4-82: Answer and Reason (2/6)

4-82: Answer and Reason (2/6)

However, after spending some time together, they can more or less understand what was going on.

They have been traveling together for about half a month by now and have observed his conduct up close, so they could tell now that his arrogance was actually an armor meant to intimidate others. It was also just like an armor in that he would take it off when he had no need for it.

His true personality was closer to what he was showing them now.

Despite such outstanding fighting prowess and mastery of magic

Despite knowing so much about everything that he could show immediate results

Despite relying on cruel ingenuity to drive his opponents psyche into a corner

For some reason, he was even worse than the princess or the hero when it came to anything related to household chores. In fact, it was already at a destructive level.

But what surprised the girls the most was that he would apologize honestly when he knew he was at fault.

However, that also meant that he wouldnt apologize if he believed that it was the other party at fault Even if that means almost killing someone.

Now that they were aware of all the circumstances, the girls could admit that they had indeed been at fault.

They didnt particularly want an apology from him, but they couldnt help but find it weird how he could apologize for dirtying the room but not for beating them into an inch of their life.

Indeed, his irrationality was not only not only reflected in his fighting prowess.

But as for whether that weighed on their mind or not, frankly, they couldnt be bothered.

After all, his day-to-day life was unbelievably high-maintenance.

Whether it was cleaning, or cooking, or laundry, or organizing and replenishing supplies for the trip, or organizing and calculating travel expenses, he was someone that needed help.

In fact, he couldnt even talk to people properly unless there was a need to.

It was only a few days ago that hes started to be able to talk normally with the girls and Youko.

Apparently, he needed half a month to figure out what status to assume when talking with them.

That has allowed communication with him to proceed unimpeded, but his shyness has by no means been cured.

They would have no choice but to compensate for his problematic aspects, and for most of half of this month, the maids have been working in teams of three, taking turns everyday to take care of him.

If not for that, his everyday life would be just too clumsy.

Moreover, the past few days since they started living in the mansion has been extraordinarily troublesome.

The girls, who had lived in a well-equipped royal castle for a long time and were always accompanied by the second princess, had never seen or heard of anyone so troublesome.

They had more than a few experiences of taking care of troublesome guests, insolent people, and people who broke or dirtied things, but the boy was just on a different level.

Good grief.

What a troublesome guest.

The work just keeps increasing.

Yes, so theres no problem at all.

They remarked as such out of pity, but it was a complicated matter.

After all, none of their complaints have been serious. Though their expression remained the same all the time, there was resignation in their voice, as well as hope that things would remain the same.

Shinichi was puzzled by that, but believing that things couldnt go on like this, he stood up.

His eyes were burning in a strange display of his unyielding spirit.

It doesnt match my nature to be spoiled so much If I cant clean, then Ill pay you back in my own way.

As he wove those words of resolve, hedisplayed his power in a strange direction.

Robelia, you have lint on your right cuff and soot on your neck.

Ah!

As soon as she noticed it, his hands moved to clean both.

Louise, theres dust on the hem of your skirt, and your headdress is off an angle.

What?

While she was surprised, Shinichi patted off the dust and rearranged her headdress.

Clara, the ribbon of your apron knot at the back is leaning a little to the right.

R-Really?

She tried to look behind her, but before she could, hed already fixed the knot.

Everything happened almost instantaneously as soon as he spoke.

A wasteful display of ability, but there was no one here to throw such a tsukkomi.

The maids just felt regretful about their mistakes, while Youko was jealous.

I heard from Lilisha yesterday that theres a party tonight at the counts house. You need to pay more attention than usual on how you look. A servants clumsy appearance will make their master a laughingstock By the way, all of you have your hair sticking up behind you.

W-What a blunder!

To think I would mess up like this!

I-Is there anything else!?

Though their expressions did not collapse, they were all similarly surprised, and they started stroking their hair at once.

The way they checked each other if there was anything else still wrong was just like that of girls their age.

It was a pleasant thing to behold, but the boy responsible for that just wryly smiled.

Whats really sad is that most of it is because they cleaned my room