A Virgin Civil Servant Is Reincarnated as a Trashy Character in a Otome Game, but Because He Doesn’t Make a Move Despite Being in an Otome Game, the Girls Treat Him Like a High-Class Catch and Aggressively Pursue Him
“Well, there’s no point in worrying about it, Elliott sama. You’re not at fault. You just got caught up in it.”
Mary smiled. I don’t know how Mary felt while I was fighting Dranble, but I’m sure she was worried.
“I won’t die. No matter what happens, I’ll smile at Mary.”
“…Elliott sama. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”
“…A promise I can’t keep?”
I had no intention of keeping this promise. After all, I had already lost my life twice. I was only alive because of some incomprehensible supernatural phenomenon.
“So, I will become your maid and knight, Elliott sama. I don’t think I’m strong enough, but I think I can at least be a disposable shield.”
“…But Mary, you’re in a different class than me.”
When I said that, Mary stood up straight with confidence. Then she grabbed the survival knife at her waist and smiled.
“I’ll use this. I have this.”
Her grip on the survival knife was not that of an amateur. Where did she learn that? I wondered, but maybe in another world, it’s something you learn for self-defense?
“You know, don’t you, Elliott sama?”
“…No, I don’t remember.”
“You must be joking. Because you were there at that time… Why don’t you know?”
Mary’s expression changed. Then she said the words I feared most.
“…Elliott sama, no, who are you?”
Immediately after that, I was struck by a headache so severe that I couldn’t stand. I closed my eyes without thinking. My knees gave way. I’m going to collapse. That’s what I thought. That’s all I remember.
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“Elliott, young master, let’s go. Today we’re heading to the commoners’ town.”
I was talking to Mary just a moment ago. But I feel warmth in my right hand. Why?
Gradually, my consciousness awakens. A gaze I’ve never felt before. No, let me rephrase that. It was a perspective that my former self might have seen.
“Young master, what’s wrong? Why are you so spaced out? Are you sleep deprived? That’s unusual.”
The woman who spoke to me was not a giant. If anything, I felt like I had shrunk.
Looking closely, I realized that I was in my house. However, everything had grown larger. Even the furniture was bigger than usual.
Looking at my left hand, which was not being held, I saw that the cool calluses on my palm were gone, and I now had a hand that looked like a puffed-up cream bun.
Then I completely understood what was happening to me.
“Why did I become so small?”
I had turned back into a child. Probably, Mary’s words were the trigger. I didn’t know about my past with Mary. Because of that, the game collapsed. I guess I time-leaped to stop that from happening.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t the future change if I did something different from the past Elliott here? I feel like that would ruin the story.
Because the past will definitely change if it’s the tyrannical Elliott and me, the civil servant. If I have to time leap every time that happens, I feel like I won’t be able to move forward for the rest of my life…
“If you’ve learned your lesson, you’ll sleep properly, right, young master?”
She scolded me. Could this beautiful woman be that loud-mouthed maid? Is that right?
“I’m sorry…”
“All right. Elliott is a good boy because he is obedient.”
I couldn’t believe my ears. Was I a good boy? Then why did bad rumors spread about me? I had questions, but I wasn’t given time to think about them, and I was taken away and put on a carriage.