"Crazy Master" (7)
First, he went out to explore the village to get some fresh air, but he was attacked by a boy who had come to sell some goods. Vincent was vigilant because he was still young. The guy quickly dodged the sharp blade as it was about to pierce his chest and cut his waist. The escort who was with him caught the boy, but the boy committed suicide immediately after being caught. There was no hesitation in his actions, as if he had been trained in this way. Thanks to this, they were unable to identify the attacking enemy.
Since then, Vincent has been reluctant to date him. Walking through the gardens in front of the mansion was as far as it would go.
Then one day, while Vincent was alone in the garden, he was attacked again. It was said that when the servant, having brought some simple clothes because of the cold wind, came running after hearing a cry, the stranger was dead with an iron rod stuck in his chest. Seeing Vincent sitting on his back, suffocating, his whole body covered in dirt, the servant hastily called the guards.
The attacker was a stranger. They found out his identity, but everyone said that they had seen him for the first time. Fleeing from the attack, Vincent hit his opponent on the head with a stone and stabbed him in the chest with an iron rod lying nearby.
Well, you could say he was lucky.
However, despite the fact that security was tight around the area and outsiders were carefully checked when entering and leaving the mansion, he never left it again.
The next time he ate, he suddenly felt pain and lost consciousness. Fortunately, the moment he lost consciousness he vomited everything he had eaten, so there were no serious problems, but it was later discovered that the food contained poison.
Later after this, a maid was found dead in the forest. It was a maid working in the kitchen. They thought she was killed while trying to escape. It was revealed who the culprit was, but it was not known why she did it or who killed her.
Vincent, who survived death, was afraid to eat food after that, and was also sensitive to every meal, at some point he began to refuse food altogether.
His condition worsened day by day as he refused to go outside and eat. He wanted to leave the room, but there were a lot of people in the mansion, so he stood out even if he went out a little. In fact, he was gone for some time before he was noticed. Fortunately, nothing much happened, but it was an important memory for Vincent, so he moved straight into the annex and did not leave the room.
Wary of everything around him, he gradually lost weight and was told he was suffering from severe depression.
Fear that someone will try to kill him.
Fear that he doesn't know who it could be...
If it were known that he had lost his sight, people would doubt his qualifications to lead the family. Therefore, he stayed under the pretext of recovery and locked himself in the room. Meeting no one and having no contact with the outside world, he slowly withered away.
Hearing these words, Paula felt pity for him for the first time. His mental state was getting worse due to his physical condition. In wracked poverty, they starve, steal bread, and then die. It was well known that his wasted body soon became a disease of the mind.
Vincent was a sick man.
So Paula tried to understand and accept his temper.
But throwing food away like this was unacceptable. She was angry at his behavior. Food is precious, and in order to eat it, the girl had to be beaten all over her body.
But this man...
" - Bad behavior can only be corrected by scolding. Children and adults should be scolded if they do something wrong. Haven't you heard that you should appreciate food? Or have you decided that you can throw away these things because you have a lot of them?"
“-...”
As she spoke, her emotions swirled. She had to suffer to the point where she had a swollen, bruised body just to be able to get some food.
It was so painful that she almost burst into tears.
But no matter how blind he was, she could not cry.
It was awkward.
She clenched her teeth, afraid that a scream might escape her.
[Don't be like that.]
It was disgusting to say who had it worse.
Fortunately, it didn't break. Paula used her apron to wipe the floor where the grains of rice had fallen.
" - I will bring it again. If you are worried, I will eat it first, and then the master will eat it. I can at least do this for my cowardly master. If you find it difficult to finish, please eat as much as you can, and I will take care of what is left. I hope you will be satisfied with this."
“I won’t eat this.”
"You're not going to say that you don't want it, are you? I said that I would sacrifice myself for my precious master by trying to find out if there was rat poison in the food, and the master wouldn't turn a blind eye to my sincerity, right?"
She thought he wouldn't be so heartless.
Paula brushed the dust off her clothes and left the room, walking heavily on the floor.
She immediately went downstairs and asked the cook to prepare a new dish for her. The cook looked at her with pity and handed her a new bowl of rice. Paula ran with her back to the room.
The girl knelt down in front of the bed again.
His face contorted along with her voice.
His eyes were still looking into the air, out of focus.
She stuffed her mouth full of rice so that he could hear. Then she chewed what she didn't even need to chew, took another spoonful and handed it to Vincent.
“Oh, continue.”
But the bowl rolled on the floor again.
“It's dirty.”
With a thumping sound, the bowl rolled on the floor and her mind was cut off.
The rice was half out of the bowl and she went back to bed with it.
Vincent was still looking at the floor.
He seemed to be watching her actions.
Paula took another piece of rice with a spoon and calmly placed the bowl on one side of the bed. She then pushed Vincent on the shoulder.
Vincent, who had no time to object, fell onto the bed. She quickly climbed onto the bed. The girl grabbed Vincent by the neck and leaned on him with all her weight so that he would not run away. She poked her thumb to open his mouth. Then she put a spoonful of rice in his mouth.
“- Cough, cough!”
Vincent resisted. Paula pressed down his struggling body with all her might and fed him rice with her own hands. As a result, her body nearly lost its balance several times, and his struggling hand grabbed her hair. Her head jerked back. Tears welled up in her eyes from the pain, as if her head was being torn out, but she clenched her teeth.
He moved his head away from the spoon. However, her thumb was still in his mouth, so he couldn't close it.
She lowered her eyes and quickly put down the spoon, his face distorted. Then, when the spoon was empty, she scooped the rice several times and put it in his mouth. All this was done quickly and accurately. Later, she picked up the bowl, which had been pushed aside for ease of feeding, and picked up a spoon. The hand holding the spoon was shaking.
“Sir, I am so happy that you are eating well!”
“- Cough, you... cough!”
“Yes, bon appetit!”
One spoon, two spoons, three spoons and a spoon in your mouth until half of the remaining rice is gone. In fact, half ended up in her mouth and half woke up, but she didn't care.
By the time the bowl was empty, her body had leaned back. This was because he pushed her away as soon as she relaxed with the feeling of accomplishment she fed him.
She got out of bed with an innocent empty bowl and spoon. Paula thought her hair was falling out, but she touched the back of her head. As she turned around with a vain laugh, Vincent, who was clutching his tense neck, screamed with a flushed face.
“ - Now you are fired!”
“I just served food to my master.”
" - Ha! This is crazy! Don't you know what you've done? How dare you touch someone's body! You must have really wanted to die!"
“Who saw this?”
" - What?"
She calmly answered his question.
“-There are only two of us here, my master and I. How do other people know? That I dared to put my finger in my master’s mouth and feed him rice.”
[What I did, of course, really deserved to die.]
If anyone was watching, her head would immediately fly off her shoulder, but right now it was just him and her. The same was true outside the room. No one even passed by on this floor because he was too sensitive due to his blindness.
He also had a bad temper, which everyone she knew well knew before she came along. In the end, he was imprisoned so long that his opponent was able to defeat him. He had the power to fire her, but it was completely ineffective to simply take his words and fire the employee.
“-Oh, there was a gun. You could have killed me with it. But, master, is there a bullet in the gun?”
“-...”
He closed his mouth tightly. For a moment, an expression of embarrassment appeared on his face. It was time to shoot, so she was surprised when he didn't. She continued, trying not to snort.
"-For your information, recently there was a rumor that the master is a very picky person, and it is not easy to find someone. If everyone, including those already hired, are master's assistants, no one should do anything just because they shake their heads at first. Even if you fire me, there is no one to replace me immediately, so you will have to stay with me until a maid is found. From now on, if not saved, then forever!"
Paula took a deep breath. Her tousled bangs lifted slightly in the wind and fell back down again. At the same time, she saw Vincent biting his lips.
Angry face...
Seeing him in this state, Paula laughed quietly.
“I wish you all the best for the future, my lord.”
Since that day, Vincent and Paula have been fighting for power.
She forced food into his mouth that he did not want to eat, and he had to struggle for a long time every time she changed his clothes or the covers on his bed. She once tried to clean up a smelly man when she tried to take him to the bathroom, but to no avail.
She was hit in the face with his forearm and her nose began to bleed.
Paula met Isabella, covering her nose with her apron and leaving the room. Her body tensed, she looked at Isabella dispassionately, grabbed her nose and turned away without saying a word.
[Since when has she been standing here?]
[She wanted to know what was the noise in the room?]
No, she realized that Isabella had already noticed it from her appearance.