chapter 2
2. Sione Cianella (2)
After cleaning the room, I spent time refilling snacks for her several times, and it was time for dinner.
And right now, I’m waiting for Shione in front of the restaurant in the mansion.
The reason was this.
Cianella’s blood relatives always gather together for dinner.
They share a meal while chatting with each other in the restaurant, and this is no different from my silent owner, Sione.
First of all, Shione is a noble who inherited the blood of the Cianella family.
Of course, Shione has her usual behavior, so I don’t know if she is skipping rice because she notices, but her assortment is like that.
Inside the restaurant, servants assigned to that area help with small tasks such as handling dishes, and exclusive servants like me or attendants wait for their masters at the entrance of the restaurant.
Of course, it was the first time I had waited for my superiors in front of a restaurant, so I couldn’t easily join the conversation of the attendants next to me.
After all, the world of gender reversal.
The first reason was that there were so many words coming out of those guys’ mouths that I couldn’t get into the topic recklessly.
“I heard that our Siabelle-nim gave Sir Dioria a blow this time?”
“Is it only Siabelle-nim? Shion-nim too…”
The second reason was that they were advancing the greatness of their master.
Even though I followed her through her day, it is clear that she will not have anything to brag about Sione now and in the future.
In a situation like this, where can I be involved in their story?
‘Our Sione-nim, except for a short visit today, has been basking in bed and eating refreshments. How is it, isn’t that a lot of patience?’
‘The body that hasn’t been blocked even after lying down and eating for hours is a body blessed by heaven.’
‘It’s not like it’s a bit painful… Even so, isn’t the patience that does not crawl out of bed the same as that of a good man?’
At best, there is nothing to express except this sentence.
It’s much better to keep your mouth shut than to go this far.
Servants and maids… No, they say that a servant’s pride is the brilliance of his master.
Now I finally get a sense of what it feels like.
Others are busy bragging about their boss.
I can only sigh when I think of my master, Sione.
That’s why the attendants, who had been chattering among themselves, began to take an interest in me as I quietly kept my seat.
“Hey…Are you the servant of Shione-nim this time?”
The first person to talk to me was Siabelle, the first daughter of Ainel Cianella.
He had a sharp mustache with a strong impression at first glance and approached me with a snort.
No matter how reversal it is, I don’t think this is a bit…….
I returned the distance between him and me to the starting point with an instinctive backward step.
He looked at me with strange eyes, but he couldn’t help it.
My body instinctively rejects your approach, what can I do?
It is irresistible.
“hahahaha…you were a bit awkward. That could be enough.”
“Yes, I’m sorry. I’m a shy person…”
It’s as if I smiled awkwardly and apologized, but somehow they got over it.
After an awkward greeting between Siabelle’s personal attendant and me, Ainel’s third and only son Shion’s personal attendant who was watching us intervened.
“Nice to meet you. It looks like we’re not familiar with each other… It’s been awhile since we’ve been here, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. I came in a while ago and became Sione-sama’s exclusive servant.”
Unlike Siabelle’s exclusive attendant, he didn’t hump his words or smile at the corners of his lips.
At least I was much more comfortable dealing with him than Siabelle’s exclusive attendant.
“I was wondering if I wanted to see it for the first time… It’s true.”
Saying that, he briefly raised the corner of his mouth.
Then he erased the comfortable atmosphere and created a secret atmosphere and put it in his face and words.
“…Then, this is the first time you’ve started working as a servant. To be a servant to Shione-nim, not Siabelle-nim or Shion-nim… It must be a bit hard.”
In an instant, a quiet and somber atmosphere was created between the three men.
Of course.
Anyway, it’s an act of cursing the nobility.
Because you can’t openly spread it in a bright atmosphere.
I’ve been through it too, so I’d be able to agree to it, but I don’t have the intention of getting involved in their gossip.
The feeling of sympathy for me who won an unanswerable master, and the sense of superiority I feel when comparing myself to myself.
Compassion can be said to be so because I feel sorry for myself, but the deeply engraved sense of superiority was extremely uncomfortable.
Even Siabelle’s exclusive attendant jumped on board in such an atmosphere.
“I’ve worked as a servant for Shione-sama before… I can still see how hard it was.”
This guy even went so far as to mention his experience and set up his board to let’s swear together.
No matter how hard it is, the nobles and the attendants want to bare their feet like this.
If Shione has been up to something, how can he make them look so eager to tell their story already?
Anyway, it seems that these words were made for me, who is quietly alone.
[The quest has been formed.]
「Proof of Loyalty」
「Your one and only master has come into a situation where he will be humiliated by another’s servants. They want you to disgrace your master with them, but this is against the virtue of loyalty as one who is the master’s exclusive servant. Get out of their clutches as a true servant.”
「Reward: Sione Cianella’s liking for you increases」
「Failure: Sione Cianella’s decrease in liking for you」
“…….”
I never meant to piggyback on their story.
A sudden increase in favorability of the status window?
Yes, of course, if I can get more likes from Shione, I might get a cookie from time to time.
Certainly not bad.
However, the crush of one cookie is not a decisive reason.
The reason lies in the cyanellas in the restaurant.
The physical abilities of people with mana are beyond imagination.
The senses of the body become sharper, and the vessel becomes larger than that of those who do not.
The same goes for hearing.
Cursing at aristocrats from this distance is tantamount to swearing at them openly.
The head of the household who is about to become a sword master, and the first Siabelle, who has a level of excellence just like him.
If they want to listen, it goes without saying that no matter how quietly you chatter, you will be able to easily hear the words of the humble servants and servants.
In a place like this, insulting Cianella no matter how much you say Shione, is the same as asking her to kill me.
Of course, I don’t think I’ve seen it once or twice, but seeing that I’ve been breathing so far, it seems like I’ve tacitly tolerated it.
It is best not to create a root cause from the beginning.
“How is it, no matter how much today is the first day you started serving, you are Shione-sama… Is there anything that Sione-sama has troubled you?”
At his words, I smiled.
He also erased his cautious expression and put on an expression of anticipation, as if he had just caught me when he saw me laughing.
Siabelle’s attendant was no different from him.
Unfortunately, my answer was different from what they thought.
“hahahaha, what kind of joke are you doing? Could it be that there was?”
“As expected… Oh, yes?”
“With what impure intention are you saying this to me? Are you trying to make a difference between me and Shione-sama?”
“No, what do you mean by epilepsy?”
“If it weren’t for that…I wouldn’t have dared to curse at a nobleman as an attendant.”
I glanced at them with a disapproving look.
In the meantime, I said a word to Siabelle’s attendant, who met my gaze.
“Isn’t it?”
“hahahaha…well, that’s right. At that moment, it seems that our judgment was clouded and we made a mistake. Can you forget about it?”
“I understand. But you’d better be more careful from now on. Someone might be hiding and listening to these secret stories.”
“…Of course.”
The corner of the mouth of the servant of Zion was smiling, but the eyes did not hide their displeasure.
I felt strongly that I was stamped with the master as if he were the servant.
It’s sad to be treated the same as Shione, but her gaze looked the same as when I saw her.
… Anyway, this hurts a bit.
I showed a smirk as a small revenge at the eyes that saw more than an irritating opponent.
No matter how much I say that my status is a slave, my current status is an exclusive servant belonging to Sione Cianella.
Even if you are hated, you are not in a position to kill me.
“Please know that Shione-sama, at least with my own eyes, is not the kind of noble you complained about.”
What are you trying to do by staring at me like that?
If you twist it, take off the lower part and stick it together like a woman.
Or tell my master.
No matter how much she tried to insult Cianella, she would not be able to say anything carelessly because she was that person.
Letting go of small anger seemed to relieve the stress that had accumulated over the years.
As I waited for the completion of the quest and caught the gaze of the two burning men, my boss, who was about to become the subject of gossip, slowly walked out of the restaurant.
I bowed her head to Sione as if to show off in front of them who were staring at me passionately.
“Do you want to go back to your room?”
There was a momentary silence between her and me.
Instead of answering, Shione met my eyes.
She looked at me annoyedly with a frown when she said earlier that it was time to go to dinner.
Seeing him looking at me with his straightened face for the first time made me wonder if he just heard what I was saying.
“…Okay, go back to your room.”
After giving a short answer, Shione walked past me.
Unlike before, the words she heard this time were less bitter than before.
Well, no matter how much I say Shione, I can’t spit in the face of someone who took my side.
It’s fortunate that at least a conscience remains.
As her servant, I naturally followed her, and the quest was completed only then.
[The quest has been completed.]
[Sione Cianella’s liking for you increases.]
The corner of my mouth went up.
It was the best timing.