Betrayed by My Fiancé, I Changed My Role from a Viscount’s Daughter to a Lady-in-Waiting to the Quee

「I think it was Countess Bower, just looking at the circumstances, but I can’t say for sure that it was her because I didn’t see the moment. What about Neil?」

Neil shook his head.

「Unfortunately.」

Apparently, another employee who witnessed the incident rushed to call Neil.

「I’ll have to talk to her later…」

「Okay. You’d better be. The injury is going to take some time to heal. It looked like she was hit pretty hard.」

Still, as long as her cheek injury has not healed, she won’t be able to stand on the counter for some time. I saw her when we parted and she was very motivated, so I think she’ll be fine, but I’ll come back later to check on her. I’m a little worried about that kind of thing because it can cause physical and mental changes later on.

「I hope her heart is not broken…」

「If that’s the case, I think it’s safe to say that Milady followed up with us.」

「Ohhh, as expected of Missy.」

「I–I won’t tolerate compliments.」

The fact that he was trying to sell jewelry to Ryniel-sama.

「I didn’t put it out there to get people to buy it, okay?」

Really?

I looked at Gaspar with a jealous look, and he turned away with a look of displeasure on his face.

「Marsha-dono. I’m happy to show you a good product, so there you go.」

「Eh… If Ryniel-sama says so.」

I am reluctant to do so, but if Ryniel-sama is satisfied, it’s not my place to interfere.

「By the way, what are these ladies doing here? From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t sound like they’re here to make a purchase.」

「If you put it that way, yes. If it was for the purpose of purchase, there’s no way the ladies would come here with just themselves.」

If they’re commoners, they might have come here to shop with friends, but they’re the aristocratic ladies. They’re not here to pick a fight, are they?

「What do you think, Neil?」

Normally, no store would answer questions about the details of a dispute with a customer. However, at the urging of the owner, Gaspar, Neil opened his mouth.

「It’s in the request for restoration of jewelry.」

「Restoration request… that’s very unusual.」

I pouted and muttered.

It isn’t that a request for restoration is unusual. The fact that they asked this store to do the restoration was unusual.

If a piece of jewelry that you own needs to be restored, you would first ask the store where you purchased the jewelry. The store will then come to the house to pick it up, hand it over, and deliver it back to the owner after restoration.

If the jewelry were priced for use by commoners, they might bring it into this store. However, these women are aristocrats. It’s rare for them to bring in jewelry that belongs to the nobility.

「Is it vintage… or something?」

Maybe they’re rejected by all the stores because of its age, and they brought them to the store only when they had no choice…. No, that is hard to imagine. Anemone Jewelers is not a good choice for restoring vintage jewelry, as the store has grown rapidly in the last few years and doesn’t deal in vintage jewelry. A well-known store in the aristocratic district would be more reliable.

「No, the design was relatively recent, but there was an engraving that we couldn’t accept, so I refused it.」

「Hah? Did you bring in the engraved one?」

「Yes.」

Jewelry is classified by rank. Jewelry is classified by the type of gemstone or metal, but it’s also classified by the name of the store. The fact that a piece of jewelry was purchased from a high-ranked store is the only thing that makes it valuable. Therefore, not only the jewelry itself, but also the case and the certificate are always stamped by the store.

「They said they would pay extra money to have it restored, but as expected, we couldn’t accept an item with a famous store’s stamp on it…」

That is true. Unless the store has a partnership, it’s an act equivalent to insulting the store if another store restores an item that has an engraving without permission. There’s no way they could accept such a request for restoration.

「Is that why they were screaming so much? Eh, is it really?」

How naive are those two? Although I had a vague sense that their brains were in a flower garden, I was surprised at how insane they were.

「And then what happened?」

「There was one item that wasn’t engraved, so I accepted it and they left.」

「Are they convinced?」

「They seemed dissatisfied, but somehow.」

「I see… this is a big problem.」

What can I say, they are more problematic than I imagined and my head hurts. As long as those are friends of Her Royal Highness the King and Queen, I am likely to get involved. I’m groggy just thinking about it now.

Ah, it’s really bothersome… Royal Princess, I wish you would stop bothering me….

「Is there a reason they want to hide the restoration of that jewelry?」

Ryniel-sama said so.

「What does that mean?」

「The fact that they didn’t bring a servant with they can be taken to mean that they wanted to keep it hidden from their household.」

「But how could they hide it, coming in a carriage with their family crest on it?」

They didn’t need to bring their servants. Besides, if they really wanted to hide the restoration request, they wouldn’t have acted so conspicuously. Perhaps the fuss made at the jewelry store would quickly spread as one of those little rumors in social circles. It’s just not natural.

「Gaspar-dono. Is it possible to show me the items in your custody?」

「Ehh, Ryniel-sama!?」

What are you saying out of the blue, Ryniel-sama!?

「Ah—… That’s…」

Gaspar balked at Ryniel-sama’s line.

Of course not. Just hearing the details of the dispute was tantamount to leaking customer information, and to ask him to show them the jewelry they had entrusted to him was just too much to ask.

「I understand that this is a very impolite request, but I would like to ask you to do something about it.」

I inwardly nodded my head at Ryniel-sama’s insistence.

「I don’t know what to do… Hey, Neil.」

Gaspar looked up at Neil with a reluctant look on his face.

「Let’s see… I can’t easily show it to you, but…」

Then he looked thoughtfully at the ceiling.

「Can you tell us why you say that? Depending on that, we may be able to show you.」

In other words, if there is no convincing reason, they won’t show it.

Well, it’s natural to ask for that much. We are the ones who are asking for the impossible.

Ryniel-sama nodded his head in approval and turned to me.

Hmm? Is this something to do with me??