Julietta’s Dressup

Chapter 19. Bertino Mansion on Harrods Street, Part X

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

There was a time when the story of Julietta came out, as she happened to talk with Lillian in the theater. No matter how much she was a fan of her own, she couldn’t take good care of her appearance, so she complained a lot, and Lillian said, ’Julie is a really nice girl,’ and asked her to be nice to her.

She didn’t have to listen to that, but it was true that she had been doing a good job of supporting her, unlike the maids who used to treat her with dry spirits before.

’I can’t believe she said that behind the scenes.’

After donning a gown handed to her by her private maid, Moira looked back at Anna. "Where is Julie now?"

Killian suddenly burst into laughter as he sat in a carriage across Harrods Street, looking out the moonlit street. The eyes of Albert and Jeff in front of him were round, but Killian was thinking about the new maid of the mansion, without noticing them at all.

Killian had never been conscious of their gaze, as he had always been surrounded by servants, maids, and knights. They were nothing more or less then servants and maids for his convenience.

After getting to know a woman at the age of seventeen, he had maintained a proper sex and social life, just like ordinary men. Before having a separate house on Harrods Street, he had brought women into his rooms at the Imperial Castle.

Then there was an incident that made him think he needed a private mansion and a maid in charge of his nightlife. He felt that calling a woman to the Imperial Castle might give unwanted expectations to the other party.

It had been the day after his twentieth birthday party.

That day a woman began scratching at Killian’s temper before he even started a love affair. When she went to and from the Imperial Castle as his lover, she gained another motive in no time. If there were no problems, he did not feel a need to change the woman, but it was the reason that the relationship lasted for more than six months.

Angry at her sneaking attempt to pressure him for an official position, Killian called in the waiters outside send her out. But it was the knights who were on guard duty who came in. Knights in armor rushed in at Killian’s angry call, instead of the servants and maids who had been away for a while. At that moment, the naked woman clinging to Killian began shouting shamefully.

The woman was taken away by a late-returning maid, but for a while there was a scandal circulating in the mouths of dilettantes about Prince Bertino, who shared his women with his knights.

It was obvious who spread the ridiculous scandal, but Killian, who didn’t intend to go through it again, had put the maid on standby in his bedroom like the old aristocrats. The old aristocrats meant to have comfortable affairs, but Killian’s purpose was for her to take on the role of a witness, that he did not share women with others.

But there was something he overlooked. When Killian, who was a dangerous person with his own presence, walked back and forth with his naked body in front of maids, the maids were often mesmerized.

But a unique maid who was not mesmerized, but even indifferent, came in. Other maids ran over when he called, trying to look good to him or to speak with him for longer, but this maid just slightly raised her eyebrows. The look was so funny, and if he often called on her to no purpose, she pretended to be polite at first, but what she was thinking was revealed on her face without her knowledge.

In the previous week, he had asked her to give him a cup of tea and let it go without drinking it on purpose, and then he asked her to bring it back with a hot cup of tea, so she raised her eyebrows even further. It was so funny that he ordered the same thing two or three more times, and the arrogant lady came up and said, "Your Highness, in exactly how many minutes more would you like to have a hot cup of tea? I think it would be saving tea leaves or water if I had it ready in time."

Killian gave high marks to her imposing figure.

’To be unreasonable is to be unreasonable. However, since she is only a commoner, she will be severely criticized as soon as she opens her mouth.’

In a situation where it was difficult to say absurdities, she liked to turn the other way tactfully, saying "When will you feel that way?"

While Killian had a mischievous smile today, wondering how to pull a prank on the new maid, and his carriage had already arrived near his mansion.

"What’s wrong with you, Lady?"

Fixing her crooked glasses, Julietta, who didn’t even know whether Moira was here, asked of the unfair manner of Moira who suddenly burst into the Prince’s bedroom and slapped her across her face, saying she was arrogant.

"How do you dare think of me as a funny thing?"

When Moira’s chapped palms curled the other cheek, Julietta also raised her voice in anger, "Just tell me why you hit me."

Moira once again raised her hand to hit a cheeky maid staring at her, covering her red swollen cheeks.

"What’s this noise?"

When Killian arrived in the bedroom at the moment, he frowned at the commotion in his bedroom. Moira bent down in a hurry with her hands down.

"Your Highness."

"I welcome Your Highness."

Anna greeted him with a coquettish attitude at the sight of the Prince, whom she saw him close up for the first time a few months.

Killian looked at the three women in the room in turn and turned to Julietta.

"What’s going on?"

Julietta sighed deeply, fixing her flowing glasses. "I don’t know either. She came up suddenly and slapped me in the face."

As Killian’s cold eyes turned toward Moira, she began to cry anxiously.

"Your Highness, that insolent maid ignored me. I’m your woman. To ignore me like that would be an act of contempt for you, too. So how can I bear it?"

Moira sobbed more sadly and approached as if to be held in Killian’s arms. Killian took a step back from Moira and gestured her to continue.

"I just want to look beautiful to Your Highness. In case you wouldn’t visit my room, I asked her to prepare a red sheet that would suit me, and it seemed funny to her. I heard she had said I didn’t even know who I was. Today, she even told that I would be kicked out soon, so it would not be necessary to serve me."

Killian turned to Julietta, whose mouth was open in embarrassment, after he watched Moira, who was gazing at his face with a lace handkerchief. Feeling the gaze, Julietta began to protest with resentment.

"Your Highness, no. I never said that, or thought about it. How could I say such a thing as I was not in your heart, and I was not sure whether you would kick out Moira or not? And I’m not proud of it, but there’s no one close enough to say that, since I’m treated as an outcast."

Killian asked Julietta, who proudly sputtered out her words and then showed signs of embarrassment. "What’s an outcast?"

He understood what it meant, but he asked her because it was so funny that she felt a little awkward, and she frowned.

"Well, the sole person in the crowd? Is someone full of integrity? The only figure among liars? In other words, it is a crane who does not want to match with heads with chickens; that’s what it means."

’You mean you’re a loner, without a close friend, now?’

Killian smiled at Julietta, who turned her head shamefully after she explained the term "outcast" to her best advantage, turned to Moira again.

"Who did you hear that from?"

As the look that had been settled down for a while became icy again, Moira faltered and turned toward Anna. Anna looked up confidently as she measured the situation.

"I see a maid who shouldn’t be in this room, Albert."

"I’m sorry, Your Highness. I’ll kick her out right away. Jeff!"

As Jeff, who was instructed by Albert, approached, Anna pushed forward against Moira, who was standing in front of Killian.

"Your Highness, that girl said something that looked down on the Lady, asking me to wait on for her. It was so harsh that I told her before I knew it."