Book 12.1: Chapter 4
“Mom, I want to be a maid. Teach me!”
*Clang.*
Lucia’s mom dropped her knife and fork onto her plate. She looked at her daughter’s serious expression before her feeling dumbfounded. She then looked at her husband beside her with a confused look. Echte, too, was completely baffled. Neither of them knew why the first thing their daughter said upon returning home from the palace was that she wanted to be a maid. Children may have lots of dreams, but they had no idea why she was so eager to be a maid.
If Lucia wanted to be a maid, she would’ve had the idea long ago. Her mom was a maid, but Lucia had no interest in cute maid uniforms previously. She urgently wanted to become a maid out the blue.
“Could she have developed a respect for some maid? That makes Mommy very jealous and sad,” thought Lucia’s mother.
Ecthe laughed, and then stroked Lucia’s head. He asked, “Lucia, why do you want to be a maid all of a sudden?”
“Because I’ll be able to go into the palace and stay there all the time. Troy tried to ask Her Highness to let me stay, but Her Highness refused. That’s why I want to become a maid. Then, I’ll always be able to be by Troy’s side.”
Lucia’s naïve and pure voice almost knocked Ecthe and his wife out of their chairs.
Ecthe thought that it would be very nice if Lucia and His Highness could become friends. However, he never thought about leveraging their friendship to try and fish for things from Her Highness. Ecthe thought things in the adult world wouldn’t be a part of children’s world. The children’s friendship steered in a bizarre direction, apparently. If Lucia stayed in the palace, it meant Queen Vyvyan wanted to make her Troy’s Princess.