'The more I think about her, the more brilliant she is..... selling a business name instead of a product.
Princess Deborah may not have any experience managing a real shop, but she has a unique perspective on money.
She is a so called genius.
There's no way I would dare refuse the investment request by her.
And she's really attractive.'
While Isidor was looking at the purple seal Princess Deborah left behind, Miguel, who was hiding in the back during the entire request, suddenly appeared.
He had a terribly haggard expression,
because he spent all his energy in trying to hold back his laughter.
The moment Princess Deborah asked to investigate Prince Isidor, he had to squeezed his thighs in order to hold back his laughter.
'I was at my limits.... I almost got caught.'
He never expected his rival to be called 'hold back your laughter' that appeared while he was hiding in the shadows.
'I can't believe I found my lost laughter because of her...I mean, she is kind of likable.'
He lost some of his judgement towards Princess Deborah, Miguel opened his mouth with narrowed eyes.
"My Prince. You received a really difficult request.
I think you should take on this request personally."
"Is this situation funny to you?"
"How would that be possible? Princess Deborah is very thoughtless. How can she request a background check on the successor of the great Visconti family?...Without fear."
"You are fearless."
Miguel quickly changed the subject when he saw Isidor snapping his big fingers.
"By the way, you had an excellent opportunity to greatly extort her using the request fee.....Why didn't you ask for a proper price?"
"I have received more than enough for the request."
Isidor picked up the seal drawn by Princess Deborah herself.
"What does this seal of a woman mean? It looks nice,butâ¦"
"Wealth."
"I really have no idea what my Lord is thinking these days."
Isidor felt annoyed while looking at Miguel, who had no understanding of the business expansion proposed by Princess Deborah.
'Well...that's a given.'
Like Miguel, most of the aristocrats were ignorant about the way of making money and thought that commercial activities weren't noble.
'But Princess Deborah is a unique case.
She has grown up in an more strict aristocratic environment more than anyone else, yet last time she requested an illegal secret fund, and now it was a partnership proposal.
I have no idea what goes on in Princess Deborah head.
And every attempt to get closer to her, to satisfy my curiosity, failed because she is more cautious than I thought'
Isidor tapped on the table and opened his mouth, with serious eyes.
"Miguel."
"Yes, my Prince."
"What kind of style do you think Princess Deborah is interested in?"
"She always passed by you with indifference...but when you wore the black frock coat with the pomade hairstyle, it seemed like she stared at you for about a second."
"I see,so, she likes the manly style."
Isidor whispered with a serious face.
"You should go with that look."
"But there is still something I haven't tried yet. Take a look at this."
Isidor took off his black robe and his bracelet and took something from the drawer.
"Miguel... give me your most honest opinion about this style.
I'll take it humbly."
'I feel the loneliness of the bachelor.'
Miguel, who was single since birth, mechanically clapped his hands, leaving the sadness behind him.
"It's very stylish my Prince. It's... artistic, from head to toe."
"Of course that's a given. This face is the finishing touch."
"Yes⦠That's right."(^_^;)
"I will tell the boutique to bring in this style of clothing too."
Isidor was making a lot of money through a boutique in the Horun District.
All the clothes he wore were made in a boutique called Kallos, which is run by Blancia, and recently, Kallos was so busy that it was fully booked for half a year, because the nobles who were interested in being stylish had been copying Isidor's style.
"Sir Miguel... Do you perhaps know where the boutique that made the waistcoat that Sir Isidor wore today is?"
Busybodies often asked Miguel, Isidor's close aide, where the clothes were made, and he, who had been told in advance by Isidor, indiscreetly revealed information about the boutique, and in the end, the name Kallos spread in the social world in less than half a day.
It seemed that other famous boutiques copied Kallos, producing similar designs of clothes, but Kallos was already at a different level.
It got the title 'of the most popular place' for men clothing in the empire.
But Isidor didn't feel happy with his business success, because he felt like he had gotten it by pure luck.
That is because despite going all-out with his beauty and stylish clothes, Princess Deborah didn't even look at him properly.
Seeing his lord with a deeply apprehensive face, Miguel couldn't help but feel annoyance and admiration at the same time.
With only a slight change in his outfit, his lord gave off the vibe of a mythical creature.
With his hand on his chin, admiring once again the seal that Princess Deborah drew, Isidor moved his lips slightly as if he were reciting a poem.
"...She draws very well."
"What?"
"She must have worked really hard with those little hands of hersâ¦"
Isidor unconsciously clenched his gloved hand. He remembered holding her hand in order to draw the spell which specifies the coordinates for the space magic pouch.
While he remembered the white, small hand he held, his neck felt hot.
"My Prince... Are you perhapsâ¦"
Miguel frowned when he saw his Lord's neck turning red while holding Princess Deborah's drawing.
As Miguel asked while beating around the bush, Isidor raised his eyebrows slightly.
"What's wrong?"
"My Prince, are you hot?"
"That's right...I think I'm hot, just as you said."
"Just as suspected!
This spring is warmer than last year.
I also felt stuffy while I was in the shadows, I think I need thinner clothesâ¦"
With a cunning expression, Miguel rubbed the palms of his hands,while looking at Isidor's expression.
The truth was, that he had his eyes on an outfit that had appeared in Kallos, he didnât want to fall behind in fashion either.
"Then go to Kallos and get measured. If you tell them my name, they will make an outfit for you right away."
"Yes my Prince. Thank you my Prince!"
Miguel saluted Isidor like a soldier would salute his superior.
"Miguel, because you're my right arm, I will specially give you a 1 silver coin discount, so it will cost you 19 gold coins and 99 silver coins."
"Thankâ¦you"(T_T)
Not knowing whether his words were a joke or not, Miguel's appreciation didn't last long.
"Grrrâ¦"
As silence fell between the two, Cookie, who had been incessantly staring at the entrance where Princess Deborah left, suddenly growled with a ferocious look.
'The withdrawal phenomenon has begun.'
Isidor quickly soothed Cookie, who was behaving like an adolescent boy once again.
"My Cookie, are you angry because I didn't play with you?
When we go home, I'll give you your favorite snack."
Speaking in a sweet and kind voice, he took off his gloves and awkwardly petted Cookie's back several times.
Cookie's ears, which were on alert mode, went down a little.
Feeling the soft texture of the beast's fur, Isidor suddenly felt a vague curiosity.
'How would it feel to hold Princess Deborah's hand without my gloves?'
But the curiosity that weakly lingered in his mind disappeared like snow as soon as he reached home.
Arriving at his townhouse, with a golden pillar that had a dragon on it, to show off his dignity, Isidor walked in expressionlessly.
........................
'There seems to be a lot of men in the academy wearing round glasses, is it because of him?'
I shook my head as I saw Isidor, surrounded by people today too.
'Appearing in a scholarly style that gives off an intellectual feeling.
He caused quite a stir in the academy.
The glasses are totally something the lady's prefere.
Belreck was originally the master in this area.
With a somewhat arranged hairstyle that naturally rolled down his forehead, a navy-blue vest that emphasized his narrow waist and the gold framed glasses that seemed to match his blond hair, all of them maximized his dandiness.
He is a professional idol.
However, I will give this style a 9 out of 10, sorry.'
I turned around, feeling sorrowful.
'I can't believe he is making round glasses popular.'
The instant I saw him, I felt like I had returned on the campus of the College of Engineering, in Hell Joseon, because of that I had no choice but to deduct one point.
'Tsk,tsk,tsk you have to choose the right shape of frame according to your face shape, but they are all wearing round, gold framed glassesâ¦'
Whenever I saw young men poorly copying Isidor's intellectual style, I frowned feeling depressed.
'Aren't they copying him too openly?
In this academy, there are too many copycats who have no ethical morality and imitate the fashion that others put together with great effort, as they please.'
It seemed that I disliked the overlapping styles, and Isidor's constant change of outfits and hairstyle seemed to only be counterproductive for him.
'He is bound to get tired if everything he does spreads like a trend and...it is a sin to be that handsome.
I seems that there was a fashion icon in the novel.'
I remembered a celebrity who was hitting the jackpot just from wearing clothes. The clothes and sneakers that celebrity wore were sold out in less than a minute every time.
'If I sponsor Isidor, it would bring a lot of money.'
While I was being delusional about using Isidor as a model and getting a lot of money out of it, I realized I was lost.
The scenery where I was standing, alone, was distinctly different from the splendidly landscaped that surrounded the academy's main building, which had a somber yet calm atmosphere.
'Since I have no memories of this place, it means that I quite far away from the main building.'
Since Deborah frequently hung around the Spirit building to try to bump into Philap, I thought that this was a training ground for knights or for learning theology, but it's not.
'Aaa...I don't know where I am, so why am I thinking about him?'
I looked around and entered a narrow path that stretched through a dense forest, but no matter how much I walked, the path showed no signs of ending.
Because I had no sense of direction, I was very confused.
'If only I had a reliable maid, this wouldn't have happened.
How come Deborah doesn't have even a single reliable maid?
As a noble, you're usually given at least one trustworthy maid, right?
But why don't I have one?'
The daughters of high-ranking noble families, like me, don't usually wander around alone as they please like I do.
Although many young men were alone usually the daughters of high-ranking families hired a maid from an aristocratic family, there were many benefits in becoming a maid.
'There were many applicants for the maid position for Deborah when she first started the academy, but they soon left while crying and saying that they couldn't handle Deborah's temperament.'
Before the beginning of the semester, Duke Seymour aide told me that the search for finding a good maid wasn't going well.
"Because in the past the maid was replaced more than 13 times, and among them, at least 9 ladies had complaint about strong abdominal pain of unknown causes and stress-induced hair loss, we have only
2 maid applicants this year."
'Two people whom I am better off without, Melli Mayans and Aisha Doche.'
I felt a chill as soon as Duke Seymour's aide showed me the names of those who had applied to the maid position.
They were the villains that tormented the heroine with Deborah.
The reason why I got goosebumps was because of the attitude they showed in the novel, when Deborah was put on trial for blasphemy, the two maids pretended to be victims of Deborah's intimidation and covered up their wrongdoings.
'Sellouts' that only appeared when they needed something.
But...no wonder, next to poop, there is bound to be blowflies.
However,I am not the real Deborah, am I not crazy enough to carry around a bunch of flies with me.'
So, I made it clear several times at the beginning of the semester that I would go alone to the academy.
'But, going alone like this is not as easy as I thought.
I need someone to guide me, because my lack of sense of direction, and to tell me the rumors that are spreading around me and all kinds of useful information.
How can I get someone that keeps secrets and is competent?'
While I was deeply worried, I leaned my tired body against a tree and turned my head around, happy to hear a rustling sound in the distance.
'I will have to threaten them to guide me back to the academy.'
I bravely walked towards the place where the sound came from while thinking of wicked thoughts, but I quietly went back as soon as I saw pink hair.
'Damn it!
I can't believe that I am running into the nomber 1 person I want to avoid at all cost!!!'!!( ; ï¾)ï¾ ï¾
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