The Tutor's Fall
She really got a cast.
After talking to the doctor and roughly falling asleep, when she woke up, her entire right leg was encased in a cast.
It had seemed like just a sprain at the ankle, but it turned out her whole leg was injured.
“Haa…”
I almost died.
I had no idea something like this would happen out of nowhere.
I don’t even know how the wind blew and made me fall from there.
The only thing I was sure of was that if Kyle hadn’t found me, I would have died right there.
When our eyes met, my heart really pounded.
Whoa, this was the first time my heart had pounded like that seeing Kyle since I’ve been alive.
Is it the feeling of almost dying and coming back to life?
It wasn’t exactly dying, but the situation was almost dying and coming back, so probably.
Otherwise, there’s no way my heart would pound seeing Kyle, right?
Anyway, my leg is half crippled.
The doctor said it would improve if left alone for a while, but for a while I’d be half crippled.
I never got injured like this during my adventurer days, where I couldn’t move my leg.
I guess my body has weakened a lot.
If my body had been good to begin with, I wouldn’t have had an incident like today.
“Sigh…”
If I had exercised when Kyle suggested, I wouldn’t have ended up like this.
But isn’t it fortunate that I only got injured to this extent?
At least I didn’t smash my head on a rock, right?
If I had rolled and hit my head, it would have been really dangerous.
By the way… I have to do this for almost two months?
That’s not true…
How can I live like this?
What am I supposed to do really…
Should I hire a helper…
Hiring a helper for a servant is strange, but if I don’t do something like that, I won’t be able to live properly.
Wait, what about Kyle then…?
With this body condition, I couldn’t do Kyle’s servant work.
Then…
Am I going to be fired?
No way.
It’s not like I got injured because of Kyle or something.
Yeah.
How am I supposed to explain this.
Since I got injured on the job, don’t I have to get workers’ compensation…?
That doesn’t sound wrong.
No way am I really going to be fired?
I didn’t raise Kyle like that.
Just yesterday, right?
I jumped down the snowy mountain to get a servant, how could he fire me?
“Sophia~ Can I come in?”
Louise’s voice was heard from outside.
It was the first voice I’d heard since waking up.
“Come in.”
“Coming in~”
As soon as I said “come in,” Louise immediately came in.
Louise let out a small laugh.
Yeah, laugh at that.
Suddenly saying she was going on a date with Kyle, and this happened.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah.”
It wasn’t that painful, except for a bit.
As long as I don’t touch it, it’s fine.
“Really?”
“Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!”
“Huh.”
“You crazy woman! I obviously said not to worry like that!!”
This crazy woman suddenly pressed my shin hard!
Not just pressing, but pressing hard!!!
It’s not touching, it’s pressing!
My shin… ugh…
It really hurt badly.
Really, is it because I never broke a bone in my adventurer days?
Breaking a bone is really horribly painful.
Really…
It really hurt.
The slight pain I felt was just because I was lying still doing nothing.
It was because I really did nothing and kept my lower body still.
“M… sorry…”
“Haa… haa… it’s okay… okay… maybe…”
I was worried if I might have to see the doctor again, but probably not.
But… compared to falling from the mountain, it didn’t hurt much.
“Yeah…”
I’ve thought about this many times by myself.
“Well, with this much, it should heal in about two and a half months!”
“The doctor said so too.”
It was really sad that I had to stay like this for two and a half months.
But more than that, there was one more thing worrying me.
“Are you okay, young master?”
While being held by Kyle, all I could see was Kyle’s chest, arm muscles, and face.
For now, I asked if Kyle was okay, but he might have been injured too.
Because of a man’s pride, he might have said he wasn’t hurt.
“Kyle? Where would he be injured?”
“Hmm… then it’s fortunate.”
If Kyle didn’t get injured, that’s good.
If both of us went out and both got injured, it would have been quite sad.
I guess I have to accept that I got injured, but Kyle not getting injured was good.
“Elin is coming in a little while, do you need anything? I can tell her.”
“Huh… fruit?”
I wanted something to eat.
Not something like steak or stew, just something to eat.
“Fruit? Okay.”
Louise went out from the room where I was lying.
And then Elin came and cut the fruit for me.
Yeah, in the usual visiting event, a pretty person comes, cuts the fruit, and worries if you’re okay.
Not like Louise who hurts my shin.
“Such a thing happened.”
“Is that so.”
And in fact, the last visitor was Kyle.
Because my human relationships are so narrow.
No one else besides the three would come.
Although there’s Catherine, she lives in another territory.
“..Are you okay?”
“Yes, I’m very healthy. I can walk like this right now.”
Of course, it was a joke.
Kyle’s expression was so bad, what was I supposed to say.
I told him several times that I’m okay, but his expression didn’t improve.
“Young master, you’re really okay. Please relax your expression.”
“…Yes.”
Kyle probably kept this expression for a while.
He blamed himself a lot on the way over, and even in the castle.
“Well, as time passes, it will gradually improve.”
Time solves most things.
My leg now would be solved someday.
“Um… young master, I have something to ask.”
A very important matter.
“What is it?”
“Wh-what about my job!?”
Am I really going to be fired?
It’s not like I’ll be on temporary leave and then naturally fired, right?
Suddenly, when I wake up tomorrow, another servant comes and says this.
“Sophia, you can’t go with us.”
“Huh…”
“…Sophia.”
“…Yes!”
I answered with a slight shout.
I was in a posture that I could quickly return.
Of course, with a cast on my leg, bandages on my arms, back, and head, but I was in a confident posture.
“Why are you worried about that. You should be worried about healing quickly.”
“Huh… I’m not fired for not being able to work…?”
Most nobles seemed like that.
Isn’t it like if you’re not a virgin, they return you as a sex slave, and if you don’t like you, they send back the wife too?
No need to keep a servant who can’t work.
“Haa… why would I fire Sophia.”
“Then… because I can’t work for a while and just have to receive assistance?”
I don’t know how to receive assistance as a servant.
Anyway, so I’m not fired? I was really worried.
From Kyle’s words just now, it seems I’m not being fired, which is fortunate.
“Yeah, no matter what, you won’t be able to live a normal life even next month.”
“Indeed.”
“Hmm… what should I do?”
“Even if you ask me that…”
I can’t do anything.
What I can do is just lie quietly on the bed like this.
“Hmm… normally, I would ask Louise or Elin for help, and when I’m with you, I can help you, how about that?”
“Huh?”
Is what I’m hearing now correct?
Kyle is going to help me?
There’s no way I heard such unbelievable words.
Logically, how does a servant receive help from the master.
Yeah, I must have heard it wrong.
“I’ll help you. Because you got injured because of me.”
“……”
“Properly heard.”
Kyle said he’ll help me.
“Haa…”
What am I supposed to do…
Honestly, if I could receive help from Kyle, that would be good for me.
It’s too hard to live with this body.
But the gazes of others were bothering me.
A servant receiving help from their own master…
It was 100% going to be scolded.
If I had such a servant, I would have scolded them.
Starting with how can a servant receive help from the master, if they do such things, I’d fire them.
“I’m really okay. After all, besides the successor lessons with father lately, there’s nothing special to do, right?”
“That is…”
“Elin or Louise’s classes are just review classes, so no problem even if I miss them.”
“That…”
If I say that much, I couldn’t say anything.
All words were correct.
Of course, helping as a servant was strange.
“Would you like me to be your servant for a while?”
“Young master, that might not be…”
“Joke. Joke.”
“Haha…”
Our Kyle is scary even with jokes.
The master becoming the servant’s servant.
Is this a romance fantasy setting?
“Well… helping is just helping with assistance and taking out necessary items, but I’ll help as much as I can.”
Just from the heart, I’m grateful…
Really, the heart is enough.
But our kind young master didn’t seem to have any intention of not helping me.
Even if I told him not to, he would definitely help.
“Yes…”
Anyway, I decided to be a tutor who receives help from a student for two months, and a servant who receives help from the master.
Is this really right…?