Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

4 – Midsummer (2)

“It’s worth a walk now.”

I quickly wrapped my injured ankle with a bandage. It’s a pity that she missed her goal right in front of her eyes because of the child’s futility, but this is not her only chance.

As for the child who is down, she survived well after being hit by my knife, but since she stepped on and stepped on her and then kicked her away, she won’t be able to move anymore. She must have passed away already due to excessive blood loss.

It was embarrassing to kill someone other than the target, especially a child, but she couldn’t help it for the sake of her work.

Besides, I’m self-defense? She would have killed her target cleanly had it not stopped it, and would not have been stomped on or kicked if it hadn’t bit her foot.

Yeah, I think it’s self-defense, so there’s nothing wrong with me. The guy who interfered with my work for money was wrong.

I’m going to withdraw and report that the assassination of the target failed, and I will execute it after re-observation. There is nothing we can do about the children who were killed by that bastard knight. I have no choice but to hire additional people with my own money.

The expenditure is unexpectedly large, but if this job succeeds, it will be that much. Since you received a large amount of money that feels like new blood, you think it is a necessary investment and go back and organize your plans… Huh?

How is that bastard standing there? The wound was open enough to bleed like that, and he was beaten by me?

And that guy, did his eyes sparkle like that?

She’s not just standing, she’s walking now? Hey, don’t be scared. It’s just a kid walking by, so why am I scared?

Why are you scared…

Have I ever been like this? Yes, there was one That feeling when you were observing another target and your eyes met that target’s father, the Sword Master. The conversation went cold.

Why do you feel that my throat is about to be blown off by him! Why!

Those eyes! What are you shining like that! f*ck! f*ck! Don’t come…Don’t come!

“Don’t come close to me!”

I threatened him by holding a knife and swinging it in all directions. I felt like I would go crazy if I didn’t do this. Did my cry work? The guy collapsed and collapsed.

Cold sweat poured down like rain and threw off the mask. What is the indescribable fear I felt just now… My whole body trembled as if I had arrived in a cold place.

Have you ever been scared by a bastard like that in the past 10 years since you’ve been eating knife rice? Absolutely no. I swept across her face, trying to wipe away the sweat.

“You did something stupid”

I looked around at the sudden voice coming from somewhere. Where the hell are you talking about when there’s only trees, trees, trees everywhere. I felt like going crazy. Am i weird? No, it can’t be

“Don’t think of dying in peace.”

I was startled by the flying fist and defended it with my sword, but my sword shattered like a piece of wood. Does this… Make sense?

“Did you think someone who wasn’t even a sword master could block my fist?”

An old man’s face with gray hair. And a tailcoat.

Ah, this guy…As I was trying to figure it out, another fist got stuck in my stomach. Barely holding back the feeling of his body breaking and his intestines pouring into his mouth, he tried to grab another sword.

“Oh, you have more guts than you look.”

With a thump, I collapsed from the pain in the back of my neck. Even though it was lighter than the previous blow to the abdomen, my consciousness was flying far away.

“But that’s all. Don’t take the crime of targeting the Taurus family lightly.”

With his voice filled with anger, consciousness was cut off.

#

When I came to my senses, it was three days past the night of the festival. As a last memory, I remember biting off the ankle of the guy who tried to kill the lady and getting kicked.

And then…I don’t remember. Even when I fainted, I always wore a hat.

I slowly got up. Looking at my upper body wrapped in bandages, I felt that I was really close to dying.

Isn’t it true that I’m dead? I thought about it, but I gave up right away.

In front of me, a young lady was sleeping on the bed. Perhaps because it was a bed in the guest room, not my room, there was no problem with the lady sleeping face down next to this large bed.

“Ugh…”

With just a little movement, pain came from his chest. I put my hand over his mouth to stop his moaning, but the lady eventually woke up.

“Sirius?”

With her head raised, the young lady’s face showed deep dark circles and clear tear marks. I would have cried and not slept well because I was worried.

“Yes, lady.”

“Are you okay…?”

“It still hurts a little bit, but it’s not too bad. Are there any injuries, young lady?”

“Yes, no…”

“That’s good. I was worried about your fall the other day.”

“Ugh…”

There was an awkward silence. The young lady, with her head down, was only stroking the clothes she was wearing. You probably think I’ve been hurt because of you.

“It’s not your fault, young lady.”

“…What?”

“It’s not your fault that I got hurt. So don’t worry about it.”

Then she stroked his hair. Perhaps because of her stress, her hair was rougher than usual, and I could compare it to mine.

“…How could that be?”

“Yes?”

“Always rude…Speaks like an adult, comforts you with that kind of face…”

Tears welled up in her eyes. She was embarrassed by the first look on her face.

“You accept my complaints, play with me better than anyone else… Even though it must be difficult, you always accept it with a smile…”

Her eyes were moist and tears ran down her cheeks again and again.

“But…I was afraid that Sirius would disappear this time. I couldn’t wake up for several days…I was scared…I don’t even want to think about you without me…Please don’t go without a word…”

Complaining like a child.

Or is it just a need for people?

Is that also the love of the opposite s*x?

It will be confusing enough. But I knew this much. The current lady needs me.

She slowly hugged her head. Her hair, tucked into her chest, tickled the skin beneath her bandages.

“I’m not going anywhere. I’ll always be by your side, lady.”

“…Really?”

“Sure. If you don’t believe me, can I promise you?”

Her

She dropped her a little from her hold and raised her right hand, clenched her fist and pulled out her little finger. She promised to bet her little finger, as everyone did when she was young.

The lady saw my little finger and slowly walked her little finger.

“I, Sirius, promise by her little finger that I will always be by her lady’s side.”

Slowly ride the rhythm and wave her hand. And what comes out.

“Promise with pinky finger” “Promise with pinky finger”

After shaking her up and down two or three times and loosening her fingers, she started to smile.

As expected, my lady is the prettiest when she smiles. They say that when she laughs while crying, her butt gets horny.

“My lady, would you mind moving away from her for a moment?”

“Whoops!”

Honestly, I was surprised this time too when the head of the house, whom I don’t know how long he’s been there, pops out. She pretended not to be surprised that the young lady was by her side.

“That… Can I stay here for a while?”

“You haven’t been here all day?

“Oh! Seriously! Don’t talk about that in front of Sirius!”

Kwaaa, after hearing Lion’s Roar for the first time in a long time, my eardrums were almost torn. I groped my body to see if there was an open wound, but there was no problem.

Anyway, I never dreamed that you were there for two days.

“It will take a while. This is necessary to check the status of Sirius.”

“…Is Sirius okay?”

“I’m just trying to figure it out. Could you come down for a minute?”

“Yeah, ok. Need to finish quickly?”

“Don’t worry”

When the young lady saw me and waved her hand and ran out of the room, the owner of the house grabbed my wrist and tapped his pulse.

“Um… Butler?”

“There’s nothing wrong with the pulse…Your complexion looks better than before. You’ve worked hard.”

With those words, stroke his head. I nodded at the soft touch that stroked my entire head, unlike the way I used to stroke the hair of the lady.

“…Yes…”

“Wear the bandage for a while. The priest from the church says to change the bandage once a day for a week. I’ll do it for you when I change it. I’ll change it now, so stay still.”

“Yes, thank you, butler.”

The butler slowly began to loosen the bandages surrounding my body. The cuts from the assassin began to show under the bandage, which began to loosen from the waist.

“It won’t bleed anymore… But it will leave a scar…”

“…It’s okay…”

“Even if you’re okay, I’m worried how much the lady will blame herself after seeing this”

“hahahaha, I will…”

I laughed awkwardly and passed it over. I didn’t even think about this, because I was just busy trying to save the lady. Perhaps if he had blocked it with his arm, one arm would not have been blown off.

“This guy is your body, is it something to laugh at?”

He punched him in the head with a thump. But he wasn’t sick. Laughter came out naturally at the act of just pretending.

“Hmm…It’s a lot bigger than I thought…Even when it’s all grown up, there’ll be quite a bit left…”

When the bandages came off, the scars from the cuts from the left breast to the right waist were exposed. When I touched it out of curiosity, I was a little curious about the bird-like skin. The butler who saw that hit my hand.

“Ugh, don’t even touch it for a week.”

“I touched it lightly, but it’s too much.”

“They said that it could happen even slightly. Violent actions are prohibited for the next week. Don’t leave the waitress to other servants.”

“Yes, I understand… By any chance, what happened to the butler and the driver?”

I was curious about the whereabouts of Mr. Gliese, the person who made it possible for the lady to escape safely. The butler took out a bandage as if avoiding my face and said.

“…They say they’re still treating their wounds. They’re unconscious…And they say they’re quite serious, unlike you.”

“…I’m alive because of the knight’s help…”

“We know that and we’re doing our best, so don’t worry too much.”

“Can I go and see you?”

“Your condition is very serious right now, so I’ll tell you as soon as I feel better.”

The bandage from the shoulder came to the waist before I knew it. The butler cuts off the bandage and opens his hand.

“Okay, that’s all done. Come change every day at this hour. If you’re going to sleep with the lady, don’t lay her on your body. Have her sleep next to you.”

…You knew that too.

“…The butler…The lady sleeping with me is…”

“I kept quiet because it was good for the lady’s health. So, Sirius, do you know what will happen if you lay your hands on the lady?”

The butler sighs and shakes his hand.

Despite his age transition from middle age to old age, in the novel, to Lars, the main character, ‘If you don’t keep a male bachelor until you become an adult, the day you will become an adult will not come.’ The enormous pressure that I had been doing was unfolding in front of me.

“Of course…Where is an attendant who puts his hands on his master’s body?”

“Resist no matter what. If you tell me that the wound still hurts, the young lady will stop.”

The housekeeper who used to be scared looked scared today. He had a hiccup that didn’t come out.

Hiccup

#

A week has passed since then. I couldn’t work hard for a while, so I could only do simple things like serving food. Other users said, ‘I did a big job, but it’s natural.’ He said and helped me with my work.

The lady knew I was sick and couldn’t play too hard. We read books, did simple situation plays, and talked about what happened that day over tea.

Mr. Glee Gees… Said that he still hadn’t regained his consciousness. He had an ominous feeling, but he couldn’t help but wait when he was told he was doing his best.

I was on my way back to my room after I finished serving the young lady, leaving my feelings behind.

“Meet the Count and Countess of Aldebaran.”

As I turned the corridor, I greeted the owner of the Taurus family, Count Aldebaran, and his wife, Tiamat Taurus, with respect.

Compared to the Count, who has a tall appearance like a bull, befitting his surname Taurus, the pale and thin wife looked so weak that she collapsed when the wind blew.

The Count often met while serving the lady at mealtimes, but it was the first time he had seen the Countess. If the head of the house hadn’t told her what her wife looked like, she wouldn’t have known.

“Yes, that’s Sirius.”

“Oh, is this kid Sirius? He looks smart. His hair color is really black, which I’ve never seen before…”

Of the two, the first to speak was the Count. His deep voice was impressive. In contrast, her wife’s voice was so sweet that it was hard to believe that she was a thin person.

My wife slowly approached me. With her white blonde hair in long braids and blue eyes like a lady’s, she held my cheek and stroked it.

“Thank you so much for saving Europa.”

“…I just did what I had to do.”

“It’s not easy for a person to do something like that. A child like this…To do something like that…”

I couldn’t open my mouth because he couldn’t speak and looked like a young lady crying. Because I knew how her wife was.

“Let’s go, honey. Shouldn’t Sirius rest too?”

The Count came over and patted her wife on the shoulder and looked at me.

“We will never forget your kindness. Sirius, even if you abandon our family, we will never abandon you. I swear by my name.”

“Thank you…”

With a friendly smile in contrast to her blunt tone and her solemn oath, she and her wife descended her stairs.

Did you wait for me to go up to my room to say that? I was concerned about the appearance that was different from the novel.

Until she passed away due to the worsening of her wife’s illness, she was just an ordinary father-daughter couple. And with the death of her wife, her father-daughter relationship becomes distant, and her daughter becomes a high-handed personality.

Can I prevent her wife from passing away? She sat on the bed thinking for a while, but no answer came.

By the time she let out a sigh, suffering from the unrevealed fact in her novel, she came in her pajamas and brought her own pillow, just like a lady usually comes to my room.

“Is it okay not to wear a bandage now?”

“Yes, they say you don’t have to. The priest saw it this morning.”

“Whoa! Now I can sleep on Sirius!”

Looks like my arms are so good. I said it’s not a body pillow, but it’s true.

I lay on my bed for the first time in a long time. Used the guest room while bandaging. The moment I felt a sense of familiarity with my bed, which I hadn’t seen in a long time, the lady got on top of my chest.

“hehehe, it’s been a while, so it’s good.”

“Do you like it?”

“Yes!”

She is such an innocent young lady, but since I was injured, she has become very obedient. He didn’t have an unbalanced diet, and when I asked him to wait, he waited quietly.

You’ve become more dignified than before, but you still behave innocently in front of me.

“Good night, lady.”

“Sirius…Can you call me by name?”

“I’ll call you when the lady is a bit older.”

“…Only once…”

Bright eyes and hands gathered as if praying. Do you think that if you look at me with those eyes, I will pass you by?

“…Lady Europa.”

Yes, absolutely YES. How can you stand those cute eyes?

“hehehehe, one more time!”

As expected, if you skip it once, you’re not our lady.

“You asked me to do it just once, so I did it. I’ll do it next time.”

“uuu~ It’s too much~ black”

“You can’t pretend to cry”

“…Caught?”

Of course. He smiled and patted the girl’s hair on his chest. In the past, I resisted, saying not to do it, but now I don’t even resist.

“Go to sleep. You have horseback riding training tomorrow.”

“Oooh~ Let’s talk a little more and go to sleep.”

“Then the butler will scold me if I fall asleep.”

“Then I can’t help it~. Good night Sirius~”

She closed her eyes and soon after she fell asleep. I went to sleep with a thin blanket on to keep from catching a cold.

And the next day, when I went to hear the schedule from the deacon, I received shocking news.

“Last night, the Gliese escort knight passed away.”

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut at the sudden news.

#

It was raining incessantly. According to Christine, she said before leaving that the rainy season seems to have started.

My lady and I were joined by others dressed identically, each wearing a jet-black suit and dress. Because of the rain, I was carrying a large umbrella and sharing it with the lady.

I couldn’t see the expression of the lady in front of me because of the umbrella, but it must be dark. I will be similar. And others will do the same.

It’s Mr. Gliese’s funeral.

Everyone stood in front of the gravel site with dark faces and dark clothes. And next to the stone was a hexagonal coffin made of luxurious material.

Mr. Gliese’s pale face was bathed in a few drops of rain through the slightly open slit. Only then did she realize it.

That Mr. Gliese sacrificed himself and died for us.

Is this how the blood cools down quickly? I usually go to the funerals of acquaintances, but I’ve never felt this way.

He died because of me. He died because of the lady I served. I couldn’t help but lament that fact.

People who seemed to be from the Leppus family were holding on to the coffin and crying. Are there people who do not cry when they see their coldly cooled flesh? Watching them made my heart ache.

The young lady’s shoulders moved slightly. Is it rain or is it tears? The rain was trickling down her face. She took her hand with her unraised umbrella to calm her down.

“…Sirius?”

“…Lady…”

We met face to face. I looked at her face, which was ruined by the pouring rain. The rain was also running down my face reflected in her eyes.

“Gliese Leppus, the second son of Baron Arnev Leppers. Escort knight of Europa Taurus. Sword expert. And a mere human. Guided by the starlight, the path up to Stella-sama should be easy. Shop.”

After the funeral speech of the count who was in charge of the funeral, the coffin was slowly placed in the dug-out spot.

We killed him. We killed them because we lacked strength, because we weren’t strong.

My body trembles involuntarily. The girl in my arms who couldn’t bear to see her buried.

The two of us were crying together in the rain.

I don’t know the atmosphere on the way back to the mansion. When I came to my senses, I was in front of the mansion.

Watching the butler arranging the umbrellas, I remembered the contents of the last novel I read.

The butler’s death. And the girl’s cry

Yes, I came to this world because I didn’t want to see that.

I told the butler who saw me.

“I want to be strong, butler.”

If it wasn’t for Mr. Gliese, the two of us wouldn’t exist anymore. It was scary to think about it.

“For the lady.”

I was angry at my helplessness at not being able to do anything.

“I’ll do anything.”

What am I doing now?

“Help me.”

My face reflected in the butler’s eyes.

“Teach me how to be strong like the butler.”

Standing there was a child covered in tears and soaked in the rain.

“Please…”

I, Sirius, were crying like a child.