The eyes of the three doting family members blazed.
“Well thought out. As expected of our Leah. This father will… find a good title for Helix.”
“I’ll open my private treasury for you to sweep through society.”
“I’ll bring in the finest teachers for etiquette and dancing.”
Leah joined in their indignation.
“Leave it to me. I’ll bulldoze through all of society’s petty disputes with money and beauty!”
She was confident.
Every time she looked at Helix, her confidence surged.
Leah turned to look at Helix. It was a face she couldn’t get used to no matter how often she saw it.
“Helix, is it okay if we deploy together?”
“Of course.”
Unexpectedly, Helix was also quietly burning with determination.
“Telling you to mind your behavior… How dare these rude fellows speak that way to my precious contractor.”
He spoke in a low but forceful voice.
“Tell me anything I can do to help.”
***
With Helix’s permission and her family’s support secured, nothing could stop Leah.
Her blue eyes sparkled with enthusiasm.
“I’ll show them Helix’s otherworldly beauty properly!”
She exclaimed excitedly while clapping her hands.
In sync with Leah’s clapping, a group of people entered the room. Those who came in in neat formation orderly surrounded Helix and began taking his measurements.
“Leah…”
Helix looked back and forth between those people and Leah with a slightly pale face.
“What have you prepared now? Who are these people?”
“They’re the people who will make clothes that will make you stand out the most.”
They were the finest craftsmen in men’s clothing in the Kingdom of Peiren.
Befitting a tailor shop that even Rikeil and Ruyan frequented, the craftsmen and their assistants worked busily, taking Helix’s measurements and holding fabric samples against his face with fluid efficiency.
Helix asked, half dazed.
“Do we really need to go this far?”
“Yes. We have to do this.”
Leah said firmly.
She had no intention of watching society’s flies buzzing around her and Helix.
If they were going to reveal Helix’s beauty, she was determined to do it overwhelmingly.
In the best condition!
With plenty of money spent!
‘Until everyone gives up thinking the Piert Ducal Family has claimed such an amazing person!’
Leah was fired up.
“Make it the best!”
***
Leah wasn’t the only one excited.
The tailor and other craftsmen who were silently working with quick hands were also thrilled.
‘This person is a god! A male god!’
‘To think I’d get to make clothes for an art piece!’
‘Ugh, everything suits him. He pulls off everything so well it’s too hard to decide what to recommend!’
Though they couldn’t show it in front of the client, they worked with intense focus while internally bursting with pride.
Meeting such a beautiful subject was an incredible stroke of luck in a tailor’s life!
‘Inspiration is, inspiration is flowing!’
The tailor exploded with artistic passion through the night.
And when the results arrived…
“How can it be this amazing?!”
Leah was deeply moved by Helix’s tailcoat that arrived earlier than expected.
The luxurious gray tailcoat with blue undertones highlighted only Helix’s best features.
“Helix, you look like a winter god from the north. You’re so handsome!”
A cold, well-honed beauty and dignity seemed to emanate from his entire body.
“…”
Helix looked down at Leah who was looking up at him with her hands clasped together in excitement.
What winter god.
Looking at Leah’s eyes right now made him feel like even the last piece of ice in his heart would melt into mush.
‘Is it my reason that’s melting?’
He seemed to be losing his mind these days. How could it make sense that he found Leah calling him a winter god more pleasing than her voice saying ‘Thank you, Guardian’?
While Helix was internally scolding himself, Leah paid the craftsmen even more than the promised compensation.
“Well done. I trusted your skills, but this is truly a masterpiece.”
The tailor and craftsmen were also pleased by her enthusiastic response.
“You’re too kind. It was rewarding work for us too, given how handsome the subject is.”
Her eyes met with the craftsmen’s.
‘As expected of you all, you have good aesthetic sense!’
‘Anyone with eyes would have to acknowledge his beauty!’
They understood each other through their gazes.
Leah said.
“Now make him matching morning coats, suits, shirts, and shoes!”
The watching maids chimed in.
“Lady, get him cravats, bow ties, and handkerchiefs too!”
“Not just gray, but white and purple would suit him well too. Since you have his measurements, order several more sets!”
Leah nodded with an “oho” at the maids’ suggestions.
“Shall we?”
“How much more do you need?!”
Helix was alarmed, but his cry reached no one. The craftsmen’s eyes sparkled.
“Leave it to us!”
“We’ll make him walking light itself!”
***
Helix’s ordeal didn’t end there.
At the Dark Guild office they visited, the Master clapped and said.
“High society! I thought it would be a double-edged sword for the Guardian, but with Lady Leah, it’s perfect.”
“Right?”
“Yes. I’ll help you conquer high society with all my heart. The higher your names rise, the more information we can obtain.”
Helix’s expression, which had been somewhat exhausted, changed.
“More information can be obtained?”
“That’s right. The quality would be different too. Information about things like the extinction of Dragons or Dragonlord Azura’s whereabouts isn’t easy to come by. We need well-connected high-ranking people.”
At the Master’s words, Helix fell into deep thought. It made sense.
Long ago when he was a guardian, his title itself was a free pass, so information from the upper class wasn’t particularly necessary. The magic tower associates and Dragons he frequently met knew more than the nobles anyway.
While he was thinking, the Master was giving different information to Leah.
“Lady, I think the trendy tailor shop style would suit the Guardian well too.”
“Tailor shop?”
“Yes.”
The Master said.
“I hear tailor shops are popular with young nobles these days. They say it’s good because they don’t just do classical styles.”
“Not classical styles? Hmm… I think classical styles would suit Helix better since he’s a textbook handsome man.”
“That’s not necessarily true. Sometimes changes are good.”
Well, to crush society, it would be advantageous to show off Helix’s beauty in various ways.
‘I never get tired of looking at him, but others might criticize if we stick to the same style.’
Can’t let them criticize our Helix. Leah was already listening intently to the Master’s words.
“What was it… One of our noble lady clients said, ‘Tailor shops are making new attempts that traditional dress shops don’t do, like exotic patterns and bold designs.'”
What a fashion editor-level lady. Leah was impressed and intrigued.
As soon as they left the Dark Guild, she suggested to Helix.
“Helix, since we’re out, let’s tour some tailor shops.”
“Tailor shops? What are we going there for?”
“What else? To get you more clothes.”
His face paled slightly.
“…Even more than this?”
“Heh.”
Leah linked arms with him and smiled arrogantly.
“How many dresses did I get fitted this season?”
He felt it would be on a different scale from him without having to hear it. Helix looked down at her with a troubled expression.
“Leah, you’re a duke’s daughter. Do I really need to match your level?”
“What are you saying? Are you saying you’ll wear the same clothes every time we go to parties?”
“…Would that not work?”
“Of course not. People would gossip, ‘Oh my, the Ducal Family must be discriminating’ or ‘They must be short on money these days.'”
He had no response to that. Helix was dragged along like bitter medicine.
“Welcome!”
The manager, who recognized them as VIPs at a glance, rushed out to greet them. Leah glanced around the shop as she sat in the lounge they were guided to.
“Oho.”
Indeed, the tailor shop had its own charm.
While not as luxurious and dignified as the clothes from the dress shop, it had many unique designs instead.
“How about this style?”
When Helix came out wearing a coat in an ascetic priest style, Leah unconsciously covered her mouth.
His untouchable, ascetic and noble image combined with that coat seemed to create a sense of sacrilege that wasn’t there before.
‘This is cheating! How can they put such clothes on this face, this aura?’
Professionals were professionals indeed. Leah was amazed by the tailor shop manager’s eye.
“My goodness… Helix, you look like you were born wearing that coat.”
“Are there people born wearing clothes?”
That face is really unfair. She felt it deeply.
If anyone else had said those words with that lack of sense, she would have told them to ‘shut that tasteless mouth’, but it suited Helix so well right now with his long silver hair down and wearing the ascetic coat.
“Try this on too.”
The next thing the shop manager recommended was evening wear.
It was made of silk in brilliant colors that seemed meant for a southern prince, with a loose, flowing design that revealed body lines as it draped.
“Leah… isn’t this indoor clothing?”
The gap between his expression troubled by the exposure and the firm chest revealed through the loose top… it was fatal to pure and innocent minds.
With a dazed heart, she internally cried out to the world.
‘Thank you…!’
The stiff knight uniform style suited him well too.
With Helix’s silver hair tied up and leather boots to complete the look, Leah felt like creating another knight order.
So this is how idol producers feel.
Leah had awakened to a new joy.
‘He looks handsome in everything so I have no choice but to buy it all!’
The tailor shop staff also looked warmly at Leah who was shouting to give her everything. It was a different look from how they viewed regular big spenders.
‘Ma’am, we understand!’
‘Of course, you should buy them all!’
Gazes full of comradeship in their hearts!