Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

46 – The Eye of the Typhoon

The count’s expression after returning from the imperial palace was not good. When you do something you shouldn’t do, should you say that your determination is like a firm face?

What happened to make that face? In front of the count’s office, I waited for the lady to come out with Mr. Ruitena.

The voices of the two people in the office resonated like mosquitoes. It was a small size that I couldn’t hear exactly what they were talking about, and only recognized that they were talking.

I hadn’t thought about eavesdropping in the first place, but when I heard it so small and scratched my ear gently, it started to bother me.

The small voice seemed to grow more and more harsh, and then the door opened roughly and a young lady came out with an angry expression.

“Ah, lady!”

Mr. Ruitena followed the young lady who ran away before we had time to stop her, and I quietly looked inside the office as I closed the door that had been opened roughly.

The Count, whose expression was darker than before, was sighing as he looked up at the ceiling. I followed behind the lady as I closed the door completely oblivious to what was being said.

Mr. Louis Thena stood in front of the arrival lady’s door, looked at me, and shook her head with a puzzled expression.

“You tell no one to come in…”

“…What was going on, the Count’s expression darkened, and the young lady must have been so angry?”

“I can’t get a feel for it at all.”

Me and Mr. Ruitena sighed deeply and had to stare at the closed door like a lady’s heart.

I would ask if I could have a little conversation with the lady, but I was lost as to how to proceed as the source was blocked.

“Let’s wait until the lady’s anger subsides. It’s lunch time soon, and we’ll have to bring the lady’s meal from the restaurant.”

“I’ll come and go. It’s better to see the face of the housekeeper you’ve served for a long time than me when the lady comes out.”

“…What do you mean…”

“Then I’ll go to the restaurant! I’ll bring the butler’s too!”

Mr. Ruy Tena could not refute what she said and had to watch her back as she went to the restaurant.

… She ran as if running away, and Mr. Ruythena shimmered in her eyes.

#

Europe sighed deeply as she looked at the gloomy sky through the window in a dark room with no lights on.

She was shocked to hear of her engagement, her unexpected affair, to her father, Aldebaran, and her feelings were as gloomy as the sky she was looking at.

She protested in a loud voice, saying that she hated herself for the fact that she had to promise her whole life ahead of her with a person she had never seen before, among the three people her father had appointed her to. What came was just an apology and a shoulder to her intimidation.

Seeing that, Europa shook her head when she asked if it was because His Majesty the Emperor ordered her to do it.

Then why should she prepare for her engagement? She hesitated and opened her mouth.

‘The saintess received a prophecy from the god of starlight. She’s big enough to cover all the stars, she says, and she’s getting darker than ever.’

Europa’s face darkened at the story of the pitch-black darkness and the coming of the demon king, a being described in fairy tales every time, but he continued his words.

‘With that prophecy, a report came in from the east that the demons began to show massive movements. It’s starting to show the appearance of forming a wire.’

‘Europe, we are the descendants of Alcyone, our ancestor who fought alongside the warriors of the starlight before we were the twelve pillars that supported the empire.’

‘When the demon king reappears, he is the one who must lead the battlefield with the duty of a pillar along with the chosen hero of starlight.’

‘This father…I’m afraid that you will collapse after suffering only on the bloody battlefield after graduating from the academy…Do you know how this father feels about sending you away after leaving my love, Tiamat?’

It was Europa who bowed her head with a somber expression at the mention of Tiamat, his wife and her mother.

‘…So you’re asking her to decide on a fiancé so you don’t send me to such a place?’

However, the resentful eyes on her gloomy face did not erase her voice.

‘Did you know I have to go to strangers?’

‘…These are the people I picked and picked. Have a good conversation and find someone you like…’

‘It’s purely the person my father chose. Are these three my only options? Should I… Go to someone I don’t even love?’

‘…Sorry…’

In the end, Europa broke through the door of her office and came to her room at the helpless tone of his assertion that that was all he had to say.

When she said sorry and saw the look in his eyes, she remembered the day at Tiamat’s funeral and bit her lip.

Recalling the verbal abuse he had said to his father when he was immature, he sat on the bed and hugged a large pillow.

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Afraid of marrying a stranger, Ahn tightened her pillow.

I buried my face in the pillow because I was afraid that I would not be with the person I loved.

I was sorry, but I shuddered at the duty of the pillar, the bloody battlefield with the demons, and the father who came to find a fiancé candidate for himself.

“I…What can I do…Do I just have to accept it as it is?”

In a situation where I couldn’t do this or that, at the thought that I had to choose those three candidates, a teardrop flowed down and a drop of rain started to fall outside the window.

Tick-tock, along with a knock, a voice rang from outside the door.

“My lady, please eat.”

She slowly headed for the door at the sound of Sirius’ voice, who had arrived just in time for the meal.

She asked not to let anyone in, but as if she couldn’t miss the meal he had brought, she opened the door and she greeted Sirius.

“…Come in…”

I pressed the button next to the door to turn on the light-emitting crystal installed on the ceiling, and the room became bright.

With her feeble gait, she sat down on her chair, and food began to be placed neatly on the table set in front of her.

The steaming gratin with golden-brown cheese on an oven plate looked appetizing. However, it was Europa who was just staring blankly at Gratin who came up.

Perhaps he felt sorry for Sirius at his weak gait, his stunned face, and the way he stared blankly at his food without eating.

“Okay. Oh, do it.”

“…Ah…”

She was the one who idly took and ate the cooled gratin on a fork.

Looking at his face as she slowly chewed her food, Europa was still hesitating for a long time about how to accept the three candidates for her fiancée.

For a brief escape from reality, I pulled a chair and moved next to him. And.

“Oh.”

Her eyes were closed and her mouth was open, like a baby bird asking for food. I just wanted to pamper myself without thinking.

She laughed as she poked her cheek with the handle of a fork, as if the figure was ridiculous.

“What kind of mother bird am I? You are a baby bird.”

“…You did well earlier.”

Opening her closed eyes, she pouted her mouth as she snatched the fork from her cheek.

I don’t know how many days like this will be in the future, so I wanted to pamper him a little more, but when he didn’t follow suit, I poked his side with the handle of a fork in the same way.

“…Would it hurt if I just did it? Would it hurt?”

“Ouch, it hurts!”

“Then poke it because it hurts, or should I just poke it?”

“Aww! It hurts!”

As soon as he stabbed him more, smiles appeared on the faces of Sirius, who ran away, and Europa, who followed him.

Putting her complicated work aside for a while, Gratin was spending her time with Sirius as if she didn’t care if she cooled off.

#

The lady who was eating with a smile showed me tidying up after the meal, and she had the same gloomy face as when she first entered the room.

She tried to ask during the meal, but she couldn’t because she didn’t want to break the bright atmosphere. While I was holding an empty plate, the lady hugged me from behind.

“Lady?”

“…”

The arm of the girl who was hugging me silently was trembling slightly. What happened to make you so anxious?

“What happened?”

“A bit long, so to speak…”

“Shall we prepare some refreshments?”

“No…I just want to do this for now. Stay with me.”

I couldn’t move and had to stand still in the arms of the lady. After about two minutes, the fallen girl’s expression looked much better.

“I’m going to the restaurant to return some plates.”

“Okay.”

Leaving behind the lady who was sitting back in her chair and staring at me, I was on my way to the restaurant when Ruy Thena approached me.

“Butler, what do you think of Mr. Sirius?”

I couldn’t make eye contact because of the serious look in your eyes and the story of the young lady.

“…You’re the one I need to protect.”

She knew at least that this wasn’t the answer she wanted. She just thought she wanted to avoid this place, so she speeded up with a formal answer.

“Don’t answer like that, what do you think rationally? Didn’t you have different feelings after living together for over 5 years?”

“…No…”

It would be a lie if I said there wasn’t a single moment. The lady was right when she called me a liar. I was lying again to avoid this place.

“Have you really never had one?”

What do you want to say, what do you want to hear so persistently? He stopped her steps and turned around to face her.

“No.”

Miss Ruitena shrank a little, probably because she answered with a lot of annoyance. At this point, she might have given up, but the eyes facing her didn’t die.

“…Really not?”

“Haa…”

Should I tell the truth or lie again?

The girl who came to mind vaguely and the things she had been through passed by like a lightning bolt. Among them, the most impressive memory was pierced as if my heart had become a target.

A small but big event at a luxurious restaurant that I followed the lady into. A kiss between me and the lady who became the main characters in that event.

“…Is…Is…”

Of all of us who hesitated, I was thrilled to see the confident appearance of the young lady who first gathered up the courage to kiss me.

“Then you must know the lady’s heart?”

“…Yes…”

Of course I knew it well. The lady confessed to me when I was pretending to sleep on the night I visited the capital for the first time.

“But how long will she pretend not to know her feelings? Do you know how much that hurts her?”

It was a sharp tone and a rising voice, how frustrated I was after noticing the relationship between the two of us for a week. And I bit my lip at the word that it was an act that hurt the young lady.

“… Ms. Louis Thena, does she ever fall asleep thinking about who she is?”

It was she who nodded her head at her words that came out of my mouth as if I was biting her lips.

“Of course I do. Sometimes, but…”

“I think about it every day. It’s a fact that only the lady knows, but I’ll tell you too, Ruythena.”

She thought it was okay to tell the truth about me, thinking about the way she looked at me and the lady for a week.

“I must drink blood.”

“…Yes?”

It was a natural reaction. If someone said you had to drink blood, you would say, ‘Oh, yes. Okay.’ Would you respond?

“I have to drink blood. The last time I hurt the young lady also happened unconsciously because I couldn’t control my craving for blood.”

Ms. Ruy Thena covering her mouth and trembling her body. If she saw a vampire in front of her eyes, what would be her reaction?

“She is scared every day when she is by her side. She wonders when she will unconsciously hurt her again.”

I couldn’t forget the bewildered look in her eyes when I saw her when she came to her senses. It will be etched in her mind and remembered forever.

“You don’t know how terrifying it is not knowing what she can do with her own hands while hurting her loved ones.”

“That’s why I’m afraid to win your heart.”

“…She’s afraid to love her.”

The emotions that were clogged up in my heart exploded and poured out like a rapid-fire cannon. I was out of my mind and running away from her lady’s mind.

She couldn’t say anything and just covered her mouth, she was afraid, and she was looking at me with her pitying eyes.

“…Sorry for the unsightly appearance…”

She lowered her head and headed back to the restaurant.

Outside the window, rain and wind were blowing fiercely, like a typhoon.

Like my confused heart, I felt like the wind and rain were wet my eyes.