I Became the Villain’s Lost Daughter

As I opened my eyes, I saw a shabby attic ceiling.

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“…Today was the start.”

 

I got up quietly, took off my only pajamas, and changed into a rag-like dress.

 

Pajamas were the only clothes I had left that weren’t torn apart.
And the rest were made up of clumsy sewing skills.

 

I quickly left the attic and went into the kitchen before the director came screaming.

 

“Oh, I’m tired already…”

 

I’m used to going to bed late and waking up early, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t tired.

 

I hurriedly took out a large pot and put all the vegetables I had yesterday.

 

The soup was the only thing that I could cook with these limited ingredients.

 

On the other hand… I’m just a nine-year-old child, but the director seems to think I’m already 19 years old.

 

Taking turns preparing meals, that was then, but from some point on, I was in charge of it.

 

It was exactly what the other kids put me to, and the director pretended not to see anything regarding it.

 

‘Heh.
Does he think I’m better off doing what other kids do than eating? Do I have to think of it positively…?’

 

Well, I simply tried to rationalize and chew those negative thoughts inside.

 

The good news was that I know how to cook to some extent.

 

As I peered into the boiling pot, I tried to close my eyes.

 

“…”

 

At that moment, there was a small rumbling sound from my stomach.

 

But even though the soup was being cooked right in front of me, I couldn’t be the first to eat.

 

Because what was given to me was all that was left after taking the share of the other kids.

 

The evil director was my rice bowl.

 

It was a very unhappy setting, no one takes care of me unlike the other kids.

 

One time when I was so hungry, I got caught trying to eat a piece of bread first, then I faced the director who turned into a beast.

 

“It was up to me anyway.”

 

However, I never want to receive a nagging bomb with a shrill voice under the guise of the director’s discipline.

 

‘I’m not going to eat because it’s disrespectful?’

 

After a while, the children started coming down one by one with a loud noise.

 

The way the children sat, rubbing their sleepy eyes, was starkly different from my situation.

 

And even when the children and the director started eating, I couldn’t sit down and eat with them.

 

After I showed my portion of the plate to the director, only then I was able to eat.

 

My meal didn’t take that long to finish because it was only a small amount in the first place.

 

“When you’re done, go ahead and clean up.”

 

I shrugged at the harsh words of the director.

 

If I don’t obey, he would glare at me again and scold me.

 

After quietly leaving the dining room, I took out a broom and started cleaning.

 

The orphanage, which wasn’t very spacious, always became dirty, even if I cleaned it every day.

 

Cleaning should be done with the other kids, but I’m the only one actually doing the job, cleaning the place with all I could.

 

It was only me.

 

The others were mopping it up and making it twice as dirty by walking on it.

 

“Cough, cough… It’s dirty.”

 

When I swept away the dust in the corner, I coughed on my own.

 

The cleaning was familiar enough to be worn out.
I’ve had enough of it in my previous life.

 

“I could work as a cleaner when I grow up.” I muttered to myself.

 

A year ago, when I woke up from this child’s body, how absurd it was.

 

I thought I was killed in a car accident, but now I’m an eight-year-old girl.

 

Now, I’m a year older, currently nine years old, but the fact that I’m still a child, it hasn’t changed anyway.

 

That’s the same as when I was a child.

 

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“Ayla was lovely.”

 

It was the Helsion Empire.
After hearing the name of this place I found out that it was from the novel I was reading in my previous life.

 

Fortunately, I remembered clearly the year the original began.

 

Imperial year 1220.
The male lead’s birthday was also December 20th, whether it was the writer’s intention or whatever.

 

Anyway, it was just 10 years before the original began.

 

I’m an extra who didn’t even appear in the novel.
I took a deep breath and continued cleaning.

 

“Hey, black hair!”

 

Then a ringing voice called me.

 

Oh, here we go again.
“Yes, why?”

 

I pressed down my annoyance and answered mildly.

 

It would have been a mess if I ignored their call or talked back.

 

Lily, whom the butler adores, was also an orphan.

 

“The director was calling you.”

 

“..Why?”

 

“Don’t ask me? Maybe It’s because you don’t clean properly.
And don’t talk to me!”

 

Lily, who shot with a vicious expression, ran away.

 

Who always talks to me first? I don’t want to talk to you either.

 

There were no words to compare with her audacious manners.

 

“Tell me what’s going on…”

 

With the broom I was holding on one side of the wall, I washed my hands in cold water and headed to the director’s office.

 

Knock, knock~

 

“Director, it’s Rita.”

 

There was no answer beyond the closed wooden door.

 

“Well, sir, I’m the black haired kid…”

 

I knocked on the door again, saying that I have black hair, not my name, because I hate being called by my name.

 

Then, I heard rough footsteps and the door burst open.

 

“You! I told you! you didn’t have a name!”

 

That’s right.

 

The director’s face, when he opened the door, was distorted like an ugly beast.

 

Even if my hair was black it doesn’t mean I harm people.

 

Of course such complaints were only swallowed up.

 

“I’m sorry.” I gently bowed my head and said.

 

The director nodded his head telling me to come in, it seems he’s not angry anymore.

 

He would normally have yelled right away, but what the heck?

 

“You, go to the market and get me today’s ingredients.”

 

Cancel everything I said that he was getting better! I tried to evaluate the expression on his face which was about to crumple again.

 

“Well, today’s Lily’s day to…”

 

“I told you not to argue with me! Lily needs to get her new clothes tailored today, so you should go! You have nothing to do anyway.”

 

I tried to rebut it carefully, but all I got back was yelling.
I couldn’t believe there’s nothing I could do with my situation.

 

He was so terrifying and arrogant.

 

‘I am the busiest person in the orphanage, I’m in charge of cleaning and dining.’

 

How was it that they are so similar?

 

Whether from my past life’s orphanage or here, the vicious orphanage director seemed to be everywhere.

 

Because there’s no such place to be called good with empty words.

 

“…Yes, I got it.”

 

“Then get out!”

 

I bit my lip, bowed my head, and left the director’s office.
I’m the one who brought the ingredients the day before and yesterday.

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My arm hurt from carrying heavy vegetables for two consecutive days.

 

Then the resentment came, but I didn’t have the courage to go back to the director’s office and say that I didn’t want to go.

 

In an orphanage where a child like me couldn’t escape, if I go against the director’s decisions, I would only be locked up in a warehouse.

 

So, it wasn’t that I hadn’t tried to run away from this place.

 

Although it’s a child’s body, my mind wasn’t that of a child, so I thought that I could somehow make a living.

 

So, when I woke up and realized where this place was, I tried to escape while everyone was asleep.

 

But things didn’t work out as well as I thought, and the escape attempt was unsuccessful.

 

I tried, I really did…

 

But I was caught by a villager coming down from the mountain and was brought back to the orphanage.

 

Not to mention, I was locked up in a narrow, dark warehouse for a week.

 

After that, I gave up running away.
I knew I’d be persecuted wherever I went.

 

At least until I’m old enough to take care of myself.

 

 

✿

 

After putting on my shabby robe, I grabbed a basket and left the orphanage.

 

When I squinted and looked up at the sky, the sun was blazing above my head.

 

I felt a little better doing this when I was depressed.

 

“The director said he’s going out with Lily today, so I could