Generally speaking, the only people who would come to visit the young earl in this manor, apart from the various "guests" who had interests in dealing with the "Queen's Dog", were the nobles who had blood ties to Phantomhin. Among them, apart from Mrs. Hong, who is the sister of Charles's mother, there is only one other young girl——
Elizabeth Midford, cousin and fiancée of Earl Charles Phantomhine.
She has curly hair with light golden twin ponytails and pure emerald eyes. When she meets her, she is always a cute doll-style loli. She is 13 years old and is a real noble lady who was pampered and grown up.
Even the young master, when facing this fiancée, he has to be courteous.
"Charles—ah ha ha ha!"
When the owner of the manor returned from busy work outside, after experiencing the fright of the house being dressed up as a girl, he was rushed by the enthusiastic fiancee and twirled several times in his arms.
"Look, Charles, this house isn't cute at all. I remodeled it, isn't it very cute?"
The solemn and elegant lobby and living room of the main house are decorated with a variety of colorful ribbons and balloons in a girlish atmosphere, and there are also Phantom Hein servants who are also decorated with lace and wigs.
"Melu!!" After finally escaping from his fiancée's clutches, the collapsed Charles called the head maid's name angrily, "What's going on!?"
"As you can see, master. Miss Liz sneaked here from home to meet you, and then decorated the house while waiting for your return." Among all the servants wearing all kinds of ridiculous pink lace accessories, the appearance The delicate blond girl is the only one who doesn't have any sense of disobedience. She is wearing a red beret and introducing the situation to the master with a smile. "After all, this lady is your very cherished fiancee, isn't she?"
In a word, Charles' anger was flattened.
That's right, it was because of Elizabeth that Merle allowed her to mess around in this house, and even accompanied her.
"Charles, it's rare to dress up the house so cutely, let's hold a dance!" The gothic lolita-style noble lady took her fiancé's hand and twirled around and proposed, "At that time, I'll dress up everyone again, Everyone has to be very cute!"
When Charles was almost dizzy, she finally let go of her, but his fiancée pulled his head maid again and started circling: "And Merle! When I first saw you, I thought you were as cute as a doll, I Make sure you look the prettiest at the ball!"
"Thank you very much, Miss Liz, for your kindness." Even though she was being pulled around, the smile on the maid's face was still gentle and calm, "As long as the young master agrees, Merle will be your doll today."
"There must be a limit to messing around with her!"
In the end, a certain young master who yelled fiercely, still honestly put on the foreign suit brought to him by his fiancée, royal blue court attire, the classic style that nobles often wear at balls, which set off the slender boy with a heroic appearance exuberant.
"Charles, it's really cute!" Miss Elizabeth, who had changed into a red dance dress, jumped forward happily again. She was very satisfied with her fiancé's attire, but soon found the only incongruity when shooting up and down. "Char, why didn't you put on the ring I prepared for you?"
Lifting up the sapphire ring on the thumb of the boy's left hand, the noble lady said with a gloomy expression, "That's a cute ring specially prepared to match this suit!"
The boy didn't appreciate it, and refused coldly: "I'll just take this."
"No, no, no! It's rare that the whole body is so cute, but the ring is not cute!" Elizabeth said, turning and kneeling on the side, crying loudly, "You just refuse to wear the ring specially brought by someone, it's too much!"
So far, it has been a farce of a young fiancee, but after Elizabeth snatches the ring while Charles is not prepared, and Charles loses his temper with a cold face, the atmosphere changes.
"Bring back the ring, Elizabeth." Charles opened his hands, and his rare cold expression scared the other party.
"What, I just want to dress Shire up a little more cutely, why are you so angry?" Miss Jiao, who was only 13 years old, spoiled at home and obeyed by her fiancé, couldn't bear such a gap. Holding the ring, she took two steps back, "Is it because of this ring? Then I hate this ring!" As she spoke, she threw the ring on the ground forcefully as if venting.
The change was so fast that no one could react. Seeing that the ring was about to be smashed, a pale pink figure fell between the two of them.
"Meilu?" Both of them were startled, but saw the maid who fell on the ground get up slowly, probably because she was injured by rushing too hard. When she stood up, her face was a little painful, but soon, everyone Just saw the sapphire ring from her open palm.
He rushed out to protect the ring.
"Mei, Meilu." Seeing that someone was injured, Miss Jiao didn't dare to lose her temper, "Are you okay?"
The maid shook her head, turned to look at Elizabeth, "Miss Liz is very sorry, the young master's actions just made you sad, but please believe that there is a reason for this." She said, holding out the ring in her palm, "This The ring is very important to the young master, it is a unique ring handed down from the previous generations of my Phantom Hein family and the previous generation of Patriarchs, and it has extraordinary significance."
"Eh?" The little girl was stunned, and then unconsciously covered her mouth and trembled slightly because of fear, "This, such an important ring, I almost... yes, I'm sorry, I..." At the end, her voice With a crying voice.
A hand rested on her shoulder, the maid's gentle smiling face, and the ring she spread open: "It wasn't broken, did it? Miss Liz, you are the young master's fiancée, I, Phantom Hein The future mistress is also qualified to hold this ring."
"Melu..." Elizabeth raised her tear-filled eyes and looked at the maid in front of her. The girl in a cute pink dress tilted her head and smiled at her.
"There are as many lovely rings as you want, but this one is the only one in the world. Go ahead and put it on for the young master."
When Elizabeth took the ring and put it back on the thumb of Charles who had already stretched out her hand and waited for her, everyone present applauded and cheered.
At some point, there was a melodious sound of the violin, which was played by Mr. Deacon.
"Dear lady, would you like to dance with me?"
The young earl in royal blue court attire bowed slightly, and stretched out his hand to his fiancée in the red dance dress. The sapphire ring on his thumb was shining brightly.
"Charles, woo...!" The little girl cried and threw herself into his arms.
The wonderful ball ended, and the marquis daughter finally went back after dinner, and waved to her fiancé and head maid very enthusiastically when she left.
"You... How are you hurt?" When the carriage got farther and farther away, the boy turned to look at the maid next to him.
"It just hurt a little when I fell, but it didn't hurt." The maid answered like this.
Ciel looked at her with a complicated smile on his face. He let Sebastian make every effort to find out anything suspicious about the maid, but just before, in order to keep his ring, this person broke out with an astonishing speed. , in the sudden change that even Sebastian didn't react to, he accurately caught the ring that Elizabeth dropped. If this can be regarded as exposure, it is really too stupid.
"Today... thank you."
When the master said this, the maid was stunned at first, but soon laughed.
"Where, this is what I should do."
But how can there be so many shoulds and shouldn'ts in this world
At night, when he was resting at night, Ciel asked Melu to serve instead of Sebastian, and asked about what happened in the house today by the way.
"Didn't you teach Greer anything?" Sitting on the edge of the bed, he raised his neck and let the maid untie the ribbon of his tie, Charles asked.
"Yes." The maid's straightforward answer made him smile.
"The guy who even gave up on you, is that guy so hopeless? Or is it because I gave you an order?"
"It's not." The maid shook her head, and while helping Charles take off her coat, she replied, "It's because he can't teach well."
A man who pretends to be clumsy cannot be taught wise.
Charles didn't understand the deep meaning, but frowned, and simply changed the subject.
"What kind of family did Melu serve in the past?"
"It's from a family of merchants, a well-known wealthy merchant in this country, and I am the exclusive maid of the young heir."
"What kind of person is that?" He asked calmly.
Mei Lu smiled: "He is a very smart young master, a few years older than you, with outstanding talent and ability, very humble personality, and very kind to people."
"Then why did you leave?" Charles sat on the edge of the bed and raised his legs so that the maid could take off his shoes for him.
"Because the employment period has expired, I left." Merle gently removed the shoes and socks for Charles, with gentle movements.
"Why not renew the contract?" Charles continued to ask, this question is already considered sensitive.
But the maid still didn't hesitate, but immediately replied: "Because I don't think that young master is my ideal master, so I left and continued to look for a new master."
"Looking for?" Charles frowned at this answer, and looked down at her, "What do you mean?"
The maid who was half-kneeling and looking up at the boy laughed when she heard the words.
"Master." She stretched out her hand and nodded gently on Charles's fat cheeks, her tone was sweet and mysterious, "It's not just the master who chooses the servants, many times the servants also choose the master."
The maid's appearance was too delicate and harmless, so even if she wanted to create a terrifying atmosphere, she was still a little short of fire, at least she didn't scare the little master in front of her.
"Hmph, so I was chosen this time." Hearing this, Charles snorted angrily, "What is your criterion for choosing a master?"
"I don't know either." The other party's answer stunned him, "But, on that rainy night... I liked the young master very much when I first saw you, and I felt warm in my chest just looking at you. At that time, my I was thinking in my heart, 'Ah, this is him, this is this person. This is my master.' So, I took the initiative to ask to follow you back."
"What's this mess?" Charles frowned, at this time he had already been changed into pajamas by the maid.
"But this is my standard. Or in the words of the Eastern Kingdom, this is fate." After straightening the pajama collar for him, the girl's slender fingers gently brushed the boy's soft hair, "Even now , as long as I see the young master, I will be happy." She said, her eyebrows and eyes curled up in a smile.
The candlelight at night illuminates the maid's joyful eyes, and Charles clearly sees only him reflected in her eyes.
The liking she said was pure liking, without any emotions and desires that made him sick, just like the way she looked at him at this moment, warm, pure, and innocent.
This kind of gaze made Charles, who was used to being dirty and ugly, a little embarrassed. He climbed onto the bed impatiently and even panicked, wrapped himself in the quilt, and said loudly to the maid: "I'm going to sleep, you go out!"
"Yes, master."
The maid took the order and blew out the other candles in the room for the master, then raised the only candlestick left and walked to the door, holding the hem of the skirt to perform the last ceremony of the day.
"May you also have happiness in your dreams."