「Attack!」

    While three soldiers were about to attack, I silently unsheathed Eleanor .

    I chopped one’s head, slashed one diagonally, and severed one from his waist .

    I instantly killed the three soldiers .

    After that, I faced the man who looks like their captain and stared at him .

    I waited for a moment . I waited for the goal I had for coming here .

    「Please wait, you are Marquis Yuuki right? We areーー」

    「I know」

    Their side called my name knowing my identity and I answered .

    The condition is fulfilled with this, so I chopped the man from top to bottom .

    Half of his body immediately collapsed and half stood for a while, then his eye turned then collapsed .

    Soon after, the soldiers ran away .

    『Otou-san, is it okay not going after them?』

    「It’s alright . After all, my goal is reached with this」

    『Is that so?』

    『Umu . A person who is favored by Selene intervened while knowing the situation . We need those soldiers who have escaped will become the messenger to spread that fact』

    『That’s sounds difficult?』

    『Hikari is fine just like that . You only need to think how to grow as a Demon Sword first . Other things would just follow up later on』

    『Un!』

    『By the way, the last attack . The reason why he was chopped from top to bottomーー』

    Hikari who replied innocently and Eleanor who is teaching her daughter the way of the Demon Sword .

    They’re different from an ordinary mother and daughter, but that’s the good thing about it .

    ☆

    I let Duke Melina’s servants out of the cages .

    There were some of them who looked ill, so I cured them using my white magic ball .

    After that, as the person who saved them, almost all of them started to look at me in a favorable light .

    「We thank you」

    After a while, the oldest person among the servants, a man with dignity said that to me .

    People who have lived for a certain extent would have their behavior in their daily lives fixed .

    Those from royal families would still look like someone from the royal family even if they wore a commoner’s clothes .

    This man, I could tell easily that he has the demeanor of a “butler” with one look .

    「We have been saved all thanks to you」

    「Don’t mind it . I only did what I was asked to do」

    Just like the soldiers from earlier, I need these people to spread that fact as well, so I said that .

    「……Yes」

    He was really a butler, he immediately understood what I wanted to say but didn’t say out loud . He had that kind of face .

    I handed the man a bag full of silver coins .

    Paper notes are only used in Mercouri, so money would be heavy .

    「This is?」

    「For your travel expenses . Use that to return to your master」

    「……」

    「What’s the matter?」

    I asked the man who made a difficult face .

    No, it was not only that man . Looking closely, even the other servants, most of them had a complicated face .

    「Is it alright for us to return to the Duke His Excellency」

    「You understand why I came to intervene like this right?」

    「Yes」

    The man answered promptly . Seeing him answer instantly, I don’t think that he doesn’t understand the situation wrongly .

    Then why?

    「The Duke His Excellency is one who is defeated, is there a future waiting for us if we follow the Duke?」

    「……」

    『Kukuku』

    Eleanor laughed . Her tone sounded like she found it so funny .

    「Marquis Yuuki, Your Highness, can you not save us?」

    When the butler said that, everyone looked at me at once .

    In other words, is it that?

    They want to switch over from Melina to me huh?

    ☆

    I used my Warp Feather to return to my mansion .

    I appeared in the living room and encountered Miu .

    「W-Welcome back, Master」

    「I’m back, Miu……what’s the matter?」

    Miu who was staring at me timidly looked around me .

    She acts as if she was searching for something .

    「Master……are you by yourself?」

    Looking up to me, Miu……she timidly asked while she checked my expression .

    「Yeah, I’m by myself」

    「Uhm, uhh……」

    Miu was unusually fidgeting and seemed like she wanted to ask more, but .

    She also looks like she wants to ask but could not say it out loud . Seeing that Miu, I said,

    「This mansion’s maid is Miu alone」

    「ーーYes!」

    When I told her what she wanted to know the most, she smiled just like a flower had bloomed .

    Before I went to rescue, I returned to the mansion once to take Hikari with me . At that time, I told Miu what I was going to do .

    And because of that, she was probably curious if I was going to bring in a new maid .

    「Miu」

    「Yes」

    「I want to MofuMofu」

    「Understood . I’ll come immediately」

    Miu said and left the living room . I was talking to a Miu puppet and it looks like the original would take her place for the sake of MofuMofu .

    I sat on the sofa and waited for Miu .

    『Ne?, Otou-san』

    「n?」

    『Why didn’t you bring those people?』

    Hikari asked a natural question .

    That’s right, I didn’t bring anyone back .

    I only gave them money for traveling expenses and returned .

    The reason why I didn’t take anyone backーーthe reason why I didn’t made them my servant .

    It’s because I didn’t have a need for anyone who wants to betray their master during troubled times .

    They looked strangely expectant because I cured the ill girl, but I am not that kind of person .

    Ahh, well, this is more simple .

    「It’s because there wasn’t a good woman among them」

    『I see!』

    Hikari was convinced .

    That’s right . There wasn’t any good woman among them .

    Among those people who would betray their master, there was no way that there would be a good woman .

    『Kukuku, that’s really like you』

    「Is it bad?」

    『Nope?』

    Eleanor said playfully .

    『That is what you are』

    She said sounding really playful .