Transmigrated as the Villainess Fake Young Lady, Please Spare Me, Female Lead Sister - Volume 1 Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Those Who Disturb My Peace of Mind Should Be Keep At a Distance

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Claire vaguely sensed something was wrong.

How to put it, like some kind of animal instinct?

Although her body felt light, her head was dizzy, and her vision was blurred by steam, making it difficult to concentrate.

But there was an ominous feeling, as if the passive skill 「Survival Instinct」 was at work.

The person who came didn’t respond at all, and Claire also inexplicably dared not make a sound. Even the water temperature didn’t feel so warm anymore, her back felt cold, as if a bad end was beckoning to her through the mist.

It might even be a dead end, that kind of feeling.

What’s going on, why, what happened?

Could it be that it wasn’t a maid earlier?

Claire looked up towards the bathroom door, but there was no one standing there anymore, and she was suddenly startled.

Really not a maid??

It, it couldn’t be haunted, right? No way? Are there ghosts in this world?

System, where’s the system! This is when I need you the most!

『Loading, loading』

『Searching for current version upgrade package…』

『Estimated upgrade time remaining: 10 minutes.』

Sys—tem——!!

Why! Wasn’t everything fine just now!

Having to fail at such a crucial moment…!

And why start updating automatically, without even needing my consent!

I hate software updates!

Since transmigrating here, this was the first time she couldn’t contact the system that had always been chattering in her ear.

Now Claire became completely uneasy, her heart pounding wildly. Her brain was already oxygen-deprived from soaking too long, and now her head felt even dizzier.

She definitely couldn’t continue bathing, but the troubling thing was, she didn’t know where the bath towel had been placed, at least it wasn’t by the pool.

If it really was a supernatural event, she couldn’t even run away in this naked state!

Should she scream to call the maids?

Absolutely not! That would be too uncool, completely unbefitting of a noble young lady!

Claire was at her wit’s end, whimpering as she helplessly hugged her chest, deciding to sink back into the water first before making any plans.

Just then, suddenly a strong force gripped her nape, and with a splash, pulled her up from the pool.

“?!?”

“Hel—”

Claire’s terrified cry for help got stuck in her throat, dying before it could come out.

Because before she could cry out, before the cold air could even give her goosebumps, a large and soft bath towel descended from above, quickly wrapping her from head to toe in layers.

To what extent? Claire felt like she had suddenly turned into a big sushi roll.

“Wait… eh?”

Claire instinctively wanted to look back, when a clean, fragrant towel immediately dropped down, covering Claire’s head and blocking her vision.

The person behind her remained silent, very forcefully helping her dry her hair. The technique wasn’t particularly skilled, even somewhat hurried and rough.

…Now the sushi roll had turned into a little kitten being rubbed back and forth by human hands.

Who would dare treat the young lady of the Grendel family like this?

A supernatural event?

A bandit who broke in through the window and lurked in the bathroom?

Helping her dry her hair before kidnapping Claire?

No, of course not.

Claire was gradually understanding everything.

Although she was wrapped up and couldn’t turn her head, after leaving the pool and breathing fresh air, her mind finally started working normally.

Lavendia’s shadow was reflected in the pool water.

…Haha.

The center of this world, the protagonist with cheat abilities of swords, magic, love and justice, was ordered by me to help get my bath towel, and is even helping me dry my hair.

I even called her by a maid’s name earlier.

This life is made… As if!

More like this life is over!

Claire wanted to raise her hand to remove the towel from her head, but she was wrapped so tightly in the bath towel that she couldn’t pull her arms out.

She just tried to twist a little, when she heard Lavendia coldly say from behind: “Don’t move.”

Her voice was super fierce.

Claire quickly said: “I won’t move, I won’t move! Sister, why did you come? I, I can dry my hair myself!”

At this moment she was suddenly very glad that the system was on standby.

Because if the system were here, it would definitely say something like: Quickly find a way to trip her, quickly push her into the bath and say she’s not worthy of touching your body… and so on.

Claire wouldn’t dare even with a hundred times more courage.

Unless she was still in the pool and could pull Lavendia in with the excuse of “Sister, let’s bathe together,” that might work.

But now the situation was clearly different! Here it was just the two of them, so of course there was no need to say harsh words, nor try too hard to play the role of villainess…

If she was angry because I called her by a servant’s name, then here, without doubt, I just need to max out my survival instinct and apologize!

Thinking of this, Claire poked her head out from under the towel like a little cat, putting on a bright smile.

“Sorry sister, I couldn’t see clearly earlier and thought it was Anna coming! Thank you for helping me get the bath towel.”

Lavendia didn’t speak, her expression even grew darker. She calmly raised her hand and wrapped the towel around Claire even tighter.

Can’t, can’t breathe anymore.

Claire felt like she had transformed from an onigiri into a mummy.

“…Sister Lavendia, was dance class tiring? Did you also come to take a bath? That rose-scented bath salt smells really nice! I highly recommend it…”

Claire struggled to maintain her sincere and cute smile as she turned her head back to clearly see Lavendia’s expression.

Lavendia’s expression… was expressionless. Those purple eyes were as cold as frozen mountains. This eye contact almost made Claire unable to maintain her smile.

…What’s going on! She looks super angry?! Like she wants to swallow me whole!

Just for calling the wrong name, why!?

Claire widened her eyes, watching Lavendia’s favorability rating drop like an inverted hourglass -1-1-1-3…

My life is in danger.

Do something quick Claire, quickly use your invincible spoiled act skill and flexible villainess mind to think of something!

Ah, right, right!

Didn’t one hug this morning directly increase it by 30, and even got promised milk pudding?

Then continue using throwing myself into her arms to solve this problem!

Claire closed her eyes, focused her breath in her dantian, held her breath, pulled in her stomach, and used force!… The bath towel was tied too tight to break free!

But it’s okay, even being tied up like a zongzi, it should still be good for hugging, the effect might be similar?

Claire directly pretended to slip and crashed towards Lavendia’s embrace.

Lavendia seemed to have anticipated this, she stood firmly in place, one hand steadying Claire’s shoulder through the towel, the other hand tightening her bath towel, her expression remaining unmoved.

“…?”

Claire blinked in confusion.

Although Lavendia supported her body and prevented her from slipping to the ground, this… wasn’t a hug.

Forget about burying herself in soft jade and fragrant warmth this time, she couldn’t even touch a single hair on Lavendia.

More importantly, she raised her head helplessly, instinctively checking Lavendia’s favorability rating…

-1, -3, -5, -10.

Adding the previous drops, it fell a full 25 points.

Claire was thunderstruck.

Oh heavens, oh earth.

Why, just why.

It couldn’t be because I looked ugly without clothes to Lavendia…

It should just be because I got dizzy from bathing and called the wrong name… right?

Why would it be this serious!