chapter 3
3 – 3 months have passed since then
After the meal, I followed the call of Ed, the elderly butler.
Ed took me into the room and sat him down in a chair.
“…… I don’t know what kind of person you are. However, there must be a reason why you liked her.”
“I don’t know what you are trying to say?”
“This is a contract.”
Ed put the paper and pen down on the table.
“Read it slowly.”
“I will.”
What Ed handed over was a contract written in Japanese. The content was simple.
Live as a butler for the Lionheart family, and obey the lady’s orders as much as possible.
Aside from that, things like annual salary, things to keep in mind, and things to be careful of were written on it.
“Is this good enough?”
“The contract doesn’t have to be grandiose. Well, if you look at it closely, it’s more like a pledge of allegiance to the Lionheart family.”
“I see.”
Still, I thought this and that would stick together. Seeing that it’s not like that again, it seems to be quite free.
“It’s strange…… “
“Yes?”
“Won’t you think it’s strange if I ask you to be my butler?”
“That’s true too.”
“I don’t know what kind of life you’ve lived, but I’ll tell you since you’ve got years as my butler. I will not allow you to accept the lady’s favor with a half-hearted mind.”
“Okay, sure. Shouldn’t you be good at it?”
“…… That’s it. If you feel like it, sign it first.”
I picked up the pen on the table and quickly signed it.
“You are a member now. Congratulations, Kim…… Hyun Jin. The butler appointing ceremony will be held separately, but there are things I need to learn before then.”
“A butler appointment ceremony? What else is it, and what to learn…… Is it?”
I asked Ed cautiously, and he nodded.
“Kim Hyun-jin, what do you think are the necessary skills for a butler who has sworn allegiance to the Lionheart family?”
“This is a bit out of the blue.”
“Answer?”
It seems that he has no intention of making it easy. Well, I expected it.
I told Ed the model answer I remembered.
“It is loyalty…… Is it?”
“You know that. It is the duty of the butlers of the Lionheart family to fulfill loyalty and righteousness.”
“You mean that loyalty also includes etiquette?”
“Isn’t it natural if you don’t intend to dishonor the person you serve?”
Ed said as he took the contract.
“It seems that proper etiquette education is needed before assisting directly.”
***
“Haa… ….”
The girl was sighing in her own room.
“Seriously, what is he doing?”
When the girl is in danger, he appears like the wind and lightly sweeps away the bullies around him with an expression that nothing is wrong.
I became interested in a man who gave off a different atmosphere from Lionheart’s exclusive butler, Ed.
“Awesome award… ….”
Amelia recalled a story she had been through.
Kim Hyun-jin is Korean. It’s not hard to get a guy in his school to take care of him.
However, he had memories of being discriminated against for being of mixed race.
Mixed blood from a foreign country, what is it? Recalling her childhood when she listened to her trivial stories like her jokes, what if Kim Hyun-jin goes to school? Her assumption that she was, she recalled.
“You will probably be treated differently.”
It might be better to give him a Japanese name. The girl thought so.
I’m sure people will find fault with him if he thinks he’s from another country.
Strictly speaking, servants and masters are beings who have to support each other.
That’s why Amelia decided to give her name so that Hyunjin would never have to go through what she went through.
The fact that she, Amelia Iori Lionheart, proposed to Kim Hyun-jin to become her butler had other intentions involved. She
She thought it would be nice to have someone who would take care of her while going to school with her, but there was only one employee of a similar age. That too is only made.
Ed, who is the head of the butler and is currently taking care of the girl, has a lot of work to do.
Now that I am old, I had to find a successor.
That’s why Amelia stopped by the park.
“Awesome award…… What kind of person are you?”
Amelia was used to feeling her feelings for herself. Whether it was hostility or goodwill.
Even more so, the feelings that a person she met for the first time showed to her were close to welcome.
The girl trusted her own senses. If she was someone who would give herself up for her in unfamiliar circumstances, she thought, it might be good for her to accept her as butler.
Above all, they were the same age. That was enough to move Amelia’s heart.
Amelia enjoyed a light tea time looking out of her window.
***
April is just around the corner.
‘It’s already been three months since I worked as a butler.’
It was difficult to adapt at first. As a butler, it was a basic skill and etiquette that had to be memorized, and getting used to it was another thing.
The butler’s job is to learn simple martial arts or martial arts for self-defense to protect the young lady, document handling skills, and other things, starting with greeting guests, explaining tea, and making black tea.
It was quite enjoyable to learn something I didn’t know.
“Kimuhyon, Hyeon.. Hyunjin.”
“Sorry, I inadvertently declined.”
“…… No, Kim. Because I almost made a big mistake.”
When she was alone with me, whenever possible, she tried to call me by her first name, ‘Kim Hyun-jin,’ which is what I said, but she didn’t seem familiar with it.
The reason why she tried to name me Shingo Kurosawa was that she emphasized that she was concerned that I would be discriminated against, and she gave me a Japanese name, but she thought it was nothing to worry about.
Of course, she refused and decided to stick with the name Kim Hyun-jin.
This is a world of gentle love comedies, so I wouldn’t treat it that harshly.
There were many enjoyable things while taking care of her.
I’ve often seen her tripping on the hem of her usual dress, and when she sets her glass down, her hand slips and drops.
When I cleared my throat, my dad’s smile almost popped out without me knowing.
From my point of view, all of those things were so cute that I almost went crazy?
I tried to look like a noble lady, but the appearance of being screwed up somewhere like a drowsy was the Amelia I remembered without fail.
“Hyunjin, have some black tea.”
“Yes, lady.”
Carefully she poured the tea into the teacup placed in front of her. Maybe it’s because I’m used to it now, but I was able to follow it neatly without an inch of error.
She seemed to want to keep saying something, but seeing her immobilized made me feel like a small animal.
Amelia just sipped her tea with her head turned in silence.
“Hey, Miss Amelia?”
She talked to Amelia and suddenly she looked at me shaking and dropped the teacup.
“That, that. That…… I beg your pardon?”
“My lady, you spilled tea.”
“What are you talking about! Do you think I would make that, that mistake?!”
Seeing Amelia speak with her tongue twisted while her face trembles with her face red, it’s cute that she’s full of clumsiness.
Maybe it’s because I faithfully learned how to behave as a butler, but now I’m used to controlling my emotions to some extent.
“Anyway, you spilled it.”
“…… That is.”
“Is there anything you want to say?”
“Nothing. Kim, make sure you go to high school with me!”
“High school…… Are you talking?”
High school…… It’s high school
“Do you know about the private Hoshizora High School?”
“Ah, I heard from Deacon Ed. Isn’t that the school you attend?”
“Ed told me. hehehe…….”
While Amelia was agonizing, I quickly cleaned up the dropped teacups and removed the stains from the black tea.
“Well, that’s right. So, Kim, I will order you to make your high school debut!”
“High school debut…… You mean?”
Although it was sudden, it was somewhat expected.
Since you’ve read all of the original work, don’t you have the mindset to enjoy it if you can’t avoid it anyway?
“You mean that you want Hyunjin to go to the academy and follow me around?”
“Okay.”
“Hmph, too hard? Seaweed. Isn’t it okay to relax a little when you’re alone with me?”
“I can’t do that, lady.”
I also want to speak comfortably.
What I’ve learned after living in this house for three months is that Ed is no ordinary butler.
A super sense? He knew if there was such a thing or what the conversation was about.
As if it were a wiretapping device.
“Huh. Make sure to finish drinking tea, Hyunjin!!”
“Okay.”
After tidying up, I put the teacup in front of Amelia again and poured black tea.
I made my high school debut……
Like it or not, it is a story that you have to be in the same class as Ryunosuke, the protagonist of the original work.
Besides that, you’ll also meet other heroines.
‘I don’t think it’s necessary to complicate things.’
It’s new, but going back to high school, can I do well? Wouldn’t there be a big problem?
That kind of thinking took the lead.
Of course, until I started going back to school and getting attention.