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Chapter 7

The maid I hired five years ago stood with her back straight and her face void from expression despite her hands trembling in fear as she was facing the full brunt of my killing intent.

"Tell me, Linette Coleswall, eldest daughter of Marquis Coleswall, why I should listen to your request let alone approve of it."

She took several deep breaths before replying.

"My lord, I do not wish to be separated from Lady Luna. She is special to me and I wish to serve her to the best of my abilities and I believe those that are with me share the same sentiments. We would like to serve Lady Luna until the day we di-" before she could even finish those words, a hand shot up from the shadows and grabbed her by the neck.

"What, pray tell, makes you think I will allow such incompetent fools to serve my daughter? Did you starve her? She's pretty much skin and bones! I should kill all of you to make up for the torture my daughter went through!"

"My lord, Linette is the closest one to the princess. Killing her would make the princess hate you eternally." Deacon reasoned.

"Then I will eternally beg her for forgiveness even if I have to burn in hell and do so." I hissed through clenched teeth.

"It… was… never… us…" She choked out.

I snapped my attention back to the brunette fool, eyes glaring at her one last time before releasing her. She fell to her knees, gasping for air.

"You have one minute from now to explain. Begin"

She gulped another mouthful of air before kneeling properly on the floor with her eyes down and hands clenching her skirt.

"Lady Luna has won over my heart from the day I laid eyes on her and despite the initial cold shoulder the others gave her, once she learned to speak Lady Luna had won over all our hearts. And we did all we could to make her life as comfortable as possible in the Claude palace. The chefs, Samuel and his crew, did his best to cook up the best food he could with the supplies thrown our way and the others as well. Whenever they ran an errand in the main palace, they would sneak a treat for her and-"

"Stop." The reaction was immediate.

"What did you mean by the food he could manage that were thrown your way." I questioned, dread pitting in my guts.

Linette clenched her skirt even tighter before raising her eyes to meet mine, determination burning from the depths of those brown eyes.

"Because everyone even those from Claude palace assumes that my lord detests the young lady, many took advantage of the situation such as coming to steal the valuables and send rotten or spoilt food to our storage. They only send scraps of ingredients to our palace to cook for Lady Luna. We did the best we could by using up the money from our pay to buy ingredients and clothes for Lady Luna. Therefore, please my lord, please allow us to serve Lady Luna." She bowed in her kneeling position, her head touching the floor.

I clenched my chair until the cracks were heard and Deacon cleared his throat to release me from my blood thirsty thoughts of murdering those that conspired against Luna.

I turned to Deacon for suggestion and he only motioned towards Linette and nodded his head. I sighed softly.

"Very well. You will receive training under the main palace's head maid, Lucintha. All of you will be trained of the mannerism that will be needed to take place within these walls. Failure to meet expectations will result in immediate termination of contract. There will be no second chances. Is that understood?"

flustered and happy at the same time, she smacked her head accidentally too hard on the floor but nonetheless was happy despite having a bump on her head. She quickly returned to her duties to inform the other servants.

"Was that a wise decision?" I sighed.

"They truly care for the princess from what I've seen so far."

"Hn. If they cared for her they should have informed me earlier regarding the treatment she gets from the other servants." I retorted, annoyed.

"Would you have listened?" his snarky remark made me hold my tongue. I knew I would not have believed a single word they said if I had not seen the state Luna is in. But those idiots that dare to mistreat my daughter…

"Deacon, find out who were involved in Luna's mistreat. Terminate them immediately and make sure they will not be able to find a single job within this empire. Make it a good example for the new servants as well."

Deacon smirked at me before bowing. "Of course my lord."

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It has been a few days since I've moved Luna to the main palace. I wonder what she's doing now. How's her education going? I sighed.

"How are the servants under Luna, fairing?" I asked as I rejected another petition from a noble to raise the prices of the goods they were selling.

"Well. In fact, too well. Their determination is truly spectacular. Despite being hurled insults daily and sneers directed at them, they ignore those and continue to learn and absorbed as much as they could. I even asked why they were going so far for the princess."

He didn't continue. Just left it at that. I could feel my nerves throbbing in annoyance at my retainer.

"And?"

"Hmm? Oh, my apologies milord. Did you want to know their reasoning?" He gasped, his right hand flying to cover his mouth in an attempt to act surprised.

"Your disgusting creepy smile is too obvious Deacon. You need to do better than that."

"Oh my, I have no idea what you're talking about milord." His creepy smile got wider. I swear I could see the devil's tail protruding from his ass and flicking around excitedly.

I clenched my fist and lit my fist in black flames that made Deacon jump back in fright.

"Alright alright! Sheesh, take a chill pill Deo. You're seriously going to kill me one of these days with your violence."

"Deacon." I threatened.

He sighed exasperatedly before conjuring a hot cup of tea out of nowhere and taking a sip leisurely.

"The servants that were hired for the Claude Palace were selected by the previous head maid, Lucintha. She deliberately chose the thug looking ones with magical powers. In hopes that one day the princess would die by their hands or something along the lines. Calm down, Deo. I haven't finished talking."

I glared at him which he just ignored and continued.

"They took advantage of the state the Claude palace was in but sometime during the third year when the princess was more fluent in speaking, she saw a group of the servants that came to work with bruises all over their body and faces."

Flashback

Luna POV

"You owwie?" I tilted my head while staring at a group of my servants that was badly bruised. They clicked their tongue and glared at me. These kids! I would whack your head to oblivion if I was bigger!

"What would you care even if we're injured? Scram brat!" he growled at me. If I'm not mistaken his name is Lucas, the leader of their ragtag team of teenage boys group of eight. Sixteen with blood red hair and green eyes. He is rather fit and masculine. Affinity to fire and wind. I remember seeing his profile sticking out the most when I sneaked into Linette's office to look at the profile of all my servants in this palace to know better about them. Lucas was born to prostitute named Belle from Fotia. His dad was one of his mom's regulars however, when he came to know she was pregnant with his child, he threw her away.

She grew hating the child even more and used him as a mean to release his stress. Hence why he has a strong physique. His mother died from overdose of alcohol when he was thirteen and saw that my dad was hiring and took up the job as one of the servants in charge of errands.

One thing led to another, he got greedy and became a thug's underling. I sighed as I tried to process my thoughts.

He wasn't severely injured but it was bad to the point he can't see with his swollen eyes.

I placed my chubby three-year-old hand on his face and chanted a spell under my breath, barely a whisper so that they couldn't hear.

"O spirits of the holy light, grant these people the blessing of recovery! Heal!" it glowed a soft pink before the light subsided leaving the redhead healed from his injuries.

He blinked at me with wide and dumbfounded eyes as did the rest of his group did.

"WHOA! You can use magic?!" I found myself being surrounded by excited teenage boys looking at me like I was some sort of new toy when Lucas yelled.

"Did you think I'd be grateful if you healed me huh?! I don't need pity from a snotty brat like you!"

My chubby hands swung as hard as it could before making stinging contact on both his cheeks causing said boy to be too stunned to talk.

"Luna heal Lucas becoz owie! Luna make owie go away! Lucas is Luna's peepawl! Luna must pwotek! Becoz eberiwan is preshesh here! Eberiwan is alone like Luna here! Luna must pwotek!"

Curse my idiotic bambling talk! Dear kami-sama when can I speak properly! But it seems that the boy understood my words as his eyes widened with surprise before he looked away with a blush on his face.

"Bahh! You nobles and your empty words! What makes you any different" he growled begrudgingly.

I felt myself ticked off. Calm yourself Luna, hitting a pubescent teen won't make much difference.

I held out a pinky to him.

"Luna pwomishes that Luna will do her best pwoteking you if you pwomish to do your best too!"

It took awhile before he broke into a grin and joined pinkies with me.

"Fine! We'll promise her won't we boys?!" he laughed while his underlings cheered excitedly.

From that day on, Lucas swore to himself that he would do his best at his job and that he would protect me with his life. Apparently, his group of boys decided to follow his path and swore themselves to me with their life.

On their off days they would go off to the adventurer's guild and train to be able to master different types of weapons while earning more income as well as making a name for themselves. He along with the rest of his group split into two teams of four. Alternating between each other to protect me while the other team goes off to train and earn extra income from the adventurer's guild.

End of flashback

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