Episode 50
Last night, Elisha had a dream of a vanished future. She felt strangely uneasy.
'I should go shopping.'
I thought I should only half believe Lucerne's words. The man was better off with a knife in his mouth. If he spoke out of his mouth, it was clear that he was doing it all for fun.
The man who said that even a woman like Elisha in her previous life was pretty was that man.
“Nora, I'm going out. Would you like to come with me?”
“All right. Lady.”
Elisha will only take her Nora with her as her escort, she tells Lucerne. Lucerne said yes.
* * *
'I should take this opportunity to be favored by the madam too.'
Nora secretly developed an ambition.
It seemed that Lapis went to visit her without being called by Elisha and started talking about things first.
When he said five times that he was the only knight who was treated to tea, all Sid were annoyed. Even so, I was envious of myself.
'If I go with you, I can look after the womb!'
Elisha's maid, Sophie, took care of her needs, she said.
Originally, when she went shopping with the lady, the maid would get a ribbon from the store as a bonus.
In addition, Sophie was very upset that she was able to pamper her eyes and blow her nose with beautiful things. Of course, Nora didn't know about that.
'Madam, you are very pretty. It's really cool.'
Nora decided that if Elisha asked her opinion while shopping, she would answer that.
“Nora, are you okay? After all, is this kind of store inconvenient?”
Elisha looked at her hat and she asked. Nora misses the opportunity she has to tell Elisha on the 15th that she is 'very pretty' and she gets a little somber.
“I'm sorry, Nora. It's my personal schedule. After all, this schedule is boring, isn't it?”
“No! It's not like that. I am…….”
“Yes?”
Nora shut her mouth. She was too talkative. Perhaps she should learn familiarity and affection from her master of crossdressing, Ian. Nora quickly slumped.
“Nora?”
“No…….”
* * *
Elisha walked slowly down the street. Where aristocrats gathered, money circulated, and high-end shops popped up without fail. High-end shopping districts were also concentrated in Yurif.
'Madam……. You like shopping.'
Nora didn't notice that while Elisha was out shopping, she looked closely at the announcements in her office near the city hall or what she didn't know what she was doing.
“Can I take a look at this office for a minute?”
Elisha stopped at the Eurif branch of Spencer's real estate agency. Nora glanced there and realized that it was the place she had previously stopped by in the capital.
“It's a real estate office.”
Elisha thought that Nora might report her own doings to her Lucerne today.
“Yes. I heard at yesterday's party that all the noble ladies have villas or hotel memberships in Yurif. After hearing that, I think I need to look into it as a study to match the assortment of stories. That's all.”
Nora was convinced by Elisha's explanation.
'You ladies have a lot to study. Madame is so delicate, and she's busy just managing the household, so it must be hard.'
Nora naively agreed. It was then. I heard someone's voice in the office.
“I'll pay any amount, so make sure to make it happen! Got it? I absolutely need the land.”
The clear voice is Marco's wife. It was Arien's voice.
Elisha involuntarily raised her finger to the corner of her mouth and brought it. Nora caught her Elisha's will and held her breath. The door was slightly open.
“So if it comes up at auction, ask me to make a proxy bid. I have saved a few good names.”
The office was very small, and luckily there was no one on the street. Elisha could hear her voice clearly as she continued.
“Listen. My name will never be revealed. I want to be able to purchase it under a borrowed name. Can you? I heard that things like this can be eaten as a piece of cake.”
Elisha stepped out of her way across the alley. Soon the door opened, and Arienne looked around several times, walked the three blocks, and got into her carriage.
“He just…….”
“Yes. This is Arien, Marco's wife. She saw her face in the Duchess. What is this person up to?”
Everyone knew that the grandsons of the duchy were real enemies, exchanging assassins when they were bored.
Nora also regarded them as enemies. In fact, there were times when Lucerne's army suffered damage due to Jacob's or Marco's schemes.
Then Nora saw Elisha's expression on her face. She was Elisha, the ever-kind lady to Nora, but at that moment she seemed like a stranger.
She was like a flower submerged in deep water, she seemed to be an unknown being. She was lost in thought, motionless. Before long, Elisha removed her hand from her mouth.
“Nora, I have a favor. I will give you gold coins. Go inside and give the staff this gold coin. And can Arien find out what land she wants?”
Nora studied Elisha's expression in her face and nodded her head.
“Okay, but why would your wife…….”
“It's embarrassing.”
Elisha whispered.
“As I heard at the party yesterday, Carolana Arien……. The wives of the grandchildren of the other Dukes of Cartier were not ordinary bets. It is said that she hears that she is no different from her husband's staff. Me too, so I want to get some information. You have to get down to make money.”
Nora didn't like that. Nora hoped that Elisha would be kind and pretty like this. But she couldn't refuse Elisha's request, so she nodded her head and said yes.
If she had known the consequences of her actions, Nora would never have obeyed Elisha.
* * *
Lucerne did business from inside a hotel room. He had a lot of other things to do when he came to the capital. Thanks to being in a city just a short distance from the capital, quite a few telegrams arrived last night alone.
“Excuse me.”
In the meantime, there was a knock on the door.
“I think he came again.”
Ian sighed and opened the door. A hotel clerk was standing with a red box full. Lucerne nodded and Ian took the box. Near the sofa, there was a pile of gift boxes that had already arrived.
Ordered by: Elisha de Lorre
Violet Dressing Room.
“Look what this time.”
“No, I'm not looking at things, this is a safety inspection. Um, stockings. Silver.”
When Lucerne heard the word stockings, she laughed once. Ian pretended not to see the scene.
“Close it now.”
“Ah, yes.”
Ian carefully wrapped the box again.
“It seems that the madam is enjoying a break, so that's good. Didn't you say it was the trip that the lady originally wanted?”
“Yeah, it has a cute side.”
As soon as morning came, Elisha went out to the streets to shop, and as if showing off, she continued to deliver her goods to the hotel room she shared with Lucerne. Lucerne was very funny because her actions felt like a kind of protest.
She was a woman with a tingling taste. It was the right kind of thrill to roll on her tongue. Even as a child, he was a child who always ate bitter candies that stung his tongue.
But it's not weird The more you swallow, the sweeter you feel. Lucerne thought.
Then there was a knock.
* * *
The door opened and Nora came in. Nora was holding many boxes in her arms.
“Is that yours too?”
Ian accepted the box instead. Nora nodded her head.
“My wife.”
Lucerne said without looking away from her.
“He's having a cup of tea in the salon downstairs.”
“Okay. Did nothing happen?”
Nora hesitated. Only then did Lucerne raise her head.
“Why.”
“As you instructed, I followed closely whatever my wife was doing, and stayed by my side. By the way…….”
“By the way?”
“You seem very upset. It's a bit complicated, to say the least…….”
Ian also raised her head.
“If I have violated any military decree, please punish me.”
“What are you talking about.”
At Lucerne's words, Nora slowly let her out.
“Actually, it seems that my wife and I have been to a dangerous place. However, that is not certain either. So…….”
Lucerne's brow furrowed slightly at the words that followed.
“Her wife is hurt?”
* * *
Nora's report was full of strange words indeed.
She said, “She saw Arien on the road.”
“Yes. By the way……. She suddenly said that the madam asked to go to the land.”
“Is she the land of Yurif that Arien said she wanted to buy?”
“Yes. The land was right nearby.”
“Did you follow that again?”
“My wife was moving so fast that she couldn't help it. I didn't want to use her brute force to stop it. But what a strange……. It was It was just a flat plain in the middle of an empty forest where no grass grows.”
“What is so special about that?”
Frustrated, Ian asked again.