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Lady Violet has been acting strange these past few days.
I don’t know how to put it, but she’s behaving oddly. At first, I thought she was restless because of the Azalea academy students, — but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
“L-lord Clo, the weather is nice today too.”
“Indeed, on rainy days like this, you start to want to read a different genre than usual.”
“Eh… ah, it’s raining today…”
“Pardon?”
Saying so, Lady Violet started to worry for some reason. Was it simply my imagination that she looked as if she was only thinking about today’s weather being sunny?
Strange.
“Where to, milady? If you are going out, I will prepare rain gear for you.”
“It’s okay, Gray. There’s no need.”
“Is that so? — Please wait, why are you going outside dressed like that?”
“Please let me go, Gray. I’ve heard that white clothes work the best for the ‘see-through look’. Let me go outside.”
“I don’t really understand, but I think that you might be mistaken.”
I heard that something like this happened with Gray. See-through look… I wonder what she means? I don’t really get it, but… I’m sure it’s not what I think it is. It’s not something people would go out of their way to do, so it must mean something else.
Strange.
“W-wow~ it’s so hot, Lord Clo.”
“I think the weather is quite cool today… why are you wearing light summer clothes?”
“Erm, I’ve heard that men enjoy this look more…”
“? You will catch cold. Oh, that’s right. Would you mind wearing your winter coat next time? I’ll make some adjustments to it.”
“O-oh. I see…. Fuh.”
“Why would you unbutton one button at this timing?”
“… Because it’s hot.”
Pop, Lady Violet unbuttoned the button on her chest. However, she started shivering from the cold, so I gave her the closest thing nearby to wear. After saying thank you, I feel like I heard her say… ‘This isn’t so bad either’ under her breath.
… Strange.
“Why are you wearing a school uniform, Lady Violet?”
“When I saw my old classmates, I started feeling nostalgic. I tried wearing it for a bit… what do you think?”
“I thought this before too, but it suits you well. It makes me wish we went to the same school.”
“I see…. Fufu, I see.”
“Still, your skirt is short, isn’t it? I feel like it was longer before…”
“Really? But, I’m sorry. I’ve heard that 40cm above the knee is preferable, but as expected, it was too embarrassing… I could only shorten it to this much.”
“Only perverts wear skirts 40cm above their knees. It’s off putting.”
“ What…?!”
“Why are you surprised?”
At that length, people would be able to see your underwear unless they’re too tall to look. If a woman was walking around with a skirt like that, I’d be put off and think ‘huh, what’s with her…’ even if she was my type.
Rather, who did she hear it from? Was it that lustful demon? It was him, wasn’t it? Wait, I’m wrong? For real?
Putting aside who she heard it from, the only thing I can say for now is—
“Gray, Lady Violet has been strange recently.”
“Yes, she has obviously been acting weird.”
When I consulted with Gray when Lady Violet wasn’t around, he also agreed with me that she was acting strange. He responded to my concern with a worried expression.
“I thought it was connected to the students of the academy, but… I saw no signs of her meeting them or being harassed by them.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
My first thought was that Lady Violet was being harassed behind my back.
However, there were no signs of it happening and there was no evidence that Ms. Nephrite had made contact with her. Yesterday, she even asked ‘Please let me meet with Vi!’ again. It seems like she had a hard time sneaking out because the investigation was busy trying new things, with Ash and the others keeping a close watch on her.
“Is it a new disease?”
If so, it must be a disease that makes one crazy. But she doesn’t have a fever and it’s not like she’s mentally unstable.
She cooks properly and looking at the way she cleans and tidies up the mansion when she doesn’t have Lord work to do, I don’t see anything particularly wrong with her.
There was a time when she tagged along after I told that I would be going outside, even though she could have met the academy students, but she didn’t look daunted to meet them, and on the contrary, she even walked beside me with a happy expression. Although I can’t deny the possibility that she was fine because we didn’t meet her schoolmates.
“Milady is unexpectedly prone to making assumptions, so there is a chance she got the wrong idea about something.”
“You’re one to talk.”
“There was a time when she mistook me for a girl.”
… I can’t argue back about that. It seems like Lady Violet used to think of Gray as an androgynous child dressed in a butler uniform.
“Now that I think about it, recently, I have not been allowed to wash Milady’s clothes myself. Perhaps that could be related to the issue?…”
No. I think that’s only because she finds it embarrassing to let somebody of the opposite sex wash her underwear. She was fine with it before because she thought they were both girls.
…Hm? Not allowed to do laundry together?… I’ve heard that phrase somewhere. I’m sure that’s–
“I see, it’s puberty.”
“In other words, it is not an issue we can solve by ourselves, since it’s an issue unique to women.”
Lady Violet is 15 years old. She must have worries she can’t divulge to us since we’re men.
In that case, next time I’ll secretly ask somebody of the same sex who’s close in age with her to help her out. Girl who’s the closest to her age would be…
“Then, I will ask Lady Apricot if she could help milady.”
“Is that… our only way…?!”
“You seem to be very conflicted about this.”
Certainly, another girl who’s closer in age with her would be 14 years old Apricot.
But can she even offer a useful consultation? I’ll admit that she’s surprisingly serious when she’s being serious… but I hope Lady Violet doesn’t suddenly start calling me ‘♰Black Heart♰’.
Maybe Cyan could be our person. She’s serious during confessions and she gets along with Lady Violet.
In any case, I’d like somebody to casually consult Lady Violet if she has any worries–
“Mmh, so you were here, Lord Clo, Gray. The bath is ready so would you like to join me for a family bonding time?”
“”…””
Somehow, I feel like this isn’t the kind of a problem that could be solved just by consulting other women.
I’ll check if her thoughts are going in the wrong direction from stress. For now, I decided to let her rest while I looked at Gray.
We both nodded in unison.
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