The first few days at the Knox household felt like a typical election for Quinn. Twenty daughters of noble families and other prominent figures struggled to maintain their composure.
Participating in the selection process means living and adapting to a new family. They will sleep and live in a space provided by the family holding the selection. Some families treat incoming seeds like queens, while others prefer to see how well they adapt.
As in the Knox family selection, they provide a comfortable place to sleep and delicious food every day, but most of the daily activities will be done by each individual.
Some women who had never engaged in simple housework since childhood panicked and despaired. Within less than a week, many of them were complaining.
Like now, they have to wake up early in the morning to wash their own clothes, after that they have to cook food in groups, then after all the daily activities are finished, only then does the Knox housewife come to give them their family knowledge.
"Are you sure this is just the Knox family's home? They have the entire mountain to themselves." Irish complained. Early in the morning before sunrise they had washed clothes in a small river in the middle of the mountains which was still within the Knox family's home territory.
The Knox family is not an ordinary family. Their current place is not the main residence in the middle of the city. It is like a Knox family stopover that is quite far from the center of the Crescere kingdom. As Irish said, the Knox family even has an entire mountain to themselves.
"I wouldn't be surprised if they made us climb the hills to hunt. Is this a selection or a selection process to become servants? We're so advanced now, why go back to such a primitive era? Even school isn't more troublesome than this." Irish was a much stronger woman than all the other girls there, despite her constant complaints, she always completed her assignments on time.
"Big sis, I think my hands are frozen." Seeli—the girl who had been with them for the past few days—complained. She was the youngest member to participate in this election, and because she had known Irish for a long time, they had become friends often.
The water in the mountains was still very cold in the morning. Sure enough, it felt like not only Seeli's hands were freezing, but hers too.
"Why don't you just get out if all you do is complain all day?" Shoure threw her basket into the puddle that landed on Irish and Quinn.
"Could you be more careful?" Quinn said calmly, though she didn't hide her irritation.
"Oh, I didn't see you." She said nonchalantly.
"Hey, I know your family is full of jerks, but can you not show it so blatantly?"
"Do you really need to bring my family? It's just you and me here now." Shoure challenged Irish, who was also getting ready. Since day one, the two of them had been arguing, not once or twice, almost every time they met, even in front of Mrs. Knox.
"Let's settle this now. I've been wanting to scratch that rotten face of yours for a long time." Irish and Shoure's argument was more intense than ever. Quinn tried to break it up, but the two women ignored her, and in the end, Quinn fell into the river, soaking all her clothes.
"Hey, hey, hey. What are you two doing?" Previously, no one had dared to intervene between Irish and Shoure, only watching from a distance, especially after seeing Quinn fall into the river. But now someone came, quickly pulling Irish and Shoure's hands together, separating them very easily.
Youna Scarlett, the woman who had caught everyone's attention on the first day gave a sharp look to Irish and Shoure who were still trying to attack each other.
"Can you two stop? I won't hesitate to report you two to the butler." Their every move was being watched by the butler, Quinn even thought for a moment that the Knox family had been watching their every move since they first entered this place.
As a member of the national military, a member of the kingdom's elite forces, such things were trivial to Youna. Among all the girls, Youna was the only one in the S-class, and no one could take their eyes off the maroon flower clearly visible on her temple. Anyone would be proud of a flower as colorful as Youna's.
"Hey, this is none of your business, can you please leave it alone?" Irish said, her temper was bad from the start, she also never showed respect to anyone and she also never felt that Youna was the leader here.
Youna's eyebrows furrowed, she then turned to the flower on Irish's temple. "If you don't want to be here, you should leave right away instead of causing trouble."
"Youna, Youna. Did you see this crazy woman? She just attacked me!" Added Shoure, already looking disheveled.
Quinn, already wet and cold, approached Irish. "Don't mind her, let's get out of here." Irish, feeling guilty seeing Quinn soaked, felt bad. "I'm sorry, okay. I didn't mean to." Quinn nodded. Her body was already cold, and she didn't have the energy to be angry.
With Seeli's help, followed by Irish, Quinn left. On the way, Seeli said, "Big sis, I don't know why Youna is still watching us."
Irish looked back. "Looks like she was surprised by you, Quinn."
"Hmm? What's wrong with me?" Quinn asked curtly.
"That's probably because of the gray flower on your temple? Youna is a bit racist. Do you know what she does first when she meets someone? She looks at the color of their 'Flower' before looking at their face or personality. From there, she decides how to act toward them. Like earlier, when she saw my 'Flower', she immediately chose not to argue with me."
The gray flower on Quinn's temple, which had been hidden by her hair, was now completely visible after she fell into the river. If no one had noticed it before, now everyone knew that the flower on Quinn Flos's forehead was gray.
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