Bab 40: Her Selfishness

Anastasia first took off her farm suit and covered her body with a white towel available in the Maid Bath changing room.

When Anastasia was putting her farm suit into the basket of clothes, She glanced at her maid and realized that Helena, who was behind her, was not taking off her dress.

The two of them were now in one maid bath, and the two of them could watch each other's movements.

Anastasia was worried that if Helena saw herself, who didn't know how to bathe properly, she would suspect her being a strange princess.

'Oh, no. I can't ask Helena to wait outside in her dirty dress, but it will be very dangerous if Helena watches and finds out that I can't shower properly. What if she saw me make the same mistake when I take a bath in the royal bath, and it will happen again?'

At her previous bath, she made a scene in the Royal Bath because Anastasia poured too much bath soap in her hand and made herself slip when the soap fell on the Royal Bath floor.

According to Anastasia, the easiest way to solve the problem, so that she was not suspected by Helena, was to make Helena go to take a shower with her so that Helena wouldn't focus on paying attention to Anastasia only. And she can learn how to bathe by watching Helena's bath.

"Helena? What are you waiting for? Let's take a shower together!" Anastasia cheerfully asked her maid.

With a shy face, Helena refused Anastasia's invitation.

"Ugh ... No princess, you better take a shower first. I'll wait here until you finish bathing."

Anastasia must be able to persuade Helena to take a bath with her. 'Is it because Helena and I are different castes. She is aware of her position and doesn't want to bathe with me?' But Helena's face didn't give Anastasia an answer like that.

*Sob*

"So, you refused my invitation, huh?" Anastasia's face becomes sad, and she covers her face with her hands.

"Ah, no, no. I didn't mean to refuse your invitation. I didn't think that it would make you sad, princess." Helena wagged her hand lightly and felt guilty for refusing Anastasia's invitation.

"Then let's go take a shower together." Anastasia again invited Helena to take a shower with him with a cheerful face.

'Hehe, this is beyond my expectations. I never thought that the sad face technique I used to do with my brother in my previous life would work for Helena.'

Anastasia chuckled after successfully using a sad expression to Helena, even though she used that expression when she asked for something from her brother in her previous life.

"Actually, from the start, I didn't intend to refuse your invitation, princess. It's just that I'm a little embarrassed to ask your help to open the stuck zipper because it's too hard to open, and I thought of waiting for another maid to come here to ask her to open my stuck zipper."

"Would you mind if I would help unzip your dress?"

"Since you've asked me to take a shower together, I can't refuse it." Helena turned her back on Anastasia

Anastasia walked towards Helena, who had turned around. Anastasia was only at Helena's shoulder. She was also actually curious about Helena's graceful body.

*Sreettt*

Beyond her expectations, Anastasia was shocked. Her eyes were wide, and her pupils shrank in disbelief at what she saw. She saw the many incision scars scratched on Helena's back.

The scars Anastasia saw were not like the honor wounds obtained after a war or fighting an enemy. It looked like the violence she endured as a child.

Anastasia a little understand why Mr. Aston, the Royal Chief Chef of Odeviel, asked her not to ask too much about Helena's past. Mr. Aston must have known about it and warned Anastasia about her. There must be a sad story behind Helena's scar, and not everyone in the castle knew it.

Anastasia felt bad for Helena after saw the scar on her back and thought that Anastasia was better off pretending she didn't know the scar on Helena's back.

But Anastasia's face could not cover her shocked expression because of the wound on Helena's back after seeing it with her own eyes.

"You must have seen it, princess?" Helena lowered her head as Anastasia stared at her back for a long time

"I'm sorry I forced you to bathe together and made you show wounds that didn't want others to know." Anastasia regretted her selfishness.

"Are you bothered after seeing my wound, princess?"

"Ah, haha, I'm not bothered at all," Anastasia replied to Helena's gloomy question with a cheerful answer and a chuckle to dispel the awkwardness between them. But Anastasia's laughter immediately stopped when Anastasia glanced at Helena's face.

"Yes, this is a story when I was a kid back then." Helena gathered the intention to explain to Anastasia about her past.