Countess Youngae’s Money-Sweeping Makeup Shop - Chapter 75

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75

Did I fall into a time loop ability?

This is strange.

So, I’ve been seeing this empty situation for weeks now.

I could understand a day or two, but this is too much, isn’t it?

For a whole week, the people coming to this shop are just me, Lili, Lucian, Berinea, and Felix. That’s it?

Stop bullshitting me. Seriously.

I’ve been having a lot of nightmares because of the shop’s situation lately.

As soon as I fall asleep, I have dreams where tons of people come to this shop and I’m rolling around on piles of money—

Wait, isn’t it usually the opposite?

Is the me in my dreams mocking the real me or what?

There’s no reply coming back from Ricardo either.

Did Ricardo really side with Juber?

I crouched down in the corner of the counter, pretending to organize while letting out a deep sigh.

“How long are you going to keep sighing? At this rate, the shop will fly away from all that sighing.”

When I looked up at the voice, Felix was looking down at me.

Though his gaze seemed to find me pathetic, I was so grateful that even he was here that tears welled up in my eyes.

“Felix—!”

“Hey, hey! What’s wrong with her? Did you drink too much yesterday?”

When I grabbed Felix’s shin and started crying, Felix’s legs flailed around in the air.

But he didn’t hit me, so I just swayed along with his legs.

Eventually his legs stopped and Felix grabbed his forehead, sighing along with me.

Then he extended his hand to me.

“What kind of young lady sits on the floor crying? Is this before an execution? Get up first.”

I stared at his hand for a moment, then let go of Felix’s leg and grabbed it to stand up.

I absorbed the pooled tears with the corner of my handkerchief.

When I walked over to the vanity and fixed my makeup, I heard a chuckle from behind.

What? So what!

Being upset is being upset, but I still need to fix my makeup!

Felix watched me from behind, then walked toward the shop entrance.

Is he leaving without even saying goodbye?

With that question in mind, I was cleaning my brush after fixing my makeup when I heard the bell ring.

“Welcome— What? Why are you back?”

“Eat something and think about it.”

Felix held up a white packaging box with a gruff expression.

I tilted my head, then looked at the clock and saw it was break time, so I locked the door and went up to the 2nd floor with Lucian and Lili.

“Time really doesn’t pass. It would be better if we had more customers.”

“That’s right. I wonder where all the customers disappeared to.”

Lucian lived as Lucy in front of Lili, acting like a completely different person.

He still had that mysteriously annoying feeling, but wasn’t he strictly using formal speech with me that he never used before?

When I looked at Lucian in disbelief, Lucian ignored me without even glancing sideways.

Huh.

I sat on the sofa to rest and tapped my calves that hurt from wearing shoes all the time.

Isn’t there something like a massage machine?

I should ask Lucian next time we have lessons.

While thinking about that, I looked ahead and saw cake and milk that Felix had skillfully prepared on the table.

Different fruits were placed on top of each roll cake.

Lucian and Lili had strawberries, Felix and I had green— grapes?

Isn’t that what he gave me as a gift last time?

They were so sour I couldn’t eat them!

When I looked at Felix as if asking what this was, Felix casually chewed on the roll cake topped with unripe grapes.

“I want to eat strawberries too.”

“Why?”

“What do you mean why? I don’t like these grapes because they’re sour.”

“…Don’t you like this?”

“What are you talking about?”

“…Isn’t your taste the same? Does this change too?”

“What?”

“Ah, no! Nothing. If it’s sour, just eat it without the grapes. I’ll eat them. I like these.”

“Looking at it now, you didn’t bring what I like, but what you like. I don’t like this, so don’t bring it anymore.”

“I got it! Geez, why are you so picky about food?”

While grumbling, he obediently took and ate the green grapes I had removed.

Isn’t this sour for him either?

Seeing him eat without even frowning, I tried eating one that was cut in half, then grabbed my skirt and struggled to swallow the sourness.

Ugh, his taste is definitely weird.

I squeezed my eyes shut, then slowly exhaled and opened them with difficulty.

Still, the cake was delicious without the grapes.

It was sweet and fluffy, not dry, and went well with the milk.

While eating the roll cake, I suddenly thought of Ricardo.

If he were here, wouldn’t he have had to eat this cake?

Since he dislikes sweets, maybe his brow would have furrowed?

Thinking of that scene, a smile unconsciously burst out.

But soon I thought of Ricardo who hadn’t replied, and a gloomy mood came rushing back in.

Then I felt a gaze and turned my head to see Felix looking at me.

“What?”

“Let’s go for a walk after we finish eating. You’ve been trapped in this shop and it seems like your brain isn’t working properly.”

“I’m smarter and work better than you.”

“Yeah, no. Right now I think better than you do.”

“Felix.”

“Why are you calling me, Ria.”

He closed one eye and stuck out his tongue, clearly teasing me.

What’s the point of arguing with such a kid?

I deliberately scattered my thoughts and focused on eating the roll cake.

Still— I have definitely been going only between the manor and the shop for two weeks.

Maybe if I get some fresh air, I’ll come up with an idea to overcome this.

After finishing the cake, I gulped down the milk in one shot.

Then I got up from my seat to get the cloak I wear when touring the village.

I think I put the cloak in here—.

“This one?”

“Oh, that one. …Wait, what?”

A hand moved over my head from behind and pulled out a black cloak.

He spoke so naturally that I also spoke naturally, then realized who the voice belonged to and turned my head to check.

Then Felix took out the cloak for me and pulled out a spare cloak next to it and put it on himself.

“Why are you wearing that?”

“Because I’m going with you too.”

“I’m not going with you.”

“Sure. I’m just going with you, that’s all.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

When I looked at Felix with an absurd expression, Felix just shrugged his shoulders, handed me the cloak, and put on his hood.

I opened and closed my lips, then eventually took the cloak and put it on, then put on my hood too before going down to the 1st floor and leaving through the back door.

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I always noticed whenever I walked around the village with Felix that he would chatter away until we arrived, but once we started walking around the village, he became quiet.

What, was he trying to create some kind of gentlemanly image for others?

Hadn’t that gentlemanly image already gone down the drain?

I thought this as I walked along.

The village was bustling.

Since it was lunchtime, there were many people around.

I weaved through the crowds, looking around at my surroundings.

Fancy clothes, simple accessories, delicious food, perfumes, fabrics, and so on.

Various elements filled the village.

Then I saw people crowded together in the square.

“Why are they all gathered over there?”

“The reason I suggested we take a walk. You’ll know if we go see.”

Though puzzled, I approached closer.

The closer I got, the more I could hear cheerful music.

I didn’t have the courage to push through all those people, so I couldn’t see well, but I found a spot with fewer people and stood on my tiptoes.

Then I could gradually see what was happening inside the crowd.

“I told you! That’s not your child!”

“Don’t lie! Then who is that child next to you?”

“Th-this child is…!”

“This child is my child! You know nothing!”

“But anyone can see that mole on his cheek means he’s my child!”

“I have this mole too.”

“What…? Wait, didn’t you have a younger brother you lost in the past?”

“How do you know that…?!”

“B-big brother!”

Sounds of shock, disbelief, and laughter erupted from the surroundings.

Among the people were one woman and three men.

It was so realistic that I thought a real messy love triangle fight was happening.

But the two men peacefully ended the situation by telling the young man, “From now on, I’m your father, and I’m your uncle.”

“The next story will continue tomorrow!”

Laughter erupted with “What is this?” and applause poured out.

Only then realizing this was a play, I giggled asking “What is this?” and looked at Felix.

“How was it?”

“Totally melodramatic.”

“Melo, what?”

“Never mind. It’s funny.”

“Anyway, what I wanted to talk about are those people performing over there. They’ve been doing plays here for about 5 days now, and as you can see, they’re incredibly popular.”

“So?”

“Among your plans, you had one about expanding your consumer base to people other than nobles, right?”

I blinked at those words.

Then a light flashed in my head.

Felix grinned and shrugged his shoulders.

“If nobles won’t come, you need to make money elsewhere for your popularization plan to succeed, right? What happens if the money runs out?”

“That won’t work!”

“How about it? Am I smarter now?”

“I hate to admit it, but you really are.”

I should have come out to the square sooner.

I had seen something like this before in an actor interview article.

Actors always have the desire to appear as different characters to their audience.

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