Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

98 – A prize for you (1)

“What should I do for Ruythena… Sirius…?”

Late at night, a quiet living room where even Sirius left. Europa, who had changed into a negligee, sat on the sofa with a pensive face on her face, and cautiously asked a question to Ruitena, who had just changed into white pajamas.

Without even knowing the intentions of Shaula, who was so excited at the idea of making a date for the two of them, he was just thinking about things he might like, suffering from agony. She sat down and replied cheerfully.

“You can do something the butler will like!”

“…I don’t know what he likes…I’ve been with him for over 7 years and I feel like an idiot for not knowing…”

The only thing I did for him was a stock tie the same color as his hair that I had been giving him every week to celebrate his first birthday, and customizing his outfit before attending the welcome party. And when he caught a cold, all he did was make stew with the help of Louis Thena.

He didn’t even know what the person he liked liked, and he just received it. Feeling pitiful about that fact, he sighed deeply and cupped his chin with his hands.

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“It’s okay. The butler always wraps himself up for some reason. That’s why I don’t know much about you either?

She is a girl two years younger than herself. As she comforted him by gently stroking his head as if she were soothing her brother, Europa nodded his head, his expression brighter.

“Thanks for the advice. Ruytena. I’m sorry for bothering you before going to bed.”

“It’s okay. If this happens, please tell me anytime.”

It’s because her main job was taken over by her butler, Sirius, and she was also a lady’s maid in her family. Something Sirius couldn’t do. It was her job to sit next to her and calmly listen to the troubles of the girl she fell in love with, who was her master in front of her eyes.

“Then…What should I do tomorrow?”

“First of all, change out of the drab butler outfit, and then go eat some sweet cake.”

“Looks like you don’t like things that sweet…”

“Ah, no one hates sweets. Once you try it, you’ll like it, as long as it’s not too sweet to rot your teeth.”

Perhaps it was because of her gentle consolation earlier, she was quickly persuaded. Europa nodded her head with her bewitched eyes.

“Yeah, I will. She should go where she said it was delicious before.”

“Okay. And Shaula-sama told the butler to think of tomorrow as a birthday? Then why don’t you take this opportunity to give me the tie you bought last year in the Northern Territory?”

I was going to give it as a birthday present to replace the frayed stock tie that Sirius wears, but I still haven’t been able to hand it to him because of the awkwardness of the period when we couldn’t even talk to each other.

“…Is it okay if I hand it over to you?”

I liked her offer, but she didn’t have the courage to give it to me.

If it was like before, I would have given gifts without thinking, but I learned the meaning of various gifts through various culture classes and conversations with members of tea parties. And thinking that he would know the meaning of giving a tie as a gift, she didn’t even think of handing it to him.

“Yes. On the contrary, if you don’t hand it this time, you might end up giving it later. Or you might regret not being able to hand it in forever.”

Rui Tena also knew the meaning, so she said that she should rather push, and she found a tie from Europa’s room and took it out.

Black tie with a silver crescent moon. I bought it before Sirius knew he was a moon child, but he seemed to tell me it was destiny. She was the one who folded the tie neatly and handed it into Europa’s hand.

“You can hand it over. Just like when you protected the housekeeper who couldn’t do anything in the slums before, have courage.”

While staring at the neatly folded necktie in silence, Europa hesitated countless times in his head. She handed it over, but it seemed as if I would never see her face again because of the awkwardness like the last time.

But beyond that hesitation, she wanted to see the end of the sluggish relationship. He barely opened his mouth as he grabbed the tie in her hand as if it were a valuable item.

“Tomorrow…I’ll take it. I don’t know if I can give it to you…”

At the end of her hesitation, she barely took a step forward, but even at the end of it, her hesitation was her.

“Good idea!”

Nevertheless, she seemed to have forgotten why she was hired, as she cheered and was genuinely happy to show her progress.

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She always starts her morning routine by waking up her lady.

When I woke her young lady, who was breathing her fine breath, she met her half-closed, half-closed eyes, still not awake. The lady who had been staring blankly at my face in her sleep held onto my arm on her bed and opened her small mouth.

“Today…Where do you want to go? Is there anything you want to do…?”

Since she was persuaded by the excited Shaulla yesterday, she seemed to have been bothering me. I almost laughed at the thought of how she moaned every time she saw my face.

“Well. Every week I went out with the lady and did what I wanted to do, so I don’t have anything that comes to mind right now. Is there anything you want to do, lady?”

“Wherever you are with me…”

She answered with blank eyes, a young lady whose eyes widened in amazement. She seemed to understand what she was talking about. She let go of my arm that she was holding on to and pulled the blanket over my head, so I couldn’t help it and had to laugh silently.

“…Don’t laugh.”

At times like these, he notices me like a ghost. She smiled and she tried to sneak the covers off, but she couldn’t walk under her head thanks to the lady holding her tight. Then she would have to walk on the lower part that she wasn’t holding on to, but she stopped even thinking about it because she was afraid of the kick that would come flying.

“Breakfast is ready, so get up early.”

The part that covered his face with the blanket moved up and down. He silently nodded his head, and once again came out with a silent smile.

After a while, the lady came out of her room with her head down. Her unwillingness to meet her face showed that she couldn’t speak.

And that will was as strong as steel. From breakfast until she left the front door, she left without making eye contact with me.

“Deaconess…Have you been playing with the lady since morning?”

“…I didn’t hit it. The lady self-destructed and did that.”

I think you know that I’m only playing pranks on you. When she showed her regret on her face, she hurriedly started cleaning her with a sorry expression on her face, so I started her job.

I recorded the whereabouts of her living expenses and figured out the situation through letters and newspapers from her family. Half a year ago, the demons formed a front across the eastern border of the empire, but they still didn’t move, so I didn’t know what they were plotting.

While I was seriously reading newspapers and letters and sorting them out separately, Louis Thena, who had finished her cleaning, sat across from me.

“By the way, what does the butler like?”

“…Yes? That’s why all of a sudden…”

Perhaps it was because she had been thinking about the eastern border seriously for a long time, when her expression naturally wrinkled at a question she thought was out of the blue, Ruythena looked a bit taken aback.

“No, I’ve been close to the butler for half a year, but I don’t think he knows anything about what he likes!”

“Is that so…? You often read books with the lady.”

“You weren’t reading together because of the lady…?”

“Is that why you started reading too?”

“Well, then…As for the food…”

As she focused on the newspaper again and summarized her contents, she asked another question. She somehow wanted to play a trick on her, so she cracked a joke.

“Well, if you’re going to eat…Blood? The lady’s blood was so delicious.”

“Blood, blood!?”

She grotesquely feinted her tongue again and calmed her as she covered her neck with her hands as she covered her neck with her panicked face.

“I’m joking. I just eat well without covering it.”

“Ehh… The real butler is too playful. He jokes like this even for a short while, but how much he jokes with the lady who stays by his side every day… It makes the inside of the lady rot.”

“…”

I was going to make a mess, but I ended up eating it. She cleared her throat and tried to focus on her work again, but she still seemed curious.

“What are you going to do with my lady today? I’ve been thinking a lot since last night.”

“Well, I don’t think it’s going to be any different after going out normally.”

Unlike the two women, Shaula did not expect much from the reward she received by forcibly pushing her back. So she answered her question indifferently and opened another newspaper.

“You’re not expecting that much, are you saying that?”

“Yes. At least, as Shaula-sama said yesterday, buy me clothes and walk around the streets normally.”

“I don’t think it’s normal to walk around the streets with a man and a woman the same age as you.”

“It’s just a simple master-servant relationship, isn’t it?”

“Does your lady think so?”

A towering, popular pen strayed from its path and stopped. She shifted her gaze from her newspaper to the serious tone of her voice. She had the same serious face I had seen on the day last summer vacation, when she bit the young lady’s neck, when she wounded her body and her heart.

“The young lady thought about her butler all day yesterday, and she was worried. She had a hard time thinking for herself, so she consulted with me. It doesn’t make sense to call this a simple master-slave relationship.”

Her words flew like daggers at her and stabbed her in the chest, but she knew. A simple master-servant relationship was just an excuse to avoid this conversation.

“You know the butler. She knows that the lady likes her butler. How long will she let her heart rot?”

She turned away from that fact and ran away. Because I still have the fact that I am an outsider in the corner of my heart.

“Are you going to end your first love miserably?”

I was scared. As she said, she seemed to end the mistress’s first love, Europa’s, in a miserable way.

“My lady is always waiting for you, Mr. Sirius.”

It was heavy. She felt like the lady couldn’t handle the love she had for her.

Her heart pounded so hard that her heart ached when her emotions, which she had put away in a corner of her heart to hide in fear, bloomed.

“…I’m sorry, but I just wanted to say this because of your demeanor. I know why I was hired. But I want to show you real happiness. Butler, please don’t make her unhappy.” Please.”

As she walked away from her table with her dark expression on her face, I let go of her pen, which she was holding tight.

I tried to calm down my stuffy chest and complicated mind, but it didn’t get any better.

She sat blankly at the table until the time came for the young lady to return from her lessons.