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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 86
Chapter Title: A Peaceful Afternoon
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The next afternoon.
Lellia was in Romeo's chambers, breaking out in a cold sweat as she spoke with the two men.
Calix and Romeo were pressing her for details about ‘Leo.’
Lellia answered with a careful mix of truth and lies.
Fortunately, a visitor arrived just then—someone she recognized.
It was an employee from the tailor shop she had visited just yesterday.
The employee recognized Lellia and Romeo as well and greeted them politely. It appeared the alterations on the clothes they had purchased yesterday were complete.
“Where would you like us to place the garments you purchased?”
At a gesture from Romeo, Lellia led them to her own chambers next door.
The workers accompanying the employee brought in a multitude of trunks.
‘Wait, why does it look like there are far more trunks than what we bought yesterday?’
Lellia stared, bewildered, at the massive pile of trunks stacked in front of her dressing room.
Once the workers had left, Lellia hurried back to Romeo’s chambers.
Inside, the employee from the tailor shop was handing Romeo a piece of paper that looked like a receipt, asking for his signature.
Once Romeo signed it, the employee bowed deeply.
“Please visit us again anytime. Ah! Or you may simply send word to our shop. We would be happy to send our finest tailor directly to you.”
After the employee left, Lellia turned to Romeo.
“Lord Romeo, there are far more clothes here than what we bought yesterday. Don't you think there's been some kind of mistake?”
Lellia looked as if she was about to chase after the employee who had just left, but Romeo simply waved a dismissive hand.
“No, that's all correct. I placed an additional order for some other garments in a similar style.”
“…Why? Why?”
“Isn't that a normal amount of clothes to have?”
Romeo looked baffled, as if he couldn't believe she even had to ask.
His spending habits were truly beyond imagination, likely because he was still receiving support from the imperial family.
Lellia suddenly felt like a commoner. She cleared her throat and said she would gratefully accept them.
It wasn't as if she'd never handled large sums of money herself.
She had earned a small fortune through her own business ventures, so Romeo's spending habits weren't all that shocking. It was just that the ‘Alchemy Lottery’ had taken it all away…
Lellia casually sat on the sofa and sipped the tea a servant had brought her.
Just like yesterday, Calix was sprawled out on the opposite sofa, and Romeo had started to read a book.
Lellia stole a glance at the two of them.
‘It feels like a dream.’
The peaceful scene before her made her heart flutter. She was truly happy these days, being able to see the friends she had missed so dearly every day.
Even if those friends could be infuriating at times, of course.
‘I wonder if Griffith and Oscar are doing well, too?’
As she thought this, she glanced down at her teacup, and her pleasant reverie shattered like glass.
‘Anyway, what am I going to do about the tea party tomorrow?’
Lellia tried to recall her experience attending her Aunt Atias's tea party a year or two ago.
She wracked her brain, trying to remember how the noblemen at the party had acted and spoken, but nothing came to mind clearly.
‘Oh well, it'll work out somehow. I'll just stick close to Lute.’
Still, it was a relief.
Thanks to Romeo, at least she had something to wear to the tea party tomorrow.
Lellia suddenly looked back at her friends and asked.
“So… is there really no one willing to go to the tea party with me tomorrow?”
Calix shot her a sidelong glance, crossed his arms, and promptly pretended to be asleep.
“……”
And Romeo, with a particularly smug look on his face, mouthed the word, ‘No.’
“……”
