In This Confinement Novel, the Maid Doesn’t Change the Original - Chapter 0.2
Prologue – Part 2
Translator: Yonnee
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Adeline was a transmigrator who could not remember her previous life.
About three years ago, she woke up in the body of a slave put up for sale at a slave market.
Without knowing what kind of life she had lived before that, she was taken in by Sien and became a maid of the Floye Duchy.
The reason she hid this fact even from Sien was not because of any strict need for secrecy. It simply wasn’t particularly important to her life.
If you wanted to survive as a maid in the Floye Duchy, or more specifically as a close maid to Sien, there was no time to worry about such trivial matters.
“The saintess has appeared. Her name is Claire, and they say she’s a commoner woman.”
Today, three years after transmigrating into this unfamiliar body, she heard talk of the saintess from a fellow maid.
If it had been someone from another household, it would certainly have been news to be delivered with great fuss. However, at least within the Floye household, it was not such surprising news.
Because the Floye Duchy was a bit different from other ordinary noble houses.
To borrow the words of the novel, it was closer to a villainous house.
So if you had to pick a story that would truly interest these people, it would be something like a newly developed poison.
But Adeline was different.
Normally, she would have been indifferent like the other maids, but if it was a story about a saintess named Claire, that was another matter.
“…By any chance, is that saintess someone about two inches shorter than me, with blue hair, a puppy-like face, and features that are cute and delicate?”
“What, you already knew about the saintess? You’re usually the last to hear rumors.”
That Adeline, who didn’t show any interest in gossip unless it was on the direct orders of Sien, the Young Duke of Floye, knew the exact appearance of the saintess was unexpected to her fellow maid, who widened her eyes in surprise.
On the other hand, Adeline narrowed her eyes and stared into space with a troubled expression.
‘So this is where I transmigrated, huh…’
The moment she heard about the saintess, the fact that she had transmigrated into a novel and the plot of that novel had just come to mind.
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The Floye Duchy, where Adeline worked as a maid, was the dark side of the Empire.
A house trailed by all sorts of sinister rumors, and more often than not, those rumors were true.
A trait of such a house was that it had significantly fewer servants compared to other houses.
Maintaining secrecy was secondary, as the number of people who could even adapt to the work could be counted on one hand.
And among those few servants, Adeline was a loyal dog personally raised by Sien, the Floye family’s next household head.
That was why, naturally, she began to mull over yesterday’s shocking realization with Sien at the center of her thoughts.
This place is the world of the novel 〈The Saintess’s Cage of Confinement〉, and the young master of the Floye Duchy she serves is one of the male leads of that novel.
She doesn’t remember exactly, but she thinks it was an R19 reverse harem novel.
Of them all, the male lead with the most severe obsession and a screw loose somewhere was her very own young master.
‘From the young master’s perspective, it’s only natural he’d be obsessed with the female lead.’
That’s because Sien had a congenital illness that only the female lead, the saintess, could cure.
He possessed an unusual abundance of magical power, but because of that, he couldn’t withstand the toxins inherent within that magic.
In the novel, the female lead saintess happens to purify him by chance, which is how Sien comes to notice her.
The problem was that Sien was a person who had no sense of morality whatsoever. He didn’t even know how to love in an ordinary way.
Later on, he even went so far as to imprison the female lead.
‘The novel… No wonder, there’s a reason our young master is out of his mind.’
It’s because he’s that type of male lead.
In the end, it just meant it was in his nature, but Adeline decided to use the novel as an excuse to rationalize her master’s madness.
Adeline always accepted Sien’s twisted disposition in this way.
Most people couldn’t tolerate Sien’s personality and left one by one, but as a maid, Adeline couldn’t do that.
Besides, whatever others thought, to her, Sien was her lifesaver.
So Adeline could accept anything from Sien.
As long as he didn’t try to kill her.
‘But in the original work, after imprisoning the saintess… he kills the maids.’
Whenever the saintess tried to escape, on the grounds that the maids had failed to watch her properly.
Which meant that Adeline, as Sien’s personal maid, was the most likely to die first.
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