What should I do?

What should I do?

Fear, crisis, anxiety, emptiness.

Rumi was crouching down, suffering from emotions she couldn’t clearly express.

As dawn broke, she took out the maid uniform she had received earlier and took a deep breath.

She realized that the only thing she could do now was to ‘serve’ Deren.

‘Ah, no, should I say help instead of serve?’

It seems that she had picked up on this after talking to her senior maid about various things recently.

Thinking it was fortunate that she hadn’t said this out loud, she lightly patted her cheeks.

As she put on the maid uniform, she began to strengthen her resolve once again.

‘From now on, I’ll only do things that are truly helpful to Deren…!’

To be honest, from the moment she started feeling attracted to Deren until now.

She had been trying to avoid causing trouble for Deren and to do things that would be helpful to him.

‘According to Delia… that was actually causing trouble.’

It would be right to change her thinking and act differently from how she had been until now.

So, I got up thinking I’d start with ‘cleaning’ that could be helpful to Deren, and then help with other things.

‘What should I do?’

Is there anything else I could do besides cleaning?

To be honest, since Deren seems to be perfection itself, I’m not sure if he needs anything specific, which makes it difficult.

As I was tilting my head in thought and heading towards Deren’s lab, I noticed a fallen leaf in the hallway.

‘……’

Seeing this, memories from my childhood resurface, making me pause.

From my early years until relatively recently, the defeatism and avoidance tendencies forcibly instilled by the Heaven God Cult began to bloom again.

As a result, I feel unnecessarily anxious and my hands start trembling, which I try hard to calm down.

Nearby, I see Delia walking slowly, holding her bottom.

“……”

Although she had shown me the path I should take.

Because of the harsh words I heard then, it’s difficult to easily strike up a conversation, so I’m just watching carefully.

Delia sees me and speaks with an awkward smile.

“… Good morning?”

“Yeah.”

As I’m hesitating, not knowing what to say.

Delia looks at my maid outfit and asks in an awkward tone.

“Ah… Are you going to do maid work?”

I nod awkwardly, and Delia, seemingly running out of things to say, looks at me and says, ‘Is that so? Good luck.’

Then, as if unable to bear this situation any longer, she makes an awkward expression and tries to quickly pass by me.

Seeing this, I gather a bit of courage and mention the previous incident.

“De, Delia!”

The moment she was called, Delia turned around with an awkward expression.

Seeing this, I suppressed the urge to hide immediately and expressed my gratitude for what had happened before.

“You know, about the advice you gave me before… Thank you so much for telling me. If you hadn’t given me that advice, I think I would have regretted it for a long time.”

Delia, seemingly not expecting such a sincere expression of gratitude, froze with a surprised expression.

Then, moving stiffly like a puppet with dried oil, she blinked her eyes rapidly.

Seeing this, I started to pour out all the words that were in my heart.

“… Actually, I’ve hardly had anyone to have a proper conversation with, let alone friends, so I’ve never had the chance to hear words like this. That’s why I’m really grateful that you said such things…”

“Stop… Stop! I get it, so stop!”

Delia, apparently quite embarrassed to hear such words, turned bright red and flinched, then slowly began to retreat while speaking.

“I’m… glad it was helpful… Oh, and I’m sorry for cursing at you before, I mean… Ah, I don’t know! Just stop talking!”

Then, unable to bear it any longer, she ran down the corridor and disappeared somewhere.

Watching this scene, I was starting to feel like I might have gone too far and was cringing.

That’s when I noticed a small magic book lying on the floor of the corridor.

‘Did Delia drop this?’

Given the context, that might be the case.

Deciding to pick it up and return it, I reached for it, but the magic book began to glow brightly and open automatically.

“…… Hiccup.”

I never thought it would open without even unlocking it.

While it’s not a big problem for a magic book meant for simple information transfer to open like this…

‘Judging by the luxurious cover of the magic book.’

I’m worried that it might be a magic book bought for ‘communicating’ or sharing information with others.

So I try to close it without looking inside as much as possible.

But a single line of text catches my eye, making it difficult to just pass by.

[I got spanked on the butt by Deren…]

“……?”

The moment I see this, my mind becomes as tangled as a messy ball of yarn.

I wondered what on earth someone could have done to get spanked by Deren.

So, I unconsciously did something I absolutely shouldn’t do – peeking at someone else’s magic book – and looked through the entire content of that message.

“……”

To summarize, it was about trying to seduce Deren by making him spank their butt.

At first, Deren resisted, but in the end, it seems he spanked hard, suggesting he was quite satisfied with it.

The moment I saw this, my mind not only heated up but became incredibly complicated, causing me to blank out for a moment.

I never dreamed they would be doing such things together.

Faced with this reality, I stared blankly at the magic book.

Then, squeezing my eyes shut, I added one more plan to my mind.

‘I, I’ll make him spank my butt too, just like Delia did…!’

I strengthened my resolve to become closer to Deren.

‘But still, the butt…?’

Thinking that I couldn’t understand why they made Deren spank it, I discreetly turned my head to look at my own butt.

Even after examining it directly, I still couldn’t understand why someone would spank it, so I lightly patted my own butt with my palm.

‘… I don’t get it.’

Thinking that there was too much of the world he didn’t know, he sighed and headed to the laboratory.

* * * * *

As if things weren’t hard enough with the Heaven God Cult, Delia suddenly showed up and did something strange.

Maybe because of the overlapping mental stress, I ended up sleeping deeply for the first time in a while.

I was flustered to realize that I woke up at noon instead of morning, when someone greeted me with a bright smile.

“Are you awake?”

Startled for a moment, I quickly looked to the side.

Espin, with her arms crossed, striking a pose that lifted her enormous chest, continued speaking to me.

“As much as I’d like to let you sleep more… unfortunately, there’s a lot to do. I’m sorry, but could you get up now?”

I nodded at those words, covering my face with one hand.

Espin manifested magic to float a document in front of me and continued speaking.

“Thanks to you brilliantly blowing up the central government, there’s chaos in many ways… I have a lot to say about this, but that’s not important right now, so I’ll get straight to the point.”

As I nodded, Espin sighed and continued.

“That bishop of the Heaven God Cult you caught. I’m not sure what you think, but he turns out to be a more important figure than expected.”

Of course, being one of the few bishop-level figures, his importance would be much higher than the riffraff we’ve seen so far.

I looked at Espin, wondering why she was emphasizing something so obvious.

Espin met my eyes and continued.

“Because of that, the Heaven God Cult guys are causing an unusually big fuss.”

“A fuss?”

She nodded, pointing at the document, and explained what was happening now.

“As you know, the Heaven God Cult is a group that operates in the shadows, so they don’t usually pop out into the open, right? But after that incident, they suddenly jumped out as if they’d been waiting for it.”

“… Is that so?”

“Yes. I’m not sure of the exact reason, but if I had to guess, I think it might be to officially expand their influence.”

Indeed, even just from the rumors going around, it’s said that the central government, where power is concentrated, has fallen to the Heaven God Cult.

They probably don’t need to remain in the shadows anymore.

‘On top of that, they say other high-ranking officials are already involved.’

Thinking there’s nothing to hold them back, I crossed my arms.

Espin looked at me and continued speaking.

“So, I was wondering, do you want to carry out another terrorist attack?”

At those words, I froze for a moment and could only stare blankly at Espin.