The Villainous Mastermind Gets Lucky in His Later Years - Chapter 26

Good eye hook nose. Evil eye hook nose.

It’s said that if the person had good eyes, then they would be born with the vigor of a hawk and would be brave and wise. However, if they were born with evil eyes, then they would be a fraud who’d do nothing but bad things with that good intellect of theirs.

Angela’s case was the latter.

‘You have a backer you trust, don’t you?’

A very reliable backer. If that’s the case, then there might be another one pulling the strings behind her.

‘What should I do?’

Doah examined the physiognomy of the maids that Angela brought with her. They seemed as bad as the maids that had been recently kicked out.

‘So tiring.’

They were not like the maids who did odd jobs.

They were in charge of the meals. Also the laundry, cleaning, bathing and preparing to go out.

They would be in charge of everything necessary in Doah’s life.

‘While they can naturally blend into my daily life, if I mess up, they can grasp and shake my right to live here.’

Though of course, they would act accordingly as they would prioritize their own safety.

However, as Bunny was merely a fake ducal princess from the garbage dump, Bunny’s situation was like a candle in the wind.

She would never know when they’d change again. She couldn’t be swayed like this all her life.

Doah quickly finished her calculations and spoke.

“Do you think it makes sense for me to be attended by maids who I don’t know where they’ve been or what they’ve been doing?”

“However you can’t change the maids that have already been assigned—”

“No, I’ve been telling you since a while ago. I mean to say, give me these maids’ résumés.”

“……”

Angela could not immediately answer.

Noticing the head maid’s hesitation, Doah relaxedly stroked her chin and said with a lighthearted voice.

“You said you’re in charge, yes? Don’t tell me you don’t have it.”

“…I cannot decide whether I can show you that or not, even if I have it.”

“But you said it’s under your jurisdiction, so why? Who dares take over your work? Do you want me to go and scold them for you?”

Doah said so with a round smile as though she was teasing the woman, and from where she was, she could hear the head maid’s teeth gnash.

“Then, bring all the résumés of the other maids as well. Of course, including yours.”

“…Pardon?”

Did she really not understand that Doah was asking for her résumé, too?

Angela was now making a face as if she was thinking, ‘What the hell is this brat up to?’

“I guess it’s too much of an unreasonable demand?”

“……”

It was as Doah said.

‘If only she had asked to see the letters of recommendation,’

Those were only a means to infer who it was that introduced the maids and where they came from.

However, a résumé contained only personal details about where and what they had done before, so there was nothing special about it.

‘Why the hell…’

Angela somehow felt uncomfortable.

But she could think of no reason to refuse, so she then ordered the maids to transfer hundreds of résumés.

“Hmm…”

Doah flipped through the documents with an indifferent expression.

There was nothing for her to see here.

She picked out the résumés of only Angela and the four maids she brought with her.

From their physiognomy, it seemed like there’s one maid with an unusual fortune among them.

‘As expected, the date and time of their births are all written here.’

In this world, the matter of ‘birth time’ was quite important.

Because the very moment of birth was considered to be very sacred.

Thanks to this, there was a custom of recording not only the date of one’s birth, but also the ‘time’ of one’s birth. It was a custom for everyone, be it with royalty, nobility or the common people.

For someone like Doah, it was a stroke of luck.

Fortunetelling was based on the year, month, day and time of birth.

Besides that, the calendar system here was the same as it was on Earth, with 365 days in a year, a total of 12 months and one week was seven days.

This was the solar calendar. Therefore, it was possible to shift the focus from the sun to the moon to overlap it with the lunar calendar.

Doah, at last, opened her lips to speak.

“This can’t be your fortune though…”

She couldn’t understand.

At this, Angela responded a beat late.

“What?”

Doah looked at Angela’s fortune one more time. Then, she read the woman’s face again.

“……”

She was nothing but a child staring back at her.

However, Angela felt as if everything about her was being exposed to this kid right this very second.

‘Why? Why do I have this feeling?’

With her fists clenched, Angela swallowed the anxiety surging within her.

Then, at one point, she couldn’t stand the suffocating silence any longer. She barked out loudly.

“Then you must be satisfied enough now! You’ve wasted enough time. You have to be clothed satisfactorily enough for Credel’s standards—right this instant.”

Then she gestured to the maids who had been waiting behind her.

They were responsible for monitoring, controlling and reporting each and every move that Bunny, the fake ducal princess, would make.

The maids moved in unison and tried to take off Bunny’s nightgown with their rude touch.

Even so, Doah was not agitated at all.

“Head Maid.”

On the contrary, she lifted one finger up. As if to beckon her closer.

Angela approached her stiffly. Then, she whispered into the woman’s ear.

“You. So you’re pretending to be a dead person, hm?”