Chapter 3

It is said, Zeianna Yves Emery, the only daughter of old duke Zachary Emery and late duchess Adelia Catherine Emery, has known from people, and had created countless stories about her.

A monstrous noble lady who inherit a destructive power from her mother.

A lady who hates people by her judgement.

A villainess who envies everyone, thus killing them, leaving a case of mystery killings.

A beautiful rose outside, and a destructive thorn on the inside.

That's what people know about her.

But the truth is, she just picked on nobles to hit at, to destroy at by her knowledge, and to let them kneel on their knees until they seek forgiveness.

She never use her prowess to kill someone, she never had killing spree or kill count.

She's a kind lady with a hidden condescension to narrow-minded nobles.

But despite her evil personality, she has a soft heart for those people she cared at.

"I'm serious about this, you have to take a break" she said, snapping her lavish fan and covering it on her mouth.

Amelia, thanked the lady for her suddenly reminder, yes, she missed her family since it's been five months she never had a bond with them.

She watched Amelia as she got out of the manor's mansion, then spoke to her other maid, Ella.

"Throw the food away, and use the water for the plants" she commanded.

The maid obeyed the request in no question.

As the maid got out, a tail got out on her back.

"Ah. A blood tentacle" she groaned, ignoring the excruciating pain developing in her lower back.

It forms later as two, three, four, until nine.

The tentacles made its way to destroy her whole office while she stumbled from the worst than worst pain.

She cried since she couldn't handle it anymore. The last straw on her mental health was the doorknob. She almost reached it until she faint.

Ella heard a thud a few kilometers after she stopped by at the office.

At first it's just a pair of feet stopping by at the door of the lady Zeianna's office.

But it was different. It's like a person fainted.

She told her twin sister, Elle to throw the food away and water the plant using the water on the glass, then rushed onto the office of the lady.

"Lady Zeianna!" she screamed, running until she reach the door of her lady's office.

She opened it, and a tentacle makes her scream.

She found lady Zeianna lying down near the door, with something on her lower back.

"M-my lady" she muttered. She saw the office that is full of blood.

She saw someone coughing. It was her lady! But what are those tails dominating her lower back and her office?

"Ella..." she mumbled.

"I'm gonna call the duke!"

"Don't c-call him, just... Take care of m-me" she said, followed by a cough after.

"I don't know, they're k-killing me"

"What's killing you my lady—" she almost greet the grim reaper when one of her tentacles attacked her.

"Please... Don't"

Until she screamed, seeing her faint into her eyes.

Another tentacle attacked her, again and again until she accidentally slam herself in her lady's office table.

Ella's last thing she saw after her vision blackened was one of her lady's tentacles, ready to attacked her again.

She smiled as she accept her fate.

She'll die in her office, how miserable.

Zeianna woke up in a familiar scent of jasmine and roses. At first she never believe what her eyes saw but when her senses are now okay, she's now in her room.

Next to her was her nanny and beside her was her dad.

There's no way that the table didn't turned.

"Who's the last person who enters your room before you fainted?" her dad asked. It was cold and deep.

It seems... Lifeless.

Zeianna thinking of a reason. She must never fire her. That girl is one of her friend, but after she was fired from work, she was killed afterwards.

"No one" she answered.

"Then why was Ella in your room?" he asked again. This time, her eyes widen.

"Did Ella attempt a murder on you?"

She shook her head. "father, please let me complete my memories on my office. I don't remember anything about the incident"

"Helena, watch her" the father commanded her nanny, the old woman nodded.

As Zeianna was sleeping, her father looked at her far away, it was such nostalgia. The way his wife sleep and the way her daughter sleep.

His heart breaks into million pieces but he chose not to look to her again. Before he leaves her room, he muttered something, that Zeianna will never hear even her nanny.

"You look like your mother" he said, leaving the room with such sad emotions covering his face.

It's been two days before the lady woke up from her slumber, her mind is still hazy from the dreams she was unfamiliar with. If it was familiar, it would be seconds and it will be back from its original dream.

The moon is lending a light for those people who doesn't have a single light in their streets or homes.

It is night. Her sweat falling down from her forehead. That dream is almost the same of her first life yet now, it vanished.

"Nanny?" she said, she stepped down on her bed and got out of her room. The hallway is eerily silent, she walked out and run to the hallway.

She used her blood tentacles to leap forward fast, that is until she bumped into someone.

"How long will you learn to hide your powers?" it was the crown prince!

"No... Let me explain—"

"There's no explanation for someone who can't use their abilities properly" Zeianna cried at that fact.

She couldn't use it, it just got out on her body randomly.

"Guards! Get her" she almost talked back when he commanded his guards.

"Wait! Don't do this to me! Don't—"

"Don't!" she woke up, her maids are now staring at her.

Just, what is that?