"I'm being strategic. If I fight back now, they'll just make my life worse—or kill me outright. But patience is a weapon too."
She looked at the System.
"Tomorrow night, we settle accounts."
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At exactly 2 AM the next night, the System appeared and whispered, "Host, it's time."
Heena changed into her darkest servant's garments and covered her face with a cloth mask.
Moving silently through the dark household, she positioned herself outside the old woman's bathroom area.
She waited.
Soon, she heard shuffling footsteps—the old woman stumbling out of her room toward the outdoor bathroom, half-asleep and grumbling to herself.
Heena could hear her muttering: "Useless girl... tomorrow I'll beat her even harder... teach her a lesson... lazy thing... probably trying to seduce the Master... I'll make sure she suffers..."
The old woman finished using the bathroom and stumbled out, still muttering curses about Heena.
That was when Heena struck.
