Countess Youngae’s Money-Sweeping Makeup Shop - Chapter 10

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10

It was the Young Man who had told people to make sandwiches when I went to the Kitchen with Lili yesterday.

Was he there earlier too?

I don’t think I saw him.

The Young Man looked frightened, his expression quite poor.

I quietly watched people enter until the Study door closed.

Finally, when the door closed, the Butler began to speak.

“All the servants working in the Kitchen testified that the Young Man committed this act.”

As soon as the Middle-aged Man finished speaking, the Young Man called the Young Man hastily defended himself.

“Count, I am innocent!”

The Middle-aged Man asked in a voice as if he had already determined the culprit.

“What’s so unfair about it? You’re the Young Man, and aren’t you responsible for what happens in the Kitchen and the food?”

Despair rose on the Young Man’s face.

And he looked at me with an expression pleading for help.

The Middle-aged Man watched such Young Man for a while, then paused briefly and nodded his head.

“How dare you look at the Count’s daughter with impure eyes. How did you educate him? Butler, Middle-aged Woman. Both of you answer.”

As soon as the Middle-aged Man’s words fell, the Butler and the Middle-aged Woman flinched and bowed deeply.

“We’re sorry. We have nothing to say. We will properly manage things so this won’t happen again.”

“Can I trust that? You two might also be among those tormenting my daughter.”

The Middle-aged Woman even closed her eyes tightly and spoke in a firm voice as if making a vow.

“No matter what happens, we will do our best to educate the servants so that the young lady will not feel any discomfort.”

“Sillia.”

“Yes.”

The Middle-aged Man withdrew his gaze from them and looked at me.

I also exchanged confident gazes with the Middle-aged Man.

“If you wish to give them a chance, I’ll give the Butler and Middle-aged Woman another opportunity. What would you like me to do?”

My back went cold at the Middle-aged Man’s words.

This was my first time having such power.

After swallowing my saliva, I looked at them.

“Older Brother might order you to torment me, so what would you do then?”

“Even if we heard such words, we would not obey.”

“We swear it.”

After hearing their answers, I nodded and looked back at the Middle-aged Man.

“I’d like to give them one last chance.”

“Alright, I understand. Butler, I can leave the Young Man’s handling to you, right?”

“Yes, of course. Thank you for giving us a chance.”

“Give that thanks to Sillia.”

“Thank you, young lady. Then we’ll take our leave now.”

With the Butler’s greeting, they left the Study taking the plate I had brought.

I was about to turn around, thinking I should leave soon too.

“Sillia.”

What stopped my steps in an instant was the Middle-aged Man’s voice.

I turned my head with a questioning expression and looked at the Middle-aged Man.

“Yes?”

“Keep talking to me from now on. Whether it’s something unfair like today, problems that arise, or things you want to do. You must claim your own rights. I can only help you if you tell me.”

“I understand.”

“Good. Go on then.”

“Goodbye.”

Feeling somehow ticklish in my heart, I bowed politely.

Until I opened the door and left, I felt a pressing gaze on my head and glanced back sideways.

But my heart was pounding too much to look at the Middle-aged Man again, so I left the Study looking straight ahead.

When I left the Study, Lili was waiting for me outside the door.

Lili quickly attached herself behind me.

She seemed to have many questions, but Lili followed behind me without saying anything.

When I had gotten some distance from the Study, I casually threw out a comment.

“Aren’t you curious about what happened inside?”

Lili looked around and then looked at me with sparkling eyes.

“I’m totally curious!”

I knew it.

After I went inside, various people kept going in and out repeatedly, so she had to be curious.

I told Lili about what had happened inside while walking.

***

“Really?”

After hearing everything I said, Lili’s face turned red with excitement as she asked me again.

“Yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”

Even as I answered that way, I looked at Lili and mentally applied various makeups to her.

Until now I thought Lili would suit spring bright colors, but seeing her like this, it seems like spring light colors might suit her too.

She’d look really cute with warm pink.

“Um, young lady!”

“Hm?”

“I have one question.”

“What is it?”

“Where are you going?”

“Ah.”

I smiled brightly at Lili’s question.

“To catch the real culprit.”

“What? Isn’t it the Young Man?”

“Would the Young Man have such nerve? There’s really only one person who could scheme such a thing.”

Older Brother.

It’s definitely that bastard.

He’s the only one who could scheme such things and never get kicked out of here or be suspected.

Bang!

With Lili’s guidance, I arrived at Older Brother’s room, sent Lili away, and opened the door forcefully.

Then Older Brother looked at me with a flustered expression.

But a smile quickly appeared on Older Brother’s face.

“It’s my little sister? What’s the occasion? Making such a scary face.”

“You did it, didn’t you?”

“What kind of way is that to talk to your older brother?”

“Don’t dodge the question. You’re the one who told them to give me that, right?”

Older Brother sighed at my question, making an “ah” sound.

Then he smirked and swept his hair back.

“Well, do you have proof that I did it? I don’t even know what you ate. Did the Young Man give you something strange?”

Caught.

“I never said what I ate.”

“…!”

“Why are you suddenly talking about not knowing what I ate?”

“…Ha! So what if I did it? What can you do about it!”

Certainly, I can’t do anything.

But the Middle-aged Man could give appropriate punishment.

Now that I know the truth, I just need to bring someone to tell the truth.

I sneered at Kiel and turned around.

“I can tell Father about this.”

Before the door closed, I caught a glimpse of Kiel’s face.

Kiel was smiling with difficulty.

He seemed to think the Count wouldn’t punish him.

***

I caught the Young Man who was trying to leave the Manor.

When I explained the situation, the Young Man, seemingly resentful about being driven out like this, agreed to become a witness more easily than I thought.

So I told the Count about what Kiel had said, along with the Young Man’s testimony.

The Count listened seriously to the story and promised to give Kiel an appropriate punishment.

The Young Man ended up leaving the Manor anyway due to his guilt of not managing the Kitchen properly and daring to serve food unfit for the Galdrid Family’s table under Kiel’s orders.

Still, he left with his limbs intact and even received part of his severance pay, so wasn’t that sufficient compensation for helping me?

Before the Young Man left the Manor, he came to find me.

And he bowed his waist to express his gratitude.

“Thank you for clearing my unjust accusations. And I’m truly sorry. I don’t know if you’ll need my help, but if you ever do need my assistance, I’ll do my best to help you! Thank you so much.”

The Young Man shed tears he had been holding back, saying that if his false accusations hadn’t been cleared, he would never have been able to work in a Kitchen again for the rest of his life.

These were words I had only said myself, but had never heard directed at me.

Somehow, I felt strange.

But on the other hand, pride welled up in me as I felt like I had done something good.

After everything was resolved, I headed to the Dining Hall.

I’d like to eat outside if I could, but when would I prepare and when would I go eat?

I told the Kitchen to prepare just one salad for me, then sat in a Dining Hall chair and waited.

Sillia, are you watching me do all this too?

I’ll create a good environment before you return, so when you come back, you can live speaking your mind like I do.

Of course, if you allow it, I’d like to live here a bit longer too!

I want to try achieving my life goals too.

***

Six days passed like that, and I clenched my fists as soon as I woke up.

Today was the day of the Imperial Palace Ball.

I had been grinding my teeth for this day.

No matter what happens, I must become the protagonist at today’s Ball.

Only then can I properly fasten the first button of my plan along with my revenge as a reader.

I had even prepared a gorgeous dress in white with a light purple tint.

He’s not my ex-boyfriend, but to get revenge on the Crown Prince who had affairs with multiple women, I should at least prepare a wedding villain look.

After washing my face, I dried off with a towel and stood in front of the vanity.

I can’t mess up my makeup today.

Let me concentrate to the fullest and achieve the best makeup!

***

After putting on the dress, I focused on my makeup while enduring the pain of my abdomen being compressed.

Finally, I finished the last detail touch and put down the brush.

The makeup was complete – the kind that artists do with fire in their eyes when you say ‘Please make me cute yet sophisticated’ along with ‘I’m going to my cheating ex-boyfriend’s wedding.’

Since I hadn’t worn makeup for a while and had been diligently washing my face, my skin troubles had somewhat subsided.

Thanks to that, my skin looked clean when I lightly applied powder made from pigments similar to my skin color.

Since today’s makeup was almost like stage makeup, I did really glamorous color cosmetics too.

I created eye makeup that doubles the size of your eyes by mixing various colors, used cherry-tinted pink for my lips, and spread blusher lightly only around my eyes to create a tearful atmosphere.

Then I naturally but clearly defined my aegyo-sal, and drew my eyeliner upward at an appropriate length.

The highlight here was the eyelashes.

Of course, fake eyelashes didn’t exist so I couldn’t attach them, but I could use the heated curler method.

Though it was a bit troublesome, I brought matches and thin twigs lying around outside to curl my eyelashes upward.

Just paying attention to eyelashes alone makes your eyes look dramatically bigger.

I discovered late that Lili had excellent hair styling abilities.

When I braided my hair, it became spiky and messy.

But when Lili did it, wasn’t it a completely neat half-up braided hairstyle?

Nice, Lili!

Finally, I wore a pink sapphire necklace around my neck and a matching pink sapphire hairpin in my hair.

Wow, this is quite heavy!

I think I’ll get a stiff neck!

How do nobles wear this every day?

Still, when I was completely ready, I took a deep breath.

“Phew, let’s go.”

After leaving the bedroom, I walked with confident steps toward the Manor Entrance.

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