While I was sleeping deeply, someone suddenly started shaking me. Annoying. Go away. I pushed off those hands angrily, but the other person persistently held onto my shoulders and shook me once more. I wanted to say that I was still sleepy, but I couldnât even open my eyes because of how drowsy I was.
âHilda, come on, wake up! Hilda!â
âUhhhâŠâ
âHilda! Are you awake now?â
Emily began to hit my arms now, perhaps thinking that I had fainted and collapsed to the floor. The pain was pulling me back a bit, but the deep swamp of slumber held me hostage. And the root cause of me not waking up was because I didnât want to.
âWhat the⊠Itâs already morning?â
It felt like I had just closed my eyes not that long ago and woke up again, and sadly, that really was the case. I think I slept for about two hours, minus the few times I tossed and turned, fell to the floor, cursed at life, approached the bed, bounced right off. Right here, right now, my eyelids were the heaviest things in the world. A deadly kind of drowsiness filled me entirely.
âYeah, the sun rose a long time ago.â
âAdri⊠I mean, the Young Masterâs medicine, I need to give it to himâŠÂ Haaaahm.â
âThis fellow. You yawn as soon as you wake up. You donât have to bring the Young Masterâs medicine today. Miss Leticia already did it earlier.â
âWhat? Why?â
Starting today, the only tasks that would earn me money other than weed-whacking punishment was bringing medicine to Adrian. And I lost even that.
âYoung Master Adrian suddenly vomited blood at dawn. The doctor came and asked if he hadnât been taking his medicine regularly these days. But thatâs not the case, right? Youâve been delivering his medicine every morning at the same hour, right?â
âO-Of course.â
As I nodded my head, I felt my conscience being stabbed at. Itâs true that I did give the medicine to him at the same hour. But since I only left the tray in front of his room and ran away, I wouldnât know if he really drank it or just threw it outâŠ
âRight? I knew it. I told the doctor that that couldnât be the case because Miss Leticia was about to come and scold you again. Hilda, are you feeling sick? Why were you sleeping on the floor?â
âI⊠I donât have a pillowâŠâ
As I answered her, I got choked up again. I couldnât believe I was forced to be this exhausted just because of a stupid reason. Apart from that, no matter how much of a game character I was right now, I just couldnât get in line with not being able to sleep just because thereâs no pillow.
âGoodness. So you canât sleep without a pillow. I was like that too before.â
Whether a game, whether a character in it, Emily nodded. You understand? What do you mean, you canât sleep without a pillow either? If you have a body and if you have a place to lay that body down in, you can just go ahead and lie down and fall asleep! Why is it impossible to sleep without a pillow?!
âŠwas what I wanted to say, but I was so tired that I couldnât even move my tongue.
âSince the medicine has already been given to the Young Master, can I have an off day? Emily, let me borrow your pillow. Iâll use it for just a little while, then Iâll give it back to you.â
âPoor Hilda. I know youâre tired because you couldnât sleep last night, but you canât. Miss Leticia will really blow up this time.â
âPlease, just for an hourâŠâ
âYou canât, Hilda.â
Emily was nice, but she seemed to resemble Leticia in her strictness. Haa. Well. Itâs not the time to idle away in my room. With my bountiful wealth of 0 gold, I didnât deserve to rest more than I did two days ago when I still had 300 gold, or a day ago when I still had 25 gold. Then, Iâd deserve to rest tomorrow more than today.
Seeing my hollow cheeks as I woke up, Emily felt a little sorry for me, but she was like a sharp blade when it came to work. While handing me the weeding blade, she kindly introduced me to the workplace Iâll be in for the next few days.
âItâs here. From this side to that side, I was told that you have to remove the weeds and clean up over here.â
Luckily, I knew this place like the back of my hand, more than I do with my own room. The first day I entered the game, I worked my butt off right here.
That is, I knew just what kind of traps there were.
While clutching the weeding blade tightly, I stared intently at the hot pink flowers that were hiding like trap cards between the weeds. Just thinking about how much gold I lost because of that kalanchoe made me want to shed tears of blood.
It would have been better if I could get some kind of warning message before Iâd do something wrong, but because the daily rewards came after the day had ended, I wouldnât know what I had done wrong and just continued to work hard.
However, now that I have the wisdom of playing through this game system as much as I hadâsince I had bitten more than I could chewâI wouldnât get caught anymore in such an obvious trap. Iâm going to get all the EXP and gold that I can today!
With a strong determination, I vowed not to lose anything to the game system.
Like a soldier going to war to save her country, I gripped the weeding blade resolutely.