Chapter 43

It’s like a deep lake where you don’t know what’s hiding underneath. Anriche then blinked and pointed to the floor.

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“Kneel.”

“…Pardon?”

Viscountess Ivan asked Anriche in a confused voice.

Liliana, who was watching the situation, also widened her eyes.

“Get down on your knees, and immediately bow your head to Liliana and apologize.”

“What, what is that!”

“If you want to be forced to kneel by the hand of the servants, keep standing like that.”

She stared at Viscountess Ivan with her expressionless face.

Viscountess Ivan clenched her fists.

“But, I am Miss Liliana’s teacher! A teacher kneels to her student, that’s not going to happen…!”

“Well, before Viscountess Ivan was Liliana’s teacher… She was an employee of Valois.”

“Yes?”

“You’re a tutor hired by Valois, aren’t you?”

At those words that stabbed her in the face, Viscountess Ivan made a flushed face. “Oh, how could you say that!”

“Why is there something wrong with what I’m saying?”

“I’m also the teacher who taught the Duchess of Valois!”

“Therefore…?”

As Anriche raised her eyebrows crookedly, Viscountess Ivan protested with an unfair look.

“You, you’re asking me to get down on my knees! Please be polite to me!”

“I really don’t understand. Why do you say it’s so unfair?”

Anriche narrowed her eyes.

Looking straight at Viscountess Ivan, she twisted the tips of her lips.

“For Viscountess Ivan, the words ‘strictly teach’ and ‘corporal punishment’ are synonymous.”

In an instant, Viscountess Ivan opened her eyes. Anriche is now giving what Viscountess Ivan gave to Liliana back to her.

“So, as the Mistress of Valois, I am only trying to get you down on your knees to teach the servants strictly.”

“Duchess!”

“By the way, I punish you for good reasons. What is with you?”

Asking that, Anriche took one step forward. Viscountess Ivan flinched her shoulders as if she had been slapped.

“Are you sure that the corporal punishment for Liliana was given with justifiable grounds?”

“That’s, of course! For the sake of Miss Liliana’s education…!”

Viscountess Ivan raised her voice in a fitful manner.

Then, Anriche gave a sly smile. She had a cold smile without a hint of warmth.

“Then Viscountess Ivan should try first.”

“…Yes?”

“That arrogant ‘review on Elvante’.”

‘Don’t tell me, Anriche heard that conversation…!’

Viscountess Ivan’s face turned as white as a sheet of white paper. Of course, she didn’t even think that Liliana would be able to do the review on Elvante.

How could a seven-year-old girl do what only the leading scholars of the Empire could do?

“You were saying whatever you wanted with your mouth, and why are you silent now?”

“Du, Duchess. That’s it, I…”

That meant that even the Viscountess couldn’t review Elvante.

Viscountess Ivan felt herself fading away.

The Grand Madam of the Marquisate of Saxony said that recently, she had been badly hurt by her daughter’s naughty behavior.

“As much as you feel sorry for Liliana, make sure you kneel as much.”

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