章 3: A perfect gift, isn’t it… Ch.3

It's been a few days since I transmigrated to this world, living as Kannavis Corvus, the villainess of the otome game, Levanta Strings and the Female main character, Irene Briar, is now a maid, attending to the House of Corvus. I tried my best to avoid her as much as possible, whenever I feel her presence near me, I would try my best to avoid her… maybe a bit too much though. Yesterday, I jumped out the window trying to get away, now I have a sprained ankle, the maids knew I was crazy, but they were shocked at what I did as well.

It's summer break, and there's no school. I've been past timing doing all the luxurious things I can think of in this manor, just been enjoying being rich, eating all the fancy cookies I want. Sometimes, I would look out the window to the garden, and today, I saw Irene with my brother, he looked all smitten and shy around her, huh.. what's so funny, who knows she can laugh like that… an expression I've never seen before…hmm how interesting .

" Wha a munch of-" before I could finish my sentence, Irene looked at me, we locked eyes for a moment, the cookie was still in my hand, then, she tilled her head a bit, a look of curiosity. Were you staring?

Wa-What, at that moment I instinctively ducked my head down " wha fis thast looc" i said, with cookies still in my mouth.

*Knock, Knock*

" My lady."

I gulped away my cookie. " Come in".

Then an elderly woman with gray hair and hazel eyes, in a maid dress, wearing a black collar different from the other maids walked in.

" Oh my- my lady, this room is a mess, this is not how a lady's room should be, and ohhh you got cookies all over your face, oh you don't have to stand up, your leg-"

" Ohh it's alright Holly, I'm a tough gum, this is nothin- Ahh!"

Yep it's still hurt.

" oh goodness miss Kanna, please sit down, I'll tidy this place up for you."

" Thank you, Holly".

Holly is the head maid of the house, she used to be Kannavis personal maid and her godmother, only Holly is in Kannavis's good grace, Holly has always cared for her. She might be a commoner, but Kannavis treats her better than anyone, like a family.

" By the way, my lady, sir Rowan is returning from the front line today, and he would like to meet you but if you don't want to.."

" No it's fine, I'll go meet him. After all, he came all the way from there to meet us."

Sir Rowan Teulia, from the house of Teulia, is a family of knights serving the house of Corvus. Our history went way back. No matter the circumstances, the Teulia swears loyalty only to the House of Corvus. Sir Rowan and his knights was guarding the south-west border of the kingdom facing the Euphrasia forest. The border seems to be quite chaotic these days, strange activities from the forest seems to be increasing, so it was surprising that he is off duty.

These days, memories from Kannavis keep popping in my heads, and I remember sir Rowan was always by my side and Galium when we were little. He would play with us, and Holly would be there to serve us snacks, but because of that incident, Galium and me grew apart, and Rowan… Did we develop such deep backstories for these characters? Even though I'm part of the project, I've never known of such details…

" Miss Kannavis"

A middle aged man, maybe in his forties, brown hair with a buzz cut, a beard covered his jawline. He dressed in full armor, equipped with a long sword beside his waist, a crest of the house of Corvus stamped on his chestplate. With a warm smile, he got down on one knee and kissed my hand.

" Sir Rowan." I said.

He stood up and we took a seat opposite of each other in a lavish living room, the lights shining through the windows, showing enough of the extravagant design of the room that it always put me in awe.

"How have you been, Miss Kannavis? and your legs… Are you alright?"

That's kinda embarrassing.

" Hmph! I'm perfectly fine. What about you, Sir Rowan?"

" Thank you for your worry, my lady. All is good, those weird activities from the forest seems to be dying down, and I came bearing gifts from the duke too."

"You.. met my father?"

" Yes, my lady. When I was travelling back, we met in the Halls of Orphys ,and he sent his regards to you both, with me."

That guy, sending gifts huh.

"I see.."

"Ah. Speaking of which, where is sir Galium?"

Before sir Rowan could finish his sentence, Galium and Irene walked in to the room, Galium was all smiling and giddying and stuff… how disgusting.

"Ah sir Galium!"

"Oh, sir Rowan."

Galium was surprised. He changed into a serious expression and bowed to greet Rowan, so did Irene.

"I didn't know you were coming, then I would have come to greet you… Kanna why didn't you call for me?"

Huh..the way he phrased it really make me wanna punch him in the face…, this guyyy. YOURE THE ONE who was ALL Lovely Dovey over theRe!!!

"oh how could I interrupt your time with your babe…"

I mumbled to myself. Irene was definitely looking at me strangely as I said that.

"Oh it's alright sir Galium, I came quick without a notice, so it would have been hard for you to squeeze in time for old me."

Rowan said this with such a happy face. Oh Rowan, this guy was doing nothing of important earlier, you don't have to be this humbled.

"Anyway, now that I've seen sir Galium, if you'll excuse me, I'll be taking my leave now"

"Oh you're not staying for dinner, Sir Rowan?", I asked.

"Ah it's alright, I am very honored, but my vacation days are short, so I'd like to go visit my mother and daughter.."

"Oh! I understand, then it was a pleasure to meet you sir Rowan, please be safe on your journey."

Rowan smiled-" Thank you, my lady, and farewell sir Galium."

Galium went to see Rowan off, I wished to go to, but because of my ankle, I was told to wait in the living room.

Galium came back in and asked me so bluntly - " Why didn't you tell me that sir Rowan was coming? And what's with those things?"

Seriously, this guy's really getting on my nerve " These are gifts from father."

"From father?" Galium was surprised from the answer.

" Yes, it is. Sir Rowan met him on the way here, and left these things to us with him."

"Seriously, that old man, he hasn't been home for months and this is what he does. Oh this thing is heavy?"

Galium hold his gift up and opened the box, and it was a set of newly design magic knights chain armor, it's so glistening that I thought I was going blind.

"Huh old man, not bad."

He said that, but he couldn't hide his excitement off his face at all.

" What about you Kanna? What do you get?"

That was not a genuine question, it's more like he wants to know if my gift is better than him or not, but I am also curious, will he treat me like he always does or not.

I opened the box, it's just a box of chocolate from the store down the alley, that I can go buy for a mere 2 silver coins. Don't get me wrong, I love chocolate, but Galium upon seeing my gift, was trying with zero efforts to hold back his laughters.. how annoying. Holly was there with a worried look, and Irene, she didn't say anything either.

"Well, I guess father really cares about you, he even bought your favorite snacks!" He grinned like a jerk as he said that.

"At least this can be brings me satisfactions, but you, brother, I don't think you be happy in that armor, a hideous face like yours wouldn't match its beauty."

He was shocked, Holly and Irene were also shocked.

He was getting embarrassed in front of Irene

" wha-What! KANNAVIS, How Dare You!!? You Sureee Can Talk Huh?! Remember, You're A Misfortune! Father Doesn't Need Someone Like You By His Side! Hah!Your Worth Would Only Amount To That Box Of Chocalates OF Yo-"

*Pow!*

I gave him a good knuckle to the face, I couldn't stand him anymore, so I walked out with my chocolate, he was flabbergasted, he wouldn't thought his spineless little sister could do that to him, did he? He was trying to follow me, but Holly tried her best to stop him and Irene followed me to help me get to my room.

"Please, let me help you, my lady.." Irene whispered to me, I couldn't try to avoid her at that moment, so I just agreed to it. Damn the moods today's really sour huh.