As she hurried past the dark path, she heard a sudden call for her.

"There, hold on. Would you like to see me for a while?"

Julietta looked back with a grimace at the thought of the Baroness she had encountered around this spot during the day, and she saw a pretty woman standing there.

"Did you call me?"

The woman in front of Julietta, who was waiting for her to make a fuss about her appearance, spoke indifferently, "You must be a new maid for His Highness, right? Are you going to eat?"

"Yes, that's right." Julietta answered quickly and tried to get on her way because she thought she would be late for dinner.

"You can only eat at a fixed time in the dining room in the dorm. If you don't make it that time, you should go to the maids' dining room in the main castle. It's a leftover from the n.o.bles and knights, so it may be short of the amount and not have many varieties."

Julieta was deeply moved by the woman in front of her, who spoke to her kindly, not laughing or surprised at her.

"Thank you. By the way, where is that dining room of the main castle? I can't guess because it's too big. Can you tell me which direction it is?"

Julietta's polite question made the woman in front of her smile.

"I was just on my way to dinner. Follow me."

Julietta didn't think she was a maid, because she wasn't wearing a uniform, but she seemed to be ranked as high as the Baroness and her followers. While she was thinking about what to call such a complicated system of positions, unlike Harrods Street's, the woman took the lead after signaling Julietta to follow her.

"Huh? I just pa.s.sed the entrance?"

The woman turned slightly at Julietta's question.

"The door used by the maids is over there. The dining room is closer to that side."

Julietta nodded at the gentle remarks. She had vowed to act prudently in accordance with her position, but went back out through the main gate without any concern. She grumbled, Anyway, I am still not used to this society with a cla.s.s system, and thought she'd have to be more careful if she wanted to live a thin, long life. Suddenly there was someone blocking them.

"Oh, my G.o.d, who is this? Isn't it Sylvia?"

A figure with a dark dress and a hood appeared, pretending to know the woman leading the way, and abruptly slapped her in the face. Julietta was looking at them, as she wanted to know what this was about, and this time the newcomer grabbed the head of the woman named Sylvia and began to beat her wildly, shaking her head without mercy.

While frightened Julietta jumped in and stopped her, the fallen woman screamed with an ear-splitting sound. The knights on guard ran to the commotion. As the clatter of armor drew near, the mysterious figure suddenly ran away.

The knights arrived as Julietta smoothed down her s.h.i.+rt and lifted up the woman who had collapsed and was unable to move. "What's going on?"

At an important time when dinner was being held to celebrate the return of the monarch and VIPs visited, this commotion happened, so a bitter interrogation came down at the uproar.

"Suddenly, a woman appeared and hit her severely." Julietta pointed to the side where the figure with a hood ran away, and tried to explain.

Suddenly the woman who fell down raised herself and said to the knights, crying bitterly, "No, she's lying.

This maid hit me. She asked me where the dining room of the maids was, and I was in the middle of guiding her, but she suddenly pushed me and started beating me severely."

Surprised by the woman in front of her, Julietta cried out in dismay. "What are you talking about? Why are you lying? I didn't do that, did I?"

'Was she beaten on the head?'

She shook the woman's shoulders as if she were going to wake up, and a tough hand held her back.

"Are you sure you were hit by this maid?"

"Yes, that's right. I was on my way to guide her to the dining room, as I heard she was a new maid of His Highness. As soon as I pa.s.sed the entrance door of the main castle, she asked me why I was dragging her to the wrong place, and she suddenly started hitting me. It's a crime against a n.o.ble since she hit me, the daughter of Viscount Chaister! Please punish her severely."

Julietta could not believe what had happened in a flash.

"Take her."

She was taken to the prison in the bas.e.m.e.nt for allegedly swinging her fist at the n.o.blewoman with no excuse. Julietta, trapped in her cell, was devastated, and sat down on the floor.

She had a.s.sumed the other was a high-ranking woman, but didn't know that she was a daughter of the family of the Viscount. She couldn't understand why that kind woman, who had showed her the way, had suddenly changed and put the blame on her like that.