Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Now then, my long house-sitting has begun, but I don’t know what to do.
For now, while remembering to keep singing, I guess I should mainly focus on developing new skills?
Anyway, let’s just water the garden while singing first.

get the ch.o.r.es done first

Now then, I’ve finished watering so let’s get started on developing skills.
Currently, I think that in terms of a skill that I can develop and will help in a fight, increasing variations of [Ballad] would be the fastest.
If I master [Cleaning] or [Dissection], that might become fighting strength in a way, but even if I became able to fight a little, that won’t change anything.
Then it would be more logical for me to serve as a full support role.
And so today will be a day where I just keep singing nonstop.
But just singing would be a waste, so I’ll weave while singing.

don’t forget to drink up.

Eeeh, [Prayer Song] seems to have the effect of raising defense.
So I thought it would be good to have a song that raises attack and tried singing songs that felt like they have high attack power.
Like fast super robot songs.
……it’s fun when everyone gets jealous every time I sing this in the original key at a karaoke. Mhm.
I must have been born a girl just to be able to sing this in the original key so easily, mhm.

sry hecate is tone deaf

Conclusion.
Eeeh, it’s difficult.
It kind of succeeded, I think, but the activation is not consistent.
Choosing a song is difficult.
When I go for the opposite of [Prayer Song] and choose uptempo and major chord songs, it kind of activates but…… will it be different once I get used to it?
I don’t have troubles choosing songs for [Prayer Song] though.
And when I took a look, [Wish Song] was displayed next to [Prayer Song].
Hmmm, the naming is confusing.
Who is the one who names the skills?
……G.o.d?
This [Wish Song] creates a different silver pattern that overlaps with the gold pattern when it activates.
After observing it for a bit, I could see that the pattern was something like swords radiating outwards.
After seeing it like this, [Prayer Song] also looks like kite s.h.i.+elds radiating outwards.
welll….it would just be diamonds otherwise
I don’t think [Wish Song] is overwriting [Prayer Song], but rather overlapping. Both patterns remain and the feeling from [Prayer Song] doesn’t disappear.
Okay, let’s keep singing like this.

throats?

Just that my throat started feeling weird from singing too much so a break for now.
It would defeat the point if I explored for new skills too much and became unable to sing [Prayer Song].
So until my throat recovers, I will experiment on that one-piece dress dyed with bay laurels……
……ah, I should’ve gotten President to [Appraise] this. A—h, I messed up……
mauke

Ah well, it’s fine, I can check it on my own anyway, probably.
First, I investigated any differences due to surface area and type of cloth.
Do you get the same effect with low surface area or is more surface area better?
An experiment on that.
I had weaved four types of cloth while singing just now, acetate, lyocell, rayon and cuprammonium rayon.
They are all regenerated fibers. Rayon is that one that is often used for the lining of clothes.
Cupra would be the high-cla.s.s version of that.
rich version?
I cut all four types of cloth the same way and sewed one-piece dresses, T-s.h.i.+rts and bandannas.
Then dyed them with bay laurels.
I had gotten them to gather a lot of bay laurels too, so I’m using those.
For the colour fixing, I’m using iron colour fixer for all of them to keep the conditions the same. They will all end up grey, but it’s an experiment, that can’t be helped.
important to keep things constant
Then I tried wearing each of the dyed clothes and used [Cleaning].
The target is wood. The product is combs. The shape is moderately complicated so I thought it would be perfect.
……ah. Come to think of it, I forgot to make them bring combs or hair brushes.
They’re using the toothbrushes they each had in their own school bags, but they don’t really use hair brushes……
Well I was enjoying that Suzumoto’s hair became like the main character of a shounen manga every morning.

fun

Okay, results.
First, the surface area of the cloth.
This is clearly related.
Basically, the more cloth surface area there is, the slower your run out of MP.
Just that even though the difference between the bandanna and the T-s.h.i.+rt is quite large, the difference between the T-s.h.i.+rt and the one-piece dress feels quite small relative to the difference in surface area.
If surface area were the horizontal axis and effect was the vertical axis, it would feel like a logarithmic curve, probably.
(T/N: The original was actually axises the other way around with an exponential curve, but that’s mixing up the independent and dependent variable so no)
Or it might be that relations.h.i.+p between price and cost of the newest model compared to two models older, like for telephones and PCs. Cost performance.
eeeh…okay?
Next is material.
There was hardly any change for this.
I couldn’t tell a difference so I’m pa.s.sing on any further deliberation.

no point

And so that would mean with a certain amount of surface area, you can get the effect.
Then I shouldn’t be wearing the maid uniform! But the maid uniform itself might have effects, so I decided to just combine them.

maid must have maid clothing

The maid uniform consists of a black long sleeve one-piece dress, an ap.r.o.n, a ribbon for the collar, a long underskirt, shoes that are like ballad shoes and the maid-san’s standard headgear. Since the maid uniform is made up of those parts, I replaced the long underskirt with a cupra one dyed with bay laurels.
I can get quite a bit of surface area from this. Even if the volume is small, the actual amount of cupra in the whole skirt is quite a lot.
……this, rather than an underskirt, is more like a petticoat……?
Mhm, doesn’t matter. I lose if I care. Mhm. I will call this an underskirt. Then it’s fine. Mhm.
With this, I tried to make combs from wood with [Cleaning] again and it went well, it is effective.
Good good. This is working.
After all, if you are inferior physically, you can work on your physical abilities, but changing your equipment is also an option. I will keep going with trial and error.

research

As I was doing that, it became night.
I am the only one.
I am alone.
Solo dinner is lonely but can’t be helped.
I made dinner for one and ate it slowly.
Mhm, it really is lonely. Are they alright?
They should have arrived at the area near the ruins by now.
But I don’t know what their situation is, so until 10 at night, I kept singing every 30 minutes.
just in case
10:30 at night, to bed.
Come to think of it, this is the first time I’ve used the futon. It’s quite good. Hmm, futons really are great.

let the floofiness heal you

I woke up. Good morning. It is currently 6. Today, I am all alone too.
I made breakfast, ate it and quickly started on work while singing.
got to work to survive
Today, I am thinking of making starch syrup.
As for why, the wheat I had soaked in water has sprouted, so I thought of extracting maltose.
I dissolved the starch from the potatoes in water and warmed it to make starch paste.
After letting it cool to slightly warmer than body temperature, I crushed the sprouts and mixed them together.
Then I just leave it until the starch breaks apart and forms maltose. I’ll make it into starch syrup tomorrow.
(T/N: if the process is wrong, please tell me, I’m not familiar with it, just translating what is there, but might misunderstand some steps)

i dont know these things

With this I ran out of starch again, so back to squeezing potatoes.
……I’m already tired of grating potatoes with a file, so I used [Cleaning] to make a (wooden) grater. The efficiency goes up a lot with this. Mhm.

finally

Ah, on that note, I’m using a bunch of water, but it’s fine.
There’s the amount stocked up by Hagasaki-kun, but more importantly is my [Watering], if I have enough water to fill up the watering can, an infinite amount of water just keeps coming out, so I didn’t need to worry about running out of water.
Hmm, I was a fool for not noticing.

yes you were

It became time for lunch, so I made a simple one and ate it. Hmm, it really is lonely.
death by loneliness?
After lunch is a dyeing experiment.
When I looked at my dog tag, separately from [Clothes Manufacturing], [Dyeing] had been added on.
This skill is a terrifying one that can dye cloth in an instant if I have the cloth and ingredients.
No need for water or fire. How economical.
And so I tried dying with rosemary and mint immediately.
Bay laurels have [Increased MP Recovery Speed], rosemary and mint have [MP Recovery].
But I feel like the effect gained from using laurels as a dye was probably something like [Increased Maximum MP] or [Reduced MP Consumption].
It can’t be just increased recovery speed, rapid-fire works.
ah, makes sense
And so, what effect would [MP Recovery] become?
Do mint and rosemary have different effects?
What will happen if I mix them?
Let’s experiment.

and explode

Conclusion.
The effect became [Increased MP Recovery Speed]ish.
The different in mint and rosemary would be the delay and amount.
Mint feels like it is constantly recovering bit by bit while rosemary recovered a large amount after a short delay.
eh….?
And if you mix them, something interesting happens.
Look, it went back to [MP Recovery].
But this is extremely important.
I had been dying bandannas to avoid wasting too much cloth and dye, but there is MP packed into the bandannas……basically, the bandannas are something like MP batteries, when you want to recover MP, you can absorb it from the bandannas and recover it.
Also, after recovering a certain amount, the MP in the bandanna completely disappears.
If you redye it, it can be reused though.
MP potion(?)

And the most important part about this is the fact that it probably recovers more MP than chewing on the mint or rosemary would.
It is something like 1 + 1 becoming 3. That thing. Buy 2 get 1 free.
And it’s cloth, so it’s easy to carry around. Just that you need to put it on otherwise there is no effect.
For the bandannas, just holding them doesn’t work.
You can only use it if you tie it onto your body somewhere.

so out of combat?

There were other things I was curious about, like what happens if I mix laurels, mint and rosemary, but it is about time for dinner, so it’s time to stop experimenting.
I leisurely prepared dinner while singing.

but! suddenly!

But, a sudden change in events.
Could it be, could it be, could it be!

There was a knock on the door.

……eh? Why? They already came back? Isn’t that too early?

the end

Hecate misspelled dyeing experiment as dying experiment initially……got a pretty large shock when I read that when editing.