Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Umikaze Minamino

Author:Umikaze Minamino
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lynokis carried me down the stairs to the entrance hall. On the way down, she asked one of the maids to fetch the wheelchair down on the first floor.

“Oh my, heading out for a walk, are we?” Jayes asked when we bumped into him where he had been waiting downstairs, but even though he asked me that question, I couldn’t answer. I was being carried, after all. Lynokis was the one really going on a walk here. Disregarding my silence, Jayes opened the entrance for us, and Lynokis pushed me outside.

I squinted my eyes at the sunlight shining down.

Since this body had not left the house for a few months, the sensations of the sun and the outside air were so strong. It was fine, though, I would adjust soon enough. In fact, after only a few moments, I had already adjusted.

The rays of the sun were warm, and the breeze that gently caressed my skin was cool. Though the wind seemed a bit strong, the season was a pleasant one. And sprawling out in front of me was truly a sight for sore eyes: a vibrant garden clearly handled with thoughtful care.

And by that, I really meant sprawling. There was seemingly no end to it.

“The garden is so big.”

“Indeed. As is to be expected of the mansion of a class-four aristocrat.”

What had she said?

“What is a ‘class-four aristocrat’?”

“Oh my, have you never been told?”

“Well, how am I supposed to know? I’m still only four. I know very little. In fact, there’s more that I don’t know. Isn’t it cruel for you to criticize a four-year-old for being clueless?”

“I don’t think most four-year-olds would respond in such a manner...”

Lynokis kindly explained to me as we slowly made our way around the garden.

First, this country was a monarchy, with the king being of the first class, and then fourteen more classes below him, for fifteen in total. Classes fifteen to twelve were for the common people, and then classes eleven and upwards were reserved for aristocrats... Nobles, essentially. People would understand what I meant if I said nobles, but apparently, that was the term used for a foreign class system. Here, they were known as aristocrats.

With that explanation in mind, that would mean the Liston family were aristocrats fourth from the top.

“No wonder, then...”

The garden looked endless, but the mansion was just as abnormally large. Not only did my parents look refined, they had many household servants like Lynokis and Jayes. There were even multiple gardeners, three already present in front of us. My parents had both the money and the power to give their bedridden child all the medicine she needed, and hire that shady magician that called my soul here.

If the root of all this was a well-paid ruling class, then that would make sense.

“So what does it mean as an aristocrat to be class-four?”

“As someone who was born to a commoner family, I don’t know all the specifics of aristocratic society, but the Liston family is one out of no more than ten families of the fourth class, so I would surmise it is quite significant.

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