SLAP!
The older women's palm strokes her face, leaving the small child falling on the carpet. Rachel had just woken up to it when she looked up at the raging women.
"What a lazy person are you! Are you really my daughter!?" The women scolded the girl's body trembled. A child who looked a little older maybe around thirteen was glaring at her with a scornful gaze.
Not long after scolding and berating her the two left, in silence Rachel started to think about what was going as memories flashed through.
Alicia, she was once again however, somethings was different.
[This is the result of your failure the first time around. Alicia had to repeat her life a few times]
Rachel nodded her head; Alicia had lived a total of Five Lifetimes. The first Being as you have guessed it where she died like every Otome villainess out there.
In her second life she changes things up she was kind to everyone and built up a good reputation among commoners and nobles alike. She was successful in winning her lovers heart and they had a beautiful relationship. But like before when Wendy appeared, the women slowly broke down her reputation and stolen her lover once more. She was met with the same fate as her first live
In her third life she ran away, she was done with love and her lover. She lived on the countryside as a commoner who waited tables at a nearby Inn. Her days where peaceful with no responsibility she even lived passed her day of exaction from her others' lives. However, a war broke out for Wendy the girl sent by god who was now married to her former love and prospering. Her small village including her was destroyed as a result.
In her forth life, Alicia followed suit with the same plan of being a commoner. However, this time the prince had persisted in the marriage. Alicia had strongly denied and denied their marriage in front of her family, in front of the nobles, and in front of the royal family regardless of etiquette. She had gone and run-away numerous times and only to be brought back by the Prince and forced to Marry him earlier. She Committed Suicide, a few days before Wendy arrived in the world
In her fifth life she ran away once again, successful her commoner life was peaceful by trade town. This time she eventually found love again. However, it turns out her lover was the prince in disguise when she found out she immediately broke up with him and ran away to another part of the country. She was Killed by bandits before she could settle down.
Now this is her sixth life she is trying again.
Rachel was left in her room, she sighed and after a few moments and then walked back out of her room.
Professor Mine was surprised to see the little Diva coming back with a calm attitude. He was an older gentleman well respected in his trade and praised as a genius of his time. He was to be a royal tutor but felt short of the true genius of the kingdom. He had no choice but to teach the little dive to gain some prestige. But the little girl was more than disagreeable she didn't even want to attend his class. Which hurt his pride and he complained to the family, he watched the little girl be punished yelled at and threatened. Originally, he thought that she would eventually show some sense. But the girl was reluctant no matter what was taken from her or what was done of her.
"Your back", he mouthed. He heard the rant of the Duchess and thought She would need a little more time before calming down. Surprised, that her attitude was so calm after being slapped that hard. He gazed up at her eyes that seemed to have more resolution then before and a hint of something else that he didn't understand.
"Professor Mine, it is not that I don't understand what you are teaching me, it is that you have nothing to teach me" Rachel said confidently and clearly without a hint of doubt
"Oh, is that so" Professor Mine was a little irritated. A little girl is basically saying he is not smart enough to teach her.
"You don't believe me do you, that a ten-year-old child is smarter than you" Rachel made sure to put up the airs of a noble's daughter. "Then how about we test that"
An Hour later....
Professor Mine was so pale and distraught that he nearly fell faint. Looking at the test papers he a prepared prior to teacher all answer all correct, the debates the disputes all of it correct and impressive. He honest to god had nothing to teach.
"Well, it appears we are done here. So, I'll take my leave first" Rachel left the Professor broken mentally, this of course was done on purpose. It is well known of the ruthlessness of the prime minister's family; they are not only that way to others but their own family. This of course wasn't unknown to Professor Mine.
It may not have been wrong to tell the parents of Alicia that she was misbehaving but to do so on the very first day of meeting her without even trying to find or figure out any reason. That is no way for person that was going to be a teacher of a ten-year-old to act. He had known and didn't even bat and eye to child abuse.
This can be considered payback and to think it only took one hour of my life.
Professor Mine walked into the Prime Minister's study his face haggard, The Prime Minister Alicia's father looked and frowned as his old friend had gently placed a stack of papers emotionless and sat down.
Walking down the steps she decided to take a trip to guards' barracks, she watched modern sword play and wanted to see old fantasy sword play this time. At first, she wasn't noticed by the guards, they were going on their merry way talking dueling and bringing in general men.
Although they were playful, they had some skills in the sword, this is what Rachel thought watching the duel between the knights. It took a while for the Knights to finally notice she is there that Is when they froze.
"Is that the young Miss" one of them said but Rachel didn't pay attention to the generic knight. But his commotion made the others paused unto the see the tiny girl sitting on a bench quietly watching them.
Literally all the Knights had an 'Oh S***' moment. They went straight back to being orderly and presentable. So, it seems they are only loose when unsupervised and tame when supervised. She jumped off the bench and ran back to the mansion without uttering a word, leaving the knights just standing looking stupid.
On her way back to her room, her hair was suddenly pulled.
"You are an ungrateful, little wench"
It was Alicia's older brother; Rachel admits it was her fault for not paying attention. Rachel glared at the little brat that was pulling on her hair roughly with no remorse. He was spewing profanities at her that was completely unlike a child.
Before he got the chance to hit her, she twisted her body and used his momentum against him making let lose his grip on her hair and fall to his face. This was all seen by the maids and servants, but they did not say anything as they were used to violence.
When her older brother had gotten back up, he went towards ger in a rage. Watching him get back up and rush towards and as for Rachel she felt something uncontrollable reach out and take hold of her. It felt like Alicia's rage over the torture her brother had put her through in her past lives broke out.
By the time Rachel had stopped seeing red her older brother had been beaten to a sorry state. The servants where all pale in fright including Rachel herself 'Holy Fudge, I had just beaten a child didn't I' she gulped.
"Allen!" the voice of Alicia's mother was screaming down the corridor and rushing towards the little boy who was unconscious.
Rachel's face had already gone back to being calm, She giggled, drawing everyone's attention to her including her father and former teacher that had just arrived.
"Who know he would be so weak" She giggled.
"You, You. How Dare You! Beating your brother."
"He should blame himself for being beaten" Rachel retorted back
"You, You…"
"Mother you act like brother can't fight back, he got himself beaten by his little sister and to such a state. I wonder how society will see this." Her mother rushed up to slap her, but Rachel dodged and stepped on the lavish dress to make the women fall. Hitting her nose hard on the floor the women started wailing like a shrew.
"Oh, Mother to think on the amount of times you've hit another, you wail like a child when something happens to you." Rachel walked away passed her Father and Former Teacher, they did not stop her. Lost in her thoughts Rachel had to think about her next steps. The Prime Minister family is truly a mess, no one here is clean including her father.
Alicia wasn't wrong in trying to solve things by being a good person, but with a family like hers being a good person is useless. Since, being good was useless then being bad might have a different impact.
Besides being a Villainous might be fun.