That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14

“Of course, Miss Tulia. How generous our Young Madam is. To achieve such a deep and mysterious color with organza silk, the artisans of Rouse Kingdom would need to dye it for three months.”

“It is quite flashy and unusual in color.”

“Right? If you wear the precious pure gold necklace that Master Lilius gifted you last time with this, you’ll stand out more than anyone!”

Right. I’d stand out.

Going to a place full of retainers dressed like I’m attending a ballroom.

Tulia still hasn’t been able to reverse her reputation, so she still has a luxurious and wicked image, and this is clearly a scheme to solidify that image.

“I’d prefer a more modest dress instead. Adel?”

“Yes, Miss. I have one prepared.”

“Miss Tulia.”

Rilda said with a slight frown on her forehead.

“Such shabby attire doesn’t suit your dignity, Miss. And if I may speak out of turn…”

“If you may speak out of turn?”

“Most of House Frazier’s retainers are of high rank. So they look down on the borderlands.”

In other words, she was saying that a dress chosen by Adel, who was from the borderlands, wasn’t even worth wearing.

A few maids who understood this giggled quietly. Adel’s expression remained unchanged.

I smiled brightly.

“Really? Then perhaps the flashy dress that Aunt gifted me would be better?”

“Of course, Miss Tulia!”

“Aunt really is the only one for me.”

“That’s right. How kind-hearted Young Madam is.”

Since they’re scheming like this in front of me, I have no choice but to scheme back.

“But I don’t have matching shoes, so I think it would be better to wear this next time. What a shame. I really wanted to show Grandfather.”

When I muttered in a disappointed voice, Rilda’s eyes gleamed with interest.

And she took my bait.

“Miss. There are so many shoes stocked in the dressing room. There must be matching shoes among them.”

“Really? Then bring out all the shoes we have.”

For a moment, Rilda, who hadn’t understood my words, gestured to the maids a beat late.

The maids hurriedly brought out the shoes.

With the normalization of living expenses this time, I also received dignity maintenance fees.

I learned for the first time that dignity maintenance fees included appropriate daily dresses, shoes, gloves, underwear, hats, ribbons, and such.

So I had incomparably more shoes than when I lived in the warehouse. At least several dozen pairs.

‘Moreover, when I appointed Adel as my head maid this time, my food, clothing, and shelter were upgraded much more.’

Ruk Kelfosher must be secretly taking care of things from behind the scenes, right?

It seemed like he was subtly pulling strings from behind so that his sister, who became the head maid of the Frazier direct line, wouldn’t get into unnecessary trouble.

Anyway.

I deliberately put on the dress and sat down, ordering them to line up all the shoes in a row.

The important point here was that I was changing ‘shoes,’ not changing ‘dresses.’

Changing dresses would quickly tire even the wearer, no matter how many people were there to help dress and attend to them.

But shoes were different.

After sitting in a soft chair so the dress wouldn’t wrinkle, I just had to stretch out my feet.

“What are you doing? You need to change them for me.”

At my words, the maids began changing my shoes in unison.

Thanks to placing the large mirror that was usually used to reflect dresses right in front of my seat, I only had to put on the shoes and look at them once with my eyes.

“Next.”

Mary Jane shoes with gray straps.

“Next.”

Flat heels with black soles attached.

“Next.”

Dark blue pumps with small pearls.

Mary Janes, open-toe, bootie heels, slingbacks, pumps, flats, ankle straps, pendants, peep-toe, kittens, d’Orsay heels. Each in four or five different colors.

Even though I had tried on thirty pairs of new shoes, I maintained the expression of a picky lady who wasn’t satisfied.

When I had tried on every shoe that had been neatly organized in the dressing room, the maids’ faces had turned pale as lead and they were all breaking out in cold sweat.

The shoes I wore ranged from simple mules that could be slipped on easily to shoes that required complex ribbon threading.

Naturally, the latter were overwhelmingly more numerous.

Their necks and shoulders must be very stiff from tying ribbons, right?

But that wasn’t my concern.

“Rilda. What should we do?”

Meanwhile, Rilda, who had been standing upright as befitting a senior maid, looked at me with a pale complexion.

“You said there would be matching shoes. I don’t like any of them, so I’ve just made the girls suffer for nothing.”

Rilda immediately straightened her back.

“…In my opinion, those gray ribbon shoes from earlier would go well with the dress you’re wearing now, Miss. Besides, those shoes were also fashionable in Imperial High Society.”

She must be saying this because Tulia has never been to Imperial High Society.

No, she’s probably just throwing out random words.

Even if noble blood flows through Rilda’s veins, she’s ultimately just a maid, isn’t she?

How could such a Rilda know about the trends of Imperial High Society?

Looking at Rilda boldly lying, I also boldly lied.

“What? Grandfather hates gray, doesn’t he?”

“…Pardon?”

Instantly, Rilda’s expression hardened with confusion.

“Rilda…”

I drew up as much inner melancholy as possible and asked with a wistful look in my eyes.

“Don’t tell me you’re trying to put me in a difficult position right now… Making the maids suffer too… Did you do this on purpose?”

“Pardon? No, no! Miss! This is unfair!”

“You’re saying no?”

Of course not.

Honestly, I don’t know what colors Grand Duke Assis Frazier likes or dislikes either.

I don’t even know if that cold Grand Duke has preferences about colors in the first place.

But when his granddaughter Tulia says so, how could a mere maid like her strongly deny it?

“Rilda.”

“Yes, yes. Miss…”

Let me say again, Tulia is the official villainess of .

When she glares coldly with her fox-like, cold and wicked face, anyone without considerable courage would avoid her gaze.

Rilda, who was just a servant despite being a senior maid, was no different.

Especially since Viscountess Aubrey, who could protect her immediately, wasn’t here.

I abruptly stood up from my seat and threw off the shoes I was wearing. It was a completely unreasonable display.

The maids immediately gasped.

“Playing with the master, playing with the maids.”

“…”

“There’s a limit to how much insubordination I’ll tolerate.”

When I gritted my teeth, cold sweat began to form on Rilda’s face.

“M-Miss. That’s not what…”

“Adel!”

I shouted loudly.

“I’m going to change into a new dress, so bring it right now!”

“I’ll bring it immediately, Miss Tulia.”

The dress Adel brought was a calm forsythia-colored dress.

I glared at Rilda while changing into the dress. Her expression remained finicky, but she didn’t find a single fault.

Unlike before, she even said she liked the shoes Adel had chosen and put them on right away.

The maids seemed to be having a very hard time crouching down the entire time to help change shoes. The glances they kept stealing at Rilda seemed to hold resentment as well.

‘These girls won’t be around for long either, but it would be more convenient to make them listen to Adel more while we’re together.’

I didn’t know what Rilda was scheming behind the scenes. There was also a high probability that Aubrey had just told her to observe the situation for now.

So before she could make any moves, it was advantageous for me to narrow Rilda’s position as much as possible.

“Adel. My basket.”

“Yes, Miss Tulia. Here it is.”

Adel said as she held out the basket.

“I’ll organize all the shoes properly.”

She definitely smiled at me, even if just briefly.

“Please be careful on your way, Miss.”

Adel clearly seemed to understand why I had put on this shoe show.

“Well then, shall I go see Grandfather.”

I also gave Adel a brief smile and walked away with light steps.

The Winged Yellow Star followed closely behind me.

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