Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

17 – Welcome Party (1)

On the way to the banquet hall in the academy building where the new student welcome party was held, where all the students of the academy were supposed to gather, the setting sun was shining on the two. The two were Europa, who went ahead first, and Sirius, who looked around and looked after his master.

“If you go to the welcome party, you’ll be focused.”

“I don’t like that.”

Sirius approached as if to comfort her as she sighed in her annoyance.

“What do you think? You are so beautiful that all men your age will pay attention.”

“…How are you?”

As she turned and walked, their eyes met. Maybe it’s because she put on makeup that emphasized her eyes with a light coat of powder to not put too much pressure on her skin, but she looked more mature.

“You are beautiful enough.”

“…Couldn’t you just say it from the heart?”

She hasn’t seen much of her mother, Tiamat, but she seems to be coming to resemble her, she felt. Her appearance, behavior, and manner of speech. Sirius, who saw them overlapping like that, showed a sad smile.

“You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.”

Surprised by her answer, her face turned red, but Sirius didn’t notice because the setting sun was blocking it.

“…How many other girls have you seen…”

“Let’s see… Leona, Christine, the head maid, Christine’s younger sister, Elina, and…”

“Okay. It’s my fault for asking you. Let’s go. We’ll be late.”

A smile lingered on her lips as she turned around and headed towards the academy building. As if she was satisfied with the current conversation, her light steps were telling her feelings.

The closer we got to the academy-dong, the more people started to appear. There were people like Europa and Sirius who went together as a master and servant, while there were also people who went alone without an attendant.

“Those without attendants must be commoners, right?”

“If you are a commoner, you don’t feel the need for an attendant, or if that’s the case, you’ve left an attendant behind to live in a dormitory.”

“Looking at it at times like this, I think it’s necessary for a young lady to feel the need of an attendant from time to time.”

“I’m good at what I do, even by myself…”

They arrive at the entrance of the academy building before they know it. Sirius asked, tilting her head at her words.

“Is that so? Who said he wouldn’t get out of bed this morning because he was tired…”

“You’re being arrogant again. Bad servant.”

As I poked his side with my fingers, Sirius, who had distanced himself, began to lament.

“Ah~ I wonder where the person who said that he is working hard because he should be able to live without any problems even by himself…”

“Hey!”

As she shouted at him, people passing by started staring at her. Her face blushed as she felt her gaze turn toward her, and she hurried toward Sirius.

“Are you…Really going to do that?”

“I say I’m a bad butler every day. I want to be a real bad butler.”

When he crossed her arms and didn’t meet her gaze, she fidgeted with her serious face.

“…That…”

“I’m kidding, lady. I just remembered something you said before, so I just said it.”

As if imitating a young lady, I met her eyes while wearing her embellishment. But she didn’t hide her serious face.

“…Please don’t say that, even if it’s a joke…Now…Wrong…”

Her hands in her arms trembled a little. She opened her mouth as if trying to say something to her, and she closed it, repeating her look slowly as he waited.

“Yes? What did you say?”

“…Well…You did it wrong, you idiot!”

Europe kicks her shin and whimpers into the building. It was Sirius who grabbed her shin and followed her.

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A banquet hall located on the 3rd floor of the academy building. It was large enough to leave enough room for all the students to come in, and the mouth was wide open. When I was in high school before being possessed, I thought of the school auditorium and compared it, I saw the difference between my stomach and my navel.

“Shut that wide open mouth. You look stupid.”

“Oh, I didn’t expect it to be this large. I’m sure more than 3,000 people can enter.”

“It is said that His Majesty the Emperor visits and speaks from time to time, so it should be spacious. It is said that His Majesty sometimes hosts banquets.”

The emperor gave speeches and banquets, but there was no reason to do it in a confined space, he nodded his head. From those who had already arrived, to those who had been seen from the outside, and those who had just arrived, the banquet hall became more and more crowded as time went on.

According to the lady, when commoners enter the academy, a suit or dress is given as a gift from the empire. That’s why everyone came out here without feeling burdened with their clothes.

It could be said that it was difficult to enter, but it was a place where talented people entered.

As the young lady and I entered the party hall, the eyes began to focus more and more on us. And that’s because the eldest daughter of the Taurus family brought her dark-haired servant.

I didn’t like it when they just stopped talking and stared at us without saying anything.

But I couldn’t frown or complain. Because I am not the owner of the family, but a servant. You shouldn’t disgrace your master’s face because of your personal feelings.

I made eye contact with the gossiping companions, but they didn’t stop.

Yes, this was originally correct. ‘Cause I’m a stranger here

I couldn’t see their gaze, so I looked down. The hem of the girl’s dress, which seemed to drag on the ground, flickered in front of my eyes. The movement of the dress stopped, and the young lady bent her waist and looked up at me.

“Raise your head. You did nothing wrong.”

Her warm palms wrapped around my cheeks and raised my head.

Straight blue eyes.

His eyebrows raised as if he was angry.

Your lips are tightly closed as if you don’t like it.

“It’s okay. I’m here.”

Those tightly closed lips were opened, and the raised eyebrows were already loosened. Even so, straight eyes were still looking at me. My reflection in his eyes, Sirius’s face was perplexed.

She removed her hand from my cheek and looked around.

“You’re still doing what everyone else is doing, right? If you’re interested, come and talk to me. Otherwise, I’d like you to stop whispering behind your back?”

We spoke in a quiet tone, but it was loud enough for everyone at the party, which was quiet because of us, to hear. At the lady’s words, everyone turned their eyes away or scratched the back of their heads and looked different.

The party, who had been whispering even after making eye contact with me, blushed and ran out to the terrace.

“I told you yesterday, you’re my butler no matter what anyone says. If you haven’t committed any crimes, stand tall.”

“Yes, thank you.”

“I shouldn’t be thankful, I’m sorry. I was stupid enough to point this out.”

A reprimanding tone, unlike a worried voice. This is why I can’t hate my lady. It hurt to get hit in the shin earlier, but now I think I can understand a little bit.

The lady’s personality is the same as in the novel. However, there was no way he would like a servant like me.

A person who thinks it’s a simple master-servant relationship and just worries about the servant, but can’t express it well.

The appearance that hasn’t changed at all, and the attitude of worrying about me caught a smile.

“Sorry for showing my ugly side. Sirius, I will do my best not to disgrace the lady’s face.”

“They say they will work hard every day. They’re fed up now.”

He really does not go beyond one. Still, you have to be this straight, my lady.

“Please forgive this poor butler.”

He opened his eyes wide at my words and stood dumbfounded for a few seconds. The lady, who hesitated for a long time about what to say, smiled and said.

“What are you going to do if I don’t forgive you?”

“…Should I get down on my knees?”

“Ahahahaha, that’s all right. I forgave everything, so let’s enjoy the welcome party.”

My heart was pounding at the smile I hadn’t seen in a long time.

I still think I can make you laugh properly.

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Since then, it has been crowded with people gathering for Europa and Sirius. Everyone goes from personal questions to family questions. Sirius and Europa were skillfully handling their questions and sending people away. Sirius’ eyes met Europa’s, and he whispered softly.

“Can you bring me something to drink? I’m thirsty from talking all the time.”

“Yes, I’ll get it right away.”

Sirius got out of her way and looked around her for something to drink. And met red eyes.

“Sirius~!”

Sirius with a wrinkled expression. Are you again

Her Europa, wearing a passionate and splendid red dress, unlike her gorgeous sky blue dress, was in her prime showing off her body to me and wearing a cup of her drink.

“Is that you again? Miss Shaula.”

“Yes, that’s right~! I don’t know how much of a joke this is. Isn’t this really God-given destiny?”

“If you think so, you’re right.”

Sirius gave a rough answer to Shaula, who covered her mouth and smiled, then looked around again to find a drink.

“Well, but Miss Europa is amazing. I didn’t expect you to say that openly in such a situation. Even if it were me, I don’t think I would have done that.”

Hearing her words, I stopped moving and met her gaze. Shaulla shrugged her head, followed by her words.

“In the vulgar language, ‘Remove the badge of rank and attack, come directly and attack. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut.’ It’s because it’s the same thing.”

“My lady is good too.”

“You’re no slouch. More than that, Sirius, I’ve known about you guys, and you’re amazing.”

“What do you mean?”

“Everything. What kind of lives have you lived?”

“…You didn’t investigate maliciously… I’m sure you didn’t.”

His eyes grew grim and his hands gradually gained strength. She moves vigilantly, knowing what she has been doing in her original work.

As Shaulah shook her head and showed a more serious look in her eyes than she thought, his vigilance softened a little.

“It’s okay. I just did my research out of curiosity. I didn’t know that such a thing had ever happened between you, and I thought it was just a simple master-servant relationship.”

“What did Shaula see if not a simple master-servant relationship?”

“Hmm… Childhood friend? Just a childhood friend with a master-servant relationship attached to the front.”

A childhood friend… Sirius lost his senses as if he had been hit with a hammer by an answer he had never even thought of. Because I never thought of you as a childhood friend.

“So I’m not cold-blooded enough to break up with my childhood friend.”

If it was a lie, would it have been like that in the novel? Sirius’s vigilance rose slightly. Like a black cat with its fur on end.

“Trust me. I once had a childhood friend.”

“There was…To be…”

“Yes, I fell because I almost lost him. My mistake.”

He listened attentively to her sincere eyes and the story he had never heard before. Because it was a story that I hadn’t heard in the original story.

In his memory, the story of the washing machine running was just that he spent every day alone in the mansion studying poison.

I couldn’t have skipped over such an important story unless I had read it roughly.

“My family has been immune to poison for generations. When I was young, I thought everyone was like that. Everyone in my family grew up thinking of poison as a light dessert.”

Things that young children can think about. In particular, not only yourself, but also the people around you will think that of course. Sirius nodded involuntarily at her words.

“And when I was five years old, I had a commoner friend I met outside the mansion. He was a boy, and I had fun every day getting covered in dirt in the vacant lot. He was the only friend I met in the morning and broke up with around sunset. Such a friend. One day, on the one year anniversary of meeting him, he said it was his birthday.”

She took a deep breath and went on with her words.

“I thought of giving a gift of a cake that I had never eaten. Now that I think about it, I just wish I could give you something pretty or cool. I wonder if you thought that. For us, poison is our weapon and life. Even the food we eat is lethal to ordinary people. Because it contained poison nearby.”

I spoke again, holding her trembling arm with my hand.

“I secretly took a piece of chocolate cake that the chef was preparing and presented it to his friend. And…The child ate the cake on the spot and collapsed on the spot. I didn’t know anything, I just played a joke. I thought about it, but it got worse, and… I managed to go to my parents and decipher it, but they said it wouldn’t be the same.”

It was she who poured her drink into her mouth and controlled her breathing. And it was Sirius who was swallowing saliva in the darker past than he thought.

“So…I decided to study. In order to know everything about my family, to have everything I wanted, I studied hard. It must have been something I wanted to have.”

“I see…”

Why wasn’t this important story told in the original work? Sirius quietly listened to her story.

“That’s why he saw you and said he wanted to take it. But upon investigation, it turned out that you and your master had a relationship like that. Had I known earlier, I wouldn’t have interfered with you.”

“It’s already too late.”

Shaulla smiled at Sirius’ answer and raised a glass of drink from the table next to her and handed it to him.

“Yes. It’s late. I’m starting over. I want to be friends with you guys.”

“Friend… Go…”

“Your master. The more Miss Europa investigated, the more she liked it. You… I don’t know more than the first impression. How can someone with such a gentle impression easily beat Sir Hippar? You’re a little too close. It was scary.”

“I think I’m really curious about Shaula-sama. Would you mind telling me all your secrets to someone I met for the first time yesterday?”

Shaula again raised the glass on her table and took a light sip. The men around her glanced at her as she moved and her neck tuck moved up and down her.

She put the glass down and finished talking.

“I’m going to tell you my secret and start from the beginning. I’m going to make a deal thinking that the secret is my credit.”

“What do you gain by doing that?”

“Nothing, nothing.”

“…hahahaha…”

It’s the same answer I gave yesterday, but it feels different. She was Sirius, who was surprised that she had shown such a decent appearance in one day, if she was the one who showed the appearance of an immature young lady yesterday.

“Well, anyway, you’d better take it and go to your master. I’ll talk to Miss Europa tomorrow, so can you help me?”

“This is a bribe.”

“Whoops, that’s right.”

“Then excuse me.”

Sirius bowed his head with sincerity. Shaula gave him a brief nod of her head as she sipped her drink, then sent for Europa.

“…I don’t think you should miss out on people who look interesting.”

After Shaula, who smiled with satisfaction as if she noticed the tangled relationship between the two, Europa scolded Sirius for making a drink.