Oh? Taiki asked, and Seitaku said,
“I mean, there are no such things as being a nuisance by helping out, are there? Then why do you have such an idea?”

“Well, I can’t do anything...”
“But you have been carrying so many branches earlier, haven’t you? And you helped out with carrying water and moving straws.”
“I am just moving stuff around.”
“Then you have been helping me out haven’t you? But Taiho, I can sense from your words that you believe you are of no use at all.”

Taiki nodded upon Seitaku’s warm clear gaze.
“...Glad to hear that I’m not so... But I really think so...”
“Why is that?”

“I cannot do anything. Not only in farming, I cannot do even one single thing... Mister Gyousou always comforts me that I am still young. But he must be very disappointed by me.”

“Oh really?”
Seitaku asked, and Taiki drooped his head. Seitaku gently patted on Taiki’s back.

“Why not we take a break?”
Seitaku suggested, pointing to a pile of grass.
“No, please carry on with the work.”
“I am also tired. Why not have some tea as well?”

Laughing, Seitaku shouted to the other side of the field.
“You who accompanied Taiho, want some tea?”
Tansui, who stationed a little further away, made a gesture of firm declination.

“He must be also having a hard time, sitting still like that for so long.”
Seitaku said as he served tea from a big clay pot.
“It is hard to take up the job of a bodyguard (大僕 Daiboku), but the hardest time of all might be when there is no danger at all.”

I guess so, Taiki said with a smile, but the smile quickly withered. Seitaku peered into the tea cup he dished out.
“…Ren-ou, you once said that a job is different from a duty, didn't you?”
Yes, Seitaku nodded.

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