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."

away. When she passed the bathroom, she heard the splashing sound of water from the inside with a few people talking

atmosphere around her. There was no bad smell whatsoever. Normally, commoners hardly wash themselves. Most of the time, they would just wipe their bodies with wet towels once a day or

wouldn't be weird for their body to release some foul odor. Only those who worked around the lord of the city would maintain such a good look, since if their foul odor displeased the lord, there was a chance they would be expelled

people actually got such a thing even though they didn't work directly in the

away and awkwardly

around the area, including all the facilities and divisions

under one of the pillars of the Ardagan family,

whole day to go around because they kept stopping whenever they met something

she finally stopped by the worker's

my job for today. You can wash yourself here and retire to

you for

so we'll be paying you the same

I really getting paid?" Elaine widened her eyes

Jack tilted his head in confusion. "You can spend the money as

position, she thought she wouldn't be paid at all and would be worked to death in a harsh

in her family's mansion. After all, being a butler or a maid for the Lord was an ideal job in the kingdom.

heard of it, but if you do some good work, the 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

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

ridiculous rumor. With all the technology, the citizens have enough spare time to actually learn a thing or two. They are thinking about sending their kids to the school, which the Lord is still considering. They want their children to be smart and do good work so that their family

eyes in shock, thinking, 'Merit?

my leave here."

of shock. She entered the bathroom while her mind was

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

to her room, she had completely cooled down,

city can get all the benefits of a noble. We can wash

know about all

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 my life when he told them not to help me. They might come at me and beat me while trying

well? What if I can earn thousands of gold coins and use them to pay

aim higher. If I can earn tens of thousandswho of gold coins or even surpass a hundred thousand, my family might be able to escape

but remember Jessi's words about atoning her mistake by

noticed the small box on the table. "If I'm not wrong, I should place this on

next to the lamp, which suddenly shone. "What? Bright… No, wait. It actually shines. So I need to hang