Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

48 – Invitation from the North

The lady and I thought the strategy worked. Instead, the young lady learned swordsmanship with the Count every night.

The sword wielded by the count whom I saw at the gymnasium following the lady changed its direction, as if I said that the sword I followed was Jojok hemostasis.

The overwhelming sword attack, which was wielded with pure muscle power without magical power, sounded like a tearing cloth, and it was a fierce speed that could not be said to be wielded with a greatsword with one hand.

The young lady followed the trail of that terrifying sword slowly but accurately, like building a house of bricks.

In order to catch up with just one trajectory, she swung her sword dozens and hundreds of times and made it completely her own.

Every night during training with the Count, the only time the lady and I would be alone was after training and before going to bed, talking for a while on the bed.

“It’s hard…”

The lady was lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling with blank eyes, without changing the clothes she wore during training, like an office worker who was exhausted after work and didn’t want to do anything.

“Are you okay?”

“No…My arm hurts…”

A lady lying down and stretching her arms toward me. Unable to withstand the unspoken pressure, she massaged the young lady’s white arm.

He swung his sword nonstop for hours, so his arm muscles were swollen to the point where it wouldn’t be strange to scream.

With the feeling of becoming a professional masseuse, I started kneading the lady’s arms with all my heart.

“Something hurts, sir.”

“Poohyo, what are you talking about? Seriously.”

He smiled at a light joke and obediently accepted the massage. In this way, every night before going to bed, I did my best to relieve the lady’s tension and muscle pain.

“If it’s too hard for you, you can always stop.”

Muttered with a confused heart as if he had committed a crime.

In fact, it was as if I had canceled the engagement of the young lady and led her to a battlefield where life could be lost with a single mistake.

“Even if it’s hard, I won’t give up. It’s the path I chose.”

He stopped squeezing her arm and his eyes met hers.

The steadfast blue eyes smiled.

Can I have that firmness in my eyes?

My heart fluttered at that confident appearance that you sometimes see.

“…What are you staring at? Did you get anything on my face?”

Perhaps it was because she didn’t say anything and just looked at her, she couldn’t overcome her awkwardness and answered the first lady’s question.

“No, it just looks great.”

“…You won’t give me a reward for saying that?”

And it was cute to see her face turn red with just one word like that.

“Do I need a prize or money? Just being by your side is enough.”

“That’s enough for me too.”

As I moved the arm I was kneading to caress her face, I felt calluses growing on her hand.

I wonder if it’s been a few days since you started training. Every night she smiled, feeling the fruit of the girl’s efforts in a flood of sweat.

“Rinse lightly before going to bed and go to sleep. The smell of sweat seems to linger here.”

“Because I… Don’t smell! Stupid!”

I couldn’t help but tease the girl, and her feet hit my side.

Oops!

#

Around the end of the week since I started training with the Count, on the afternoon of the day halfway through summer vacation, the head of the house came looking for me and headed to the office.

When we arrived at the office, the manager changed the atmosphere from ordinary glasses to monochromatic glasses and handed us a letter.

“Sirius, this is a letter addressed to you. Take it.”

“You’re not my lady, are you?”

I was confused. Who the hell sent a letter to this insignificant butler? I have no one to send.

I checked who the sender was in the envelope I was handed over.

[Laland Ursa]

…Why are you here?

I didn’t even think that it was only a few times like jumping at the academy, but a big player came out.

“Sirius, did you harm the Ursa family?”

Behind the monocle worn by the butler, he shook his head at the glinting eyes of a hound looking for prey.

“No, that can’t be the case. The only thing I did in the morning was running together with Laland-sama, the prince of the Ursa family.”

I told the truth to the butler and opened the envelope. A salt shoe popped out of the envelope, along with a letter about half the paper.

While holding the salt coin, I looked at the contents of the letter.

————

To Sirius, the butler of the Taurus family.

I used to run every day at the academy, but when I came back to my hometown and ran, there was no one to match my pace.

Isn’t the Taurus Territory quite hot? Come to the north where cold air blows even in summer.

I will not hesitate to come with your master, Miss Europa Taurus.

I won’t wait.

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I couldn’t help but burst into laughter. I could see Laland’s lamentation, which had become accustomed to my leaping pace.

“The summer weather in the empire is going to be hot, so I’m asking you to come to the relatively cool northern territory. You’re asking me to bring the lady too.”

“Hmm…That’s strange. To be invited like that even though we’ve only been running for a while.”

“I think so too. I could have just sent you a letter.”

By the way, I don’t know the purpose of one salt solution. As I was looking at the salt fire in his hand, the owner of the house opened his mouth.

“That salt flower seems to be telling you to use the portal in the capital to come over. Northerners said they prefer short conversations, but I never thought I’d send it this way.”

The butler lightly clicks his tongue and says that he is uneducated.

…Is it civilized to settle things with fists without dialogue…?

“By the way, does the portal cost one salt?”

In the original work, only the story of using the portal came out, but the exact amount was not revealed. From the main character to the heroine, they were all aristocrats and didn’t care about money, so I had no choice but to know.

“What are you talking about? Now four people only need one salt. In my time, the price was one salt per person.”

When the story of the butler’s childhood popped out, I heard it with one ear and let it out with the other, wanting to know that he is also best friends with Mr. Gillian.

One salt coin. As I said before, it was a currency that had a value that one person could save and save for a month.

My mouth felt bitter when I thought that the three salt coins that Ruitena’s father had paid for his life were the cost of using the portal for twelve people.

“By the way, the young lady is working hard on training right now, so I don’t know if she’ll accept the invitation.”

The butler was right. Even if I was invited, I should not forget my duty as a servant, and the lady’s opinion was the most important.

“I’ll tell the lady first.”

“If you go, don’t relax. Since ancient times, the northern part is a place where ancient beasts and monsters have settled and blood is constantly flowing.”

“That’s why the northern warriors who fought against those beasts and monsters are famous.”

When Laland’s large appearance in his head was covered with a horned helmet and he held a double-edged ax in his hand, it reminded him of representative northern warriors, the Vikings, and laughter came out spontaneously.

“Serve the lady so that there is no hindrance to her training. As you know, if the flow of training is cut off, the lady’s efforts so far will be in vain.”

“I will take care of the young lady so that she will not be interrupted even if she goes.”

No matter what it is, and wherever we go, it is our job to assist our master. Reflecting on it again in my heart, I told the lady that I had been invited.

“That’s why I was invited to the North. The lady will accept the invitation…”

“I want to go. I just needed a break.”

Mr. Ruitena and I naturally burst out laughing at the sight of him excited with sparkling eyes, unlike his calm voice.

I wonder if he told me to take off the iron horns as well, and the young lady headed straight to the office, saying that she would tell the count to leave immediately tomorrow.

Who would say no to the request of his one and only daughter? As if agreeing with the lady’s statement that she needed a break, permission was granted to rest for four days.

I hurriedly wrote a letter of thanks to Laland, and Mr. Ruy Thena started to pack her things.

While writing the letter, I remembered a question and asked the lady.

“By the way, lady, you told me to rest for four days. It only takes two days to return to the capital. Then, would she tell me to rest for the remaining two days in the north?”

“…Uh…I don’t know about that either?”

Miss… If it was the bridge of death on the way to find the Holy Grail, she’s gone…

When she asked again, the lady said that she had only been in the north for four days, and she wrote a letter without hesitation, and she immediately requested an express delivery to the delivery man in the manor.

When I arrived at the capital, there were many couriers who regularly use the portal in the north, so the courier showed a smile of trust and said that he would deliver it to them.

She sent a letter to the courier, and when Mr. Oni Rui Tena had packed all her belongings, sweating as she was loading her belongings into the carriage, she hurried to help.

After loading everything onto the wagon, he gave a thumbs up saying that he had put in at least one winter coat in preparation for the cold north, so I gave a thumbs up too.

In the late night after all the preparations were finished, the young lady was training with the Count as scheduled.

Before the trip that starts tomorrow, the tenacity to make at least one track as one’s own has been spreading all the way to me far away.

I almost inadvertently clapped my hands when he finished the sword’s trajectory, which I thought was perfect.

The Count nodded as if he was satisfied.

“You learn this swordsmanship faster than when I learned it. Don’t forget that feeling and engrave it on your head, chest, and arms.”

“Yes, I will never forget you.”

The lady’s eyes were shining brighter than when she asked to go on a trip. Seeing that, the Count carefully raised his hand, then stroked the lady’s head.

“To think that the fool who ran around the mansion the other day was this big…”

“What…What is it really…”

The Count looks a bit sullen as the young lady avoids his hand. She looked different as a different expression covered her face, which had looked blunt.

“Sirius.”

I approached the call of the count, who turned his head and looked at me, and bowed my head.

“Yes, Count.”

“It’s only four days, but take good care of her daughter.”

“No matter what happens, I will take care of the young lady without any damage.”

I had already made up my mind to dedicate myself to the lady six years ago. It was natural. He lifted his bowed head and faced the Count.

“I will protect her even at the cost of my life.”

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“…William has chosen a good successor. Thank you very much from the beginning.”

“Thank you.”

As I was watching the count’s broad back as he patted me on the shoulder and headed towards the mansion, the lady came over and grabbed his sleeve.

“But don’t risk your life.”

The young lady’s heart fully understood how heartbroken it would be if someone she loved died because of her.

“Don’t worry. I’m not going to die easily.”

“Because you say that.”

We smiled at the young lady’s pouting lips and walked side by side toward the mansion.

The half moon in the sky illuminated our path with moonlight that was neither too dark nor too bright.

#

The next day, after a light breakfast, the young lady and Mr. Ruitena boarded a carriage to head to the capital. Of course, the coachman was Uncle Gillian.

“Isn’t Mr. Gillian looking for a successor like the butler?”

Before boarding the carriage, I was curious to know that even though you are the same age as the butler, you are still working as a coachman without a successor.

“I was just asking if there were any guys I could use these days. Angelo seemed a little interested. What do you think?”

I never thought Angelo would be interested.

Ms. Angelo is one of the servants who can be said to be right above Christine and Leona. Whenever she sees me, she treats me friendly, telling me to call her older brother.

Of course, I don’t call him older brother. It was awkward for some reason, so I just called it as everyone else called it.

“If it’s Angelo, I think she’ll be fine.”

“If my little butler says so, I’ll have to get him some reins sooner or later after he’s been to the north.”

I got on the carriage when I saw her laughing. The lady and Miss Luitena were sitting side by side, and I sat across from them.

“What is the North like?”

“My lady, I heard from travelers while I was working at the inn that they saw snow in the summer.”

“Ah, that must be bluffing. How do you look at your eyes in summer?”

“Isn’t it that cold? You should take out your thick clothes before entering the portal.”

The two started chatting before the carriage even left. Mr. Ruitena was now as trustworthy as the lady was.

Compared to the time when I trusted only the butler and the main character, Lars, in the original work, I naturally smiled.

Watching the scenery change while listening to the chatter of the two in the wagon that started to move slowly, I was excited because of the real atmosphere of the trip.

“Take what you have and come out!”

If it weren’t for the thieves who came out again.

Ha…f*ck…Really…