Miss Most Perfect Beauty
Keep the Promise
“What is this?”
A middle-aged woman came out from a small room in this boutique. Scarlesia immediately knew that the woman was the owner of this boutique, she immediately approached her.
“Mistress, do you own this boutique?” ask Scarlesia to the point.
“True Miss, is there anything I can help you with? I heard you just found me,”
“Before that, introduce me Scarlesia Eginhardt daughter of Duke Eginhardt,” Scarlesia revealed introducing herself.
“Scarlesia? B-not..”.
“Isn't that the name of Duke Eginhardt's weak and unloved son? I know what you think Mistress,” cut Scarlesia.
“Sorry Miss, I didn't mean it that way,”
“It's okay, you don't have to worry because I don't really care about other people's opinions,”
“Alright, let me know Ellie the owner of this boutique. Why is Miss looking for me? Did my store employee treat Miss badly?” guess Ellie's feeling nervous.
“Oh no, your employees are very good mistress. I'm here to ask you to make a dress for me,”
“So turned out. Please enter my room, Miss. We'll talk about it inside,”
Scarlesia is now in Ellie's office. The room is quite small and on the table there are many designs of very good dresses.
“Sorry if Miss is uncomfortable with my workspace,”
Ellie tidied up all the papers on her desk and let Scarlesia sit on the bench. Not to forget, he also served a cup of warm tea to accompany the conversation between the two of them.
“Mistress, I saw a dress that was quite unique. The dress does not need to wear a corset to wear it, right?”
“Betul, I tried a new innovation but it turned out that it could not attract attention at all. So I stopped to try to make a dress without a corset,” replied Ellie put on a sad face.
“That's what I want to tell madam. I want you to make some dresses without a corset for me because I need a dress like this. If you manage to make me such a dress, rest assured this will be a trend among everyone,” Scarlesia said with confidence.
Ellie is stunned to hear Scarlesia's request, she sees a new hope in Scarlesia. Then he thought for a moment before answering his request.
“How's the mistress?” scarlesia asked waiting for an answer from Ellie.
“Miss want what kind of dress?”
“I want a dress I can wear at the palace party and banquet,”
“Stana? S-I don't dare Miss,”
Ellie was nervous and hesitant when she heard the word ‘party palace’. She was afraid that later she would destroy her dress, she was afraid that her dress would not suit her, thus making Scarlesia's reputation fall.
“Why? You don't have to fear the madam. Trust me, I will make your work famous in this empire,”
Scarlesia's words sounded so convincing that it managed to erase her fear. Now is the time for Ellie to solidify her heart because this is also a once in a lifetime opportunity for herself and her own career.
“Alright, I will try to do it as much as possible,” Ellie replied with two confident eyes.
“OK, please help yes madam,”
“But why did you choose my boutique? My boutique is just a small boutique that is not famous among the nobility,” said Ellie lowly.
“That's because you and your employees don't look down on others and don't judge someone from the outside. That's what I love about your boutique,”
“Thank you Miss, I will definitely try and give you the best result,”
“Alright, I'll wait for him,”
After that Ellie measured Scarlesia's body, just finished it Scarlesia and Ellie came out of her study. There Erin and Hana were already waiting for Scarlesia, they were also holding each one of the dresses in her hands.
“Oh yes Madam, can you make one dress for both of them?” ask Scarlesia to Ellie.
Hana and Erin were surprised to hear that, they immediately rejected him.
“No need Miss, we have chosen one dress. This is enough,” reject Hana.
“True Miss, you no longer need to buy dresses for us,” added Erin.
“It's okay, consider this a gift for both of you,”
Eventually they could not refuse Scarlesia's request and chose to obey only.
“Oh yes one more, I will buy all the goods in your boutique,”
“APAAA???”
They were all in shock because he thought this was quite surprising, as well as Ellie who was already in shock with the request that was previously added to this.
“A-are you sure Miss?” ask Ellie howling.
“Iya, later please send it to Eginhardt residence,”
Then Ellie told her two employees to wrap up all her orders before being sent to the mansion. Then Ellie counted all Scarlesia's groceries even she also gave him a considerable discount. Before returning home, Scarlesia gave Ellie's employees two gold coins each in return for welcoming them. Their hands trembled as they were about to receive the gold coins, wanting it to feel like the heart refused but Scarlesia forced them to take it.
After shopping at Ellie's boutique, they resumed their journey to buy shoes, jewelry, and high heels.
“Hana, is your home away from here?” ask Scarlesia suddenly.
“Not so far away, why Miss?” ask Hana back.
“Didn't I promise you? If I'm going to heal your mother, then take me to your house now that we still have plenty of time,”
“Alright Miss, please follow me. I'll take Miss to my house,”
Hannah led the way to her house. They passed through the narrow alleys, there were many rats that roamed and made Scarlesia amused to see it. Rubbish was also scattered in the alley but there were also many children who were playing together. They walked for 10 minutes until arriving in front of Hana's house which was quite small in sight. Hana immediately brought Scarlesia and Erin into it.
Inside the house, Scarlesia seemed surprised by the condition of her mother who lay weakly helpless on the bed that was already a bit rickety. Her mother was unconscious and she was not even aware of their arrival. Scarlesia felt sorry to see Hana who was so worried about her mother. Hana stroked her mother's face while calling her to wake up but it was useless. His face looked very pale, his body was also thin. It could be seen that Hana's mother had been suffering for quite a while.
Scarlesia came closer to the bed, she checked the pulse of the mother. His pulse felt weak and his breathing rhythm was irregular.
“I-this..”.