Chapter 04

Before dinner time, suddenly a maid came to my room and throw an old dress.

"Please be grateful for the Madam's kindness. You need to appear presentable tomorrow morning because you will start to learn from the tutor." The maid said with a disgusted expression.

After glaring at me for a while, she opened her mouth and haughtily said, "Follow me."

I didn't know if it was related to the Viscountess's order or not, but I decided to follow her. She took me to the well in the garden and she get a bucket of water from the well. As I thought about what she tried to do...

Splash.

She pours the cold water onto me. My body started to tremble when the wind touched my drenched body.

"Hmph, I think it won't be enough to cleanse your dirty and smelly existence. But you have to get more presentable than before. Here, dry yourself with this. Be grateful for my mindfulness." She continued to act haughty and throw a rag at me.

"Thank you very much for your help." I bowed my head while thanking her. Of course, I didn't feel any gratitude to her. I only said it because I want to quickly get back to my room and change my clothing.

Luckily the rag is clean and able to be used as a towel. But I had a lot of things that I want to say to this rude maid. How dare she said that I need to be grateful for her rude behaviour!

As expected, most people in this mansion are crazy!

I run to my room by myself because it's uncomfortable to wear my drenched clothes and it's almost dinner time. I don't want to miss my dinner.

If I have to think about it positively, I was slightly grateful because they still feed me something edible.

I quickly change my clothes and get my dinner. Thankfully I was still able to get some food. Although it was only some hard bread left from what the other servants eat. I have to think about some plans before I run away from this crazy place with my mother.

As I finished my dinner, I quickly went to my room and continue to think about my plans.

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The third day after I started living in the Viscount mansion, my first class is starting. The tutor is teaching me about this world's alphabet and numbers. I listened to his teaching seriously.

Hmm..., It's similar to a foreign language that I learned in my past life so I can memorize all of them, but I need to act like I don't understand and just draw up something and make a mistake as if I don't understand it.

"Hey, you damn thing! Do you understand what I'm talking about?" The tutor glared with a disgusted expression and said with an angry tone.

"I'm sorry, Sir. I can't remember all of it." I decided to say it.

Slap.

Crazy! I just made a mistake and they are hitting my leg with his teaching stick. The tutor didn't stop until I'm unable to stand up because of the injuries.

Argh! Where's the Human Rights Committee?

Why they didn't catch this group with child abuse law?

It really hurts. Why wasn't all of this a dream?

Although the servants come and throw me some medicines for my injuries after they drag and throw me into my room, I could only remember how they sneered at me and insult me as an illegitimate child or rat.

I just need to endure it for a while.

After a few minutes, someone opened the door to my room. It's one of the servants that just sneered at me.

Right. After I got reincarnated, I was able to differentiate people's faces again. If it happened in my past life I would be grateful. But in this life, I hope it stays like that.

The people in this world are mostly beautiful but in this place,... I feel sorry for their face. I mean how can they act like thrash...I apologize because they are much more worse than a thrash that I don't know what a perfect word to describe them. Just look at this unimportant mob in the game as having a face like some fantasy stories characters.

He comes and looks down at me then throw some books at me. "The tutor said that he wanted you to read all of this and remembered it for the next class."

As he said that, he turned and walked away after slamming the door.

My ears are ringing because of the loud sound and my wounds throbbing because of the vibration.

This crazy house! Did they never learn anything about childcare? How can they tell a two-year-old child who just learned the alphabet and numbers to read five encyclopaedia-like books in two days?

Experiencing it directly makes me understand how Renneshia became such a genius.

Well...looking at the thick book, I don't mind reading it all. I'm glad I like to read in my past life. Huhuhu, I will learn a lot and prepare myself when this crazy household throws me away.

In this world, education is something that only nobles could have. Some merchant families might be able to learn the basics like writing, reading and calculating. But right now I'm able to learn other knowledge like etiquette, politics, magic, alchemy, martial arts, etc.

Right, aren't they saying that knowledge is power in my previous life?

So...Why don't I secretly learn everything that they can teach me and keep acting like an idiot?

I think I would have a villainess-like smile if I can see my expression right now. Sadly there's nothing I can use as a mirror.

My first goal is to be kicked out of this house before I reach my tenth birthday.

That is the first thing I should change.

When Renneshia celebrated her tenth birthday, she was finally able to meet her mother. But her mother was infected by a new disease and the Viscount family used her mother's condition to turn her to become their puppet. They tell her to obey them if she wants to cure her mother. Of course, it was another lie.

They didn't even try to heal her but they killed her and burned her body with magic until it turned into ash. They lied to Renneshia and hide the truth. To deceive Renneshia into believing that she can't meet her mother because of her disease and that the only way to heal her is if she could become the prince's fiancé.

Renneshia pushes herself and works hard to heal her mother who has been killed by them.

Just remembered about that, I want to create bombs or something similar if I could and destroy this house until it turned into ash.

In Second Prince, Edmund's route, when the prince annulled their engagement, the Viscount slandered her as evil or a demoness that controlled them and made them lied about her being their family. That's how she will die from their accusations. The worse part is Prince Edmund will always side with the Heroine's entourage even if you got a bad ending.

Renneshia is the last boss-like character that will always die in whatever route or endings you have. I don't care about the others, I just want to run away from them. Please quickly throw me and my mother away. I don't care about the other characters or the plots. I just don't want to die again like what happened in my past life.

Luckily there are no endings where the world is destroyed or something similar. That means I don't have to care about them as long as I am kicked out of this house. I think I will have more fun and freedom if it's happening. Even being a beggar will make me feel much happier than being part of the Ruach household.

Alright, let's start with putting some medicines for my injuries first.

I took the medicine bottle and opened it up. It looks like an ointment. When I rubbed it into my wounds, it quickly sipped into the wounds.

Damn! It really stings.

Oh my gosh, I hope it will effective or maybe I need to find some way to sue the place that made it. Oops, I think the pain had made me a little dumb. Like hell, this crazy world would have any law that would let me sue them.

As I distracted myself from the pain, I thought about some stupid things. Then the wounds are disappearing without any trace but I can still feel the pain.

Ah! The bleeding stopped. I think it's really effective. Is this something made using magic or alchemy? Will I be able to learn it?

After finishing putting the ointment on my wounds, finally I can feel my leg again. I wait for a moment and the pain is already lessened. Because I am feeling better, I get closer to the books that are thrown at me.

So let's start to read those encyclopedia-like books.

The first book that I read was the history book about the Empire. The history of the Empire is starting when the Emperor who is a commoner that raised to be a King and with his contact with the Holy Dragon, he became an Emperor after he created the Draconia Empire.

From this book, it's describing how important royalty blood is.

The first Emperor made a contract with the Holy Dragon and was given a sword that contains the Dragon's powers and become the protector of this continent after the dragon's extinction.

The sword will choose the rightful heirs and only the one who got chosen by the sword will become the next Emperor.

Hmm…, This story makes me remember that Renneshia cursed her fiancée, Prince Edmund and use the curse to turn him into the rightful heir. But…how can Renneshia only be able to use such a curse after she died?

It was a mystery when I calmly thought about the game plots. The story about Renneshia and her relationship with her fiancée, Prince Edmund was too strange. Both of them never seem to love their partner but why did Renneshia become the last boss? Did she fall in love with him in the end? Won't she don't need to die if she just annulled their engagement?

This is frustrating.… It's not my business because I will leave this place, so I'll just read it and don't have to care about it I won't have any connections with them after I leave this damn place. After all, I won't have any connections, no, I will avoid meeting with every single character in that game. And even I kind of curious about how beautiful Capture Targets' appearance but I will follow the proverb 'Curiosity killed the cat' because my life is already full of death flags.

So I will suppress my curiosity and run as far as possible from them.

Right, I'll just need to focus on how I'll leave this crazy house.