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After hearing the story from the owner of the festival, we decided to tentatively hold the event at the cafe.

Since that guy had asked me to call Ethan along, I was the one who told Ethan about the maid cafe.

Of course, I didn’t go to Ethan right after breaking up with the warrior. I met Agnes ‘by chance’ and talked to her. But I also had to secure a perfect alibi because Ethan might get angry if I said I talked to the warrior alone.

“Cafe?”

“To be exact, it’s a maid cafe, Lord Ethan. Originally, not only me and Luke, but also Princess Seraphine and Saintess Serista were planning to wear maid outfits.”

“I don’t know, but it would be a very uncomfortable cafe. Even if the saintess doesn’t know, would there be any customers who would dare ask the princess to order for them?”

“The princess will probably be doing promotional activities while wearing a maid outfit. In the first place, Princess Seraphine was a member of the student council, so she didn’t really need to participate in activities. It seems like she just wanted to do something with the warrior at the cafe.”

“If it’s to that extent, there shouldn’t be any problem. Since it’s a warrior party, there are a lot of familiar faces, so it won’t be that awkward.”

Since I had become somewhat acquainted with Agnes and Natalie, who were also in the fencing club, it wouldn’t be an uncomfortable situation for Ethan either.

Above all, Ethan had taken both the Humanities Exploration and Oceanography Exploration classes, so the warrior party was now a familiar group to him.

“Oh, and this is something you don’t necessarily have to do, but… .”

“Huh?”

“During the process of inviting Ethan and me, they talked about how it would be better if the men wore butler’s clothes and promoted it to the female guests.”

“… Butler’s uniform? Me too?”

“… … Yes.”

He nodded cautiously to Ethan, who pointed at himself with his finger and asked again.

For Ethan, who has lived as Prince Blackwood up until now, the butler’s uniform must be quite embarrassing. And having to wear it in front of so many people might feel somewhat burdensome.

So, although I was somewhat prepared for my proposal to be rejected, Ethan surprisingly accepted my proposal rather calmly.

“Yeah, that’s not bad. Well, it’s a little unfair that only women wear maid outfits.”

“… Are you okay?”

“Even the princess or the saintess wears it? It doesn’t make sense for me to insist on doing it because I don’t want to. In the first place, wouldn’t that guy, the warrior, wear it too?”

“… Yes.”

“Okay, then. The story and the activity content are almost complete, so it seems better to focus on that rather than preparing something else now.”

“Thank you for understanding, Ethan.”

… Ethan’s butler outfit, honestly I’m a little excited.

The festival preparation plans had gone more smoothly than expected, so now it was time to start preparing to run the Maid & Butler Cafe in earnest.

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And then, three days later.

The warrior party, Ethan and I, are having a lunch meeting in the VIP room to begin the full-fledged maid & butler cafe activities.

Originally, only ten people were supposed to gather, but once the seats opened, two guests who weren’t specifically invited took the seats.

“How have you been, Agnes Youngae? You’ve gotten prettier since I last saw you.”

“… Haa, it’s you again? It’s annoying, so don’t stick close to me.”

Prince Antonio, who now naturally attends the warrior party events and sticks next to Agnes.

“ Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t stare too hard… . I, I know that I am beautiful, but I already have a partner, so I, I can’t respond to your kindness… .”

“… … Yes?”

And there’s even Princess Mezlen, who I don’t know why she came all the way here to show off her princess complex… no, princess complex.

When we decided to set the VIP room as the meeting place, I had somewhat expected Antonio’s presence, but I really didn’t expect Mezlen to get involved.

‘Why is he suddenly here?’

The Maid & Butler Cafe isn’t really an event related to Harold, so I wonder why they’re trying to get involved in it.

Children like Thomas and Natalie who first saw Mezlen were taken aback by her absurd personality. Of course, that kind of personality wasn’t something you could get used to just by encountering it often.

‘Considering Mezlen’s usual personality, it might just be because he couldn’t find anyone else to do activities with.’

Even if she is a princess, it would be difficult to become close to someone with that kind of personality.

In the original, because of her background as a princess, she had several blind followers, but in this world, it seems that she was unable to create even such followers because of me and Harold.

She was the one who spent most of the first semester talking to me and building a friendship, and then spent the summer vacation with Harold.

“If you’re going to open a maid cafe anyway, it wouldn’t be bad if there were more people. Well, please take good care of me, Prince Antonio, Princess Mezlen.”

Fortunately, it seems that the warriors have no intention of abandoning the princess who has become lonely, and they plan to bring Prince Antonio and Princess Mezlen to this event.

However, when Prince Antonio heard the words of the great warrior, his eyes widened and he looked at the warrior with an urgent look.

“Wait a minute, warrior. I think I misheard something just now.”

“Yes?”

“Me, a maid cafe…? Are you saying that you were planning to take our Agnes and make her work in such a rude establishment?”

“… Ugh.”

Agnes was gagging with a disgusted expression, perhaps because the expression ‘our Agnes’ was offensive, but on the contrary, Prince Antonio’s expression was quite serious.

“Is there any problem?”

“Of course! Maids are basically beings who must be loyal to their master’s orders! Are you trying to tarnish our Agnes’ honor by forcibly reducing her to a lowly status?”

“… … Yes?”

“Ah, no! I absolutely cannot tolerate a store with such obscene purposes! Look, as you can see, they are probably thinking of doing all sorts of obscene things to our Agnes Youngae, saying that it is their basic duty as a maid! Yes, for example, making her bathe naked! ”

“… What on earth is a maid in Prince Antonio’s mind?”

It seems that upon hearing the word maid, she immediately thought of the maids at the palace where she lived. After all, the maids working there were people who had to unconditionally obey any orders given by their masters.

Of course, maids in ordinary noble families, not royalty, are treated fairly well. Except for special cases like Ethan’s release in the fallen world.

“Well, I don’t mind you guys doing lewd things in a maid cafe or something, but I, I will never let our Agnes Youngae participate in such acts… .”

-Pfft!

“It’s just a cafe where people wear maid outfits and pretend to be maids. What kind of strange store are you imagining?”

“Ah, Agnes Youngae… . I, I’m just worried about Agnes Youngae… .”

“And don’t call anyone else ‘our Agnes’. It makes me want to throw up.”

“… Sorry, I’m sorry.”

Prince Antonio, who had created a strange atmosphere with an absurd misunderstanding, was subdued by Agnes.

After that, after hearing the explanation from Gyeom and Seraphine, I barely managed to understand what a ‘maid cafe’ was.

Just because you wear a maid outfit doesn’t mean the existing noble hierarchy will be ruined or anything. You’re just pretending to be a maid, but in reality you’re a noble lady, so no guests will be rude to you.

“In the first place, a maid is not someone who listens to what you tell her to do, Prince Antonio.”

“But Brother McHart… . I, I remember that the maids I saw usually took care of men’s night shifts.”

“That’s just because ‘that guy’ is a mess. It’s wrong to think of that as a normal master-maid relationship, Antonio.”

“That’s right. A typical maid doesn’t serve her master at night, nor does she serve him in the bath naked, Prince Antonio.”

“… Is that so?”

“Yes, Antonio. Common sense tells you that you wouldn’t accept such a request just because she’s a maid. … Well, there are exceptions, but that only applies when the relationship is not normal.”

Seraphine was strangely glancing at me and Ethan while saying ‘unusual relationship’, and Ethan and I were quietly avoiding eye contact with her.