A Butlers Choice 3
To lead someone was to make your partner shine. Even though I just said such grandiose words, I was going to abandon the girl I was with when we were only half-way finished our dance. I can’t say I wasn’t hesitating a little bit.
However, a young lady– the one whose condition seemed to be worsening, was shaking as her upper body started to fall forward. If this went on, she might injure her head on the wooden floor.
“–please forgive my rudeness.”
With guilt welling up inside of me, I unilaterally stopped the dance and started dashing over to the young lady. While voices of confusion rang out, the shaking girl’s upper body was already falling.
Leaving behind all of my doubts, I reflexively used magic to raise my physical abilities without chanting, and simultaneously pushed off of the floor.
–make it in time!
Closing the distance in a single breath, I slid down to the place where the young lady was about to fall and caught her to protect her head. This all happened concurrently as my back impacted the ground.
Suddenly, the music stopped and screams came out from the nearby girls. The exam’s venue was in an uproar, but I ignored that and confirmed the state of the person in my arms.
“What happened?!”