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After a short break, Mei bowed her head.
“I apologize for trying to test you earlier.”
“……No, it’s fine, but why?”
I asked about Mei’s behavior earlier. I had …… expected it to some extent, but this is a question to confirm it.
“I must confess that I suspected that you might have hired the kidnappers. I suspect that you used them to gain access to the young lady.”
“…I see.”
Well, you may be right to suspect that.
“But, based on your background, it seems highly unlikely. I apologize.”
“No, it’s nothing to begin with, and I don’t do knighthoods.”
It seems that Mei’s suspicions have not been completely cleared, but considering her position, that can’t be helped.
Tachibana, who was alone and looking carefree, added the words “Knight of Yuzuka” at the very end of my biography, which was prepared like a resume.
“Yes, perfect.”
“Don’t just barge in on someone’s resume without permission.”
“I’m not being selfish. Right, my knight.”
“….What’s a knight anyway?”
When I tilted my head, Mei calmly began to explain.
“To be more precise, the young lady’s bodyguard. You will be responsible for protecting Yuzuka-sama.”
“That’s what I mean. You’re so …… motivated, aren’t you?”
“There are a lot of people wearing black clothes, right? Isn’t that bad?”
Mei shook her head in response to my question.
“Yuzuka-sama started high school this year…but lately, things have been particularly dangerous. Yuzuka-sama’s range of activities has also increased. So, if possible, I’d like to find someone close to her age. There was talk of hiring a bodyguard.”
“….. I see.”
“At first I thought about transferring to her school and working together with her”
“….Eh? Mei?”
Apparently she is in her twenties. Although she is quite beautiful, her school uniform seems to give off a cosplay feel.
“What’s with the eyes?”
“No, well, it’s difficult because of your age, right?”
“Ha? I’m still quite fit, though? I can definitely wear my school uniform, though?”
“As expected, when I made Mei wear it to and from school with me, I was once questioned by a police officer there, so this idea was dropped.”
“Young lady! Don’t say unnecessary things!”
After all, it was rejected. It’s being denied by national power.
Mei stares at me in frustration. No, no, no, I’m not the one you should be glaring at.
“….Anyway, that’s why the search for the knight has begun.”
“But it’s over now. Knight, it’s decided!”
“Don’t terminate it on your own.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Hey, I can’t talk to this young lady!”
I’m refusing, but Tachibana is being too pushy.
“Yuzuka-sama is a little pushy, isn’t she?”
“not a little! Quite a bit!”
“That’s what’s so cute about her”
“She’s not cute!”
“Hs? cute, isn’t it? are you talking in your sleep?
“Scary! This maid can’t talk either!”
They’re as peculiar as people from other worlds.
What’s going on, this mansion!
Once I was breathing, Tachibana tilted her head.
“Well then, I have a question for Shuji. Why don’t you like ……,Knight? I’ll do as much as possible for your request?”
“Heee, then how about a salary of …… one million every month!”
My highest salary before my time leap was 3 million a year. A million a month is a lot of money!
“Okay!”
“……ha!?”
I looked at Mei as if to confirm, but she looked at me rather dumbfounded.
“If you can protect her for about a million dollars, that’s too cheap.”
“….. then, how much is too expensive?’
“If it can protect Yuzuka-sama’s life, I’m sure her father will provide it, even if it’s in the hundreds of millions, right?”
A-a billion …….
There were times when I dealt with large sums of money in other worlds as well, but the sense of money in other worlds and money here is something different.
If I saw a large sum of money in …… Japanese yen because I had been living in poverty for many years, I might faint just from that.
……At any rate, it would be difficult to say no to them because of their reckless demands in terms of money.
“We need to discuss the salary…I’ll definitely come with you now, right?”
“Yeah. You supposed to be an escort.”
“Maybe I’ll sleep with you at night?
“That’s …… a good idea.”
“Then father might send a hit man to kill you.”
“Deny sleeping with me!”
When I immediately denied it, Tachibana then tilted her head once more.
“…Do you really dislike me that much? I’m mature, so I don’t think it’ll take much effort, right?”
“Remember why you were almost kidnapped today?”
“I am walking around ♪”
“Look at her! You’re not mature”
“If you’re going to be my knight in shining armor, I’ll be sure to call out to you before I go okay? …. that’s not good enough?”
…… Really, she seems like she wants me to do her a favor.
Well, it’s an eye for an eye, isn’t it?
If I were to get serious with my otherworldly powers, I probably wouldn’t have any enemies in this world.
But I–
“–I want to live a normal life. I want to go to a normal high school and enjoy a normal youth.”
……I want to live that kind of normal life this time around.
I had just reached that goal.
I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t be able to live such a normal life with Tachibana.
“The “normal life,” huh,……?”
After saying that, Yuzuka quietly moved away from me.
While looking a little lonely.
“….. that’s right. Yeah, I guess there is no talk this time after all.”
“Eh? Is that okay, Yuzuka-sama? Isn’t it possible to put pressure on his place of work or school and indirectly force him to do nothing other than this job?”
“Hey, what are you trying to do?”
“I thought about that too, but ……”
“Don’t think about it.”
The next moment I said that,
“But …… I also long for a normal life. I don’t want to disturb …… Shuji’s desire for it.”
She smiled at me.
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