Typical victim complex. Adopted lil sis should not project her feeling of inferiority to someone else. If she really saw the MC as a better person coz she's a noble, she also became a noble herself, be better and strive more. She has too many privelege and she's wasting it coz she thinks her big sister is better than her.
After reading this far, I can say that the everyone is a trusting idiot, especially the MC. Sure, her mom is impractical about danger considering their family status, but she isn't exactly a bad person. Even the brat sister is just a spoiled bully who is an actual child.
Serena, however, went and murdered a family of four in cold blood because some guy told her to. She has the power and responsibility to understand the consequences of her actions, but she told her boss she didn't want to know why these people had to die. For someone who mocks her trusting family, she sure trusts that her new boss isn't manipulating her. She's just a puppet looking for a new master, morality be dammed as long as she gets to kill people.
So? Doesn't change the fact that she's blindly following his orders of her own free will. He could be plotting against her country and family for all she knows, but she doesn't care as long as she gets to murder people. She even calls him shady, yet she does whatever he wants like a loyal dog.
My guess is ever since the dog incident the mother sees her child as "abnormal".
She might of had hints about her child odd behaviour in the past but the dog incident confirmed it.
Like with the "father" in genocider chan - Genocide Online ~Playtime Diary of an Evil Young Girl~
I kinda wanna know why an orphan commoner child and her dog was able to come in contact with nobility in the first place, do they not have a fence around their house at the very least? No guards?
it feels like no one but the dad in this series is operating with a full set of marbles. MC just isn't an interesting protag for absolutely not trying to expand her world view in the least. Why live as a tool in the new world too. What's the intrigue in seeing how a tool continues to live. She's just killing people to kind of protect her family in the grand scheme of things but also like spend time with them lmao.
Serena tried to find the right answer to satisfy Rosemary and be done with it. When Rosemary accused her of being jealous, her answer is like "You think there's anything worth being jealous about you? No, I'm not jealous, nor am I picking on you" (she's much more rude in the LN). Serena's servant who was an ex-slave, even told her it's not just the content, but you need to think about how you say it. She's that bad about emotion even a slave know better.
Rosemary seems to have a lot of pride you'd think she's one of those shittier reincarnated heroine in an otome villainess work.
After pushing Rosemary to the water, her internal narration even goes like, good for you, you've learned not to drink on muddy water. As a spoiler for later, no, she doesn't learn her lesson. Rosemary tried serving mud water to Serena as tea later. Serena push her to the puddle again, right in front of her bodyguards.
In the LN, the maid is actually nameless. Marin is the maid who got most significant role later, so the manga's direction probably want to get the readers to be more familiar of her rather than just having random named character coming out of nowhere.
Rosemary told her to serve Serena a breakfast of thin soup and coarse bread, in her own room (implying she tells Serena to stay out of the dining room, and show Serena is lower than her).
After being threatened, Marin confessed it's ordered by Rosemary. But to save her own arse, Rosemary said it's all the maid's own volition, she sell out her own agent.
Marin got whipped, and Serena secretly told her it would leave mark, and nobody would take her as wife (she's not whipped so bad it would leave a lifetime scar, but Marin never got whipped so she doesn't know). If Rosemary had just admitted, Marin would get few months pay cut at worse because she is powerless to refuse order (and Rosemary likely escape with slap on the wrist). But because she did this on her own (as Rosemary claimed), she got this punishment. Also, Marin is daughter of lower ranked nobility, and yet she got backstabbed by that commoner born.
Later, Serena took Marin as her own personal maid, because as a noble, she should have a female attendant. Having just a male servant will bring bad rumour on her. She need someone she can trust and who is best than the person she saved after being betrayed by her own master.
In the bonus story, Marin did realize, the only place you can work properly in that house is under Serena, because your work is appreciated objectively. The servants working under Rosemary are too busy trying to curry favour rather than just do their job. They wouldn't be able to find job in other house because they're spoiled rotten by Amaryllis who forgive them easily, so they forget nobles normally don't try to treat commoners as equal.
That was refreshing. Instantly dismantling all the bullshit little sister was spewing out. Really nice to see her bathing in the mud, but this will probably backfire because of her shitty mother. The mother didn't even try to involve herself into this, like she doesn't want the responsibility to actually raise her kids.
Rosemary told her to serve Serena a breakfast of thin soup and coarse bread, in her own room (implying she tells Serena to stay out of the dining room, and show Serena is lower than her).
After being threatened, Marin confessed it's ordered by Rosemary. But to save her own arse, Rosemary said it's all the maid's own volition, she sell out her own agent.
Marin got whipped, and Serena secretly told her it would leave mark, and nobody would take her as wife (she's not whipped so bad it would leave a lifetime scar, but Marin never got whipped so she doesn't know). If Rosemary had just admitted, Marin would get few months pay cut at worse because she is powerless to refuse order (and Rosemary likely escape with slap on the wrist). But because she did this on her own (as Rosemary claimed), she got this punishment. Also, Marin is daughter of lower ranked nobility, and yet she got backstabbed by that commoner born.
Later, Serena took Marin as her own personal maid, because as a noble, she should have a female attendant. Having just a male servant will bring bad rumour on her. She need someone she can trust and who is best than the person she saved after being betrayed by her own master.
In the bonus story, Marin did realize, the only place you can work properly in that house is under Serena, because your work is appreciated objectively. The servants working under Rosemary are too busy trying to curry favour rather than just do their job. They wouldn't be able to find job in other house because they're spoiled rotten by Amaryllis who forgive them easily, so they forget nobles normally don't try to treat commoners as equal.
Jfc Amaryllis is the wife of a duke and she can't even run a household? Is there some justification for her being like this or is it just left up in the air?
