Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 18

I was depressed since I was the only whose profession didn’t chang but I’m fine. I am fine. I will be fine.
For now, since it is clear another futon war will start tonight, can’t be helped, I made futons at super speed right before bed time.
It’s easy since I had the cloth made from before. I sewed 4 huge sacks, stuffed them full of fibers until they are poofy and the futons are done.
“Here, Toriumi-kun, Kariya-kun, use these.”
When I presented the futons, they were super thankful.
Seems like they had been sleeping wrapped up in the physics lab’s curtains before they joined up with us.
Aah, there was that too. We didn’t have to use cardboard, newspapers and packing materials as beds, we could’ve just used the curtains.
But now we have futons! It’s futons you know? Futons.
Our bedding is probably the highest standard among the people that were thrown here like us.
……ah, thinking about it carefully, as long as there isn’t some strange person with strange skills like me, futons would be a thing of dreams.
Thinking about it that way, the profession of maid doesn’t feel so bad.
After all, it’s futons you know?

important

Today, my futon (in the end everybody didn’t want to and n.o.body used it for some reason) came back to me, so there is no need to sleep using Ketorami,
……there’s no need but.
When I went out to at least greet him before going to sleep, Ketorami-san was already standing by with a face saying ‘You want to sleep using me as a futon again right?’
O, oh, if you say that, then I’ll be intruding.
After pofupofing him again and making him clean, I climbed into Ketorami’s stomach to sleep.
Good ni—ght! ……err, I take back what I said earlier.
The one who has the highest standard bedding is not us. It’s me.
The best bed is not the futon. ……it’s Ketorami.

mofumofu

And morning arrived.
“Ketorami, morning. The weather is good today.”
He made a face like ‘Just get off’ so I got off. Seriously, Ketorami is such a tsundere-san.
Now then, let’s make breakfast.
tsunderes everywhere
I decided to try making bread for breakfast. Bread with fruit jam, thinly sliced smoked meat and vegetable soup.
Ooh, looking at it like this, the level of our meals really have risen.
As I was indulging in sentiment, Kariya woke up.
“Ooh, you’re early.”
“Good morning. Really? I’m usually like this though.”
For now, I pofupofu’ed him with the feather duster.
“This feather duster really is convenient.”
“It’s more of the skill than the feather duster though.”
“Ah, then would it work with a different feather duster?”
“……no idea.”
“With a huge feather duster, would you be able to [Clean] a lot at once?”
“……no idea.”
Mh—m, well, I’m curious about it so experiment.
I made a simple feather duster with a wooden stick and torn cloth. The size is slightly large.
Toriumi just happened to wake up then, so he’ll be the lab rat.
“Mo—rning pofupofu.”
“Mo—rning. What experiment is this?”
“Feather duster ability experiment.”
When I pofupofu’ed him there was that mystery light, so I could tell the skill activated.
Hmm, it doesn’t matter what kind of feather duster it is?
……okay.

what’‘re you planning

Not everyone has gathered yet, so I’m gonna go ahead with feather duster making.
I made a long wooden pole with [Cleaning].
……even though I made it, it was so heavy that it didn’t seem like I could use it, so I tried making it hollow to lighten it and it’s a lot better this way, so let’s go with this.
Then I stuck long, narrow pieces of cloth on the end, and it’s complete.
A huge feather duster my height.
Would this increase the range of cleaning?

……………….the image….

And so, experiment at once.
“Ketorami—, I’ll clean you so get a little dirty.”
Even while making a face like ‘What’re you talking about?’, Ketorami rolled around and got covered in dirt. Mh—m, how kind.
“Thank yo—u. Now then, [Cleaning]!”
When I waved the huge feather duster, oh wow, the area of the mystery light is clearly wider!
And where a normal feather duster needed dozens of pofupofuing, with just 2 or 3 times of pofupofuing using this, the cleaning is done!
It was a good thing I made this huge feather duster.
With this, [Cleaning] Ketorami every night will be easier!
Ah, incidentally the MP consumed seems to be slightly lesser too.
Could it be that the area cleaned and number of times the feather duster is waved affects MP consumed, something like that?
For the huge feather duster, the number of times I wave it around is lesser after all.
a lot
Now then, since everyone finally woke up it’s time for breakfast.
Bread was popular among half of them. The other half seems to belong to the rice faction.
As for me, I honestly don’t care so both are fine.
From now on, I guess I will alternate rice days and bread days?
….fair enough….but i’d rather rice
“Today, I think we should bring Maito out today. We just need to take note of whether Maito can keep up with us and whether she gets injured when we battle with monsters.”
After breakfast, those wonderful words came from Suzumoto. I finally get to come along on the exploration!
“Understo—od.”
Mhm. Of course I won’t do something rash like try to be part of the fighting force.
I was already a minus. Just becoming a zero is difficult.

ganbatte~

“By the way, how do we lock up?”
“……ah, I see, there are now certain people we don’t want coming in.”
Well, I don’t think it will happen, but in case f.u.kuyama-kun or the like comes by while we are away, it’ll be troublesome if things are stolen.
“If you are not house-sitting then let’s just bring the lab with us. President can just surround the garden with walls.”
A—h, I see. Oh my, how convenient. Rooms are things that can be carried around.
“……so, are you bringing that?”
“Mhm.”
“Can’t it be a normal feather duster?”
“I also have a normal feather duster though.”
Isn’t a huge feather duster romance?
……..maybe?
After fiddling with this and that, I succeeded in securing the huge feather duster to my back. I secured it so that I can pull it out immediately if necessary.
It’s that. It has the atmosphere of a great sword, it has that kind of feeling. It’s a feather duster though.
When you draw it, it’s not a sworddraw but a dusterdraw.
……stop
“Okay then, let’s go. Maito, absolutely do not do anything rash.”
“Understo—od.”
After putting away the rooms and surrounding the garden with rock walls, we set off.

into the wild!

Thinking about it, this is the first time I’m coming along on a proper exploration.
Mhm. They walk quite fast.
Their walking speed is the speed of a light jog.
But it’s only a slightly fast walk for Ketorami-san.
It’s a comfortable speed for me who is on his back. Mh—m, is it really okay for me to be the only one having it so easy?
accept it
“500m forward to the right! Probably deer or boar! 3 of them!”
When Toriumi suddenly shouted, Suzumoto, Kadomi-kun and Hariu dashed off instantly.
……af, afterimages? What was that? Are they really human?
And then after a short while, we heard the signal, and when we made it there, they had already taken down 2 boars.
“One escaped.”
“Mhm, isn’t this fine?”
While having that conversation, they took out the physics lab, threw in the boars and put it away.
Mh—m, the physics lab is being treated like the item inventory in games.

real inventory

As we went on, there were a couple more battles with monsters, but they dealt with it easily.
Mhm. There was no turn for me from the start, there really wasn’t.
“We’re about to enter the mountainous region, is it okay? That wolf?”
When Hagasaki-kun said that, I recalled the map that President taught me before.
Mhm, he did say it becomes mountainous after leaving the forest.
A—h. I see. Meaning the ground will get a lot more uneven, so it might be tough for Ketorami-san.
“Ketorami, the ground is going to become uneven, are you going to be okay?”
He made a slightly proud face that seemed to say ‘Who do you think I am?’, so he should be fine. Probably.
he’s a big dog
And in fact, as if he was walking on level ground, Ketorami stepped from rock to rock elegantly.
Mh—m, amazing.
In terms of pure speed, he overwhelms everyone else.
Ketorami-san isn’t going all out after all. If I became able to cope with Ketorami-san’s full speed, we would be able to move at a speed no one can keep up with.
Of course, in terms of fighting strength alone, I have absolutely none, so that would be a lost cause.
It’s that, I really am just baggage.
Why? Ketorami-san can only move like this because I’m on his back, if I weren’t riding him, he would be able to pounce on prey and tear it to pieces faster than anyone else.
Currently we are keeping watch with Toriumi’s [Perception], but if Ketorami-san got serious, he seems like he can detect enemies at a wider range with higher accuracy.
So if Ketorami was not a set with me, he would’ve been a dramatic increase in fighting strength.
……I, I’m beyond help!
at least a zero now
Well, I also kind of, have a plus part too. Kind of.
“It should be about time for lunch.”
And so, we set up the lab right there.
While everyone disarmed and entered relaxation mode, I got started on preparing the meal.
I instructed Ketorami to go have his meal. But I also told him to come back earlier. No, if I call, he’ll probably come though.
And after some quick preparations, I made a simple meal (Sandwiches which is just meat, vegetables and tomato sauce between slices of the excess bread I had baked this morning with vegetable soup).
Well, it’s not much so it took about 15 minutes.
……this, was fast apparently. Somehow.
When they went on their expedition, they took 2 and a half hours to make a meal.
Everything was at beginner cooking level.
It was something like peeling the skin of tubers taking thirty minutes and dismantling the meat taking two hours (because of this they only gutted for the first time and ate smoked meat afterwards), so that shaved away a lot of exploring time.
Well, if the time taken to prepare a meal suddenly became 1/8, that would be fast.
“And it’s delicious. What’s this.”
“Mh—m, what was all our efforts for?”
“Seriously, what have you guys been making and eating?”
……and so, I am actually quite a plus in terms of support for daily life.
I feel like I’ll lose if I consider whether this or the increase in efficiency by letting Ketorami join the fights is better, so I won’t think about it.

nah, ofc maito wins

And then after resting for an hour, we set off again.
Ah, on that note, we are headed towards the ruins.
By comparing Toriumi’s [Perception] with President’s [Mapping], they apparently found out there were still places they haven’t explored, but since I was waiting, they gave up and came back.
finish the job
Less than an hour after setting out, we arrived at the ruins.
That huge building was made of materials that screamed ‘this is a school corridor!’ Mhm. I see. It wouldn’t be strange for there to be something in there that fulfills the role of a staircase.
Mhm. I had President show me the map, this certainly is the place where the stairs should be.
The chemistry lab was the cla.s.sroom right next to the stairs.
……how to put it, the cla.s.srooms, or the facilities, or the installations are scattered very differently. The chemistry lab and chemistry office was quite close together and the toilet was relatively close too.
Mh—m, why is that?
….saa?
And so, into the ruins……not! Why!

useless?

That’s obvious, it’s because Ketorami can’t enter the building. d.a.m.n i—t.

the end