Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

88 – Finding People (3)

Thousands of thoughts went through my head when the unexpected person, the butler, appeared. The butler’s betrayal, one of the deformer’s other faces, an illusion created by magic or tools. Many possibilities swirled in my head, but I didn’t have time to think deeply.

“Now, are you embarrassed by this situation? Sirius.”

“…”

When I called my name in the voice of the butler, who hadn’t changed an inch in my memory, many of the possibilities that had been swirling around in my head fell out of confusion. I wondered if the butler standing in front of me was real, and I was dubious about it, almost letting my guard down.

Until the butler’s blade flew.

Suddenly rushed in and lightly dodged the usual slash. I should have stopped it because it was obviously not a speed that I could normally avoid, but today it seemed exceptionally slow and inaccurate.

“Ohhh, avoiding it. That’s pretty good. Then how about this!”

A slightly more frivolous tone than usual and an inaccurate kick that makes you feel uncomfortable. The resulting gap was noticeable. The fist he fired with a bogey that penetrated that gap surprisingly landed cleanly.

“Kuhhh…”

I noticed it through the reaction of the butler, who staggered and swallowed his saliva at the unexpected shock. The butler in front of me right now is a fake.

I couldn’t figure out how she had the same face and voice, and even copied the skills the butler possessed, but now she was just a doll that could relieve the stress accumulated on the butler.

When I tried to block the tricked fist, I punched the gap on the other side. I admired the way he stepped back as if he couldn’t stand a loser ruthlessly like when he beat the meat that went into the pork cutlet without a chance to stop by hitting dozens of places in the same way.

“These days, the Dark Star seems to have good technical skills. It looks fine even after hitting dozens of times, and it has a knack for copying others. I don’t know where it got the information from, but if it tried to confuse me, it succeeded at first.”

He made a sarcastic reference to the dark star he was angry with. As if that had worked, the fake, who had the appearance of the butler, was enveloped in pitch-black darkness.

“Didn’t I tell you not to treat me the same as those idiots?”

It wasn’t the deformer’s voice, nor the butler’s voice, but it growled in a harsh voice that scratched the eardrum.

“I am Viscount Parsus of Memories, the one who serves the great darkness. Are you ready to be punished for offending nobles?”

The appearance revealed in the darkness was a heterogeneous appearance.

Standing was a man wearing a dark brown suit on grape-purple skin, dark eyes, long light green hair, a black horn on his forehead, and small wings on his waist.

“…It was a demon.”

Because I was a demon, I was fine even when I was beaten up like that. He could see how he could hold on.

“Don’t call us by such vulgar names! Just as you are children of the stars, we too have names born in darkness!”

The ignition point was low, and it reacted as if it would explode even if it was slightly touched. It was a bit of a funny sight, but the situation wasn’t funny at all.

Viscount Parsus, who calls himself a nobleman called Viscount, was what we call a mid-level demon. Among the demons, those who have no ability but have a stronger body than the children of the stars are low-level demons, and intermediate-level demons are born with their own abilities. They are capable people with different skins who literally possess supernatural skills, such as breaking rocks without any movement with telekinetic power or wearing electricity all over their bodies.

When it comes to the ability of the person in front of you, the change in appearance is all… It’s complicated. I couldn’t figure out how he had followed the butler’s appearance and voice, and even the secret techniques that only the two of them knew in the world.

“Huu, it’s nice to come back to what I saw after living only with someone else’s appearance for a long time. You know that? I’m a child of a star. None of the children of the star who saw this came back alive.”

Sure, he looked like he was threatening, shaking his head, but it was much better than before. It was uncomfortable because I was wearing the face of someone I knew, but it was easier because the demons were showing up.

“Seeing no reply, you must have been frightened by my appearance. Rejoice, you are the fifth person I have seen in my life. And I have seen the skills you showed me earlier. Bone It was the first time I had a fist that hurt so badly!”

As if he was trying to imitate my fist, two fists powerful enough to create wind pressure rushed in, but they exploded more slowly than when he was in the shape of the butler. He said, dodging slightly to a distance where the wind pressure wouldn’t reach.

“That wasn’t even a technique, it was just a punch. If you couldn’t stop it, you’re a sucker.”

I stretched out my hands and cut his body. If he was an ordinary person, he wouldn’t have known, but if he was a demon, he didn’t hesitate to sharpen his hands.

Purple skin was wounded and bleeding red instead of dark clothes. If it were a normal person, it would have been cut so fast that it could be split in two, but it only left a deep wound.

“Oh, how every hand gesture is like a sword! Unbelievable!”

“Believe it or not, they bleed bright red just like us.”

“Kuh…”

Expressing a look of bewilderment at the fact that a blade flew instead of a fist, he rushed out and wrapped himself in darkness as before. In order not to let go of him, I rushed in and slashed my hand at the neck.

No, I had no choice but to stop trying to blow it.

I met familiar blue eyes that glowed in the dark. Eventually, when all the darkness was lifted, it gave me goosebumps to the point of widening my eyes.

Has a half-ponytail, a red school uniform from the academy, and a hairpin on the bangs above the right eyebrow that I gave her as a birthday present last year. It was the same as the lady who went out to class this morning.

“As expected, the child of the star with this face seems to be the most precious child to you. It must have turned into this child long ago.”

And the same voice and smile as the young lady, and even the way he spoke, made me break out in a cold sweat.

A common cliché among creative works. It was frustrating to see the main character hesitate without recklessly attacking the enemy who had turned into a precious person. But when it happened to me, even though I knew her head was fake, her body didn’t move.

“What’s wrong? Stay still without swinging that bloody hand like you did earlier? Cut it like before?”

As if provoking, he thrust a face like that of a young lady and punched me in the pit of my stomach.

I calmly blocked it, but it was as powerful as the sword the lady wielded. It made his arms tingle. It must have been impressive that I was hit with a fist afterwards, and when the two fists rushed again, the only way was to avoid it.

“Ahahahaha, really. The children of the stars are so stupid. Really, when they turned into old people earlier, they beat them without mercy, but now they can’t do anything. They’re stupid.”

As he clenched his fists and smiled like a devil in the face and voice of the young lady, he seized his heart. It was around the time that I realized that in order to deal with the fake in front of me, even if it had the face of a young lady, I had to kill it.

“Yeah, are you really stupid? My butler.”

The same voice from behind. Before he could even look back, the lady jumped at him like a gale and swung her sword. The guy hurriedly backed away to avoid the sword, but he was caught in the fierce sword wind that followed the sword.

At the sudden appearance of the young lady, I muttered in disbelief as if the head of the house had just appeared in front of me.

“…Lady…?”

The lady rolled her eyes at me and said calmly.

“You’ll hear the excuses later. I’ll do what you couldn’t do for now.”

The lady slowly walked out in front of me, pointed her sword at the fake, and charged again.

“…Really stupid idiot.”

The swear words the lady muttered sounded soft today.

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Today’s class ended early with brief explanations on how to proceed and distribution of materials.

With the intention of having lunch with Sirius and Ruitena, I reached the room after a run, but only Ruitena greeted me, who was drooping. When Sirius told her that she had to go out with her errands a little while ago, and that she should eat until dinner if it was late, her high anticipation cooled down.

What did you leave for? Is it important enough to leave me after class ended early? No, how could Sirius know that class ended early? Still, I wish I could say that I’m going somewhere, but what are you hiding?

Sorrowful, he sat next to Ruytena and prayed for Sirius to come soon. He hadn’t yet heard what he was talking about while he was with the Moon Priest. I wish I could come before dinner, while I was thinking there was a knock at the front door.

Louie Tena woke up and her guests from outside were Half Guinea, Spica and Lars, her first year junior. She bowed with both hands and got right to the point.

“Senior! Do you know where Mr. Sirius went?”

I replied with a tilt of my head to the task of finding Sirius, not myself.

“I went out because I had business…What’s going on?”

Two people explaining everything. Her half-closed eyes opened at the explanation that Shear, her maid, had come after being called by Sirius, but had not come.

To think you were with that maid again. Even at her entrance ceremony, she was sitting next to her. Could there be some kind of relationship between the two? As servants of the same pillar, the two must have many things to sympathize with, but even through conversation, they can go on to romance… Imagining that scene made me angry.

“Senior… I’m afraid of the eyes.”

I was barely able to calm myself at Lars’ frightened words. Now, he came out of the academy with them to find Sirius, who was trying to get another woman by his side.

The first person to ask was, of course, the soldiers guarding the main gate of the academy. The story that it’s been a while since Sirius left the room means that it hasn’t been long since he left the front door.

And during that time they don’t shift. The same soldiers were on duty until Sirius and I went out around lunchtime on Friday and returned in the evening.

“Butler Sirius, after exchanging conversations with the drivers of the transportation team in front of him, he rode the carriage and moved.”

I thanked the soldier who answered right away like the correct answer and went to the coachman. Seeing us in school uniforms, everyone greeted us with bright greetings like merchants, and I got straight to the point.

“I heard that a man with dark hair and wearing a butler’s uniform rode in a carriage from here. I heard that there was also a maid with dark brown hair and horn-rimmed glasses next to him. Is that true?”

“It’s true, but…”

I took out a salt shoe and showed it to the hesitant people. One of the ways to negotiate, learned from Sirius while touring the capital. It was a way to show how great our value was by lightly showing an amount that the other person would not have easily.

“Please go where the two of them went. As soon as possible.”

Everyone was wide-eyed at the salt fire they had taken out. I thought it was going smoothly, but one of the coachmen opened up.

“He said he would pay three times the cost of running for two salt coins! Would you like that too?”

“That’s right, the young man took it out lightly, so everyone went blind. Keu, if I had caught on to that, I would have been off work today.”

Other coachmen nodded in sympathy with what the two said. Sirius, where are you going? Surely it’s not outside the capital? Unable to hold back my curiosity, I asked them.

“Where on earth were you going to pay such a huge amount?”

“Darkness in the capital, Tenebris. Do you know where it is?”

…My heart fluttered when I heard that I had gone to a place that was more dangerous than the outside. Spica and Lars, who were next to them, also showed anxious eyes as if they knew where Tenebris was. Curious as to what they were going to do after visiting such a place, I nodded and answered.

“I will present the same. Please wait a moment.”

I left it with the two of them and went to my room and took out the sword I always used. When Louis Tena asked where Sirius was, she was surprised to hear that she had gone to Tenebris, and with a look of understanding why she was carrying a sword, she said she would follow her and stepped aside.

Once we arrived at Tenebris in the neatest-looking carriage, Mardan’s carriage, everyone except me frowned. It was because of the gutter-like smell along with the people sitting on the streets, the beggars who couldn’t straighten their backs from begging, and the eyes pouring down on us.

I also passed by other slums while touring Sirius and the capital, but Tenebris was so big and dirty that it couldn’t compare to other slums.

“You mean the butler and Spica-sama’s maid Shear went into this…?”

Frightened by her quivering eyes, Louis Thena asked, pointing to her entrance, and she nodded.

“Yes, I guess. Just ask and he’ll tell you. He’s not even a common hairdo, so if you’ve seen him once, you won’t be able to remember it. Excuse me.”

I grabbed a passer-by and asked. When asked if he had seen a man with dark hair tied in a ponytail, he shuddered and guided him down an alleyway, then quickly disappeared.

“…Are we scared…?”

“I heard that they are very wary of outsiders. Let’s go to the place we were directed to first.”

Agreeing with Lars, I entered the alleyway. When I asked the people in the winding alley about their black hair, they unexpectedly answered kindly and arrived at the place in front of a building in front of people wearing bandages all over their bodies.

Everyone was groaning and bandaging, and the largest among them seemed to have lost consciousness while others were bandaging them. It seemed that there was a big fight somewhere.

“Hey, can I ask you something if you don’t mind?”

Ruythena walked over and asked a question. The atmosphere was a little rough, but when I explained Sirius’s appearance, they were frightened and immediately showed a cringing attitude.

“He…What’s your relationship with him?”

“…I am his master.”

She couldn’t explain it that way. I’d like to call them family, or even lovers, but we weren’t in that kind of relationship yet. With regret behind them, they walked through the slums, guided by the least injured among them.

What on earth did Sirius do to be called that honorific? What is he trying to do with that maid in a place like this? As he walked out from the back of the group, brooding, he looked up in surprise at the sound of a creaky door breaking.

And I was surprised.

I emerged from the darkness that enveloped the human form and attacked Sirius with both fists.

That stupid idiot. I know it’s fake, but I can’t attack it because it’s my face.

“Ahahahaha, really. The children of the stars are so stupid. Really, when they turned into old people earlier, they beat them without mercy, but now they can’t do anything. They’re stupid.”

When he saw Sirius, he said he looked like an idiot. Yeah, that’s stupid

But that’s my point.

It’s not something that will come out of your fake mouth.

When he came to his senses, he took out his sword and was swinging it at the fake.

I pretended to be angry to erase the laughter that came out of seeing Sirius’ face, and decided to listen to the excuse later.

It was time for me to do what he couldn’t do.

‘Now I can protect you.’

I swung the hand that held the sword with strength in my uplifted heart.