I woke up while still closing my eyes while feeling the warmth of the sunlight that trickles on my face. I frowned at myself and thought.
'Didn't I closed the curtains yesterday? I could've sworn that I closed it because of this damned sunlight.'
"Jane? Jane? Wake up! We need to get to work!"
She felt someone shaking her roughly. She frowned even more with the unexpected visitor in her room.
'Just who is this? I swear if it is one of my colleagues I'll sue them for trespassing. No, I'll sue them whether they are my colleagues or not.'
She slowly opened her eyes but immediately squinted them back because of the sunlight. She sat up in her bed while rubbing her eyes. When she's done she slowly opened her eyes.
'What the? Who the heck is this?!'
She saw an old woman in her early forties wearing maid clothes. She has both hands on her waist while looking at me like I was a troublesome kid next door.
"Haa! Finally, you decided to wake up! You naughty girl! Just because you heard that you will be serving the miss today you started to overslept!"
"Who? Me what?"
"Don't play dumb and get going!"
She pulled me up from the bed and pushed me inside the bathroom and pushed me inside the tub full of warm water. I just blankly looked at her while trying to process what was going on. She then left some clothes near the tub and disappeared. And moments later I heard her voice over the door.
"After you're done with bathing quickly get out from there and serve the miss!"
I look blankly at the closed door for a few minutes then started to massage my head.
'What just happened?! Who is that lady?! Miss?! Miss who?! Me serving?! What?!'
I scooped some water from the tub and washed my face. And then I closed my eyes and tried to remember what happened before this.
"I remembered reading the dumb novel from the dumb author before I fell into sleep... What's wrong with that? I don't remember doing anything unusual? Is this hallucination? But the old lady's grip earlier is too strong to be considered an illusion... No way. Is this like one of the transmigration stories I read before?"
She observed the bathroom's interior and noticed the designs have a medieval feel in them. Wooden door, bathtub, maid clothes that look like what a maid would wear in medieval times and its design was also like that...
Haha, there's no way. This has to be a joke...
It has to be, right?
She grabbed the maid's clothing near her bathtub and wore it. She then rushed outside the door like a madman and observed her surroundings.
Medieval-like room, wooden door, wooden bed, wooden table, worn-out books with language that is supposed to be foreign for her but she surprisingly can read it well, a feather pen and ink.
She rushed in front of the mirror and saw her usually long straight silver hair and sharp purple eyes.
It's the same, It's the same. This face belongs to her. Her whole body was transported in this weird place.
Shit.
'This is real.'
For the last struggle, she pinched her wrist as hard as she can to see whether or not this is the reality.
"Ack! Shit!"
She looked down at her now red wrist and then to her maid dress. Her heart was beating wildly, but her mind was calm like water. Because of this, she can carefully absorb the whole situation and walked out the room door.
'First, let's find out where this is. If this is like the transmigration novels that I read, this world must be a world of a novel or just a random world. I must find it out.'
She slowly walked down the hallway and headed to the kitchen. Strangely enough, she somehow knew where the kitchen is like she lived in here for years. Chills went down her spine, she is thankful that she knew where it was already so that she won't need to question every maid that passes by but she couldn't help but feel uneasy.
'How did I know? I just arrived in this world an hour ago but it feels like I've lived here for years and this is just another normal day.'
Jane frowned at the thought and decided to currently push it on the side of her head and focused on heading into the kitchen. When she arrived a fat man greeted her with a tray full of food in his hands. The man looked at me annoyingly while pushing the tray of foods to me.
"Geez, and here I thought you'll never come. Are you that fed up serving the miss? I understand but you aren't the only one suffering you know? So don't act like you are the only victim and go."
What? What did he say?
Jane somehow felt annoyed and is about to talk back at this arrogant fatty but suppressed it and left. She heaved a sigh to calm herself and walk straight with a tray of food in her hands.
'Calm down, if I start a scene here it might cause me some problems in the future. I don't know anything about this world yet so let's calm down... Like hell, I'm calming down! That damn fatass looked down on me like I'm some sort of annoyance! This is my first day here and this is pissing me off!'
Jane gritted her teeth and walked the hallway. She stopped in front of a large and gloomy door. She looks at the door with confusion but still knocked anyway.
Knock! Knock!
"Uh, miss? I came here to deliver your food."
Jane gulped and looked at the door while waiting for an answer. She wondered what kind of person this 'miss' is for the servants to look fed up to her.
'She's not an annoying person, right? If she is I might deliver an uppercut at her if she pisses me off, this is worrying.'
Minutes have passed by and there is still no answer. Jane's knees started to shake from standing too long while holding a heavy tray of food. She started to get annoyed.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
"Miss? Are you there?"
'I swear to god I'll kick that door open if she didn't answer. One, two, three-'
"...Come in."
Jane stopped, what she heard just now from the other side of the door is a deep, weak, and sorrowful voice. She somehow got a bad feeling about this. She slowly pressed the doorknob and went inside. What greeted her is a dark and gloomy room that looks like it hasn't been taken care of for years. And at the corner of that room, a girl is sitting with an emotionless expression. Jane flinched when she saw the soulless eyes staring at her.
"Here's your food miss."
Jane put down the tray of food on the table near the girl and looked at her silently. The girl stared back at her.
"...You can go back now."
Even though the gloomy lady told her to go back Jane just kept staring at her with her eyebrows furrowing. The lady looked back at her with a little hint of confusion in her eyes.
"What are you doing? I said you can go back."
Jane just keeps staring at her. The lady started to feel uncomfortable. While looking at her Jane's mind is currently a mess.
'This girl... No way right? Of all the worlds that I could go this is the one that I ended up with? Really?... No, it's not confirmed yet.'
She hesitated for a moment before finally starting to speak.
"Miss, what is your name?"
"What?"
"I'm asking for your name."
The lady's emotionless face frowned while looking at her. Meanwhile, Jane's heart is beating wildly. The lady is confused at first before returning to her original expression while answering her question.
"My name is Finesse del Rutchel."