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Let me introduce myself, my name is Sebastian the honorific given by Marquess Rommel is Sebastian Vi De Rommel. As one of the Butlers who supervised the Marquess from childhood until now, I have become his trusted right hand in making ordinary decisions or important decisions that are confidential.

In my devotion and loyalty, I can guarantee that my life is only intended to serve the Marquess Rommel family until the end of my life. I have always watched over him from birth to his current condition.

Yes, this is a condition in which Marquess Rommel will have a hard time because his daughter has just caused an extraordinary commotion at the royal family party.

The daughter I mean is Lily Schwartz De Rommel. A girl born from Marquess Rommel’s first love to a rude girl who always bullied him while he was a student at the Aurora Royal Academy. It is a love story of a pair of teenagers who ended up vowing to marry on the sacred altar of the Aurora Goddess Temple.

However, the sweet marriage ended in a disaster that Marquess Rommel could not prevent after his first love became pregnant and tried to give birth to Lily-sama in a sick condition due to a deadly plague. The plague that was like a curse shook the Aurora Kingdom before a cure was found but it was too late, Lily’s mother died after giving birth to Lily within a few weeks after her body condition worsened with the disease that became a major epidemic.

With extraordinary anger, Marquess Rommel investigated the source of the deadly plague and realized that the plague that spread came from one of the dark wizards who was practicing forbidden magic with human lives as sacrifices.

In addition to Lily’s mother, Amagi who was previously married to another man also experienced the same thing in giving birth to her twin daughters and managed to survive until today. However, that was not enough to save her husband who fell into a serious illness caused by the plague.

Marquess Rommel who managed to identify the source of the plague that came from a dark wizards looking for sacrifices to practice forbidden magic became the most feared figure as a hunting wolf because of the death of his beloved wife.

Coincidentally, Lily’s mother and Amagi were close friends who shared jokes and laughter. Lily’s mother had given her last will to Marquess Rommel when she died by predicting the death of Amagi’s husband so the two circumstances were perfect for Marquess Rommel and Amagi to marry following the will given by Lily’s mother.

That was why Marquess Rommel and Amagi married for the second time to fulfill Lily’s mother’s will. It made me wonder because Lily-sama would have twin sisters.

The marriage that took place to fulfill the request of Lily’s late mother went on by consuming all the attention that was diverted to taking care of Lily-sama for several years.

When she was five years old, something happened to Lily-sama and changed the situation to become like this.

It started with an incident at a noble party caused by the Crown Prince of the Kingdom by attacked Lily-sama with a bottle of wine until she fainted.

From that small incident, it continued to big incidents such as forest monster attacks to duels that took place in the adventurer’s building.

I feel that the small incident that happened at the noble party was the beginning for Lily-sama to gain great power like Lily’s mother did.

However, I don’t know if this is a blessing or a curse because Lily-sama seems to be able to attract girls to be interested in her.

For example, like the maid girl who is sitting nervously in front of me.

"Mio, do you feel nervous when leaving the Aurora Kingdom?" I said while wiping my head with a handkerchief to wipe away the sweat. My age is no longer young has given me the experience to realize the anxiety of a young girl who seems to be threatened by her love path.

I can see clearly that the maid girl in front of me is anxious because her Master, Lily-sama, has been approached by another girl who threatens her love position.

I don’t care about this because Alice-sama and Alyssa-sama have a greater chance of continuing the bloodline to marry a man than Lily-sama who has experienced the cruelty of political marriage which makes her traumatized by men.

Although this is my instinct as a Butler who understands a person’s hidden feelings, I can almost be sure that Lily-sama has been traumatized by men and acts like a fierce cat who always keeps her distance when a man approaches her. That was proven when the Queen of the Aurora Kingdom visited personally with the Crown Prince of the Kingdom and something happened during that private visit.

Lily-sama with her new friends in the form of "women" and Saintesses, are officially close and Lily-sama has been openly disgusted by the presence of men of the same age as her. The awkward relationship between Lily-sama and Marquess Rommel has also improved and my relationship with Lily-sama is also fine, so I can conclude that men of the same age as Lily-sama have become the source of her trauma.

"I’m fine, Sebastian," Mio replied while biting her finger hard. Mio looked like a girl who was trying to do something but was hindered by her status as a Maid.

The words that did not match her behavior were very similar to a young girl who did not want her pure love to be shared by other girls.

I accidentally laughed after seeing her anxious about her Master being fought over by fellow girls.

"You must be anxious after Lily-sama got another girl?" I said to dig deeper into Mio’s anxiety.

"Ah! N-No! I’m not anxious at all about Lily-sama who managed to get to know another girl on my eyes!" Mio shouted with her body movements rejecting my words.

I had heard a brief report about Lily-sama who managed to make new friends with the Princess of the Kingdom who had not yet to debut in the noble social circle and the little girl who became the new Saintess at the Aurora Goddess Shrine.

"Ah, the beauty of youth," I commented while watching Mio’s anxious body movements.

"N-No! No! I’m not anxious!" Mio continued to deny herself that she wasn’t anxious when her beloved Master got another girl who threatened her position of love.

"It’s okay, just be honest with me. Who knows, I might be able to give you some advice that might bring you closer to Lily-sama personally and intimately," I said to encourage Mio even deeper as a girl who fell in love with another woman.

"Uuhh… It’s not like that, Sebastian!" Mio further denied that she was secretly feeling restless and jealous when Lily-sama got another female friend.

"Why are we talking about this anyway?" Mio seemed to want to change the topic.

"Mio, did you know that this vacation trip will take long until Lily-sama turns twelve before entering the Aurora Royal Academy?"

"Eh? This vacation trip will take that long?" Mio seemed surprised after hearing this.

"Oh, please keep this a secret from everyone because the purpose of this vacation is Marquess Rommel’s evasive maneuver tactic to get away from the political hustle and bustle of the Aurora Kingdom. By disappearing from the political frontline and the support of Lily-sama who spreads such a joke-filled curse chant. Isn’t this going to be a long vacation before Lily-sama enters the Aurora Royal Academy?" I said at full-length to Mio.

"I-I didn’t know that this vacation would be so long until Lily-sama turns fifteen."

"Yes, it would probably be more interesting considering that Alice-sama and Alyssa-sama must have the desire to enter the Aurora Royal Academy together with their beloved older sister."

"Uuuhh… that makes me have to work hard to be with Lily-sama throughout this long vacation."

"And I have to work hard to take care of the noble proxies who are tied to the Marquess Rommel family business. If you don’t mind, could you please supervise Lily-sama, Alice-sama, and Alyssa-sama so as not to create a situation that will cause our family to be tracked by others?"

"I don’t know what to do to not attract attention after my own Master chased a monster like that to the point of drawing so many eyes on her. Do I have the power to make my own Master not attract attention, especially with her cute face?" Mio replied with a look on her face filled with a beautiful smile.

"I don’t blame you if you can’t. But it’s true, Lily-sama’s smile is indeed cute. I was reminded of my granddaughter when I saw Lily-sama smiling cutely. I was reminded of the recording of Lily-sama fighting the arrogant adventurer in the adventurer’s building. That cute smile when fighting the adventurer made my body shiver with admiration."

"Sebastian, you’re not thinking of getting closer to Lily-sama than me who is her maid, are you?" For some reason, Mio looked at me with a suspicious gaze when talking about Lily-sama who was smiling cutely.

"What are you talking about, Mio? Of course, you want to get closer to Lily-sama just like a grandfather who wants to get closer to his granddaughter. I can’t help but be captivated by Lily-sama’s cute smile. Aren’t you the same?"

"Uhh… I can’t deny that."

Throughout this long carriage ride, we moved through the outermost regions of the Aurora Kingdom that were free from political entanglement and tried to hide ourselves with the alibi of a family vacation with no definite return date.

Although this may seem very childish, the technique of avoiding and disappearing that Marquess Rommel used would make the Aurora Kingdom’s government waver to the point of almost ending in chaos.