Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

47 – Sunny After Cloudy

When I arrived at the restaurant, Krianna met my eyes and asked how I was doing.

She made an excuse that it was just because the weather was gloomy, gave her the plate she had brought, and ran away.

A few words from Ruy Tena, perhaps because she was swept away by her emotions and said something pointless, a feeling of regret came over her.

It was already spilled water, but it is human psychology to regret spilled water even after seeing it. I kicked the futon today as well, and it seemed like it wouldn’t stay.

In the end, I felt at ease. Since she was a co-worker you would see the most while serving the young lady, it was something to be discovered someday and something to be talked about.

Flashing through the turbulent wind and rain, white lightning split the sky. He hurried to his room at the sound of a loud thunder that said he hurriedly followed the trail of white lightning.

When I was living in the attic, there was a time when the girl who was sleeping in my arms cried in surprise when thunder struck.

I also woke up at the same time as the lady’s crying, so she remembered what she had done while dozing most of her daily routine that day.

Just like that time, she wondered if the young lady was trembling, so she found Mr. Ruy Thena standing in front of the room she arrived in.

Looking at me when I returned, I wondered if he would make a startled expression, but immediately smiled awkwardly as if he was managing his expression.

“The lady is waiting for you.”

“Yes.”

An awkward air flowed between me and her, but she indifferently tried to knock on her door.

“…I never dreamed that such a thing would happen to the butler…I’m so sorry…”

Just before knocking on her door, Louis Thena bowed her head in apology. She showed a harmless smile at her apology, which seemed to have no pretensions.

“It’s okay. I’m a little relieved.”

I also accepted her apology without pretense. Who could have said that?

If it had not been for Mr. Ruy Thena, who knows the relationship between me and the young lady and who sticks by her side, she might have festered on her own.

“Thank you, Mr. Ruitena.”

“No…I just wanted to let you know how I feel…”

“I know how you feel, too. But… I think it will take a while.”

It was bittersweet. If I had been a little ordinary, if I hadn’t been a vampire who drank her blood, would she have accepted the girl’s heart?

“I’m going to go in. The lady might lose her neck from waiting.”

“Yes… That… Butler, please do your best.”

These people say do your best. Instead of answering, she nodded, knocked, and entered the room.

“My lady, I’m back.”

The lady who was sitting on the bed and looking out the window where the wind and rain was blowing looked at me with sad eyes.

It seems like yesterday that the immature little girl dragged me around and played with me, but looking at her eyes like that, she looked like a full-fledged lady.

“…What are you doing, sit next to me.”

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Where did the sorrowful eyes go? He greeted me with a calm expression. It was an awkward face, like Mr. Louie Tena looked at my face and changed her expression.

She didn’t know that and calmly sat next to the young lady.

“Looks like you’re ready to talk about what happened.”

“It’s a bit important… Should I listen carefully?”

“I always listen carefully to what the lady says.”

“Whoa…Yeah…Wait a minute…”

The young lady took a deep breath and seemed to have calmed down. Soon after, she told me of a conversation she had with the count in the office.

The saintess’ prophecy, the appearance of the demon king and her war with the demons, and even her pillar duty and engagement were heavy and uncomfortable stories for a 14-year-old girl to hear.

And unlike the original story, the stories related to the demon tribe that progressed a little faster and the engagement story that didn’t exist at all, I couldn’t even guess where it got twisted, so my stomach was twisted.

The story that demons form a frontline is news that the main character, Lars, heard shortly after entering the academy, so at least half a year is fast.

As for the engagement… Apparently, since the lady and the count had reconciled, she seemed to be going ahead with it, not wanting to lose her.

“It’s…Complicated…”

After listening to all the stories and organizing my thoughts, the lady sighed deeply at a single word that came out of my mouth.

“What should I do…? Should I marry someone without love…Or should I fulfill my duty as a pillar…”

“What do you hate more, young lady? An unwanted marriage or a bloody battlefield.”

She told me what the lady would choose the worst, and she suggested the lesser evil way to avoid the worst. I was disgusted with myself for saying that it could not be anything other than deplorable.

The young lady who had been procrastinating and thinking for a long time met her eyes with mine and opened her mouth.

“I hate both…But I hate marrying someone I don’t love…”

“…Then you won’t be able to avoid the fight with the demons.”

“I see… That’s why my dad has been desperately looking for fiancé candidates…”

The young lady, who was lying on her bed, sat across from her and muttered, covering her eyes with her arm.

“…Should we run away…To a quiet place where there are no fiancés or demons…”

“I’ve seen it in a book before. There’s no paradise where you run away.”

Even though I said that, I felt remorse in my conscience. A wry smile came out of me, wondering if I was running away from the lady’s heart.

“That’s what you say, fool. Don’t take it seriously.”

“Everyone seems to have said it with serious thought.”

“Ah, you, everything!”

While I was lying down, he hit me hard with his long foot near my shoulder.

“Oops!”

It hurt so much because I was hit in a new place other than my calf.

#

“Then why don’t you meet all three candidates?”

Sirius caresses the right part and suggests something. He obviously chose to fight the demons, but to meet with the candidates, Europa’s head tilted at the absurd sound.

“Why do you want to meet me? Is there a reason?”

“Once you meet and think there is a problem, you tell the Count that you can’t choose because of this reason.

“…Which makes sense, I’m afraid you’ll insist on choosing from among them. And what if I can’t find a good reason?”

“If you set your mind to finding just one person’s flaws, you can find dozens of them. I just need to stand by the lady and watch the candidates’ actions.”

He nodded his head, wondering if it would be okay to see Sirius smiling and talking about a dark story.

“Okay, I’ll set up a schedule and meet the candidates face to face.”

“Also, you never know. They might be decent people. I heard that the Count picked and chose?”

“…That’s probably not the case…”

‘…Three of them aren’t even more handsome than you.’

When I saw his face, I couldn’t continue talking behind my back. He grew black hair darker than his jet-black tailcoat and tied it back in a ponytail.

Europe said he liked the way he grew it, so his hair was now long enough to reach his waist.

Compared to his soft eyes, his yellow eyes that would shine like a wolf in the dark and his nose that became taller as he grew up was a typical face of a handsome boy.

Involuntarily, a hand went to his face. He stroked the slightly rough skin a couple of times before making a sullen face.

“Isn’t your skin too rough? Shouldn’t you apply cosmetics?”

“What kind of cosmetics are men?”

“Your hair was really rough the other day. Are you wearing it well these days?”

This time, her hand toward her head. When I touched her long ponytail, it loosened in her hand.

“Looks like you’re putting it on well.”

“Because I don’t want my hair to come off.”

“Then apply it to your face as well.”

“Even if you don’t apply it on your face, your skin won’t peel off. So it should be fine.”

“If it tells you to put it on, just put it on!”

Sirius fell onto the bed with pain as if his scalp were peeling off as he pulled the tail he was fiddling with.

Europe, who had a sly smile while watching Sirius twiddling his scalp regretting that he should have just put it on, twiddled his bangs.

“Anyway, I’ll meet you as you said. Please check the schedule and send a letter to William.”

“I’ll report it to you. Rather than that, can’t I just really not apply it… My hair is already long, so it takes a long time to wash it…”

“No. Please put it on and come to me to check it out.”

“…It’s too much…”

The two of them had a friendly conversation going back and forth through the night.

Three days after Europe decided to meet the candidates, on a rainy day, the candidate in the first picture, Almaz Olaiga, the second son of the Marquis Olaiga family, arrived at the Taurus family first.

A plain-looking young man with short-cropped dark red hair and freckles on his nose and cheeks, dressed to the fullest, was ushered into the drawing room by William.

First, Europa and Sirius, who were in the drawing room, greeted him kindly, and then spent time walking around the family mansion with simple conversation.

Europe said, watching Almaz leave with the carriage only around dusk after an early dinner.

“Your thinking is too simple for a 20-year-old.”

“He was indecisive when he answered.”

“And I think I got the point of the conversation wrong.”

“I also saw him scrambling to get off the point.”

The two of them went back to their room and listed their feelings about Almaz one by one. If the person concerned heard it, he pointed out his flaws so brutally that he would cry.

“Did I write down everything I said so far?”

“Sure. Would you like to take a look?”

Europe smiled and nodded in satisfaction when Sirius showed her a notebook filled with details. They were two people who casually did things that would make the person concerned tremble in fear.

“Let’s take a look at the other candidates.”

The next day, the second candidate, Kursa Eridanus, a boy with brown hair and tanned skin, the eldest son of Count Eridanus, visited the mansion.

Three days after Crusa visited the mansion, Dalim Fornax, a boy with light blue hair and wearing glasses, the third son of the ducal Fornax family, visited the mansion.

After meeting the three candidates, the two gave harsh evaluations.

“The second candidate, Mr. Kursa, is one year older than the lady and he is attending the academy, but he is so flippant that he wonders if they are the same student.”

“That’s right, he made eye contact with me and looked all over my body. It really made me feel bad.”

“Rumor has it that he has a serious flair for women. He’s a complete chestnut tanned bully. That would be reason enough to turn him down.”

“…But what is tanning?”

“There is such a thing.”

Sirius passed naturally.

Blonde, tanned, asshole. It is like a natural disaster in NTR, but two of them are applicable. Wouldn’t that amount to a man-made disaster?

Thinking that way, I looked at the next page of the notebook.

“The last candidate, Dallim…”

“You’re a kid.”

“Uh huh, lady. That’s a bad word.”

“You’re not wrong.”

“Ehh…”

Sirius sighed and looked at the notebook again and opened his mouth.

“As the lady said, she’s too young. She’s smart, but she doesn’t feel like she’s living in her own world, she’s living in an ideal. And she was a kid with a skirt looking for the duchess too much.”

“Maybe it’s because he’s the youngest, but he doesn’t feel like he’s grown up too much.”

“Anyway, I think I’ve satisfied all the rejection conditions with this. More than that, the Count’s eyes for people are really…”

“It’s my father, but I really think he did too much.”

However, we only gathered together. It wouldn’t have been easy to choose like this, but how could the people who were chosen and chosen be like this?

Sirius and Europa made me want to see what the candidates were like before being filtered out.

That night, Europa went into the count’s office and fully explained the reasons for refusal that Sirius had arranged.

“…That’s why I refuse to choose a fiancée, Dad. I’d rather stand on the battlefield against the demons.”

After listening intently to her story, the count stood up and grabbed her by the shoulders.

“…Are you sure you won’t regret it?”

The count’s voice was endlessly flat and it was close to threatening. The family’s unique magical pressure erupted around him, but Europa overcame the pressure by facing him directly.

“I’m sure I won’t regret not marrying one of the people my father chose. I’m sure I won’t regret going to the battlefield. But I might regret going to the battlefield. So please teach me the family swordsmanship.”

He wondered if he was surprised to see Europa spewing out the pressure of magical power similar to that of the Count, and then he let out a sigh and withdrew his magic power.

“Whoa… Really, you can’t break one stubbornness. Originally, I was going to teach you when I entered the second year of the academy, but it’s a little early, but I can’t see an excuse to break your will.”

“Who do I look like?”

“…Yes…That’s right…Whose daughter is it…Let’s go to the gymnasium now. Let’s see how much our daughter’s skills have improved.”

“I’ll train with Sirius, so it won’t be the same as before.”

“If you don’t meet this father’s criteria, I’ll choose another fiancée candidate.”

“Oh really…”

Her father and daughter’s steps towards the gymnasium were as light as the conversation they had just had.

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As if the rainy season, which had lasted for nearly a week, had ended, in the cloudless sky, the quarter moon, where the right half of the moon converged, was floating.

Under the moonlight, which was neither bright nor dark, the gymnasium resounded with the sound of heavy blades clashing.

Earl Aldebaran, who naturally held a large sword with one hand, and Europa, who could not bear the weight of the sword yet and were holding similar-sized swords with both hands, bumped into each other several times.

Every time Europa’s body collided with her unprecedented power, she staggered. Despite her sword strike, which was on a different level from Sirius’s power with her greatsword, she clenched her teeth and endured, colliding with her father.

“Daughter, what are you swinging your sword for?”

Her family’s arcane swordsmanship, even though she wielded it by force, her swordsmanship with overwhelming sword style attacked her. As she endured the sword strike by placing her hand on her blade, she was jolted and pushed to her side.

“Because I want to become stronger.”

As if she wasn’t tired, Europa immediately went ahead with the attack and answered. She was not stronger than him, but swift swordsmen attacked the count.

“Then why do you want to be strong?”

“There is someone I want to protect.”

She effortlessly blocked her agile sword attacks, raised her sword wide, and struck it down. She quickly fell to her side and swung her sword.

Unlike him who simply wielded her, she was able to fight evenly with Sirius thanks to the moves she learned from her training.

However, the sword she wielded was blocked as well, but the Count, who did not wield her sword, opened her mouth.

“…Why do you want to protect that person?”

A bluish aura tinged with yellow light formed on her sword.

“Because I love that person.”

Her strong will awakened the path of a sword expert, and her heart to protect one person responded to the magical power of the constellation, revealing the unique aura of the Taurus family.

Seeing the sight, the Count withdrew his sword. He showed a faint smile as if he met the standard.

“From now on, set aside time after dinner. I will teach you our family’s swordsmanship one by one. I told you that I will definitely not regret it, so take heart.”

Although the count gave up saving his fiancée and sending him to the battlefield, he smiled heartily at his daughter who had grown beyond his expectations. Hearing that, Europa smiled happily and drew her sword.

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“I made up my mind long ago to protect that person.”

“…But can you tell me who he is?”

“…That’s…Still a secret.”

After talking about Sirius, it was Europa who withdrew her foot as if she couldn’t imagine what would happen.

After the long and short rainy season, the clear and hot summer was coming.