episode_0060

TMI.

The writer intended to write the Marines as princesses.

The reason is that the red and gold name tag and the Marine Corps assault haircut (with the hair growing out on top and the sides shaved) immediately reminded me of a hime cut.

But unfortunately, in the latter half of the year, I declined the request from my Marine friend to have him appear in a hobby piece. (To be exact, it was because I declined the offer to show it to the writer after he had finished writing it.)

If she had accepted, the Marine Corps comrade would have been portrayed as a princess who came to visit (deployed) with an old-fashioned way of thinking (absurdity) and pride in her bloodline (military pride).

…just kidding.

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“Ugh, Sister, you’re overreacting so much.”

My sister has always been like that. It’s good that she wants to help, but she’s too overprotective.

Even when he received his own broom, he muttered strange things and looked at my broom more closely than his own.

[A broom like a lover…?]

Of course, I’m not a kid, and I wouldn’t make the mistake of aiming the all-purpose broom at people. If I accidentally clean someone else, it would be a big problem.

‘If anyone saw me, they’d think I was your real sister.’

Even these days, it’s a problem that they try to control how we move with other people.

Originally, it was supposed to be done by a set number of people, but isn’t there a certain amount of coordination? If the original purpose of the comradeship was to prevent accidents, then it would be enough to just match the number of people, no matter who they are.

So what I’m saying is that it’s not right for my older sister to interfere with who I meet.

“They even block animals. Ugh… This is too much. Right?”

“Myaaaang♡”

Right- right-

Hyunho reached out and stroked the small ball of brown fur in front of him.

How can a stray cat be so docile? Well, there are maids all around, so there’s no reason for it to pose a threat.

It’s different from the cats you usually see in society. You can’t find any sense of caution even if you look hard.

‘Animalistic senses… something like that, I guess.’

Seeing that she doesn’t run away when you approach her, does she instinctively know that the maids around her pose no threat to her?

Oh, by the way, there was one person that cats avoided.

Hyunho thought for a moment of his older sister, an angel with pure white wings who claimed to be his protector.

The cat approached other people first, but strangely, it avoided the spot when my sister appeared.

My sister didn’t like the idea of me playing with cats, so I guess this guy’s judgment was right in the end.

Pat pat

When I tapped the cat’s waist, a high-pitched “meow-” sound came out of the cat’s mouth.

I extended my hand that was scratching the cat’s forehead, ruffled its matted fur, and touched the cat’s waist.

It was quite addictive to see her butt gradually rise with each tap.

“Ah, you can’t come up here. I have nothing else to wear.”

Hyunho lifted up the cat that kept trying to climb on his leg.

Seriously, this is the first time I’ve seen a cat approach me so actively.

Well, our first meeting happened because this cute little ball of fur approached me first.

I was clearly sitting still and resting when he came over to me first and put his leg between my legs. I was shocked at that time.

“Ugh… There’s nothing on my leg, why do you keep doing that?”

“Myaang-”

At this point, I wonder if he’s emitting some kind of pheromone. People and animals keep clinging to him like this.

“Wow!”

“Ouch!”

As I was thinking about something trivial, the cat suddenly bit my finger, or more precisely, the part where my thumb and the back of my hand meet, and ran away.

Blame- tada…

Then he turned to the corner of the building and disappeared, leaving behind only the sad sound of “Meow-ah.”

“Wow, uh…”

Should I follow it? Should I follow it?

I don’t know why he suddenly bit me and ran away after playing so well. But I didn’t like the sound of him crying.

‘If you were running too fast, you might crash somewhere…’

The sound of a thump and the soft feeling on your face.

Yeah, maybe the cat turned the corner and got hit like this.

“Oh… I’m sorry.”

“Yeah, are you okay?”

When I lifted my head and removed my face, what I saw was a woman with a slender body.

Sharp-looking eyes with a white face. They were pretty, but a little scary. And the hair with a basic brown base and black bridge was familiar. Just like…

‘Oh no, this is not the time to be looking at faces.’

If there’s one thing I’ve noticed while living as an apprentice maid, it’s that people who walk around in just tracksuits or other shabby clothes are more likely to be high-ranking people.

I don’t know why they wear civilian clothes instead of their maid uniforms, but… well, they’re executives.

I tried to bow by holding the hem of my skirt as instructed by the teaching assistants, but was stopped by the woman in front of me.

“Is it okay? I’m not a maid.”

“Huh? Okay.”

If not a maid, are you someone who came to work for an outside company?

“Oh, so are you working there? In the food service area?”

“No, um… that’s not it… It’s similar, but the person who lives here… is that kind of person?”

It was a simple question, but she hesitated and couldn’t give a proper answer.

It would be normal if there were only maids here – or people who came to work from outside companies…

Anyway, he was a very suspicious person.

And I wasn’t even an apprentice maid working here, I was just a maid in training to become an apprentice maid.

What this means is that if something feels off, it’s better to just run away and not take responsibility.

“Aha… I have something to do, so I’ll stop here-”

“Nyahahaha, if it’s okay, could you help me with some work?”

Kwuk-

I tried to turn around and go back to the dormitory, but I had to give up when my shoulder was grabbed.

The content was a question, but the hand on my shoulder was forcing a choice.

‘Fucked…’

Now that I think about it, there was something strange about the clothes. The bottoms of the pants and the sleeves were very frayed. It was as if I had picked up clothes that someone else had thrown away.

By the way, wasn’t there a used clothes collection box nearby?

Anyone who saw it could tell that the unauthorized guest had thrown away his clothes and changed into old ones.

‘To hide your identity?’

And where did you come in? Inside the maid unit?

In that case, I can roughly guess the identity of the woman in front of me. After all, there can only be one group trying to infiltrate the unit while hiding their identity.

So, even though I’m not an apprentice maid yet, there’s only one thing I have to do.

I opened my mouth, looking at the woman in front of me who was holding my shoulder tightly.

“Please, save me…”

The maid’s power is 99% the power of the all-purpose broom. That means I, naked, am extremely helpless.

So, the best policy here is to survive. Giving in is the worst policy.

…it’s not that I’m scared of evil power.

“Huh? Of course. Eating them, hmm… Even if you eat them, you don’t kill them. ”

As I tried to calm my trembling body and stay still, the woman in the tracksuit came around behind me and hugged me.

I’ve tried this pose many times with my older sister, but there was one thing that was different.

‘…It’s hard.’

Normally, there would be something soft and smooth on the top of the head, but it felt strange because I couldn’t feel any weight on it.

Although my neck didn’t hurt like when my older sister hugged me, it was a little uncomfortable because the small cushion was placed directly against my bone.

She turned around and grabbed my wrist and started shaking it back and forth.

“Okay, let’s start from now on.”

So she grabbed my wrist and started walking forward.

Yeah, it was similar to the feeling of a father teaching his child to walk, holding his hand and shaking it while pushing him. Well, the height difference wasn’t that big.

“One, two~ One, two~”

“Ugh, ugh…”

Still, it was a bit embarrassing to be treated like a child when I was over twenty. It was fortunate that there was no one around me.

‘No, Hyunho. If someone is watching, you don’t have to get dragged away.’

After walking for a few dozen meters, I arrived in front of the door of a familiar warehouse.

“You’ve arrived. Is it time to go in now?”

“Here…”

The last place we stopped at while distributing food. It was the trash can storage area where I came to work instead of my older sister who wasn’t feeling well.

It’s called a storage facility, it’s just a place to dump food waste.

“Um, but this place is locked…”

She quietly stared at the door, then raised her right hand and slammed it into the iron door near the handle.

Then a sound like a high-speed saw cutting through iron was heard, making it hard to believe that a human fingernail was touching iron.

Kyaaang-!

Thud!

“Shall we go in?”

“Okay.”

Okay. It was a wise choice not to refuse when he asked me to go with him. I guess it wouldn’t have worked even if I had a multi-purpose broom.

What you feel as soon as you open the door is…

“Wow, wooweek…”

Shit, a smell that was indescribable – a smell that only those who had experienced it would know – stung my nose. A unique smell that came from a mixture of all sorts of things.

My face was furrowed, but the woman behind me kept sniffing.

“Eung… smells delicious…”

We’re in trouble.

It was clear that the woman behind me was not only strong, but also crazy.