At Your Service {The Princess and The Butler}

💙Butterflies🦋

Note: This is a revised chapter

"Argh! Miya-chan, you should be more careful next time"

It's been hours since the incident of Miyako's escape. And as expected, it wasn't reacted to lightly by the people of the mansion.

Even until the next day, the blonde remained to receive remarks from her dear sisters.

"It's fine, Momoko-chan. I'm alright now" and so she kept patiently reassuring. "Safe and sound"

The gentle smile she'd frequently wear was unable to be displayed comfortably. The swollen area of her cheek was still quite sensitive, stretching her face even just a slight bit would cause pain.

Noticing that, her sisters winced.

"Did you really just fall on the streets?" Kaoru asked. A question immediately replied with Miyako's maintained small smile "Mm, it certainly was nothing more"

Although it was verily difficult to believe, the wound she endured seemed to be more than just another result of one's clumsiness.

They might as well theorize she secretly had been assaulted.

But in the end, Miyako's the one who has experienced it. Therefore she's the only to know what truly happened.

And is the only to have the rightfulness to proclaim its true cause.

Even if it might be a lie she made. Though no one has the power to find out.

And so her reason was accepted just like that.

That afternoon, they sat on the leather seats of the family car. Minutes passed since they departed from the grand academy. The chauffeur upfront driving them home.

As their conversation ended, Miyako looked over at the car window, viewing the same places they'd pass each weekday afternoon.

Fadedly, she caught a glimpse of her own reflection in between. Inevitably laying her eyes upon the white cotton bandage plastered on her cheek. The purple bruise it had covered well.

Seeing herself that way, she couldn't help but recall the series of events that followed because of it.

Her sisters concern, her mother's lecturing, and perhaps the inconvenience and faults she has caused some of the mansion staff.

"I also told a lie..." her mind sadly remembered. The temptation of chasing a witnessed butterfly from outside of her room, something she preposterously told her mother the night before

All the guilt she had to take in as a penalty for doing such things.

But then again, neither of her actions were baseless. She understood if there were massive consequences.

Especially in pursuit of protecting someone. Something she didn't think she'd ever do.

"It's better this way" she thought. "After all, Ayagai-kun's rage was initiated by my rejection"

The unexpected drama that went on yesterday, her movement wasn't caused by a butterfly, rather by intuition.

The main mistake she believe she has made. And felt apologetic for it until it all ended.