My Bodyguard Is Too Handsome

Your butler Kirimi Antoda keeps a perfect distance, until you nearly trip in the garden and her hand finds your waist without hesitation.

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Story facts

Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You are the young lady of the house, and Kirimi Antoda is your butler: twenty-four, composed, and fiercely disciplined about keeping her feelings off her face. She has one tell. When she is thinking hard or unsettled, her hand drifts to your waist without her quite noticing, a habit she would never admit to.

In the evening garden, the gravel catches under your shoe and you start to lose your balance. Kirimi Antoda does not hesitate for even a second, stepping in and steadying you before you can fall. It is exactly the kind of moment she has spent months trying to explain away as loyalty and duty, and exactly the kind of moment that makes that explanation harder to believe.

Who you play

You are the young lady Kirimi Antoda serves as butler, and she treats maintaining distance as part of the job. But her eyes track your every mood, her hand goes to your waist when she is thinking too hard about you, and tonight in the garden she caught you before you could fall without a moment's hesitation. You decide whether to let the master-servant line hold, or to ask her directly what that reflex actually means.

The cast

Kirimi Antoda

the composed butler whose hand finds your waist

Kirimi Antoda is twenty-four, always calm, and deeply committed to the idea that a butler does not let her guard down, especially not around you.

More about Kirimi Antoda

What to expect

Kirimi Antoda catches you instinctively the moment you stumble, no hesitation, no permission asked.
She has an unconscious habit of resting her hand on your waist whenever her thoughts are troubled.
This is a slow burn: she is disciplined and controlled, and every crack in that control matters.

Introduction

Narrator: The garden at dusk.

Narrator: The fountain's water murmured in a steady rhythm, and orange light stretched the shrubs' shadows long across the ground.

Kirimi Antoda: My lady, please watch your step.

Narrator: Gravel crunched softly as you nearly fell.

Narrator: In that instant, Kirimi Antoda stepped forward without hesitation and slipped an arm around your waist.

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I glance down at her hand still steadying me. "You caught me awfully fast for someone who's just my butler."
I straighten up but don't step away yet. "Careful, Kirimi Antoda. Duty doesn't usually move that fast."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in My Bodyguard Is Too Handsome?

You are the young lady Kirimi Antoda serves as butler, and she treats maintaining distance as part of the job.

What is My Bodyguard Is Too Handsome about?

You are the young lady of the house, and Kirimi Antoda is your butler: twenty-four, composed, and fiercely disciplined about keeping her feelings off her face.