Kiraware Yūsha ni Tensei Shitanode Aisare Yūsha o Mezashimasu!

[A Visitor]

We’d returned to the villa.

Marina, Priim, and Rebecca had gone on to join the other maids to help prepare the party. Of course, Eureka had followed them.

I’d actually wanted to ask her about her relationship with Raul, but… well, she’d had work to prioritize. We’d be staying in the villa for quite a while anyway, and she’d be accompanying Tayte to the academy as her personal maid. There were plenty of opportunities to ask her later.

However, considering that she was in the hero party as a sorcerer, I wondered if later when she went to the academy, someone would see her talent for magic and make her officially enroll in the academy as a student.

Hmm… who knows.

The web novel practically tells nothing regarding Eureka’s past. I got no idea what’s going to happen to her going forward.

I groaned as I made several hypotheses about Eureka and Raul’s relationship in my room.

By the way, Tayte wasn’t around.

She’d gone on to make preparations for the party.

But of course, I didn’t mean preparing food or setting up the venue.

She was dressing up for tonight.

Unlike the academy ball, the party tonight would apparently be a buffet-style party, in which there would be little movement involved. Accordingly, she’d picked a different style of dress.

She’d said that she was concerned with the design of the dress, but… honestly, regardless of what kind of dress Tayte wore, the dress would only serve as an add-on to her cuteness.

As I was thinking about these things, carriages carrying the invited nobles were starting to line up around the villa.

Night approached, it gradually got dark, and the lighting fixtures embedded with lumenstones lit up and illuminated the surroundings.

By the way, this villa also had a garden, though it wasn’t as big as the one in Tayte’s mansion.

Mm.

Maybe I should look around the garden with Tayte tomorrow. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to walk around the area again or work together on our summer homework after that.

As I was making plans for tomorrow, I heard a knock on the door.

“? I wonder who it is… Marina and the others should be at the venue.”

I opened the door, and there I found an unexpected person waiting for me.

“Hey there, Barrett.”

“…Huh? Jarvis?”

It was Jarvis, all dressed up for some reason.

“W-what brings you here?”

“Do you really need to ask? The party, of course. My family has also received an official invitation from the Albers House, you know?”

Oh, so she came over for the party.

Or rather, why did it not occur to me that the Lekrusts would get invited?

“If that’s the case, are you going to wear a dress to the party as well?”

“A dress?”

“Ah—”

Crap.

I blurted that out without thinking, but only Tayte and I knew that Jarvis was actually a girl. Since she was pretending to be a boy, there was no way she could wear a dress.

“I-I’m sorry. That was insensitive of me…”

“No offense taken, don’t worry about it,” Jarvis responded calmly.

While she had androgynous features, her smart demeanor made her come across as a gentleman.

“…That said, something does pique my curiosity a little.”

“Huh? What does?”

“You just asked if I were going to wear a dress. Which means you were imagining me in a dress in your mind—may I interpret it that way?”

“T-that’s, well…”

Certainly, when I mentioned the dress earlier, I imagined Jarvis in a dress with perfect makeup.

“I see. And? What kind of dress did I in your mind wear?”

“? Why would you ask tha—”

“No particular reason. I’m just asking out of personal interest. Yes, I’m a girl, but as you already know, I live my life as a boy. I pay close attention to my everyday manner and behavior. Due to that, the others haven’t noticed, but you have, through pure coincidence. However, you don’t make fun of me or threaten me, and instead, together with Tayte, your fiancée, help me in keeping my secret. For this, I’m really grateful. Oh dear, I have digressed from our main topic. Though I said personal interest, it is not because I have a desire to pursue femininity and want to be seen or complimented as cute by someone else. Not at all. I have every intention of living as a boy, but if I have made you imagine me dressing like a girl—in spite of the fact that you know I am actually a girl—that means I am still acting femininely in some parts in my daily life, hence I asked. Please keep in mind that I did not at all ask because I’d like to know your preferences and secretly tailor a dress according to them and show you myself in the dress later. In the first place, I’m perfectly aware that you already have someone you love, that is Tayte, your fiancée. I know, however, that having a mistress or two is a common practice among the nobility, but please don’t carelessly see me as a potential mistress and—”

“…………”

Jarvis spoke very, very quickly.

W-well, glad she was full of energy.

In the end, only after nearly thirty minutes had passed did Jarvis finish speaking.