Although he thought that he would stay in the castle for the rest of his life after returning to the castle, Merlin suddenly felt a little panicked when he really approached the castle.

He had been at home all night, and compared to the people in the castle, they must have found out that their precious prince was gone, and the castle must have been in chaos at this time, and he would inevitably be a little embarrassed if he went back.

After all, such a big person is still homeless for no reason.

Merlin squinted at the little girl who was still following him with her head bowed out of the corner of her eye, and suddenly felt a little weak.

It seems that not long ago, he was still putting on an adult to persuade the little girl to run away from home, and if the little girl found out that he was also a warlord, he would not have to save face.

His steps were getting slower and slower, so slow that the little girl behind him who was following his footprints with her head down was about to bump into him, but no matter how slow she was, the castle was still close in front of her.

Along with the castle, Merlin was greeted by the figure in a maid's costume guarding the doorway.

"Hiss ......."

Merlin gasped and felt a toothache.

Basically completely accepting the memory of the original owner, he naturally knew who the maid guarding the door was, that was the head maid in this castle, and at the same time the real master who ruled this castle.

Even though this castle nominally belongs to Merlin, the prince, the predecessor is obsessed with studying all day long, how can he have time to manage the affairs of the castle, and all the affairs of the castle are basically taken care of by the chief maid.

Although according to the formal hierarchy of aristocratic families, the highest rank of servants in addition to the master should be the butler and the housekeeper, but here it is clearly a special case.

According to the tradition of the Empire, before the birth of each heir, the king and queen have already trained for him a dead guard who is absolutely loyal to him, and this guard will be absolutely and only obedient to his master, and even the king and queen cannot command him except for the master's words.

Of course, this guard will definitely be the most trusted person in the future, and when the heir takes the throne, the guard will definitely be a big man in the empire who is above 10,000 people.

In addition to the commoner orphans who were adopted by the royal family as children, some far-sighted nobles often went to great lengths to send their children to that legendary death training camp.

Normally, there will be a thousand carefully selected seedlings in the first phase of the death training camp, and the training camp will have the best teachers in the whole empire to train and educate them, regardless of the martial arts.

And then there is the favorite Gu raising style of fighting.

There is only one person for the guard, and there are indeed 1,000 candidates, so the difficulty of this selection can be imagined.

The children of those great nobles can still have the opportunity to choose to quit when they feel that they can't do it, but those civilian orphans who have been adopted by the empire since childhood have no way out, unless they are lucky enough to be appreciated by some instructor in the training camp, so that they have a chance to pick up a life after defeat, and everyone else is often either win or die, and there is no other way to choose.

It is precisely because of this determination to fight without a way out and fight against all odds, so generally speaking, most of the previous guards were actually born as civilian orphans, and this is also one of the few ways that civilians in this feudal empire can change their fate and enter the upper class of society.

The head maid is Merlin's guard, the winner of the last death training camp, but she is not a commoner, but a rare winner of the children of nobles.

And the birth of this chief maid is not the kind of down-and-out little nobleman, but the feudal nobleman on the southernmost border of the Guardian Empire, the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of Violet, and the first heir of the entire Duchy of Violet.

I don't know why the grand duke's heart was so big back then, other nobles generally sent in the second son, second daughter, illegitimate children and other insignificant children, but he sent his heir over, isn't he worried that the heir has three long and two short in the training camp? After all, although it is said that the children of the nobles have a bit of special treatment, no one can say for sure about the fighting, and sometimes the instructor is not necessarily the one who saves people in a 100% timely manner, and there are no longer a few noble children who die in the training camp every period.

But anyway, the head maid won in the end, although it was actually useless, after all, the empire had forgotten, and the position of the prince guard that she had worked so hard to win was naturally meaningless.

On the contrary, her father, the Grand Duke of Violet, still held the power, and even took advantage of the chaos when the empire fell apart, the Grand Duke raised his power to a new level, and is now one of the most powerful figures in the new Union Council.

So, speaking of which, the identity of the head maid, who is likely to become a female archduke in the future, is not surprisingly higher than Merlin, the down-and-out prince of the ruined empire.

Such a future big man has been staying in such a dilapidated castle as a little head maid now, but who dares to treat her as a head maid?

It is precisely for this reason that the original owner does not trust the exclusive guard he should trust the most, and the relationship between the two has always been very cold, if it weren't for the witch sister who put a curse on the entire castle, the original owner might have dismissed the maid and drove him away.

Of course, Merlin, who inherited all the memories of the original owner, knew that the original owner might still be a big tsundere, although it was one thing to distrust, but on the other hand, he also felt that he had dragged down the head maid, and he was a promising female duchess, but because he had been trapped in this broken castle, what was this called.

The awkward relationship between the original owner and the head maid also makes Merlin feel a little tricky now, and he, an impostor, doesn't know what attitude to use to face the head maid.

"Welcome home, Your Highness."

Merlin hadn't decided what to say when she met, but the maid guarding the door had already won it.

The reproach he had thought of did not happen, and the head maid simply lifted the maid's skirt with both hands and saluted him as a welcome home.

Merlin cautiously examined the head maid's face, but could only see a cold and expressionless pretty face.

Speaking of which, when Prince Merlin was born, the then 17-year-old head maid had already won the victory of the death training camp and became her shadow guard, but now Merlin is sixteen years old, and the head maid still looks like this 17-year-old girl.

This is the ability to make countless women envious, jealous and hateful.

It's a pity that Merlin, who knows the truth about the maid's eternal appearance, is only a little guilty like her predecessor.

He looked down at the head maid's white-gloved hands and her tight maid skirt that covered her whole body, and the guilt in his eyes deepened.

He remembered the casual glimpse he had seen through the wall last night.

According to the normal plot, it should be a welfare link that the people like to see, but unfortunately Merlin didn't see any benefits, he only saw the body of the puppet made of wood and steel that was revealed after taking off his clothes.

Well, that's right, the secret of the maid's eternal youth is that she is no longer human, and the witch's curse has turned her into a delicate bionic doll.

Merlin opened his mouth, trying to organize the language.

But the head maid was the first to speak.

"Your Highness, I have asked people to prepare hot water, you should go take a shower and change into decent clothes, the eldest lady came last night and is now waiting for you in the study."

The head maid's words stunned Merlin.

Miss? Who's that?

However, he soon realized the identity of the person who came, who else could make the head maid call the eldest lady? It must be some kind of relative of his.

And what relatives does he have left?

It's the cheap witch lady who put a curse on him.