After Mary entered the mansion she drew, Erwell found traces of an intruder in Lishi’s room. It was undoubtedly Jane, who was with Mary, who had invaded Lishi’s room.

Since then, Erwell had not returned home, staying in the room of the hired help and, whenever possible, investigating Mary.

Mary thoroughly inspected the room every time she left, but to Erwell, who had acquired various skills, picking a locked door was child’s play. Of course, she didn’t do clumsy things like dropping her hair like Jane.

‘I need to give this to Lady Iris, but how should I say I got it…’
Erwell had perfectly hidden her skills from the Green family. At least Erwell herself thought so.

Due to her father’s strict orders, Erwell had no choice but to hide her skills and personality somehow.

She entered the Green family as a maid because her parents said,

“Whether you take bride lessons, enter a convent for volunteer work, or become a maid to the Countess, choose one!”

Bride lessons, huh.

‘I’d rather die than do that.’

Volunteering at the convent wasn’t bad, but the problem was having to wear a nun’s habit. She didn’t want to wear such a tight-fitting nun’s habit even if she died.

So, she chose to be the exclusive maid of the Green Countess.

It wasn’t something she did out of desire, so initially, there was some resentment.

Moreover, who was the Green Countess? Wasn’t she the wife of Jercian, the brother with a filthy personality?

There couldn’t be good feelings.

However, the moment she saw the Green Countess for the first time.

‘She was really beautiful. Wow, I was surprised.’

Not only her appearance but also her gaze was astonishing.

Lishi had a dragon-like gaze in her slender body.

At first sight, Erwell liked Lishi. She decided to play the role of a maid properly for Lishi.

‘But I should have tried being a maid…’

Fortunately, Lishi wasn’t strict in that regard.

Some mistresses kick or curse their maids for the slightest mistake, but Lishi seemed like she would forgive Erwell no matter what she did.

As long as Krisina, who came as a supervisor, was there, Erwell wouldn’t reveal her true personality, but…

‘Is there a subtle way to inform about that poisonous toad?’

While Erwell was contemplating.

Knock [Dash]

A knocking sound echoed.

Since there was no reason for someone to come looking for Erwell in the hired help’s room at this late hour, she answered habitually by putting her hand on the dagger on her thigh.

“Yes.”

“It’s Erwell. It’s me.”

It was K’s voice.

‘When did that nobleman come to the mansion again?’

Erwell got off the bed and opened the door.

K was with Lishi.

“Lady Iris, is there something wrong?”

“Erwell. I’ve come home after a very long time.”

K interjected.

“You came to greet me and deliberately came here?”

When Erwell asked with a surprised expression, K smiled.

“Well, that’s part of it… I thought you might know something about the princess drinking poison. And I also thought that Erwell might have some good evidence by now.”

Erwell swallowed a sigh.

She thought she had hidden it well.

“Leave the ‘양’ [sheep] and just call me El. It’s giving me the creeps. And… when did you know?”

“From the beginning. The reason I hired you in the first place was that I needed someone to guard my wife like a second pair of hands.”

“That’s an amazing insight.”
Unlike K, Lishi had no idea what was going on right now.

Lishi, who opened her eyes wide and alternately looked at K and Erwell, seemed cute to Erwell.

“Come in. Oh, is it a bit plain?”

“This humble place is my home, El. Come on in.”

While other maids shared a room with several people, Erwell, the exclusive maid of the Countess, had her own room.

Originally, she commuted, but since Meri was in the mansion, the room she stayed in temporarily had no chair.

The three closed the door and stood in a circle to have a conversation.

“There’s a toad named Baurea. It’s a toad that lives in warm swampy areas.”

Erwell thought Lishi, who opened her eyes wide and looked at K and Erwell alternately, was cute.

“Baurea toads are originally ordinary toads. They just live peacefully, catching insects and small fish in the swamp. They even look cute when they hop to catch flies. Because they are good at catching flies and mosquitoes, in some southern regions, people raise Baurea toads for that purpose.”

Erwell calmly recited the ecology of the Baurea toad.

Although Lishi gradually couldn’t understand Korean, she couldn’t interfere because K was seriously listening to Erwell’s story.

“But here’s the thing. Very rarely. Almost with a probability of one in a million, a mutant is born. Mutant Baurea toads, while looking the same as regular ones, are dangerous. They have poison in their mucus.”

Poison.

Lishi felt like she got a blow to the back of her head.

“Baurea toads themselves are not well known in this area, and there are hardly any people who know about mutants since there is no research on them.”

“But you know.”

“Yeah. The reason I hired you in the first place was that I needed someone to guard my wife like a second pair of hands.”

“That’s an amazing insight.”

K intervened.

“Well, that’s part of it… I thought you might know something about the princess drinking poison. And I also thought that Erwell might have some good evidence by now.”

Erwell swallowed a sigh.

She thought she had hidden it well.

“Leave the ‘양’ [sheep] and just call me El. It’s giving me the creeps. And… when did you know?”

“From the beginning. The reason I hired you in the first place was that I needed someone to guard my wife like a second pair of hands.”

“That’s an amazing insight.”
Lishi’s eyes lit up as she took the antidote from Erwell’s hand.

Erwell burst into laughter.

Indeed, Erwell was fond of the Countess, whose destination was unpredictable.

“This won’t be significant evidence. This antidote is not just for the toad’s poison; it’s a general antidote used for other toxins as well. It’s carried around just in case the princess needs it. So, it would be useless to claim it’s for the toad’s poison. That’s what I wanted to say, my lord.”