That Time I Became The VOTW's Favourite

Ch-6 Adelinde's Soliloquy

Adelinde POV

My name is Adelinde. 

Adelinde Hershey, to be precise. 

I'm a simple maid in the Kagenou Family Manor, a low ranked noble family in the Kingdom of Midgar. 

I come from a backward family myself, originally taken in by the previous lord of the house, when Mrs. Kagenou was till a child. I was also a child at the time, and when my parents brought me here to work, I was assigned to the young daughter of the house. 

Which I am eternally grateful for, by the way. If not for that, I might have never made a friend as nice as her. 

She was my first real friend, after all. Despite being a noble and essentially my boss, she was always nice and made my whole life so much easier. We even practiced the art of the sword together, ordered by her father to teach me, since I've had to defend her in the past and act like a bodyguard as well. 

I got good at my job eventually became the Head Maid of House Kagenou. My dear friend was so happy when he heard this and didn't let go of my for the next three days. I truly adore her. 

She then got married and now, after a year or two, she had her first child. A daughter named Claire. 

Almost immediately, I was put under the duty of caring for her when she couldn't. That was when my job as a babysitter began. 

Claire was adorable and beautiful, I just knew she had a bright future ahead of her. As I continued to take care of her, I noticed something. Something that made my heart shatter. 

She had... those black spots on her delicate, soft skin. 

The mark of a demon possessed. 

I felt the urge to do something, biting my lip in frustration. She was essentially my niece, how could I not feel this way?! 

I'm not an idiot. I knew that this Demonic Possession was not a disease. That's why I never believed a word the church ever said. 

I have never been particularly gifted in magic or anything, but I have been graced with above average magic perception. I've always seem things very differently from everyone else. 

Magic was a supernatural form of energy that was used by almost every human and beast, being the most abundant form of energy in the world. Everyone believed it acted the same way as water or air. 

And in a way, they're right. But even liquids and gases are made up of small particles. Magic was no different. It too, was made up some kind of particles. The issue here was, Adelinde herself was unable to actually see these particles. She they existed, she could even feel their existence. Yet she couldn't see them. 

I had a few theories why. I thought it was something I wasn't capable of seeing. Looking at how nobody else could see them, it was possible that such particles were not capable of being seen by the human eye. Or maybe they're just very small. 

But I never elaborated on it. Why would I ? What's the point ? Nobody would believe me. And it's not like I have a way of actually proving it. So I gave up on it and focused on my life as a maid. 

It was years... years ago, that I was struck with tragedy. 

When I developed a black spot on my foot. I realised that I too, was infected. I was also a monster. 

But despite my own weakness, I observed how demon possession, which I had hidden for so long, never spread. Not in my body, or from mine to another's. I had already studied the composition of diseases and desperate to do something about this, I even dived into the possibility of it being a curse, as unbelievable as it may sound.