In a fairly luxurious room, a newborn girl can be seen with an amusing expression.
‘No way! No, no, no, no, no way!’
‘I actually died! How? That f*cking drunk driver! Ahhh! I can’t believe this. I really died’
She cried her eyes out, worrying her parents in the process. But it’s understandable that it would take some time to digest the fact that someone had died and reincarnated as a baby.
It took me a long time to accept my new life. My name is Raechel Blue. I was just going about my life when a truck ran over me.
The next moment, I found myself in this baby's body named Aria. It’s been a couple of months since my ‘reincarnation’. And from what I can tell, I’ve been reincarnated in the last novel I read. As a minor villainess at that.
The novel is set in a magic-sword styled fantasy world. Where the male lead is a newbie adventurer who happens to awaken ‘A’ grade talent.
He goes around killing monsters before stumbling across the villainess who fell in love with him.
But the protagonist already had a crush on his party’s healer. Even though it was a harem novel, the villainess wanted him for herself.
So, the villainess kept pestering them and getting in their way.
And during this time, she asks her best friend (that is, me) to kidnap and torture the female lead. So she would stay out of her way.
But things don’t go exactly as planned.
Aria’s maid, who was abused in the same place, kills Aria, rescues the female lead with the help of the male lead, and in turn joins his harem.
At this point, her maid’s class was revealed to be an ‘A’ graded ‘Pleasure Slave’.
Despite the name, she was revealed to be very overpowered at the end of the novel.
And so, to avoid death, I just need to stay away from my ‘Best Friend’ and maintain a good relationship with the maid.
If not for how much I miss my family right now, I would have been dancing, given the circumstances.
Time skips, a few years later…
I’ve more or less adjusted to my new life pretty well. I am 5 years old, and despite my efforts to act like a baby, I came out as a mature and intelligent kid.
My parents spoiled me rotten, no wonder the original character grew up a bitch. I am given whatever I desire, no matter the cost.
On my last birthday, my mother gifted me a whole mansion near a beach for myself.
I fought with them to sell it back and demanded some jewelry instead.
Can you believe it? A literal mansion to a 5-year-old.
Apparently, our barony is the major supplier of Mithril for the whole kingdom.
So we are richer than most of the dukedoms.
I was surprised that my father wasn’t promoted to a count or a duke.
Apparently, he refused the promotion so that he doesn’t have to worry about business and politics all day. Imagine refusing the king himself, it is as they say, 'Money can buy many things, even power'.
He is the type of person who’d rather spend time with his family instead.
I was surprised that a villainess could be raised by such a gentle and sweet father.
A few more years later…
I am 8 now, and life is amazing!
My maid told me that the Baron hired a new personal maid for me who has an ‘A’ grade talent.
She was picked up from a dumpster. So they spent three months training her mannerism and etiquette.
And I was being fed all the bullshit by the maids about how she was a dirty kid.
How should I put her down and show her her place?
Honestly, what are these people teaching an 8 years old kid?
Jealousy can bring out the dark side of the brightest people.
“Do I need to ask your opinion on how I should behave? Don’t forget, you are just maids. Don’t overstep your boundaries.”
That ought to shut them up.
Well, off we go to meet our new maid.
I reached my father’s office and yelled,
“Good morning Dad! You wanted to see me?”
“Yes Aria, my beloved. I’ve got a surprise gift for you.”
I faked the most curious expression I could.
“Meet your new friend and maid, Letica”
He pointed towards a brunette girl, a little older than me.
She was a bit scrawny, but still looked very cute. I inspected her from top to bottom and thanked my father,
“Wow dad, thank you so much”
I turned toward her.
“Hey Letica, I am Aria Ernius, the only daughter of Baron Ernius. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you too, my Lady”
She spoke a little nervously, and I could tell she was trying her hardest. Hehe, how cute.
“Aria, she is to be your personal maid, take good care of her. If you expect loyalty from your subjects, you must treat them well”
“Yes dad, I will. I’ll be taking my leave now. Thank you once again, I like her a lot”
I made my way towards my room, and Letica followed behind.
Upon entering,
“So my dear maid, do you like my room?”
“Y…Yes my Lady!”
She stammered a bit. I realized she wasn’t relaxed yet.
“Just relax, it’s just us two here, no need to be so reserved. I don’t care about etiquette and manners, so just forget about it and sit with me”
I dragged her to my bed and sat her down beside me.
“Let's introduce each other again. I am Aria Ernius, pleased to meet you”
“My name is Letica, likewise m…my Lady”
“It's fine, drop the Lady, call me Aria. I won’t tell anyone”
“But the maid who taught me said that manners and etiquette are very important in noble houses. And I should never call you by just your name”
“Yes I know, I’m only asking you to do so when we are alone, don’t worry. I want to be friends with you”
“If you say so, Aria”
“Now that’s more like it”
I said so while patting her head. My hands gently ruffled her hair.
She is so adorable, even though she is older than me physically, she is just a 10 years old kid in front of me who is mentally 24.
Yes, I died when I was 16 in my past life.
She didn’t resist my hand, and it looked like she was enjoying it.
After a moment, as she noticed my stare, she started blushing.
“A...Aria, I am older than you, so you should not treat me like that!”
Aww, she looked so cuteeeeee.
“Are you sure? You seemed to be enjoying this, no?”
“Wh…what are you saying? I am not enjoying it. I am 2 years older than you”
“Hah…what a pity”
I let go of my hand, and decided to cease the tease…for now.
Then we talked about her past and spent the whole afternoon getting to know each other until she fell asleep. She must have been nervous to meet me.
Poor kid, she’s never even had any friends or family. All alone on the street. I’ll have to spoil her a lot to make up for her past.
After a while, a maid knocked to call me for dinner.
She saw Letica sleeping on my bed and made an ugly expression.
I ordered her to keep quiet and let her be.
AN: If you're reading it, feel free to give your critique. Please point out writing mistakes.
Good start! The story has a fast pace. You didn't described the looks of the two MC's yet and it would be good to describe the surrounding areas a bit more. Besides this keep going
Apparently he refused the promotion so that he doesn't have to worry about business and politics all day.
How the hell is he still alive then? Politics is a VERY dangerous game. Just off the top of my head, he'd have committed Les majeste as a Baron would not be made aware in advance of the court summons as to the nature of the summons, and even if that weren't the case, just refusing the promotion makes him dangerous in the eyes of the crown, as they have no method to ensure his loyalty.
Thanks for the chapter
They did mention the daughter emphasizing money is power and he has an A grade knight. Put simply it sounds like his tax’s are high, he hires all the high quality guards and is a good employer. To sum it up the only thing I can think of as a reader is “it’s safer to leave him alone then push” even for the king.
I’m liking the premise; we normally don’t get to see such stories from the pov of someone born in isekai world too:
I am very uncomfortable in the fact that if aria was not a reincarnated person then Letica would have been a seggs slave to a male this is sometimes one of them parts I don't like when it comes to reincarnating in worlds with a known destiny for the MC Moving on, I'm liking the opening seems new and not just info dumps about the world and their appearances
Yessss the fluff!!
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Lol, I'm sure this is gonna get said a lot but if you choose to rewrite the story, try to focus on giving a bit more emotion to the character's dialogue. They feel fast paced and almost robotic. The world building could use some touch up since I'm quite curious about the workings and ins and outs.
Pretty neat story though.
Yeah I get that a lot. Hopefully...maybe, I've made progress in recent chaps. And I don't have any plan to rewrite any chapters, but I might do so in the future. No promises tho... And Thanks for the feedback!
@ThinkOfSomeCoolName to be fair, the progress is almost visible in your writing. Given someone willing to edit and lengthening chapters and some exposition, maybe a bit of revisions here and there, and I'd say you would be pretty strong. The story so far is great and while some times it feels lacking you somewhat want to know more and how things will progress, so that is definitely a net positive.
The only criticism I can give is that I would have liked more conversation and less narration especially in a special event like the 2 MC meeting each other.
Sorry for not noticing earlier, and thanks for your feedback! Hopefully, it got better in recent chapters.
The story looks promising, I'm enjoying it so far! But I do have a few critiques.
They aren't that serious, but it has been bugging me to see the lack of punctuation at the end of some of the sentences. It'd also be nice to add an indicator of who's speaking.
“A...Aria, I am older than you so you should not treat me like that!”
Instead of leaving it with just that sentence, maybe add something like:
“A...Aria, I am older than you so you should not treat me like that!” Letica stammers.
But, this is just a matter of preference! I'm not sure what the newer chapters look like yet, so you might already be doing this!
Thanks! I'll work on it.
@Ganni92, It slipped passed my mind, thanks for pointing out. I wanted to rush the childhood part.