The day started... against all odds, quite normally. Elizabeth woke up with both hands tied to the bed (In a non-hot-funny way), with two cute girls cuddling her (In a not hot way).

The morning was quite average for a newly married girl; her wives took a bath (without Elizabeth, and in a not particularly hot way). Then they threw her into the bathtub (In a...you get the point).

Elizabeth was not pissed at this course of events (SHE WAS), because she may have earned this treatment (SHE WAS INNOCENT). So she was learning from this.

After taking a calming bath, Elizabeth dressed in a comfortable white gown... That was thicker than needed, even if it was breezy. It made Elizabeth look... well, it hid all her nice curves, and Elizabeth was half-sure that there was some spell engraved into it to ensure that she couldn't expose anything that didn't need to be exposed.

Why was Elizabeth so sure of this?

"Come on Eli-Eli, we need to get dressed." Because Rossie and Rena were wearing a pair similar to Elizabeth's. And no matter from what angle or point of view Elizabeth peeked, she could not see the promised land anywhere in sight (That is to say, Elizabeth had attempted to peek under Rossie and Rena's clothes, to no avail.

"Coming..." Elizabeth answered. The first step of the day was...

Make up.

They had a whole series of makeup artists and skin cosmetics ready for each, and worse of all... They were separated into three different apartments.

"Hello gorgeous..." Elizabeth was welcomed into an apartment-style place that had been prepared in one of the higher floors of the cathedral, "Yes... I can work with this... I was told that my canvas for today would be of the highest order, but this? This is almost as if you were crafted by the heavenly hand of [Odyssey]."

And inside she found a... woman? Man? Person? Entity? Elizabeth wasn't quite sure.

The body figure seemed to exude femininity, but the face and thick hands suggested a male. Either way, Elizabeth was stunned.

"You are...?" Elizabeth asked as she was made to stand up in the middle of the room by this... person.

"Moi?" The person said as they walked around Elizabeth, a second person had walked and ensured that Elizabeth didn't follow the first person with her head. "I am Nocté, I turn beauty into legends, dirt into saphires and you... I will make you from a goddess into an Empress."

....That sounded like a female name...?

"The only reason I accepted this job was because little Jen-Jen said that she would let me do her makeup if you weren't up to standards..." Nocté said nodding when he finally stood in front of Elizabeth, "But she is quite nasty... As it is I don't think we will have enough time for her... Veyra, dear? Go and doll up Jen-Jen, the theme... Valkyrie, go nuts."

"Yes Miss!" The woman who had prevented Elizabeth from turning her head said as she ran out of the room. Pressumable going for Jenna.

"So... What first?" Elizabeth said turning her attention to this... Woman? "Do you sprinkle some makeup? Do my lips? Help me put on the dress?"

"....Sprinkle makeup?" Nocté said as she took a step back and clutched at her chest, "Do your lips...?"

"I mean... You are the makeup person, right?" Elizabeth said looking around, she could see... a vanity in one of the walls, a full body mirror, some lighting and even some variations of her wedding dress. "I don't... usually wear makeup."

"....Fate.... why must you mock me like this..." Nocté said with trembling hands as she fanned herself with a hand, "Non non non... This... This can't be."

"What?" Elizabeth asked, "I mean... I never really needed makeup, the only reason Mother said the same when I asked how to put on my makeup the first time was that I didn't need to worry about it."

Elizabeth was, after all, a girl. She also had a time when she wanted to look pretty (Or well, prettier), but after learning how much time and effort doing your makeup takes... She listened to Mother and decided to seal that, she did buy some lipstick and glow up here and there.

But she had never done something as complicated as cleansing, moisturizing, applying primer, foundation, concealer, and setting powder.

Elizabeth knew those existed, of course, but at best she could do some light eyeliner and eyeshadows... Maybe get some concealer?

"...Okay girls, this settles, we are doing the full work." All the other people in the room suddenly stopped moving, "Get La Vasque ready, we are starting from the foundation."

The what?

Elizabeth spread her awareness and noticed that almost twenty people were in this apartment, and a great majority of them were fussing over a marble bathtub in a corner of the apartment, one surrounded by candles and roses...

"Is that milk?" Elizabeth couldn't help but say aloud.

"Oh? Jen-Jen did mention that your senses were sharp, but yes. That is La Vasque, and while you high-tier people are more often than not... [Perfect], you aren't Perfect." Nocté said shaking her head, "Milk has always been used as a way for high society to soften the skin, it is also a includes other elements, some honey, lavender, violets, jasmine, chamomile, thyme, a pinch of cinnamon, perfumed oils and a few grams of mana-infused gold dust."

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What was Elizabeth going to be, food?

No wait... Was Rossie and Rena also receiving this treatment?

Elizabeth wouldn't mind eating Rossie and Rena after they got out of the bath... Actually... Elizabeth was seriously tempted to summon a new Minion just to ensure that bath...milk was not wasted or thrown away.

"Trust me, your skin will be better for it, while your body may be superhuman, the base components are still [Human], so these rituals will help you positively." Nocté said pointing Elizabeth to walk in the direction of the marble bath. "Also if you are wondering... Your partners will also get the right treatment, as far as I can tell from what Jen-Jen told me, your red-haired girlfriend will get this treatment from the get-go. The pink one... will depend, from the pictures I got she seems to care for her skin more than you two. So she will be offered the bath, but she may not need to take it."

"She will take it," Elizabeth said nodding, she knew Rossie the best, no way she wouldn't take something that would benefit Rena and Elizabeth. "I'm sure."

"Well, either case... in you go." Nocté pointed Elizabeth towards the bath, not a single person in the room made any attempt to leave, so Elizabeth removed her gown and walked into the milky bath.

It was...

"More refreshing than I expected," Elizabeth said, cupping her hands and bringing some of the milk and smelling it.

It was indeed the smell of milk and sweet honey.

"You can drink it, but I wouldn't recommend it. There are a couple of skills from my attendants on La Vasque, it will stimulate your body to get rid of impurities as your skin is renewed." Nocté said walking around the bathtub, "The flower petals will be changed every five minutes and the skills refreshed every seven minutes."

As the weird French woman spoke, one attendant started giving Elizabeth a shoulder massage, and others moved with great efficiency to massage her legs and take soft clothes, sponges, and even small fine brushes to help Elizabeth bathe.

It was...weirdly enough, not stimulating. Elizabeth was being bathed and cared for by a multitude of beautiful women, but she was too busy feeling relaxed as her tense muscles were drained of stress and her skin was softened and moisturized.

Elizabeth wasn't even aware of how long or how short the bath took, but before she was even aware, she was sitting in a low chair being rinsed and dried clean.

The warm water smelled like flowers, and she could even see some petals on it. The towel felt warm to the touch, but wasn't wet, or at least not before she was dried by two attendants, a third one started working on her hair, and as soon as Elizabeth was dried, a new silk gown was put on her.

She had forgotten that she had taken a bath.

"Good, it merely took two hours and twenty minutes, we are making good progress." Nocté said as she nodded.

"Two hours?" Elizabeth said, surprised, she had attempted to say it surprised and shocked, but her voice came relaxed and carefree. As if that wasn't a surprise to her. For Elizabeth it wasn't weird to take up to three hours bathing, but mostly because she liked to soak in the water, and usually she left because she was turning into a wrinkled entity.

But now? Now her skin was fresh and soft, no wrinkle in sight.

"It wasn't that long, and we took this much mostly to ensure perfection." Nocté said, pinching Elizabeth's hand, "Your skin is cheating, it didn't need the bath, but somehow it noticed the benefit and used it to its advantage, you should see how the milk ended up. Nasty stuff."

Elizabeth should feel offended, but she was too relaxed to even care at the moment, was it the skills effect? The mana enhancement? Or something to do with her body? Elizabeth cared not.

"We did most of the hair treatment that we could, so it should take less time," Nocté said turning to the people behind Elizabeth, "Get her ready, we will do a second pass to her hair. Prepare the basin and the oils."

Oil? Hadn't they used enough oils already?

Elizabeth didn't move, she just let herself be pulled to a chair where her head was pushed backwards, there they started washing her hair. They even put a towel around her neck so the water wouldn't go down there. Not that Elizabeth thought it would, by how much care they were taking, it was almost impossible for water to go down.

They massaged her hair and Elizabeth felt as if heaven was blessing her hair.

"Finish the slow dry and get her ready," Nocté's voice sounded once more and Elizabeth was moved in front of one of the vanity mirrors. There she found...

"Younger me?" Elizabeth said raising a hand towards her face.

"Non," Only for said hand to be slapped away, "You will mess up the foundation."

"Foundation?" Elizabeth asked confused, they hadn't applied anything yet...had they?

"We didn't waste the last hour just doing your hair, didn't you feel the foundation being applied?" Nocté asked smirking down at Elizabeth.

She... had indeed felt them massaging her face, but she assumed they were drying water droplets or something, even so, Elizabeth couldn't see anything different about her face.

Wait, an hour? Almost three hours already?

"We still have time, so prepare her dress while we work her face." Nocté said and people brought boxes to her, "Now... You get to see me use my full set of skills."

"Skills? not [Skills] or Skills?" Elizabeth turned to stare at the boxes around her.

"Yes, Skills, the fruit of effort and study, not [Skills] blessed by the system or anything like that." Nocté said as one by one the boxes opened and containers started floating around them, makeup pens, brushes, and all kinds of makeup material.

"Telekinesis?" Elizabeth said, surprised, she had expected this woman to have some skill related to makeup, but telekinesis?

"Yes, I have been offered many skills related to makeup, but every one of them would take away my magic." Nocté said, shaking her head, "It isn't worth it, besides, that type of makeup? It's magic-enhanced, so any mana-dampening field, skill negations, or even a mana-draining environment would make the makeup disappear."

That was right, so... then it made sense?

"So now... Try not to move, it will not affect the results, but it is annoying." Nocté said as the things around them started moving.

First Elizabeth's skin was brushed and worked, her brows were shaped and darkened, while they were natural before they looked sharper now. Elizabeth didn't quite like them like that; this was a look closer to what Alice or Chloe had, not something that Elizabeth took.

But she couldn't negate that she looked better for it.

Her eyes were being accentuated with the eyeliner and the colored shadows under her eyes.

Her lips and cheeks were slightly painted to ensure they shone and matched her other makeup. The cheeks were given a soft flush, not too much that she looked like a clown, but enough that Elizabeth couldn't help but look radiant.

As soon as the last brush was laid down, Elizabeth didn't have enough time to admire herself, she was moved and stood up in front of the full-length mirror.

"Now... Do we want chaste, cute, good looking or what vibe do you want?" Nocté asked, as Elizabeth noticed several clothing racks were nearby.

"Didn't we pick up my wedding dress already?" Elizabeth asked, she could see that most of those clothing racks had at least one of her wedding dresses.

"Yes, that is final and we will respect, but the jewelry? Underwear? Shoes?" Nocté said pointing around them, "Those are up to interpretation, I can give you the right amount of exposure that your partner will turn into a beast when they see under the dress... Or we can give you a chaste look so that when night comes they will threaten you as if blowing at you will break you..."

That... was an interesting thought.

"Whatever you think matches me the best," Elizabeth decided to believe in NoctéNocté. At this point, this weird woman had seen and touched more of Elizabeth than Rossie and Rena. And they seemed focused on making her the most gorgeous version of herself.

"I love it when they give the right answer..." Nocté said as they turned their back to Elizabeth, "Empress it is."

That word sang to Elizabeth as all but one of the clothing racks were removed, with the extra space new wheeled chests came forward.

"Take that gown and get in these," Nocté said giving Elizabeth a small container, "It is your underwear, or the ones you can put by yourself, we will help you with the more complex ones, such as the corsets, panniers and we can see if you will need the crinoline or not."

Elizabeth took the smaller container and was pointed to a curtained corner, which was... nice of them, but they had seen her almost melt away in pleasure and under their hands, what was the point of this?

Elizabeth still followed the orders and walked there, in the container was indeed underwear (Panties and bra), pantyhose, and a... Chemise was it called? It was a loose blouse-like garment, also quite comfortable.

"Good, come here, we will get you into the corset, ensure the chemise gets into place and then we can see if we need it or not." Nocté said nodding as Elizabeth walked.

They moved on to the more rough manhandling part of the dress-up, where the corset was put in place (Elizabeth was glad that oxygen was optional for her at this point).

The chemise as it was, was removed, skill shenanigans, but by that point she was already wearing her dress. The pantyhose was then modified by magic to turn into stockings. Next Elizabeth was moved to the jewelry aspect, bracelet, earrings, a tiara, a belly piercing (She was assured that Rossie and Rena would love it).

And with that, Elizabeth was finally ready.

"Under six hours... So having good material does not mean we will end faster after all," Nocté said looking up and down at Elizabeth, "But well, you are by far my best work so far."

"Thank you Nocté, you are the best." Elizabeth said doing a twirl in front of the mirror.

She was sure that she wouldn't be able to mimic this look, even with all her power and skills; there was something to be said about this woman - she was good at her work.

"Anything you ever need, call me." Elizabeth said bowing to Nocté, be it kingdoms, nations or even deities, I will ensure they bend the knee to you."

"...Thank you, but the feelings are good enough." Nocté said laughing, "I will remember it if I need it, but thank you nontheless."

Elizabeth would make sure that at least one of her minions was with this woman at all times, she was too precious... If she could do this to Elizabeth... Elizabeth couldn't help but think how Rossie and Rena would look...

She... She may fall in love with them again.

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