Chapter 88 – Interview With Mary’s Apprentice Maid

Even without Kang Ha-eun’s knowledge, the means to keep her in her grand duchy’s family were increasing.

“The Grand Duke has issued an official document.”

The next day, as my means increased, I issued an official letter as a means to complete the quest.
At the training place where the apprentice maids gathered, the maid informed the public document given by the grand duke.

“Tomorrow, the Grand Duke has an official letter stating that she will accompany Yuna Choi and her Grand Priest on her way to a private meeting with her apprentice maid.”

It was a trick I used because I had to appoint Kang Ha-eun as her maid of honor within three days of her proposal time.

“Are you going to the imperial palace!?”

“Is that like the Grand Duke?!”

As the head maid read her official document, the training room was filled with the buzz of apprentice maids.

“Be quiet!”

Dismissing the disturbance among the apprentice maids, the head maid explained in detail the content of her official letter.

“There are a total of three apprentice maids that the Grand Duke will take to the imperial palace. Since Mary is going with her, it’s a chance for her to learn a lot.”

Subsequently, she emphasized that when she entered the imperial palace, she was not in the status of an apprentice maid, but a temporary job, but she acted as a maid.
At this unprecedented opportunity, all the apprentice maids lit up in her eyes and wanted to be on the list to go to the imperial palace.

“I wonder how the maids who go to the imperial palace are selected?”

“Yes!! I’m curious!!”

“What way!?”

Questions from the apprentice maids continued to pour in, and the head maid explained the selection rules for her while looking at her passionately with pride.

“I have an interview with the Archduke and Mary this afternoon.”

“Huh? An interview! So suddenly…!”

“That’s right! I wasn’t even ready!”

The apprentice maids were more afraid than expected when they had to interview in front of the first and second ranks in the official ranking of the Grand Duke.
Apart from Winter and Mary being nice, the evaluation was based on a cool and objective judgment.
If you were out of sight of those two in the interview, you could count it as a failure not only to be on the list, but also to become a maid.

“Even after the apprentice maid training is over, there will be a meeting with the Grand Duke. I think you experience it in advance.”

Even when the head maid tried to ease her tension, her heavy silence perched on her training room did not go away.

“I’m worried that this is already happening. Educator, please share the materials.”

“All right.”

The apprentice maids, who were very nervous about their interview with Winter and Mary, lowered their heads and touched their fingers or cupped their hair.
The head maid and the educator shook their heads at the nervous apprentice maids and put the interview material on the desk.

“Haeun-ah, aren’t you nervous…?”

“I’m nervous because I have expectations. I’m going to have three days… Wouldn’t it be okay to calmly answer well and come out?”

Unlike the apprentice maids who wanted to solidify their path to becoming a maid through this interview, Kang Ha-eun had no greed.

“Haa… I guess I’m looking forward to it. I thought I could just work hard, but I’m greedy…”

She was Shu-shu, who had been striving to become a maid more than others, and had a high chance of becoming a maid, but her greed was unavoidable.

“Has everyone organized their thoughts?”

– Yes!!

It was the consideration of the head maid and educator that Chou and Ha-eun Kang were able to have a quiet conversation.
Thanks to the apprentice maids comforting each other and waiting for them to recover, the heavy atmosphere became much lighter.

“The materials posted on the desk are expected questions. There are a total of ten, and they say they ask about three or four of them, so prepare accordingly.”

“Ah! The maid!! You informed me too late!!”

“If you have something like this, you should have given it to me first!!”

The head maid had been on friendly terms with her apprentices and her maids, so she only laughed it off.
She countered that the head maid had become depressed even before handing out her material to the complaints of the apprentice maids, and she wrote down answers to their questions.

“I’ll just list two examples. First, the reason for applying to be a maid for the grand duke’s family. Don’t talk about your family. You should tell how you work for the grand duke’s family and where you want to work.”

Growing up as one son and one daughter under her strict father and her kind mother, she felt the heavy responsibility of her eldest daughter and blocked her self-introduction at the source.

“The next question is, tell me who you respect or like the most in the grand duchy and why.”

It was a question that Winter insisted on asking, and she was able to know who Kang Ha-eun liked and why.
If the person Kang Ha-eun chose wasn’t Winter, that had its own meaning.

“I personally respect the butler. You’ve been working for the grand duke’s family for over forty years, but you’ve never made a single mistake, and you’re always kind to us, right?”

After the head maid, who wrote down answers as an example, left the training room, her apprentice maids filled in their own answers to the questionnaire.
Kang Ha-eun and Shushu also spent the entire morning filling in and memorizing answers to questions.
The educator forcibly sent the apprentice maids, who showed no signs of getting up even as lunchtime approached, to the cafeteria.

“Haeun! Shushu! What did the Grand Duke talk about yesterday?!”

“That’s right! I couldn’t ask yesterday because it was difficult, but the two of you were with the Grand Duke!”

Kang Ha-eun received Chou-shu and food and sat down, and her apprentice maids rushed around her.

“Huh? Grand Duke…”

“It wasn’t anything special. It’s all that the Grand Duke knew about my sister.”

Asked by Winter to take good care of her Kang Ha-eun, Chou-shu drew the attention of her apprentice maids towards herself.

“Does Grand Duke know Sasha-unnie?! Ah… I really envy her.”

“Shushu! If you know her sister, don’t you remember her too?”

Upon hearing that Winter remembered Sasha, her apprentice maids put Kang Ha-eun aside and bombarded Chou-shu with her questions.

“Shushu, are you okay?”

“Haa… It’s okay. It’s not once or twice that they do that, I’m used to it now.”

Even when Kang Ha-eun tried to draw her attention to Chou-shu, it was too strong an interest for Winter to remember Sasha.
Kang Ha-eun felt sorry and grateful to Shu-shu for handling all her concerns and questions on her behalf.

“When Sasha unnie revealed that she was working as a maid, she was worse than that. Haeun, did you write down all your answers?”

“That’s… I filled it in somehow, but I don’t know if it’s the right answer.”

“It’s an interview, but where is the answer? I just filled it in. Let’s memorize as much as possible before the interview starts!”

“Ah! Shushu, since I’m going to ask you a question, would you like to answer without looking at the answer?”

Kang Ha-eun and Chou-shu helped each other prepare before the interview started.
After lunch, the door to the interview room opened at 2:00 p.M., After all the apprentice maids had spent an hour practicing.

“Whoah…!”

“How was it? How was it?”

“You just don’t have to be nervous. The Grand Duke and Mary-nim are waiting, so hurry up!”

“Ugh! Thanks! I’ll refer to it!”

The apprentice maid, who entered the interview room first, reassured her apprentice maid, who was next in line.
As her first apprentice maid told her, Winter and Mary were taking this interview really lightly.

“Did you write that you respect the head maid?”

“Winter, it’s worth it. The maid is good at her work and thoroughly manages her subordinates.”

“The maid does a good job. Have you talked to the maid a lot?”

“Yes! He often talked to me first and always answered my questions in detail!”

When I gave the apprentice maid’s answer, Mary helped her with the content of the answer.
Recognized by Mary for her answers, the apprentice maids gained confidence and told her everything she had practiced.

“Next is chou chou. Mary, do you know her maid named Sasha? A little girl with bobbed brown hair.”

“I immediately knew who it was, but she didn’t know her name was Sasha.”

Mary also remembered Chou-shu, and when she saw Chou-shu’s cute face entering her interview room, she let out a low exclamation.

“Wow… Winter, you look exactly like Sasha.”

“Are they that similar? It doesn’t even feel like a resemblance, but should I call Sasha?”

“Yes, I’d like to sing first if I can sing.”

“Shushu, what do you think about having an interview with her sister?”

It was impossible for Shushu, who was nervous, to refuse my offer in a completely unconscious state.

“It doesn’t matter if I watch it with Sasha-unnie!”

“Then I’ll have to call you.”

The reason I gathered Sasha and Shushu together in the interview room was to attack Haeun Kang.
In order to leave Kang Ha-eun in the grand duke’s family, I had to completely enlist Shu-shu and Sasha on my side.

“Grand Duke, I heard you called.”

Sasha, the little brown-haired maid she met for the first time after being possessed, entered her interview room.
Shushu entered the interview room, and when Sasha entered the interview room, a commotion was heard outside.

“Maid, be careful.”

“All right.”

Even the maid, who had gone beyond Heo-Silsil despite numerous pranks, gave a thorough warning to her apprentices and her maids this time.

-Guys, Sasha has no influence on her selection!

Thanks to the warnings of her maid Zhang, who went out of her way, Chou Shu was able to block the accusation of her connections beforehand.
And in the first place, I had excluded Chou-shu from among the apprentice maids I would take to the imperial palace.

“Sasha, long time no see?”

“I didn’t expect the Grand Duke to remember my name. Nice to meet you.”

“Actually, there is a different reason for bringing Shushu and Sasha together.”

I told Sasha and Chou-shu the secret about Kang Ha-eun and wrote a magic contract not to reveal the secret.
Shushu and Sasha were stunned when it was revealed that Haeun was Kang Haru’s older sister and that she was also close with Choi Yuna.

“Shushu… You and Kang Ha-eun were doing well…?”

“Yeah! We talk a lot and get along well…!”

Chou-shu was kind to Ha-eun Kang, so Sasha was relieved that her sister was friendly with Ha-eun Kang.

“Grand Duke, there must be a reason why you only let us know Kang Ha-eun’s secret.”

Sasha, the maid of the Grand Duchess, was quick-witted. I told Sasha, who was curious about why I told her Ha-eun Kang’s secret.

“Ha-eun is because I want her to be by my side even after Kang Haru returns.”

“I knew Winter would want Ha-eun too.”

Kang Ha-eun was the first maid to reach the dream of a romantic relationship with Winter.

“Grand Duke, please tell us what we need to do.”

“Me too! Please let me know!”

Sasha was a woman who knew her fraction. It was Sasha who had no doubts about what I said, Shu Shu followed her sister, and the women who lived with Kang Ha-eun became my secret limbs.

“If Kang Ha-eun decides to stay with the grand duchess, Sasha will become a maid and Chou-shu will become a maid.”

“Yes! I will live up to your expectations!”

“I won’t let you down either!”

Although basic knowledge was important to becoming a maid and maid, it was most essential to accurately understand and practice the Myeong.
If Sasha and Shushu perfectly followed my orders, there would be no complaints even if I appointed them as maids and maids.

“I’ll just leave.”

Sasha greeted the representative and left the interview room, and Kang Ha-eun, who was Chou’s next turn, entered the interview room.

“Hello!”

“Ha-eun, are you okay?”

“Ah… Yes, I’m doing well…”

When Mary waved her hand with a warm smile next to me, who wrote her honorific words, Kang Ha-eun relaxed her tension.

“It must have been difficult because I entered the middle of training, but wasn’t it?”

“Since Shushu took good care of me, it wasn’t difficult.”

He chose the person who would hold on to Kang Ha-eun well. Kang Ha-eun, who just entered her third day as an apprentice maid, relied heavily on Shu Shu.

“It’s nice to have a close friend. Ha-eun, are you curious about the sudden interview today?”

“If not me, the other apprentice maids were curious…”

The purpose of her interview was to appoint Kang Ha-eun as a lady-in-waiting to accompany Choi Yuna alone.
However, I couldn’t tell the truth, so I changed my explanation by saying that Choi Yuna wanted to meet Kang Ha-eun.