"My Liege, the barbarians in the north have gone wild once again. What should we do about them? Even thought they aren't worth your precious time, we have no choice but to solve this ourselves. After all, the great emperor has her hands full with indulging her concubines. She's a newly wed after all." The knight laughed heartily and handed the invitations that was delivered earlier to the aide beside her master.
"…"
"My liege?" The knight tilted her head a little when she got no response from her master who was just blankly staring in the pile of papers in front of her.
'Is my liege furious that she must work in the stead of the emperor? Well, who wants to work overtime when my liege could have been spending her time coddling with her concubine instead of working. I truly admire my liege for being patient instead of barging in the emperor's castle to smack the emperor in the head like she always does!' the knight thought.
After a moment of silence, the woman spoke.
"Who's your liege?" The knight's brows furrowed in confusion.
"Is that even a question? Of course, it is you, my liege! The one and only noble duke of the empire. This humble one does not have any master other than you, this knight does not dare betray her liege!" the knight bowed, firmly placing her right fist in her chest.
"How lively. Right, you were always this lively Clovis. This only means one thing then." Ilyana smiled and looked at the familiar passionate knight in front of her. She was back from the very beginning. This is exactly it, this is the familiar starting point of the novel every time she regressed.
She stood up and smacked herself to make sure that she wasn't dreaming.
"M-m-my Liege! Are you alright? Why did you do that?!" The startled Clovis didn't know what to do.
[A deduction of twenty points is currently on-going. Dear Host, a quick reminder from this system. Self-harm is strictly prohibited unless it is necessary. Twenty points will be deducted for every self-harm inflicted without proper reasoning.]
There wasn't any more proof she needed that she was indeed back from the very beginning. The annoying voice of the system and the familiar chiming of the system deduction was enough.
"Ah fuck."
"My liege, is there anything wrong?" Ilyana's other knight asked.
"Nothing. Let's discuss this another time Cladel. All of you, get out." Ilyana sat back to her chair and stared at the two identical knights in front of her. They are her twin knights, Cadel and Clovis. Despite being a man and a commoner, she blessed Cadel and his twin sister Clovis, the orphans she saved, as guardians which is the highest title bestowed to those knights who are chosen to personally protect their masters.
"I am extremely glad that both of you are alive, you must keep it that way." The knights stared at their master, teary-eyed.
'They must absolutely live because they're uselessly strong, my beloved meat shields, stay alive so I can slack the fuck off' She thought while giving them her business smile.
"Master, could it be that- " Cladel and Clovis stared at her, like they knew something.
"That you're concerned for us? we are so grateful for this honor my liege!" The twin knights exclaimed in unison while wiping their tears.
'Well, I am definitely glad to see that they're still as stupid as they was before.' Ilyana thought.
She gave them both a light pat in their heads which made them extremely happy, if they had tails I'm sure it would have been wagging excitedly now. Ilyana then called the attention of her aide who didn't stop working with the invitations despite all the commotion
"Nero."
"Yes, Master?" He lifted his head. Nero is Ilyana's aide. Although men are not allowed to study, she sponsored Nero when he was young and allowed him the opportunity to be literate and become her aide.
Ilyana approached him and gently wiped the blood falling from the blindfold that he always wear.
"Your eyes are bleeding once again. Go to the physician and have him examine you. It seems that the medicine have lost its effects."
Nero flinched at the sudden action. He was confused by the sudden whiff of gentleness that his master has bestowed to him.
"..."
He was silent for a while but he eventually responded "Yes, master."
"Very well. All of you, leave for now." The three of them bowed to their master and left without questioning anything.
Ilyana transferred to the sofa located at the middle of her estate's main office. Her hands started shaking and her heartbeat rose in an irregular level. She can feel it, an extreme amount of rage that she has never felt before. It clouded her vision and the adrenaline rushed throughout her entire being.
"It seems that I'm back again, why?" She bit her lower lip until it bled.
[Host's mentality has decreased a lot. There are several potions that might assist the host. The system recommends checking out the vvip potion shop.]
Her lips pulled back as she bared her teeth, and her veins emphasized how extremely angry she is. She grabbed the glass in front of her and smashed it to the wall. The wall was stained by the red wine that was once in the glass. At that moment, there was only one thing in her mind.
She was done.
While it is true that she was mad for she has suffered too much due to the betrayals, the deaths, and the tragedies from her past life time, what caused her rage the most however, was not those. Instead, it was the fact that she wasn't able to take her well deserved vacation.
Yes, You indeed read it right.
Her well deserved Vacation.
Ah, How lovely would it be if only she could bask in the sunlight while rolling around the green grass in her small backyard on the outskirts of the city.
"This is the fucking thirteenth time. Did you hear me you son of a bitches?" She looked up the sky, extremely furious.
"Reincarnating again is not the issue here. I don't fucking care no matter how many times I reincarnate. It's probably boring in heaven anyways. However, you should at least give me a vacation you inhumane beings." She grinded her teeth, she was way beyond furious. Ilyana saw the golden statue of the God of War and without any hesitation, she grabbed it and smashed it in the ground.
"You know what? Fuck this, I'm so fed up. Alright, you damned system, You won't give me my vacation? Fine. It's time you burn in hell. Since I can't even reach these damned Gods, let's at least die together with this system. Operate system."
[Welcome host! Congratulations for being granted, yet another opportunity to reincarnate. Please press restart to gain automatic 100 points. However, due to excessive internal system overload, all the previous progress was automatically deleted.]
"This is fucking insane. Delete the system."
[Yes host, commencing the command delete sys- WAIT ARE YOU CRAZY? I KNEW THIS BITCH HAS SOME LOSE SCREWS IN THE HEAD, THE MANAGEMENT BETTER COMPENSATE ME. MY LIFE IS ON THE LINE AND YOU GIVE ME A HOST WITH SOME LOOSE SCREW? FUCK! I'M COMPLAINING TO THE MANAGE- Ah shit.]
'Now this is interesting' Ilyana thought.
"Complain to who, sweetheart?"
[...]
"Well, It's a little bit too late for that sweetheart. Alright, you better listen to me before I blow both of our heads off." Ilyana smiled sweetly.
[Bloody hell]
"Bloody hell indeed"