Please Let Me Live a Lazy Life!

Chapter 19: I Want to Live a Lazy Life (4)

The maid stalled on dashing the child's expectation until she saw a familiar young man placing a suitcase onto the back of the carriage. In an understated black tophat and a long, dark gentlemen's coat, the Zafarian in discussion looked ready for a trip outside, and obviously, that luggage wasn't one of Thomas'...

Frozen in mid-step, mostly out of shock and bafflement, she had barely noticed the child in her arms squirming towards the ground. Automatically, she let Thomas down, and with the pillow in his arms, he pitter-pattered his way towards the older man.

The butler had long noticed the pair from the corner of his eyes, so when the little one was put down and had made his way towards the Zafarian, Amir allowed the young master to catch up, his expression discreetly amused when the child grabbed onto the tail end of his coat.

Tanaka, with a firm grip on the butler, looked up at the Zafarian with star-filled eyes. "Is Amir coming?"

The corner of the older man's lips perked up in response, his dark, abyss-like eyes narrowing ever so slightly. "Yes," he answered promptly, and there was no further explanation to his presence afterward. It didn't seem that Tanaka cared for one since he lifted the hand clutching onto the butler's coat up towards the other in a silent request to be picked up.

A flash of amusement showed in Amir's dark eyes before he yielded to Tanaka's demand, indulgently allowing the little one to snuggle against his chest with the young master's plump face buried in between the butler's broad shoulders and the pillow in the child's thin arms.

Tanaka closed his eyes contently as he could smell the bits of lavender in between the Zafarian's spice-like fragrance. Nowadays, all of his favorite people would have some lavender interwoven into their natural scents, and just being near them to smell it usually made him very happy.

"...Amir," Clarisse called out after a short period of confusion, walking closer to the pair with something close to perplexity in her stiff expression. "You... What about Young Master Edward?"

Generally, there would be no way for Amir to suddenly transfer his services to the youngest Rosetta unless it was within the eldest's permission, but why would Young Master Edward give away his personal butler to his younger brother? Not that Edward didn't dot on his siblings, but as far as she knew, the Zafarian was involved with a lot of sensitive businesses...

"I'm still under Young Master Edward's employment," Amir explained in a perfunctory manner, probably out of obligation rather than generosity. "He tasked me to insure Young Master Thomas' safe travel to Wisteria Estate. He also wishes that I could help the young master adjust to his new surroundings."

In other words, Clarisse slightly underestimated the eldest young master's affections for his younger brother. To think he would let go of his best attendant just because he was well aware of how much the youngest adored the Zafarian. Then again, it was not like Amir would stop what he was doing for the Rosetta Heir just because he stopped personally serving his employer. More likely than not, the butler would continue to undertake errands despite the distance.

Everything about Amir's circumstances seemed to be well taken care of as if the possibility had been planned weeks beforehand and if Clarisse wasn't aware of the Zafarian's bad habits of controlling people from the shadows, she would have been a little bit more concerned about his involvement with her young master. But Tanaka was frankly disinterested in the whys and hows and clung onto the older man whose magic began to stir at their closeness. The transmigator prodded it with his own magic out of familiarity before they both settled down beneath their owners' skin. He couldn't help but think that the feeling of the butler's flowing and pulsating magic to be comforting, no matter how overwhelming it seemed.