I Awoke as an Imprisoned Villainess-Chapter 7 - Violet Elford

     Violet Elford

“—no way. Did I swap bodies with a stray dog?”

Waking up in a small, clustered room, Violet Elford looked around and frowned.

“I didn’t think it would be this different from the rumors.”

This room, filled with damaged furniture and junk, is hardly a place for a human being to live.

But, this girl certainly seems to have been living here.

The filthy, thin blanket full of holes which Violet was wrapped in while she slept, and the bookshelves jammed with books.

Then the herbs and flowers that somehow took over the bed, numerous strange tools, and liquids put in glass bottles. Signs of life can be seen by all these things.

“—Seems like it’s medicine. In this kind of environment, with no teacher and alone. Hmm, as expected from the girl with the blood of Arbuthnot family. She has an abnormal mentality as I thought. It’s a pass~”

The Marquis Arbuthnot family is a prestigious family that has produced apothecaries who serve the royal family for generations.

Although the current head of the family has retired from the position of the royal apothecary, he is still developing new medicines one after another in a distant fiefdom.

It’s a family of eccentrics who love medicine more than food or treasure, and have no interest in status and honor.

Violet thinks this is really stupid.

(What kind of person would leave such a weak and unrefined gem like this alone)

That’s why I have to suffer like this- Violet looks down at Sophia’s figure and frowns at how awful it is.

(First, a hot bath, right? Then I should let them prepare a light meal; change rooms; get my hair and skin shine up, and I want about a hundred dresses for now—-good grief, the day’s gonna end just with these things.)

Violet walked out of the room with graceful, soundless footsteps.

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Maria, a handmaiden who has been working at Earl Alcott House for 3 years, is on her way to the eldest daughter of the count with a melancholy feeling again today.

The meal she holds in her hand has only stale black bread and soup without any ingredients. (TL, sounds like hot water but probably a one ingredient soup like pumpkin or potato soup with no seasonings.)

Even Maria from a commoner background, has never put something like this in her mouth.

(Even so, Lady Sophia never complains.)

On days, where the edible portion is small, she looks very sad, but that’s all. When I occasionally sneak in some food for her, she smiles happily with a twinkle in her eyes and thanks me.

Despite the pain in my heart, there is no way a handmaiden could defy her mistress.

Even her own father, the head of the family, turned a blind eye to the situation.

When I hanged down my head letting out a small sigh, a pleasant and dignified voice rang out from the front.

“You there.”

I look up and gasp.

Standing right there was Lady Sophia who I was just about to deliver this meal to right now.

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(But, huh? Something seems different about her.)

She has beautiful purple hair and eyes, and a petite body. Even though no matter how you look at her, she is the miserable eldest lady of this mansion..

She who always smiles softly, is now looking at me quietly with a face that shows no emotion.

I have never such expression on her.

Maria’s body froze at the look of cold majesty in her eyes.

“I am talking to you. Can’t you hear me?”

“Ye-yes!”

When I hurriedly replied, Sophia raised her eyebrow.

“Ara, so your ears work fine. …oh well, I want to take a hot bath right now. You can help me.”

“Eh?…”

What did she just say?

At the perplexed Maria, Sophia frowned her eyebrows, “A dull person huh,”

“I just said to prepare a hot bath for me.”

“Hot…ah, um, but it’s time for you to eat, Sophia sama..”

If you don’t eat quickly, even this stuff would get taken away from you—you already know that.

However, Sophia in front of Maria, looked at the tray in her hands, and after a moment of silence, turned a cold gaze to her.

“That garbage is a meal?”

“Yes…”

At Maria’s reaction, Sophia said okay, and laughed so coldly that it was horrifying.

“Then, I will bestow it to you. Come on, eat it right here.”

“Eh?…”

“For you who think you are serving your lady well, I am just being a little charitable. It can’t be that you would serve me something that you can’t even put in your own mouth, right?”

Her tone was so graceful, like she was singing. And yet, Maria felt her hands and feet turning cold like ice from fear.

Sophia’s voice was so cold, to the point, Maria thought she would die if she said the wrong thing.

“—Just, I don’t have time today. If you say you were in the middle of taking that garbage to the dumpster, I will forgive you just once for your remark before. You remember what I said earlier, right? Go arrange it right now.”

“I-it would be my pleasure. I am very sorry for inconveniencing you.”

When I lowered my head, I could see my hands and feet trembling from fear. What I see in front of me right now, is not the usual Sophia.

Did she take some kind of drug and lost her mind? She became such a different person.

“Ho-however, we need approval from Isabella sama for a hot bath.”

“What are you even saying.”

Sophia said while being deeply displeased.

“I don’t care about approval from a former viscount daughter. I am saying I want to enter, you know. You are my hand and feet. You don’t need to response with anything other than yes to me.”

Translator Notes:

I am so sorry for taking long to update. I’ve been posting irregularly whenever I feel like it. However, I’m thinking about making a set schedule for this series from now on. Should I release mon,tues,wed or thurs,fri,sat,sun?

And please tell me if there’s any mistakes or awkward parts in the translations. I will do my best and brainstorm for it.