Chapter 28
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 28
Banquet (6)
The servants of the Grand Duchy were waiting exactly at the corner of Birtz clothing store.
They continuously tailed Allen. When he tried to step out of the Academy, they cheered inwardly.
Because if they committed the crime inside the Academy, the possibility was high of being caught that it was an act they performed.
When they got a little far from the Academy, they intended to cause a carriage accident.
Because it would be a matter of disguising it as an accident that happened coincidentally because the horse got excited.
However, there was one completely unexpected part.
"To think the Grand Duchess would be with him."
Aniel suddenly joining in the middle.
Facing an unexpected problem, they didn't have the guts to commit a carriage accident on the carriage Aniel was riding.
If they make a mistake and the Grand Duke receives the news that she also got injured and couldn't attend the banquet, he wouldn't let it pass quietly then.
After investigating thoroughly, he would probably try to dig up that it was a crime they committed.
They didn't want to be driven as the Grand Duchess's assassins all of a sudden.
"What should we do?"
"What do you mean. We have no choice but to even do robbery."
"Senior. Are you crazy? Have you forgotten where this is?"
They intended to commit violence only towards Allen aiming for the moment he gets off the carriage.
But hearing this, others were astonished and dissuaded him.
"This is in front of Birtz clothing store. That Birtz clothing store."
Birtz clothing store, evaluated as the very best even among clothing stores.
This wasn't a place just anyone could enter and leave. Those they dealt with as customers were all Marquis or above by title, but this was merely the first gateway.
Even royal families of other countries were anxious because they couldn't commission Birtz clothing store.
Even the imperial family of the Empire had to get reservations and wait. There were only two people subject to exemption from reservations.
One was the Emperor, the master of the Empire, and the other was Aniel who just entered.
The reason they preferred Birtz clothing store wasn't just because of luxurious designs.
If it's a clothing store with good skills, they could just find other places. But nevertheless, there was a reason nobles envied this place.
"This place is thorough in security to a level comparable to the Imperial Bank. If a disturbance erupts in front of here, Senior will be arrested in the act."
Birtz clothing store possessed diamonds and jewels counted in the continent, and even rare Eastern raw materials.
As it was a place possessing what even the Emperor didn't have, what was scattered near the store was the security force.
"Then how on earth should we....."
"Oh my, your words were correct. Rats were really hiding here indeed."
The moment they tried to put their heads together and share a conversation, a dark shadow suddenly visited.
"Why, why are you like this!"
"We are absolutely not suspicious people. We can also prove our identities."
When they came to their senses, it was already right after being surrounded by the security force.
The servants were only a little flustered and tried to respond calmly.
Thinking that they were probably trying to arrest them by misunderstanding considering them suspicious.
"Y, you are...!"
"Look here, what's wrong."
"How is that person for you to be like that."
But only one person among the servants had a different reaction.
She realized the existence of the woman standing right under her nose.
"Because the Grand Duchess requested in person. Saying rats are tailing her as they please, so take care of them on your own."
The fact that that woman standing in front of them was the very owner of Birtz clothing store, Madam Katy.
"So please arrest them all."
***
"It seems messy outside?"
"It's not something worth caring much about, so don't worry."
"I see."
Before getting off the carriage, Aniel sent some signal with a glance to the guard standing by the window.
After a little time passed like that, a familiar figure appeared in front of us.
"It is nice to meet you again. Grand Duchess and Little Head Wiesent."
"Was the matter handled well?"
"Yes, I have handled it."
It seemed that signal was a signal informing Madam Katy that we visited.
Like that, we got off the carriage and entered Birtz clothing store following Madam Katy's guidance.
Madam Katy guided us immediately to the place where the clothes were as if there was no need to wait.
"I would have touched it up a little more if more time was given, but sadly this is the best right now."
"Is this perhaps my clothes?"
"Yes, that is correct."
When asked about the desired style after checking measurements, since I had no particular knowledge regarding clothes, I said anything appropriately.
Unlike wondering if she had a lot of difficulty because I didn't express it accurately, my completed uniform was very sophisticated beyond what I thought.
"Is it really okay for me to wear this."
A uniform that looks like it would suit a prince, for me?
At the moment I was having such imaginations, someone placed a hand on my shoulder.
Turning my head to check, Aniel was at that spot.
"You bought it with your money. Those clothes are yours."
"Ah...."
Come to think of it, I paid 2,000 Rupees.
But coming like this and seeing it directly, these clothes were absolutely not a 2,000 Rupee level.
From the material of the clothes to the level of diamonds embedded everywhere, although I haven't met them a few times, I wondered if it wasn't a level that only royalty would use.
I hesitated for a moment, but soon accepted the clothes.
'Because continuing to refuse is not polite either.'
It's something Aniel did for me. If I keep refusing, her mood would also get hurt.
Above all, today I had to be Aniel's partner.
Which means I had to become the most stylish person more than anyone else.
So I decided to accept. With a mind that I will surely repay later.
"Thank you. Grand Duchess."
Bowing my head, I raised a greeting of thanks towards Aniel.
Wondering what number of thanks this already is, if I am only by her side, things to be thankful for keep increasing.
Probably she would also be sick of it by this point. While thinking the same, Aniel nodded calmly and said.
"Come out wearing it. Because I want to see your appearance wearing it."
***
In a spot where they became just the two of them with Allen disappearing, Madam Katy quietly approached Aniel and whispered.
"How would it be good to handle them?"
While there were those pleading they did wrong, there were also those shouting to call the Grand Duke.
But since there was no need to convey that, Katy only asked Aniel's intention.
"Detain them all until the banquet is over."
Aniel is not an idiot.
She knew the person they tailed was Allen, not herself. And the reason they tailed Allen was revealed without thinking deeply.
To ruin today. As soon as she thought of it, unpleasantness crawled up in Aniel.
Trying to live as she wishes even a little in a life lived doing as the family told her, to think such interference comes in.
'Along with even aiming for Allen.'
If she had her way, she wanted to issue an order to kill them right now, but Aniel endured patiently.
Since she didn't want to dirty a good day by them unnecessarily.
"It wouldn't be late to do the work after everything is over."
"You have become merciful."
Madam Katy raised the corners of her mouth. If it were the her of old days, she would have instructed to send them all to the borderland without mercy.
Or she would have issued a punishment equivalent to that immediately. But waiting without doing so, she seemed sufficiently merciful.
"The Grand Duchess's outfit wasn't modified much from what you saw before."
"It doesn't matter. Since I just tagged along today."
Talking about the outfit for today, Aniel didn't show any particular reaction.
To her, it didn't matter how clothes were. She would just be satisfied as long as the discomfort of wearing it around wasn't big.
"Will you be okay speaking like that?"
"With what."
"You never know. The Little Head's gaze might be distracted by another person or something."
"....."
"Ah, I heard Princess Lucia will also attend the banquet wearing a dress we made."
Then Madam Katy smiled insidiously and said.
The moment she heard those words, Aniel frowned.
There was nothing to react to. Because Allen had said she was beautiful exactly as she heard in the carriage.
Even if she goes there, clearly no person comparable to herself would be seen.
But an unknown anxiety spread in Aniel's mind. What if, as Madam Katy said, he sees another woman and harbors feelings.....?
'What does that have to do with me.'
That her relationship with him is strictly master and disciple. Whoever Allen harbors in his mind, it wasn't a matter she could involve herself in.
But, nevertheless....
".... Tell me what would be good to do."
It was the first time in her life.
That the thought occurred wanting to look good to another person.
Hearing Aniel's answer, Katy smiled brightly and said.
"Then follow me! Because today I will make the Grand Duchess the most beautiful woman on this continent!"
Following Katy who nagged saying there is no time, Aniel bit her lip.
Because there were too many things to care about regarding women's adornment.
***
"Ha. To think a man of my level has to come visit the Academy directly."
"Indeed, it is so. Young Master Albert."
Albert Robiesh.
Since his father was the highly renowned Marquis Robiesh and his mother was the Emperor's younger sister, he was a descendant of a prestigious family, a royalty, and the Emperor's nephew.
Especially, thanks to buying the Emperor's favor unlike other royalty, he could visit the Imperial Palace like his own house since childhood.
Perhaps because of that, he didn't know his nose was high and always acted arrogantly as if he became the Emperor's biological child.
It was the same right now too.
"The Grand Duchess must think it an honor that I am visiting directly."
"Haha. Of course. Ah, we have arrived at the Academy."
Seeing that he thinks of Aniel like his subordinate despite her status clearly being higher than his.
'Still, thinking of her face, coming here wouldn't be bad either.'
Although he was a little annoyed until coming here, Albert recalled the portrait of the woman he saw.
That portrait overflowing with elegance and giving a completely different feeling from other women.
Albert wanted to face Aniel quickly.
'I want to meet her quickly.'
Whether she matches that portrait exactly.
But a strange thing occurred.
"Until when on earth do I have to wait!"
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