Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

67 – A new student is coming

For the remaining two weeks of winter vacation, the lady and Mr. Roland’s sparring went on every single day, until today, the day before they left for the capital.

The young lady, who showed growth every time she sparred, showed the result of her hard work on the last day by aiming at each other’s weaknesses at the same time and finishing in a draw.

Mr. Roland, who came out even on days off, was satisfied with the gold medal every time he sparred, so it was mutually beneficial.

At night, he swung his sword with an ordinary longsword in front of the Count and had time to check how much he had improved.

Perhaps it was because the demons formed a front line, the Count was away often, so there were many times that we couldn’t train together this vacation.

Even so, as he wielded his longsword every night and corrected and supplemented his awkward movements, the Count praised him for being truly great.

And now, before going to bed, on the bed, the lady had been talking until just now, and it became quiet without a mouse or a bird knowing.

The sound of steady breathing and the fine breath felt near my shoulder as I rested on my arm told me that I was deeply asleep.

I carefully turned around and looked at the young lady so as not to break her.

I feel a little relieved to see that you are sleeping with a comfortable complexion, unlike the usual sleeping with an anxious complexion.

“Hmm…Did I fall asleep?”

The lady with her eyes half open looked at me slowly raising her head.

Even in a dark room with the luminous crystal turned off, the dreamy face was clearly visible.

“You must be very tired. You fell asleep while talking.”

“Because I kept swinging my sword day and night…I think my tension has eased because I was praised by my father today.”

“Every time I went to bed, I was worried because my complexion wasn’t looking good, but today I slept with a comfortable face, so I couldn’t even wake you up.”

“I see. Thank you.”

Crawling on her bed, the young lady in my arms put her head on my chest. Because of her long hair, it feels like holding a big dog.

…The body temperature is warm, so it feels like hugging a real retriever.

I thought so as I stroked her long hair between her knuckles and felt the body temperature of the young lady clinging to my arms.

I have in my head what will happen in the future. Of course, since I am also human, there will be incidents that I do not remember here and there, and some incidents disappeared because of me.

Other variables may have changed what I knew.

…And instead of the butler’s end, wouldn’t it be my end?

I was afraid of the end, but I was more worried that I would leave the lady and be sad.

With the anxiety creeping up on me, I had an absurd thought that I wish time wouldn’t pass like this.

“I’m going back to the academy tomorrow, so I’ll be away again…”

As I raised my head with a sad tone, thoughts flowed like snow melting as if spring had arrived, and the frozen time passed again.

The face that had been dreaming was also making an expression of regret when waking up from sleep.

“Are you anxious?”

I came back as before after vacation, but I have to get away from the academy again. He slowly lifted his upper body and looked down at me.

“I’m not nervous… But a little bit. I don’t want to fall.”

“You can see them every morning after the night, but it’s embarrassing if you act childishly like this.”

“Aren’t you kidding?”

He lightly tapped my arm with his fist and his cheek puffed up.

“I realized again how empty I am without the person who was always by my side… It’s not easy even for a moment…”

“You said before that you’re trying hard to be okay even if I disappear one day.”

On the night of Knight Gliese’s funeral, the deep eyes that shone even in the dark, the promise the young lady made in front of me while enduring crying, and the kiss on the cheek with a pure smile and saying she liked it.

Have you forgotten the big decision you made at a young age? When I reminded him, he turned his head.

“…Why are you bringing that up now…”

It was dark and he even turned his head, but his face must have turned bright red. It seemed like I had just remembered everything.

“Because you made that promise in front of me.”

“Well, why are you bringing that up now!”

He shouted inappropriately in the middle of the night and hit the same part as before.

Of course, the power was different from before…

Still, I have to say something. He lifted his upper body in the same way and met his gaze.

“The person who used to ask us to play every day and used to cry when he didn’t like it didn’t stop crying and said that. How can I forget what you said that day? I just wanted to ask about that promise.”

The angry eyes at my words softened and became teary-eyed, then he closed his eyes and inhaled as if to calm down.

The young lady opened her eyes soon after and stared at them with eyes that were deeper than the eyes she had seen that day, like a deep lake with starlight.

“If you really leave… I’ll probably be locked in my room for a month or two. I’ll chew on the fact that you’ve left, and I’ll try to forget it. I might stop eating and drinking.”

She quietly grabbed both of my shoulders. Her hand holding her shoulder was trembling slightly.

“Then I will continue to cry when I realize that the person I promised to always be by my side has left. Like a child, I will hold on to whatever I get.”

He quietly climbed onto my leg. With his weight slightly forward, he had to pull his arms back to support the young lady.

“I’m going to cry like that, fall down, fall asleep, do it over and over again and wake up. I don’t want to see you like that.”

Her forehead touched quietly. Because of her opposite eyes, it felt as if a dark lake lay right in front of her nose.

“After that… I don’t know. Do you want to think about it together?”

Her sad eyes for a moment erased her traces with a despondent smile, and her foreheads dropped.

“Um…Wouldn’t it be nice to take a look at the things I used?”

“I think I’m going to cry again.”

“It’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with crying.”

There will come a time when you can’t cry even if you want to cry. Responsibility for the pillars of the empire, the weight of the family, and even losing friends in front of the demons, the enemies of mankind, will have to endure crying.

If you don’t cry, if you ignore your feelings, people will be ruined. Just like me now… Turning away from my heart and the lady’s heart, I ran away and couldn’t do anything right.

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“But that’s ugly…”

“There is nothing as difficult as leaving someone dear to you. If you think that I am an ugly person when I cry because of you, you are right.”

He looked at her dumbfounded face and then shook her head. He put on a puzzled expression on her face and stroked her cheek with one hand as she began to cry.

“It’s only natural that the more important people are, the more empty they are. If I send the young lady away, it’ll be the same as you said, or it might be worse than that.”

“…I’m probably more serious. You’re saying that I haven’t been around the academy for a while.”

“No, I’m worse. Based on what you just said, it’s much worse.”

“That, that’s probably it…! It means minimum, minimum!”

As the corner of his mouth went up in a light argument about who was more serious, risking his useless pride, he showed a faint smile. And no matter who came first, he showed his teeth and laughed.

“It’s not very poetic. I was worried for nothing because you’ll always be by my side anyway.”

He straightened my thighs and pressed my shoulders with force. I did not resist and lay down on the bed. As the lady holding my shoulder appeared to have attacked me, I could see that she was embarrassed.

“…I just didn’t know how to lie down…”

“She knew you wanted to do this.”

“That’s true…I didn’t expect it to go smoothly like this…”

The girl’s long hair hit her face as she hesitated. She tickled and smiled, barely holding back her sneeze.

“What did you mean by tripping me up?”

“…Don’t laugh, fool. But…You know what I said earlier…”

“Who is more serious?”

Returning to the deliberate joke, it was fingers pinching both of her cheeks.

“Ouch…”

“You always do that. When I try to be serious, I run away as a joke…”

“…”

I was at a loss for words as he repeatedly tugged and released the ball and expressed her dissatisfaction.

Since I was frozen and stabbed at the point of running away, I stopped pinching my cheeks and slowly laid my body down, coming closer to where my breath could reach.

“Anyway, it’s been a while since I looked like an adult, and then I collapsed in an instant. What an idiot.”

“As you always say, you’re an idiot.

This time he punched her in the chest and hit her down. Of course, the area hit was the area where the wound was.

“Do you want to keep talking back?”

“…The wound will open.”

“He said it didn’t open before. He’s lying again. Leave that mouth alone.”

“Yes…Yes…”

You blocked the hole to escape. She was very determined today. As she stuffed Zach into her mouth, only then did the laughing mouth cautiously open.

“…I can’t tell myself yet, but that answer gave me a little insight. Thanks.”

What did you find out? What did i say?

Without time to think, a small face approached with lips sticking out. If I went on like this… I couldn’t help but think of it as a kiss.

When I closed my eyes and waited, my heart felt like it would explode. It hadn’t been like this before, but it rattled like a broken engine, and I felt a familiar touch on my lips as I decided to open my eyes.

…A kiss?

I was so startled that when I opened my eyes, he was putting two fingers on my lips. As if she had succeeded, she had a mischievous face with a half-moon-like eye smile.

“Idiot, I told you before. Your first kiss will be in a nice place and with a confession. What did you expect? Pervert.”

Okay, what did you expect?

I was annoyed with my heart that had been pounding for no reason, so I covered my face with my arm and didn’t say anything. No, I couldn’t say anything.

“…I need to go to bed now. I’m leaving early in the morning, so let’s go to bed.”

For some reason, the voice crawled in, but I thought I was just sleepy and fell asleep. No, I was having a sleepless night.

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After the lady fell asleep, she fell asleep for a while. When I woke up, my pounding heart had calmed down and was beating normally.

Just like the last time, I helped Ruitena and Angelo to load the wagon, but the eyes of the two stared at each other and did not separate.

What the hell happened? I glanced at them suspiciously from time to time, and secretly listened to the conversation between the two on the pretext of bringing something.

“Have you gotten used to driving a carriage? Every time I see a horse, I get scared and it seems difficult to drive…”

“hahahaha, my kids are very docile, so it’s okay. Would you like to touch them?”

“…First of all, I’d like to load up and touch it…The lady will have a small butler attached.”

“Let’s finish quickly! We don’t have much luggage, so it should be soon!”

Eolssigu. The two were blushing and coveting each other’s spring. Angelo-san is 23 years old this year, and there is a 6-year age difference between him and Luitena… There is no such thing as a thief…

As the two of them said, I went to the lady who was playing with me yesterday. After washing and helping the girl dress up, the two of them stroked the horse’s mane, noticed the presence, and scattered in different directions.

“…Lady, the wagon is ready.”

Mr. Angelo’s natural response and Mr. Ruytena’s opening the carriage door, no one would have noticed if it wasn’t for me.

I quietly got into the carriage with the young lady and Mr. Ruitena, and kept quiet about what I had just seen. Although she was looking at me, she pretended not to know, just watching the scenery passing by her.

When I went along the road beyond the territory, of course I encountered bandits, beat them up, and handed them over to the police force nearby.

My life is like that. It’s been a long time since the thieves who got entangled every time they rode the wagon changed to treat the flies on the food.

At the end of the sunset, I arrived at an ordinary village, stayed overnight, and did not go straight to the academy after arriving in the capital.

When the young lady thought of Aclus, she stopped by the tea shop and the bakery, and I asked a question while I was sitting next to the driver’s seat and guiding the way.

“How about Ruitena-san?”

A cold sweat seemed to be running down Angelo’s forehead as he almost pulled the reins. I added a word to the eyes that shouted what you mean.

“We were talking yesterday morning, and I was told that I was going to stick around the lady. That’s why I came out late.”

“…Haa…I thought you wouldn’t have noticed it.”

Did I seem so careless? It was a bit unfair. Still, Mr. Angelo glanced at the partition attached to the back of the driver’s seat and barely opened his mouth.

“…The other day, we talked a little while returning to the mansion from the academy. We communicated well, and above all, she seemed proud of her life…I fell in love with her that day. hahahahaha.”

I didn’t expect to get rid of it all at once. As I continued to guide and listen to Ruitena-san from the driver’s seat, I arrived at the academy before I knew it.

But… The carriage ahead prevented us from moving forward. I sat down for a while and checked what was going on.

No, I was going to check. Until I saw the pattern on the wagon in front of me.

The door of the wagon opened abruptly, and it opened nicely to us, and we could see the pattern at once. Pink pattern with a beautiful female face.

A character that appears with the Virgo family’s pattern in the Maiden’s Palace, the only daughter of the Marquis Virgo’s family, and the first heroine of 「The Stars Surrounding Me」.

Spica Virgo, she with her light pink hair came out looking back in her carriage, followed by her man with her gray hair, scurrying out of her.

I almost screamed in surprise because the scene was the same as what I had seen in the novel.

The boy who came out of the carriage belatedly is the only son of the Pios family, a childhood friend of Spica Virgo, and the main character of 「The Stars Surrounding Me」.

It was Las Fios.