The Maid In The Reverse Harem Game Wants To Quit

Irene, who had finished her thoughts and sat down, opened her mouth.

“The plan has one goal… It’s to get everyone except Madam Edith out of Lichpen.”

“So, in short, you’re going to rob empty houses?”

“It’s kind of like that.”

“Is there any way to do that?”

“Yes. I’m going to use what we have.”

Ahibalt’s eyebrows lifted slightly at Irene’s words. Thankfully, the answer to the question came quickly.

“We’re going to take advantage of the spy hiding in the mansion.”

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Lichpen, Edith’s laboratory.

Thump!

Except for the occasional occurrence when the heating liquid caused an abnormal explosion, this place was always quiet.

“How are you going to take responsibility for this?!”

The cause of the sudden commotion was a lady dressed in an elegant outfit that didn’t go well with this messy laboratory.

…Henrietta Lavrenti.

She was so angry that her face wasn’t only red, but she was tearing the soft fur around her arms and waist to the point where it looked scruffy. However, Edith, the owner of the lab, was only irritated by the current situation.

She asked, looking at Henrietta, who fluttered with her sore eyes.

“What’s the matter? The person who said that being humble is the worst thing in the world is so vulgar?”

“Watch your mouth or I’ll kill you, Edith!”

“What a tone of voice…”

Edith clicked her tongue and took a sip of the contents of the cup she was holding.

“You seem quite angry, so I’m asking you for a reason. Wasn’t the last time we saw each other fifteen days ago? I remember that we were on good terms until then.”

Fifteen days ago, it was when Henrietta came to the lab to inform her that Charlotte had been sent to Lavrenti.

Henrietta was a little confused at the time by the fact that Charlotte was carrying no poison, but she did not express her displeasure. On the contrary, she treated Edith as if she were strange and looked at her with a curious gaze.

It was because she found it absurd when Edith said that she would devote herself to her research in order to save the life of her loved one.

“Research for the life of a loved one who’s at stake…? Do you love someone?”

“Why? Do you think I don’t?”

“No, I’m sure you would. Well…”

As she took a moment to choose her words, Henrietta smiled wryly and waved her elegant fingertips lightly.

“I thought you were married to research in conventional terms. You weren’t very interested in my husband either.”

“Isn’t it something you want to study if you get a chance?”

“No, not that kind of attention! I mean erotic interest!”

She wondered if the person was dead because Edith might have brought a child out of wedlock, though Henrietta snorted, saying that it was steam leaking* because it wasn’t like that.
[ T/N: An idiom which means ‘to lose interest as the excitement or enthusiasm wanes.’ ]

She seemed a little excited.

After all, it was quite enjoyable to hear romance from someone who seemed the most distant from it.

“Who made you fall in love?”

“I don’t know if there’s a reason for me to tell you.”

“Isn’t it fun? I wonder whom a person like you would love.”

What was she thinking? Edith stared at Henrietta’s smile on her face and opened her mouth.

“…They say that people usually love someone who looks like them.”

“Oh, yes. So, is he a geek like you? Someone crazy about research?”

“Okay, that’s enough. I’ve answered enough. Unlike the idle lady, I’m just a humble researcher, so I don’t have time to chat anymore. Please go home.”

When Edith stood up first, Henrietta pursed her lips, saying she was cutting the story from her most amusing scene. If you didn’t know how sly and scheming she usually was, you’d think her innocent look was pretty cute.

Regardless, it didn’t impress Edith at all, so in the end, Henrietta grumbled and went back.

As her thoughts reached her, a question popped into Edith’s mind. Nonetheless, the person in front of her spat out what she thought into words first.

“Are you angry that I didn’t finish talking about that time?”

“Are you out of your mind! Am I going to be angry with you for a fortnight over that?”

“Then, I really don’t know. Why?”

“Ha! You’re going to pretend you didn’t know until the end? That drug or whatever, the one you gave to Charlotte!”

“Oh, yes. I gave her a love potion.”

When the word ‘love potion’ came out of Edith’s mouth, Henrietta’s rage intensified.

“You must have said something then! You said Charlotte was going to drug your son!”

“I told her that it’d definitely help.”

“But, why the hell did Otis leave with Charlotte?”

“Otis? Why is your son leaving with her?”

“That’s what I want to ask!”

Thud!

Furious, Henrietta stomped the floor.

After huffing for a while, she managed to catch her breath and regain her composure. Henrietta, who exhaled lightly, grabbed Edith’s shoulders.

“Edith. Did you hear that Charlotte was detained?”

“That’s right. Didn’t the spy Veronica put in the mansion come with the news? I heard that you sang in pleasure.”

Henrietta’s face flashed with a hint of prickliness.

As Edith said, she was worried that Charlotte might spill the information to Lavrenti and would return to Lichpen.

“Cough, hm. Yes. That’s right. If Charlotte comes back for no reason and doesn’t know her place, it’ll be annoying.”

“And I also heard that Veronica heard the news and said that she was a stupid b*tch.”

“Isn’t it obvious? She only failed because of one emotion… I told her not to love someone like that!”

“Emotions aren’t something that people can control, and you guys have unrealistic expectations.”

“Well, not loving wasn’t that hard for me.”

…Why couldn’t everyone do this easy thing?

Henrietta muttered a word as if she really couldn’t understand. Even now, she couldn’t even find in her the feeling of guilt that she had taken advantage of and abandoned Charlotte.

‘She’s so consistent.’

Edith made a brief comment to herself and urged Henrietta to continue her words.

“So, tell me why Otis left with her. I’m busy because I got an urgent request.”

“An urgent request came in? From whom?”

“Who could it be?”

Henrietta widened her eyes at Edith’s sullen reply.

“…Veronica? Even so, it’s been a commotion lately.”

“The vineyard looks completely ruined, perhaps she has a spirit to stick around it?”

Edith replied impatiently.

Nevertheless, she was dissatisfied that she hadn’t been able to make progress in my research because she had been doing things outside of research recently. Because of that, she couldn’t be in a good mood because an additional urgent request came in.

“As the weather began to warm up, the vines were full of bugs. The insecticide they used before didn’t seem to work, so they asked me to make new ones. It’s easier said than done…”

Making a medicine that was harmless to plants and only killed bugs was twice as difficult as making a medicine that could kill all of them. Edith’s head hurt because of that, and now, Henrietta had come all the way here to mess with her, so she couldn’t be in a good mood.

If it had been any other time, she’d have bent Henrietta’s arm and kicked her out.

‘Still, I need to know if the drug really worked.’

The drug played a very important role in her research. It meant that she couldn’t kick Henrietta out until she got a proper answer.

Edith, who pressed her temples hard to calm her irritation, sighed and opened her mouth again.

“So, talk to me. Where did Otis and Charlotte go?”

“Lowens.”

Henrietta replied, equally annoyed.

“After Charlotte was captured, there was no news about her whether she was dead or alive, so I looked into it through Veronica’s spy. I’ve also sent Louise a letter, but there’s still no news…”

“Looked into it? With the intention of killing her if she were alive?”

“Don’t ask me something obvious!”

Henrietta finally raised her voice again.

“Then, I found out that Otis stole Charlotte and went to Lowens a while ago! If this isn’t Otis being drugged, what could it be?”