Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

73 – Star of Darkness (5)

In the guest room of the annex, a little away from the Taurus family mansion, William, the shortest woman among the priests of the moon, sat face to face. There was.

In the room where the warm tea cooled down in the cool atmosphere without touching the table, William opened his mouth first.

“Could you elaborate on who you are? If you do not respond, we will have no choice but to hand you over to the Imperial Security Service.”

William was tyrannical in front of the aristocrats, especially the Twelve Pillars Mansion, which represents the Empire, but the reason he guided him to the guest room was because Sirius’ name came out of his mouth.

He calmed down, thinking of Sirius as his successor and half-brother, and the short woman, who saw her fingers crossed, tensed up, swallowed her dry saliva and opened her mouth.

“…We are the priests of the moon who serve Luna, the god of the moon.”

As soon as she revealed her true self, which she had previously hidden, others appeared in the same way. Unlike William, whom he already knew through the monocle she was wearing, Gillian widened her eyes wide in surprise.

“Huh. I can’t believe it’s a snow fairy. Am I dreaming?”

Leaving behind her startled Gillian, she continued her words, placing her hand on her stomach.

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“And I am the priest who leads them, the sixteenth and the night.”

“That’s an unusual name.”

“Yes. Our ancestors were kicked out to the north just for the reason that they were not chosen by the World Tree, the mother of the forest. After that, they found a temple that had been neglected in the north, cleaned it, and prayed earnestly. We were given this name after Luna, the owner of the temple, took us in.”

Stories seen in books and heard through ears. The story that they left because they were not chosen by the World Tree spread widely, and I nodded my head when I heard that story.

However, it was Will and Gil, two people who naturally tilted their heads at the fact that they were related to the moon god.

Who would have known that the god of the moon, mentioned at the level of a children’s book, was related to the snow fairy.

On the sixteenth night, the priest below let out a deep sigh when he noticed the two of them.

“You wouldn’t believe it. For some reason, the Empire seemed to be hiding the story about Lady Luna. Just like before, they thought of us as cultists.”

“…I apologize for my mistake earlier. Certainly, I have never heard or seen anything related to the moon god in my life. Do you have any means to prove that you serve the moon god?”

I haven’t yet cleared all my doubts.

Because it is a person’s tongue that anyone can boil with just words, and a person’s ears are fluttering at plausible words, the two of them were suspicious because they had not once or twice been stabbed in the back for believing in them. Could not erase

There were some priests who were furious at William’s words, but they were the ones who stayed still with only their expressions wrinkled at William’s movements that they had seen earlier.

The priest raised his palm to the sky, and as the setting sun set, red magical energy rose up like the moon rising in the early evening.

Will and Gil stare at the color of magic they have never seen before. They had seen the ordinary blue magic they had seen, the yellow magic of Aldebaran, the owner they served, and many other colors, but red was the first time.

“Really…Surprising. What did these people do to Sirius…”

The priest withdrew the mana he had been producing and looked at the ceiling for a moment before opening his mouth.

“…You may not know that we are children of starlight, but we are abandoned children. If Luna had not picked us up, we would have been one of the scattered bones in the North.”

“With his strength, I was living in the north every day, and about six years ago, I couldn’t swing my sword faster than before, and it became difficult to put my strength into it.”

“And since last summer, everyone in my clan has been… Unable to conceive children…”

The eyes of the priest looking at and stroking his stomach darkened. She raised her head, biting her lip as if she were about to spill her tears.

“The priests prayed many times to find out the truth, but the connection was so weak that only I could hear the voice…And he told me to find Sirius…”

The priest’s voice was lowered and there was a bit of weeping mixed in.

“We went all the way to the capital after listening to Luna’s words, which we had barely heard in prayer until a few days ago, and the starlight saintess guided us this way… In a very difficult situation, we were drunk on the help and kindness that was handed to us. I believed in you…But you weren’t here after all…”

As tears eventually welled up in her eyes at the thought that her clan’s future might be ruined by her self and her poor choices, Will and Gil rushed to soothe her troubled expression. .

‘Haa…I haven’t had any normal customers lately.’

William sighed as he remembered the time when a guest who had come before, a saintess who was also looking for Sirius, cried sadly.

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Sufficient skills for a first year student. As if the wooden sword he was wielding moved like a brown snake, the swordsmanship that planted illusions passed by Regula’s sword.

Because he is an owner who handles snakes, rather than moving like a snake like a Sagittarius and Ophiuchus family, he was watching the two fight with everyone, engraving illusion-like swordsmanship in his eyes.

“…It’s a mysterious swordsmanship. I’ve never seen such swordsmanship before.”

“That’s right. The sword moves like it curves to the right, and if you want to strike honestly, then you want to strike straight ahead, and it looks like there are several swords…”

Even Aklus, who has a good knowledge of swordsmanship, said it was amazing, and Nefeli explained while carefully observing Ras’ movements. There were commentators and casters, so it was a sufficient sparring stage.

The young lady seemed to have forgotten to even blink while watching the movements of the two without saying anything. Since you haven’t closed your eyes for a minute, let alone 30 seconds, shouldn’t I give you some eye drops?

Las, who took on a defensive look by sliding Regula’s wooden sword that moved like a lion’s claw like a snake climbing, maintained a posture to attack at any time like a coiled snake.

“You’re just too defensive! You’re so different from Sirius!”

…Why did my name come up there…Thanks to that, the lady’s eyes turned to me.

“…I wish they were aggressive towards me…”

Say the subject clearly, please… You said it hesitantly, my face all burned, and when I turned my head, Shaula was staring at the two of us with her big eyes.

“What…You see that?”

“The form I haven’t filled in a while. Ho ho.”

What the hell is that form? I thought I would not be able to go back if I dug deeper, so I stopped asking and watched Dalian again. It was now almost at the end.

When Regula, unable to break through her snake coil, broke through her front with a violent movement, exposing not only her claws but also her teeth, Lars untied her snake coil and advanced forward.

At the end of each other’s wooden swords colliding, the swords split in two and the game ended in a draw.

“Ah~ Too bad!”

As Spica said, it was really disappointing. Around this time, he was barely able to defeat his lower level demons.

Now that he still lacks time, and his family’s unique ability has only half awakened, it was a miracle that he tied with Regula in this situation.

It’s unfortunate, but he was one step ahead of me.

“It’s exactly what you said, Sirius. The promise was kept, so thanks to that, we won’t have to meet again.”

The lady’s eyes stabbed my face. I’ve been talking nonsense ever since…

“…hahahaha…Thank God…Then I won’t have to deal with Regula-sama anymore.”

Once upon a time, when she was with her lady, she exchanged her sword with her. At that time, I had a hard time holding an ax instead of a sword, but I did not use my hands against others.

“Hmm…With Sirius…”

“Absolutely not.”

The lady who answered in my stead, with a low voice, grabbed my arm. Then, as if to say that she was talking nonsense, she was pinching the arm she was holding so that no one else could see it.

“Ouch…”

In the end, Regula gave an embarrassing laugh, shook Lars’ hand, and asked him to take good care of him next time. Lars, who was out of breath, received a handshake that he asked for.

As I was feeling happy inside after confirming that there was a bond between the two of them, I heard a familiar voice from afar.

“Miss Spica~! Where are you?”

Spica’s ladies’ maid, the dark star. Shear was in the middle of searching for Spica. Spica waved her hand at her voice and called.

“Your lady, you said that she picks out her dress in the capital to wear to the freshman welcome party. She told me to wait at the entrance.

“Ah, that’s right. That’s right! I forgot to watch Lars sparring with Regula-senpai!”

She was indeed a bright maiden from the palace of virgins. Even though she was so thoughtlessly bright, she had seen her eyes roll over at the sight of Lars injured.

As expected, it’s even more scary when people like that get angry.

Spica ended up going out with Lars. Shear bowed to us and our eyes met as if passing by. I lightly nodded my head at the sorrowful eyes as if wishing me a sincere wish.

Enjoyed by that figure, she walked out following Spica and Lars.

Looking at her, she suddenly remembered many things related to the Dark Star. Among them, a cliché like a cliché, a raid during a party, and she remembered who the culprit was.

As I was contemplating how to deal with that, the lady pinched my cheek.

“Why did you think that way? You’re even frowning. Did you threaten that maid?”

“…hehehehe (not that)…”

…I need to practice not letting my thoughts show on my face.

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It was late at night the day before the welcome party for freshmen, and a person was walking around the academy building where the welcome party was to be held.

An unidentified person looking at the window of the academy building over and over again began planting something in the ground with careful gestures as if handling a baby.

“hehehehe…Almost done…With this we can mess up the reception and kill the pillars of the future…”

“How do you mean?”

“The thing planted here is the summon that imprisoned the monster… aaah!”

The voice that screamed in shock at the answer I heard from the side was that of a middle-aged man.

“What if you’re so surprised. New professor Wise in charge of pure magic.”

In contrast, the voice of the person who asked the question was that of a young man belonging to a fairly young axis.

“Uh…How did you get my name…”

The young man who approached Wise, who was stunned by the fact that he knew his name, was wearing a unique mask with all three forms of the moon on it, a fedora, a frock coat, and white gloves.

“You don’t need to know that, choose it now.”

The young man extended his index and middle fingers and flicked his index finger.

“Retrieve all the summoning stones right now and die being questioned by the Dark Star.”

Then he folded his index finger and pointed at him with his middle finger.

“Take a bitter taste here and come to your senses.”

Wise, who was sweating coldly at the sound of his voice, took out the remaining summoning stone from his pocket and held it after pondering for a moment.

“You are the bitter taste…”

“I heard your second choice. Thank you for your quick choice.”

With my free hand, I cut his wrist cleanly. It was so clean that not a single drop of blood was left on his gloves.

His wrist fell to the ground with the cutting edges pouring down like a fountain, and he screamed out his eardrums.

“Ughhhhh!”

“What if the person who thought of killing the students using demon beasts just screams for a broken wrist? It’s going to be difficult if you search right now, so raise your wrists and run to the priest.”

At the words of the suspicious young man, who shook his hand and said, “Let’s go quickly,” Wise hurriedly grabbed his wrist and pressed firmly on the cut edge to stop the bleeding.

As he received orders from his superiors, he did not hear that such a young man was in the academy.

As he hurriedly stepped out of the academy with the thought that he might die from the speed and power comparable to the strong men he had seen at the gathering of the same dark star, the young man’s voice hit him in the back of the head.

“And if you go anywhere and tell me this, your neck will be blown off like your wrist was blown off today.”

“Yes…Yes!”

Wise runs away from her tail. He was seized with the fear that his head would be blown away while trying to create a great deal for the Dark Star and the demons, and all he could do was run away.

Sirius, a young man who sighed when he saw Wise who had been far away for a while, hesitated whether to kill him even now, and then stopped.

It was because he remembered his promise to the butler, William.

“I hope this helps more than that.”

Sirius stroking the mask. As a child, the mask he bought with Europa managed to stay intact and was useful for covering his face, and he wore his long hair rolled up and a bowler hat to hide his black hair.

If you look at the rest of your hair, you will be able to see it, but it was easy to mistake it for dark hair color in cloudy weather with no moonlight shining.

“When he found out he was the Dark Star, he knew it all open.”

Inside the frock coat, when I opened the pocket at the waist, it was full of the summoning stones Wise had planted. He sighed again at the results that he dug up and retrieved every time he planted, secretly following his back.

“How the hell am I going to handle this…”

I don’t know how to use it, and I don’t know if there is a place to use it. Just as he was contemplating where to use it after collecting it, he heard a shout at him.

“You there! Who are you! Reveal your identity!”

“Oh.”

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When a soldier patrolling shouted and ran, Sirius hurriedly ran away, walked around the academy for a while, entered the dormitory window, and hurriedly changed his clothes.

“I almost could have been accused of being a terrorist. If it was Wise, I wouldn’t be able to clear up the misunderstanding if I was standing in such a suspicious outfit.”

He was sweating cold, nervous about being caught, and thought as he wiped his forehead. He thought that although he could not prevent the meeting between himself and the heroines, he could prevent the sacrifices caused by various events in the future.

“I can…Because I know how many events have happened…I can…”

Muttered while looking at the summoning stone placed on the desk. He risked his life for what he could for the safety of his master, Europa.

Because that was the job of a servant of the Taurus family.

He was tired from doing something he didn’t want to do, so he hid the summoning stone under the bed and fell asleep.

The next morning, Europa saw the message on the bulletin board saying that he was a suspicious person with the clumsy outfit he was wearing last night, so if you see him, contact the security office immediately.

“It’s so strangely dressed. A clown-like mask, a bowler hat, and a frock coat. It’s either a clown or a gentleman.”

“…I mean.”

Sirius replied with a wry smile.