The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard

43. Torino Coyono (2)

The two have been circling the inside of the academy for a long time.

Holding a sword with her, having a light meal and going back,

Because it came with a lot of pressure.

Still, she looks very happy.

He seems to be talking a lot, and his steps are light.

“By the way, Prince Schmitz, I have a question for you.”

“Yes, you do.”

“Isn’t that the waist dance, the eastern sword katana?”

She is pointing at her katana with a curious look.

It’s a good thing.

I brought up the story I had prepared so that she would not be repulsed.

“Recently, I bought a katana for self-defense, but every time I wield something, it felt uncomfortable. I wanted to request an appraisal from Mr. Koyono, who is from the east.”

“Girl, it’s been a while since I held the sword, are you okay?”

To her question, he nodded as if asking.

She received the sword and began to examine it carefully.

It’s a low quality sword purchased from a nearby blacksmith’s shop.

We are waiting for her evaluation on this, so the answer comes back as expected.

“No matter how you look at it, there is nothing wrong with it. If I had to argue, the quality of the katana itself would be low.”

Should I say that I am a former samurai?

It is a look that sees through the state of the sword right away.

“If you’ll excuse me, can you swing it a few times?”

“I’m asking you to swing it… ?”

“Yes, since the arena is also nearby, if possible.”

Koyono’s fine brow furrowed slightly.

Soon, beads of sweat began to form on my face, and the hand holding the katana trembled slightly.

Seeing that, I didn’t feel good either.

‘… Is it too much?’

There must be some trauma about knives, but I thought it would be okay to wield them.

However, it is true that her reaction to rejection seemed more serious than expected.

So I reached out to stop her.

“If it’s hard for you, it’s okay to stop. I have a request… ”

“No, at least this much…”

“Please, it seems that he is not in a state to hold a sword.”

“… only once! Just, I’ll swing it just once.”

I tried to take the sword from her hand, but her reaction was stubborn.

Koyono performing a sword sword with a scabbard on her waist.

Before long, she slowly performed the sword dance, and I watched it from a little distance.

‘… beautiful.’

Her sword dance clearly looked precarious.

However, the paradoxical trajectory decorated the surroundings with trembling beauty.

Even the gazes of passers-by outside the arena were directed at her.

“… haha.”

“Are you okay?”

As I stared blankly at it, Koyono’s sword dance came to an end.

The finely trembling tip of the knife, and the black hair clinging to sweat.

There was no trauma, but he seemed very exhausted, both mentally and physically.

“sorry. I made an unreasonable request.”

“… no. Just holding that sword once, I never thought this would happen.”

Looking at the pale complexion of Koyono, it seems that he ordered something useless.

Could she have taken her trauma too lightly?

As I was blaming myself for lightly planning, I realized one thing.

‘In the end, the quest is the same.’

I made Koyono suffer and get him to hold the sword, but

The quest remained in the quest window.

Feeling bitter about it, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her.

“You came out dressed up, but you have no face.”

“…That’s why, you didn’t say that you never came here dressed up.”

Koyono is handed a handkerchief with a bitter smile.

Wiping the cold sweat on her forehead, she calmly brought up her past.

“… I don’t know if you know it, but the original girl was a samurai. Protecting Hime of Heirin City… ”

Koyono lowered her head and continued talking.

“In a way, it can be said that it is similar to Prince Schmitz, who assists Prince Arlott. The princess was also the same age as the girl, and he was always there to assist her.”

“Because he seemed accustomed to helping the lady.”

“Hmm, just like Hime-nim, she’s been playing around a lot.”

A deep remorse was buried in Koyono’s calmly continued voice.

“When I stood next to Hime, I was extremely proud of the girl and the sword she held. He was obviously an excellent swordsman for his young age, but it didn’t take long before I realized that it was all conceit.”

“Looks like something happened.”

“There was an invasion of demons. It appeared on a summer day when I was inspecting Hime and the front line.”

The one called the right hand of the demons.

Koyono’s Hime lost her life to him.

From the guy who defeated the escort warriors in an instant and approached Hime…

She ended up running away.

“I fully understand. Koyono was young at the time, and I would have acted the same way seeing my comrades dying in front of me.”

“…It was unacceptable under any circumstances. The girl at the time was a samurai…”

‘Because I had to protect someone precious with the sword in my hand.’

I could barely understand what she was saying as the horse was getting wet all over.

Seeing him turn his head at the end of his words, he seemed emotionally charged.

After catching her breath for a while, she struggled to raise a bright voice.

“That’s why the girl couldn’t hold the sword. Haha, isn’t that a very pitiful story?”

I hesitated for a long time about what answer to give because he asked me so calmly.

In the end, I didn’t say anything like an idiot.

Instead of answering, I silently grabbed her wrist and dragged her.

After leaving the arena and school, I headed to the city where there were a lot of people.

“Shu, where the hell are you going…”

“It’s a change of mood. Trust me, hang out for a bit.”

You can comfort her with kind words,

I couldn’t quite get her out with sweet words.

Because the inside of him was still a man who had eaten badly.

What comes to mind… Just enjoy the food she likes to the fullest.

It was for this reason that he led her a little recklessly.

***

A lamb kebab cooked in the heat of a magic tool.

Pineapple Ade squeezed by the beast’s strength.

Even gelato, a specialty of the North.

Without a break in their mouths, the two ate and ate again.

At first, Koyono seemed taken aback by my sudden action, but…

It was she who assimilated into my method and pushed food into it.

If this was a date, it would have ended with the woman running away.

But, thankfully, Koyono went along with Mosolada’s ruthless plan.

Afterwards, the two sat down on a bench outside the city, beating their full stomachs.

Her previous anxiety seemed to have disappeared to some extent, and she had a calm expression on her face.

… To be precise, he was licking gelato with a calm expression.

“When something painful happens, swallow it all and forget it. That’s my favorite saying.”

“…! It’s a proverb that even girls love. There must be another coincidence like this.”

Well, it was a story she told herself in the original story.

When there is something gloomy, she relieves it by eating.

This plan borrowed her method seems to have worked well.

“What happened earlier is disrespectful. I irritated Koyono-san’s painful part for no reason.”

“It’s outrageous. Rather, I’m just grateful that you listened to the girl’s complaints in silence.”

“Actually, there was someone I thought of while listening to Koyono-san’s story earlier.”

Koyono is buried in the past and tries to run away from it.

The person I remembered from her collapsed appearance was…

I was myself in my previous life, whose memory is now hazy.

“…This is a story I heard from someone. That person, like Koyono-san, had memories of losing someone important to them.”

Recall the story of your past life by substituting it into another person.

It was a family with a mother, a father, and a younger sister who was fairly close in age and wouldn’t hurt to put it in their eyes.

It was around the time she reached school age that her normal family began to crumble.

It was when she discovered that she had an incurable disease.

It was a very terrifying, fucking incurable disease.

“He tried day and night to save her, but he couldn’t. The house was poor, and the disease of the precious one only got worse.”

There is no proper treatment for the rare disease called ‘complex regional pain syndrome’.

Like cold sore syndrome, causal pain given sporadically.

It has disfigured the child’s body, but the only treatments given are medications and procedures to lessen the pain.

In order to pay for this, all the families had to work day and night.

As a result, no one was left by her side.

I, who was one of the few conversation partners, was also working part-time job and studying, and she was gradually left alone.

In that situation, I think my sister had enough reason to end her own life.

She was too young to endure the disease alone amid strong drugs and mad solitude.

“He who lost someone precious to him like that lived a life entangled in the past. Similar to Koyono-san.”

My sister died, and my father and mother were ruined.

I, too, have been degenerated into a corner opener.

The game I met then was ＜Party to Savior＞.

Rescue Arlot, who has a disease similar to his sister’s,

It may be that he tried to relieve his guilt about his younger sister by twisting his body to connect with the main character.

“He was like that, now he’s trying to overcome the past.”

After meeting Arlot, he desperately tries to save her from illness.

If it was me in the corner of the room, everything would have been impossible.

And she also wanted to shake off the old work that was attached to it like shackles.

That was a thought that suddenly popped into my head.

“It’s not that Koyono-san holding the sword is weak, it’s that Koyono-san who couldn’t overcome that time is weak. If he had seen Koyono-san, he would have said something like this.”

Words poured out half drunk with old things.

When I came to my senses, Koyono just looked at my expression with a blank face.

Only then did I realize what I was talking about.

‘It’s too remote.’

His face was hot and flushed.

That’s why I can’t do it.

For a while, I hope you turn your eyes away and pretend to be different.

Koyono suddenly grabbed my wrist.

“…Thank you very much for the advice. So…”

It is a smile brighter than any smile I have ever seen before.

Let’s look at it involuntarily…

“So, let the girl serve the next meal.”

she tells such a story

… I felt like my stomach would burst, but I had no choice but to hang out.