I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince

Chapter 118

After finishing our meals at the cafeteria, Ethan and I headed to the Swordsmanship Department Building for our scheduled afternoon class.

Today’s afternoon lecture class, entitled Basics of Magic Swordsmanship, was one of the few common subjects that students from both the Swordsmanship Department and Magic Department could take together, and both Ethan and I had registered for this class.

As an exclusive maid, I thought it would be advantageous to be ready whenever Ethan needed my help as much as possible, so I planned to take as many of these common subjects as I could in the future.

Of course, if Ethan wasn’t interested in this class, the premise of taking the same class would have been impossible, but as a scion of the Blackwood family, Ethan was in a position where he needed to learn magic swordsmanship more than anyone else.

You could say our interests aligned to some extent, as I needed to create as many points of contact with Ethan as possible.

“Since it’s our first time taking a class together, I feel a bit nervous.”

“Is that so?”

“Aren’t you nervous, Lilith?”

“As Young Master Ethan’s exclusive maid, I’ve already observed your swordsmanship lessons several times, so I didn’t exactly think this was our first time taking a class together.”@@e to think of it, I suppose you could see it that way.”

No matter how much of a son-loving fool he was, in the end, Harold was fundamentally a Sword Master and a user of magic swordsmanship. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

Even for someone like me, with a shallow knowledge of swordsmanship, listening to Harold’s lectures alongside Ethan naturally led to some of the things they were talking about sticking in my mind.

Thinking about the past, this class wasn’t exactly our first class together. If I had to give it meaning, it would be the first class we’re actually taking together, but...

With these thoughts, as we moved our steps to the Indoor Dueling Arena in the Swordsmanship Department Building, several students were already gathered there and waited for the professor of the Basics of Magic Swordsmanship subject.

As soon as Ethan, who had some recognition as the second-place student in the sword department, appeared, people started greeting him one by one.

“Hello, Young Master Blackwood.”

“Yes. Thank you for the greeting.”

“Are you taking this class too, Young Master Blackwood?”

“The Blackwood family has used magic swordsmanship, a combination of swordsmanship and magic, for generations, so it’s only natural.”

...Somehow, I’m suddenly getting angry again.

I’m already being treated as a person of concern in the Magic Department and can’t make proper friends, so why does Ethan have a never-ending crowd of followers wherever he goes?

Moreover, the high ratio of women among those approaching him was strangely unpleasant.

“Your fiancée is participating with you today!”

“Fiancée...? Ah, um. Y-yes...”

“You said your fiancée was from the Magic Department, right? Then did your fiancée learn swordsmanship separately from you, perhaps, Young Master Blackwood?”

“I didn’t teach her, Lilith was good with daggers from the beginning.”

...Whether I was originally good with daggers or not isn’t important right now.

Those stupid girls are misunderstanding me as your fiancée, so why are you vaguely evading instead of denying it?

I wanted to jump into the conversation right away and shout that I’m not his fiancée or anything like that, but interrupting him would only make the atmosphere weird.

Above all, arbitrarily intervening and speaking up while my master was conversing wasn’t befitting of an exclusive maid, so I refrained.

If it were two to three years ago when I was forcibly taking on the role of his exclusive maid, it might have been different, but now I had volunteered to become Ethan’s exclusive maid of my own accord, so I felt it was my duty to do it properly to the end since I had decided to do it.

I was just waiting for the professor to appear while listening to the conversation between Ethan and the other students.

...But suddenly, the appearance of a nuclear bomb-level figure momentarily stopped my thoughts.

“Hey, Blackwood. We meet again.”

“......Hmph.”

My thoughts were interrupted by the appearance of G. *1, the protagonist of Luminor Academy and someone who is currently presumed to be a fellow transmigrator.

“As expected, you’re taking this class too, Blackwood. Then again, the Blackwood family would naturally have expertise in magic swordsmanship...”

“...Aren’t you approaching me too familiarly? I don’t remember becoming this close with you.”

“We’ve met at the entrance ceremony. And we’re also the first and second-place students in the sword department. Isn’t that enough to be acquaintances, at least?”

“If that’s enough to call someone an acquaintance, then you must be acquainted with Princess Seraphine, too. The only difference between you two is the difference between the overall top student and a top student of a department.” [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

“But it’s true that I want to know more about you, regardless of Lilith, so if you ever feel like talking, let me know anytime. If it makes you uncomfortable, I won’t bring Serista and Selena along.”

“......”

“Well then, I’ll be going.”

With those words, the protagonist moved to a spot a bit further away.

I wondered where he was going, but this time, he immediately approached Natalie and started a conversation.

He really is quite busy running around. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

Well, Natalie is worth building a relationship with since she’s convenient to have in both the early and late games.

Since he didn’t interfere with Thomas’s enrollment and left him alone, fully clearing the game is probably impossible, but if his goal is just a safe clear with a proper strategy, it’s not a problematic play.

Seeing this aspect, I couldn’t help but think that perhaps this Gyeongmwajogyegigwat was seriously trying to complete the game.

As I quietly followed him with my gaze, I started to feel a somewhat sharp gaze from the seat next to me.

“...Do you have something you want to say, Young Master Ethan?”

“Does that man bother you, Lilith?”

“...I was just trying to remember him since he seems to be someone you don’t like very much, Young Master Ethan.”

“I see. Remember him well, and if he ever tries to talk to you, don’t even bother responding.”

“......Yes.”

In truth, it was a difficult order to accept easily as someone who also possessed a character like him, but I just nodded for now.

As Ethan had expressed hostile feelings towards G., I, as his exclusive maid, had to respect that choice. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

Thinking that there would probably be opportunities to exchange opinions with a fellow possessed person in other ways, I withdrew my gaze, and at that moment, the bell signaling the start of the afternoon academy lecture rang.

About one minute after the bell rang, a man walked into the dueling arena.

A new professor entered that neither I nor Ethan had expected at all.

“Huh...?”

“No way, that man is...”

“The legendary Sword Master...”

At the appearance of this unexpected famous person, the dueling arena instantly began to stir.

Even I and Ethan, who knew the identity of the person who appeared better than anyone, were overwhelmed with bewilderment as soon as we saw him.

“Lilith.”

“Yes, young master.”

“...Did you ever hear about this separately from Father?”

“...No. I’m learning about this for the first time, too.”

I never thought we’d meet again in this way.

I had been relieved thinking we wouldn’t meet for a while since the stage had moved to the academy.

This son-loving fool following Ethan all the way here...

This was a situation I had never seen, even in the game.

“Greetings, everyone.”

“””......”””

“My name is Harold Richard Blackwood. Some of you may already know this.”

“””......”””

“From today, I will be in charge of the ‘Basics of Magic Swordsmanship’ lecture class, so I look forward to working with all of you.”

Oh, really...

Why is he following us all the way here?