episode_0071

A Tuesday when I hurriedly started the foundation.

“Sir William, a letter has arrived for you.”

“A letter?”

As soon as I entered the workshop, Princess Elizabeth, who was blocking my way, handed me a pure white envelope.

A suspicious letter with no sender or recipient written on it.

“It’s addressed to you, so please open it.”

“Hmm…”

Feeling uneasy and looking at it anxiously, the princess urged me to open it.

I really didn’t want to open it, but I forced my stiffened fingers to move, broke the wax seal, and opened the envelope. Unlike the plain envelope, a fancy and luxurious paper peeked out.

“Is this really for me?”

“Yes.”

Even without looking at the contents, I felt an ominous feeling and checked again, but the princess’s answer did not contain a single drop of hesitation.

“Ha…”

I took the paper out of the envelope and unfolded it with a slightly trembling hand.

“?”

And immediately folded the paper.

Blinking my eyes and gently placing the paper on the side table, I rubbed my eyes hard with my hands and then picked up the paper again.

Am I just tired? Or am I looking at it too closely?

I don’t know the reason, but I saw something strange.

Stretching my arms out and pulling my head back as far as possible, I unfolded the paper again and examined the contents.

“Hmm…”

No matter how many times I unfolded and folded it, no matter how hard I blinked, the contents of the letter did not change.

“Is it a bug…?”

“What did you say?”

“No, nothing.”

There was a rendering error in the letter.

Why is there a recommendation letter with the imperial family’s crest inside a plain envelope?

Thinking I might have seen it wrong, I carefully examined the crest drawn on the paper.

The shield with the national flag and the imperial crown on top are symbols of the imperial family, and behind the shield is the sun, and on both sides are lions.

There is only one person in this empire who can draw the sun and lions in the crest…

My pupils trembled and my vision blurred slightly.

“Hoo- I don’t know yet…”

Taking a deep breath and holding onto my mind, I glared at the signature scribbled at the bottom of the recommendation letter as my eyes kept blurring.

[ Frederica Angela Margaret Elizabeth Alexandrine ]

My heart collapsed here.

If I wasn’t seeing things or going crazy, that name exactly matched Her Majesty the Empress’s full name.

I stared blankly at the recommendation letter and muttered to the princess.

“Elizabeth, do you know who the sender of this is…?”

“Yes.”

The princess nodded casually.

“…How do you know?”

“I received it.”

While forcibly holding onto my mind, which was comfortably fading away, the princess spread her shoulders with a triumphant expression.

“It was really hard to get that.”

“I bet…”

Because it’s Her Majesty the Empress’s recommendation letter.

My heart is pounding.

She didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding her noble status from the beginning, but now she had no intention of hiding it openly.

Should I quickly find out about self-defense magic tools?

Or is she trying to end the game now?

My head is getting complicated.

“Ha…”

First, I cleared my head.

I’ll postpone the problem that I can’t solve by worrying alone, and focus on the important issues right now.

“Why did you get it?”

“You told me to get it if I wanted you to make the girdles quickly.”

“No, that’s right, but.”

I said while pressing my temples.

“You’re an employee, you could have just told me in advance and I would have done it…? No, if you had told me in advance, I could have made it last week.”

“That’s right, but I didn’t plan on making it at first either?”

“But?”

The princess answered with a light smile.

“I felt a sense of crisis for various reasons.”

“A sense of crisis?”

The princess pointed behind me with her finger.

“There are too many natural beauties around me. I found out recently that Emily doesn’t even wear a corset?”

“That’s right.”

“There’s no rule that commoners can’t be beautiful, but it hurts my pride if blue blood loses to commoners, so I can’t just stand still.”

“Is that so…?”

“That’s how it is.”

I don’t know because I thought it was difficult to compare them directly because their types are completely different.

It feels like comparing a painting to a jewel?

But what can I do when she feels a sense of crisis?

I just shrugged it off.

“Well… anyway, I’ll put it in with next week’s order since you got the recommendation letter.”

“Yes, but sir, there are two pieces of paper, you should check the back page too.”

“Two pieces?”

When I gently rubbed the finger holding the paper, the paper that had been stuck together fell apart and separated into two pieces.

“Wow… what’s the quality of this paper?”

I admired the clean finish that made even two sheets feel like one, and examined the contents of the second sheet.

The second paper was a simple letter consisting of short sentences, not a recommendation letter.

I read it with a comfortable mind because there wasn’t much content.

[I have watched well, but isn’t it too boring?]

As soon as I read it, my brain buffered.

Round and feminine handwriting.

The first-person pronoun ‘I.’

Her Majesty the Empress’s message.

“Did Her Majesty leave any words when you received the letter?”

“There was nothing like that, but she seemed a little bored.”

“Tsk…”

I felt the blood draining from my head.

I don’t know what she’s bored of, but my actions didn’t please Her Majesty the Empress.

Now is not the time to be making underwear.

“Elizabeth, is Fanny in the workshop?”

“Yes, shall I call her?”

“Yes, call her right away, quickly.”

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“I think I have to drop out of the work, is that okay?”

“Well… it’s tight on time, but it’s possible. If it’s really impossible, we can finish it on Saturday.”

“Really? Okay, I’m sorry but please.”

“Yes…”

When one of the fabric cutters declared desertion, Princess Fanny’s eyes fluttered, but the princess, who couldn’t say anything because the deserter was the financier, returned to her seat with a sullen expression.

I know it’s a conscience-stricken act even if I think about it, but what can I do when Her Majesty the Empress is upset?

The moment the shield called the Empress disappears because I can’t match her taste, then my conscience, not our atelier, will explode.

“Aish…”

I sighed deeply and repeated the short message left by Her Majesty the Empress.

Boring.

I can clearly understand Her Majesty the Empress’s intention, but the problem is that she didn’t say ‘what’ the problem is.

I need to know ‘what’ is not to Her Majesty’s liking to try something, but I don’t know it right now, so there’s no answer.

The two candidates I inferred through my short experience with Her Majesty.

It was advertising and clothes.

It is natural that those are the only two things that Her Majesty would see and react to.

In reality, I also tried stable attempts, so it is highly likely that she was disappointed given her personality.

I took out the photo magic tool from the drawer and examined the film.

Thanks to rolling around in the grass and taking only one picture last time, I could still take three more.

The reaction to the first advertisement was so good that I was going to drop the second advertisement, but if Her Majesty the Empress reacts like this, I should just push ahead.

This time, I’m going to show off my legs coolly and take pictures that clearly show the underwear we made.

I’m afraid of the church’s iron hammer, but Her Majesty the Empress will cover for me.

Now the problem is clothes.

If Her Majesty’s dissatisfaction is that I showed underwear that was nothing special, it’s not easy to solve.

Underwear can’t get any more extreme than this, so I’ll make an exception, and it’s difficult to make stockings right now because the material overlaps with the girdle.

Then I have to try on clothes that are visible on the outside, but the downside is that it takes too long to make.

“Ugh…”

But I have to try it anyway in this situation.

It’s a pain in the ass, but I’ll think of the best move.

First of all, the clothes will be dresses.

Dresses are clothes that cover a wider area than you think. Wedding dresses are also dresses, and dresses seen in misses’ looks are also dresses.

For that reason, unlike the perception that dresses are difficult to make, if you minimize the decorations, you can make them faster than you think.

So how do you reduce the decorations?

First, the fabric is white.

White is a mysterious color, so it feels beautiful even if you just add a few fluttering laces, and the image from the color itself is elegant and innocent, so it looks luxurious without much decoration.

However, the problem is that the color is too monotonous, so the personality dies quickly if you make a mistake, but you can cover it enough if you set up the model well.

If the clothes are plain, you can cover them with people’s faces.

There are beauties here of all types, so it’s not a big problem.

However, if you make it so plain, the problem is that the impact is weakened.

The reason I’m thinking about new clothes is to relieve Her Majesty the Empress’s boredom, so a fresh shock is essential.

So where do I give that impact?

I had a weapon called silhouette left.

It’s important to decorate clothes well, but it’s also important to choose a beautiful line.

Personally, I feel that the way to decorate clothes doesn’t change much even if the silhouette changes, so I think it’s no exaggeration to say that the silhouette you choose for a dress determines 50% of the design.

If you think about how you start by choosing what silhouette to wear when choosing a wedding dress, the silhouette and line of the dress are important elements in themselves.

If I pick the typical lines that are popular here, there are three types: bell-shaped, princess line, and A-line, all of which have skirts that spread out generously.

Even if you have to sit down or need to be active, you don’t wear a petticoat, and you don’t look for other lines.

The only other one is the negligee that clings to the body.

However, this is for indoor use and informal use, so no one wears it when going out or greeting guests.

In the end, all external dresses are clothes with generous skirts.

So if you can change the similar dress lines, and if you can show off that dress on National Foundation Day,

You can definitely guarantee the fun that Her Majesty wants.

“Hmm…”

I groaned softly and looked at Princess Elizabeth, who was cutting with scissors and giving instructions to the employees.

A dress that would go well with the girdle…

“Ah.”

I snapped my fingers and finally picked up a pencil.