Chapter 38
“Someone brought you here. Or did you think that you walk here with your feet.”
At her added words, the elder maid looked down with a stern face. The young maid pouted her mouth and said nothing more.
“Where is the person that brought me?” That hunter…
He clearly said that he would not take her to the Duke. Instead of…instead of saving her…Anyway he made a promise with her. Wait, was that a promise? The ominous thought that suddenly passed made her whole body stiffened. It seems that he never promised. That was only a one-sided plea. In the end, she was just like a person who was strangled with promises the other person would not keep.
“Hunter?”
The eyes of the young maid look frightened.
“You shouldn’t speak of him, my dear Lady.” The woman who introduced herself as a maid lifted her index finger and placed it on her lips. There was a great fear in her eyes.
“I am…”
I’m not his woman, but I bit my lips and couldn’t say no. The moment she denied him, she would prove that she had nothing to do to him. I was far from knowing how to explain myself. She was a woman who lives in a village? A woman who killed and was chased by people? That she had entered the hunting forest of Duke that should not be entered.
Because she would be daring to confess, she just kept her mouth shut.
I have to get out of here. If her identity is revealed then…how much bounty would have been taken from this neck? There was no reason not to covet it just because he was a hunter.
That was the first thing that came to my mind. “Well, I’ll go out.”

The three people who were staring at her, looked at each other as if they had no idea what she was saying at the same time.
“With that body?”
When I tried to get up, a tremendous pain came. But now a greater fear than this pain engulps her head. I ignored it.
“Oh, you can;t move yet.” A frightened maid approached and held Ariste’s body. However, fear completely swallowed her body and she started to struggle.
“Hate! Let go!”
Ariste scratched the maid’s hand. This time, the young maid approached and held her body.
“Aren’t you crazy? You are saved alive…” “Ouch! Ahhhh!”
‘They are going to kill me’. A voice from the dark side of my mind keeps whispering in my ears.
“Let it go! Ahhhh!”
She raised her fine arm and looked at the maid’s face…
*Smack*
After being beaten in the cheek, the old maid held back Ariste’s body as of nothing happened.
“Really!”
The young maid cried out, as she pressed her struggling legs. The doctor approached and held her, and said to the young maid, “hold her tightly”.
Ariste stared blankly towards the rest of her body, except for her injured leg, her limbs were tied to the bedpost.
“If you don’t struggle, we’ll let you go. Just have some quietness.” The doctor added as he hastily wiped the sweat from his forehead. The other maids did the same.

With both her hands and foot bound, Ariste made an eye contact with them all once. Why are they doing this?
“If the Lady dies, our necks will also fly away.” The old maid said with a solemn expression.
“So, don’t worry and eat well.”
“Go, take a good rest. Please think about us, please.” The old maid who had been talking all the time, did not particularly object.
The old mad’s words seemed to be true. “Smoke more sleeping incense.”
After a while, something sweet and cheap scent began to blend in the air. All three, except for her, were looking down at her, while covering their noses and mouths.
Ariste had no choice but to smell the scent with her limbs tied.
Then the doctor opened her mouth violently, pushing a pill with herbal scent in, and closed her mouth with his palm.She pushed out the medicine with her tongue, but he pushed the medicine into her mouth. After a while, when he saw the medicine passed through her throat, he removed his hand.
The scent came through the tip of my nose. As I smelled the scent, my mind became hazy again, and I started to fall asleep.
Her limbs were freed again, but they were already loose without strength and were only drooping.
After repeatedly blinking, closing and opening her eyes a few times, her eyes gradually became heavier and soon dragged her into the deep water.