I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41
My body moved before my mind could process what was happening.
It was a matter of inches.
I reached out and touched the Rabbit Butler’s wrist at that exact moment.
A portion of Mo Hae-in’s hair vanished without a trace.
A crimson line marked her cheek where the beam had grazed past.
It was a burn from the intense heat.
But she had not died.
Mo Hae-in was alive.
Confirming her survival, I exhaled deeply in relief.
Yet immediately after, a chill crept down my spine.
Primal terror emanated from the presence standing directly behind me, constricting my body.
“Gun-bam.”
The Rabbit Butler, still positioned behind me, asked.
“Why did you do that?”
Genuine bewilderment colored his brief question.
The butlers despised the cleaners.
The footmen, though once cleaners themselves before being employed at the Mansion, harbored contempt for them.
To them, cleaners were merely fuel for maintaining the Mansion.
Nothing more.
The Cat Butler, who possessed somewhat refined tastes, was marginally more courteous to the cleaners.
More precisely, he simply paid no mind to filth.
But the Rabbit Butler expressed his dislikes clearly, and showed no mercy in disposing of cleaners who even slightly displeased him.
By his standards, my current actions would make no sense whatsoever.
The only reason I was still alive was my high favorability rating; otherwise, I would have been disposed of the moment I touched his wrist.
‘A hole through my forehead, and I’d have been absorbed into the Mansion long ago.’
One wrong answer here, and my favorability would plummet drastically.
If only my favorability dropped, that would have been a mercy.
Mo Hae-in might very well become the Mansion’s fuel this time.
I deliberated carefully, yet urgently, searching for the right response.
The Rabbit Butler turned my body to face him.
“Gun-bam. It’s fine.”
He spoke slowly, meeting my gaze.
“A young butler’s mistake. I’m not angry.”
As he said this, he patted my shoulder gently with his hand—a gesture urging me to calm down and speak with composure.
It was the posture of an excellent senior mentor soothing a new recruit’s error.
Thanks to this reprieve, I could compose myself and deliver my response more calmly.
“She seemed quite skilled. What if we gave her another chance? I thought it might be good to bring a maid into the Mansion.”
I continued, looking up at the Rabbit Butler.
“The Master might even welcome a mistress of the house….”
But I couldn’t finish speaking.
“Hahahaha!”
The Rabbit Butler burst into loud laughter.
He laughed so hard that his long ears swayed back and forth.
While he laughed, everyone else remained silent, so the Rabbit Butler’s laughter alone shook through the entire Mansion.
After laughing for a while, the Rabbit Butler suddenly stopped abruptly.
He swept his ear back with his hand.
His metallic ear bent smoothly in the direction of his touch.
“Roasted chestnuts. You were human.”
It was a statement difficult to comprehend.
The Rabbit Butler stared at me for a moment, then looked away.
He nodded toward Mo Hae-in.
“You. Go to the Basement.”
“…Thank you.”
Mo Hae-in answered with a fractured voice, biting her lip.
Mo Hae-in forced herself to stand up with all her strength.
She swayed slightly, but fortunately managed to walk.
Gwak Han-muk watched her before inevitably walking in the opposite direction.
I felt the Rabbit Butler’s gaze fixed upon me.
“Let’s get back to work.”
“Yes.”
I didn’t watch Mo Hae-in’s retreating figure.
“■■ and ■■■■, and ■ go to the Basement.”
As if it had been merely a fleeting moment of interest, I assigned the next cleaning area with an indifferent expression.

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I couldn’t even tell how time had slipped away.
Under the Rabbit Butler’s guidance, I finished assigning zones to the cleaning staff.
By then, it was already dinner time.
I would have preferred not to eat, but that wasn’t an option.
Two footmen attached themselves to me, attending to my meal with meticulous care.
Following the Rabbit Butler and Cat Butler’s instructions, they portioned out dishes and filled my plate.
Even though I ate only a bite of each offered dish, I ended up stuffed to bursting.
Yet the food was genuinely delicious.
The Cat Butler asked for my impressions of my first day of work.
“This is your first time as a butler, isn’t it, Gunbam? How are you feeling about it?”
“It was a bit exhausting.”
I feigned fatigue, worried that if I said it was manageable, they’d insist I continue as a butler.
And I didn’t forget to offer them some flattery.
“The butlers managing this grand mansion seem all the more impressive to me.”
“Gunbam, you always know how to lift our spirits!”
The Cat Butler seemed delighted.
I found myself growing cheerful as well.
The more I ate, the better my mood became.
After that, we shared various stories.
Mostly light conversation about the mansion, but as expected, there was no mention whatsoever of the new cleaning staff.
I had to abandon any hope that Je Hyeon-o’s name might come up.
Instead, I learned that the mansion currently had twelve footmen, that despite their numbers, none of them showed promise of becoming butler material, and that the Master was considering a modern renovation of the mansion upon his return.
“Fashion has changed so much since the Master last stayed here, after all!”
It seemed the Master had been away from the mansion for at least a hundred years.
‘I wonder when he’ll return.’
Though it was only a brief temporary position, I wanted to meet the Master before leaving Samcle.
He was a character I’d been curious about from the start.
The Cat Butler had a footman pour red wine into my glass.
I took a polite sip, but any more and I felt my stomach would burst.
That’s when the Rabbit Butler came to my rescue.
“Gunbam is human. Cannot eat more.”
The Cat Butler looked at me questioningly, and I answered honestly.
“I’m full….”
“Oh my! I wasn’t being considerate. My apologies.”
The butlers who had been enjoying the meal with me just moments before set down their utensils in unison.
Glancing sideways at their plates, I realized something belatedly.
The butlers had eaten exactly as much as I had.
As if they were eating food they didn’t need to eat in the first place.
‘Were they matching their pace to mine?’
Come to think of it, it did seem a bit odd for beings with metal heads to be eating food at all.
After dinner, the butlers escorted me to my room.
“That was a pleasant evening.”
“Get some rest. Sleep early tonight.”
“Yes. Sleep well.”
I bid them farewell politely and closed the door behind them.
Click.
“….”
Finally, I was alone.
I leaned my back against the closed door and squeezed my eyes shut.
The butlers might still be nearby, so I breathed carefully without releasing a single deep sigh.
‘My plan has completely fallen apart.’
The cleaning staff had no quarters in the Mansion.
They had to manage the night as best they could in their assigned areas, but night was when the creatures began their active hunting.
As darkness fell with the sunset, screams echoed throughout the Mansion.
The Basement where Mo Hae-in was stationed was the most dangerous zone in the Mansion.
Among the various creatures that infested the Mansion, the most ferocious and troublesome ones appeared endlessly.
Of course, with Mo Hae-in’s abilities and the laser gun I’d given her, dealing with creatures wouldn’t be a problem at all.
But surviving the night alone would be grueling.
Since she could only move to another area after eliminating all creatures in her assigned zone, searching elsewhere was essentially impossible.
‘In the end, Gwak Han-muk and I will have to locate Je Hyeon-o’s position ourselves.’
I wanted to check on Mo Hae-in’s condition since she hadn’t looked well the last time I saw her.
But with creatures swarming other areas too, just the two of us wouldn’t be able to move quickly.
Most critically, I couldn’t be certain whether I was allowed to leave the guest room.
I’d already drawn attention by saving Mo Hae-in today.
If I left the guest room and was discovered elsewhere….
Even with a plausible excuse, it might compound the problems from my earlier actions.
The best scenario would be if Je Hyeon-o came to find me and brought me back to the guest room himself.
‘…Wait.’
I suddenly recalled something I hadn’t considered until now.
Even though the system window had vanished, my abilities might still remain intact.
I decided to test the ability I needed most right now.
‘Telepathy.’
The system window didn’t appear.
Yet strangely, I felt certain I could send telepathy to Je Hyeon-o.
I sent the message to him immediately.
‘Major Je Hyeon-o. Please come to the East Wing 3rd Floor Guest Room.’
Whether it had been sent properly was something I’d find out by waiting.
I paced around the room, organizing my thoughts. The situation had become tangled in multiple ways, leaving my mind in turmoil.
I had been pacing for some time.
Then I heard a very faint sound.
Tap, tap, tap….
The faint sound felt like nothing more than noise brushing past on the wind.
It was easy to ignore, but the being I had summoned moved in decidedly abnormal ways.
I rushed to the window and opened it.
Then I looked down.
“…Gasp.”
I drew in a startled breath.
Je Hyeon-o was climbing up the wall.
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When our eyes met, he displayed a smiling expression above his goggles.
He added a musical note beside it and ascended to the 3rd Floor in an instant.
He must have climbed the wall rather than spreading his wings, which would have been too conspicuous and risked discovery.
His metallic hand scraped across the window frame with a sharp sound.
The frame appeared to be wooden, yet oddly, it bore his metallic grip without splintering or breaking.
Je Hyeon-o perched on the window frame and stared directly at me.
While he had found his way here quietly enough, lingering at the window was far from ideal.
A creature might spot him, or worse, the butlers might catch sight of him.
“Je Hyeon-o. Please come inside at once.”
But Je Hyeon-o showed no intention of entering.
He spoke.
“What are you?”
At his abrupt question, I became aware of my appearance in butler’s clothing.
Before his metallic hand could tear me apart, I hastily explained the situation.
“Circumstances arose, and I was hired as a butler rather than a cleaner.”
“Goyo.”
“Pardon?”
“I received a Quest.”
Click.
Je Hyeon-o pushed his goggles up onto his head.
His eyes, possessing golden irises, were revealed.
“To rescue you.”
“….”
I was left speechless.
Rescue me?
I couldn’t fathom why a Quest unrelated to the Trial had appeared.
No system window had appeared on my end either.
“I don’t know why the Quest appeared either. But it’s ultimately meaningless.”
“Why?”
“Though I’m called a butler, it’s not much different from being hired as a cleaner. I agreed to work for only seven days.”
After hearing my explanation, Je Hyeon-o tilted his head slightly to the side.
“Who told you that?”
“I decided on it after discussing it with the Butlers.”
The moment my answer fell, Je Hyeon-o’s eyes narrowed slowly.
He posed a question to me.
“You believe that?”
I hesitated for a moment before responding.
“…I’m not sure what you mean by that.”
Je Hyeon-o slowly raised his hand.
“You believed what an NPC from Trial said without a shred of doubt, so naively.”
His metallic hand tapped against my chest with a soft thud.
“You believed it all, Goyo.”

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