Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

64 – A Short Time (1)

In Youngji, who returned from the academy vacation, the chilly air slightly stung her lungs in the early winter, and she began to breathe lightly.

I felt anew that it was real winter at the scene of Dongpung Fall Leaves, the dancing leaves of Noikjang, who had withstood the harsh autumn and could not stand the strong winter wind.

I don’t like winter.

It was because the biting cold and the snow falling from the sky would melt later and make the shoes soggy.

And another reason why I don’t like it.

“Mom, we’re here…”

It was the season when Tiamat passed away.

The three of us, the young lady and I, Ms. Ruitena, were standing in front of a tombstone bearing the images of a bull, the symbol of the Taurus family, and a whale of the Cetus family.

As if the Count had come and gone first, a white artificial flower that looked like a wild rose was placed on the tombstone.

Unlike Gliese, it was winter when it was difficult to find flowers, so she came with her bare hands, but the lady’s heart was heavier.

“Mom…I wondered how you were doing at the academy? Didn’t you get into a fight with a girl from the Scorpio family on the first day? Asking for Sirius…”

Sitting in front of the tombstone, stroking it like Tiamat’s body and laughing awkwardly while talking about how you’ve been for a year made her heart tingle.

I still vividly remember the day Tiamat died just six years ago when I close my eyes.

I vividly remember the count’s side worrying about me, the way he grabbed my cheek like a young lady and questioned me, and the way she never lost her smile while lying on the bed. .

As tears welled up at the corners of her eyes, she smiled awkwardly, and silently handed her a handkerchief.

The lady who received her handkerchief wiped her tears and smiled at her tombstone again.

“Once upon a time, when demons invaded our mansion, I briefly remember her mother brandishing two thin rapiers to protect me. Did my mother do that to protect someone important to me too?”

Then she turned her head and our eyes met. Her eyes were so straight that I couldn’t find the awkward smile she had earlier. Every time she made a big resolution, the eyes that she had shown looked back at her tombstone.

“I will protect the person who is important to me, just like my mother. Support me by the stars. My arms scream every day, but he is so strong that I feel I have to do more even if I do this.”

As I smiled self-deprecatingly, it felt like Ruitena-san’s eyes were pierced into the back of my head. She couldn’t bear to look behind her, and instead of looking in front of her, she turned her head to the side and stared at the winter scenery.

“…Mom, would you like to listen to other people this time? They are precious people by my side.”

The lady got up and came out to Tiamat-sama’s tombstone and took Ruitena-san’s hand and led her. Tiamat’s death day passed without a word, but she doesn’t know what the young lady was windy about.

“…Meet my wife, my name is Luitena, the lady’s maid of the family who has served the lady. I don’t know if she will be satisfied with the lack of service, but I will do my best to serve the lady in the future. Please keep an eye on her. “

Her first player, Mr. Louie Tena, greeted her and took a step behind her as if she had finished her own speech. Reluctantly, she knelt down on one side of her lap and hesitated about what to say before opening her mouth.

“Mrs. Thia Met. Greetings from Sirius, who went from being a servant to a butler to the lady. When I come every year, I’m sorry I went without saying anything… I didn’t know what to say, it just didn’t come out of her mouth…”

If Tiamat was alive, what would he have answered to my words? Similar to the young lady, but with a brighter personality, ‘You talk so hard between us and I’m sorry.’ And you would have fed me.

“You must be watching from the stars to be by my lady’s side, right? In the future… Please wish me the best of luck to be by your side no matter what happens.”

No matter what my identity was, I wanted to stay by her side. I wanted good luck to dwell in that small wish.

“I don’t want to break my promise with the young lady, with Tiamat.”

So she squeezed the words out to Tiamat. If you were watching by the stars, how anxious would you be watching them?

“…Please…”

I stroked the whale pattern and stood up. She said as the lady approached her.

“I’ll go…Next time I’ll bring a more interesting story.”

She bowed her head at her tombstone and moved on with her heavy steps after saying goodbye to the young lady.

But she felt relieved, perhaps thanks to the words she had spoken to Thiah Met in five years.

#

Strange rumors circulated in the empire. It was rumored that a boy had defeated a demon by himself even though he had not yet entered the academy.

Even though it was a low-level demon, it was significant that he defeated it alone with a sword, and the rumor quickly reached the ears of the Scorpio family, which is in charge of the empire’s information power.

“…A boy younger than us defeating a low-ranking demon by himself…?”

“Yeah…There was a rumor going around, so I told you…I don’t think it’s a rumor.”

A woman with purple bobbed wavy hair identical to Shaula’s was sitting on a bed near a sunny window. Her sunken eyes and her skinny body made it seem like she was suffering from a chronic disease.

“I need to investigate a little more. Sister, isn’t your complexion worse than that?”

“It’s okay… It’s okay… I’m eating three meals a day.”

Shaula’s older sister, Grafias Scorpio, was naturally weak. Because of that, she didn’t even get the family’s procedure to accept the poison, but she was so smart that she was in charge of 70% of the information coming into the family, and she was free.

“It’s fortunate that I can barely see her even during vacation. Really, wake up from time to time and do some exercise. You’ll be surprised to see Miss Europa swinging her sword.”

“You’re exercising once a day…Rather than that, are you using the magic tool I bought you well? You’re not trying to use it for a suspicious purpose, are you?”

“Sure~ I’m using it well. I installed it while taking classes, so I’m reading it when I can’t remember the contents. Thanks to that, I’ve also achieved the top rank in the Academic Building.”

It was Shaula who deftly passed on the story of the magic tool Grafias bought, the magic tool that was installed in Europa’s dormitory and could record and transmit simultaneously.

“That’s nice. Glad to be of help.”

In fact, she was able to be her senior without her magical tools, she covered her stern blood in her lies to hide her own hobbies, but she really pleased her older sister. I almost threw off the brazen skin she had laid in front of me.

‘… It was dangerous… How lethal sometimes that smile on her sister’s… Makes me feel guilty…!’

While overcoming the guilt that stabbed her heart and looking through the information Grafias had gathered, she found a piece of disparate information.

“The…Priests of the moon? Barbarian cultists against the Holy Church?”

“It’s more like a minority rather than a pagan. It’s said that even though he’s a priest of the moon, he’s gifted with astrology.”

“Why did such people go to the North during this cold season? If it were in the North right now, everyone would have finished preparing for winter and would not come out of their homes.”

“I’m still investigating…I was informed by the investigators that they are asking door-to-door as if they were looking for something. It will take some time as the place is uncooperative with outsiders to investigate.”

When I was told that the investigation had not been completed yet, I quickly went through the papers with other information written on them.

“The eastern front seems so quiet that it’s awkward to say it’s a front. What’s the plan?”

Shaula frowned as she handed over her materials. The enemies of mankind were standing still, forming a front line, so it was a rather uneasy situation.

“…Either the commander hasn’t reached the front line yet, or, as you said, Shaula has other ulterior motives…Or maybe he’s looking for something… Wait a minute…”

Graffias, who was looking through the materials again, sighed when he read the first thing about the boy he had seen.

“I need to investigate the source of the rumor first. I need to find out how the lower demons left their footprints in the inner world…”

“I don’t think there was a story about finding demons elsewhere?”

At Shaula’s question, Graphias nodded and put the wad of papers next to the bed.

“First of all, I need to find out how the demons came in with this rumor. Since it’s a subject that needs to be officially reported to the Empire, could you ask for a family meeting?”

“A family meeting is too grandiose. Sister, call it tea time.”

“That’s it…Rather than that, how are the two of you talking about these days? Are you still not dating?”

Shaula’s expression wrinkled at the words of the two people Grafias had spoken, Europa and Sirius.

“Those two have been very awkward lately. How about…”

Grafias, who listened to Shaula with a smile, heard that the story of the two was mentioned once in the letter he sent, so the question he asked was as sweet as reading a romance novel, and he became interested.

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“Something must have happened during vacation. Could it be that one of the two couldn’t stand it and confessed and got kicked?”

“Oh, no way.”

The lively story of the two that Shaulah tells every time she is on vacation is the joy of her life.

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“…It tickles my ears…Someone even talks about me.”

He pierced his itchy ear with his little finger, holding up the tray with three mugs of hot chocolate in one hand.

With the snow falling, outside the mansion, a golem moved by magic was sweeping her eyes, and she laughed out loud.

“It’s nice not to waste manpower. You don’t need dozens of people to use one eye.”

My destination on the way back was, of course, the lady’s room. The white marshmallows were floating in the hot chocolate that I, the young lady, and Mr. Ruytena had to share, and it must have been burnt quickly, so the steam rose to the point of wheezing my appetite.

When I arrived at the front of the room, I took a deep breath. I’ve been awkward all semester because I said that I was crazy too, in a motel-like lodging with a lady.

Even after returning to the mansion, Mr. Ruy Tena was in charge of the attendant, so she had no time to talk with the young lady. Today, I even brought a bribe to solve the awkwardness.

“…My lady, this is Sirius.”

When I knocked on the door and tried to open it, the door opened and Mr. Ruitena greeted me with a deep smile.

“What’s going on, butler?”

“Ha…Hot chocolate…”

“I’m sorry, lady, you’re too busy right now and don’t have time for hot chocolate. I’ll tell you to have it later when you have time, give it to me.”

“…Yes…”

I felt that the young lady was blatantly avoiding it, but she was helpless. I just handed over a tray of hot chocolate and entered my room with weak steps.

Should I have just stayed still? If it was like before, I would have liked it because I had free time because I had no work, but now I don’t.

… I was surprised at myself for feeling lonely for a moment when the young lady was not with her. It wasn’t because of the promise he made in front of Tiamat and the lady, he wanted the lady himself.

I lay down on the bed and stared at the sky. Do you feel the same way as I do, or did you feel this way? Are you asking me to experience what you blatantly avoided this time?

I just wanted to have a simple conversation by my side, but I couldn’t.

I couldn’t go anywhere to relieve my stuffy heart, so I asked for sleep to forget it. I closed my eyes, thinking that if I woke up, I would be able to forget this feeling for a little bit.

“…Are you sleeping?”

At the time I hadn’t been able to fall asleep and had closed my eyes, I stood up at the lady’s voice. I don’t know how long it’s been, but in the corner of my dark room, my eyes caught my eyes.

“…No, I didn’t sleep.”

“He usually sleeps well.”

A bitter smile came out of the grumbling voice. She was the usual way to express her dissatisfaction with me while being nice to others.

“hahahaha, I will.”

“…I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

A lady wearing a long dress and thick shawl cardigan, which she often wears indoors, crawled up to me and she hugged me without saying a word.

“Lady…?”

“It’s just…You haven’t been together for a while…That’s when I made a big mistake…”

“…No big mistake, lady. I was just surprised when I said that.”

To be exact…At that time, my reason almost lost control. How could she bear it when the lady wearing only a gown had a different scent. Just thinking about that time still makes my heart pound.

“Ah, anyway…The hot chocolate you made was delicious…Just now it was hard to see your face…I had no choice but to make excuses…I’m sorry…I didn’t expect to be so disappointed.”

The young lady, who fell slightly at my answer, hesitated and apologized. Looking at my young lady, I don’t know if she has a strong heart or a soft heart.

“Honestly, I was a little shocked earlier.”

“That… Is it?”

I added it with a smile on the face of the lady who was almost in tears.

“Still, thank you so much for coming.”

As the lady hugged me, I hugged her. She felt as if all her thoughts had been blown away by the scent she always smelled of the lady.

…And then, after a long time, the urge to vampirism rose gently.