System vs Rebirth

"Hello, you're new here, right?" A man came to Elaine with a bucket of water.

"Y-yes." Elaine nodded, confused. She thought she would be bullied in this place.

However, the man simply said, "Please use this to wash your face. If it's still not enough, you can use the public bathroom to wash yourself."

"I-Is that so?" Elaine raised her eyebrows in amusement. As a noble, she was obviously familiar with this treatment. In fact, she usually washed her face in the morning and cleaned her body during the night. In addition, there would be a bath every week.

However, the man actually said she could wash her body in the morning.

'Is such a thing possible?' Elaine contemplated before asking, "Are you sure?"

"Of course." The man nodded.

This made him even more suspicious. She had prepared herself to be treated harshly by the people, but she could actually maintain a part of her noble lifestyle.

"Are you the one bringing the water?"

The man looked surprised and remembered something. "Ah. Now that I think about it, you've just arrived in this town yesterday. Miss Rose has asked me to show you around and treat you like normal workers here. Don't worry. If you're worried about water, we have plenty of it. Please take a look at that."

The man pointed at the window, specifically the maids and butlers that gathered water from faucets. "We just have to open the faucet, and the water will come out. There is no need to worry about the water. If it can make you feel refreshed, it means that the water has done its job. Just make sure you work hard today."

"…" Elaine fell silent for a moment. She suddenly remembered that when Rose brought her to the dorm. Each room was extremely small.

The bed took up the entire left side of the room and a table was next to the bed. On top of the table was a window, which would bring in some light. However, Rose said that she could put a small box next to the ceiling if she needed some light during the night. She hadn't tried it, but after seeing how easy it was to procure water, the room might not be as simple as she originally thought.

"I will take this." Elaine grabbed the bucket.

"Sure. If it's not enough, you can go to the worker's bathroom. The Lord said that we don't need to care about how much water we use, but still, the habit from old days keeps haunting me. So I don't dare to use too much water."

"Understood. Thank you."

"Sure. If you're done, meet me outside. I'll show you around."

"Yes." Elaine suddenly remembered something and stopped for a moment. "Ehm, I am Elaine. What is your name?"

The man smiled. "Jack."

When she passed the bathroom, she heard the splashing sound of water from the inside with

no bad smell whatsoever. Normally,

worked around the lord of the city would maintain such a good look, since

actually got such a thing even though they didn't

looked away and

her around the area, including

division was under one of the pillars of the Ardagan family, which meant Rose would be

they kept stopping whenever they

she

wash yourself here and retire to

Thank you for everything."

capability right now, so we'll be paying you the same amount as the new worker, which is 5 silver coins

paid?" Elaine widened her eyes

be paid." Jack tilted his head in confusion. "You can spend

was staring at him in disbelief. Considering her position, she thought she wouldn't be paid at all and would be

at the level of a maid in her family's mansion. After all, being a butler or a maid for the Lord was an

Lord will actually properly reward you. I've heard that there was a maid creating a new menu that was so delicious that the Lord gave her a few gold coins. There was also a blacksmith who made a breakthrough and got rewarded with a

around among us. The Lord is trying to activate a new system that is based on people's merit. It encourages people to do

sending their kids to the school, which the Lord is still considering. They want their children to be smart and do good

in shock, thinking, 'Merit?

I'll take my leave here." Jack waved

bathroom while her mind

in this place. Since all of them were women, there was no problem. Elaine just chose to forget about her identity as a noble and

had completely cooled down, feeling refreshed after a long

that the people in this city can get all the benefits of a noble. We can wash ourselves two times a day and the wage

want to come here. No, if nobles know about all these things, they want

much. I can kind of understand why they looked like they wanted to butcher me when they knew my identity. It was like the Lord actually spared

do something big, will I be rewarded with money as well? What if I can earn thousands of gold coins and use them to pay the debt? Won't it

or even surpass a hundred thousand, my family might

atoning her mistake by making the

suddenly lowered her vision and noticed the small box on the table. "If I'm not wrong,

tried to place it next to the lamp, which suddenly shone. "What?