Life as a Tower Maid: Locked up with the Prince - Chapter 26

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Chapter 26

Translator: Yonnee

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“Your Highness, I’m here!”

He might have heard me talking, but Albert didn’t take the tray from me this time.

Was he upset because of what happened a while ago? Did I run away too obviously?

As I walked over to the desk with a smile tugging at my lips, I saw that Albert’s expression was completely stiff.

Albert was staring into the air, his face completely devoid of emotion.

He swung the wand in the air. Then, he spoke in a low voice.

“Say that again.”

[ Rosteratu destroyed the fief where Your Highness stayed. All the people living there have passed away. ]

“……”

[ He set fire to the entire domain. People outside the domain think that it’s nothing more than a regrettable accident, but it isn’t. It’s clear that it was to remove traces of the people who support Your Highness. ]

The voice coming from the cane was unfamiliar. It seemed like Albert was talking to one of his subordinates.

However, the story he was telling was unrealistic.

[ I shall send the pertinent information to Your Highness shortly. Please take a look. ]

As soon as he said that, light flowed out of the cane and became something like a projector.

“What in the world…”

Albert wasn’t the only one stunned. I almost dropped the bowl of chicken in my hands.

Before me, a scene that was so cruel that it was hard to keep looking was vividly depicted.

Bodies scattered on the street, leaving only ashes behind.

It was a scene of a merciless massacre.

My body froze, as though I was there on the scene itself. But I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen.

I gulped dryly.

The atrocities of King Impotent, which were not detailed very much in the novel, were beyond my imagination.

If it was to this extent, Albert simply killing him wouldn’t be enough.

“When did you come in?”

As he frowned, Albert stood up from his seat.

As I tried to make an excuse or explain with a smile, Albert covered my eyes. His hand was big enough to cover most of my face.

“…I’m fine. You were working.”

“I can tell just by looking at your face.”

“Prince, you can read me well, too. I used to hide my thoughts properly before.”

“Is that so? I think it’s easy to read you, and it’s saddening that you tried to hide your thoughts in the past. But how can you read me?”

Albert said this with a smile. At his words, I laughed.

Haha, the image was still similar even now.

My boss, who was noble and elegant, but whose heart was unreadable.

When Albert’s hand disappeared and no longer blocked my view, the terrible scene wasn’t there anymore. But the shock wouldn’t go away.

I took a deep, shaky breath and calmed my surprised heart.

“I didn’t even hear you come in because the meeting was extended for a bit.”

Placing the bowl of chicken down on the table, I sat facing him.

The chicken, which was still steaming, boasted its beautiful magnificence.

Albert seemed to have been bothered by my presence earlier.

“Were you surprised?”

“Yes… I didn’t know that the present King was such a son of a b*tch.”

“Son of a b*tch? Haha, it’s the first time I’m hearing you curse.”

“Even calling him that doesn’t do him justice. Dogs are cute. I can’t even call him trash. Prince, aren’t you angry?”

“It did cross my mind…”

He shook his head, his expression cold.

“Nothing would change even if I get angry here. I just need to use this time to increase my strength. The best revenge I could do is to get out of here, kill him, then become king.”

He was right, but I didn’t agree with everything he said.

Sure it wouldn’t change anything even if you get angry, but it was important to let off some steam. That’s the most important thing to me in the world.

“Either way, nothing changes either if you just keep it all inside.”

Suddenly, I remembered my friend Hye-in, who I had been close to before.

Unlike me, who acted friendly at work, Hye-in was like a bear.

She had a boss who gaslit people as naturally as breathing, and Hye-in was someone who grew to have depression while keeping it all in that entire time.

She kept all her feelings locked up until the moment that her anger, which had piled up so high, finally reached its limit.

It was the first job she had, and during that time when it was hard to get a job, Hye-in thought that the best she could do was to endure it.

I remembered drinking with her.

The day Hye-in cried and let it all out.

The day she told me all about it, she left behind her usually impregnable walls due to the influence of alcohol.

If you just endure it, it becomes a disease. Mental illness was difficult to treat.

“Prince, if you hold it in like that, you’ll get sick. Do you know that?”

It was a disease that most office workers had.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Albert was at the highest position in the world, so I knew that I’m overstepping my grounds here by giving him advice. But that’s also something I would do.

It was a strange conversation, with a subordinate telling her superior to get angry. Even so, I meant it.

“Sick…”

“If you hold it in, you’ll get sick. Your Highness can curse in front of me. No, I can go first. That impotent bastard’s so greedy that I don’t think there’s any other punk in the world who could match him.”

I cursed at Rosteratu as much as I could. This was also the way office workers de-stressed.

There’s nothing better in the world than swearing at my boss at home to relieve my stress! You better clean your ears after this!

As if I was possessed by a rapper, I swore like a machine gun going off. It was refreshing.

And after that, Albert looked at me with a weird expression. The corners of his lips were trembling…

“Hahaha! Ha… hahaha! Just where did you learn how to curse like that?”

In the end, Albert laughed heartily.