15 – Scorpion (2)

“Did you say… Now?”

Shaula asked back in bewilderment where his poison-filled eyes went. As if to snort at her appearance, her lady shot at her with her anger-filled eyes.

“Yes. Hey, he said. What are you doing, asking me to give up my butler?”

A face you’ve never seen before. It was like watching a beast growling in anger. Embarrassed by such a sight, Shaulah hobbled her body, she said.

“I, the Twelve Pillars of the Empire, of Count Scorpio’s family…”

“Because I’m also from the Twelve Pillars? Can you please stop talking to me as if I’m from a great family?”

“…Hey, what are you doing with only servants?”

“Only servants? Do you see servants that way? Like other countries, slaves are bought and sold.”

It was Shaulla who started stomping her feet as she was hurt by our lady who didn’t say a word.

“Iik! Anyway, give me that butler!”

“I can’t give it to you. You think I’m going to give you my butler because I’m crazy?”

The young lady took my arm. She was about the same height as me, so she was so close that if she turned her head slightly, her face would hit her nose.

“Well, then let’s do this. The one who wins by fighting our escort knight and Sirius butler will do it!”

…What are you thinking? She barely escaped from the lady’s arms and saw the escort’s face. She shook her head with a thoughtful look on her face. Does that knight know about the servants of the Taurus family?

I looked carefully at the article. She looks better than a lady, but looks lower than an expert. Perhaps it was located at the end of the sword user.

“I will.”

“Good!”

I answered Shaula’s suggestion. Shaula jumps up and down as if everything went according to plan, the lady with a serious face, and her escort knight with a look of ruin.

“Then I’ll see you from the outside!”

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In direct contrast to her triumphant steps, the escort knight’s steps were like watching livestock being dragged to a slaughterhouse. I stared at her and looked at the young lady with her fingers digging endlessly into my arm.

Her eyes are completely different from the angry eyes she saw while talking to Shaula earlier. If her eyes were as hot as fire before, this time her eyes were as cold as the abyss in the sea.

“…What are you doing?”

A calm voice with anger under it. Can I get out of this situation? He swallowed dry saliva and replied.

“That…That’s…”

“Did you think about what would happen if you lost?”

When I saw the grip on my arm and her body trembling slightly, I put my hand on top of hers.

“Lady. You said earlier in the capital. No matter what anyone says, you’re the lady’s butler.”

“It was.”

“Yes, I am Sirius, the lady’s butler. I have no intention of losing.”

“If you lose, you’re fired on the spot.”

The twin-wicked eyes trembled slightly and seemed to be crying. I smiled at her as usual.

“Don’t worry. I don’t want to retire soon.”

“…An idiot.”

Seeing her smile as she pats her arm, it seems that everything is resolved. I came out of the building with such a lady.

A vacant lot not far from the building you came out of. Every time he walked, the properly grown grass brushed against the hem of his pants, crunching and screaming.

The young lady and I stood in the right place and saw Shaulla and the escort driver standing across from us.

Unlike Shaula, who looks confident, the escort knight has recently become emaciated. It was a pity to see him restless, even though he must be the son of an aristocratic family. You should have met the owner well.

“You see? If our escort knight wins, Sirius butler is mine!”

Contrary to her venomous face earlier, Shaulla was smiling hohohoho and arrogant. Our lady glared at her against him, she said.

“Then, what will you bet if Sirius wins?”

“Nothing.”

…You must have no conscience.

Well, even in the novel, it just went out like that. It’s because she was a yandere, an immature young lady who flirted with herself in order to get what she wanted. So don’t disagree.

I was kind of like that too, to be honest. A kid with a history joined the harem?

… It’s hard to say, but the washing machine went back to the level of a power drum washing machine, so it was convincing.

“…What?”

“This is a challenge to the champion! It’s a fair rule that the challenger gets the right to challenge and the winner gets the right to be the champion!”

I’m also dumbfounded. I held my lady’s hand, who was at a loss for words. In response, he smiled as always at the look in his eyes asking if the lady was okay.

“Don’t worry. We just need to win.”

The side that presented the conditions is the other side. In a battle between escort knights and butlers, who would win in terms of common sense? Of course, I will raise my hand on the side of the escort knight. I must have thought I had rolled my head a bit.

You need to finish quickly and confirm your academy registration. And besides, he’ll be waiting for you…

“Sorry, but I’ll finish this soon. We don’t have much time.”

I removed my hand from the lady and put on a pair of black gloves the butler gave me. With this, my preparation is over.

“All right! Sir Hippar! Show me your example and bring that butler Sirius to my side!”

“…Hippar Rufus. The third son of Viscount Rufus’ family. Gently…Please.”

Unlike the energetic Shaulla, the Hippar knight draws out his sword without strength. Seeing such a knight, I smiled.

I won’t watch it. That way, that knight won’t feel humiliated and devote himself to his own path.

“Thank you very much, Knight Hippar”

“Don’t you take out your weapon? It must hurt a lot if you get hurt.”

My weapons are basically bare hands and feet. Gloves are worn because they can be thrown away immediately even if they are stained with blood so that they do not wash.

“It’s okay. Can I start?”

“Well, if you get hurt, I’ll treat you. Ho-ho-ho! Let’s begin!”

At the same time as her start, I stomped on her advance with power to her feet and ran. She clenched her fists and roared at Hippar’s face.

Seeing him unable to even react, and thinking that he shouldn’t be seriously hurt, I stopped my fist in front of his nose, and the wind pressure hit him in the face.

Stunned by his hair bouncing all over the place, he exhaled heavily and said as he inserted his sword.

“… Lost…”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

After tidying up his hair that spread all over the place, he smiled as if he was feeling refreshed and asked for a handshake.

“That’s great. Can I ask you a favor later?”

“Is that okay? I’m just a butler, so I don’t think I can help you.”

“Just sparring is enough. I am the butler of the Taurus family, not the other butlers.”

You must be more famous than you think. As you said, is it because the head of the butler is playing around? Leaving his doubts behind, he readily accepted his handshake and shook it.

I like people who move forward like this. It is not easy to be polite and ask for guidance from someone younger than you in order to know your own inadequacies and correct them.

“Iik! Sir Hippar, what are you doing! Is it the job of a knight to surrender without doing anything!”

“…The match has already been won. I can’t beat Sirius butler. I’m sorry.”

“… Ha!”

I didn’t even look at Hipar’s face as he bowed his head apologetically. I shook his hand and bowed his head towards Shaula who was looking at me with his eyes wide open.

After being trained under the boss of the house, it became a habit to shake his hands and dust off his gloves. I need to fix it, but it’s a big deal.

“It’s over, let’s go. Shaula. I wish the stars shine on the Scorpio family.”

“Wait a minute!”

“What’s going on? Isn’t it over since you fought Knight Hippar and won? You’re the Twelve Pillars, so you wouldn’t do such a shameless thing as invalid?”

“That… That’s why… 10 Times! I’ll give you 10 times your current salary!”

“Are you going to buy me with the money now? And I don’t even know how much I get because I haven’t received a salary?”

“What, what?”

The family only provides lodging and necessary items until you become an official employee. Since he had become a butler this time, the owner of the house said that if he went to the capital with the lady, he would pay his salary, so he didn’t know how much he would get.

In the meantime, I didn’t have to go to the estate in the first place, and I didn’t feel the need for money because everything I needed was provided by my family.

“Go…Don’t go!”

Despite Shaula’s earnest request, I greeted her politely and headed to our lady.

“Didn’t I tell you not to worry, young lady? Let’s go. You’re wasting too much time.”

“Yes. I should have finished it earlier.”

Indifferently, he greeted me with an expressionless face. Still, her eyes were raised, as if satisfied.

“…Thank you.”

“It’s for the lady.”

At my answer, the corner of her mouth went up slightly. But why? The raised corners of her lips looked especially awkward today.

“Let’s go.”

The young lady who smiled so slightly went ahead.

As if trying to hide an awkward face.

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The building the lady and I entered was a building called the Academy Building. I was checking for admission there, so I went through the confirmation process, asked the staff where the lady’s dormitory was, and headed to Uncle Gillian.

“Did you build the academy before coming here? Or did you enjoy walking around the academy with the lady? Chuck.”

“That’s not it… I came to talk with the lady of Count Scorpio.”

“The Scorpio family…A sullen, quiet, cautious family.”

She used to talk a lot… She doesn’t seem to be cautious… She seems to be gloomy.

“The young lady asked me to come into her family.”

“Puhahahaha! You’re a girl who didn’t take the railroad. You didn’t even have to listen.”

“Well, of course. I had a bit of an argument with the lady, but she won everything without losing a word.”

“As expected, my lady. Heh heh.”

“…Let’s just stop…”

The young lady, her face red like a carrot, headed for the dormitory building the staff had told her about earlier.

Since it is such a large and wide academy, I almost lost my way while guiding only what I heard. She pointed out once in a while that I was going in the wrong direction, and soon after, signs began to appear.

Perhaps it was because of consideration for the first trip or for the sake of the students, I thanked the person who installed the sign and followed the sign that guided me to the dormitory building.

“There are three buildings that are the same building, but with different roofs…Is it the Sirius red roof? Or the blue roof? Or…”

“There was a yellow roof over there.”

“Yes, that building.”

I saw a familiar face when I entered the building with a bright yellow roof like a forsythia.

“”Ah””

Shaula was registering for a dormitory in the same building as her lady.

Oh please.

“Looks like you’re looking for me too, Sirius! Come to think of it, my family is better, right?”

“It’s a coincidence. The young lady has been assigned to this dormitory and just came to register. Shaula.”

No matter how much she hates it, she is the Lady of the Twelve Pillars. She didn’t seem to need to be hated, so she said politely.

“Hey, don’t lie! Look me in the eyes! I don’t like lies!”

Looking at your eyes while keeping your narrow eyes open, what are you asking? And it’s not a lie, it’s real, so listen to people…

“…Really, can you stop being so nasty? I don’t care if I lose the bet you offered.”

When the young lady sighed heavily and glared at her as if she was in trouble, Shaulla shrank her body. She laughed spontaneously as she watched Shaulla, who was not winning against the young lady.

In the novel, the young lady couldn’t pray to Shaula, and all she did was get mad at her venomous eyes, hiding behind her lass.

Who can not laugh in the opposite situation?

“That…That’s true, but even if you lose, it’s the challenger’s right to try again!”

“Then, as a champion’s right, being reckless will deprive you of a chance to challenge yourself.”

“Hey!”

When the young lady showed her fist, Shaulla cowered in fear.

“So stay calm, Mr. Challenger.”

She only nodded her head. She is all wrinkled.

After the fuss, the dormitory assignment was completed. Gillian and I carried our luggage and went up to the room where the lady was assigned.

Many visits were open, probably not many people had come in yet. In a dormitory equipped with 4-person, 2-person, and even 1-person rooms, the room to which the lady was assigned was a special room, a room that could be used with a servant.

A two-room house with a living room, one large room, and one small room. The condition of the room was top-notch, so it looked like there was no dust. After leaving the luggage in the room, the uncle’s work was over.

“Then, lady. I’ll come to see you during vacation. Sirius, take good care of the lady.”

“Be careful and go back. See your father and take care of him.”

“Don’t worry, young lady.”

The man who climbed into the carriage said a word to us and left for our estate. He sent them away with the feeling that the three of them would come and go alone.

When we went up to the dormitory, the room next to ours was noisy. The purple hair that passed by for a moment to take a peek at the open door to see if anyone would come in.

Oh really.

Holding my breath, I hurriedly entered the room. It’s because I didn’t know what to say the moment I met again. Seeing me rushing in, the lady tilted her head.

“What’s up?”

“No, nothing…”

“…Really?”

He looked at me and went back into the big room where the young lady was staying. I also went into the small room designated as my room. It took less than 20 minutes to unpack the small amount of luggage.

For lunch…I stopped by on the way to the academy earlier and ate it. Shall we prepare a simple snack for you? Did you bring any snacks… I gave up after thinking hard about it. Probably not.

You’d better go buy one. It’s an academy in the capital, but wouldn’t there be at least one store? At that thought, I knocked on the closed lady’s room.

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“My lady, I’m going out for a while to buy some snacks. Is that okay?”

“Wait a minute.”

Along with the sound of crackling, the young lady came out. Unlike the clothes she was wearing earlier, she wore a neat shirt, a brown cardigan, and a long maroon skirt. She kept her hair in a half ponytail, which I had given her, which gave off a modest feeling.

“Let’s go together.”

“That… I don’t know where it is, so I might have to go out of the academy?”

“…There’s a butler who talks back to his master.”

“…Let’s go together…”

I went ahead of the lady and opened the front door. At the same time, the sound of the side door opening was heard.

“”Ah””

The voices of two women overlap. A sigh came out of her own accord when she met Shaula for the third time today.

Isn’t that a bit too much?

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