I Became a Tyrant’s Maid - Chapter 64

I followed behind Calix and Ruel, who were walking ahead, with utmost courtesy.

“How was the play, Your Highness?”

“It was watchable.”

Calix answered with an indifferent expression and glanced at me.

I smiled awkwardly at Calix’s gaze.

‘What’s this? This movement? Is it the diary?’

My mouth went dry. Could it be that the diary was changing again?

I always carry it with me just in case, as it would be a big problem if someone were to steal it…

It felt like cold sweat was forming.

I was anxious. My drowsy mind, dulled by sleepiness, seemed to suddenly clear.

I felt I should immediately find out what the cause was, but the next schedule was a visit to the largest imperial garden in the capital.

‘This isn’t some group tour program or anything…’

I wasn’t the only one tired of such schedules.

Calix downed the Desart special pomegranate juice offered by a nearby servant with an irritated face.

“How long do we have to do this?”

At Calix’s question, I smiled as if regretful. We couldn’t arbitrarily skip the program provided by the Desart Imperial Family.

“Until the evening banquet after the garden visit, Your Highness. Particularly, as I mentioned before, the Empress herself will guide the imperial garden tour, and there have been no changes to that so far.”

At my words, Calix slightly frowned and entered the carriage.

“Your Highness, as the journey will take some time, how about getting some rest?”

As I asked through the open window, a finger immediately extended and poked my forehead.

“Don’t follow me for this afternoon’s schedule.”

“Pardon?”

“It’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. It seems you, not I, are the one who needs sleep.”

With those words, Calix shut the window with a thud. I absentmindedly rubbed my forehead where his finger had touched and stared blankly at the closed window.

“Lord Ruel, do I look that out of it?”

At my question, Ruel shrugged and replied.

“Your eyes are half-closed.”

As I couldn’t refuse Calix’s order, I ended up returning to my room to rest.

Since the subsequent schedule didn’t particularly require me, I could sit on the bed with a somewhat light heart.

It felt like all the accumulated fatigue was rushing in at once, but I shook my head to keep my mind straight.

I opened my bag and emptied out all its contents.

The diary looks the same as usual, the pouch.

And the old tree clock was given by the diary.

“Wait a minute.”

I suddenly opened my eyes wide and picked up the old tree clock scattered on the floor.

The clock’s condition was strange.

The object that had been just a wooden clock was now glowing.

Just like when the diary is activated.

Does this mean something is moving?

I carefully opened the wooden lid.

The incomprehensible clock hand was spinning round and round.

“What is this……”

I frowned and recalled the words that appeared in the diary before I got the old tree clock.

It clearly said to follow the clock when help is needed.

‘Are there elves nearby?’

I jumped up with the clock in hand and looked out the window.

But of course, there was nothing outside the window. Only a lonely bird fluttered by.

I held my forehead and slumped back onto the bed.

Does the clock’s reaction now mean I should find elves to solve the diary problem?

Or… is it a trap?

I swallowed hard. For now, I had to think about the diary problem after returning to Posnia.

And then visit the magic tower.

For now, Calix’s immediate issue was more important.

Tomorrow is the start of the festival. Tomorrow, we’ll have an audience with the Emperor, and meet the Imperial Princess.

So, it seemed better to get some sleep before getting scolded by Calix.

Didn’t he send me back, even going so far as to call it an order?

I roughly tidied up the scattered luggage and slipped into bed.

“Hah……”

Though my mind was tired, sleep didn’t come easily.

My heart kept pounding anxiously.

What on earth should I do? Would I be able to return? All sorts of thoughts wouldn’t leave my mind.

“Ah, that frustrating Calix Posman……”

I muttered his name while looking at the ceiling.

Calix who hasn’t gone mad. The human Calix Posman.

I had already decided to do my best with the given tasks until I could return home.

But the more I thought about this topic, the stranger I felt.

“What am I supposed to do?”

The diary reacting to Calix.

The jerk of a male protagonist who keeps approaching me humanely, making me grow fond of him.

“Ah, I don’t know, I don’t know.”

I kicked the blanket a few times and tightly closed my eyes again.

When I return to Posnia, I should look for the female lead first, let alone finding a magician.

I felt that my strange feelings would only get better once Calix falls head over heels for the female lead.

‘Just up to here, no more. I shouldn’t get any more attached.’

The big plan remained unchanged. Once Calix draws the Duke to his side and connects with the female lead, I’ll quietly pack my bags and leave the palace.

And then I’ll find a way to go home.

‘I need to go home…’

Repeating that to myself, I closed my eyes like a dead person with the blanket pulled up to the top of my head.

***

“Your Highness, how do you find the scent?”

“Is it different from yesterday’s?”

Calix, who was smelling the perfume sprayed on paper, asked while looking at me diagonally.

I felt somewhat proud seeing how he now seemed quite accustomed to receiving my service when he had been awkward at first.

“Yes, it’s a different scent. When mixed with your body scent,”

I sprayed the perfume on my wrist with a ‘chik’ sound and asked him.

“Would you like to smell it?”

Calix stared blankly at my wrist. After looking for a while, he gently grasped my wrist and brought it to the tip of his nose.

“…Sweet scent.”

At Calix’s words, I looked up at him, momentarily puzzled.

The perfume I sprayed was a mix of light ginger and refreshing citrus scents, so ‘sweet scent’ made no sense.

It was nonsense.

“Sh-Should I prepare a different one?”

Flustered, I hastily pulled my hand away and reached for another perfume bottle, but he chuckled as if finding it amusing.

Then he picked up the perfume bottle I had just sprayed and spritzed it on himself with a ‘chik’ sound.

“This one will do for today.”

I put back the perfume I was holding in its place.

We met early today because it’s an important day, and fortunately or unfortunately, Calix seemed to be in a very good mood from the crack of dawn.

“Are we skipping the hair today?”

At Calix’s words, I shook my head and took out a hair curler from my pouch given by the diary.

Until now, I had roughly styled his hair with hair oil or water, but as I said, today was an important day.

“I’m planning to put your hair up today. Would that be alright, Your Highness?”

Calix’s gaze focused on the cordless hair curler I was holding.

“What’s that?”

“Ah, you mean this?”

I already had an alibi prepared.

Apparently, even in Posnia, there existed fire-heated hair curlers used for styling hair.

Of course, those were just made of iron and directly heated in a fire to use, so there was a high risk of completely burning the hair.

“It’s a hair curler.”

“…You’re planning to burn my hair off.”

Calix covered his hair with a frightened face, and I gently took his hands and placed them on his lap.

“Don’t worry, Your Highness. It’s safe despite its large size.”

I sprayed water on his hair with a spray bottle and started to style his hair in earnest.

Neat and elegant.

Like the appearance of numerous VIPs coming and going at hotels.

After completing the grooming perfectly, Calix truly looked like a god descended from heaven.

The effort put in was clearly visible.

“Your Highness, would you like to look in the mirror?”

I handed him a hand mirror, and Calix looked at it indifferently before blurting out a word.

“It’s passable.”

“Your Highness, it’s not just passable, you’re beautiful.”

I meant it sincerely. I praised Calix, complimenting his beauty.

“I’m not just saying this, but you’re so beautiful that any woman would be unable to take her eyes off you, Your Highness.”

I was moved.

To have the opportunity to dress up the world’s most handsome male lead with my own hands. Indeed, he’s beautiful in anything, but dressing him up with my preferences added made me feel like fainting.

“Is that so?”

Calix got up from his seat with a sly grin and stepped closer.

What’s this? When he smiles like that, it makes me a bit uneasy.

“Can’t you take your eyes off me either?”

Whoop, Calix’s face came even closer.

The playful smile that was there a moment ago was gone, replaced by a rather serious expression.

“Of course, I have never taken my eyes off you for a moment, Your Highness.”

At my words, Calix’s eyes widened a bit and then narrowed.

“Because you’re my servant?”

“Yes. That’s why I always think you’re beautiful whenever I see you, Your Highness.”

I chose words that would please him moderately and said with a bright smile.

It’s not even a lie. Calix is always handsome, after all.

“…Enough.”

But my lip service didn’t seem to please him, as Calix turned away with an irritated tone.

“Just finish your own grooming. I’m done.”

What’s this? Did he get upset because I said he was beautiful? Sheesh, what a picky bastard. I sighed softly and deliberately corrected my words.

“Your Highness is the most handsome in the world. It’s an undeniable fact, Your Highness.”

The footsteps that were turning away from me stopped abruptly.

And the response that came back was,

“Shut up.”

Hey, is this guy playing with me!