Volume 1 - CH 2

「Ms、...... Ms. La!......-la-sama!」

He's a cute little boy with a pretty face. His indigo eyes are rolling back in her head. His hair is a dull brown.

Obviously, neither the hair colour nor the eye colour is typical Japanese. What caught my eye more than anything else were the cat ears on this boy's head.

「What? 」

「Are you all right? I was worried ...... when you collapsed suddenly during a break.」

The boy holds me up with his ears twitching. His neat face and well-defined eyes get closer and closer to my face.

But my eyes are riveted on the cat ears on the boy's head. I stick out my hand in front of the boy holding me. I feel like my skin is white too, but I don't have time to worry about it.

「Uh, wait. I'm really sorry, but just wait a minute.」

「Yes, what? 」

The boy tilted his head slightly at me as I raised my voice. I pinched the cat ears on the boy's head with my fingers frightfully. At the same time, a slender tail growing from the boy's waist stood up.

「hiyahh」

「Eh, it's soft, it's warm and ...... eh, is this real? And the tail? 」

What does that mean? How does this boy have a body like this? I mean, I just realized that we're in the middle of a meadow. I was supposed to be in a small conference room at work before I collapsed.

It seems that there were other people by his side. An elderly man with a tail covered in horns and scales and a woman in a maid's outfit with feathered ears looking at me in disgust.

「What are you doing so suddenly, Lady Eleonora」

「Even though you and Benjamin have known each other for a long time, you're still playing around too much.」

When the elderly man sighed and said, the woman in the maid uniform also spoke while lowering her eyebrows as if she was troubled.

Of course I'm the one being looked at, of course I'm the one being spoken to. Lady ? what are they saying, the boy in front of me must be Benjamin.

But I don't remember the name Eleonora.

「Eleonora？」

「Yes. Duchess Eleonora van Oylsterhout, Duchess of Oylsterhout. It's your name.」

I asked back and the older man said to me as if it were a matter of course.

I probably have my eyes wide open and my mouth gaping open right now.

I don't understand. How could a stranger call me by a name I don't know, in a place I don't know?

I'm still confused, and the woman in maid outfit calls out to me with concern.

「Are you all right? Did you hit your head or anything when you fell earlier? 」

「Benjamin, take the scroll of restorative magic you may have wounds in places you can't see.」

Behind the woman, an elderly man gives instructions to a boy named Benjamin who was rubbing his cat ears on me. Recovery magic. Scroll. My eyes widened more and more as I heard that word.

Don't tell me there's magic here. That kind of magic that appears in novels and anime.

「Oh, uh, I want you to wait but before you do that one.」

I raised my voice as I involuntarily stuck out my hands. I suddenly raised my voice and the three of them looked at me.

At any rate, I'm a duke, apparently. Then they must be the people who take care of me. Then he must have some kind of tool for me to use.

In anticipation of this, I called out in horror.