Chapter 31 - Viva☆Fighting Scene (2/2)
I tilt my head. I think it is not like him to be this panicked at me getting a stomach-ache. In the first place the one who had the spoiled stomach was me, not Her. If She was forced to bed rest by stomach pain, it would be a serious affair for the Duke.
“Has he not come to seem to care for Mistress?”
“Up to now he has thought a great deal of you?”
Like that Dahlia gives me a bitter smile.
Good grief. Lately I do not understand the things the Duke does, very well.
Today it is raining so, it is the customary rainy day events.
In order to furthermore resolve yesterday’s overeating (mainly in the way of weight), throughout the morning is dance lessons, lunch interposed then after that esthetics, and then dance lessons once more until dinner, it is quite a hard schedule. I will do my best!
Thanks to Lotus’ hard intensive training, I have reached the point of being able to dance to any tune. Nowadays having to fly around in circles in a basic way has gone! This is growth!
I have been praised by Dahlia that my posture has also become better from usual, my agility has also become pretty. Moreover even at that evening party, I finished without embarrassment!
The esthetic troops lead by Mimosa are steadily progressing, various things have been added to the course ‘mud clay facial pack’, ‘skin whitening facial pack’ etcetera, etcetera. All of the group members, under commanding officer Mimosa, looks like they are enjoying (they are breathing a bit heavy☆) giving me a massage so I cannot say ‘no’. Thanks to that my complexion is furthermore nicely bright, in addition, it is springy.
After the esthetic full course it is time for the customary special make-up.
It is known that today after this I have dance lessons again so, sweat and tear resistant, flawless makeup is applied. Uh huh, thicker than usual, a different person more than usual.
Through Mimosa choice of ‘Today is gloomy from the rain so, let us do a cheerful look’, I dressed in a rose coloured easy-to-dance-in light dress and again move to the lesson area. Already yesterday’s overeating has been more than resolved, rather I think I am using minus energy but, I do not have the courage on hand to say ‘no’ to this dance. And I do not know at anytime I could be recruited for a dinner party option! In a sense I should probably say it is a good to have a place to be introduced at? ……yeah, even if I do say so myself it was positive enough to surprise me.
Just when I approach the entrance way led by Dahlia followed by Mimosa.
“Oh is it not the head maids? Well, is that the Mistress?”
Thus, a familiar voice can be heard from the direction of the entrance way entry.
“As I always say but, if you give a preliminary announcement I will lead you”
Dahlia says expressionally as she takes care to hide me behind her back, standing between Calendula and I. Uh huh, expressionlessness is SCARY.
“I thought I did not have to that formal. Sorry”
*Ohohohoho~*, Calendula bewitchingly laughs but her eyes are not smiling. These two people’s relationship seems bad. I secretly peek from behind Dahlia’s back.
Today, also, her black dress, firmly opened by her perfectly made breasts, is doubly sexy.
“And. What is your business with the Mistress?”
“No, I have been thinking I would give my greetings for the first time. She was always absent so, I thought such a thing as a Mistress in reality is not here”
Covering her mouth with a folding fan in her hand her sidelong glance over here is very disagreeable!
Or perhaps I should say, that I am the Mistress has finally been exposed. Well, even though I have been exposed as my usual lower-servant-position-me before, I will probably be registered as a different person from special-makeup-me now.
Calendula and Dahlia’s glare (going past me) meet when,
“Sorry, but Mistress has been busy and, was not able to readily meet. If you had given communication of you visit beforehand adjustments could have been made”
This time Lotus’s voice forces its way through from inside. Uh huh, this also it is a completely different tone of voice from his usual tone.
Surely he came to meet me who, no matter how much time had passed, did not appear at the lesson area.
“I wonder is not always being absent like this from the start? Even though I have heard that she does not go socializing at all. I wonder where, and what on earth, is she always doing?”
Calendula glares at Lotus with a slightly cutting feeling.
If it was like usual she would have quickly withdrew her eyes and yet, today she is somehow persistent. Ah, I wonder is it because she finally discovered me?
Lotus quickly comes in front of Dahlia,
“This cannot just be disclosed to people outside of the Physalis family”
He indifferently declares with is cool-headed butler face only seen in front of Calendula.
“nn……”
Calendula hearing this suddenly her face flushes, her beautiful eyebrows rise,
*slap*
The folding fan is skillfully forcibly closed.
Hya~ it is a Hanya[1]. There is a Hanya here~! I am shielded safely in a spot behind Dahlia who is behind Lotus, I am only watching the battle of Lotus and Dahlia VS Calendula. I’m cowardly. I want to participate in the battle but, Dahlia’s hand is out in front of me as if ‘it is no good for you to come out!’ so, I am restrained.
“It is about the duke household so, please withdraw”
Without being surprised by Calendula’s look, Lotus also coldly says undauntedly not averting his gaze from Calendula’s ruby eyes. It seems it is an important point so he says it twice.
And then from the opposite side Mimosa is holding open the entrance way door as if ‘returning is this way☆’. I mean, Mimosa, you were behind me until some time ago, right? How should I say quick work!
Calendula who is grasping the folding fan to the extent that the grasping knuckles have become white, is going to say something, those charming trembling lips open when.
“That is right, Calen. Could you please leave?”
Oh!, it is a voice I have heard before.
T/N: 般若/Hanya – is the name of a noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman’s rage and jealousy)