episode_0096

Cosette was walking down the street with a big smile on her face. The reason for this was Leah, who was following her from behind with a look of discomfort on her face. She had succeeded in getting Leah to attend the banquet.

The banquet, the previously planned banquet was criticized for many reasons, but the current banquet was somewhat less so. The reason was that there was a specific reason for it to be a farewell party for wizards. It is said that wizards are full of idiots who are hard to get along with, but this academy was also filled with similar people, so somehow they found a match and became close.

Since it had been going on for over two months, it was not strange for those who had become quite close to each other to think that they would rather have one last time at the banquet than just part ways. Of course, there were quite a few people who didn’t like that, and one of them was Leah, who was right behind them.

Cosette had become incredibly close with Lin, who had been sticking with Leah instead and executing a plan to fill the dorms with fear and despair regardless of grade and rank, so when she heard that she had to return to the Magic Tower, she hugged Lin tightly and cried as if real sisters were being forcibly separated. If a third party saw it, they might have thought that they were sisters, even though their hair colors were a bit different. Mainly because of their breasts.

In any case, Cosette, who had decided to attend the banquet, received a look from Lin asking for help, and that help was to help her achieve her goal of having Leah attend the banquet. After some somewhat shabby and sticky, emotional conversation, and in the end, Lin, who had broken the spell, tearfully appealed to her, saying that she had tormented her so much and was not going to attend the banquet, and Leah eventually gave in, leading to the present.

So Cosette, Lin, Leah, and Yugram, who was following along without anyone noticing, slowly headed to the costume shop. Leah, who had no intention of wearing the dress she had worn once before even though she was attending the banquet, had told Yugram about buying the dress, so the two of them rushed over and joined her.

In fact, from Leah’s perspective, since she had never personally bought clothes in her life, she had no idea how to choose or order something fancy like a dress suitable for a banquet, so it wasn’t such a bad thing that two people came along. The two of them were planning to have fun dressing Leah up in various clothes.

It was safe to say that there was no high-class clothing store within the Academy branch, so the three of them went out to the city and opened the door to a high-class clothing store, but Leah, who was in the lead, suddenly stopped. Ignoring the two people who were looking at her with questioning eyes, Leah slowly spoke to Yugram, who was behind her.

“Yugram? Why aren’t you coming in?”

For a moment, a strange silence fell over them. Lin and Cosette, who were slowly looking back and forth between Leah and Yugram, the clerks who were preparing to receive customers, and Yugram, who was naturally going to wait outside, were all silent for a moment, unable to think of what to say. After a silence that felt incredibly long, Yugram opened his mouth.

“..How can I go about fitting the ladies’ outfits?”

“Didn’t Lin and Cosette already have costumes? Aren’t you just making them for me?”

Leah tilted her head and looked at the two of them. Of course, as she said, Leah had business to attend to, but it was difficult for Yugram to enter Geumnam’s area. Yugram himself did not want that, but Leah’s thoughts were not particularly like that.

If Yugram, who is only a servant, doesn’t get involved in his own clothes, then what on earth does he get involved in? It is Yugram who dresses him up, and it is Yugram, the servant, who makes sure that his master behaves properly and with dignity. Leah said that it is only natural that he should follow suit.

‘That’s true, but… isn’t that role usually taken on by women among the servants?’

The clerks had obvious questions, but none of them were tactless enough to carelessly intervene in the conversation of a noble-looking young lady. The madam, who had been observing the situation for a moment, spoke slowly.

“I’m sorry, but… other guests may come…”

“Then, can’t I just rent it out today?”

Leah answered right away. Yes, Madame didn’t have anything to say in return and slowly backed away. Leah quickly gestured for Yugram to come over, and Yugram forced his still feet to move and went into the dressing room. The sound of the door closing rang louder than thunder in Yugram’s ears.

What kind of relationship is it… He’s so handsome… Isn’t that the young lady’s? This and that, Yugram, who has much better hearing than the average person, thought the clerks couldn’t hear him and heard their whispering conversations. Yugram, who was feeling quite bad, grimaced, but there were clerks who said that it was better and squealed.

‘What the heck is so good about it?’

Although Yugram was originally awkward with women, he hated this situation even more. In any case, Yugram tried hard to ignore the stares and conversations of the clerks and slowly followed Leah inside. Since he had paid the deposit, he had the right to enjoy the services that only very high-class customers receive.

Lin’s clothes were easy to buy because they could be easily altered to suit her needs, but the dress was actually quite different from regular clothing in many ways. So Leah asked Madame to bring her all the designs and colors that would suit her, and then asked Cosette to help her choose.

A large number of dress samples began to arrive. Since dresses tend to be extremely different even within similar categories depending on the physical condition of the wearer and various tastes, small samples were made to match the appropriate feeling and concept. Although they were samples, they were probably made in a reasonable manner, but when they were laid out, they were quite spectacular, and Cosette quickly began to select dresses one by one.

The dresses chosen were mostly cute, and even Leah, who had already experienced the wrong dress once, and Yu Gram, who was looking at her with a dull presence, strongly agreed with this choice. Leah, who was short and had no volume, was problematic in many ways for wearing a dress that emphasized her femininity.

Next to her, Lin started picking out colors. Leah looked at Lin and wondered for a moment why she was so excited about me when she had no interest in the clothes she was wearing, but she figured it was because it was something that would make her comfortable anyway. The choices were pink, light blue, yellow, and white, but Leah excluded pink for now. She didn’t have the confidence to walk around in that.

“Public… Leah’s blue isn’t bad either, but I think white would suit her better. And you could put a big veil and corsage on the hat like this and cover the mask with flowers.”

“Then I guess I should use light blue for the flowers. Since the lady is a bit small, I’d go with something that emphasizes cuteness…”

Cosette and Madame started to move the direction of the dress forward while talking this way and that, and Leah, who was flustered, spoke as if to stop them.

“Hey, wait a minute. These are my clothes. Why are you doing whatever you want with them? And I feel uncomfortable wearing clothes that are too cute. Do you think so too?”

“..Huh?”

Here, why me all of a sudden? Yugram looked at Leah with a look in his eyes. In an instant, the eyes of all the women in the store, including Cosette, Lin, the madam, and the clerk, were fixed on Yugram. In this terrible situation, Yugram wanted to immediately storm out of the store, but since Leah had told him to come, he couldn’t leave. Yugram gritted his teeth and somehow expressed his opinion.

“..I don’t know much about women’s clothing, so I’ll leave it to the professional madam.”

“That’s…”

Leah showed signs of disappointment. Yugram was rather embarrassed by this. In the first place, wouldn’t it be even stranger if he, an unmarried man, had a knack for choosing women’s clothes? It was something to reflect on when he failed to live up to his master’s expectations as a servant, but in this case, it was a situation where he could question whether it was the master who had expectations that was strange.

“Why are you asking my opinion in the first place? I already have a history of failing at choosing my first dress..”

“Well, that’s true.. But it’s my job, so I can’t not consult with Yugram. It’s most certain to decide anything through Yugram.. Since I only have Yugram by my side.”

After Leah spoke calmly, she looked through the dress samples here and there and began to think about her own dress design. And Cosette and the sales associates who heard her answer stared at Leah with lukewarm eyes and sly smiles, and occasionally glanced at Yugram and giggled.

Since Yugram wasn’t someone who didn’t know the meaning of that gaze, he didn’t show it on the outside, but he suppressed his irritation inside. It was an extremely unpleasant gaze and a misunderstanding. Of course, as an adult man, he knew that such misunderstandings and misleading gazes were inevitable when he was hanging out with Leah, but it was a different problem when he faced it head on.

If it was a problem, then Leah’s words themselves were also a problem. Of course, what she said was right, but isn’t there a way of speaking? She said it in a way that others might misunderstand, so she was the one who was looked at like this. Yugram let out a small sigh. Even if Leah’s trust in him was like acknowledging her competence as a servant, it was okay…

The staff’s work attitude was like that, but Madame’s own skills were quite outstanding. She was wonderfully organizing the random thoughts about dresses that Cosette and Leah had been thinking about and putting them into her hands. As the sketch she had scribbled on a large piece of paper was completed, the outline of the dress was slowly taking shape, and Yugram was quite surprised.

As the quill moved, the dress began to gain more decoration and technique, and as each detail of color and ornamentation was added, the dress that was being completed according to the sketch appeared in Yugram’s head. It was on a completely different level from the dresses that Yugram had previously ordered from a suitable costume shop and had fashioned to fit Leah’s body type.

In Yugram’s mind, Leah appeared in a completed dress. Unlike her stupid appearance, which seemed to have been forced to wear her mother’s dress last time, it was a masterpiece that retained her cuteness while adding beautiful points here and there. The harmony that covered half of her face seemed to emphasize Leah’s mysteriousness even more. Yugram was very satisfied with the appearance of her beautiful owner.

“Wow.. so cute.. I want to see it soon..”

Lin held hands with Cosette and muttered. Yugram’s eyes briefly brushed past Lin. Yugram didn’t like that wizard. He didn’t like the fact that he was a wizard in the first place, and Yugram, who liked things neat and tidy, couldn’t possibly like Lin who didn’t dress up properly and splattered blood everywhere, even if it was a fake that would disappear quickly.

There was even one more reason to dislike Rin. Although it might have been a bit unfair for Rin, it was because of her big breasts. Since Yugram had almost no good memories of being involved with women with big breasts in his life, except for the queen, it could be said that it was an acquired aversion. Of course, he couldn’t show it openly, so he acted as if he was only angry when Rin didn’t clean up properly.

‘..In that respect, the princess is fortunate, unlike the queen.’