It has been one year since the incident before, and many smaller incidents have happened during the course of that one year segment. They are inherently related to the nobility, and only a small amount of incident is related to the commoners (only who dared to attack in the nights posing as bandits themselves).
My highlights of the year were definitely when I amused myself by tricking Miyo that the mansion is amused in the basement, and I would be even more amused if this generates the idea of a haunted mansion in the future. Though, I suspect Miyo knew it was me when I was done.
It is now the year 1909 on February Sixth and it seemed bandits have been increasing in some noble territories except the Scarlet Family territories. I have not heard or seen news of the commoners standing up independently for themselves yet, but the last time I went through the town in the car, it seems that they are still quite tense as last year before.
I have just woken up under the brilliant light of the morning, and it seemed that my servant Miyo has served me a white dress with a red accent. This is the sixth time that she has prepared this dress for quite some time, and I definitely do appreciate it when she does bring this one out.
On the other hand, my self-defense skills have improved in order to fend off myself from those who dared to attack me. I did not want to be unprepared as before and find myself reincarnating once more — though, I do not know if this life is only served as a second chance and I do not have more chances than this.
After I've prepared myself quite well this morning, I've exited my room and headed towards the dining room. The scent of food seemed to have carried itself to the halls, and it seemed that breakfast is ready.
From the room, Miyo was walking toward my direction and seemed surprised that I have already been prepared and is walking towards the dining room. "Ah, my lady. Breakfast is ready, your family is waiting." She curtsied and entered the dining room back.
I've seated myself in the dining room alongside my family, and it seemed today Is served with scones. I am quite fond of them as they are the replacement for biscuits from what I usually ate back in my past life.
"The tea, milady, and milord." She served the tea last? She is quite elegant today, and it seems my mother noticed of how different it was being served right now. As I moved to drink from the warm tea, my gut suddenly flashed in danger and hotness that made me lean back to my chair in shock.
"Hm. It is quite bitter and sweet more than your usual, servant." My father remarked as he sipped from the tea, and my face morphed into resignation and an amused smile.
I did not expect that it would be this year that my servant would begin poisoning the household of the Scarlet Family, but it seems that my time has begun to tick towards my fate in the future. But, bitter and sweet?
So it is cyanide. How amusing..
Ironically, the taste of what they drank from the tea is what the emotions I am feeling right now. It is quite bittersweet seeing my family death before my very eyes, and perhaps in another territory, A blade was thrust into the heart of a noble causing the end of terror and the beginning of subjective happiness.
After all, terrible terror will begin to happen to those of the nobility and happiness will happen to those of the common. After a few minutes, it seems the poison has begun to take effect on my family with the sensation of dizziness and headaches.
And here I sat eating scones with an amused smile, "Hm, I may have ate too much." My father said with a contented sigh, not knowing his true death will come from the drink that he drunk. For one expertise in social studies and military tactics, he is quite low on guard for things like this.
My mother agreed with the sentiment that his father had said, and he stood to walk back to his office to work on something alongside rest for quite a moment. For a few steps, he fell down onto the ground foaming at the mouth. How cold of me, to watch my family die without helping them.
I stood from my chair and walked backward as the last of my family died to the poison, and stared coldly at my former servant, and even how cold my stare are — it held no contempt or hatred. "How clever of you, Miyo."
"You did not drink from the tea, Remilia?" My servant sighed in exasperation and resignation, clearly, she half-expected me to cleverly avoid the poison as she knew that I was intelligent enough to not fall to such a trick. "No, I did not. Though, I want to congratulate you on how you successfully killed the Scarlet Family with the exception of me."
Miyo raised her eyebrows in confusion, reaching for an unused knife on the table as I paused on my words to increase the rising tension in the room. "Though, I wish that you allow me to escape and allow the common to rebel against the nobility instead of myself." To any others, it would look like cowardice, but to me, it is quite smart to retreat when it is the time to do so.
"You do not intend to prevent the commoner from rising up?" Miyo said suspiciously, taking a guarded stance with the knife even how amateurish it was. I merely hummed in amusement, "In my eyes, nobility and commoners are quite the same." as I straightened myself to prepare for an attack.
How ironic is it to see a servant, a maid more specifically, to wield knives?
I jumped backward, vaulting over the table with an amused smile that is ever-present on my face. That last reckless attack almost took my eyes out with her lengthy jab, "Come now, I only wish to live peacefully as a commoner instead of a noble after this."
"How would I even trust you? Every noble that I have met have lied under the words of promise!" snarled Miyo as she attempted to reach for me with her hands, she is quite flexible but I've experienced more danger since I was born in this body and life.
I have never known the history of my servant, especially Miyo, but it seemed that she was tricked by a noble and possibly by playing their own words judging by her words. My family may have done that more than once, and I shall admit it. "That is true, most of us nobles do that." I agreed with a nod.
"But, see past the noble and you see a child trying to survive." I attempted to do this, I may sound like a hypocrite because I am trying to trick Miyo and lessen her attack strength. But it is my only salvation out of this conflict, "You're not a child, Remilia!" she replied with a shout and a kick caught me in the legs.
I almost fell but caught myself before I could succumb to death, my gut is twisting in and out as it informed of the dangers in the path to escape. "That was worth a try, though." I beamed as the knife slashed down the air from where I was previously.
"Miyo, Miyo, Miyo. How hard is it to understand that I wish only to flee?" But this conflict is quickly becoming pointless as Miyo seemed to be more desperate in her swings and slashes, and that means I have to be more careful where I land my feet and where I plan to go. "Miyo." I coldly said and she immediately froze, and this was neither advantage nor disadvantage for me.
Looks like she still has the instinct as a servant…
"I, Remilia Scarlet, swear on my life that I shall never prevent the rebellion against nobility happen. No matter what happened, no matter on circumstances, no matter who they are or of how you bait me to try and save the Diventine boy." I bowed more than respectfully to Miyo, enough to make her feel like that she was the noble here. Cold words, and yet they were genuine.
A sad silence descended upon the room as Miyo seemed to sigh in resignation, "Why..?" She whispered, trying to catch a reason why I did not fight back against the crashing waves of a revolution. "Why did you not… fight back?" The knife fell onto the ground with a shattering sound in the silence.
"On the outside world, outside the United Kingdom. Nobility does not exist." I smiled sadly.
Miyo could only stare at the girl in disbelief, it was rather impossible for a girl isolated only in the libraries and her home to know the state of the outside world more than every noble and speak of the commoners respectfully. She wondered if she was only faking to be cold to her after all this time.
She has heard of the French Revolution being shared among the tavern before, but never to this giant mass of explanation. Her serene and amused expression seemed to shine under the darkening sky outside, marking the end of nobility.
And the most impossible thing that she heard from this girl, Remilia, that she agreed that nobility and aristocracy is a dying rule that must be banished by the common for the sake of the future. And in the midst of her explanation, it felt like Miyo was listening to a veteran in the army or a scholar.
She had asked how confident she was that the revolution will succeed, and she merely smiled cryptically and said, "Knowledge is power, and even commoners can gain knowledge. I assume you know what this means." and thus at that moment, the girl gave permission to the commoners to raid the library and raid them of the information needed.
She had asked her where she was going to stay and live, but she merely gave another cryptic smile and something of a burden that has been placed upon hers. I have no idea what she means to say by that, but despite that, and despite that, I am no longer her servant. I still respect her privacy.
Lord, grant mercy to the child of former nobility so that she may gain peace from it…
She sent her private prayers to Remilia, not knowing whether it will help her on the journey onward to the wilderness. But she hoped that some of the servant in the other noble house granted the same mercy as she did to Remilia, that boy from Diventine family.. She hoped that he lived..
On the other hand, Remilia walks in front of the mansion with a sad smile toward the front door of the mansion. It seems that it is still quite hard moving away from her home in this life, and this is the transition where her life will begin to be much more harder.
I grabbed a few poles from the yard to help me drive the car as I am quite short before I could reach the pedals underneath. In theory, this could work and my multitasking skill is quite experienced at this sort of thing.
After a few moments, I realized that this may be my latest blunder yet. It was quite hard managing all the things as never before I was interested in the traditional era of automobiles as I usually pay attention to how matic pedals works in the future.
This is bad, I hope I didn't hit any people here.
A few hours passed since I drove from my former home with a speed that would make nobles and commoner balk in this very era. Fortunately, according to my knowledge that there is a town nearby in the former territory of Zeiburg and I could stop there to rest up and continue again once the sun has risen once more.
In a sense, it would be suicide to rest in my own former territory as anyone would recognize the heiress instantly and possibly send me to the execution as soon as possible. As soon as the town lights were visible in my eye, I stopped immediately to withdraw the thoughts of a noble visiting town and set up an ambush.
Other than that, these clothes may be problematic as such I have to find more casual clothes not made from the smooth silk of the high-class. I need an opportunity or some random commoners walking nearby and stealing their clothes while they are unconscious, as I am not really naïve enough to think that they will forgive me for wearing a noble's cloth.
"Look at that! A bloody noble still here, surviving!" A commoner woman laughed, her eyes dull with drunkenness. So they are celebrating of their success with their rebellion judging by her apparent drunken act.
No matter! This is an opportunity.
After a few moments of struggling, she manages to get the clothes off the unconscious woman lying down at the dirt road. The clothes were too big for her, but it was enough to pass her as a commoner that traveled from another town, but in terms of currency, she did have some that she carried from her former home.
Act as a commoner? No need, she already has that one done as she was an ordinary people in her past life before. She could pass off as a commoner enough with an average table manner and willingness to deal with dirtiness that no noble will touch with the exception of herself.
"It's a little girl.." One of the commoner guards had said, staring at her in apparent pity as she entered the town staring at the lamp and torches that lit the roads. "A former servant? Why don't we help her?" The other one said.
I stared at the men who wandered the streets drunk and happy now that the reign of the nobility has ended in just one day, but the town felt empty for some strange reason. Perhaps there was more to this rebellion than she previously thought? The French Revolution took soldiers trained by the commoner themselves to evict the nobility from the lands, and perhaps that is where they took off to.
"Oi, little girl!" I turned around saw two men with their respective swords on their hips.
"Do you need any help? Did you escape from the nobles?" They both said in unison.
Short Note:
Moving forward, are we? :)