Luna fell asleep almost at dawn after talking to her father, so she slept until almost noon the next day.

"Dad? Are you home?"

Fortunately, my father was nowhere to be found, so he came to work on time, although he also fell asleep very late.

Luna smelled a fragrant scent and for a second forgot all her worries.

"What is this smell?"

Luna asked Emma, ​​admiring the food they usually ate on her birthday.

"I tried my best. I haven't cooked food for my lady for a long time. "Emma answered confidently.

"It seems too much ..."

On the table was a roast duck with spices, a soup with different types of seafood, and a freshly made salad with fresh fruit.

"Oh, don't worry about money. While you were not at home, the baron ate almost nothing, so we have plenty of food. "

I wasn't worried about that. Just after a long sleep, it was too much. But I think Emma would be hurt if I refused this food because she tried so hard to cook all this. So Luna took and tasted some salad.

"So tasty!"

"What a relief. Eat more. But leave room for dessert. "

"Do we have dessert at home?"

Luna didn't notice in surprise as she began to chew the soup.

"By the way, how many people do you need in the kitchen?"

"Of people? What kind of people? "

Emma tilted her head at the unexpected question.

"You cook a lot, go shopping, organize everything here alone ..."

"Thank you for the compliment, young lady. One is enough for me. "

Emma responded confidently, saying that she could do everything herself.

"But wouldn't it be more convenient if you have assistants?"

"Maybe. But do we eat that much? I don't have much work to do, so I am quite enough. "

Without waiting for Luna's answer, Emma repeated: "I feel good alone."

The next moment Laura entered the dining room, Luna asked her if she also needed someone else to help.

"More people? Um, well? It would be nice, of course, but then I will have nothing to do, so I will be messing around. "

"Okay ... What if we have a bigger mansion?"

"If there are more, of course, you will need more people. But now we have enough for now. "- said Emma.

So what if the mansion doubles in size? Then the staff too?

So nine people will be enough? In the novels and cartoons that I saw in my past life, there were a lot of people in the homes of aristocrats. Nine should be enough?

'I don't know for sure, but it should probably be enough,' I thought to myself as I ate the delicious duck meat that Emma had cooked.

"Lady! The carriage arrived from the store, did you order anything? "

With that, Henry entered the dining room.

I thought it would take longer, but apparently they stayed up all night packing my order.

"Shop? Aren't you wrong Henry? "

Emma asked in surprise as she chewed on the duck meat. Luna said:

"Yes, this is my order. It was cold, so I ordered the dresses. "

"Dresses?

"Dresses delivered straight to the mansion? I don't think she can afford it. What the hell happened? "

Luna, smiling meaningfully at people who doubted her answer, became playful and quietly walked to the front door.

"Please take everything to the second floor."

"Good."

The store employees briskly carried the dresses laid on luxurious fabrics.

Surprised, Emma, ​​dropping the tea towel she was holding, asked Luna.

"Young lady! What the hell have you done! "

"Are you marrying some rich man?"

"Ahahah, no ... "

Laura also wondered where all these dresses came from. But Luna, without answering their questions, grabbed their hands one by one and led them into her room.

"Then where does all this come from !?

"Lady! Please tell me the truth soon! "

"I bought them with the money I earned."

After answering them, Luna unpacked a dress that looked more expensive than the baron's mansion.

Emma almost passed out upon seeing this gorgeous dress. She had never seen anything like it before.

"So you want to say that a girl who can't even sew has made so much money ?!"

While Luna listened to the admiring exclamations of Emma and Laura, the store employees politely said goodbye and left the mansion.

Luna put on one of the dresses, and answered the girls who were so intrigued in their search for answers.

"I found a gold mine ... "

"What? A gold mine? "

"Have you found a gold mine !?"

"Yes. A whole mine of gold. The gold mine was in the territory of Pale. There was a bunch of gold there. I bought it all with this money. "

"Really?" Laura asked, almost speechless with surprise.

"That's why I asked if we needed more people. I'm going to buy a new mansion. This place is too old and small. In that case, we will need more people. "

"Will you buy a new mansion ...?"

"Yes. I apologize for the fact that I immediately began to pamper myself and did not raise your salary. I'll fix it now. "

"Yes......!?"

"Oh yes! My father will also stop working for the duke and run the gold mines. Today he was supposed to go and talk about it with him, but I still don't know if everything went well ... "

Suddenly. Emma fell to the floor before Luna could finish speaking.

"Emma !? "

"This, this is not a dream !? Lady, you're not lying, are you? "

In the next instant, her face turned red and she began to cry. Looking at her, Luna also began to cry.

Unsurprisingly, Laura, who was sitting next to Emma, ​​mechanically began to cry too.

"Really? Indeed!? Are you kidding me? Can you be happy !? I hated so much those who gossip and ignore you and the Baron just because you were poor! "

It seemed to please her more than when I told her that I would raise her salary.

I thought that there are no people to whom we would not be indifferent, but it turns out there were people who were closer to us than I thought.

"Okay, now let you put on dresses too, I bought them for you too. Family members who own gold mines should not wear these old clothes. "

"Lady! I cannot accept this! "

"Not necessary! I can not too..."

"Everything is fine! Better try on dresses! They are very beautiful, "Luna said, taking the dresses in her hands and holding them out to the ladies.

Laura and Emma soon gave up and decided to put on new dresses.

"My God, you are so beautiful!"

"It seems that this dress that you wore for so long killed all your beauty.", The ladies appreciated the new image of the Moon.

Well ... ... I did wear the old dress for a very long time, but it was a dress that I bought at a reasonable price.

Even Emma, ​​who was usually very delicate, said with bitterness that this dress was already too old.

"Lady. Try on your shoes! And gloves too! "

"We need to do something with the hair. Maybe weave a braid? "

"Oh, that's it, it suits you, you are so beautiful ... "

"Here's a hat, Emma!"

"We'll have to braid a braid."

After all, Emma and Laura dressed up Luna like a doll.

After a pleasant day, having tried on all the dresses, they sat in a small garden, eating an apple pie that Emma had baked and discussing which mansion to buy.

I had a lot of money, but the biggest pleasure was Emma's delicious homemade pie.

I wanted to spend the whole day like this, but a posh carriage drove into the mansion, which I had never seen before.

"BUT? Who is this?"

The girls put down the cake and waited for someone to get out of the carriage.

Shortly thereafter, a stylishly and elegantly dressed man stepped out of the carriage.

Surprised Laura said:

"Who is this...? Oh my God, there are such wonderful men in the world ... "

The words Laura had spoken before were now repeated by Laura, they were so sincere that there was no doubt that Laura was also amazed.

Emma opened her eyes wide and stared at the man's face without even saying hello.

"I brought the documents, is everything all right?" Antares said.

Emma and Luna looked stupid as they stared at him.

"Why is he wearing this outfit? The last time he accompanied me, he wore an ordinary white shirt and simple black trousers. "

Today he looks like a member of some noble family, in a shirt, jacket, tie, gloves, shoes ...

The hair was different too, and was similar to the haircut that Fersen did. A hairstyle that has been very popular these days, parted hair on one side.

When Fersen did this, I did not even pay attention, but when this man did it, he seemed like some kind of saint, some kind of messenger of God from heaven.

In response to Luna's silence, he laughed and asked.

"Are you staring at my face again?"

"What!? No no no!"

Luna seemed to wake up after his question and began to vehemently deny Antares's words.

'I instinctively stared at him because he was handsome, but I was not in love. I just got stuck seeing something that you usually rarely see. '

On the other hand, Antares, seeing Luna's clothes, smiled and said:

"Suits you."

"...Thanks."

"I hope you praise me too. I tried very hard to be praised. It took quite a long time. "

When he pointed to his hair and clothes, Luna looked at him again.

His appearance, of course, was such that I wanted to look at him again and not look away.

'I wonder why the author didn't make this man the main character?'

"Understand. I thank my parents every day for my beautiful appearance. "

"...What?!"

Antares looked at her with a stupid face for a while, but soon Luna realized that it was a joke and they laughed merrily.

He's the only one who could make her laugh lately. The mansion workers looked approvingly at the man with smiling faces, as if they had already married Luna to him.

Stop laughing and check your documents ... Luna thought to herself.

"Oh yes, I want to ask you something else."

"What exactly?"

The man, without taking his eyes off Luna, asked her with a soft smile:

"I heard the lady was interested in me, is that true? If this is true, I would be happy. "

"...What? Why suddenly such a question? "