Kiraware Yūsha ni Tensei Shitanode Aisare Yūsha o Mezashimasu!

[Hated Hero, Learning His Companion’s Unexpected Identity]

To wash off my fatigue and sweat, I went to the public bath.

“Sure enough, there’s no one here like Marina said.”

The rooms for nobles, including mine, had their own baths. But commoners like Raul used this public bath.

They said it was very crowded during peak hours, but there was no one using it at this time. Looked like I’d be able to relax without worry.

“Okay, let’s get undressed right awa—huh?”

As I was moving my eyes, I suddenly found a basket full of clothes. Apparently someone was already here before me. Though upon closer look, the clothes seemed kind of familiar.

“Aren’t these… Jarvis’s?”

They were Jarvis’s clothes, whom I was fighting alongside just earlier.

It appeared that he had also come to use the public bath to wash off his sweat after the battle.

In the original work, Jarvis committed uncountable evil deeds as the right-hand man of the Hero Barrett. But I’d come to believe that that was the result of him getting corrupted by the evil incarnate that was the original Barrett. And following Barrett’s downfall, he got imprisoned for the rest of his life.

…That reminded me, he was disowned by his family in the later half of the original storyline.

But it was inevitable.

According to the setting, Jarvis’s family—the Lekrusts was a weak noble family.

When he was a model student with excellent grades, he was the family’s pride and joy whom it could boast to others—but as his infamy slowly began to spread, the head of the House of Lekrust, which couldn’t be said to be a strong position, gradually came to feel estranged from his son.

Jarvis’s life might do a 180 after he met (former)Barrett in the novel, but I wouldn’t lead him down to such a miserable future.

Sooner or later, I would have to face mighty foes.

At that time, Jarvis’s power would be indispensable.

With that in consideration—

“—Yup. I’ll go join him.”

Bathing naked together would definitely prove beneficial to deepen our friendship.

I took off my clothes, put them in the basket I’d brought, and entered the bath. The bath was much larger than I had imagined, and it had a comfortable atmosphere. The rising steam limited my vision, so it should actually be wider than what I could see.

As I wandered around looking for Jarvis, I heard the sound of water being poured. I walked towards it, and soon I found Jarvis sitting on a small bathroom chair, filling a wooden bucket with hot water, and pouring it on his body.

“Yo, Jarvis. What a coincidence.”

When I called out to him, Jarvis turned around.

At that point, I instantly froze.

Each and every cell that circulated throughout my body—or should I say, my life itself, felt like it was going to stop from shock.

“B-Barrett?!”

Jarvis squatted down in a panic… but I saw.

A chest that was bulging in a way unnatural for boys.

A lower half that lacked the thing that boys should have.

“Huh? Huh? Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh?!?!?!?!?!”

My confusion eventually gave way to incredulity.

No way.

This was impossible.

No, given his face, it wouldn’t be weird if it was the case.

Even so, why?

For what reason?

All kinds of thoughts jumbled up in my mind, making me unable to calm down, but there was one thing I could say for sure.

Jarvis… was a girl.

“W-why—”

Jarvis suddenly stood up and grabbed my shaking shoulders. Then, with tears in her eyes, she pleaded, “I’m begging you! Please, please don’t tell anyone that I’m a girl! I’ll do anything you tell me to!”

“A-anythin—huh?”

That was when I reached the answer.

Why did Jarvis, who was an honor student, fall so low that he became Barrett’s right-hand man?

——It must be because he was threatened.

There may be complicated circumstances behind it, but Jarvis seemed to be in a situation where he had to hide the fact that he was a girl and live as a boy.

This backstory wasn’t revealed in the original storyline, but with this secret in (former)Barrett’s grasp, there was no way Jarvis could disobey him.

And we were talking about the lustful (former)Barrett here.

He wouldn’t have just stopped at forcefully dragging Jarvis down the path of evil, he must have also taken advantage Jarvis’s inability to resist to—no, no, that was too far jumping to conclusions.

Anyway, I wanted time to calm myself down.

I immediately got out of the bath, changed my clothes in a hurry, and ran back to my room――but on the way, I happened to run into Tayte.

“Ah, Barrett♪.” Tayte happily came up to me.

Right after, Jarvis’s naked body surfaced in my mind.

“…Tayte’s bigger, I think.”

“Huh? Pardon?”

“! W-what the hell am I thinking!”

Remembering the naked body of a girl other than Tayte, I ended up comparing their certain parts. Feeling guilty, I banged my head against the nearest pillar.

“B-Barret?!”

Tayte’s scream didn’t enter my ears, and I kept on headbanging the pillar.

That I was stopped by Priim, who had rushed over along with Marina and Rebecca while shouting, “Young Master Barrett has lost his mind-meow!”