Reincarnated Maid – Volume 1 Chapter 3

Translator: Mary    Editor: Arocks141

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Chapter 3: If it was so easy to return, you wouldn’t be a protagonist

 

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“W-Whyyyy——?!”

Chris’ image of seriousness which she had carefully built-up was shattered in an instant.

“I understand Lady Christiana’s good intentions……”

Anastasia’s social network in Lemuria was simple beyond belief.

All in all, there were just three categories: the former owner who no longer logged in, the witch mother whom she has never seen before, and the fan club which she has absolutely no relation to. Due to various reasons, none of these three were qualified to become Anastasia’s new master.

Chris has been singularly earnest in wanting to become my new owner, but perhaps her concern for me has made her overlook a considerably important point.

“But Lady Christiana, you’ve forgotten one thing from your otherwise thorough assessment.” I held a finger in the air and calmly said, “so long as I withhold my consent, an adventurer would never have any way of obtaining me.”

Chris stared blankly at me for a few beats.

Even though the background of the game was based on the middle ages, there’s one crucial consideration: This is a virtual game that is being played by the entire world population. While the servant system isn’t fake, slavery would be something that violates human rights. Thus there was no way for slavery to appear within the game. Even if this misrepresents the original historical inspiration, this was a part of the past that had to be obediently corrected.¹

The players and NPCs of «The Eternal Pacificus» have age-restriction limitations set up, but these limiters can be removed to conduct certain special activities.² Each character’s limiter is controlled personally by themselves, and nobody else has the right to interfere with this. Even a master could not override their servants’ limiter.

This implies that nobody could do anything to me unless I consented to it. Therefore, the in-game nobles would be far less interested in me than the players are, because without being able to get it on, only a few NPC nobles would be willing to care and provide for such a maid.

The auditing around the restrictions on players was far more severe than that of NPCs, including but not limited to one’s real age, one’s physical health, and whether one had a criminal record, et cetera.

This wasn’t a standalone R18 game after all, so I would never be reduced to a slave, nor would something like sharing of maids be added to the game.

With Chris’s intelligence, she would be able to understand this reasoning after thinking for a bit.

Chris opened her mouth once or twice, and the brightness in her eyes dimmed a little.

The daughter of the Montefeltro family had a strong affection for cute girls – this was well known throughout the Mikkel Kingdom. Also, to my knowledge from my muddled fusion of memories, Chris had never abandoned a single girl. So I felt that at least her frenzied concern didn’t seem to be out of a purely selfish desire.

“Actually there is also one further reason for my rejection.”

“……what?”

“While in the mental state of yearning and longing day and night for one’s previous master, I don’t think serving a new master would be appropriate. As a servant, I feel this would be a dereliction of duty.”

I needed to look for the character which my young mistress³ played on the Lemuria continent, somehow, only then, could I fully understand what happened in my previous life. If I could continue to protect the young mistress in-game just as I did in the past, I couldn’t ask for anything better.

Certainly, this would be a very thorny mission, I didn’t know my young mistress’s game ID or race, or even what the character that she played looked like. Due to certain gender protection laws, virtual games prohibit playing as the opposite gender, however, the game did let you modify your appearance from your real one. For example, if you had freckles you could reduce them, or increase them if you wished. The overwhelming majority of game players all had varying degrees of modifications from reality for the characters they played.

I felt that the contract between me and my young miss had not ended, therefore I absolutely could not use this situation to find a new master.

Listening to my reply, Chris sniffed, and once again for a split second shed tears like rain.

Chris’s lacrimal glands are pretty nimble huh.

“Wahh…… Anna…… protectively guarding the funeral hall for a master whose soul has already ascended to heaven for an entire year, and still being so reluctant to cut off thoughts of her owner…… Uwahh—— this makes me desire Anna even more!!”

H-Hey, the master I’m worried about is my young miss……

“Alright! I’ve decided!”

Chris suddenly threw a punch into the air.

“There’s no point in picking a fruit until it is ripe.⁴ Before Anna gives up on her master, I won’t try to compel you to join me again, and Anna will always turn down any adventurer pursuing her, won’t you?”

“Of course.”

My brief reply earned me Chris’ pleased smile. On a different note, there was just one insignificant question that I would’ve liked to ask: How on earth did she manage to control her tears so freely?

“Anna, if you ever change your mind, my door is always open for you. The Montefeltro family would always welcome you as part of our family. Well then, let’s call it a day, shall we?”

“I accept your deep kindness with gratitude and humility.”

Thanks to Chris, I have more or less grasped a few useful pieces of information.

Anastasia’s shallow personal relationships would allow me to fit into her role and character with minimal suspicion. Chris was the only person whom Anna had been most familiar with. If Chris was unable to see through me, other people would hardly notice a small change in personality.

As I watched Chris depart, I could not believe that Chris was simply an in-game NPC, and that artificial intelligence had already advanced to this point.

There was just one thing which caused me to be concerned.

Chris had no reason to lie to me, but according to what she just said, Anastasia was a character in «The Eternal Pacificus» with a lot of popularity. Tomorrow, it would be the official opening of the new favourability-capturing mechanic. How has the game not even realized that the soul currently operating this Anastasia character has been replaced with that of a man?!

Though the doubts in my heart continued to grow, I knew that only when events start to unfold would we know what’ll happen. The deadline was the boundary point, during which the game updates with the new functionality will have to be transferred, there would definitely be some data interaction at that time.

Perhaps a game admin will discover an abnormality at that point and would have to fix the bug, and my experience of being transported to the game world would be nothing but a short dream.

But supposing everything returns to normal, then why on earth…… Why was it even possible for me to be transported to a game world in the first place……?

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1. Basically, whitewashing history to be more palatable.
2. In case it wasn’t clear, this was a limiter you would control that prevented other people from performing R18 activities on you.
3. The same young mistress from the prologue.
4. 强扭的瓜不甜