Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 271: The Beautiful and Innocent Meredith (III)

Meredith was taken by the guard to the maid quarter where she was given a maid outfit, bedding, and her first meal after a while.

The other maids were looking at her suspiciously, as they didn’t like a stranger to barge into their quarters, especially when that stranger was a human.

Some of the maids already harbored a dislike towards Queen Swan because she was a human. Despite all the good things Swan had done, they still thought she didn’t deserve to be their Queen as she had no physical capability unlike the Beast King.

Nevertheless, they didn’t dare to confront Meredith directly, as the guard told them that she was under His Majesty’s protection.

Except for one senior maid, a gazelle beastman, who walked to Meredith’s bed and asked in a somewhat arrogant and challenging tone, "Welcome to the Beastman’s maid quarter. I heard from the guard that your name is Meredith, right?"

"Y-yes, Ma’am," Meredith nodded bashfully. "I-I am the only human in this maid quarter, but I-I will do my best!"

The gazelle maid scoffed, "What can you do anyway? You are just a human. You tire out easily, and you don’t have any advantage compared to us."

Meredith could feel the pressure as this senior gazelle maid and also the other maids were staring at her with suspicious looks. They treated her like an outsider, and she knew she had to do something or else she’d be bullied in this maid quarter. frёewebnoѵēl.com

Thus, Meredith took off her cloak and showed them the necklace with a pink pendant. The pink pendant glinted for a second, and Meredith replied, "I-I’m sorry, Ma’am. I-I will do my best. I just want to w-work so I can survive. I-I need a place to stay after that crazy bear beastman destroyed my hut."

The gazelle maid alongside the rest of the people in the maid quarter stared at the pink pendant on Meredith’s neck, and they suddenly lowered their guard, feeling sympathetic for Meredith, and developed this fondness for her almost instantly.

"Ah... uhm... uh..." The senior gazelle maid felt guilty for intimidating such a cute and powerless female human. "D-doesn’t matter. I just want to make sure you are aware of your duty as a maid here. I’m not going to go easy on you."

"Y-yes, Ma’am! I will do my absolute best!"

The gazelle maid left the quarter, and her absence quickly thawed the frozen wall between Meredith and the rest of the maid beastmen. They quickly gathered around Meredith and started complimenting her.

"Oh my, your skin is so soft, Meredith! Are all humans like this?"

"N-not all," Meredith replied bashfully.

"Your hair is almost similar to a fox’s fur. Are you sure you’re not a fox beastman?"

"I-I am just a normal human..." Meredith confirmed.

"You look so cute. You remind me of Her Majesty, Queen Swan! Oh, maybe you can be her maid instead since both of you are female humans!"

"C-can I do that?" Meredith asked. "I-I’ve known about Queen Swan’s beauty from the beastmen who came to the forest to forage or hunt. W-will she accept me?"

"Oh, for sure! Queen Swan is very kind. I’m sure you can be her maid to help Myra and Maya as well!"

"T-then, I sure hope I can be useful for the Beast Queen."

"Don’t worry, we will tell the cat maids about you, so they may introduce you to Her Majesty!"

Jade was exhausted from having to deal with these maids.

In the past, when she was still in her real body, these maids wouldn’t even dare to lift their heads in front of her, because Jade was well known to be oppressive and cruel with her punishment.

’Had it not for this mission. I would’ve just killed them all right now,’ Jade scowled in her heart, but she kept her bashful and sweet facade, making sure that she looked as similar as Swan. ’I don’t understand how that crippled bitch can act like this for so long. I am already exhausted from having to act like a weak woman who has been bullied since she was a kid. Swan must’ve been an adept actress.’

Unfortunately, Jade had no choice but to cater to these chatty maids. After all, she was the one who used the pink pendant’s ability to subconsciously change their perspective on her.

Aria told her that the pink pendant had the ability to make her seem more likable and pitiful. It would change people’s consciousness, so it would be easier for Jade to influence others.

Aria also mentioned there were only two kinds of people who were immune to it; the Saintess, for an obvious reason, and those who had a deep love for someone else.

The Saintess was immune to the effect, but for those who were deeply in love, Jade could still activate the pink pendant’s one-time-use ability to override that love and hypnotize them for a few minutes.

Jade doubted that Gale’s love for Swan was that deep, considering they had only known each other for almost a year. However, even if Gale was already deeply in love with Swan, she could always use the one-time ability to make him lose his interest in Swan.

’This is a perfect setup for me. Even if Swan uses her holy power to kill me, my soul will simply return to Aria and I can be revived. This is the best way to avenge what she did to me,’ Jade still vividly remembered her death. Swan had all the power in her hand to tell Gale to spare her, but she didn’t. Instead, all Swan did was to watch her die, with her head put on a stake as the worst humiliation she ever had in life. ’Just you wait, Swan. Do you think you can get away from me? I will make your life miserable by stealing Gale from you, so you will feel what I felt when you stole my man from me!’