It's been a week since I recruited those two, and the Kiddo's nightmares and crying at night is getting annoying so I called them both the next day, but before they enter the room, I made a male android that looks like a villain and told them to serve my 'guest' while I make some items from my room.
At first they were very scared, even more so for the kiddo who literally cried albeit a muffled one, the moment she entered the room. But I forced them in-directly saying that if they don't get rid of that trauma I'll throw them away. I don't like being gentle around trauma victims because I firmly believe that making them face their fears or traumas will solve their problems, so I forced them to serve the guest for an hour.
Later on I came back and we 'talked' as if we were talking about important things in English just to make a 'conversation' so it won't look weird to the girls. Then I told the two to take care of him while I do something at the workshop and I'll be back at night.
Unfortunately they didn't get over it in a day, as expected. So I stopped at night when I 'came' back. The next day, I told them that the larder's out of food and gave them 100 silver coins and told them to buy foodstuffs in the town. I had my satellite follow them around but they literally waited outside the town for an hour before they built up the courage to enter the town. Inside the town they were very 'twitchy'. Getting visibly scared at the sight of men near them, though Cat-Mom doesn't get scared that much but the Kiddo is worse, my satellites didn't 'see' them crying but based from the actions of the Kiddo, she's actually crying, further proof is when Cat-Mom took her to an empty lot, kneeled and hugged her for 23 minutes before letting go.
(AN: Larder: a room or large cupboard for storing food.)
I sighed as they finally finished shopping and came back. I greeted them when they came back, and they acted as if nothing happened but from their eyes were swollen and they look gloomy. Then I told them that the 'guest' will come back tomorrow and they'll entertain him while I make some more items in the workshop. The Kiddo was reluctant and tried to speak but the Mom spoke first and said yes, so the Kiddo wasn't able to speak up.
The next day, I had both of them spent the entire day serving the guest, just to get them used around men again. Then I 'accidentally' spilt a glass of water at my guest and 'apologized' profusely, then I told the girls to help my 'guest' change his clothes. As it was an order from me they couldn't refuse if they wanted to, so they took the 'guest' at the bathroom to change.
From the video feed of the android the Mom was having trouble touching a man but she's acting as if there's no problem at all but the Kid? The Kid has her eyes clothes the entire time. My 'guest' asked in a bit of a cold voice as to why her eyes are closed. The Kid cried and Cat-Mom excused her out then she alone proceeded to help the 'guest'.
Later when they came back to the sitting room, my 'guest' asked me if he could stay here for a week, as his 'work' in Baraham wasn't done yet. I 'agreed' to let him stay 'as long as he wants'.
Then we or rather I spent the entire week trying to 'help' them to get over their trauma around men. And in the midst of those I did some subjugation quests that's nearby the town just to have an excuse to leave my 'guest' alone with the two Cat-Ears. I also did some 'risky' stuffs like having the two help the 'guest' in bath then getting clothed and sometimes the 'guest' surprised them by 'casually' greeting them from behind and the 'guest' ordering them.
Finally, after 2 goddamn weeks of being around men they were now able to talk and touch men without problem, especially the Kiddo, I'm sure they haven't gotten over it but this was enough to let time take over and heal them so I had my 'guest' leave and go 'home'.
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Felicia
"Mama… I'm scared… I don't want to get close to boys anymore. *Sniff*."
"Don't worry honey, I'll take care of everything so don't worry okay?"
I hugged Mama, it always feels nice to hug Mama since I can forget bad things that happened whenever I hug Mama… I feel sorry for crying in front the guest, especially in front of Ojou-sama but… if it's to help Mama, I'll do it even if it's scary.
*Snif*
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Felicita
I can't let my fears get me… I… I finally have a place I can call home, a place where me and my daughter could live happily and at peace… I have to get over my fears…
I don't know what will happen to us if Ojou-sama throws us out… I… For my Daughter, even if it means selling my body again I'll do it!
"Felicia… Mama loves you very much so don't worry okay? I'll protect you so don't be scared okay Honey?"
I tightly hugged my daughter before letting her go.
"Un." *Sniff*
"Now let's swipe that nose of yours, Ojou-sama might not like it if you spread your dirty snoot around the Mansion."
"Mama!"
"Ehehe... Now blow your nose okay?"
"Un…"
"Well done Honey. What do want to make for dinner today?"
"I think we should ask Ojou-sama…"
"Hm… Ah! I know! What if we make your favourite meal?"
"Fried Fish?! I love you Mama!"
"I love you too Honey."
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Razgriz (POV)
I always ask the Girls to have dinner with me whenever I eat in the dining room. So I took this chance to make a 'casual' conversation.
"Felicia."
"Yes Ojou-sama?"
"You mentioned having been an adventurer before stopping due to pregnancy correct?"
"Yes Ojou-sama. I was just an F-ranker back then."
"Where is the father?"
The dining abruptly stopped as I mentioned her husband. Yes. I know. It's a landmine but I wanted to be sure.
"Papa… *Sniff* " Cat-Mom immediately hugged her daughter at her mention of her 'Papa'.
"Don't cry Honey… I'll always be here for you…"
" *Sniff* Un…"
"So?"
"Ah yes, My Husband died protecting us from Bandits 2 years ago."
"Hm… I see."
Since the Kiddo continued to cry, I stopped there and let it go.
Next day I told them I'll be gone for some adventuring work and left them 5 gold coins and 100 silver coins.
"O-ojou-sama! Th-this is too much!" Felicita, please try not to shout that loud next time.
"S-so much money…."
"It's fine. I may be gone for a day or two so take care of the house and yourselves for me."
"Bu—"
"No buts Maid-kun"
Leaving them unable to reply I head towards the town's adventurer's guild to get a quest or two but as soon as I started finding which quest to take the Guild Master came up to me and asked me to participate a culling quest. When I asked what kind, he said that every year they cull the number of goblins and other rapid-breeding monster species around the town as to prevent them from overrunning the place.
"So you'll accept then Razgriz-dono."
"What if I say no."
"W-what! Please re-think! There are lives at stake here."
"I've no need for rewards, I merely take quests just for the fun of it and I only take short-term quests as I do not like waiting."
"But the lives at stake…"
"Then call the army or the knights or something. It's the job of the country to protect its citizens from inside and outside threats."
"We already called for the knights to send a team of 10 knights, but they'll arrive next month. The travel from Soir, which is the nearest city here takes a month on horseback."
"What about requesting help from nearby towns and villages?"
"They too have their own problems, so they can't—"
"Why is it that there's no city or another town between this town and the capital? It's strange no matter how you think of it."
Yep, even in medieval earth times, many cities and villages can be travelled within weeks, some even days but not months. And that's on foot.
25 km is the average distance a man can travel on foot and that's from sunrise to sunset. Athletes and possibly Armies or military personnel could cover around 50 km in around 12 hours on foot. On horseback, the average distance covered is around 60 to 100 km in a single day, this means that to cross… say… France, it'll take from 12 to 20 days.
"…The kingdom built another town before this one, it was originally called 'Braham', but it was destroyed in a monster raid, then the survivors from that town were forced to move here and built upon this once small outpost into a town out of necessity. Ever since then we've taken it as a responsibility to cull monsters near the town as to prevent the tragedy from occurring again. So please, Razgriz-dono, lend us your strength."
I don't need your bow. Also, that travel time is friggin' long.
"I don't need your bow. I'll take the quest but with a condition."
"R-really?! But… what condition?"
"I'll do it in a day."
"In a day!? That's impossible! Braham Forest is large and you have to take into account that they could also be hiding in the abandoned town!"
"So you don't want me to help then?"
"T-that's! *Sigh* Very well, I'll contact the others—"
"No need. I told you I'd do it in day. Alone."
"Wha?!" He creased his eyebrows and eventually agreed seeing as he has no chance in changing my mind.
Then words around us began to form as the spectators spoke of various things in a low voice.
"Is she serious? In a day? That's impossible."
"That's a bluff, last year it took us a month to finish it."
"Hah. A-Ranker or not, it takes a while to scour the region against monsters."
Yeah shut up.
"Might I ask what'll you do?" Guild Master…. Ugh.
"Use 'magic'."
"What kind?" Seriously? Now you're suspicious of me?
"No need for you to know."
He sighed before telling me to gather the dead bodies of the monsters in the clearing inside the forest. Then I left and went towards the forest.
As I arrived, I began a regional scan from my satellites and ships in-orbit to find every single life-form large enough to pose a threat, starting from snake sized things to monsters bigger than men. Results tell me there's around 214,620 monsters in the area, animals not included.
I didn't use my Pillar Drive nor Blink-tech but I did use my rail-piston augmented legs to go around at the speed of sound and killed 185,462 and left 29,158 monsters of various kinds with at least several pairs as to ensure that the local ecology does not collapse.
Then I used the runes given to me by the Guild Master, he said to use this when I'm done. I scanned the rune to while I'm at it but sadly, this too does not give me anything useful except for the fact that runes, or at least this one, has a bigger dimensional interference and also in a slightly different 'pattern' than what Lindy showed me.
As the Guild's representative came, together with his escorts they gaped at the sight before them… Welp, it was a literal mountain of corpse so… yeah.
I left them as soon as I told them that I'll report back tomorrow. Of course I used my rail-augmented legs to travel back. I could've used Pillar Drive but I may encounter something interesting so I chose to go with the former, this is a fantasy world after all.
…I look forward to their reactions tomorrow.
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AN: Yes I do believe that forcing people to face their traumas will help them greatly but I do understand that it's a very risky thing to do.
Also, unlike speaking Japanese, it's very hard to add 'character' or 'traits' or something to character lines in English. Though I can't write Japanese, I find it easy to add 'character/traits' to lines whenever I speak or talk in Japanese.
My name is Felicia, me and Mom were saved by this amazing lady we call… uhh… ahh… R-r-ru-raz—Anyway! Ojou-sama is AMAZING! She help us from those bad guys and saved Mama! Now we live in her house and we serve as Meids!
And there's a lot of amazing things in Ojou-sama's house! Like the lights! They turn on and off when you push the thing sticking out of the small white box on the wall up and down!
Then there's the fowntain! It shoots out water upward! And it seems to have endless supply of water too!
And Ojou-sama is such a nice noble-sama too! She always answers me whenever I ask something!
"Ojou-sama!"
"Yes Nekomimi?"
"…That's not my name but… What is that blue thing on top of the house?"
"Blue thing? You mean that one with lines running into it?
"Yes! That!"
"They're called 'Solar Panels'."
"So-solar panels? What does it do?"
"It powers the house."
"Powers the house? Why does it need to power the house?"
"If it doesn't power the house, you won't be able to use those lights you were so amazed about."
"OH! I UNDERSTAND! As expected of Ojou-sama! Amazing!"
"Being praised by a child is… a little weird but whatever."
(AN: Razgriz spoke in English.)
Sometimes Ojou-sama speaks those words but I can't understand it. She also smiles weirdly sometimes… But even if Ojou-sama is weird I still lover her! She saved us after all!
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Sometime Later.
Razgriz (POV)
"Ojou-sama Ojou-sama!" Hai, Ojou-sama desu.
"Yes Nekomimi?"
"Is there a sea below us?" Wut.
"What? Why do you think so?"
"Because the water in the fowntain is not running out!"
How do I explain it in a way this Kiddo will understand?
"No Nekomimi, there's no sea below us but the reason the water doesn't run out is because the water that flows out of the fountain gets sucked back inside the water tank where it gets recycled and flows back into the fountain."
"I don't understand but I understand! Ojou-sama is amazing!" Really Kiddo?
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Sometime later
"Ojou-sama Ojou-sama!" Ojou-sama dayo.
"Yes Nekomimi?"
"Why is your room so cool?"
"Cool?" What cool? Did I add something cool? I just added a normal Master's Bedroom. Oh! Maybe… "You mean Cold?"
"Yes! There's no Ice but it's cold! Like when it snows!"
"There's a device—A thing called 'Air Conditioner' in the room that enables someone to raise or lower the tempe—I mean to make the room cold or hot."
"Heeh….I don't understand but, you're amazing Ojou-sama!" Oi. Da hell.
"Ojou-sama Ojou-sama!" Wha!? Felicita you too!?
"…Yes what is it Nekomama?"
"…Nekomama?"
"Nothing, so what is it?"
"Ah! A fire in the kitch…….."
Ahh…. So peaceful, so boring yet still fun. It doesn't make sense though.
You need to design a way to have the 2 'Maids' go through a 'Boot Camp'.
The mother was a former adventurer before she had her child, so get them both into shape!
So they can get over their Trauma! By being able to defend themselves from all the abusive types! Besides yourself.
Not that you are abusing them physically.
Will the Guild Master or Town Mayor visit you and comment on how 'Awesome!' your Mansion is?
I see this.
"…The kingdom built another town before this one, it was originally called 'Braham', but it was destroyed in a monster raid, then the survivors from that town were forced to move here and built upon this once small outpost into a town out of necessity. Ever since then we've taken it as a responsibility to cull monsters near the town as to prevent the tragedy from occurring again. So please, Razgriz-dono, lend us your strength."
I didn't use my Pillar Drive nor Blink-tech but I did use my rail-piston augmented legs to go around at the speed of sound and killed 185,462 and left 29,158 monsters of various kinds with at least several pairs as to ensure that the local ecology does not collapse.
Then I used the runes given to me by the Guild Master, he said to use this when I'm done. I scanned the rune to while I'm at it but sadly, this too does not give me anything useful except for the fact that runes, or at least this one, has a bigger dimensional interference and also in a slightly different 'pattern' than what Lindy showed me.
As the Guild's representative came, together with his escorts they gaped at the sight before them… Welp, it was a literal mountain of corpse so… yeah.
It may be annoying, but you need to make a small ( To you ) outpost area/ relay base between your Mansion towards this nebulous Capital.
To also deal with the mountain of monsters to process it for materials and prevent a disease/ health outbreak. You know how fragile fleshy bodies are! To also study for magic.
It took you 2 hours to do your mansion, why not find the site of the former town and clear it out, building the processing center with High walls & Defenses?
If the great Razgriz Ojou-sama did that, they will no longer leave her alone.
There will be request to do this and that, nobles that try this and that (among others, engagement, bribery, and assassination), and all kind of annoying stuff.
Better be the flighty Ojou-sama that do as she wish.
Don't solve all the world's problem.
In fantasy setting, that kind of things only invite attention from Greater Powers.
As a reminder, the fact that there is no magic from you might be because your current body is fully mechanical (nanolical?).
IIRC, you are, in fact, able to use Psionic if you build a specific type of body that is able to do that.
Is it not possible that magic is similar?
More research on magical creature's biology is needed.
I didn't add it but the Guild Master didn't expect me to finish the quest the same day he asked me, it was slated to be started when the 10 knights from Soir comes. This part'll be explained in the next chapter just as I've planned.
No, no, no, no, no.
If the great Razgriz Ojou-sama did that, they will no longer leave her alone.
There will be request to do this and that, nobles that try this and that (among others, engagement, bribery, and assassination), and all kind of annoying stuff.
Better be the flighty Ojou-sama that do as she wish. Don't solve all the world's problem.
In fantasy setting, that kind of things only invite attention from Greater Powers.
As a reminder, the fact that there is no magic from you might be because your current body is fully mechanical (nanolical?).
IIRC, you are, in fact, able to use Psionic if you build a specific type of body that is able to do that.
Is it not possible that magic is similar? More research on magical creature's biology is needed.
It does seem peaceful.. 'Too Peaceful'.
The young one needs a Education.
You need to design a way to have the 2 'Maids' go through a 'Boot Camp'.
The mother was a former adventurer before she had her child, so get them both into shape!
So they can get over their Trauma! By being able to defend themselves from all the abusive types! Besides yourself.
Not that you are abusing them physically.
SDM is too big for 2 girls to take care of, they'll eventually get into shape due this alone.
Also, I may not have a boot camp for maids until Ojou gets some actually competent maids.
With things as it is, most of the cleaning were being done by the nanomachines. Not that the 2 maids know about it.
Will the Guild Master or Town Mayor visit you and comment on how 'Awesome!' your Mansion is?
Are you saying that you are using the Ultimate Lifeform as a template of your body?
Please show that on the story.
Just read the mind of people, and mindflay the annoying one after you finished with whatever you wanted to do.
While tech is an OOC solution to much of the fantasy world's problem, solely depending on it might limit your further development.
Variety, redundantness, and non-linear skilltree is the word of the day there.
After all is said and done, even Drich Dai-Sempai-Sama have many skill tree on his/er/it's arsenal.
And as they say, "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery", no?
I wrote it... when was it? Is it back on Muv-Luv? Anyway I wrote about it. So the SI's body is indeed a cybernetically augmented organic body instead of a pure machine-body. As to be able to use Psionics.
Not exactly 'Ultimate Lifeform' as the Avatar from XCOM2 was based from Humans which was modified extensively.
Mine used just plain old XCOM1 Alien-tech to make the Avatar, though sure her Psionics are better and more powerful than her XCOM1 and 2 counter-parts, her Avatar is no match against a legitimate Avatar from XCOM2 in terms of pure Psionic Might. Hence I added a bunch of ridiculous combat-based augments like the micro-fabricators hidden inside and the rail-pistons in the legs and arms.
Also I may be a casual genocider and/or a mass-murderer but I fully respect one's privacy of the mind and will not use Mind-reading and Mind-flay unless they fully deserved it. Also if they're arrogant and pompous.
Also I may be a casual genocider and/or a mass-murderer but I fully respect one's privacy of the mind and will not use Mind-reading and Mind-flay unless they fully deserved it. Also if they're arrogant and pompous.
Hng! Getting greeted by Cat-Eared Maids is really something. Back in Earth if you do this you'd earn quite a lot.
"Ojou-sama? Did you have a problem in your adventurer work?" Hn? Why? Oh! It hasn't been 4 hours since I left.
"No. It's already over. Prepare tea in the living room. Earl Grey."
"Yes Ojou-sama."
I handed my jacket to Kiddo and waited at the Living room. As the dining trolley came I couldn't help but wonder aloud.
"Still… it's amazing that you learned to make Black, Earl Grey, Chamomile, Rose and Peach teas in just a short span."
At my praise. Felicita became fidgety and embarrassed.
"T-that's because the books you had were quite easy to understand. Thanks to the image instructions, it was quite easy to learn even without reading the words."
"I see. You have no problems with reading then?"
"No, Even Felicia was having a fun time reading picture books in the first floor."
"I see. Be honest with me, is the workload too heavy for you two?"
"…Yes, sadly I was not the kind of housewife my husband deserves so my laundry skills in particular are sloppy and my cooking isn't fit for Ojou-sama's taste so I take too much than needed in the kitchen…"
Aww… don't look so sad, it makes me want pat you in the head.
"Well I didn't expect you two to be able to handle that kind of workload so I'll find more hands to hire."
Cleaning is mainly done by the nanomachines so their workload is severely light as it is but the sheer size of the mansion isn't doing them any favors. Gotta find and hire more maids or create them… I think I'd do the former.
If I can't then there's slavery. Slavery is allowed in this country and I have no problems having slaves but I still can't stand seeing them abused so I avoid them and the slaveshops if possible.
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Guild Master of Baraham, Ofspir's POV
T-this is big Mansion! I know the reports said about a mansion made in mere hours but I didn't expect one built that fast to be this big and splendid! W-what's with that person! Just the sheer glamorous looks of this mansion is enough to most probably drown someone in debt and turn them into debt slaves! She had this much money!? J-Just who is she?!
"Ofspir-dono, are you sure this is the right place?"
I'm not sure myself but most probably.
"Fon-dono, this Mansion is indeed the place." I answered.
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Mayor of Baraham, Fon's POV
What?! To think there's someone having this much money to build this Mansion… How come there's no circulation of money!? Guild Master may know the answer.
"Ofspir-dono, are you sure this is the right place?"
"Fon-dono, this Mansion is indeed the place."
"How is it that I did not receive word from the town's Builder's Guild. It was not mentioned in any reports."
"…It's because this Mansion was bought recently and it was built by the buyer, the A-Rank adventurer, Razgriz-dono herself using means unknown even to me."
"The incident of the 1 day mansion?"
"Indeed it is that."
…I must know how she built this place, and my cousin, Viscount Barolo-sama may want to know this.
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Razgriz POV
While I enjoy my peaceful tea-time an over-excited brat came and broke the peace. I sighed in defeat as the Kiddo probably found something interesting… Again.
"Ojou-sama! Someone has come looking for you. He says he's the 'Guuu-geeld Master'!" Hm?
"Felicia… stop shouting to Ojou-sama it's not proper to do that."
"Yes Mama!"
"Mou…"
Oi… Stop having fun you two, I'm getting jealous. Anway.
"You mean Guild Master? If so then invite him to the sitting room, I'll be there shortly."
"Yeeees!"
"I understand, should I make tea?"
"Yes, prepare black teas with scones."
I changed my clothes into my usual one without the jacket and the hat then I went to the sitting room. I arrived at the room to find not only the Guild Master but 3 other people with him, they all stood up as I proceed to my side of the table. I took notice of Felicita's slight nervousness at my sight and her glancing at the two men in the back.
"Razgriz-dono, thank you for receiving us. I would like to first introduce to you the current Mayor of Baraham, Fon Barstos-sama."
As he introduced me to another guy, he offered his hand but I couldn't help but notice that they had the gall to not hand over the weapons to my maids inside my own house.
"Felicita, did you ask those 2 men in armor their swords?"
"!! T-that's… I asked for it but…"
(AN: Death-stare = Glowing eyes while staring down on someone.)
I don't care whether you're the goddamn God, the Emperor, King or Queen of a country or two but I will not tolerate disrespect towards me in my own goddamn home. And so I flared my Psionic and dragged those men down and presented my guests my death-stare while I casually sat down with my legs crossed.
"Gah!"
"Arg!"
"Wha!!"
"Razgriz-dono?!"
"I don't care whoever the fuck you are but you're inside my house. The only ones who can hold their weapons inside my house are my servants, honoured guests, and people I expressly gave permission. And you're not one of them."
"R-Razgriz-don—"
"Shut up Guild Master. You brought someone disrespectful inside my home, you're partly responsible."
"Ugh! Fon-dono…"
"!! I am sorry for my men's disrespectful manners, please find it in your heart to forgive them." Yeah, bow down bitch, I am the master inside this house not you.
"Not until they hand their weapons over."
"Ug.. You two, hand your weapons over. Now."
Unfortunately for me, they complied this time and I wasn't able to have my fun any further and let the two go. Still I haven't let my death-stare go away so while Felicita collects the weapons, I continued the 'conversation'.
"So what have you come for?"
"We would like to thank you for your help on this year's monster culling. As such we've prepared a large sum of monetary value for you. Ofspir-dono."
At the Fon dude's words, I detected a dimensional and spatial interference, I got alarmed and prepared to intercept and stop them but I still waited for them to finish, thankfully it was just a magic-bag being opened and several large pouchs were taken from the smaller magic-bag.
Hm… So that's a Magic-bag, I thought magic-bags were expensive… Ahh… but since he's the Guild Master I think it makes sense if he has one.
Raised my above just below my head to get their attention.
"As you can see from my mansion, I don't need money."
"But…"
"Fon-dono, may you leave this to me?" *Nods* "Razgriz-dono, you have already stated that and as such I would like to ask you if Magic-Items are preferable?"
Hoh? I would like that but… Priorities first. I want servants, educated ones if possible, speaking of which… Are there educated slaves? Let me try.
"Yes but more than that. I need people."
"People?"
"Loyal and competent people to take care of this Mansion."
"I see… Would educated-slaves be preferable?"
I knew it.
"Find me a capable butler then we'll call this even. And I'll even forget today's incident."
"I see… Fon-dono?" *Nods*
Afterwards the Mayor tried getting me to meet this 'Viscount' of his through his lip-service but since I was being obstinate and there's also the incident with his guards, he easily back-down. Probably to not earn my Ire. Soon they left and I had Felicita return their weapons and coats to them and I went back to enjoy my once again peaceful tea-time.
While enjoying my Earl Grey prepared by my Nekomimi-meido. I was reminded, no thanks to those two guards of that Fon-guy, that I have no guards at my Mansion. Thankfully I was also reminded by my own Psionics that I've got XCOM1's Alien-tech, so to fix my slight stupidity, I designed a humanoid combat platform to act as infantry. I also made them emp, water, fire and vacuum proof in case I may need to use them in several environments, then I also added a microfabricator inside, hidden extendable blades in the forearms, leg thrusters, built-in elerium optical laser, and a very simple A.I. Then I armed them with 1 Gun-Halberd and one Gun-Shield.
I sighed in defeat as I wonder what the hell was I thinking, making a Mansion without security droids or personnel? I guess those walls made me complacent, I BLAME THEE, WALL! Anyway, I fabricated 130, hid the 100 underground and spread 30 all over the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Now a certain Miko and a certain broom-riding magician would be deterred if they ever tried entering.
Next day, I told the two that I may be late today, Felicita, as usual, asked me as to what I'll be doing, I merely told her I'd go hunting and she wished me luck. While it was true when I said I'll hunt, I never said anything about hunting prospective maids so I went into the only slave-shop in town.
There I was greeted by a very cliché fatty with grubby hands. I almost mistook this guy for that guy in that commerce guild, they look so damn similar. And the slave-shop is… surprisingly clean actually.
"Customer-sama, what may offer to you today?" Stop rubbing your hands together… Seriously stop.
"Educated, female, any race. Maid."
"I see! Please wait while we gather the merchandise."
Then I was presented with a line of thin-robed women, all young and good-looking, I see several races ranging from what looks like an elf, feline-kin, canine-kin and even children.
Looking around I found one gloomy looking Elf and asked about her.
"She's a half-elf former maid. Due to her race no one's bought her."
"Why is that?"
"It an old belief among elven people in the past, it was once considered a bad-luck for a half-elf to be born. And also the fact that half-elves are weaker than full-blooded Elves magically, even weaker than Human Magic-users whom are considered the weakest magic-capable race."
I merely hummed and proceeded to further look around, sadly no-one else caught my eyes so I bought the half-elf for 10 gold coins, why I bought her? 'Cause she looks damn similar to a certain maid in a certain anime about outbreaks and companies. Just tie her hair to a twin-tails and I won't be surprised if Shin*chi calls her My*l.
Then the Manager(?), came back and asked me for a drop of my blood, when I asked why's that needed, he answered professionally.
"Using magic, we'll bind her to your blood, with this she won't be able to hurt you and will follow any order you wish to give her."
"Then there's no need for that."
"Wha?! Customer-sama, are you sure? She may run away or hurt you."
"She can't run nor hurt me."
"… Very well Customer-sama."
As the purchase was concluded he thanked me for the purchase and asked me one last thing.
"Would like her delivered?"
"No need. Just clothe her with something else other than that thin robe."
"Very well then, you, go get her dressed."
As I received my purchase and left the slave-shop I led my new maid into an alley where no one was looking and I tried asking her to close her eyes but she suddenly stopped me and spoke herself.
"Um! Why was I not bound?"
"Because there's no need to."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why… D-d-do you plan on a-a-abusing me too..."
She tears up and took a step backwards. Hm… Let's play along.
"I do. Why? You don't want me to?"
"Hii!! Please forgive me! Please don't hurt me!" She cried but fortunately we're on an alley with no-one to hear.
"Why would I hurt you?"
" *Sniff* B-b-ut didn't you s-said you'd abuse me?" She asked teary-eyed. What's with this cute creature?
"Yes but I never said anything about hurting you." In a physical sense. "Just close your eyes and this will be over quickly. If you don't I'll hurt you." In a mental sense.
"Hii!! Okay…"
As soon as she closed her eyes, I teleported us back in front of the SDM then told her to open her eyes again.
"W-wow!! This is… Big and Beautiful!!" Praise me more!
"Follow me."
Later on I asked Felicita to show her around, and when Nekomama asked who is she, I forgot to name her.
"Myuel" Your name will be Myuel."
"Myuel…"
"Felicita, she's the new maid, show her around and show her the ropes, give her a room in the maid barracks then learn from each other."
"Yes Ojou-sama."
"Also Myuel, once you wear the uniform, be a dear and tie your hair to side-twintails."
With that. I left the two to get things sorted out. As I arrive at the Living Room I realized that I forgot to order a tea. Since the two are busy going around the mansion and the kiddo is at the back, at the garden, cleaning. I was forced to make tea myself…
…Isn't this why I hired Maids for?
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AN: I took time searched for an Image that depicts Felicita closely and this was the closest I could find, I'm a bit color blind but just imagine the girl in this photo as a brunette and a longer her and you'd get Felicita.
This time's Master is… weird… she didn't have bound with obedience magic and she said she'd abuse me but she also said she won't hurt me… I don't know what she meant by that… I could run-away but if the slavers found out they'll chase me… I don't want to get chased again…
"Etto… Myuel right? What's wrong? You look down?" This person is called Felicita, she's a feline-kin Maid, she told me that she just started to work here recently and that it was a nice place to work and live in, I think she's not a slave but I'm not sure.
"N-nothing… I just don't look forward to Ojou-sama abusing me…" I said dejectedly…
"Abuse?! Absolutely not! Ojou-sama will not hurt someone without reason!"
Hiii!!!! Why is she shouting at me?!
"B-but she s-said… that s-she'd abuse me…."
"Ojou-sama may say mean things but she won't hurt you!"
"T-then why did she say she'd abuse me…"
"Hm…. I don't know… Why not asking Ojou-sama?"
"A-ask Ojou-sama? Isn't that… bad?"
"Why is it bad?"
"W-what if she didn't like it when I asked?"
"My daughter always ask Ojou-sama about things and Ojou-sama always answer, there's no way she's going to dislike you for asking something."
"B-but…"
"Oh, we're here, this is the Maid Barracks' Bathrooms you can use either the left one or the right one, and there's a closet inside of each filled with Maid Uniforms of various size. Go take a bath and get changed, I'll wait for you."
"Okay…"
I wonder if I'll be fine in this Mansion, Ojou-sama seems like a scary person… Is she a half-race like me? She did have a snake-like eyes…
Areh? Eh? What? W-w-w-what's with this uniform?! T-the skirt is too short! W-why is the upper breast exposed?!
If you really want novelty, just put a request at the Adventurer Guild for the Tea to Rule Them All.
The recipe is recovered (imperfectly) from an ancient long lost civilization:
1. The tea leaves are found on a very specific kind of tea plant that can only be found in the Doom Mountain. It lives by absorbing the exhalation of Doom Dragon (because normal mountain and dragon is too mainstream).
2. The leaves must be plucked from the youngest to the eldest with the perfect timing of 0.04 second between plucking, with the max time of 19 second of total pluck time.
3. The leaves must be dried and spiced with magically captured lamentations of the women left behind by your enemy.
4. Add character by using some salt in the form of concentrated children's' tears.
5. Enjoy
[Yeah, I have no idea how to make tea, but the recipe sure will give novelty for the tea]
Ps: credit for Susanoh 13 for point 3 and 4 taken from his story on SB.
The Guild Master came together with the Butler he promised, he was a half-lizard and half-human red-head who once served a long-gone baron house. I interviewed him and asked 'where is his former masters now?' and he merely answered they were killed by a rival house and only a few servants including him were left alive. After the interview, I immediately hired him as he actually had experience being a Butler and the fact that I immediately need people to lighten the overall shared workload.
Mikhail, the half-man half-lizard Butler
(AN: Just imagine him having scales in the neck up until his cheeks then half his hand.)
Then I told him several house rules and the most important of all of them, I am the rule. After that he asked me if he could temporarily go back as most of his stuffs were in an Inn in the town. I agreed of course and I thank the Guild Master for finding me a Butler, he merely said it like it was the normal thing in the world.
It's not normal for someone to find a butler for them. That much I know so this means this guy is probably currying something from me. Then he left saying he still has a job to do.
When the Butler, Mikhail, came back, I told him about the two feline-kin's traumas and that he should be careful around them, then also told him that aside from Myuel, the other two doesn't have formal maid training and he should be a little lenient if they made any un-maid-like mistakes. The Butler merely bowed and said 'Yes Ojou-sama.' And poured tea for me. He's already doing his Job eh.
"I didn't ask because the Guild Master was here but why haven't been hired by someone else?"
"…That's because of Racial Discrimination… No noble would hire a half-ling, even a poor one."
"What a stupid reason, what's wrong with having scales? I don't see anything wrong with it, in fact it actually helps."
"…Ojou-sama, not everyone thinks the same way as you do."
"Hmp. Enough of that, have you been showed around by the others?"
"No Ojou-sama."
"I see, then go get them to show you around. I'll be fine on my own."
"Yes Ojou-sama."
Now then… I was actually expecting a Golden Retriever headed Butler or someone with a 'Sebastian-y' feel to them but Mikhail'll do. But first let's update into my security's 'to protect' list. Don't want 'em to get attacked by my own droids by mistake.
A week has passed and in between those I took up several subjugation quests and completed them, all of them in the same day. Since it was getting quite boring I now plan to restart my study on Magic. And first among the list are magical animals or beasts, like low-dragons or other animals or beasts that can use magic instinctively.
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I went around far and wide, captured many magical animals and beasts alike, studied them to even to their atomic structure, sadly I couldn't find anything substantial, I mean I found out how a dragon breathes fire by capturing a salamander and fire-boars using several special organs but I can't or rather I couldn't find a way to understand how to 'give' them magical properties. I made a clone of both the salamander and the fire-boars but when I instructed the clones to do a 'fire-breath', the clones always burp goddamn gas. And that's fucking it! Seriously!
The originals didn't have any igniting organs nor were there any substance inside of them that can ignite something but somehow they were able to breathe out fire and act like they're goddamn flamethrowers! Thanks to those one of my labs in the underground base went kaput when they spit fire on me after I opened their containment unit. As revenge I had them cooked and eaten for dinner, quite tasty though.
But the fire-element magical beasts were the easiest among the other elements. At least he fire-boars and the salamander had a proper organ to produce flammable gas albeit they don't have any igniting substance or organ but the wind? The earth? The water? Those three? They don't make any goddamn sense!
The most annoying thing of all is that the dimensional interference I detect whenever a magic were casted is that the waves and frequencies I'm receiving were… It's as if the interference never existed in the first place because they were so fucking faint and yet they're more potent than human casted magic! IT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS! AND I'M NOT MAKING ANYMORE SENSE!!!
Lightning-Eels were thankfully, easy to understand since they're basically over-engineered versions of their Earth counterpart but I did detect a dimensional interference whenever they use their magic. And apparently they can also float, albeit for only a few seconds and not that high, around 12 cm at best and then be an electric-magnet of sorts.
And please don't get me started on 'light' and 'dark' elements… I had a hard time capturing a light element monster called 'Holy Wisp' since it was in a semi-ethereal, meaning, they can go phase through objects or materials of certain density. And dark is… dark… both literally and metaphorically. I am completely lost as to what they are and how do they work, I can't even begin to conjecture something about them.
Another thing that doesn't make sense were the magical items I keep hearing about. I bought a very cheap 'Red Potion' or what gamers call 'HP Potion' and tested it on a bird captured in my Garden. The results were… fascinating, how they work is very similar to my meld-based medkit, meaning they act like nanomachines which sutures wounds and replenishes a certain amount of blood and 'construction' materials for the cells. Would someone kindly tell me as to how a red liquid with very, very miniscule amount of radiation and with 'lively' microscopic pulps were able to heal a flesh wound?
The 'Blue Potions' are also similar to 'Red Potions' and yet very different from it. While the HP Pots do have a small faint dimensional interference, the MP Pots was, metaphorically, a mass of dimensional interference, and the interference were all so identically similar to each other, like a perfect copy but there's atleast one, small, tiny bit of a wave that's different from the others. While HP Potions heals wounds and energizes someone, the MP Potions 'energizes' ones' mind and has a 'calming' effect with it.
I tried both potions with my sensors at max and 90% of my processing power at standby to process whatever it is but in the end, like the others, still no dice.
I sighed in defeat knowing that I'll never be able to find out nor use this world's magic.
Since that is the case, the following days were spent with me improving my Psionics and adding more abilities, thanks to my research to those magical beings I got some nifty ideas, I added to my Psionics, I now have Electro and Pyro Kinesis installed.
With my upgrades finished and me feeling content, I spent the rest of the afternoon drinking tea.
The next day I took a goblin subjugation quest to test my new Psionic abilities and I'm happy with the results. I raised my proficiencies at them quite a lot. After I hand-over the subjugation proof, for goblins they are the ears, a party of 3 armored men and 2 armored women came up to me.
"Excuse me, are you perhaps Razgriz-dono?"
"Yes, you are?"
"We are the Lastimosa Knights Order Baraham Dispatch. We have heard of your Achievements from the Guild Master himself and we would like to thank you for doing the culling for us." Knight.
""Thank you very much!"" Party of Knights.
"You're welcome. Will that be all?"
"Unfortunately, no. We have received word that a low-wyvern has made nest around 9 hour walk east of us, it is near the border and we would honestly like to have your help in matter." Knight Party Leader.
"Wyvern…" Dragon huh. I want its DNA, I do have Salamander DNA but that's not a legitimate dragon but this? A legit Wyvern?
"I see, post a quest here at the guild and I'll accept it."
"Is that true!? Thank you very much!" Knight Party Leader.
"Would it be just six of us?"
"No, there's 10 of us, the other 5 are waiting at an Inn."
"I see, Contact me whenever you're ready to leave, my home is the mansion at hilltop."
"Very well then, again thank you very much."
As I left I couldn't help but ponder. Are dragon—Wyverns that much of a threat to a Knight? I know I shouldn't base everything from my one-sided information from various web and light novels that I've read but a party of 10 knights would've been enough to take a wyvern out. Then again that was in fiction, this time it isn't so I guess it makes sense for them to have as many people as possible. I do hope the Knight Party isn't full of melee combatants because that's a recipe for disaster against flying opponents like Wyverns. Then again, they are Kingdom Knights, it means they're military and if they're military they should be at least professional and knows how to use many weapons including ranged ones Finger's crossed, let there be at least 1 ranged attacker among them.
…There's no point if I took the Wyvern out all by myself after all.
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Baraham Dispatch Knight Leader, Durald.
"Captain Durald? Is it wise to hire an adventurer against a Wyvern?" Female Knight 1.
"If the Guild Master's words are true, then she'll be a great help to us. We might not lose someone this time."
I do hope to Goddess that the Guild Master's words are true. We've always been losing someone whenever we're dispatched into Baraham… As a Soldier, as a Knight, losing your comrades is still hard.
"Well I'll be happy if that's true. I didn't want come here but if we don't the Princess Knight will be forced to fight here. If something were to happen to her then the populace will go crazy." Knight 2.
"What did you expect from someone called 'Princess Knight'? Princess Alicia's very popular to the people after all." Knight 3.
"Let's all pray not one of us would have to write a letter to someone's home this time. I've written enough to last me a life-time." Female Knight 2.
We all do, Cecil. We all do.
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Razgriz POV
Do~ra~gon~ Do~ra~gon~ Do~ra~gon~
I'm looking forward to this time's subjugation. I can't wait to add that Wyvern's DNA to my database and hopefully my Avatar.
"Ojou-sama? You look happy today. Something good happen I presume?"
"…I merely look forward to hunting a worthy prey. Ufufu~"
"I see, then please be very careful Ojou-sama."
"Mikhail, don't be such a worrywart."
"I'm very sorry Ojou-sama, but I can't help but worry about our only Master with no Heir."
Oi. Is that sarcasm mix in there? Stop smirking Butler-kun. Besides, as long as my Union Core still exist, I won't die. And my Union Core is inside my Mothership, not in my Avatar. Ufufu~
"Prepare my bath. Also get Myuel to also prepare, I'll have her wash me." Ufufu~ Indeed.
"Understood Ojou-sama."
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Bath
Ahh~ Ah~ Ahn~ Yes that there~
"O-ojou-sama, please don't let out w-weird moans!"
"Nng? I can't help it if you're this good at washing someone's back."
"E-even so… releasing erotic voice like that is bad for my heart."
Hoyah? Myuel-kun are you perhaps… Ufufu~
...Later on that night, a scream was heard inside a certain Mansion's bathroom and when the residents of the Mansion investigated the bathroom, there they found a certain Ojou-sama taking a peaceful bath and her face looking all refreshed and glossy. And a maid down on the floor with a deep-red blush on her face and her eyes whirling.
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AN: I'll go to school now, tsk. I wanted to write more but fine.
Nah your writing indicate that you enjoy this. Honesty I have mixed feelings about the trauma and how the self insert deal with it. I guess I can accept it.
I always use a laptop whenever I write and I don't have any other computer, so the problem is that whenever I plug my usb keyboard in, it always wants to shutdown, everytime, due to this I can't write!
I know it's not overheating, I have a display telling me whenever the laptop's reaching max temperature or if my lappy is overheating.
It's think it's not malware, I've got malwarebytes and usb disk security always up and running with top priorities.
I think it's the keyboard or i've got a virus/malware in my system, I've been and still am doing scans hence why think it's not malware nor virus, probably the keyboard since my mouse which is also a USB-plugged one, does not make my lappy shut down when i plug it or any other USB device other than the USB Keyboard.
I could use the laptop's keyboard but it's not working out well for me since the laptop's letter 'm' key isn't working, hence why I have a USB keyboard to begin with.