Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

23 – The Bored Attendant

I’ve never felt like this before.

A year before he came to the academy, when he was at the mansion, he visited Sirius’s room on an empty day for class. Even then, he fell asleep while writing something down, leaning against a chair.

I thought I was just tired and fell into my chair, but when I called Sirius to wake him up, he didn’t wake up. That day when he woke up after shaking it strongly and said he didn’t know when he fell asleep.

Just like that time, Sirius leaned back in her chair, bathed in the dazzling sunlight coming through the large window, taking off her coat and undoing the tie she had gifted her, and was asleep.

At that sight, a strange feeling welled up in Europa’s heart. It’s a different feeling than when I saw him sneaking into the room the day before he went to the academy. She was caressing his cheek with her hand that had gone unintentionally.

You can feel the fluffy hair on your cheeks at your fingertips. Skin that feels slightly rough. The hair that ran down his cheek tickled the back of his hand. She was amazed at how she slept without any reaction even when I touched her this far.

She lightly touched his lips with her thumb. A small breath was drawn from his soft lips, no different from his own, and my pauses were repeated. She felt Sirius’ breath with her fingers.

The breath became a catalyst, and the curiosity about the opposite s*x of a girl who had just started walking the steps to become a woman and the sense of immorality at seeing him defenseless made her heart pump.

Her hand ran down her face and began to touch each of the tightly closed buttons. Her expression darkened as she undid her shirt to satisfy her curiosity about herself and her differences.

A large scar engraved in a diagonal line above the chest that was visible when about 3 were unwound. When she first saw the scar, she was just thinking that her skin color was different. Her skin color was so different that the moment she unbuttoned her more, both her curiosity and her hands stopped.

A deep scar from her left breast to her right waist. Evidence that he devoted himself to saving himself in the old days when he was immature. She put her hand on the wound that couldn’t be erased from him.

Although it is no different from other skin, it has a mysterious touch. The scarred and non-scarred areas felt like separate skin. She slowly traced the scar from top to bottom with her finger.

I thought I would see this wound every day while changing clothes, but on the other hand, I felt sorry for Sirius who hid it without saying anything.

How painful it must have been, why he didn’t say anything even though he had these scars engraved on him. The hand that reached Scar’s waist trembled, and thick tears fell on his thigh.

“Stupidly…Hiding this…”

In those tears, pity, hatred, and affection for him were mixed. Before he woke up, he straightened his shirt and thumped his arm softly.

“Really… Stupid…”

He didn’t even know he had hit him in the arm. Sirius still didn’t wake up, so she glanced at her and kissed her on the cheek, just like she did to him before. She was there for about two seconds, when she put her hand to her pony’s lips and muttered.

“…The feeling is different from back then…”

Sirius slowly opened his eyes as he fanned his hand to cool off the warmth of his angry face. As if he didn’t know anything, he just woke up from her sleep and looked at her in front of her and asked.

“Umm…Lady? When did you come?”

“…You don’t have to know!”

I hurriedly covered my reddened face and went to my room and shut the door. Seeing that, Sirius remembered what he had heard from a friend who knew that touching a woman on a magic day was risking his life.

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The young lady seemed to have calmed down after a while, so he came out of the room and brought two pieces of paper. Two sheets of paper at the entrance ceremony… I thought I would choose the class I saw in the novel.

“Which class should I choose…”

“Can I see you for a minute?”

“…Let’s go.”

As I was about to sit down next to me, the lady quickly handed me a piece of paper. She seemed to be less relaxed, and she was suddenly frowning. After all, the woman on the magic day is scary… She took the paper carefully and examined it.

“There are fixed classes only in the morning on Fridays at Muhakgwan? Are there any classes you are interested in among Friday elective classes?”

“…I don’t think… I’m quite interested in the other side, but…”

“Then take a fixed class and take this too.”

The class I circled with a pen was Magical Affinity Basics right after the fixed class on Friday. In the novel, the lady’s early appearance was always lacking in magical power or lacking common sense about affinity, so she was on the side of having a hard time.

So I always solved it with my strength, and later learned from other heroines who were familiar with other magical powers, so I got used to it. I recommend this education to make up for the shortcomings of such a young lady.

“Since the young lady is weak against her magic, it would be better for her to learn from the basics.”

“Even though she’s like this, she’s learned a lot about mana management, right?”

“Then shall we check?”

I reached out to the young lady. The so-called resonance of magical power, holding each other’s hands to check the flow and operation of magical energy. I always resonated with the maid, Irina, and checked how much I had improved from before and received training.

“Now…It’s a bit difficult… Because of the boat…”

“Oh, that’s right… I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s okay. I forgot about it thanks to the medicine.”

“…”

Even if he had ten mouths, he had nothing to say and forgot the state of the young lady’s body. She was foolishly thinking only of the future, and became a dumb ass because she couldn’t even think of work right away. I could tell you about the affinity of magical power, but why did you do that?

“I’ll take this class as you said. Instead, I’ll take the other class I want.”

“Do as you please, young lady.”

“And after that class on Friday afternoon… Come see the capital with me.”

“A tour of the capital?”

“Yes, I’ve been to the capital, but it’s a pity to stay at the academy. Studying every day makes my head hurt and I need to take a break.”

“Weekend break…”

“Uh huh, again, bad butler.”

Every time I said “Uh-huh,” I thought of the butler and was startled. Where the hell did you learn that way of speaking?

Since then, the lady has filled in the classes she wants to take. She seemed to be quite satisfied with it and submitted it to the academy wing with her hum.

Unlike course registration, there is no limit on the number of students, so I went through without getting traumatized. I never thought I’d be taking Arabic classes because of that damn course.

The young lady, feeling drowsy after coming back, tried to sleep after eating the two cream puffs she bought yesterday.

“Lie down.”

“That report…”

“Lie down.”

My half-closed eyes shot out terrifying rays, and I ended up being a body pillow during the day. When the lady asked me if I had changed my sanitary pad before going to bed, she said that I had changed it a long time ago and tightened my body. It seems that the strength was left on that day.

After sleeping like that again, I woke up watching the sunset sky before dinner. When you are sick, your sleep increases. I’ve been through it before, and now I’m feeling it once more while looking at the lady.

The lady said that she just wanted to eat something simple and said that she couldn’t eat anything greasy, so I made a simple sandwich with boiled egg without ham, special sauce from Mr. Ramden, the chef, and lettuce and cabbage.

The lady seems to have a great appetite and even ate the dessert I bought yesterday. In the end, my share was only one cream puff, but I was satisfied enough to taste it.

I finished writing the report while the lady was reading the book after arranging everything. It didn’t take long, but I couldn’t overcome the lady’s interruption and my drowsiness. Around the height of the moon, when I finished my report, yawned, and stretched out, a lady came to my room.

A girl wearing a pink negligee and a light blue cardigan. In my room lit only by candlelight, the lady was staring at me.

“…Are you busy?”

“No, I just finished. Can I make you a late-night snack?”

“You think I’m a pig…”

“Ha ha ha…

“…My stomach hurts…Stay with me…”

Unlike her daytime appearance, a girl with tears welling up in her eyes gently touches her stomach. It was so sad to see that, so in the lady’s room, I stroked her stomach over the soft negligee.

“It’s amazing… When I touch it, it stays the same, but when you touch it, it seems to calm down. Are you using magic?”

“I’ve never learned the healing side. They say that magic doesn’t suit that side at all.”

He said that my magical power is exceptionally aggressive. It was the head maid who assured me that with just a little bit of magical power, I could easily break the level of the dwarf artisans’ pyeongjak.

“…I wish I was a bit more specialized in healing…”

“Okay. He said it would be a little easier for something like this…”

“…Does this make you uncomfortable?”

“…A little…”

“Annoying, for real”

He hit me in the chest and then stopped. Originally, the person who would hit six times a day finished with only two hits today. I teased him a few more times, and the lady got angry. After bickering like that, the two of us fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, Shaula, who was said to have trouble sleeping in the novel, yawned and waited in front of the front door.

“Thank you, I will eat well.”

“Did you even do mine? You don’t have to, but you’re really the main one.”

“Don’t talk nonsense and take it, Mr. Shaula. If you do that again, I won’t give it to you.”

“Oh! Give me! I’ll give you my money right now, so give it!”

“You don’t have to give me money… Take it quickly.”

I spent the class noisily from the morning and did my own thing. First of all, after cleaning the room and doing the laundry, I went out and sent the report to the main house.

And…I had nothing to do…I returned to the academy and looked around, and there was one building that stood out. A library as big as the academy building. A building that satisfies many thirsts for those who crave knowledge as many ancient and modern knowledge sleeps.

I, who loved books, headed for the library, fascinated like a sparrow cannot pass by a mill. As I got closer, I thought it might be bigger than the academy building. Among the many doors in the library, open the door in the middle and enter.

“Welcome to Nova Academy’s library. You’re the first visitor this year. I’m Libel Hor, the general manager of this library here.”

A woman with asymmetric dark blue hair who covered her left eye at the sound of her classy, cold voice approached me. I greeted her as well.

“My name is Sirius, the butler of the Taurus family. Please take good care of me, Chief Officer.”

“Just call me Libel. It’s nothing grand. As a first-time visitor, may I introduce you to this library?”

“I’d appreciate it if you could, but… Aren’t you busy?”

“From day one, the library is never busy. Usually it’s busier with students looking for books or studying during exams. And every year, three or four people get lost in the library.”

“…Then I’ll be grateful.”

How big is getting lost in the library? I followed Libel and entered the library. A large glass was built on the roof to allow sunlight to come in, and there were rows of desks under the sunlight so that students could read books.

At the center of the building, a circular counter and countless bookshelves piled up to the height of the 4th floor. The expression that you lose your way if you mess around was never a vain expression. When I arrived at the counter, Mr. Libel handed me a book and a pen.

“This is a library access list based on a magic contract. If you borrow a book from here and don’t return it, or if the book is irreparably damaged by more than 30%, you will never be able to set foot here again after returning the book. You can view it in the library without writing it down, but you cannot borrow it.”

“It looks like a curse-type contract. Is there anything else I need to keep?”

“That’s all I just said. You can return the loan within two weeks, and if you miss the return period three times, you won’t be allowed in. Would you like to put it on the list?”

Despite her firm and cold words, I casually picked up the pen, wrote my name on it, and returned the book and pen. At that moment, a strange magical power escaped from the book and permeated my body. The magic of a light contract, neither good nor bad, was engraved.

“This completes Sirius’ library registration. Then, would you like to take a look at the library?”

“No, there are some books I’d like to find. Can you tell me where they are?”

“What are you looking for in related books? Stories about servants, fairy tales about each family, tales of the empire…”

“These are books about the moon. There’s no way there aren’t any in such a large library, right?”

For a moment, her eyes looked cold-hearted, but then she regained her composure. Then, with the words to wait for a while, I hurriedly moved somewhere. I sat on a nearby chair and after about 10 minutes, about 10 books were caught by her blue light magic and floated.

“I’ve been looking for it, but…Most of them are books related to fairy tales, novels, or tales. Would it be okay with these?”

“It’s okay. Thank you Libel.”

“If so, please enjoy it slowly.”

The magically enchanted books were slowly placed on the desk in front of me. After she had finished greeting her, she left her seat, then grabbed a book and began to read it. The first was an easy-to-read fairy tale, 「Sun, Moon and Stars」.

『Once upon a time, the sun, moon, and stars. The three of us lived like this.”

『Unlike the sun who looked down on others, the moon loved the stars very much.』

『So the sun decided to stay alone during the day, and the moon and stars decided to stay together at night.』

『When did Taeyang start to get jealous? It must have been awkward seeing the moon happy to be with each other.”

『So the sun split the stars and scattered them across the sky. So that the moon cannot gather the stars.”

“I’m wandering all night to find a star by changing the appearance of the sun every day.”

…It was full of words I couldn’t understand. If you just don’t like the moon, wouldn’t it be okay to split the moon? Why did you split the stars? I also started reading other books. She read the tales and novels for a total of two hours, and she read all the books Mr. Libel had brought.

But she couldn’t find any answers. Just the information that the sun and the moon are ugly? By analogy with that… You probably won’t be able to find the priests of the moon, at least not within the empire’s capital.

As a priest of the moon in the city of the sun, it is inevitable to be persecuted. She tidied up her books and sighed. After all, since it is an empire, it will be difficult to find anything related to the moon.

As I was placing the books on the counter, something caught my eye.

【Best selling books】

Among them, one book that was stuck was “Will and Gil’s Cranky Trouble”.

The cover of the book depicts a young man with gray hair in a black tailcoat and a young man with brown hair in a blue jacket riding in a wagon and making a grotesque face.

…I can’t believe this…

Unable to hold back my curiosity, I took the book to the counter and borrowed it.

How can you put up with this?