Jealousy

Because Anna was in a rush, she didn't notice any of the maid and got the food by herself, resulting in her forgetting to bring any chopsticks.

Ashamed that she might be laughed at by Yuki, she purposely said to Yuki.

"There were no more chopsticks there, do you mind if we share yours?" Anna gulped nervously while averting her gaze to Yuki.

Yuki was stunned because she can clearly see that Anna was lying, 'She must've forgotten it, how cute.' Yuki thought.

"It's not a problem." Yuki answered.

"That's good!" Anna sighed in relief.

She then carried her chair and put it right next to Yuki, she then helped Yuki to sit up so that she would not have any difficulty eating.

Yuki gritted her teeth when she felt the pain all over her body when Anna helped her. Anna who saw this felt sad, but because she knows that she has to do this in order to help Yuki.

"I'm okay." Yuki said between breaths.

"Okay, don't hesitate to tell me if you are feeling uncomfortable, okay?"

Anna then extend her arms to pick up the food from Yuki's plate and pointed it towards her mouth.

"Here you go." Anna smiled sweetly.

Yuki seeing this scene felt more awkward, she didn't even have the chance to reject Anna because seeing her face like that makes her words unable to come out.

So Yuki reluctantly opened her mouth and accepted the food. Even though she was the one who suggested being fed, she didn't expect for Anna to actually do it.

'I was just joking when I said that, I didn't expect you to take it seriously.' Yuki sighed, but nonetheless, she enjoyed her time being taken care of.

When Anna was finished feeling Yuki all of her food, she grabbed her own food and put it into her mouth.

"You're not going to clean it first?" Yuki asked.

This is when Anna just noticed that she is currently chewing on Yuki's chopsticks.

'Did I just indirectly kiss her?'

Anna's mind went blank at this thought, then after a while she chose the right answer.

"No it's fine, it's not like you have poison or something." Anna said lightly like she didn't care about it, but her reddened cheeks betrayed her.

Yuki only shook her head and looked out the window to see the beautiful scenery.

Anna felt like the food was more delicious because she shared the same utensils with Yuki. She was definitely happy to say the least.

Then after eating her meal, she quickly tidied up all the plates and was about to stand up to take all of them out, when suddenly Yuki grabbed her wrist.

"Don't bother about taking them out, just call in a maid. You don't have to do all this you know?" Yuki said.

Anna was momentarily stunned, but she chuckled and agreed with Yuki.

"Alright, I'll just call in the maids to clean them up."

Soon after a maid showed up and cleaned everything up, she then looked up to see Yuki and admired the view in front of her.

"She still looks beautiful after being asleep for 1 week" The maid muttered, then she blushed at her own words and slapped her cheeks.

It was the same maid who guided Yuki to the Dining Hall when she first arrived here, so when she saw Yuki again but this time she was finally awake she was happy.

"Did you say something? Also why are your cheeks red again, is it hot?" Yuki asked.

"Ah no, I'm fine. I was just nervous." She lied.

"Why are you nervous? Didn't I say that I will not do anything to you?" Yuki smiled.

"No it's not that, I was nervous because-"

"Because?"

"Because I was worried that I would mess up something right in front of you!" The maid yelled.

"That is a silly thought." Yuki chuckled.

"Can you come here for a second?"

"Is there something you need Miss Yuki?" The maid gulped nervously.

Yuki didn't say anything and only extended her arms and patted the maids head.

"See? I'm not that scary." Yuki smiled.

The maid felt like she was seeing a priceless treasure when she saw Yuki's smile, it was flowers that were blooming.

She was stunned to see a beautiful sight right in front of her, but she quickly pulled back in her thoughts when she heard Yuki's voice again.

"What is your name?"

"It's Asuka, Miss Yuki." Asuka answered.

"I see. You don't have to add Miss to my name, I feel awkward about it." Yuki said.

"But-" Asuka tried to protest.

"No, if you ever think that it's rude to call me that because you're just a maid don't be. Because now I want you to be my personal maid, how about that?" Yuki asked.

"What?"

"Like I said, I want you to be my personal maid. I will ask the City Lord for permission."

"Why did you choose me? You can clearly tell that I'm not the greatest, I'm even clumsy at doing my job." Asuka lowered her head.

"It's fine, over time you will get used to it. From what I can see, you're pretty new to this job, that's why you are still clumsy. As to why I chose you is because you're a diligent worker and cute."

When Yuki said those words, Asuka felt goosebumps. She looked over to her shoulder to see Anna 'smiling' at her, but from what Asuka can feel, Anna's smile was full of hostility.

Asuka started to cry, because all her life she has never been complimented about how she works. Every time she would get yelled at because she is bad at her work, she even sometimes even get beat up because of it.

But when she heard those words from Yuki, she felt so happy. Asuka felt admiration from Yuki.

'I want to try to be like her, a strong woman who can carry herself!' Asuka thought.

"So do you want to do it?"

"Yes!" Asuka said immediately and went out to hug Yuki.

"Stop!"

Asuka suddenly halted her movements and looked at Anna who was glaring at her.

"What is it?" Asuka asked confusedly.

"It's because you were trying to hug Yuki, you do know that her body hurts right?"

After the realisation.

"I'm sorry." Asuka hangs her head low.

"Don't worry, you didn't hurt me yet." Yuki chuckled and continued.

"You can start now, clean this mess okay?" Yuki asked.

"Right away!" Asuka said excitedly after seeing that Yuki was not mad at her.

Yuki doesn't realise it but, she subconsciously made Asuka attached to her. Though it is not romantically like Anna, it was more of an admiration to a person that she looked up to.

Even still Anna felt dejected when she saw Yuki being close to Asuka. She instantly got jealous and wanted to separate the both of them, but because she knows that she can't do it, she stopped herself.

Yuki saw that Anna was not herself, so she asked her curiously.

"Hey, what is wrong with you? Are you okay?" Yuki asked.

"I'm fine." Anna tilted her head not looking at Yuki.

"Then why are you not looking at me when you said that? You look like you are angry at something."

"I said it's nothing." Anna said angrily, and she then got out of the room to get some fresh air.

"What's wrong with her?"

Then 3 days passed after that incident, Yuki can tell that Anna was still mad at something but because she doesn't know what it is she just chose to ignore it because it's not her problem anyway.

In these 3 days, Yuki has finally recovered enough so that she can at least walk on her own, and at this achievement Yuki felt extremely happy because she has been in her room all the time and Yuki was feeling bored.

So when she got out, she assigned Asuka to be with her that day, which caused Anna to get more angrier.