The Vampire King's Storage Waiter

Chapter 58. The Prince's Cunning Plan

The mat! The mat! The mat!

The sound of the spinning clockwork was heard very clearly in the room filled with the headdress of this beast. The strong smell of blood pierced into the nose, making the nausea of the only human in the palace. The atmosphere became increasingly gripping, as several of the palace's pet dogs howled long, along with the full moon's dim light.

“It's been ten minutes I've been here. But he didn't say anything. Do I have to say hello first?” thought Floretta was fretting.

The padded sofa, overlaid with jaguar skin, the longer it felt harder for Floretta. His sweat splashed out in the cold, which was only a few degrees above zero degrees Celsius.

“Yang Mulia ..”

“I don't let you talk,” said Raven flatly and coldly.

Floretta jumped in shock and immediately lowered her head. “Oh, God. What am I supposed to do? Why does she always behave like this when my husband is not in the palace,” thought Floretta was getting scared.

Cold sweat flooded his body. His fingers were trembling and his chest felt as tight as a huge burden.

Faintly under the moonlight that entered through the windowpanes, Floretta could see the prince's dreadful face, with his gaze like a starving lion.

Nah! Raven clapped her palm, and in an instant the room was instantly bright.

“I heard your work today was pretty good. Madam Cruella gets upset about not being able to scold you.” Raven finally opened the conversation.

“Te-thank you, Your Grace. Thank you for standing up for me this afternoon,” Floretta replied nervously.

“I understand one thing. You are very talented to be a waitress,” Raven continued with a naughty laugh.

“Uh, what?” The look on Floretta's face that was a little happy to hear the praise from her sister-in-law, immediately turned sour.

“Why? You don't like that compliment?” raven said after gulping blood from inside his glass. Floretta wants to puke to see it.

“Like that in the palace. Someone who praises you, not necessarily in his heart he thinks the same thing. If you want to be queen, you have to be ready with all those annoying situations,”, Raven said.

“Ah, so she wasn't praising me, but testing me?” floretta murmured in the heart.

“But my compliment was serious. You work pretty neat and very meticulous,” Raven said after a moment of silence.

“Thank you, Your Grace. Is there anything else I need to do?” ask Floretta very carefully. “Hopefully he won't prank me again this time. I was too tired of his request. I want to go to bed soon,” the woman's inner hope.

“Hey, don't worry. I'm not that cruel, though. Your work today is done,” said Raven, as if you could read the contents of Floretta's head. “Because your work today is good, I want to give you a gift.”

Raven poured the blackish-red blood into the glass, then offered it to Floretta. “Number,” order Raven.

It's not okay, Floretta's been nauseous to see it. How could he drink that fishy-smelling liquid? It may not be human blood.

“Why are you quiet? You say you want to be queen here? Drink,” insist Raven. Although his tone seemed soft, but Floretta still trembled.

“Please excuse me, Your Majesty. B-but I can't drink blood,” Floretta said very softly.

“You dare to challenge me? Have you never heard of the servants and princesses of the nobility against me? They all end up on the hills of Deadwood,”, Raven said.

“What will I do? I can't drink this liquid. But if I refuse him, he could just chop off my head.” Floretta was feeling very uneasy, dealing with this situation.

Floretta's hand moved slowly, grabbing the crystal glass filled with the red liquid. His forehead shriveled, as his sense of smell breathed in the very intoxicating scent of blood. Floretta's hands suddenly stopped, as the surface of the glass was less than three centimeters from his lips.

“Ah, now I understand. Instead of bothering to kill me, it's better that he keeps me from being at home in the palace, and prefers to make me die of pain slowly,” Floretta said in her heart. “But if my estimation is wrong, it means he is testing me,” inner Floretta again.

“Moreover what you're waiting for?” ask Raven impatiently.

“I smell the strange scent of this glass, Your Majesty. Has Your Majesty tried this before?” ask Floretta with a thumping chest.

“You don't see, I just finished a glass of blood?” reply Raven.

“But I did not see His Majesty pour blood from inside the teapot into the glass. It could be that this liquid and the liquid in His Majesty's glass is different,” Floretta said.

“Hmm, smart also him,” muttered Raven in heart.

“Sorry, Your Grace. This sounds disrespectful. But this blood was not like the smell of blood normally. This seems to have been mixed with cyanogenic Glycosides from apricot fruit,” Floretta said.

“Huh? So you're accusing me of putting poison in there? That's just your excuse for not drinking blood, right? How can a human like you distinguish the smell of blood?” said Raven with fiery eyes.

“It is not so, Your Majesty. I worked in a restaurant for a long time, and I was given some science. Cyanogenic glycosides are harmful substances that are naturally present in some plants. The aroma is like bitter almonds, but does not change color,” Floretta said.

“Cih! Turns out he's too smart to be fooled,” umpat Raven in heart.

The woman moved towards Raven's desk, then picked up an object there.

“You why you?” ask Raven. “Quick drink it. Then we will know, whether the drink is mixed with poison or not,” he urged.

“Silver can react when exposed to poison. If this blood has indeed been mixed with poison, then this pen will definitely blacken... like this,” said Floretta, while dipping the tip of the ink pen made of silver.

Unlike what Floretta had expected, Raven laughed at her attitude just now.

“Already expected, you are not as stupid as I thought,” said Raven while patting her hand.

Floretta's forehead was wrinkled to see it. “It turns out to be true, he is testing me?” floretta said in her heart. He felt a little relieved, having escaped in Raven's trap this time around. What happens if he drinks it straight away?

“One more thing you need to remember, there is no one you can trust in this palace. If you are careless and do not know how to deal with things like that, you will die quickly,” said Raven with a smile. This was the first time Floretta had seen the prince smiling sweetly.

“Well, I will remember that, Your Majesty,” Floretta replied.

“Because you have passed the test today, I will raise your post. From tomorrow, you will be my personal servant. You don't have to work in the warehouse anymore,” Raven said.

“Gosh! Why am I even more horrified, huh?” inner Floretta. The prince's sweet smile, as if saving a million plans to prank Floretta.

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