No matter how much status you get from fancy shoes and famous lovers, there’s no point if all they do is hurt you. So Miucha decided that it was pointless to hold on to her role as the girlfriend of a famous designer. The day after the show, Miucha announced to Lebno that she was quitting his company. She thought he might try to convince her to stay, but Lebno easily let her go. He told her to contact personnel to wrap things up; she was only his third favorite, after all.
In one move, she lost her two sources of prestige—a job at a top-shelf brand and a romantic connection to a famous designer—but strangely, it didn’t bother her at all. In fact, she just felt relieved not to be arranging gaudy, cheaply built shoes in the storefront display. From now on, she was going to make shoes that were simple, comfortable, and long-lasting.
She would put aside the garish and unrefined baubles she’d been clinging to, and search for a new kind of fashion. The company and the man she left behind didn’t matter to her at all anymore.
But there was one thing that Miucha couldn’t figure out. After the show, all the jewelry and accessories left in the dressing room for the models to wear had gone missing. They were pillaged goods that had been purchased from a pirate fence, so there was no use reporting the theft to the police. Lebno questioned everyone who’d had access to the room, and even subjected them to body searches, but nothing was found. He’d just have to eat the loss.
Where could so much jewelry have gone? The only person they didn’t question was Nami, who had taken off in the middle of the show. But surely there was no way that someone as generous and considerate as Nami could have stolen them. The whereabouts of those glittering stolen jewels would remain an eternal mystery.