, you know right. I have a person that I love." Katara doesn't know anything about her past relationships with the mistress, she didn't ask because she didn't expect that.
"I suggest to the Mistress that you follow your heart." Honestly, she doesn't know how to comfort someone or to give advice, she doesn't really have any ordinary problems like boy problems etc. Her problem is how she could kill someone, in her previous life. The safest advice she thinks is the famous saying in their previous life, just follow your heart.
"My father is forcing me to marry the person I didn't love, I just can't!" The mistress is starting to cry, Katara starts to panic. She doesn't know what to do!
"I just wanted to be with the person I love, is that hard enough?!"
"Do you want me to kil—" Katara stops when she realized what she was about to say, she almost blurted out about killing because she doesn't know how to make her feel better!
"What should I do, Katara? Should I flee?" Katara blinks a few times, why would she ask her?
"I don't really know Mistress, but if you love him then just follow your heart." She pressed her lips together.
"Yeah, should I do that?" Katara nods unknowingly.
Katara exited the Mistress room while she was walking in the hallway she heard some whispers.
"I don't really know what kind of potion she gives to Mistress and she likes her so much." Katara knows, she's the one they're talking about.
"I really admire her." It was sarcastic, Katara just ignored them because even she doesn't know why Mistress seems close to her before she got here. But even so, she can't seem to trust her.
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Katara heard her mother coughso hard, she's starting to worry right now. They are already in the bed and it's midnight but her mother still can't sleep, she approached her and then patted her back gently."Are you okay mom? You look so pale." She worriedly says, the whole day Katara did what the maid should do. Good thing in her past life, she used to work as a maid as a disguise to kill someone. At her first work it was such a disaster, she almost burned the entire mansion of that family but it will not happen today or tomorrow. She learns how to be one, she learns that she's a personal maid of the Mistress Ave.Katara decided to take some water, after that she helped her mother to drink it."Mother you should quit working here now, I'll talk to the head of maids and explain your situation.""But I'm fine, Kat. You don't need to worry about me." Katara shakes her head as she di
Two weeks before the beginning of the selection, the Duke Daughter vanished and the whole mansion is in chaos. She can hear the loud scream of the Duke from his library, and broken glasses. She doesn't really know what about the selection? She just knows that the selected after three months will be the future queen of the Feronia Empire, there are 30 Noble ladies from different families already chosen to attend the selection.But it's not Katara's concern, she doesn't really care about it. If the mistress is missing, she doesn't really care about it. Because she knows her reason, the mistress tried to talk to her father about it but he never listened. He is always busy, the mistress always jokes she just wanted to flee together with her lover. She heard her crying in her room because she doesn't want to enter the selection process, because she doesn't want to marry the person she didn't love. Karata understands her, who would want to marry the one they love. But
Katara is looking at the Duke with a serious face, he really blames her for her daughter's disappearance. She doesn't know his intention for kidnapping her, but she knows it's not good. She's starting to regret saying to the mistress to follow her heart because she really did, really sometimes we don't really need to follow our hearts but because the mistress's heart is with her lover she flees with him. Grrr!"What do you want from me, Duke Salazar?" She asks with a dangerous tone of voice, she just wakes up earlier in the bed after she faints. Her head is spinning for a little bit, and can still feel dizzy. She also feels sore in her neck because of the hit, damn! She let her guard down."I have an offer to you…" She knotted her forehead, she had a bad feeling about it."What is it? And do you really need to drag me here Duke?" She still managed to be nice to him, even though she was considering ki
Katara is walking straight like a lady full of elegance, with a book on her head while wearing such a heavy dress, the Duke is training her how to be a real daughter of such a noble family. Good thing training her is fast and good, the Duke was surprised when she already can walk properly like a noble, also how to eat properly with elegance, identify whines, etc. She also read different books, the duke said it was basic knowledge of nobles and Ave learned of it that's why she needs to learn it too. Now she wanted to flee and find the Mistress and bring her back if she really knew she would advise following her heart. Why always regret at the end?!Katara just laughed inside when the duke praised her for being the perfect substitute for her freaking daughter, he was so amused but the process of getting it isn't that easy. Some people really just cared about the result but not what you've been through.She was also
Katara didn't sleep even a blink, she can't help but think. She's starving, her head is spinning because of reading books, and now Mrs. Smith is changing her corset and tying it tightly as much as she can so they can see that she's fit and look freaking sexy.She took a deep breath, another layer of dress Mrs. Smith wanted her to wear. She doesn't have any choice, after almost five hours of preparing her appearance they finally finished and now she's outside of the Mansion waiting for the royal carriage to arrive. She's hoping that there is plenty of food in the academy after they arrive there, she'll not really care about others.She badly wanted to eat but the Duke was still observing her. She needs to be obedient so that he will send her mother to the hospital immediately, a minute later the Carriage of the royal arrives. It stops in front of the Mansion of the Duke and then it opens. There are more than ten knights around,
People are all hypocrites, people lie, people pretend to be nice, people have many faces depending who they are with. As the crown prince he already mastered all the masks of deceptions, he never got caught. People think he is kind because that's what they expect you to be, and as a prince you can't disappoint them.He needs to be perfect in their eyes, because they will believe what they see and what they want to to see. But he never expected anyone to unmask him that easily, anyone can foresee his real expression at the moment.He can say that she already knew that he hated this, and he hated everyone around him. That he just wanted to disappear.He saw her laugh at him, he felt so pissed but can't help but to smirk. Someone caught his attention again…She saw the Prince smirk, Katara doesn't know if he's provoking her or what? But she
Early in the morning and now Katara is in the banquet hall eating as her heart continent, she doesn't care about anyone at all. She's hungry, that's why she wants to eat as much as she can, her uniform, schedules, and other school stuff are already in her dorm.She already has all of her schedule and guess what? It's all about manners, and how to be royal. There is one executive subject for ladies who are selected, the subject that just selected Nobles are in.aSo for normal students, they have only five subjects minus the three subjects about their powers. For the extraordinary one, they have eight and for the selected one and extraordinary one has nine subjects. Good things she's normal so she had just six subjects, good for her.Every weekend, they get to know each other for selections. The prince will see each of them and get to know them. Even seeing the prince and talking to him is sched
Katara looks at the prince while sleeping, he has good features. Thick eyebrows, long lashes, a pointed nose and kissable lips. Damn! She would like to taste his lips just for once, she's curious what it would be like to kiss a prince. Maybe they also taste expensive, and royal. She's imagining a taste of gold, weird right? But of course she wouldn't do that, she wouldn't kiss him while sleeping because it doesn't mean he's a man he doesn't need a content. Consent should work vice versa, both men and women deserve it. Katara closes her eyes, and feels the breeze of the wind touches into her skin. It's peaceful, she can even heard the three branches sounds as it was blown by the wind. A second later she heard the Prince whimper, she looked at him and his forehead was knotting. It was like he's having a bad dream. Being a prince seems such a comfortable life but it seems like it's not that easy.