I Raised an Obsessive Servant

“Oh, I have it!”

Emily reached into the pocket of her white apron and bulged her eyes as if surprised. She trembled, then took off her apron and turned it inside out.

“Weird. I remember exactly that she was there,” the other maid who was watching her quietly whispered.

“Are you sure you didn’t lose it?”

“No, I put it in this pocket…”

Yurina also saw Emily leave the room with her bloodied earring. Looks like she lost her earring somewhere?

Yurina sighed and pulled out the earring hanging from her other ear. Betsy immediately noticed this, opened the box and silently presented it to Yurina.

“The hair is great, and the earrings would have been a little more modest.”

“As you say, milady.”

Betsy pulled out a white pearl earring. Considering that the pearl was the size of a fingernail, it couldn’t be said that the earrings were modest, but the other earrings Yurina had brought were a bit monotonous.

Yurina nodded and Betsy carefully slipped the earring into her ear.

“I will ask the other maids to find the lost earring.”

“Yes, thank you.”

“Won’t that disturb you?”

Betsy, who looked Yurina up and down, pointed to the necklace around Yurina’s neck.

“Why don’t you take off your necklace? It will rub on the cut.”

“And if I take it off, then my neck will be empty. And the necklace will cover the wound, so I think that’s even better.”

“So what about something else? The necklace is certainly beautiful, but it doesn’t match your clothes. And that leather strap…”

It wasn’t that Betsy tried to rip off the necklace by force, but Yurina reflexively grabbed the pendant.

“No, it’s okay.”

Yurina looked at the necklace in her hand. A ruby-like transparent stone that shone brightly. It was the same necklace Raynard had given her before parting on the border of the Crohn Kingdom a year and a half ago.

“Don’t take it off, even when you’re sleeping or taking a bath, until I get back.”

Reynard’s voice buzzed in her ear.

As he had instructed her, Yurina never parted with the necklace. She always wore it when she bathed and slept, and when she stayed with other family members, such as during tea parties.

That was Reynard’s request, but even if it wasn’t for that request, Yurina had no choice but to continue wearing this necklace.

Because, so it seemed to her that Reynard was somewhere nearby. Whenever she suddenly felt lonely, even after a day of being surrounded by so many people, she felt like she was looking into Reynard’s eyes when she saw that red stone.

“It’s surprisingly comfortable.”

She looked at the rough leather strap and smiled.

At first, she doubted Reynard’s aesthetic perception, but later the necklace seemed more convenient to her than the products of the best jewelers.

Even when she slept with the necklace on, her hair never got tangled and her neck never hurt. In addition, as if a preservation magic had been cast on it, the strap remained soft and dry even after a bath.

It was nice that Reynard thought of even such trifles.

People who saw that Yurina was always wearing this necklace always guessed that there was some special story behind it and asked about it, but Yurina never told anyone.

It was a secret only for him and for her.

‘Even though Ray has already returned…’

But she didn’t want to take off her necklace.

And generally speaking. Raynard wasn’t around right now, and she wanted to leave that as a memento of him.

Yurina smiled while looking at the pendant and shook her right hand in front of Betsy’s eyes. A bracelet with a red stone flashed on her wrist, like a pendant on a necklace.

It was the location bracelet that Raynard had forced on her a couple of days ago. Despite the intimidating name ‘location tracker’, it looked like an ordinary bracelet, so it seemed that it could be worn with a dress.

“It’s a necklace and a bracelet. They can come off as a set, can’t they?”

“Yes, it’s cute. But this is the first time I see him, what kind of bracelet is this?”

“It’s a secret.”

“Yeees?”

Yurina smiled at Betsy and stood up from her seat. She had been a little nervous all this time, but after remembering the pendant and bracelet, Yurina was relieved, as if Reynard had been by her side the whole time.