Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 16

Oka—y, since everyone has come back, let’s get started on a not lonely meal
“First, have a look at the presents we brought back.”
And so I peeked into the chemistry lecture hall after they set it up and, the, presents……foodstuffs, herbs, even equipment, a lot of things were in there.
Errr, looking through the food, there were deep blue pears (the flesh is pale blue), purple persimmons, white apples, carrot-coloured radishes, stupidly large pumpkins, soccer ball-sized onions, spherical yam, then ginger, garlic, basil and lavender. And worthy of special mention, sugarcane and rice! Rice!
Ri! ce!
It’s rice. Yes, it’s rice. That is rice.
About an eighth of the lecture hall was filled with rice.
Actually, they showed me the physics lecture hall afterwards, it was just about entirely filled with rice.
Even if only the stalks have been removed and it hasn’t been threshed, it really is rice.
With this much, we’ll have enough for quite a while!
Wo—w, just having rice causes such a difference for the state of mind.
There was also some familiar foodstuffs like wheat and tubers.
And there was also another of those boars with blades for tusks that they had just brought down, so we will be going with that for today.

with rice

I immediately polished the rice with [Cleaning]. Making it 70% polished rice must be because of my preference.
While boiling the rice in a clay pot, I quickly finished up gutting the boar.
By the time the rice was boiled, I was done gutting, so I transferred the rice to a container I made from wood with [Cleaning] and while steaming that, since one clay pot worth of rice won’t be enough anyway, I started boiling a second round.
I put thinly sliced boar meat into a bowl with seasoning made from grated ginger, soy sauce and starch syrup and left it alone for a while.
On the side I made a soup mainly based on radish.
Then I fried the meat from before on a metal plate with cut onions and that’s today’s meal.
Eh, main dish? It’s not the fried pork with ginger, it’s the rice.

ofc

And we had dinner. Ye—p, it’s nice for it to be lively. It’s nice to not be alone!
“Co—me, co—me, eat up.”
Everyone is already eating without me needing to say that though.
“It’s been so lo—ng since we’ve eaten a proper meal.”
“When we do it, the rice turns out either hard or watery……ah, listen to this Maito-san. Because of that we came up with a way of cooking rice by boiling it until the water is gone!”
“Ah, the way to cook indica rice. That method is useful when you’re in a hurry.”
The 2 that have joined us……Toriumi and Kariya gave the customary response, well, that does make me happy. They are also pitiful though, what have they been eating before this.
badly cooked rice
“First, someone please give me a quick report about the expedition.”
“Ah mhm, sorry, I’m busy eating so I leave it to you, President.”
“I am also busy eating, so I leave it to Hagasaki-kun.”
“I’m also busy eating so Kadomi-kun.”
I don’t care who just do it already.
“E—h……e—rr, where should I start from, e—rr, first when we explored the ruins, there was a bunch of equipment, we gathered that and that was the end of the first day, on the second day, we found some swirl? I don’t know, at the deepest part of the ruins……and when we entered that……a—h, I can’t do it, Katori, pa.s.s.”
Do you really pa.s.s there, Kadomi-kun?
“Eh? Me? E—rr, after we entered the swirl, we came out at some place we’ve never seen before. It was colder than here. Then when we explored there, we found the physics lab.”
……physics?
“Eh, physics?, Physics……was on the third floor right?”
“Yes. Basically, the swirl in the ruins seems to be connected to the third floor of the school.”

…..teleport or other world?

Th, that’s a great discovery. Mh—m, the information I obtained pales in comparison, kind of as expected.
“Then Toriumi and Kariya were in the physics lab so we met up and that was the end of the second day. On the third day, we picked up the physics lab as well as the physics lecture hall and office that were relatively close by, gathered food around there and came back. The rice was stocked up by Toriumi and Kariya before that, so we just confiscated that.”
Ho—h. ……hm?
“Toriumi and Kariya, weren’t you two in the information room?”
“Eh, a—h……mhm, we did start in the information room but……”
“Since we were surrounded by riajuus, they were like kimootas should die and we were sacrificed to monsters.
(T/N: Kimoota, kimoi otaku=disgusting otaku, too lazy to explain riajuu and otaku, if you don’t know go read more jp novel translations or watch more anime~)
Eh, what’s that, sounds scary.
sacrificed….
I didn’t really understand what they were saying, so I asked for details and apparently there were 18 people who started from the information room including Toriumi and Kariya.
Then after searching around inside the information room, everyone armed themselves and they all went to explore outside.
But they happened to encounter zombie-type monsters, or to put it another wa—y, a group of very disgusting looking monsters.
The girls were frightened by that group of monsters and panicked.
So when the monsters attacked at that time, the girls were in a panic and useless in the fight, and they ended up at a disadvantage just like that.
When that happened, the girls and some boys ran away.
Furthermore, instead of just running away, they ran away by pus.h.i.+ng other students into the group of monsters in their place, so for the rest, including the students pushed in, it became even more disadvantageous.
And so those that didn’t run away but weren’t pushed in, were not able to fight and had no choice but to run away, abandoning the students who were pushed in and surrounded by monsters……which were Toriumi and Kariya.
………..brutal
“How did you guys survive that situation?”
“A—h, my profession is [Monk]……so I was somehow able to purify the whole place, and we somehow made it with that.”
I see. All the monsters being zombie-type was their only luck in that unluckiness.
“Just that Kariya fainted after that for some reason……so I had to carry him and somehow escaped, then I saw the physics lab across a river, so we evacuated there! It was uninhabited so that was perfect.”
“There was a lot of rice around so we didn’t have trouble with food.”
I see, then the situation wasn’t that bad.
“Then after that is just the details of my life with Toriumi. Yes.”
“I am a [Warrior] and Kariya’s a [Monk], so our balance was good, was also part of it?”
Aa—h…… Mhm. How to put it, these guys has a bunch of luck in that unluckiness.

lucky or unlucky…

“Okay, Maito, it’s about time you gave us an explanation. What is that huge wolf? And what is that suspicious writing on the black board?”
A—h, we finally came to that. Mh—m, I don’t really want to. I don’t want to but I have to.
confess!
……and so after I explained roughly, the conclusion was [If we find f.u.kuyama kill him].
At least capture him alive.

then kill him?

“So, didn’t you just get a means of transport?”
……ah, that’s right. That’s right!
If I get Ketorami to let me ride him, I can go at the same or even higher speed than everyone, and Ketorami also seems to be very strong so most monsters would be scared of him and stay away, so my safety is also guaranteed!
“So am I released from house-sitting?”
“……that’s fine, I think. If we leave you here than someone like f.u.kuyama might come again. You guys, how about it?”
Ooh, Hagasaki-kun’s cover fire, unusual. ……f.u.kuyama-kun probably had a large effect on that though.
“I also think that’s fine. Just that there is also the fact that Maito can only exhibit her true potential indoors, so we need to consider a balance for that. Also, err, Ketorami? Was it? We also need to see how it is.”
Suzumoto also gave an OK. Since no one else had any particular objections, it was decided that I would come along on the next trip. Hyahoooooou! I’m finally free from house sittiiiiiing!

FREEDOM

“By the way, Maito-san, there’s a few things I want to confirm.”
After we finished dinner and I was cleaning up, President suddenly raised a hand. Yes, go ahead.
“These s.h.i.+rts, what are they? They have an [Increased Maximum MP] effect.”
Hou hou, very well. Let me explain.
totally intentional
And so I presented the results of the dyeing experiment, it was particularly well received by those that use magic, Hagasaki-kun, President, Katori and Kariya, so I am going to be making a few more new sets.
Mh—m, I want to make ones that increase HP at some point.

for the tanks~

“And when we were out on the expedition, your [Ballad] skills increased right?”
“A—h mhm, it increased. Did your attack power rise?”
“Yes, it increased our attack power. It seems to be able to overlap with [Prayer Song] too, so please continue with that.”
Ah, oh yeah oh yeah. I need to ask this too.
“E—h, when you met up with Kariya and Toriumi, was the song’s effect applied to them?”
“Ah, mhm. It was. Actually, it was there since the second day of the incident. So we were like, what’s thi—s?”
……eh?

….????

“Oi, that’s the first I’ve heard of that, wait, Katori and Hariu?”
“Eh? Mhm, it was also there for us since the second day. We found out it was Maito-san’s skill after joining up here though.”
……eeeeeeeeeeeh!?
“……Kadomi-kun?”
“Had it.”
……eeer, eeer……I, I can’t. I can’t understand it.
Why did it apply to these guys but not to f.u.kuyama-kun? Is it that? It won’t apply unless I recognise them as allies?
Conversely, as long as I recognise them as allies, then no matter who or where, it will apply?
…..there’s no way to confirm these so it’s on hold for now.
For now, what can be said, is that there is the possibility I was unexpectedly useful.

that’s nice

“Ah, oh yeah! Everyone! I don’t care who, but someone learn the [Ballad] skill! There might not be a need for that anymore though!”
Yes. I had noticed during this house-sitting, having a skill like [Ballad] that applies to distant allies can serve as a safety check and give peace of mind.
Since I’m released from house-sitting, there might not be a need for it, but once I explained to them, they agreed readily.
It seems they had also been worrying about the lack of a means of communication.
“So, the question is, who will learn it?”
Mh—m, it’s not like anyone here is tone deaf, so I feel like anyone could do it if they tried.
Logically, it would be someone in the rearguard, as I was thinking about that, Kadomi-kun raised a terrifying suggestion.
“I’m a little curious……this skill……what happens, if it was done as a choir?”
……if you don’t know, experiment.

what’s the worst that could happen?

“Okay, then let’s go—, rea—dy sta—rt.”
Since there an extremely small number of songs we all can sing, for now we tried singing the school song.
……the ratio of male to female voices is too high, the balance is the absolute worst.
The bad balance aside, as we sung, the room started glowing.
And then as it felt like it was shaking a little…..it floated.
Everyone got surprised, stopped singing and the building gently landed.
……I don’t really get it but, mhm. Let’s not sing the school song anymore.
levitation song
After that we sung all of the few songs that we all know and the result was that singing together doesn’t make much of a difference.
Mh—m, something might happen if [Ballad] skill bearers sung together, but normal people singing together doesn’t change much.
But the school song……the building floated. Mh—m, I don’t get it.

school spoirit

Then after whacking everyone with the feather duster, it became time for bed, and trouble broke out.
……a struggle over the futons.
Outbreak of the first futon war. No, it’s probably not the first though……
Yes. Since we have 2 more people, there’s not enough futons.
I had prepared clothes in advance but I forgot about futons……
It can’t be helped, so I handed over my futon and tanned pelts, I will be sleeping buried in Ketorami’s belly.
And then they started pus.h.i.+ng my futon on to each other because n.o.body wanted to use it for some reason, but that’s not my problem.
the mofumofu bed!
“Ketorami—”
When I called for him loudly, Ketorami came running out of nowhere.
It took less than twenty seconds. Coming immediately once you call for him, he really is useful.
“Become my futon.”
Please? Please? When I begged, he sat down and curled up with the expected [Ca—n’t be he—lped] feeling, so I buried myself in his stomach at once, but, it smells a little. Mh—m, this is a problem.
“Ketorami, can I clean you?”
When I asked, he made a [Do as you like] face, so I pofupofu’ed him without any reservations.
……with the surface area being what it was, I’m strangely tired.
“Okay, then good ni—ght.”
After dusting myself with the feather duster as well, I once again buried myself in his stomach and this time it became an extremely comfortable bed. The feeling also became a little different.
It’s lighter, softer and warmer than the best down futons!
Being able to sleep in this is happiness.
Mh—m, it might’ve been a good thing I’m a maid.

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