The Noble Girl Living in Debt

The venue was finally full. Behind, some are standing and participating.

One item was immediately exhibited.

"This is a necklace with a jewel called a mermaid's tears. Start with five gold coins."

Participants raise things like bills one after another.

"What is that?"

"It's a paddle."

Ernesto gave Bernard a number tag called a paddle.

"If you have something you want, you'll fry it up and bid a bit."

If there are multiple bidders, the price will rise steadily, and if the number tag (baddle) is lowered, the bid right will be canceled. If the person who raises the number tag disappears, the winner will be the one who can buy the goods.

While listening to the story of the number paddle (paddle), the bidding for one item was finished.

The winning bid is 37 gold coins. It seemed that a merchant-style man had bid down.

The monthly salary of Bernard is five gold coins. I think it's an unfamiliar dimension.

Various items such as vases for paintings, sculptures for jewelry, watches, ceramics, etc. will be exhibited, and will be sold at prices that are tens or hundreds of times higher than Bernard's salary.

Ernest had been skeptical of whether he was not interested in the auction from a while ago.

However, when the desired product comes out, lean forward and hit Bernard's shoulder.

"That's Orrerian!"

It was a white wedding costume, dressed in a torso statue.

The dress worn by Agnès' mother at the wedding was an anachronistic design, but it is well preserved and looks like new from a distance.

"--This wedding costume is all about the dress of the mother of a rumored saint in social circles."

Participants who hear the moderator's words are excited.

Hernest heard that, and looked away.

"Well, what the hell, why?"

"It seems like rumors were spreading."

If the host concludes the introduction with the words, "Would you like to come down to the social world and celebrate the blessing of the saint?", The number cards (paddles) will rise one after another.

Ernest shuddered to the point where he could easily understand and seemed angry. He then raised his number paddle and participated in the bidding.

Bernard looks cold and watches the consequences.

It quickly became 60 gold coins. The number of number tags (paddles) being fried is two.

Ernest and another, a noble man. I don't know the age because I can only see behind him, but he is a well-dressed man.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"I can go up to a hundred"

"I can't do it."

How much was the SS getting paid, Bernard watched Ernest continue to bid while he was afraid.

Before the salary, the possibility of spending money from parents also emerges, and sighs if it seems stupid.

The amount jumped in a blink of an eye, exceeding one hundred.

"Oh, who is that man?"

"From my point of view, you're skeptical enough."

"I am the Second Guards Elect-Mugu"

I tried to answer Bernard's question honestly, so I shut my mouth in a hurry. At auctions where you participate anonymously, if you pay attention to where the idiots claiming to be themselves are, you will soon become mature.

The auction continues.

The room has disappeared from Ernest's expression.

"Well, here we go ..."

"You can do that well"

"For her"

"..."

Bernard recalls Agnes, who was talking about her mother's keepsake.

The expression that smiled that he was in need of his life and that he did not have to sell his important items was very painful.

I wondered how I would be happy if I gave Agnès a mother's wedding costume. But a gift of more than a hundred gold coins was impossible.

But there is only one way to get a dress with more than a hundred gold coins.

It was to ask a grandfather, a merchant, to borrow money.

Bernard's maternal grandfather was a very wealthy merchant, and he always said he would lend money if he had any trouble.

Think so much and return to me.

In the first place, I wondered why I came to such an idea.

During my thoughts, the bid was up to one hundred and twenty gold coins.

Because the budget of Ernest has exceeded the budget, he dropped his number paddle. The arm and the number paddle that hang down without force speak of his remorse.

The presenter is calling out, "If you want to make a successful bid for more than one hundred and twenty gold coins, are there any other people?"

Ernest was trembling as his whole body teetered. He holds his right hand with his number pad (paddle) with his left hand.

"Do not forgive that man!"

"No, having that much money would be a state heavyweight or something."

"For what purpose ...?"

"you too"

Ernest, trembling with anger, did not hear Bernard's last word.

I thought that the auction was over, and a new number paddle was raised.

The venue is crowded with a sudden development.

It was a woman who broke into the contest.

The back is tall and has a dignified impression. It appears that she is not a young woman, but a kind of dignity.

Meanwhile, Bernard was staring.

Because you feel familiar with the rear view of the woman who participated in the bidding, watch closely.

"What happened, Orlean?"

"!"

Shaking his shoulders at Ernest's question.

"No, no, nothing."

Desperately denying in your head, thinking that there is no possibility of floating slightly.

But the back of the woman resembled a very familiar person.

In the end, Agnès' mother's dress was sold for one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

The woman who won the bidding was a woman on the way.

Bernard is holding his head and looking at the ground.

"Is it OK, Orlerian?"

"..."

Ernest was upset, but she is now worried about Bernard.

I couldn't leave, so I kindly encouraged me to be patient.

The auction ends in about two hours.

As part two, he said that an exchange meeting with masks would be held.

"I'm going back?"

"No wonder"

Bernard quickly tells Ernest to return and leaves the venue.

If you go down the stairs, you can call out from behind.

"-Wait, Bernard"

It's the voice I heard every day, from the moment I was remembered to the time I left alone.

If you missed it, you processed it in your brain and wanted to hurry, but your body stopped moving suddenly.

Most of the auction participants seemed to have attended the social gathering, and there was no one else on the way back except Bernard.

The sound of the heel hitting the stairs is approaching.

Bernard's heart was pounding.

I noticed that my forehead was sweating and I was nervous compared to the interview for the promotion test.

If you look back horribly, you were there.

"Have a nice day"

"..."

The moment you see the woman behind you, you almost fall from your knees.

"Oh, maybe you don't know who you are because you're masked?"

I knew who the opponent was.

He was just standing there, losing his words.

The woman removes the mask and smiles.

It was a smile to Bernard for a stop.

"I noticed you, even though you were wearing a mask, but a heartless son."

"Oh, no ..."

"Yes, your mother."

As expected, the mysterious woman was Bernard's mother, Oceane.

Why are you here? The word does not appear.

Because there was something more concerned than that.

"What made the wedding costume successful?"

"Yes, I am."

Why did you bid for expensive wedding costumes? Where did the money come from?

Why are you here at all?

There are no doubts.

"-Well, your mother-in-law, what are you doing in that place?"

"!?"

I am appalled by the voice heard from a distance.

A woman comes down the stairs with a mask like Oceane. Beautiful person with slender body in brown hair.

You can understand even with a mask.

She was one of Bernard's fears since childhood.

That is the wife of the oldest brother.

Bernard collapsed from his knee this time with the emergence of a rainy step sister.