Not the Villainess, but the Maid

Chapter 0: Not the Villainess, but the Maid!?

It seemed like I was doomed.

I appeared to have been transmigrated into the world of a yuri otome game that I used to enjoy—a world devoid of hope and dreams.

When I came to my senses, I found myself inside a massive mansion, with dimly lit portraits lining the corridors.

Every individual in the frames shared the same features: jet-black hair and crimson-red eyes.

‘No way…’

There was no mistaking it; this was the mansion of the Sarka family, infamous in the game for producing Ruby, the villainess rated as the absolute worst of the worst.

‘Could it be that I’ve been transmigrated as the villainess Ruby…!?’

What rotten luck.

Ruby wasn’t even a romance target in the game; she was simply a villainess doomed to meet the most tragic bad ending.

As I clutched my head in despair and screamed at the thought of a dark future, a sharp, scolding voice erupted from behind me.

“Amber! So this is where you’ve been slacking off again!”

‘Amber…?’

The woman yelling at me appeared to be an elderly lady dressed in a maid uniform, her hair as white as snow.

“I suppose you completely forgot that today was the day we were selecting Lady Ruby’s personal maid, didn’t you?”

“…What? Maid?”

At her words, I looked down at the clothes I was wearing.

Instead of the elegant dresses befitting the villainess Ruby Sarka, I was dressed in a shabby, stained maid uniform.

Now that I noticed, my hair wasn’t black at all but rather a pale pink shade.

‘No way, no way…!’

As I struggled to make sense of the situation, the middle-aged woman delivered the final blow.

“Please pull yourself together, Maid Candidate Amber!”

I had been transmigrated as the maid of the villainess.

…To be precise, as a maid candidate.