The realization hit. Had I basically evicted him to a 10-person room? Just imagining the stuffy smell was unpleasant enough. No wonder he was so upset with me earlier.

“Excuse me…What are my duties as a personal attendant?”

“Please, call me Olivia. Even as a personal attendant, there’s not much. You’ll attend meetings, run personal errands, and exclusively clean the official’s room.”

Just a glorified errand runner, it seemed. I furrowed my brow again, recalling how Ronald had said, “You’re ‘incompetent,'” once more.

“Just one more thing, Olivia. Do you happen to know where the entrance to this castle is? There were dozens of doors on the upper floor; is one of them it?”

Suddenly, I remembered a quest to inquire about the labyrinth and asked. However, At my query, a shadow crossed Olivia’s face. It was as if she’d heard something taboo.

“…Hena.”

Olivia called out my name like a sigh, then stepped back and closed the door. Then she leaned in closer to me.

“The question you just asked goes against the first virtue of the palace. The courtiers here are never allowed to leave the palace.”

Swallowing hard, her chilling words continued.

“We are servants. Bound by a vow of eternal loyalty to the royal family. If you forget that, you’ll end up in the incinerator, not as a person but as trash.”

She recited this as if brainwashed.

“Do you want to remain in this world as trash?”

“No, not at all. I’m sorry. I just… my memory isn’t great.”

“Yes. Let’s pretend I didn’t hear what Ms. Hena said just now. If I had a conscience and reported it to the Court Elder, Henna would be disemboweled and then incinerated, and I would have my ears torn off for hearing such impure words.”

I sealed my lips in response to her harsh words and then quickly nodded, agreeing. Even though it was a so-called escape game, it seemed like even the NPC extras on the inside wouldn’t reveal the escape method.

“…I’m a bit uneasy about this. I’ll take on the responsibility of watching over Hena and educating her from now on.”

“Well, I’d appreciate that. My memory lasts about 3 seconds… Haha.”

With intelligence not being low, there was no way I’d forget the life-threatening rules. I quickly feigned ignorance for the sake of consistency. Olivia looked at me with a rather pitiful expression and promised to do her best.

Olivia. With neatly braided brown hair on both sides and thick glasses perched on her nose, she appeared a bit pale, but she had a pleasant demeanor. She seemed deeply committed to saving someone’s life, and there was a subtle tsundere-like charm about her. I decided to make her my favorite character in my heart. Hehe. Come to think of it, she’s quite cute when you look closely.

In the new room, I spent the whole day. I wrote down the new rules of the game I had learned in the personal notebook on the desk so I wouldn’t forget them.

“Oh right. The item. I just remembered.”

I opened the reward from the life-risking sneeze I had earlier. It was the “Seductive Pheromone Perfume”. When I summoned the item from the inventory, a bottle filled with a deep red l*quid appeared in my hand. Then, a tip window popped up.

[????TIP????]

Try using the perfume.

Anyone who smells your pheromones will be drawn to you.

Everyone would be drawn in? From the perspective of a K-pop fan, that sounded quite intimidating. But I was really curious about the scent, so I decided to spray just a bit. It was late anyway, and there wouldn’t be any chores at this hour.

Spritz-. Along with the release of minute particles, a scent of spring adhered to my body. What a surprise, it’s cleaner smelling than I thought? It didn’t have the animalistic fragrance that you might expect at a strip club, provoking you to shake your hips.

Then, someone knocked.

“Ms. Hena, It’s me, Rohanna, one of the maids. The Archduke urgently summoned you.”

“A-Archduke summoned me?”

“Yes. I’ll guide you to his private room.”

Upon opening the door, a neat blonde maid greeted me. For some reason, she blushed as soon as she saw me. Could it be that the ‘anyone’ meant this?

But the Archduke’s private room? At this late hour? My mind raced with all kinds of thoughts. This time, I hoped for a normal conversation, not a strange interrogation…. Since I had sprayed the perfume, I followed her with a glimmer of hope.

As we passed through the servant’s quarters in the basement, the men looked at me differently. They turned their heads to watch me follow the maid. Some even drooled. Compared to Ronald, who was of a serious level even for a game character, the extras looked average. But it was still unsettling.

‘I didn’t spray it for you bastards, just f*cking stop staring.”

Oh Hena, the utmost believer in looks over everything else, stared them down and spat out curses from her mouth shape. A few turned their heads, intimidated.

In the men’s dormitory on the basement floor, booming voices echoed in the small space.

“Didn’t I tell you guys to move? You stinky guys.”

The source of the loud voice was the furious Ronald.

The male servants used to this by now, faced their senior with a resigned expression. After all, Ronald, who had been brushing up the Archduke’s shoes with pride, was now tasked with disposing of food scraps.

Though the work was still that of a servant, for Ronald, who had considered polishing the shoes of a high-ranking official a great honor, it was a huge humiliation. Especially since he had been kicked by a newbie.

“That cheap girl… I didn’t want to stoop to her level.”

Thinking of revisiting the Elder’s Chamber tomorrow, his eyes gleamed with anticipation.

“I’ll make you regret it in the depths of hell.”

He murmured, thinking of the numerous colleagues and innocent lives that had perished in the incinerator.