CH 247

This time, when she followed Hugh McLean, she was able to enter without any restrictions.

“What about the dressing room?”

“Lord Noel is on this side, Everett is on that side.”

He pointed to the dressing rooms facing each other.

Noel this way, Everett that way.

Rieta reflected on the direction he pointed out.

She paid particular attention to where Noel was.

Today, it would be difficult to run into Noel.

As a result, if the information about her infiltration of the academy reached the Duke’s ears, it was clear that a bomb would explode in her relationship with him, which had been sparkling recently.

Rieta thought, no matter what, she didn’t want to lose the Duke’s trust.

“Then shall we go in?”

So with Hugh McLean’s suggestion, Rieta nodded her head.

He knocked on what he had just said was Everett’s dressing room.

Was he busy ahead of the play? No answer came.

“Looks like he is preparing something.”

Saying that, Hugh Mackline turned the doorknob at will.

“He had changed all his clothes, so he’ll be fine.”

He pointed out what Rieta had been concerned with and pushed the door open.

“I have good news. Everett.”

As he spoke cheerfully to the inside.

“Good news?”

The answer came through the half-open door.

Rieta thought the voice was somehow familiar.

The voice was clearly full of displeasure and irritation.

“…… oh?”

Soon, Hugh McLean’s embarrassed voice came instead. He seems to have realized that something was wrong.

In the meantime, the tactless door opened wide.

At the same time, Rieta met Noel’s eyes as he was changing his clothes.

No, the word ‘changed’ is actually wrong.

To be precise, she ran into Noel who was ‘naked’.

There was too much skin in her field of view, so it must not have been an illusion.

“…… !”

Rieta hurriedly hid behind Hugh Mackline’s back.

“…… Hey you!”

Noel shouted something and he started coming this way.

Hugh McLean hurriedly closed the door and immediately ran into the room at the opposite, holding Rieta’s wrist.

“Huh?”

In that room was Everett, whom Rieta had been looking for so much.

In a perfect dress.

“You told me the opposite, Hugh McLean!”

Rieta forgot she was supposed to call him Young Master, and she cried out in embarrassment.

“I, I seem a bit confused.”

He, too, stuttered and made excuses, as if he was also absent-minded.

Just then, a loud noise came from the hallway.

“Hugh McLean!”

It was Noel.

Noel was very angry, like he was about to blow a dragon’s breath.

If caught like this, it was clear that Hugh McLean and Rieta would be burned to death.

Everett, quick-witted, quickly opened the cabinet door.

It was the same as the one she saw in a seminar room sometime ago, and it seemed that one person could fit inside the empty interior.

Rieta quickly went inside and squatted down.

For some reason, her hands wrapped around her knees trembled slightly.

“Where did this bastard go?!”

When a ferocious sound came from the corridor again, the two young men quickly ran to RIeta’s either side, sat down, and shut the door with a snap.

There were three people crowded in a pitch-black cabinet that did not let in any light, so it was too small and uncomfortable.

“Why, why are you two coming in?”

When Rieta asked in bewilderment, they gave an answer, beginning with Hugh McLean.

“Because I’m afraid of Lord Noel.”

“Uh, I’m scared too.”

Rieta reprimanded him, pressing her elbow hard against Everett’s side.

“Everett has nothing to be afraid of, right?”

“But what do I say when Noel comes in here and asks me where you two are?”

Of course it would be nice if he says he didn’t know, but…….

Rieta couldn’t bear to ask him to lie, so she just fell silent.

There was a moment of silence in the cabinet, and all three of them got used to the darkness.

Of course, it was still narrow and uncomfortable.

“Ah, right.”

Rieta took out the box that had been sandwiched between her body.

“I have something to give you, Everett.”

“I knew it.”

He replied with a smirk.

“You knew?”

“Yes, yesterday the princess was making a face that said, ‘Just trust me!’ Toward the carriage I rode in.”

Was it? She thought she was just staring at it in confusion.

“I’m glad I was able to live up to expectations, but it’s not perfect. First of all, I tried to make it as similar as possible. After the play, it would be better to leave it to the experts again.”

“Wait a minute, did you fix it?”

When he asked in surprise, Rieta told the story of the butler’s help.

“Rather than that, Everett, didn’t you say you knew I was going to give the necklace back?”

“Yes, I was ready to worship Princess Rieta even if you returned a marble.”

“Don’t lie. You worship no one but Princess Gabriella.”

Rieta pressed him again with her elbow, and Everett giggled.

“Thank you anyway. Thanks to that, I have the courage to go out on stage.”

He put on his necklace in the dark and fiddled with it for a while.