“Princess, this dress is made of pale pink silk satin, with an elegant swan-like neckline that reveals the shoulders and makes the necklace stand out.”
It’s pretty, but the problem is that it doesn’t suit me.
After looking at several dresses in front of the mirror for a while, I opened my mouth.
“I don’t like any of the designs you brought in today. The frills are overdone, and especially this ribbon, I’m sure you understand it without me having to explain it.”
Helen lowered her head with a pale complexion.
“I apologize. As I kept thinking about the pink diamond, I couldn’t think of the Princess, who is the one actually wearing the clothes. I was careless.”
‘I don’t think it’s working out…’
The pink diamond has a heart-shaped design that emphasizes its lovely feeling.
No matter how good Helen is, if she emphasizes the necklace, it seems that it will inevitably conflict with my image.
After all, it was an item that made the simple and innocent Mia look charming in the original work.
‘I think I will have to give up on the jewel.’
If I went out wearing those cute pink dresses, everyone would think that I was awkwardly imitating the person next to Philap.
I would be the ridiculous one.
“Helen. Stop thinking about the pink diamond and fix them in a way that suits me better.”
“Yes, Princess.”
“I like the off-the-shoulder, so start with that. Instead, I would like the fabric to be a much more intense purple than it is now.”
After giving a few opinions and sending Helen back to the boutique, I realized I was overlooking the most important fact.
I have a dress, but I don’t have a partner to escort me to the ball.
***
‘Why don’t I just get a suitable guy?’
Last year, at the Spring Flower Festival. Deborah attended the ball with the son of a generous vassal, but returned home early on the excuse of a stomach ache.
Because she felt bad about Philap rejecting being her partner.
Before the ball, Deborah implicitly expressed that she wanted to escort Philap every time, but the results were always disastrous.
‘Why is the shame on me?’
Because of this, Philap couldn’t help but think I liked him.
While I was sipping apple juice and looking back at the fragments of the past, where it was hard to find the capacity for learning, a knock woke me up.
“… What is it again?”
I raised my eyebrows as I watched the servant come in with a letter and several large gift boxes.
This time, no matter how I looked at it, it didn’t look like it was from an academic conference.
“A Young Master has sent a gift to the Princess.”
“To me?”
I reached out to the letter in a suspicious mood, and as soon as I checked the sender, I coughed and spat out the juice.
[Louis Gargell]
The guy who gave me the thrilling nightmare of being chased by wild Thomson’s gazelles with just the letters of his name.
I ripped open the letter and checked the contents.
[Greetings. Princess Deborah.
Let me introduce myself, the eldest son of the Gargell family who owns a silver-filled fief in Akon. Louis Gargell. I am currently receiving education to become the head of the family… (…)]
Seeing the first page of the letter full of self-pride, I stuck out my tongue.
‘It’s the stupid pervert from the original work for sure.’
[I have heard from Sir Belreck about the Princess’s beauty… (…) May I ask such a precious person to be my partner for the ball? I am waiting for a positive reply from the Princess.]
As expected, the letter said that he wanted to escort me to this ball.
The ball held at the Imperial Palace was also a suitable place for unacquainted men and women to meet.
“Hmm, he used his head well.”
After reading the letter, I opened the gift box that Louis Gargell had sent me, and found it was full of silver specialties from the Akon region.
“Princess Deborah. How should we handle these things?”
“Leave them for now.”
“Sorry? Ah, yes. I understand.”
The maid flinched and was agitated at my words.
She couldn’t help it.
In the past, Deborah relentlessly threw the gifts of young men in the trash, and when a letter came, she burned it.
After her terrible temper was revealed to the world, her popularity with the young men plummeted, and no more gifts came.
Deborah was convinced that it wasn’t that she wasn’t popular, but because no one would dare covet her because of her deep feelings for Philap.
‘Well, what do you expect from a consistently stupid character.’
If they were gifts from aristocratic men, they must have been expensive; so why throw them away? It’s a pity.
‘How much is all this?’
I was delighted as I looked at the silver ingots and ornaments in the box.
Although gold was the standard in the Azutea Empire, silver coins also circulated, making it much more money-making than jewelry.
‘Thank you for introducing me to a good person, Belreck. I will repay you for this favor immediately.’
I grinned at the local specialties from the Akon region.
***
Belreck rubbed his forehead at the news that Deborah had not burned Louis Gargell’s letter but instead received it along with the gifts.
‘Why?’
He thought she would go crazy, saying she wouldn’t accept it unless it was a gift from Philap.
He was confused because lately, he couldn’t predict his sister’s behavior at all.
To the extent that he suffered from severe headaches every night and lost his appetite.
“Shit.”
He let out a swear word and roughly swept up his long hair.
“How the hell could this happen!!”
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