This sidestory takes place three months prior to Project R and serves
as a short introduction story to the upcoming oneshot: The Rent is Due!

Project R Snippet 4 - Upcoming Jubilee

"Sebastian, darling, this simply won't do — I've been watching your tables all evening and the most romantic thing I witnessed was a man passionately reunited with his bread basket."

"It's been... a slow season."

"It's been a dead season, and The Jubilee is in three tendays! — if I walk into Beatrix's anniversary with nothing but bread basket longing as tribute, I will be the laughingstock of the entire Realm of Dreams!”

“It’s... a restaurant, Althéa, not a matchmaking service."

"Oh, excuse me — you run a favor I have generously allowed to call itself a restaurant, so you will lower the lights, and push those tables together! Give me something!... Give me something sweet enough to lay at a Queen's feet!"

"...and if I don't?"

"Eh-ehm...? Do you remember, my dearie Sebastian — the last time the rent was due ~?"

"...I'll go get the candles."