Became the Butler of the Second Heroine of the Harem

100 – A Prize for You (3)

After barely recovering his calf that was almost broken by a strong low kick, the first place he stopped by was a men’s clothing store. The lady standing in front of the entrance pointed at me and said.

“First of all, let’s change those drab clothes. Also, buy other clothes for you to wear.”

“I have enough other clothes.”

“They were all gifts from me. But what would the person who gave them think if they found out that the gift was being used in a strange place?”

“Ha ha ha…”

He cut and stabbed me with half-moon eyes like an ax that could skillfully cut down thick trees and sharp daggers that could pierce iron plates.

‘Well, except for that one out of the clothes I chose, the young lady’s eyesight is questionable.’

I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if I said that. The young lady, who had been staring at me for an awkward laugh, just holding it in her heart, turned her gaze to the entrance of the store.

“If you have any complaints, feel free to tell me. Today, I’ll hang out with you until you’re satisfied.”

As we followed the lady who confidently entered the store, a young man wearing a neat suit and exuding an urban atmosphere approached us and bowed his head to greet us.

“Thank you to the two people who visited our store in person. Are you looking for clothes for the man following you?”

Why do I always ask if there is something I am looking for when I come to buy clothes? Unlike me, who felt burdened by the wriggling eyebrows and white smile, the lady nodded and pointed at me.

“Yes. Could you pick out some clothes for him to wear? He wears only these clothes every day.”

“…Lady?”

I called out to the lady at the unexpected words, but she still only nodded at the staff member with half-moon eyes. When he shifted his gaze back to the employee, his eyes glittered like gold coins.

“Oh my God, I can’t believe you have such great hangers and you only wear one. I’ll do my best.”

“Please take good care of me.”

As soon as I could not agree, the employee grabbed my hand and put it in front of the mirror in the corner of the store, brought several sets of clothes, and a small fashion show was held.

After changing into a set of clothes given to me by an employee in the changing room, the lady sat down on a chair brought by the employee and calmly watched her own fashion show.

“…Not bad.”

Her eyes were still like half moons, but the girl who commented while blushing. Thanks to this, the corners of the mouth of the employee standing next to him smiled.

After that, I kept changing other clothes. Still, thanks to the staff’s excellent eyesight, it was more comfortable to wear than the clothes the young lady picked out last year, and it looked okay to me.

He started changing one by one, and before he knew it, he came out of the dressing room wearing his eighth or ninth suit.

This time, I wore a simple dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up according to the staff’s guidance, a beige vest that gave off a hint of spring, and light-colored cotton pants, so it was easy to carry around lightly.

“This fits really well too. I think it was tailored for you.”

“Is that so?”

“Sure~ Would you like to change into this next time?”

“This is…”

Looking at the clothes he handed over to me next, I shook my head without hastily accepting them.

“No…This dress is fine. Can you bring me another dress?”

“Um… Do you prefer non-exposed clothes?”

“Please wear clothes like that.”

As soon as I asked the staff member with a smile, the staff member hurriedly left to get another set of clothes. Maybe it was because I changed clothes one after another without taking a break, but I didn’t feel mentally exhausted.

“Come here.”

Following the command of the beckoning lady with her legs crossed, he took a step closer and grabbed her folded sleeve.

“Didn’t you just like that shirt? Before, you tried it on and said no if you didn’t like it.”

“No…I liked the color. The color.”

The color wasn’t bad. It was worth trying a strong color like well-aged red wine once. The reason for the rejection was the design of the clothes.

“I’m sure you couldn’t see it closely because you were sitting down, but it was a very open shirt around the chest. If you wore it as it is…”

“…The scar must have been visible.”

As he continued to talk, he looked at my scars every time and said it was his fault, but he always had a sad expression on his face. Yeah, I couldn’t bear to wear it to see that face.

I would have been able to cover it up if I had been cut on the back. Although he has a bitter taste, he never regrets what happened that day.

She knelt down on one knee and put her hand near her scar, smiling at the well-dressed lady.

“It’s okay. At first, I only liked the color, but it was a very revealing outfit, so I doubted if I could pull it off…Ouch…”

“…You’re arrogant. You spit on your mouth and lie.”

A girl pulling at her cheeks with fierce eyes that opened the upper and lower moons at the same time before she even finished speaking. Thanks to this, I had to barely hold back the screams coming out of her mouth so that they wouldn’t spread throughout the store.

“Stupid, stupid, liar.”

“Aha (It hurts)…”

I thought the expression of the lady holding the ball and shaking it looked particularly excited.

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Among the clothes I tried on, there were a little over 10 that I liked. After sending everything, including the butler’s uniform, to the inn, I came out of the store wearing a dress shirt, a light crimson long cardigan that came down to the buttocks, and pants the same color as my hair. .

“It’s much better than before. Let’s wear different clothes like this from time to time instead of dull clothes every day.”

“Even if it is now, not another day. Others should know that I am the lady’s butler.”

“Even on days like this?”

“The butler’s uniform is my armor, school uniform, and daily wear. The lady told me to wear it like this…”

“That’s what I said even now. It’s not the other day, it’s just the two of us alone like this, isn’t it…?”

He held my left hand with both hands and looked at me with an earnest request.

Those eyes. Back in the days when I was dragged around by this hand, I raised my hand, unable to win at the eyes you showed me whenever I was fooling around.

“…As the lady said, we’ll wear it when we go out together.”

“Hee hee. You should have done that earlier.”

Perhaps he didn’t like the way he was wearing the butler’s uniform every time. As soon as I accepted the request, a bitter smile appeared on his bashful smile.

“The sun is about to set before that. How long has it been?”

“I changed dozens of clothes, of course.”

From the middle, the store clerk blinked his eyes and even coordinated it, so I couldn’t win his support and had to change until he was satisfied.

“What am I going to do when I buy my clothes later”

“At that time, let’s schedule a weekend from morning to evening.”

I took out my usual notebook from the pocket of my long cardigan and pretended to write it down, and the lady added something.

“Take until the next day. There are a lot of stores and the clothes they sell are all different, so I’ll take this opportunity to take a look.”

At the earnest words, images of husbands dragged away by their wives for shopping passed vaguely through my mind. As if the blood was draining, I stopped pretending to write in my notebook, and my eyes shook as if I had lost my way.

“…Are you kidding?”

“Yeah. Of course I’m kidding, stupid. Let’s go get dinner. If we don’t go now, we might have to stand in line.”

“It’s still early evening. Are you already going to a famous place?”

“Yes, it’s a place you know.”

It was a moment of leisure as we walked around the capital city with light steps, trembling and being led by the hands of our clasped hands, while covering the dark ultramarine blankets between the tall buildings and looking at the sleeping sun.

I could feel that there were people walking in our footsteps along with stinging stares from the back of our heads.

The number of people is two, no three. I don’t know when they started following me or what their purpose was.

As he reflected on his negligence in his work due to his lack of leisure, he naturally approached the young lady so that they would not be suspicious.

“My lady, there’s a party following us. There are about three of us.”

The expression of the young lady who had always been smiling was crumpled at once. In the midst of pleasant work, there is no heat soaring as much as being interrupted.

“…Where are those bastards?”

“Don’t look back because it’s behind you… Calm down first.”

“Do I look like I really don’t like it? It’s been a while since I came out with you, and who cares if I get interrupted?”

“First of all, calm down…I have an idea, what do you think?”

“If it’s crazy, I’ll do it my way.”

A young lady growling with a frown. Her head shook her head from side to side as she imagined the situation in which she would have pulled the sword out in an instant and charged at those following us if she had been wearing a sword at her waist.

“…Let’s go into the alley and chase them away. Just like we used to play hide and seek.”

“Is that just what you were thinking? Just grab one and ask them what their purpose is…”

“The moment they notice it, they’ll run away. If they run faster than the lady, how are you going to catch them? Besides, there are too many eyes here right now.”

Twilight as Tuesday goes down. The sound of people clinking beer mugs filled with cool ale to relieve the fatigue accumulated throughout the day after hard work was heard here and there.

To these people, the boisterous commotion is like a side dish for drinking, and the next day they will tell their neighbors, cousins, and co-workers about the commotion they saw at a drinking party.

“And the appearance of the young lady and me stand out at a glance. If I move rashly, rumors will spread all over the capital?”

A beautiful girl with blonde blue eyes and a boy with black hair, which is rare in the empire. Even now, passers-by glanced at us once and then went on their way or turned around and looked at us again, showing various reactions.

“That’s kind of bad… I was short on the idea.”

“…I think the young lady needs to fix her hot-tempered personality a little… Ayayah…”

I thought my fingers would be crushed when I cut off the conversation again and grabbed my hands.

“Again, again. There’s nothing I can’t say to the owner. So what are you going to do? Wander around every corner of the alleyway?”

When I asked about the plan for the lady who only seeks a master-servant relationship at times like this, she tapped me on the head with her index finger.

“I know the alleys well. Especially, the alleys here are complicated, so it’s hard for those people to follow easily.”

I wandered around the alleys of the capital when I went out to buy groceries, ran errands, or went alone. If Tenebris is the darkness of the capital, the alleys are like shadows.

A relationship that cannot be separated. Voluntarily cleaning the alleyways, which are the main sources of income for black merchants who sell goods that are difficult to obtain even in the empire, let alone in the capital, those who sell low-purity, low-quality drugs, and thugs who steal the wallets of those passing through the alleyways to pass quickly. I did too.

I did it semi-voluntarily because most of them were arguing about my hair, but thanks anyway, the alleys were cleaner than before, and I was an explorer and a cleaner in the alleys of the capital.

“I’ll walk a little further and fall into the alley on the right. Should I follow you?”

“…I think it’s going to be difficult to move because of the skirt…”

The cloth area of the skirt, which was sacrificed by the two people playing with dolls, started about one hand above the knee.

It’s already short, but it’s similar to a light tennis skirt, and if you move wrongly, you can see your underwear.

“Wait a moment. This will make you feel better psychologically.”

I was a bit hesitant about what to do with this situation, so I took off the long cardigan I was wearing and tied it around the lady’s waist. Thanks to that, it looked like she was wearing a slightly long crimson skirt.

“Are you okay with this?”

“Ahahahaha, that’s why it looks like a skirt. It’s a bit long, so I can’t move with this.”

“…Do you want to take it back?”

“Are you crazy?”

As she was covering the waist of her scarlet skirt with her hand, she burst into laughter when she realized that she had taken an awkward posture. I laughed along with that smile and held out my hand.

“hahahahaha… Shall we go? To see what kind of bastards are following us.”

“Ahahahaha…Yes, let’s go. I’m curious to see what your face looks like, so the line is already behind me.”

A tryst in the alley began with the girl who held my hand and with the unknown stalkers.