Episode 45

'What time is it?'

Elisha opened her eyes helplessly. Her whole body felt like wet cotton. Looking around her, there was a magic tool light on in the half-dark room.

The moment she opened her eyes, she felt someone pull her body. It was Lucerne hugging her from behind and pulling her.

Elisha swallowed her sigh. The tingling sensation was still lingering in her body.

'I can't believe the day went by like this.'

Eat breakfast……. And it was night. She barely got up. Lucerne put her head on her head and watched Elisha rise.

“Wash up. She wears pretty clothes too. I need to eat dinner.”

Elisha nodded her head.

“I will wash first.”

“Come in your street clothes.”

Elisha's eyes widened.

“Is it this time?”

“It's just dinner time. The meal I couldn't eat last time, I have to.”

Elisha's whole body was sore and tired, but she was not immobilized. Though she wondered, she headed to her bathroom.

*​ *​ *​

A languid performance echoed through the hall. Elisha and Lucerne were sitting side by side in the hotel restaurant.

In the evening, the high-end restaurant was full. It was clear that most of the wealthy men and women dressed up like Dukes had come for a tryst or a date.

'Everyone is looking at Lucerne.'

The women at the table had been glancing at Lucerne from earlier.

'Is it because he's handsome or because he recognizes me?'

It was already 8 PM. The only thing I had was having sex and hanging out all day. Elisha was still sleepy. Her whole body was drained of strength, and the only feeling that supported her body was drowsiness.

On the other hand, she couldn't find her disheveled appearance until now, and Lucerne, who wore her neat suit and tossed her hair, looked like a different person.

Elisha let Lucerne order her menu.

'It's a restaurant attached to a hotel.'

Elisha looked around. It was because she wondered if the princess might appear.

“What are you looking for?”

“No……. He suddenly asked me to come here, so I was wondering if there was someone I should be introduced to.”

“I'm having dinner with my wife, who should I introduce?”

“…….”

So. A very realistic question arose from Elisha's point of view, whether that was something she had to do with her real wife. Besides, Lucerne seemed strangely in good spirits.

It was then.

“Yeah, a cross-dressing man attacked me. They're coming to get me, they're coming to get me!”

A sudden uproar shook the hotel. There was a spiral staircase on the wall of the restaurant, everyone knew that it led to the second floor of the hotel. A man ran down the stairs in a panic.

'What is that like?'

However, the man's appearance was spectacle. Her lower body was half-naked with only underwear on, a woman's bustier hung around her neck, and a torn silk shawl, also feminine, hung over her shoulders. Even the woman's girdle fell behind him as he rushed forward.

“What is it, like that wife who was having an affair came in and ran away!”

Someone muttered. Laughter spread among the people at her insane man's appearance.

'That person…….'

Elisha recognized the man.

'The Marquis of Fullmoon?'

She was Carola's biological father, the Marquis of Fullmoon. Usually, the married couple, Geum-seul, was the object of envy for the Marquis of Fullmoon. That he's running around the hotel like he's on drugs?

'He was an object of fear to me in my previous life.'

Her dissolute and unruly nature of her carola came from her home environment, which raised her up and raised her. She's not spoiled by everyone being pampered, but she was in Carola's case.

Especially in her previous life, Carola couldn't stand the fact that Jacob's henchman was a woman. Strangely, she hated Elisha, for reasons she later found out.

'My mother had her fortune told a while ago, and she said the fortuneteller said that. There is a sinister woman attached to Jacob's side. She says that bitch takes all of Carola's men. Seriously, you're the only woman clinging to Jacob right now!'

It was such an odd reason. Not only that, she used her father's power to bully her Elisha.

One day, she took trouble between Jacob and Elisha and dragged her father and had her men grab her by the head, shake her, spit on her, and harass her.

'Where does a slut lay her hands on my daughter's man! My daughter was upset and cried because of you!'

She must have heard that. She was terribly miserable. I don't remember exactly what happened to her before and after that, but…….

'What was that situation?'

I was confused because there was so much trouble with her carola. In any case, she was the same man Elisha hated.

'There are definitely parts of her memory that are incomplete……. I remember most of her things, but…….'

Elisha was lost in her thoughts for a moment. Then people started whispering.

“That person is the Marquis of Fulmoon! Someone did it!”

“Oh my gosh! I must have done something perverted in this hotel!”

Lucerne sipped her wine with her laid-back, agreeable face.

“Why do you look like that? Are you sorry for that person?”

“I know who it is, and I feel sorry for him.”

Elisha let go of the hour hand.

“It's the Marquis of Fullmoon. He's Carola's father.”

Elisha saw Lucerne. Could this person……. Inside Elisha, her doubts bloomed.

“Okay? Carola grew up that way because her father was such a person.”

Elisha said timidly. Lucerne seemed to be quite pleased with that statement. Because he seemed happy.

The Marquis Fullmoon was talking nonsense among the employees who tried to dissuade him.

“No- I mean, I am innocent. A transvestite man pretended to be a woman and seduced me……. She entered the room and……. It beat me all of a sudden……. No……. I…….”

Suddenly, Elisha had an appetite. Elisha resumed her meal, which had been breaking her. She drank the wine in good spirits.

“It was an interesting sight.”

Lucerne said nonchalantly.

“Yes, I must be a crazy person.”

“Unless someone messed with your head.”

At Lucerne's words, Elisha's suspicion deepened. She didn't dig in though. She had to dig in. There was nothing Elisha could do.

“Tasty?”

“Yes. Very nice. I like this restaurant.”

Although it bothered him that Lucerne was staring at him strangely. It was not a bad evening. No. It was more than that.

'I feel cold inside. It feels good.'

The corners of Elisha's mouth rose slightly before she knew it. As soon as Lucerne's eyes met, her expression disappeared.

For a moment, Lucerne's eyes lingered on looking at Elisha. Elisha couldn't believe that expression was mistaken, she did.

*​ *​ *​

Lucerne asked quietly in the carriage on the way home.

“Where did you get the cook?”

Elisha understood her question without difficulty. Her question was that while she was away from Lucerne, she had hired a new cook to improve her mansion's meals.

“I went to the plaza, grabbed people, and asked if there was a big inn that had the best food around here for a decent price,” She says. Of course, I asked the butler to ask him instead. After several names came up, she chose one of them and scouted it.”

Lucerne silently listened to Elisha's story.

“Before that, cooks were even in charge of cooking for the people in the mansion. I put a cooking bottle under the chef. Ah. Inside the mansion, cooks may follow the instructions of the private chef.”

“Did you learn that from Archbishop Rosaria?”

“He doesn't tell you the right answer, he tells you how. When you need something, go to the right place, decide who to ask the question to and get the answer.”

The answer was as smooth as a polished jewel. Lucerne nodded in agreement.

“Then, where did you learn how to read books and how did you decide where to get your ingredients?”

“I learned how to read ledgers at the monastery. We renegotiated the supply of food ingredients with our existing customers. Too many old ingredients were thrown away.”

Lucerne's eyes lit up with interest. Elisha thought she was a good sign. Lucerne was never a person to spend a long time on something he was not interested in.

“Since when have you been so smart? From birth?”

Elisha felt a little better because she seemed to be recognized by Lucerne. She was not very confident in herself as a woman. She was, however, quite proud of her work ability, which had saved her life in her previous life.

“As a child, I had no money. My father……. They didn't pay for my monastic stay. Then, at the monastery, they only feed us rice. So I needed money.”

“By the way?”

“At the time, whenever I went to a village near the monastery, I took a close look at the market. And, I found that branded cheeses and wines sold for more than other products.”

Lucerne lightly nodded his head. It meant I was listening.

“I made the trademark of the monastery where I grew up.”

Elisha made a request to the priest who was taking care of her. She said that the wine brewed at the monastery was brewed one by one by receiving the morning dew and promoting it to the priests.

“It sold for exactly double the price. After that incident, Miss Rosaria called me and made me her direct disciple.”

The reason Elisha brought up the matter was to make Lucerne believe in herself. She thought that if she told the truth about the past like this, she would understand that Elisha knew a lot, considering that she was locked up and doing laundry.

In fact, the reason Elisha from her previous life survived was all thanks to Rosaria's work in which she learned a lot of her knowledge.

“It's really great. Did I get caught by you or did you pull me?”

“…….”

“Every phrase is very touching and true, should I say it is rather suspicious. If she was already that smart at fourteen, she must have lived twice as many lives as anyone else.”

Elisha was startled. Lucerne was really good.