Juliet Iris Kiellini
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To do this, Duke Kiellini, Simone and Maribel, the owner of the Eileen Theater, met privately before leaving for Bertino.
From the beginning, Maribel and Duke Kielini intended to make Juliet appear dead to the Marquis's wife, who was suspicious of Juliet's whereabouts.
However, Duke Kiellini went to great lengths to find a child similar to Iris.
Eventually he risked telling Maribel the secret and asked her to obtain a similar child.
The situation was like this, and it was a serious matter to get the body to replace Juliet.
Simone had just said: “Let them think that Juliet ran away.”
However, Maribel was opposed to this: if Juliet's body was not found, the Marquise who would see her at the coming-of-age ceremony would be suspected.
“Marquise Raban, you think about a woman’s resentment too easily.
Marquise Anais will never release her suspicions until Juliet's body is found.
The Marquise will doubt that Marquis Anais is involved in this, and she will dig to the bottom, wondering if he is hiding his illegitimate daughter.
By the way, what if Princess Kiellini, who was sick, suddenly looks healthy?
If she looks at the same blond hair and green eyes as her husband, she will doubt that it was he who did this for an illegitimate daughter before thinking that she looks like the Duchess of Kiellini.
Especially, she knows how Princess Kiellini looked when she was young.
“But it’s not easy to find a body your age with blond hair and green eyes.”
At Simone's words, Maribel's mouth turned up in a gentle manner.
“Ma’am, you don’t have to find a dead body.
If I pay, I can get a similar child at any time.”
Simone turned blue when Maribel said she would kill a healthy child and turn her into a corpse.
“I'm sure you said girls with blonde hair and green eyes were hard to get when you introduced Anais' illegitimate daughter.”
Duke Kiellini was angry because he thought Maribel had hidden it another way.
“That’s right, Your Excellency.
Blonde hair and green eyes like that are hard to come by unless they are born with even half noble bloodlines.
And even if I could find a similar child as I could, I wouldn't be able to let a prostitute play a noble princess named Kiellini as a replacement.
What if there is an aristocrat who recognizes her?”
Maribel laughed as the Duke closed his mouth to her words.
“Anyway, that’s where money will solve everything.
Even if I don't get a girl with high-purity blonde hair and green eyes, if it's a damaged body, they will be fooled.”
"Where?"
“There is a famous hedonistic area(1) called ‘Under the wings of angels’ in Lebatum.
I will go there myself.”
* * * * *
Simone recalled the conversation at the time.
The child, brought by Maribel, was supposed to be found dead near the theater.
But since Prince Bertino was looking for a runaway maid, she needed another body.
The Simone who was reluctant to hurt a normal person until recently was not here now.
There was only progress for his assured future.
“I have been looking for the right body and you ask me to kill her.
I can't help it.
If I kill you, who the prince is looking for, I won't have to dress my body so much.
All I can do is get a new replacement.”
Julieta sat in front of Simone, hands clasped and hiding her expression as much as possible.
The woman was right.
As long as she knew a big secret, they couldn't let her go.
She would never leave here until the position of Princess Kiellini was perfectly secured after safely making her debut into society.
‘No, even if everything is done perfectly, will they let me go?’
*
Juliet laughed at herself for mentioning a contract with the Duke.
‘What is this piece of paper for?’
She laughed a little at the thought that she was still using the modern way of thinking.
It was because she really appreciated Simone, who had awakened her to her foolish ideas.
“I’m sorry, Viscountess Simone.
I was very angry and excited for a while.
But please don't touch my luggage.
This is just a request.
I am asking you to accept your colleague’s request.”Simone snorted at the mention of a colleague.
“Colleague… Yes, let’s put it that way.
You're right, we're in the same boat.
I will do what you say.
Anyway, I didn't even care what was in your old bag.
I just needed the maid clothes in that bag to do something important.”
“I wish you had asked me to bring her.”
Simone laughed at Juliet's soft words.
“I just asked her to bring me the bag to ease her annoyance, but I was surprised to see you making such a fuss.”
Contrary to what she said, she must have searched the bag before.
So, she knew there was a maid's suit in the bag.
“Maribel said you were dressed with a dark face and fat figure.
I didn't see it in person, so explain in detail what it was like.
Thus, I will prepare you for a similar girl as much as possible.”
Juliet hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.
She didn't want to cooperate with this wicked woman, but she couldn't sacrifice a girl.
“You don't have to pick up a fat girl on purpose.
I was caught undercover by the Prince a long time ago.”
“Are you saying you got caught?”
When Simone's face turned horrible, Juliet waved her hand quickly.
She could actually die if she misunderstood her.
“No.
That's not true.
He didn't notice the color of my hair, face or skin.
The prince knows me as an ugly child, with brick-colored hair and dark skin.”
At Julieta's words, Simone's expression relaxed, and she made a gesture to continue speaking.
“You don't even need a dark-skinned girl.
He knows that when I was a child I got sick and the color of my face and neck changed, so it's enough to catch just a girl with an average skin color.
Because I wore thick glasses, he doesn't even know exactly what color my eyes are.
So a girl with brown eyes mixed with green is also fine.”
To avoid killing an innocent girl as much as possible, Juliet explained diligently.
The sight reassured Simone.
She didn't seem like a cruel character, at least for her own safety.
Simone had been nervous about the rush to open her fences because of the replacement's greed, but she became kinder after seeing Juliet and decided to put her at ease for once.
“Okay.
I don't think it's difficult to get a body like that.
But where can I get a body whose skin color is different only from the face and neck?”
Julieta quickly rummaged through her bag at Simone's words and took out her makeup tools.
“Here, you can apply this metum fruit juice here.
I'm so bored that I usually only apply one of these.
If you mix this rubas wax with it, it will not be erased by sweat or water.
Rubas wax is applied by actors so that their makeup is not erased by sweat from the light, so it does not fade unless they use gharan oil.”
Simone looked down for a moment at Juliet's dressing tools.
She was a very intelligent child.
After an agonizing moment, thinking about whether the child's intelligence was good or bad for her future work, she nodded to Vera.
When Vera accepted her disguise tools and Juliet's dress, Simone, her forehead looking worn, said, “Yes, it will be much easier.
Now leave.
I know that if the prince stops the search, he will leave for Tília immediately.”
* * * * *
The body, surrounded by a knight's cloak, was brought to the office.
Killian, who was looking at her with his red eyes while one of the knights removed the cloak as carefully as possible, was silent for a while, but gave an order again: “Take off your clothes.”
“Well, Your Highness, I understand your feeling of anguish, but I'm sorry that she died like this, and please don't take off your clothes.” Oswald backed away and couldn't even look at the body.
He promptly panicked and convinced the prince to climb down from the ledge.
(1)N/T Hedonistic:
dedicated to the pleasures of the senses.
Sa-chan:
Now you realize the hole I'm in lol
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Thanks for reading.
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