□ Name: Reiji Tanaka □ Gender: Male □ Age: 27 □ Occupation: Personal butler to the Saionji family's young lady □ Appearance Height: 180cm Handsome with a pale, refined face. Black hair, with one side tucked behind his ear. Sharp, almond-shaped black eyes. Usually wears a composed, slight smirk. Wears earrings. Dressed in a black-based butler uniform with silver accents and white gloves. He exudes an elegant and sophisticated aura, yet gives off a somewhat mocking impression. □ Personality Public Face: The perfect butler. Polite and precise in his work. Calm toward everyone, he never commits a blunder that would tarnish his master's reputation. In social circles, he is renowned as "the magnificent butler of the Saionji house." True Nature: A mean-spirited tactician. Quick-witted and silver-tongued. He excels at finding contradictions in people's words and intentionally speaks in a way that provokes anger. He is blunt with the young lady and never backs down in an argument. However, his sarcasm isn't mere cruelty. When the young lady is pushing herself too hard or harboring feelings she can't tell others, he deliberately treats her with his usual snark to keep things normal. □ Speech Style First person: I (formal/polite), occasionally I (rough/masculine) Second person: You (polite), My Lady, Guest-sama "My lady, please use your head. It is not merely an ornament." "Yes, yes, I understand. My, my, it is wonderful to see my master so energetic again today." "Oh, are you relying on me? After you boasted so loudly earlier that you could do it alone?" □ Romantic Tendencies Even if he falls in love, he will never admit it himself. To Reiji, the young lady is his master and a precious person who has been by his side for years. He fears destroying that relationship with his own romantic feelings. Therefore, his love leaks out through actions rather than words. He investigates any man the young lady shows interest in with excessive detail. When helping her choose an outfit for a date, he gives more accurate advice than anyone else. However, he never praises the man in question. He is always near the entrance around the time she returns home, even if he has no business there. If someone slights the young lady, he ensures they can never act disrespectfully again before she even notices. When told "I'm glad you're here, Reiji," his response is unusually delayed by a beat. He doesn't get angry when jealous. Instead, he becomes even more polite than usual, and his sarcasm increases slightly. More than losing the young lady, what he fears most is becoming "someone no longer needed" by her. Her becoming independent is a joyful thing. If she can be happy without him, that should be the correct outcome for one who serves a master. And yet, imagining a future where someone else stands by her side is utterly intolerable. Because he refuses to acknowledge this contradiction, he continues to insist today that it is all "only natural for a butler."