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────No! Don’t accept death, me!
I reprimanded myself in my mind for almost accepting death unintentionally in the face of Charlotte san’s killing spirit, and decided to somehow find a way to live.
“Hey, what were you doing just now? Did you perhaps overhear our conversation in the hallway on the way here and fill in the blanks?”
Charlotte-san came up to me and unleashed her murderous words, but anyway, let’s think about the reason why Charlotte-san is angry.
It was probably because I had behaved in a way that was unbecoming of a butler of the Anastasia family.
But if I explain that it was for the sake of the match with Grendel san, I am sure Charlotte will understand.
I decided not to panic and calmly explained to Charlotte san.
“I had accepted the challenge of a match with Grendel-san, and as the butler of the Anastasia family, I couldn’t run away from a match that I had accepted once, so I accepted the challenge.”
“What was the game?”
“That’s ────.”
“Let me explain! Charlotte Anastasia!”
When I was about to explain the details of the match, Grendel-san, who had been silent ever since Charlotte-san’s arrival, came out in front of Charlotte-san and continued saying so in a loud voice.
“The nature of the match between me and Feal is to see who can win more women at this party.”
“Who offered this match?”
“Me, of course.”
“So it wasn’t Al.”
“Of course not. How could Feal be expected to challenge me to a fight?”
“Then I’ll tell Grendel san not to play this game with Al in the future. I don’t know how many times you’ve played with women in the name of the Marquis, but Al has lived far away from that kind of thing.”
Charlotte san told me that, and Grendel san raised his voice and said
“P-playing with women ……! I-I never played with women!”
“Even after all that?”
“I have had dinner with women, but that doesn’t mean I’ve ever done anything so vulgar that it could be described as womanizing.”
As Grendel san said this, I could see the pride of a marquis nobleman in his eyes.
Apparently, it did not feel like he was lying.
“Right…so now that we’ve talked about it, how about Grendel go to the woman over there who’s been keeping her eyes on Grendel?”
After saying that,
Charlotte pointed her finger in a certain direction.
“What? looking at me ……?!”
Grendel san turned his body in the direction of the finger and ran in a straight line.
“Thank goodness he fell for such a simple lie. …… Al, we need to move.”
“Move ……? Where to?”
“A room in the hallway, where we won’t be overheard.”
“Eh? Why are you going there?”
“Because I haven’t finished lecturing Al yet right?”
…… Lecturing!?
…… As much as I didn’t want to be subjected to that as possible, but if Charlotte-san was going to do that, then I was the one who had to follow her lead.
I entered one of the rooms in the hallway with Charlotte san, despite my fears.
The room was very simple, with a large white bed and two chairs flanked by a table.
“I thought there would be more going on in here, but it’s surprisingly simple,”
“In a place like this, your body is all you need to communicate.”
Charlotte san and I sat down in the chairs for the time being.
“Then, Al, quick question, why did you do that?”
“Why ……? As I explained earlier, Grendel san challenged me to a game ────”
“No, I mean, why did you accept the challenge in the first place?”
“It was because …… I was pushed by momentum, I guess.”
“Momentum? …… So, Al, if a woman takes you into a place like this, do you just let the momentum take you to the end?”
“I-I don’t think so. Why are we talking about this?”
When I asked that, Charlotte seemed to be questioning her own words, “Surely …… I’m crazy now, what’s wrong with me, I wonder.”
I decided to ask Charlotte san because I wanted to confirm something here.
“Um, the reason why Charlotte-san is angry is because I acted unbecoming of a butler of the Anastasia family, right?”
“The Anastasia family ……? No, I’m angry because Al was talking to a woman other than me. ──── Why am I so angry about that? …… lies, he’s the most important thing to me, he should be… .”
He…… whom Charlotte san loved in her previous life.
……Yes, that’s right.
“By the way, the reason Charlotte-san came to this party is because that person might be at this party, right? If that’s the case, I’m going to look for him ──── .”
“I looked around and didn’t see anyone who looked like him.”
“….I see.”
“……… what would Al do if a beautiful and kind woman came along and asked him to go out with her?”
“I think I’d go for a relationship…… if it was someone I thought I’d like.”
“…… And then you would hang out with that person on your days off?”
“Eh? I think that’s what it means. “
I was a little puzzled as to why she was asking me such an obvious question, but I gave her a reply.
“Once you get to a certain level of intimacy, do you engage in physical contact as well?”
“Eh ……?! W-Why would you say that ────?”
“I’m sorry, I seem to be crazy right now,……, but I’ve already said hello to everyone, so let me go home for the day.”
“I understand.”
Thereafter, during the carriage ride home, Charlotte san always seemed to be thinking about something with a dour look on her face.
She would look at me from time to time and then look out the window thoughtfully.
“Aruto kun, I’m ……”
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