episode_0020
by fnovelpia“Ah, lady!”
A short, brown-haired girl held an apron in her hand and shouted in a voice that sounded like she was squeezing it out.
“Yeah, why are you doing this, Benny?”
In front of the brunette servant, a beautiful girl with blonde hair and blue eyes who appeared to be around the same age was sitting on a chair. She looked at the girl who called her in a comfortable voice.
“That, stir, ugh…!”
“Hehe, speak comfortably. Don’t be uncomfortable.”
The brown-haired girl asked the girl in front of her in a trembling voice, as if she were afraid.
“Why, why are you so nice to me?!”
“Uh, huh?”
Benny, a brown-haired girl, was a new servant to the Bismuth family.
The name Benny was not given to me by my parents. When I was old enough to think, I found out that I was an orphan in an orphanage.
There may be differences depending on the orphanage, but unfortunately, Benny’s place was not a very good environment. The children were vicious because they were not educated, and the director invested the donated budget for personal gain.
Benny, who was starving and had bruises all over his body, would beg with his head down and a can in front of him on a street where many nobles passed to fill his hungry stomach.
“Why is this dirty brat doing this here?!”
“······.”
However, there were many people who did not like the idea of a quirky kid like Benny on the streets like this. I was fortunate to be cursed and even kicked.
And that day was a particularly unlucky day for Benny.
“Sorry, sorry! I won’t come again! So please-”
“You did the same thing last time, but you’re begging here again, right? You even lie?!”
One woman was stomping on Benny as if she had a good meeting after being in a bad mood.
Benny was in pain as he was stepped on by shoes. The pain was not limited to the body. My heart ached deeply at my miserable situation.
Meanwhile, a girl ran up.
“Stop it!”
“Ha, what are you… ah?”
As the blonde girl ran towards her, the woman who was trampling on Benny paused for a moment and then shot her.
“Ha, she seems to be the lady from the Bismuth family I heard about. I’m sorry, but it’s not your place.”
Benny didn’t know much, but the girl in front seemed to be the daughter of a fairly high-ranking family. Because there was a bit of softness in the voice of the woman who was casually stepping on him.
However, what the woman who was stepping on him was not wrong. Benny crouched down and prepared for further violence.
“No. It’s related.”
“What?”
“This child will become a servant of our family from today.”
User. At those words, Benny looked at the girl standing in front of him. The girl turned her head and held out her hand to Benny.
“Nice to meet you! My name is Sonia Bismuth. Why don’t we go home?”
***
“Well, I don’t understand! If you are a lady from the Bismuth family, you can hire employees who are better educated and better at their jobs than me, right?”
After Sonia protected Benny, things went smoothly.
We treated injuries here and there, took him to the orphanage he belonged to, and succeeded in getting him out by pointing out poor management.
Benny felt the greatest sense of liberation and joy in his life. Above all, I was very happy to have a job. He was prepared to do any difficult work and was hired at the Bismuth family mansion.
However, Sonia appointed Benny as her personal servant. The only work I could do was provide company and travel around.
shaking. Sonia placed her hand on Benny’s shoulder, who was shaking as if he was frightened.
“Benny?”
“Yes, yes?!”
“Why are you so scared?”
“······!”
Soon, Benny shed tears and shouted in an excited voice.
“···You saved me for no reason, right?”
“Why is that? Isn’t that okay?”
Tiing-! Benny felt like someone had hit him on the head with a hammer.
For Benny, everything in the world worked in a calculated manner. I have never seen a person with pure good intentions in my life.
Sonia hugged Benny, who was as hard as stone.
“Benny, you have no reason to be saved, but you are scared of being saved.”
“···Yes, yes! If she abandons me- I can’t hold on any longer. I can’t go back to the same life as before-”
“Can I tell you a story about when I was young?”
After interrupting Benny, Sonia released her arms and took out a handkerchief and rubbed the area around Benny’s eyes.
“When I was young, something very dangerous happened. I walked into an extremely dangerous place on my own. In fact, it was no exaggeration to say that I almost died at that time.”
“Really?!”
“That’s right? Even though there was a child who tried to stop me from going to that dangerous place!”
“Uh, why?”
“Ahaha, I really didn’t know anything about the world at that time.”
Sonia looked into space for a moment with longing eyes and then opened her mouth again.
“But, that kid saved me. The kid who blocked me.”
“Well, I see.”
In his heart, Benny was grateful to the child he didn’t know who he was. If it weren’t for that child, it was obvious that he wouldn’t be able to live like this now.
“Yes. In this situation, did that child have a reason to save me?”
does not exist. Benny thought so. It may be a blasphemous thought, but it was the young lady who ignored the warning and moved on.
Sonia, who noticed the sign, smiled softly and stroked Benny’s head.
“You probably thought there was no reason. Right?”
“···Yes.”
“But that kid saved me. And I took that child in as a servant.”
“Then what about that child…”
“Due to some circumstances, I am currently away for a while. Even after I let that child go, I often looked back on the past”
Sonia gently held Benny’s head in both hands and looked him in the eyes.
“But, the only thing that remains in my head is the memory of what I couldn’t do. I should have done better. I should have stuck with you more often. Such regrets and regrets.”
“···Is that so?”
“Yes. So, in order to never have those regrets again, I will cherish you.”
“···Is that child coming back?”
“Yes. I promised. Let’s meet again.”
Benny was relieved to hear the story of the past, but at the same time, he felt another sense of crisis.
Even if the child comes back, will she treat me the same way?
Sonia swept Benny’s hand as if she couldn’t even read his expression.
“Just as you became a precious person to me, I wish I could become a precious person to you.”
Nod. Benny stiffened for a moment, then nodded strongly.
From that day on, Benny devoted himself to practicing magic. Fortunately, Benny had talent, and the Bismuth family had enough money to invest, including calling in an instructor.
After much effort, Benny eventually succeeded in entering the academy together with Sonia.
“Good, Benny! It went really well!”
“···Yes. Miss.”
Sonia was happy, holding Benny’s hand and jumping around. It was a different behavior from his usual dignified appearance.
Benny was internally happy at that sight, but he couldn’t smile sincerely because he knew the reason for that joy.
“I can finally meet that child again!”
The young lady said. He promised to reunite with ‘the child’ who saved him at Geoff Academy.
Seeing the girl so happy, Benny muttered to himself.
‘I will never, ever be abandoned…!”
***
“Heo-eok-!”
Benny woke up with heavy breathing. I was weak from tension and my whole body was covered in sweat.
“···again.”
I had a nightmare that I had been having ever since I entered the academy.
For Benny, that dream was crueler than anything else.
-Benny, I’m sorry. I can’t be with you anymore.
-Oh, lady…?
-Okay then, that’s enough. I’ll just leave because I’m sorry. Please don’t follow me. Because this is my last mercy.
The content of the dream was always the same. A dream in which ‘that child’ returns and takes over the young lady’s side, while he himself is abandoned.
“Heo-eok, Heo-eok-.”
It was such a terrible dream. Perhaps because it was after hearing the young lady’s scolding, Benny suffered greater mental fatigue.
“Ugh-”
Benny woke up and wanted to clean himself. I raised my head from where it was lying down. Coincidentally, Revan, who had been on watch, was sitting there, leaning against a stone. And that moment.
“···Huh?”
Revan, who Benny was looking at, took out a necklace he had never seen before and held it in his hand.
Revan rolled the necklace around in his hands, and sometimes placed it on his forehead. But to Benny, those actions were not important.
‘That’s definitely-”
A red color that shines brilliantly in the moonlight. That color is definitely-
“···Ahaha!”
Benny was in ecstasy. Because I knew why Revan was so kind to the young lady.
‘In the end, you were just like other flies…!’
When Benny saw that, he let go of the worries and guilt he had always had. Then I covered myself with the blanket and closed my eyes again.
‘As expected, young lady, you can’t do it without me…!’
So Benny fell asleep again. It was a more comfortable sleep than before.
***
“···No matter how I look at it, it looks fine.”
“Oh, it hurts? Can you at least use healing magic?!”
I’m sure I fell asleep in a good mood. When I woke up again, Benny’s new shit began.
Werner fired a rapid-fire comment at Revan for not waking him up while on watch.
‘Can not help it.’
However, in Levan’s opinion, it was clear that if Werner, who was already weak physically, had to stand guard, his condition would suffer greatly. So Revan set up a watch on his own. Reminiscing about the past in the arena.
And Benny’s face when he woke up looked much more lively than the day before.
“Are you even a doctor? It’s not like that!”
“······.”
The problem is that he started acting confidently with a more alive face than before. In Revan’s opinion, it was definitely a trick, but he couldn’t say anything about it. Because he is not a doctor and cannot use healing magic.
“Well, Benny is not the kind of kid who would lie about something like this. Actually, we moved forward incredibly fast, right? So, how about slowing down a little bit…?”
“···Ha.”
Sonia, who seemed to be taking a hard line against Benny, also tried to dissuade Revan this time.
“···Are you really hurt?’
“Yes, yes?!”
“We advanced without a single battle. You didn’t trip or fall, and your legs weren’t swollen either.”
“He, he-.”
However, what was unexpected was that Werner strongly questioned Benny. Benny stuttered as the attack came from an unexpected place.
But in the end, we had no choice but to slow down and move forward. It was because of Sonia’s dissuasion and Benny’s stubbornness.
“···Ha.”
Since I had suffered so much, I was greedy for good grades as well. It was definitely a pace that could break the best record. Revan moved forward, annoyed.
***
And three days later, we arrived near our destination. The seemingly infinite forest ended and light burst through the trees in front.
“It’s in front of here on the map.”
The pace was slowed down due to Benny’s injury (which no matter how you looked at it, it seemed like a faking illness). So we reached our destination around noon on the 5th day.
“······.”
It may have been an easier advance compared to other groups, but the group members still all looked tired.
“Not much time left! Let’s go quickly!”
Sonia somehow managed to speak brightly, perhaps feeling sorry for the delay due to the injury of her employee, Benny.
“Well, you’ll still be able to get the Grade A flag! For the record, almost all of the students who arrived by the 5th were in the top 10!”
The highest record was 4 days, but the average record was not. Werner, who was looking very tired from that fact, gained strength and walked forward.
“Yeah, right. A! If it’s A, I’m satisfied with that.”
Not long after, we passed the last tree and were able to face the shining sunlight.
In the center of the forest, a moderate hill rose in the middle of a flat area with no trees planted. There were flags with different colors for each grade on the hill.
“···After.”
And in the middle of the hill there was a passenger. It was Arhan Outlaws, the student council president.
“Tsk.”
Revan clicked his tongue briefly. On the other hand, Werner next to him seemed happy in his own way.
“There are only 4 people in front! Then we…”
“Yes, it is A rank.”
Well, it wasn’t that bad. As long as you got to A rank, the rank was for self-satisfaction and for showing off.
Revan didn’t like the delay when he could have finished it faster, but he slowly walked forward.
OK,
-Wow!
“···I thought it was over.”
Two of Arhan’s team members located halfway up the hill raised their mana.
“Well, can’t we all just go in together?”
Revan, who saw this, shouted at the opponents in a sarcastic voice.
“···Ma, that’s right! We can just all go in together! There are 8 of us, so we can all get an A!”
Werner next to him also shouted to Arhan in an earnest voice. The moment Sonia next to me opened her mouth and was about to shout something, she turned her head to the side.
“···Benny?”
Benny walked forward toward the hill without much agitation.
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