CHAPTER 67

'Why is Lizzy doing this all of a sudden? Does it really have anything to do with me meeting the step 2 exception?'

I was into that thought, but suddenly, Cliff said something else.

"Oh! Do you happen to know a maid named Savina?"

"Yes? Who?"

"Savina."

"No. It's a name I've never heard before. What does it look like?"

". . . . .It's a slightly skinny maid with a mixture of hair and chestnut hair. She usually carried the laundry."

"Hmmm. . . . . I'm sorry. The laundry that comes in or goes out of my room was managed by Anna and Sophia, so I don't remember well. But what's wrong with the maid? What's going on?"

Cliff smiled slightly when I asked. It was a very uncomfortable feeling.

"I see. It would have been better if you had known."

"What?"

"Ah, I thought I'd promote her if she had a good reputation."

"I see. I'm sorry, I don't know the names of all of the maids in the mansion yet."

"Well, that's all right."

Cliff finished his tea with a strange smile.

"Anyway, don't forget to give it a try. If it goes well, it's will be good for both of us. isn't it?"

"Haa. . . . .is that so?"

I wasn't expecting much. I was just worried that it would be like stimulating the memories of being with Lizzy for no reason. However, there is not much time left until the episode where my hair branches fly away. I have to try everything I can.

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"Look at that, Killian! It's so cute!"

Lizzy, who had been out together for the first time in a while, smiled as she pointed to the show window of a common store on Le Belmari Street. In the show window, there were music boxes and glass crafts that were said to have been imported from abroad.

"That's cute. Do you want me to buy it for you?"

From Killian's point of view, it was like expensive and pretty trash, but I thought it was because Lizzy said it was pretty and cute.

"No. I just said it because it was cute."

But Killian took Lizzy in and bought the things she pointed at. The music box, which was made by one of the top three craftsmen in the world, it was 200,000 sena, and the rabbit-shaped glass decoration, which was imported from a famous production area of glass, was 18,000 sena.

"It's really good. . . . ."

Lizzy, who was embarrassed while Killian was paying, received the gift and stretched her eyebrows again.

"I just bought it for you because I wanted to buy it for you. Because there's not many times left to buy you something like this?"

"Yes? Killian, are you going somewhere?"

"When i got the title sooner or later, i'll go down to the manor."

"Uh, when are you going?"

"Well. . . . .Maybe early next year?"

Killian smiled quietly at Lizzy's regretful parting from him.

"Edith, come with you too?"

The question is a bit strange. It's like asking for the obvious, and like wanting certainty, that's quite impossible.

"Isn't it obvious? Of course, Edith will miss her life in the capital, but as a lord's wife, she can't help but follow."

"That's right. . . ."

"What's wrong?"

"Well, It's just a pity. Because I don't have many friends. . . . ."

The strange atmosphere soon dissipated. Killian thought Lizzy deserved to be sad when he remembered that she didn't have many friends at her age. As we talked about it, we arrived at our destination.

"Oh, we're here."

The two went into a luxury shoe store together.

"Welcome! Ah! You're here to pick up your shoes!"

"Yes."

The shop owner immediately remembered the two dazzlingly beautiful people. Then he took out one of the boxes on the shelf, and he unwrapped it in front of them.

"The shape done very well. Try them on."

Lizzy sat down with a shy smile and pulled out her feet. The shoes were covered with cream satin and decorated with ribbons and diamond buckles on the top of the feet. Killian clearly remembered the day he came to fit these shoes. It was a few days before the fake document leak. Lizzy who smiles sadly, saying that Edith is smarter and better at her work that she has never learned. Then he came out to comfort Lizzy. I think that day, Edith also mentioned that she was going out with her maid.

"They say good shoes take you to good places."

He bought it while saying those words. It was meant to comfort her, but it also meant to say goodbye to her. Originally, he wanted to be a "good place" for Lizzy, but he was sad by the fact that he could no longer hold her in his arms, and he bought the shoes with that thought. Well, how deceitful the human mind is. He absolutely felt so desperate then, but now he was okay about it.

'My love is only this much, so I guess that why i lost to Cliff.'

Come to think of it, Cliff bet everything he had into Lizzy. It was terrifying to see at times. Perhaps he letting Killian fall in love with Lizzy, it was Cliff playing to make Lizzy his own slowly.

"The day will come to you the thing that made you happier and get a better in life, Killian. I think you and Edith are a good match."

I remembered my mother's words that had once angered me. At the time, I thought it would never happen, but now it confirmed that my mother was right about one thing, she wasn't wrong.

'I'm curious what Edith was doing today. . . . .'

The image of Edith standing in front of the carriage with her maid kept flashing in front of his eyes.

'Come to think of it. I'll have to get Edith's shoes and boots fitted more before we go down to the manor. We don't have much time's left. Right?'

I never even remembered what kind of shoes she wore. Killian blamed himself for his indifference and turned to the shoemaker, who had been praised Lizzy since earlier.

"Maybe I'll stop by with my wife soon. I'm going to order two or three pairs of shoes and boots, how long do you think to make them?"

"If both of you order two or three pairs each, well. . . . I think it'll take three months at least. Because I'm afraid we'll soon be inundated with orders for winter shoes."

"I see. If that is the case, I'll have to come as soon as possible."

I nodded, but Lizzy was looking up at me with a strange face.

"What's wrong, Lizzy?"

"Oh, no. By the way. . . . . I think you should consider Edith's taste, too."

"Edith's taste?"

"Edith likes something a little more flashy anyway."

Killian grinned at the words.

"I thought so, too, but I think her taste has changed a lot after getting married. I didn't know Edith was such a pragmatist."

"Is that so?"

"Edith will probably complain that the shoes here are too fancy and expensive."

"Really? I misunderstood because I heard that all the dresses she has are gorgeous, and she likes a gorgeous style. Well, Edith looks so good in a gorgeous style. . . . ."

"Well, that's right. The dress she wore on the wedding day was a bit embarrassing, but it looked good on her."

The dress, which showed a dizzying cleavage, Even just think about it, i feel embarrassing a little, but I think i would like to ask Edith to wore it once again in place where no one was watching except for me.

'I'll probably take it off right away.'

Killian struggled to hold back the laughter that escaped from his mouth. After leaving the shop, shoemaker wrapped the shoes with the servant who had followed them, The two decided to look around the Le Belle marie Street. Just as he was about to take a step, Killian turned to the side at the unfamiliar sensation he felt on his forearm.

"Huh? why?"

Lizzy was hanging her arm to my arm. It was the first time Lizzy had crossed her arms to mine.

"Oh, no. . . . .Nothing."

Killian was a little embarrassed, but it was nothing to be ashamed of, so he just let it be.

'I guess Lizzy felt good for her outing today after absence for a long time.'

He was relieved. Maybe this would be the last day he to go out with Lizzy. As we walked down to the street with Lizzy, it's filled with cute shops and young girls in pretty dresses. Then I suddenly remembered the street I walked down after watching the opera with Edith. It was connected to Darthus Street, but a little shabbier than this, a street with cheap candy seller, a girl selling wild flowers, and a clown who couldn't get more than a few coins for they tricks all day. It was a place I would have never visited if I hadn't chosen to go out at the back door because of the crowds people at the front gate of the opera theater. It was a place I didn't even think Edith would like it. However, Edith was not afraid to interact with the common people, for someone who was born and raised as a noble. She even smiled happily after receiving the shabby stuff.

'To think that, that the only things I bought for you at that time. . . . .'

The candy was finished before coming back, and the flowers probably withered in less than two days. There was nothing material left in the juggling spectacles.

'I should have bought you something.'

In hindsight, I wish I had made it so that Edith would be reminded of that day every time she saw it.

"Killian. Look over there. It looks like it's a new store."

"Ah. . . . .!"

Killian, who fell in, thought about Edith's. Started at Lizzy voice and turned to the place Lizzy pointed at. It was a store full of pink to the point where I thought i wanted to pass it. I didn't want to go in there because I was receiving the attention of people passing by since a while ago, but Lizzy seemed to want to stop by.

'I just have to go in, after seeing everything she wants to see, then come out.'

Killian walked with Lizzy into the pink shop. He walked in, and it was a woman accessories store, selling things like ribbons, headbands, corsages, and lace.