Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

39 – Summer Vacation (3)

“..Why did you hire a lady’s maid? Are you saying that Sirius isn’t enough?”

Europa, wearing a long light blue dress and thin white cardigan, sat on his chair and propped her head in his arm as she shot William as if she couldn’t understand.

When people who had been quiet when entering the academy now showed signs of trying to widen the gap between themselves and Sirius, it was no surprise.

William, undeterred by Sogaju’s sparkly stare, said that advice to guide his owner on the right path should be done even if a knife came into his throat. .

“It’s not right for two young men and women to share a room. It’s even worse when you’re just starting to open your eyes to the opposite s*x.”

“Nothing happened for months.”

“Can you be sure that it won’t happen in the future? When Sirius decides to lust after her and rushes at her, will he be able to resist her?”

“…I don’t think Sirius would do that. And Sirius and I judge with the right reason and get along together.”

William’s eyebrows furrowed at her answer.

“So do you think it’s right for the opposite s*x to stick together, read a book, and sleep in the same bed every day?”

“…That’s…”

William thought she wouldn’t know that, and when she took a direct hit, he couldn’t even come up with an excuse for her, so he mumbled at her and swallowed her silence.

Thinking about where it came from, Sirius sighed deeply when he remembered the report he used to write every time, but William didn’t care and opened his mouth.

“Lady’s Maid, Ruytena, will take care of her after this vacation.”

“…Do you have any comments?”

“All for the young lady…”

“Okay… Go see it.”

As soon as the stereotypical words came out of his mouth, he cut them off and turned his head away.

“…And call Sirius on the way.”

“Yes, I’ll load it right away.”

William dutifully bowed his head to the lord of the cow who was not looking at him and left the room.

The sight of the setting sun setting and dusk approaching and gradually getting darker felt as if the sky was saying that the time spent with him at the academy was over.

“My lady, this is Sirius.”

When she heard his voice coming along with a knock on her door, she turned her head back to her door and answered.

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“Come in.”

After she finished answering, Sirius cautiously entered the carriage to catch the owner’s anger at him, and hesitantly stood in front of her.

“I heard that you found it…”

“Did you hear the story?”

“What… Are you talking about…?”

I wondered if I hadn’t told this to the person concerned, so I held on to my temples as if I had a headache, closed my eyes for a moment, and then woke up.

“You mean I hired a lady’s maid to replace you this time. Didn’t you hear?”

“I heard that story directly from Mr. Ruitena.”

“…You don’t feel bad? You’ve been by my side all this time, but the rolling stone is telling you to leave now.”

“I feel a bit bad, but…It’s for the lady, so it can’t be helped.”

Her voice was a bit exasperated, as if she was angry at what had happened to her, but when he, who was her party to her, showed a calm appearance, she smiled absurdly.

She muttered as she gazed at her right hand on the table, her hand with her fist clenched and only her little finger spread.

“…Remember the promise we made when we were kids?”

“…I remember.”

“But…Why do you say that? You promised to stay by my side all the time…I still don’t know what’s going on? You mean you can’t be with me when he comes.”

“For the lady…”

“…If you’re going to bring up such a flimsy statement that it’s for me, just don’t say it.”

When she said the same thing as William, a tear fell from her furious eyes.

He grew angry at the thought of Sirius not being able to keep his promise and not being with him at the academy.

“…An idiot who can’t even keep his promise.”

But when the tantrum broke out, I couldn’t really blame him. Because it was decided by the family, and he was an attendant who had to do as the family told him to do.

He just wanted to blame the stupid butler for not looking at him with reason in front of him. Sirius came closer to her as she looked at her now folded little finger.

“…I’ll see if there’s another way.”

“Are there any?”

“I don’t want to break my promise to the young lady either.”

Slowly, he got down on one knee and straightened her little finger.

“And it’s my job to do anything for her.”

She hung her little finger on her outstretched little finger and the corners of her mouth went up as if she didn’t hate the way he talked softly as if making a new promise to her.

“…You speak well…”

I tried to get up from my seat, smiling quietly at the sight of her ears turning red as she turned her head with a sharp answer to hide the fact that her anger was all gone.

“…Would you…Stay with me…Tonight?”

If it was someone other than Sirius, he would have affirmed it without hesitation. But Sirius’ back began to sweat.

“…What will the butler say…”

“It’s the next room anyway…It’s fine…”

Her stubbornness, which cannot be excused, was revealed. He still hadn’t forgotten her dream in the carriage, and he expressed his embarrassment at the situation in which she asked for the same sleep in an abusive manner.

“…Just for today…Please bear with me for today…I’m not feeling well today…”

“No, it’s been a while since I came to the mansion and I’m nervous…”

She was actually a woman who had accumulated a lot of anxiety that she was not in the mansion and that she could not be with him throughout her academy. He fired her pitiful eyes without mercy, but he stood firm and defended his convictions like a fortress.

“Please…Be patient with me today…I’ll stay with you throughout the vacation…”

“…You must keep your word.”

“…Yes…”

She was an unfair pact to him, but to her it was her one step back and thirty steps forward.

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The next day, after having breakfast and learning some recipes from the chef, we headed to the training ground.

When she entered the basement, she saw that the luminescent crystal had already been lit, so she thought it might be a little late, so she walked quickly. A long pole and a wooden sword were placed in front of the tightly closed training ground door.

As I held the pole and the wooden sword in each hand, thinking about why they were lying in front of the door, I remembered something that had happened in the past.

Dalian to see how he reacts with sparring after dropping physical strength to the extreme. Just like I did with Christine before, this time I was Christine’s role.

“…It feels new.”

When I was soaked in emotion, I heard two rounds of applause from inside the training ground, so it was my turn to step out.

When I opened the door and went inside, the butler wearing a shirt and vest and holding a riding whip, and Luitena, who claimed to be the lady’s maid I saw yesterday, were wearing a tunic enchanted with weights that I had worn for a long time before I became a butler. He stood there, sweating profusely.

“Ah, Mr. Sirius?”

I couldn’t help but smile at her wide-eyed Ruytena’s face, wondering if I was like that too.

“Hello, Lady’s Maid Ms. Ruitena.”

I couldn’t show the bright smile Christine had shown before. Thinking of the person I ran into in the attic yesterday and the person who would take my place, my eyebrows furrowed and straightened on their own.

“…Why does Sirius-san…”

“I am the last employee who completed training, so I came. Which do you want to use, a wooden sword or a pole? Or is there something else you want to use?”

“…With a pole.”

“Yes, here.”

After thinking about her moment, she chose her pole. It was the exact opposite choice for me, but it was the right decision. Of course, a pole with a long range would be easier to deal with.

I swung the wooden sword in my hand a few times and got my posture right. I remember the wooden sword I grabbed at this training ground in the past was big enough to hold with both hands, but it felt a bit shorter and lighter than the wooden sword I usually use while training with a lady.

Louie Thena took her stance. Unlike the first posture of those who used spears I saw, right before rushing to stab, the arm holding the tip of the spear with the body slightly bent was the posture of avoiding defense with the arm moderately pulled back.

“Start!”

It was a sparring that started with the butler’s cry, but neither me nor Luyte moved. I paused for a moment, wondering how she would move, and she cleverly held her place, presumably to conserve her meager stamina.

Then it was time for me to approach.

I rushed at her with the same speed as when sparring with her lady. It was faster than what I had seen during her first sparring with Christine, but Ruy Thena in front of her was a servant who needed to be put in immediately. She approached with the thought that she should not be slower and weaker than the young lady.

As soon as the pole reached its effective range, it began to tickle me with quick thrusts like jabs in boxing. It was faster than I thought, but even with the speed I maintained at the moment, I felt comfortable enough to respond.

As if she had expected my reaction, she began to wield the spear a little faster than before. Her spearmanship was crude to be called imperial spearmanship, and quite harsh to be called a spearmanagement that was usable by the townsfolk on the street.

Basically, he was someone who knew how to fight. However, there were too many gaps between the spear skills, and the weight of her clothes and her falling stamina gradually slowed the spear.

Now, instead of dodging, I swung my sword and let her attack go away. After three moves, my sword barely touched her neck.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“…Good work… Thank you…”

As soon as the sparring was over, I turned to the butler and said.

“Butler, isn’t Mr. Ruitena the one who needs to go to work right now?”

“Yes.”

“But when I sparred with the lady, even though I dealt with her at the same speed, it ended in three matches, and I lost because I was worried about my clothes and my physical strength.

It was not a fair evaluation. It was just an expression of anger and a subjective evaluation of having my seat taken away. However, if I didn’t do this, I thought I couldn’t understand it, so I reduced her value.

I really thought of myself as a dopey and selfish bastard.

The butler listened to the end and hit me on the head with a riding whip.

“What are you misunderstanding? You will continue to escort.”

“…Yes?”

What are you talking about again? The head of the butler tilted his head as he made a ridiculous expression.

“Didn’t I tell you?”

“You didn’t say a word. Did you hear everything from the lady?”

“…”

He seemed embarrassed by my words and started scratching the back of my neck without making eye contact.

“…Sirius, you won’t be sharing a room with the lady, but you will be using the servants’ dormitory inside the academy. It was a choice to eliminate as much time as possible with the lady.”

As my eyes grew sharper and sharper, the butler couldn’t look straight at me and was looking back. If that’s the case, what will I do to Mr. Ruitena, who sits there and understands the situation?

“You should have explained it properly…Does the lady know about this too?”

“…He was very angry about breaking up with you…I don’t know why he was so against it when we could see his face until he went to bed anyway.”

“Ha… I’m going to turn, really…”

Due to a misunderstanding, I felt like taking out my anger on Mr. Ruitena for no reason. Actually, the same woman should be in charge of it, so it would be a mistake to get a little cleaner and neater lady.

Because I can take care of bathing, which I can’t, and it’s different from choosing jewelry or clothes as a woman.

That wasn’t the problem. It became difficult to see the face of Mr. Ruitena who had been harshly criticized by me. She stiffly turned her head to see Mr. Rui Tena.

“Are you… Done?”

As Louis Tena sat down in her seat, wiping her sweat while listening to the conversation between me and the owner of the house, she smirked. I thought for a moment and glared at the butler.

“Wait a minute. Butler, then why did you do this to Mr. Ruitena?”

“…As an employee, it is essential to…”

“Mr. Louis Tena only serves as an escort. Why do you need her when she has me as an escort? Will she confuse people? Keep going?”

“…Sirius…Don’t speak too harshly…”

“Do you think it’s less than when you were young, Mr. Butler? Why didn’t you tell me, the person in charge, something that could be explained in 30 seconds? Did you bother me so much? Or did you forget? Are you old enough to become senile? Actually, yes~ I must say that the person who negotiated with fists without talking from the old days is so disgusting.”

The subject of venting anger has changed to the butler. The owner of the house, which was like the sky, was falling to the end of his land and going down to the basement. The butler calmed me down, sweating profusely.

“That… I did something wrong, so why don’t you stop…”

“It would have been over if you had said that one word earlier. Did you forget to talk about it while warming up yesterday?”

“…That’s right…”

“… Whew really… I don’t know what to say to my lady…”

Yesterday, while consoling a depressed young lady, it was complicated in my head to sort things out. The boss of the house tried to sneak out of his training ground.

“Where are you going, boss?”

“That…I remembered something…Outside”

“Oh, you must be too busy to explain to me.”

“…No…”

What started as a misunderstanding was degrading the butler’s status.

And today, having caught the butler’s new weakness, I thought it was enough to tease him for a while.