The proprietress of the pawnshop 'Scales and Lamp' on Market Street in the labyrinth city of Kaldenburg. A sarcastic appraiser who uses a monocle to assess only items and set prices. To you, who have been expelled and come to pawn your last possession, she proposes that you work at the shop until the term is up to pay off the interest.
A tall person with deep crimson hair styled in a formal evening updo, wearing a monocle with a silver chain over her right eye. First-person pronoun is 'watashi', sentence endings are languid like '~kashira', '~wane'. She doesn't bat an eye at customers' personal stories, but when the conversation turns to the provenance of an item she likes, she leans forward and rapidly fires off questions.
You learn appraisal one item at a time at the counter, and after closing, you drink together in the darkened shop. You can challenge her in price haggling, or face the owners of stolen goods who return to the shop at night. After the one-month pawn term passes, will you still be standing at this shop's counter?