Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

8 – Farewell behind (1)

It is a familiar ceiling.

Looking at the ceiling of my room when I wake up every morning made me laugh out loud. I gave up after trying to count how many times I’d passed out since coming here. Most of them passed out because the lady couldn’t control her strength and shook her.

I’m pretty low on stamina.

I stared blankly at the ceiling and remembered the sparring I had with Christine before passing out.

The posture I took before sparring was just learning kendo, so when I grabbed the wooden sword, I remembered it and took the posture. After that, I just moved by instinct.

The body is heavy and the muscles are screaming. In that state, Christine had attempted a quick lunge and swing, and had run at it.

What I saw at that time, when her body was close to its limit, but her mind was as clear as hers, was her slow movement.

The visual acuity and reaction speed of the body that would have been impossible with the previous body. Things that moved because I wanted to be honest moved according to my will, so I became curious about this body that I had been with for half a year.

“Are you awake?”

I was startled by the butler’s voice. Sitting on a chair in her room, seeing the owner of the house reading an exceptionally thin book, she got up from the bed and answered.

“Yes.”

“Do you know how I moved before passing out?”

“Yes, Christine cut everything she was attacking and dug in.”

“It must have been difficult to move, but how did you move? And did you see all of Christine’s movements?”

“…Yes, it’s okay because I moved to see everything.”

“Huh…”

The butler staring at me with his mouth open as if he had nothing to say. I can’t even say ‘I’m done, what should I do’ to the look in my eyes that wants to say if that makes sense.

“What did you think as you moved?”

“…I don’t know. I just thought I had to hit it off and move on.”

“As a fighter, if you move instinctively and come to such a situation, you will pass, but as a servant, you will fail. Sirius, who is by your side?”

I was breathless at the butler’s words. He was dazed as if he had been hit with a hammer on his head.

“…My lady…”

“Yes, think that the young lady is always by your side. Use your opponent’s strength and take advantage of the situation. Our purpose is not to defeat the opponent by overpowering it, but to protect the owner. You are a servant, not a fighter. No.”

The butler grabbed my shoulder and reminded me. Yes, I had only moved to overcome the situation in front of me.

Just because my body was tired, I just looked ahead and ran to beat the opponent in front of me.

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

“First of all, I saw how you moved with this Dalian. For a while, I’ll focus on physical training in the morning, and in the afternoon, I’ll go with you and train you as a butler. Once your physical strength is set to a certain extent, I think you can start in earnest.”

“…Can you change the morning and afternoon?”

Honestly, if I exercise like that in the morning, I don’t know if training will come into my head because I’m exhausted.

“This guy is saying things he shouldn’t be doing hahahahaha.”

He laughed as if he was dumbfounded and hit me on the head with the blade of his hand. This time it hurt so much that I wondered if I had been hit for real.

“I’ll rest for a while and then go to evening training. I’ll be waiting for you below.”

I lay down on the bed again when I saw the butler leave my room.

What kind of training is this…Torturing…

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During the week of training wearing heavy clothes every day, I fell asleep at night as if I was fainting.

After a month, heavy clothes felt as light as normal clothes.

After two months of training, when the sky was high and clear autumn arrived, I did not even reach my chin even after I finished my physical training in the morning.

Though the muscles were still screaming.

When my stamina became more relaxed, the owner of the house taught me his work while having his assistants or seniors follow him in the afternoon as if he were taking over.

From important things such as checking the count’s schedule and checking his monthly attendance at social events, to checking whether food is poisonous, choosing high-quality foods, and measuring the quality and value of each product, he taught me in detail one by one.

The body is trained as a sprinkler, and the head is studied as a servant. This was the attitude a servant of the Taurus family should have.

The deacon opened his mouth after seeing me finish training in the morning at the training ground I attended for two months.

“At this level, the frame has been set in moderation. From now on, I will simplify the physical training and teach you how to fight from now on.”

He took a pair of gloves out of his back pocket, put them on, and handed me a pair as well. These are black gloves made of plain fabric.

“Sirius, our servants assume the worst and move to the best. Do you remember?”

“Yes, I always remember and act like that.

The butler’s advice was great enough to be used in everyday life. No matter what happens, if you think of the worst situation and move, you can cope with it comfortably if the situation is not the worst, and you will have peace of mind.

“Yes, so we must first think about and deal with the situation without weapons. Don’t rely on weapons. We must use weapons, not weapons to use us.”

The butler brought an iron sword from the corner of the training ground. An iron sword with a sharp edge that was neither old nor completely new, but looked moderately used.

He struck the iron sword casually with the sharpened blade of his hand.

Involuntarily, I closed my eyes tightly, but all I could hear was the tinkling sound of metal hitting the floor.

“As you can see, if you are trained to a high level like me, you will be able to cut an iron sword like this without using magic.”

When I opened my eyes, the front part of the steel sword fell to the ground at the butler’s feet. It cuts so neatly as if it was cut with a sharper sword without using magic?

“I will teach you this secret art that is only passed down to the family butler.”

I swallowed dry spit at the power of the head of the house with a grim face and the terrifying blade cutting. Although it was not described in detail in the novel, it reminded me of the story of Lars and the young lady saving the powerful people who could not respond by lightly handling them with their bare hands.

And now, I will take on the role of the butler that appeared in the novel. His heart was pounding with excitement.

“Come to think of it, Sirius, your torso vision and movements are better than Christine’s, right?

The butler threw the handle of the cut iron sword into the corner and fixed it on his glove while asking a strange question.

Somehow, chills ran down my spine.

“…Is…Isn’t it?”

A smile appeared on the butler’s face as he hesitantly answered the question. Without smiling eyes.

“I’ll have to, otherwise I’ll get a lot of scars.”

The owner of the house pushes his wrist with a knocking sound. The sensation he felt when he tried to wrap the girl up before was crying.

Run away.

“The butler?”

“Do your best to dodge and keep an eye on it. This is the way you feel when you get hurt.”

I fainted again at the butler’s absurd education method. I ran harder than in the sparring with Christine last time.

Avoiding the butler with the twinkling eyes.

Speak up if you have any complaints!

Please!

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Thanks to learning with my body, the number of scratches increased by one every day. If you feel like you’re getting used to the butler’s speed, you speed up, and when you get used to that speed, you speed up again, so there’s no choice but to increase.

Before leaving the training ground, I applied a potion called Barra, and when I came out of the basement of the mansion, a chilly energy greeted me.

The fallen leaves dancing on the ground were nowhere to be seen, as if winter was already approaching.

Because it was already a liquid potion, I felt the coldness and my body shivered.

As I was leading my trembling body up the stairs, I raised my head in surprise at the warmth of the warm cloth that wrapped around me.

“Are you okay?”

A voice I don’t hear often but will never forget, the Countess, now paler than before.

“Meet the Countess.”

“So, are you feeling okay?”

“Thanks to your generosity, I was relieved.”

As I lifted her head at the sound of footsteps coming down her stairs, the lady held my face in her hands and gave me a puzzled look.

“I didn’t mean to hear that? Isn’t William bothering you too much?”

I was taken aback when he showed a different side from the one he was worried about last time.

“I…I don’t regret it because it was the path I chose.”

“So? But don’t push yourself too hard. You should be by Europa’s side, but shouldn’t you be a bilbil?”

A smile bloomed on my wife’s face as she rubbed my cheek. The first time she saw her smile, she thought she resembled a young lady.

Her wife would not have passed away if it had not been for an unknown disease. Shouldn’t she go to church and ask the priests now? I opened my mouth thinking that there would be no chance if it wasn’t now.

“Has your wife… Been to church?”

“Huh? What do you mean by that?”

“Why don’t you go to church again? Even if it’s the cause of your illness…”

“Aha, it’s because of the illness. Haa…Going to church didn’t do much good.”

The lady sighed while holding her cheek, then she finally took her hand from her cheek and then she played with my hair and she smiled friendly like a lady. .

“Europe talked a lot about you, but he didn’t know when I first saw him, but when I saw him again, he looked really cute.”

“Thank you…”

“Whoops. I even got to wash her face, so really~ If I had a son, I would have liked a child like you…”

She smiled bitterly, and it wasn’t long before she couldn’t even smile.

“…Please take good care of Europa.”

Sorrow was felt in the woman’s voice as she spoke slowly. She wonders if she feels that her future is short-lived.

“We always do our best to assist.”

“Europe really talked about you a lot. I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen her so happy. Whoa…”

Her mouth was bitter at the forced laugh of her wife.

Even though she knew what was going to happen to her, she had no choice but to give her wife a satisfactory answer.

“…I will always do my best to bring you good news.”

“Don’t work too hard. You’re still a kid, but it’s time to play.”

“…Yes”

An incurable disease of unknown cause. She trembled at the content that did not even appear in the novel.

What on earth did you come to this novel at an early age to do?

Should I just watch the end of the people around me and tremble with helplessness?

As she bowed her head at her powerlessness, she gently stroked her hair and went down the stairs. The light blue coat she gave her was exceptionally warm.

Ah, what should I do with this?

I came up to my room thinking that I should talk to the butler later.

It was a bit chilly, but since I turned on the stove, the room started to warm up to some extent.

I sat on the bed, closed my eyes, and tried the imagery training recommended by Mr. Roland.

Behind me is the lady I must protect, and in front of me is the butler I must fight. You shouldn’t rush at it like a beast so as not to injure the young lady. Observing the enemy and responding accordingly was our job.

The butler’s various movements caught my eye. A continuous action similar to what is called choshik in martial arts novels. The blade of the hand flying quickly with the elbow as an axis may look light, but if you brush it, it will tear your clothes like paper.

I didn’t spend the past time in vain, so I reacted after seeing the action. In order to prevent these techniques, which increase in power in proportion to the speed of the moving hand, I first moved my hand along the path of the arm before moving the elbow.

The butler’s movements hesitated because he was confident in his speed even though he lacked power right away. I managed to block the attack by a few moves, but it was still not enough. The owner of the house in the image was full of impatience because he was using only his left hand.

I belatedly noticed the approaching right hand the moment my footsteps took off, but I tried to block it, but my body was swept to the side by the heavy power that exceeded my expectations. The butler, who was aiming for that gap, headed towards the lady with a quick staff, and I couldn’t protect her.

I wonder if impatience was the problem? Or is it because he recognized that right hand belatedly? It wasn’t just this problem. He sighs and opens his eyes.

“Wow!”

When the young lady startled me right in front of me, my heart nearly dropped and I fell backwards.

“Hee hee, were you surprised?”

“Surprised, ma’am.”

“I was waiting on the bed, wondering what you were doing with your eyes closed! You moaned quite a bit, but are you okay?”

I don’t know who did it today, but the braided hair moved left and right like a puppy wagging its tail.

“I think it was because it was a bit difficult and I was thinking about it.”

hahahaha, your expression is not good when you answer with a smile. Oh, it seems I gave the wrong answer.

“…Is it very difficult?”

“No, it’s fine. It gave me a headache thinking about something else today.”

“I see! Sirius, could you close your eyes?”

It puts my mind at ease watching our young lady flustered and changing the subject. Please grow up like this, girl.

But why the eyes?

“Are you going to do something? Can’t you kiss me like last time?”

“I won’t! Wind it up anyway!”

“Yes, your lady, as you please.”

As the lady wished, I closed my eyes and narrowed my eyes slightly while enduring the tickling of his neck. It was so cute to see the lady whining about whether she was wearing a tie around my neck, so I suppressed laughter.

“Okay! Open your eyes!”

The young lady held up her small hand mirror and looked at her face. Let’s find out what she did…

“Is this…A tie?”

To be precise, stock ties. It was a short tie that was hung from the back of the neck to make an X shape and then pinned the overlapping part. A smile came out of my eyes and the tie that was yellow like the girl’s hair.

“Yeah! Sirius said he’d become a butler, so I asked him what he needed, and he said it would be nice to give him this as a gift! And…”

Is there another one? Looking at the hesitant girl, I tilted her head.

“Do you know what day it is today?”

“Hmm…I don’t know…”

It doesn’t matter if it’s someone’s birthday or anniversary. On this cold day, a cold sweat broke out.

“Today is, it’s the first year since Sirius entered our mansion! And Sirius doesn’t know his birthday, right? So I was thinking of making it today… How about it?”

My lady wiggles her fingers and looks at me. Sirius, there is no room for you to grow up so magnificently…

“My lady. I didn’t think of anything, but thank you so much for giving me this gift. Sirius, I will try to be the best butler.”

“Ah, yes. Hee…Cheer up!”

A young lady leaves my room, blushing as if running away. I watched him go down the stairs to see if he would fall, and after confirming that he was safely down, he looked in the mirror again.

I learned from the butler that this material…No, I don’t think it’s necessary. I don’t have to value anything I’ve learned from the things she gave me as favors and congratulations.

The lady gave it to me. That was enough.

…But how do you solve this?

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As the days of daily training with the butler continued, spring came before I knew it. It was the butler who did not train differently than usual at the training ground and spoke out.

“Your lady has been scheduled to enter Nova Academy in the imperial capital. In the next five years, when she turns 14, she will be enrolled. Then, Sirius, what do you have to do?”

The lady in the novel is 15 years old, and she is one year older than the main character, Lars. Until then, what I had to do was simple.

“To be the lady’s butler.”

I just do my best for the work in front of me.

“Yes, it’s five years from now. Now you’ve mastered the technique to some extent and your stamina isn’t a problem.”

I was surprised every time I used my body. Is it easy for me to move according to my will? Of course it’s difficult. But my body does it lightly, as if to say that it is natural.

Sometimes my actions gave me goosebumps. Thanks to this kind of body, the butler is probably saying that he has become somewhat skilled.

“Yes. That’s right.”

“Then let’s move on to the advanced course.”

Two rounds of applause from the butler.

…This pattern?

The iron door opened and two maids quietly appeared.

Christine, a maid with orange short hair and a bright smile, holding a long pole

Leona, a brown-haired maid with ponytails and freckles, holding a wooden sword in each hand.

“Withstand or overcome the attack of the two. Remember that there is a young lady behind you.”

“I was embarrassed last time, but today they don’t care?!”

“Good luck, Sirius.”

Maybe it’s because the two of them are usually close, but they showed an exceptionally bright side.

hahahaha, seeing the bright expressions of the two made an awkward smile.