Countess Youngae’s Money-Sweeping Makeup Shop - Chapter 68

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68

 

“Huh? Why? Don’t you all have the same abilities as me?”

 

“That’s right. But this is an item from the world you originally lived in, right?”

 

“Yes, that’s correct.”

 

“If we don’t properly know exactly what effects it has, what texture it has, and such things, we can’t make it the same.”

 

“Can’t you just buy it and check to figure out the recipe?”

 

“Hmm, we can try to copy it, but we usually can’t make something with the same effects.”

 

Usually.

 

So it’s not impossible then.

 

If I make cosmetic recipes for the spirits and sell them, that would make money.

 

Then there would be more variety in brands too, right?

 

Hmm, but they said spirits can’t come to the human world easily.

 

Ah, but if they start interacting with mages, it might become possible.

 

“Um, excuse me.”

 

“Ah.”

 

I had closed my eyes and was lost in various thoughts when Sillia’s voice made me go “oh” and open my eyes.

 

I smiled brightly and had Sillia sit on the sofa.

 

Then with Sillia’s help, I found a clean wet handkerchief and prepared for makeup.

 

I scanned the various eyeshadows spread out on the table with my eyes.

 

Soon I dipped my index finger in the strawberry milk-colored eyeshadow with the most white tint.

 

“Close your eyes and relax your face!”

 

***

 

Maybe because it was a face I always worked on, the makeup seemed to go well.

 

No matter what color I applied, it matched perfectly, and my hands grew more excited.

 

Since this makeup was for persuasion, not an event, I’ll go for a safe yet most flattering look!

 

I furrowed my brow and carefully applied each eyeshadow.

 

Strawberry milk-colored base, pink without orange tones on top, and reddish pink to properly open up the triangle zone.

 

After drawing clean aegyo-sal that wouldn’t look like dark circles, I dipped my pinky in black eyeshadow to create something resembling eyeliner.

 

I never knew not having brushes would be this inconvenient.

 

Indeed, a craftsman should be picky about their tools.

 

Her skin was smooth and clean, apparently well-maintained here.

 

She was as pretty as a cosmetics model even without skin makeup.

 

I mixed strawberry milk color with reddish pink and applied blush as if breathing life into her face.

 

Finally, I mixed the blush color with a bit of water to make it like a water tint and layered it transparently several times…

 

“All done!”

 

After my hands became colorfully stained with various colors, I pulled them away.

 

Sillia’s eyelids slowly lifted, revealing her blue eyes.

 

I grinned at her and wiped my hands on the handkerchief.

 

After checking that everything looked clean, I followed Sillia who went to the mirror.

 

Sillia just stared at the mirror without any big reactions, only blinking a couple of times.

 

Huh, doesn’t she like it?

 

My heart pounded.

 

With an anxious heart, I gulped and fidgeted with my hands clasped below.

 

“Um, is it not good?”

 

When I asked, Sillia had been staring intently at the mirror but flinched and quickly shook her head.

 

“N-no! It’s not that, it’s just, it’s amazing! I’m surprised that just a little touch could change me this much…”

 

Looking now, she wasn’t expressionless.

 

With a face full of curiosity like a child, she glanced at the mirror, then at me, and even gently touched her own cheek.

 

This should be almost a pass, right?

 

I grasped Sillia’s hand tightly with both of mine, filled with earnestness.

 

“To do even more amazing makeup in the future, magic is absolutely necessary. Won’t you please allow it? I’ll take precious care of this body while I’m here. Please?”

 

Her blue eyes widened.

 

Then her pupils rolled around as if gauging the situation.

 

Why? Why are they rolling around like that?

 

Her lips slowly parted and Sillia’s hands wrapped around one of mine.

 

“Um, excuse me, by any chance, don’t you have any thoughts of staying here with me forever? I, I want to keep receiving this thing called ‘makeup’!”

 

I almost wavered for a moment at Sillia’s sparkling eyes.

 

This is why beautiful women are dangerous!

 

I tried to calm my pounding heart and gently rubbed Sillia’s fingers with my thumb.

 

“That would be difficult.”

 

“Even though there’s no one here to bother you? If you go back, difficult things might keep happening. Wouldn’t doing makeup to your heart’s content here be nice?”

 

To her heart’s content. Peacefully.

 

Even though making money was my goal, those two things were quite attractive proposals.

 

If I stayed here, I could make or receive clothes to my heart’s content, do makeup to my heart’s content, and it wouldn’t be difficult to create an industry here and become the top.

 

But there would be trials here too, wouldn’t there?

 

And most importantly—

 

“There’s someone waiting for me.”

 

“Someone waiting…”

 

Upon hearing those words, the strength gradually left Sillia’s hands.

 

Soon she smiled gently and held my hand as if embracing it.

 

“You’re talking about Jesuert Youngsik, aren’t you?”

 

Ricardo.

 

Right. I have to return to where Ricardo is. Because I promised.

 

When I nodded, Sillia let go of my hand and walked toward the door.

 

Then she stopped briefly, looked at me, and giggled.

 

“Let’s go to Mother. We need to get permission.”

 

***

 

Creak, thud.

 

Opening the white door that would be found in a temple and entering inside, I saw Roo sitting on a high window.

 

At the sound of the door closing, Roo turned her head toward us.

 

“I got permission.”

 

I smiled brightly, breaking the continuing silence.

 

Then Roo gracefully came down from the window and approached us.

 

She looked at me quietly, then soon shifted her gaze to Sillia.

 

“If I give permission, what will you give us? I think you heard about the risks I face when I allow Sillia.”

 

“Since you’re a spirit, I don’t know what would satisfy you. What I thought of is delivering the cosmetics whenever Lucian and I collaborate to complete new cosmetics. How about that?”

 

“Hmm, how many?”

 

“I need to make money too, so about 3? I’ll give you full-sized products for sale.”

 

Roo tilted her head and fell into thought for a moment.

 

When I gave Sillia a look, Sillia’s eyes sparkled subtly, seeming to want that condition quite a bit.

 

Nice.

 

With a small sigh, Roo extended her hand.

 

“You brought a contract, right?”

 

“Yes!”

 

“But I have a condition too. Along with delivering cosmetics, magic is only 1 hour per day in human world time. No more than that.”

 

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

 

When I nodded with a sense of duty, Roo’s indifferent expression quietly returned to a smile.

 

And when she signed the contract, the signature glowed blue before remaining clearly on the paper.

 

After examining the text on the contract and confirming there were no strange points, I carefully put it in my bag and gripped the bag strap tightly.

 

Now I just need to go back, but how do I return?

 

As I stood there blankly in place, Roo watched me quietly, then touched his chin and made an “ah” sound.

 

“Didn’t you learn how to go back?”

 

“Ah, um, well, yes!”

 

“What were you planning to do if there was no way back after coming here like this?”

 

“That’s, that’s right.”

 

Roo, muttering that there was no stopping me, led me and Sillia outside.

 

We passed the cabin and stopped at the lake where the waterfall falling from the tree reached.

 

The lake with its still pinkish tint was fascinating.

 

“You can go through here.”

 

“Are there any particular conditions or anything like that?”

 

“No, there is one. There’s one condition that’s simple yet difficult.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“Going at night.”

 

“At night…”

 

“Right now it’s daytime. At night, it’s not this fantastical and beautiful scenery. This place becomes ruins when night falls.”

 

“Then is all of this like an imagination?”

 

“No. Everything exists. It’s just that it exists divided by time. At night, this is the world of monsters.”

 

But you want me to jump into this lake again when it becomes that world of monsters?

 

This is harder to get back from than coming here?

 

With a groaning sound, I looked down at the lake sparkling with pink light.

 

“Do monsters attack spirits?”

 

“Probably? But if you stay inside the cabin, they won’t attack. We made an agreement with the monsters that they can kill us only when we come outside.”

 

“Isn’t there a safer method?”

 

“Irregularly, once every few years, during the time when the monsters sleep, you can travel safely.”

 

“When is that…”

 

“When I went to meet you last time? Hmm, I think it’ll be about 3 more years?”

 

“That’s too extreme!”

 

My head became complicated.

 

I crouched down and looked down at my reflection near the lake.

 

Would I be able to return alive?

 

I let out a deep sigh and eventually plopped down on the ground.

 

“If it’s not urgent right away, how about practicing a little before going?”

 

“Practice?”

 

“When Sillia was in that body, it hardly worked, but it might be possible for you. It’s not only wisdom spirits who can create things.”

 

“Then…?”

 

“You’re a wisdom spirit in name, so if you had no attack abilities, wouldn’t you all have gone extinct long ago?”

 

That’s right- exactly!

 

I jumped up and clenched my fists tightly.

 

If I can attack, I won’t be afraid of anything!

 

With sparkling eyes, I stared at Roo to an almost burdensome degree.

 

“How do I do it? No, what kind of attack is it?”

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