“Yyes, that’s right.”

“But… there are often young ladies who are blinded by ‘meaningless’ kindness and dream empty dreams. Isn’t that right, Miss Montouar?”

Lizaina attacked Elodie like this throughout the tea party.

And at the end of it, the harassment reached its climax when a servant, while transferring cold drinks and tea food onto a tray, spilled the tray on Elodie’s dress.

“Wwhat is this…?”

“Oh my God! How could you! Be careful, Miss Elodie! What will we do now?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

Although the servant repeatedly bowed in apology, no one was interested in him anymore.

“Is the dress that Miss Elodie is wearing Miss Lea’s?”

“If Duke Ertman bought so many dresses, why isn’t she wearing her own…?”

Everyone muttered as they watched Elodie suffer the harsh treatment, and Lea cried over and over again that the dress Elodie was wearing was her favorite.

Within it, anyone could realize.

‘That servant, he did it on purpose…!’

In retrospect, a little while ago, a maid brought by Lizaina had heard something from her master and ran off somewhere.

I thought it was trivial, but it was preparation for this mischief!

Thanks to that, Elodie had to flee the place in ruins.

She even received a demand to compensate Lea for the dress.

“You ruined my dress, so I’d like to have one of Miss Elodie’s. I’ve already done you a favor, you won’t say no, will you?”

While it was not an unreasonable demand when looked into,

The problem was that all of Elodie’s dresses were nothing but expensive, trendy items.

‘To hand over my expensive dress just because I ruined that worthless one…!’

She felt as if her insides were boiling, but Elodie could not refuse the request as she thought of relying more on Grimour.

So she ended up heading to Ertman to pick up the dress.

‘Might as well make good use of this situation, I’ll have to beg the Duke well. Even his close associates and servants seemed to like me, so if I create a sympathetic public opinion, it might work somehow?’

Of course, the man named Russel Huntley looked at Elodie with displeased eyes every time he saw her.

But the others clearly liked her. Elodie was sure of it.

‘Yes, I can’t be pushed around like this.’

If she used the fact that Montouar was a subsidiary of Ertman, it might be good to cling a little.

In fact, since she had now made her debut, Elodie was in a situation where she could enjoy her social life moderately if she only gave up a little ambition.
The money she brought wasn’t that little, so she could ask her family to rent a small mansion in the capital for one season. If she mingled with those of the same level as the Count of Montuar, there would be no particular problems for Elodie.

But Elodie had already tasted the sweetness called the halo of Ertman.

The seed of greed that had already sprouted would not be easily uprooted.

Thus, while Elodie was making these vain plans, the carriage arrived at the Duke of Ertman’s residence.

She got off the carriage and followed the path to the guesthouse where she had been staying.

Ertman’s garden was beautiful today as well, and the welllandscaped, luxurious scenery stimulated Elodie’s vanity.

‘This is the mansion where I should originally be living….’

Biting her teeth again in frustration, she heard joyful laughter from somewhere.

Turning her head toward the sound, she saw a familiar sight.

The tea table set up outside, where Elodie had enjoyed the landscaping of the garden and had tea time during her stay at Ertman.

The various chairs and decorations she had placed there were still the same.

Even the flowers in the vase that Elodie had arranged had not yet wilted.

Everything was the same.

“Your Highness, this éclair is really delicious!”

“Hmm, is it? Should I ask for the recipe before we go?”

Only the users were different.

Where Elodie once enjoyed tea time, someone else was now seated.

A woman with long silver hair, exuding an elegant atmosphere.

‘4th Princess…!’

She left in Ertman’s arms yesterday, and now she’s here at the Duke of Ertman’s residence?

“How about it, Your Highness? Asking for the recipe and going to the greenhouse too? They say it’s beautiful.”

“I’m already sorry for imposing last night, but won’t it be too bothersome to the Duke?”

“Oh, what does it matter? The butler said he would show us anywhere. He said there’s no place we can’t go, so it must be fine.”

Listening to them, it seemed like Odette had spent the night here.

Moreover, the conversation between Odette and the woman who seemed to be her attendant was shocking.

The extremely strict butler told Odette that there was no place she couldn’t go!

‘He certainly told me I couldn’t go into the greenhouse…!’

It’s not allowed for me, but allowed for the 4th Princess?

Elodie’s insides boiled with the blatant discrimination.

But since her purpose here was the dress, Elodie tried to move on, pretending not to notice.

“……Huh?”

Had she not noticed that Odette’s dress was exactly the same as the one she had bought.