13 – It’s a cliché

It’s been a little less than two hours since we left that little a capella town. We arrived at Rotorneve on a bright yellow morning as the chickens crowed and the sun peeked over the mountains.

The young lady seemed to be still sleepy, but she was relieved to see that she was dozing against the window, breathing lightly in the carriage.

As soon as I entered the village entrance, I was greeted by soldiers wearing silver armor with golden patterns. I got on the carriage in front of them, greeted them, and started with the text.

“May I ask for guidance from the peacekeeping unit?”

“Yes, I’ll take you this way.”

There was a security guard just a short distance from the entrance. We were guided to a drawing room, and a man with a mustache and a blue uniform, not armor, opened the door and entered. His eyes widened slightly at the sight of my dark hair, but he did not speak out.

“This is Vid Druffin, Captain of the Rotaneve Branch of the Security Guard. How did the Taurus family, one of the Twelve Pillars of the Empire, come?”

“This is Sirius, the butler of the Taurus family. Could you check the wanted letter?”

“Hmm, what are you doing?”

Mr. Bead stroking his mustache with a subtle expression. Well, as soon as he arrives, he asks to see the wanted letter, which is strange. Noticing that Uncle Gillian, who was with me, glanced at me outside, I came out and took him out of the luggage compartment and threw him into the condensation room.

“I was attacked by this person yesterday in Capella Village at the foot of the mountain. I subdued everyone including this person, but I think this guy is the leader, so I’m going to check the wanted list.”

“Yes…Please wait a moment.”

Not long after I left the drawing room, I came out with some papers. In the meantime, I loosened the cloth covering his head to make it easier to understand. The guy was exhausted and passed out, his eyes closed.

“Hmm… Her face is so badly damaged that it’s hard to recognize. If you knew her name, you’d know…”

I must have hit you hard. Is it because I decided to knock him out and hit him?

“Is that all you need to know?”

“aaah!

As I grabbed the guy’s collarbone and shook it, a scream echoed through the drawing room. It’s a method I’ve seen in the movie, but it works well.

He shook his collarbone even more and threw it back on the floor. In the drawing room, which had finally become quiet, Mr. Beed looked at me with a bewildered look. He said yes or no, grabbing the boy by the hair.

“Tell me your name, Mr. Deputy Owner”

“…”

The nodule of his hair hit the floor with his face. It left a few bloodstains on the smooth wooden floor. There are a lot of people who mistakenly think that if you speak in a gentlemanly way, you should listen to them, and if you speak politely, you are a higher person.

“Name.”

“Ka…Kalom…”

When I heard the name, I looked at Mr. Bead, looked through some wanted letters, handed one to me, and said,

“Kalom. Age 37, head of an armed robbery group, robbery and murder. They kidnap adventurers and villagers, sell them as slaves, and run away without a trace if you try to investigate after hearing rumors of extortion. There are rumors that he is a sword expert, so even adventurers were having a hard time stepping out.”

It seems that he was on the wanted list. As expected, Uncle Gillian couldn’t ignore his dignity. The uncle looked at me and winked at me with his thumbs up. He is a really pleasant person.

“It’s fortunate. If it wasn’t us who passed by and it was just adventurers, we’d have been stunned. Oh, the other party is also in that village. We’ve subdued them all.”

“Can you tell me where the town is?”

“I’ll mark it on the map.”

Mr. Gillian and I cooperated as much as possible with Mr. Bead. We have to finish quickly, so we’ll arrive in the capital around lunchtime. Mr. Bead nodded his head as if he trusted our words, and sent the security forces into the village.

It took less than two hours by carriage from here, so it would take less than an hour by horse. The moment I walked out of the security guard, pondering as I headed for the wagon.

“…”

I froze when I saw the young lady staring at me without saying anything when she came out of the carriage.

“Uh…Lady?”

“Where have you been?”

“The security guard said I was in possession of a dangerous item while checking things, so it took me a while to check and deal with magic…”

It is said that the tongue becomes longer when you play the kura. In order to tell a plausible lie to convince the lady, I spoke as it came out of my mouth without going through a filter like a stream of consciousness in my head.

“…Really? Are you handling it right now?”

“They say it will take a little time. Most of the people who will be doing the magic treatment are out of the office, so they say it will take more than an hour to do it with a small number of people.”

A lie once told grew and grew like a snowball. Still, the rolling snowball seemed to work. The lady’s expression softened a little.

“I see. If such a thing happened, would you mind talking to me? I thought it was abandoned because it was sitting alone in the carriage.”

“Where are we going to leave you? I promised you that I would always be by your side.”

“I wasn’t there until recently…”

“Ugh…”

Because the core is pierced, there is nothing to say even with ten mouths. Still, it seems that the important thing has been passed over, so there shouldn’t be a big problem. If the lady knows about this, nothing good will happen.

“I couldn’t help it because the lady was sleeping soundly. Please forgive me.”

“…Knee pillow…”

“…Yes?”

“I told you this early in the morning. I’ll give you even a knee. Please use me as a lap pillow when I go to the capital. Then I’ll forgive you.”

He was taking the joke that I thought he wouldn’t understand because he was dreamy at dawn with a serious look in his eyes.

“…Okay…”

Yes, I will do the trick.

Even if my knees and thighs wear out.

#

“Oh, yes. It’s been confirmed? I’ll contact headquarters right away, so first of all, keep an eye on it.”

Bead removed the telecommunication hemp from her ear and stroked her mustache.

The person in front of you. Among the servants of the Taurus family, he is the second oldest after the butler. He was sitting in a chair across from Gillian, who was now comfortably drinking tea.

A story that no nobility of the empire can’t help but know. Everyone knows that ‘Each of the servants of the Taurus family is superior to the Imperial Knights’. Among them, the story of the current oldest servant, Chief Butler William and Gillian’s coachman, was so famous that there was a book.

Bead couldn’t stop his heart beating like a boy who met a hero when he came face to face with one of the main characters of a book that was put on the bookshelf of boys from aristocratic families.

“There must have been quite a few guys. Gillian-nim’s skill is amazing. You subdued that many people…”

“I didn’t do it.”

Gillian put down the teacup he was drinking and said. At that word, Bead’s fisheye was dumbfounded. If so, who did it?

“You just…Said…”

“It wasn’t me, but our little butler subdued them all and even finished tying them up. I just stayed in the room to protect the young lady.”

“…Huh…”

“Even the captain wouldn’t believe it. But our little butler did it casually and talked about it in a leisurely way. At such a young age. Heh heh.”

Bead couldn’t close his jaw wide open as if it was absurd. When they first met, she introduced herself as the butler of the Taurus family, although she was bewildered.

William did not become the family butler until he was 20 years old. A boy younger than her, with a face that didn’t even look like she was losing her breasts, introduced herself as the butler and greeted them politely. Can you believe that?

“…A monstrosity has been born from House Taurus.”

“That’s right… Freak…”

‘We’re not raising monsters. It’s about raising people.’

In Gillian’s head, he remembered the story he and William often had while drinking. During his first test, he confided his true feelings, thinking of Sirius, who killed a man, without any change in expression.

‘That kid shouldn’t have been so bloody.’

‘How long will the child’s hands be stained with blood? I can’t imagine’

‘You have to keep the child’s hands free of blood as much as possible. Even if it’s not to make them walk down the same path as us.’

Same way as us… At that, Gillian closed his eyes. They were looking straight ahead, ignoring how bloody the road was, not even thinking about looking back.

As Sirius’ education deepened, William and Gillian became more and more likely to drink together due to guilt. William had one last thing to say on the day Sirius became his butler.

‘Sirius, you are not a monster. A servant of the Taurus family. Keep that in mind and act. And…Don’t kill people if you can. The blood on my hands gets heavier as the years go by.’

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William looked at Sirius while holding him by the shoulder and kneeling on one side to his knee. Sirius, who showed a small smile, said William’s heart.

‘I already have blood on my hands. I can’t clean it, but I’ll do my best, what the butler said.’

‘…Yes, that’s enough. Thank you for understanding my meaning.’

“No, our little butler is a decent person.”

Gillian grinned and poured the remaining tea into his mouth. Ignoring Bead’s bewildered eyes as if asking what he was saying.

#

I was scared because Sirius was gone when I woke up from dozing off in the carriage. I wondered if I left because I hated myself for having changed like this.

He got out of the carriage and tried to get around to find Sirius, but was relieved to see him come out to the security guard. But why are you making such a scared face?

As if I did something wrong. The fault is what I always do.

After that, I listened to Sirius’ circumstances and received his lap pillow promise. He heard it in his sleep, but smiled in his heart as he was embarrassed by the way I remembered it clearly.

After that, I ate a simple breakfast with Sirius at a nearby restaurant, ran hard to the security guard by myself, and entered the carriage with a bright smile saying that it was solved. What would be so good

“What if I start early and get caught in a place like this?”

I’ll spend less time with you, fool.

“It was the first time I rode a wagon outside the territory, so I didn’t know that it was a dangerous substance. I’m sorry.”

“There are things you don’t know.”

As I grew up in the same place, Sirius always knew more than I did. There’s something you don’t know

“I will work even harder to serve the lady.”

Sitting in the carriage, I placed my hand on his chest and bowed my head. It was boring to say that I would always try and work hard, but Sirius always worked hard and made me happy.

“Yes, work hard. Don’t let me down.”

Involuntarily, I stroked the bowed Sirius’s head. His wild hair pokes through his fingers and falls out. Aren’t you supposed to take care of his hair a little bit?

“…Lady?”

“Oh.”

Sirius was taken aback when he did something he wasn’t supposed to do. I was embarrassed because the mask almost came off without my knowledge. Should I just take it off now?

No, not yet.

I can’t protect you yet.

“Isn’t your hair too rough? I think you should buy a hair stabilizer while shopping for clothes this time.”

“You don’t have to care so much…”

“I don’t want to hear that my family’s butler has bad hair? And would you like to be bald like Mr. Robert?”

“Thank you for caring about a lowly butler like me.”

I almost laughed at the sudden change of attitude. Yes you have always been Because you made me laugh by saying funny things.

“Rather than that, give me a lap pillow. I wake up early, so I’m sleepy.”

“Yes, ma’am, lie down here.”

He patted the seat next to him and pretended to lie down, so he sat down next to him and slowly turned his body towards him. Sirius rested his hand on his thigh, supporting my head for orientation.

…Harder than expected. It felt like a stone pillow. Was there something about Sirius that wasn’t strong, like yesterday’s arm? When I woke up after a short sleep, I was away from my side, so I was stuck in my sleep.

His soft body was now as hard as a solid rock. Still, I had a good night’s sleep. If he hadn’t woken up at dawn, he would have been sleeping in Sirius’ arms.

“Are you okay, young lady?”

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

It’s okay because it’s you. I was full and in the bosom of Sirius and the wagon that swayed moderately, so I was drowsy. This… It’s said that lovers do it, but wouldn’t it be okay for the owner and butler?

Before I fell asleep, my face flushed with other thoughts. Sirius will notice if you don’t hurry to sleep.

“… Finely chopped.”

“Sleep well.”

Yes. I can sleep comfortably when I am by your side. Thank you.

Please lend me your knee for a little, just a little.

#

Meanwhile, in the security forces, the personnel who had just pulled a large wagon from the headquarters returned. Inside the wagon, the group of armed robbers Sirius had spoken of were groaning as one.

“All of them are broken or unconscious. They need to be treated to be able to interrogate them.”

One of the soldiers pulling the wagon saluted Bede and said. The other soldiers were dragging the robbers down one by one.

As the soldier said, Beeder smiled at the number of people with swollen arms and legs.

‘Did you just subdue this many people without killing them without taking any damage?’

If this isn’t a monster, what is it? More than that, looking at them made my headache hurt. Before the interrogation, it was like that, so I might die if I stumbled.

It doesn’t matter if I kill them, but I went to the Adventurer’s Guild with a burning feeling to figure out what to do to figure out the rest of the people besides them, and went into the office wondering if I should ask a priest or technician with healing skills.

“It’s a saint!”

Upon hearing that the saintess had arrived, she quickly headed out of the security guard building. The soldiers were bowing to her silver-haired saintess as if they were worshiping her on one knee.

“Meet the saint.”

As the ability to communicate with the god of starlight became known at a young age, the saintess Magellan Pixis, who had been chosen as a saint after appearing in various ways and then suddenly disappearing, appeared and knelt down on one knee in amazement that she had come to this village. Said hello

“Nice to meet you. Isn’t the Taurus family butler here by any chance?”

Magellan talks absurdly from the point of view. Bidder got up from his knees and said.

“Yes, I have.”

“Then could you please guide him?”

“I just left for the capital.”

“Yes, yes? Stella said she would be here…”

Magellan’s haughty attitude is gone, and Magellan twists her body restlessly, his eyes shaking here and there in a panic. Bidder said, bewildered by her saintly appearance.

“Yes, I was here. I stopped by for a while on work and then left, so it didn’t take long.”

“Haa…I should have just returned to the capital…”

“That… The saintess, I have a request for you…”

I need to receive mercy from the saintess who has come. Because one of her saintly abilities was healing using the magic of her starlight. Bidder thought so and got down on one knee with her head bowed.

Magellan, frightened by her appearance, swallowed her saliva and her tears as if he couldn’t do anything about it.

‘Why…Why are the jobs increasing… It’s hard to refuse because of the image of a saint… Ah… I don’t like Stella… I don’t want to work…’

Magellan Pixies. Saintess. 24 Years old. She was hit by work today as well.

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