Episode 69

After a month in her hospital bed, Elisha was starting to get genuinely bored. She united Lucerne, her knights, and the butler, and she often told Elisha to go back to her room as soon as she thought her walk would be long.

Then, an unexpected person came to visit.

“Elisha. It's been a while.”

“Princess, I'm glad you came.”

Elisha gave an example. Ilione hated it and sat Elisha down.

“Sit down please. She was hurt, she said. Actually. I wanted to come to the hospital from last month, but Lucerne said that hospital visits were not allowed.”

“Is it?”

Elisha wondered why Lucerne blocked her visit, but she didn't dig too deep.

“Thank you for coming, but I wasn't seriously hurt.”

“I guess so. But it's nice to see your face.”

Elisha thought that Ilione's attitude towards her had changed a bit.

She hadn't felt like she liked her that much before. But now she seemed to be interested in Elisha.

“How are you these days? It's socialite season, so I'm very bored and busy.”

She grumbled. Ilione was both a bureaucrat and a soldier. But since she was a princess, she couldn't be completely free in social circles.

“I am just spending time at home. Because her husband said she couldn't go out yet.”

“Ah, I'm hurt, so I can't help it. It's a pity I didn't get to see that golden ticket party.”

“A gold ticket party?”

“I don't know?”

Ilione said as if she was even more surprised.

“There are so many women wearing gold dresses and black shawls, so noble ladies jokingly call it a gold ticket party.”

“Do you think gold is in fashion?”

“You really don't know……. That's what Elisha made popular.”

“Yes?”

Ilione's next words were spectacle.

“I heard that Elisha's momentum in a bloody dress walking out of the city hall with her stagger that day was so wonderful. I wish I could have seen it myself. Besides, she won that auction. Do you really not know that you and I all started wearing a black shawl with a gold dress, as if her appearance was impressive?”

If it was a black shawl, there was something to straw with. To hide her bleeding, Elisha put a tablecloth over her shoulder like a shawl to stop the bleeding.

“Everything is fashionable.”

At the same time, Elisha thought people were really unruly. It was clear why people paid attention to this auction.

To have a sense of superiority that the people of the Cartier family, who have everything in the world, are competing in vain and are inferior to me. That was it.

But now, the appearance of Elisha at the auction was cool.

“Besides Lucerne, no, with the general…….”

“What are the two of us?”

Ilione coughed. In fact, the popularity of the Lucerne and Elisha couple was soaring day by day.

…… In a slightly odd way.

'They say they have intercourse for days and days because they are so unreserved. After having sex once, the bed splits in half!'

'You know. What a terrible woman she is, even the daughters-in-law of the Cartier family pass by with their eyes closed in front of the general's wife.'

'You're just like my husband! There is no such thing as Yuyusangjong! A poisonous snake's mate is a poisonous snake.'

A snake-like, sexy couple. A couple crazy about color and winning.

The image of the frenzied sex symbol couple was now the Lucerne couple in the capital's social scene. Even commoners were spreading its fame.

Besides, what about the Black Lion Knights? Even the bizarre behavior of the knights, who went crazy because their mistress was injured, was making Elisha a unique and mysterious being.

“What…… I guess I'm getting famous?”

“Because her husband is so famous.”

“Yes…… Is it?”

Elisha tilted her head. She wanted to ask more, but then Ilione turned her back. It was a pretty interesting story.

“Do you know anything? I heard that Carola broke into her first-rate dressing room and grabbed one of her staff by the hair.”

Elisha's eyebrows moved slightly. There was something to catch up on.

That day, Carola said as she caught Elisha exiting her auction. Carola's eyes were filled with annoyance and anger.

'Okay. Her auction is an auction. Why did she copy Carola?'

'Yes?'

'I just found out, Elisha has the same flower decoration on her dress as Carola's. This is a flower decoration that she wears only in her dressing room where Carola goes! Right? Doesn't she fit Carola's dressing room outfit?'

Do you want to question that even in this situation? Elisha thought Carola was a wonderful person.

She said, 'How the hell did you find out where Carola's dressing room is? Did you figure out my dress beforehand? It's so strange that someone like you comes in prettier clothes than Carola. You're cowardly!'

Elisha realized that Carola was deliberately taking time off to make her suffer. At the time she was bleeding because Elisha had been stabbed by her sword.

Elisha, she said, had only one word.

'I do not know. If it were me, I'd crack down on the female staff at the dressing room I go to.'

So it wouldn't have been a problem for Carola to find her employee, Lulu, who was bribed by Elisha.

She said, “Carola must have made it big.”

“Yes. One of her young employees leaked her own dress, dragged her ladies-in-waiting, threw her in the middle of the street, pulled her hair and slapped her on the face. Was it an uproar? I guess so.”

She deserved to know. Elisha imagined the arrogant employee Lulu getting beaten up by her ladies-in-waiting. She was quite convincingly imagined.

“If you look at it that way, it must have been bought.”

“By the way, Carola, she is a woman of her own character. Until the end, she said, 'Carola is so scary.' 'I know you think of Carola, but don't hit her too hard.' She pretended not to have me do it. The ladies-in-waiting said that if there was a problem, they would step out on their own, and it was their intention to blame it.”

“I am not surprised. I heard she always wears them.”

Besides, Carola's maids-in-waiting were fierce and had great hand strength. Elisha had been beaten several times in her past life, so she knew.

“No matter how inferior I am, I won't do anything like hiding behind the ladies-in-waiting.”

Ilione said firmly. Elisha agreed with that.

“So what happened?”

“Yes. But she said that in the dressing room, she fired that low-level employee. She says she never let her set foot on the floor again. I'm sorry, what.”

“I see.”

Elisha answered calmly, but she thought inwardly.

People, in front of her desires, commit the same obvious sins. Maybe life is a repetition of sadistic clichés.

Elisha and Ilione chatted.

“By the way, Princess. I'm really glad you came, but is there any other reason you're here today?”

“No. Just…….”

Illione put on a slightly embarrassed expression when Elisha asked straight away.

“I'm thinking of getting to know Elisha a bit.”

“Me and…… Are you talking?”

“Truth be told. I was worried that the general would meet Elisha and she would go the wrong way. For example, I wonder if I will participate in a futile competition and do stupid things like Marco and Jacob.”

“…… You have expressed your concerns.”

“But she saw that she had won the auction until Elisha was stabbed by her. I realized that I was narrow-minded. There is no vain competition in the world. Elisha took it seriously and risked her life. It was pretty cool.”

Ilione continued. As much as she was her daughter-in-law, she usually looked down on ordinary ladies and young ladies a little. She went through this and through Elisha she reflected on herself.

'That's amazing.'

Elisha was surprised inside. Really……. If she were Elisha, she wouldn't have been able to admit her own dark feelings so easily.

Ilione was a sparkling person. Previously, she wouldn't have been able to talk to or be friendly with such a shiny person. She felt it every time, but Elisha was amazed at how her current life changed in an instant.

“Therefore……. Will you accept my apology?”

“Why are you apologizing when you haven't done anything wrong? I'm not good at socializing, so I'd be happy if you could come.”

Elisha said calmly. Ilione's face was overflowing with joy. Ilione promised the next thing and went back.

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'I guess I can move slowly.'

Elisha looked at her calendar. The capital, which had been quiet for a while, was now moving. She knocked on her calendar.

It was the time of the election of the great pope.

'This election for the pope must be quite tumultuous.'

How can there be no fun when a dead adult comes back to life? Elisha checked some information.

In this short amount of time, she felt like a villain. It was because it felt quite rewarding to coordinate various plans in my head. A small arc was drawn on the corner of Elisha's mouth and then disappeared.