#37화 Servant Cedric (3) - Role Reversal
Claudia's mornings began late.
And the servants who assisted her rose early.
If she was dozing in a half-awake daze, the maids of the manor would come in at the appointed time to wash her and arrange her hair and clothes.
Claudia's half-lidded, dazed face was as beautiful as a masterpiece painted with a painter's entire soul, but the maids assisting her had stiff, unsmiling expressions.
That was because Claudia in this state was practically a bomb that might explode from the slightest stimulus.
If her hair got tangled during brushing, or her skin got rubbed raw while changing clothes, and she happened to open her eyes...
her once picture-perfect face would twist like a demon's and immediately 'punish' the maid who had made the mistake.
The most common punishment was a slap to the face, and if it was bad enough, she would even have their hair pulled out in handfuls or beat them until bruises bloomed.
That didn't mean they could leave Claudia alone or rush through her morning preparations, because if Claudia woke fully and found something about her appearance displeasing, that too would become a pretext for punishment...
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