Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 2

“Take ca—re”
“Make sure not to open the door until we knock. Got it?”
“Got it.”
There are 3 doors in the chemistry lab. 2 doors lead to the corridor and 1 connects to the chemical store.
The chemical store is a dead end, so entry and exit is only though 2 doors and the window.
Exiting through the window is also kind of, yeah, so exiting and entering would only be through the 2 doors, but since we really don’t know what will happen……while the 3 of them are exploring, I will lock the doors from the inside.
And then when the 3 of them return and knock, I will open it. Mhm. Safe.
I guess?
Now then, the 3 of them have gone out, so I’m free.
I’m bored.
There is nothing to do.
There was nothing to do so I stared out the window, but it was just forest so I stopped looking outside the window.
And so, since I am free, let’s clean the chemistry lab with the attack power 0 (estimation) feather duster!
As is common for school facilities, there is quite a lot of dust built up.
Moreover it is the chemistry lab full of guys only. There is no way anyone would clean. If I don’t do it, no one would ever do it.
……also, how to put it, by moving around, I can also, distract myself.

from worry

But the feather duster is such an old-fas.h.i.+oned cleaning tool. Couldn’t it have been a ro**ba or a dai**n vacuum cleaner, I wanted something like that.
At the very least, that thing that spins around and gathers dust.
There’s nothing I can do about it, so for now I dusted the shelves with the feather duster.
Pofupofu. Pofupofu.
Is it clean now?
It looks like I can knock down the dust, but isn’t there a need to sweep up the dust with a broom or something?
……but then something impossible happened.
After I dusted the shelves a few times, the feather duster suddenly s.h.i.+ned.
And when the light faded, the remaining dust, even those in the corners, had completely disappeared.
What! This feather duster was a magic feather duster!
……did you think I would say that!?
What is this! There should be a limit to how unscientific you can go! The dust! Where did it go!? It disappeared! That’s impossible!
In the first place, why did this feather duster s.h.i.+ne. Where did that energy come from. And where did the dust go!

err…inside feather duster?

……I thought about it for a while, but this is a feather duster. I don’t understand how it works, but for now it cleans, so I will just ignore those parts and use it.
After all, that phenomenon can be reproduced, and every time it s.h.i.+nes the dust disappears…… I’m just going to stop thinking already, mhm.
And then until the 3 of them came back, I just hummed and continued going pofupofu with the feather duster, making the chemistry lab completely clean.

when you have nth better to do

The 3 of them came back about 30 minutes later.
Konkon, when I heard the sound of knocking, I hurried to unlock the door.
“We’re back.”
“Welcome home, masters.”
“Stop that, it’s disgusting when you say it.”
“How cruel.”
I tried saying that since I’m a maid but it was not well received. This savage exchange as per usual.
….you guys
“Maito-san, presents.”
President laid out a lot of fruit-looking things that he was holding on the table.
“Gr, green oranges, pink grapes, lemon-coloured peaches……”
An indescribable selection, but these, can these be eaten?
“Ah, they were actually quite delicious. They are edible.”
As I was wondering, it seems they already ate it. Let’s be a little more cautious!
“Ah, this too.”
Hagasaki-kun threw onto the table……frozen speckled birds. It’s size is slightly larger than a chicken and brown feathers with white and black specks. And 3 of them.
“Watsu isu disu”
“Birds.”
“Before that, why are they frozen.”
“I held up my staff and they froze.”
……Ah mhm, okay. Does that mean Hagasaki’s staff is something magical like my feather duster?
I shouldn’t mind the law on conservation of energy anymore right? Mhm.
“And, this is the main present.”
Suzumoto handed over a single-bladed knife with an 18cm blade……or rather, a kitchen knife. It’s design was quite nice. A good blade. Hmhm.
“It would be bad if you don’t have a weapon when you need it right?”
Eh, what, this is a weapon? Not a kitchen knife?
“When I [Appraised] it, [Holy Silver Kitchen Knife] was displayed. The weapon type is [Kitchen Knife].”
……just now, a lot of unfamiliar words just spilled out.
“Ah, [Appraisal] seems to be a skill that I got when I equipped this staff, it’s a skill that let’s me get information on the target.”
……hm? More unfamiliar words came out.
“……what’s, sukiru?”

skill

When I asked that, their expressions became awkward. Yes. I beg you, please stop, that hurts my heart.
“……show us your dog tag.”
Obeying Suzumoto’s words, I pulled out the dog tag that was hung around my neck inside my collar and showed it to them.
“Here, it’s written on the second piece, [Skill].”
Hm? It’s true. On the second dog tag that was empty until just now, there is a column with [Skill].
And in that colume.
“……[Cleaning].”
……I felt extremely uneasy, so I had the 3 of them show me their dog tags.
Suzumoto’s skills were [Decapitation] and {Single-Handed Sword Skill]
Hagasaki’s skills were [Ice Magic] and [Water Magic].
President’s skills were [Appraisal] and [Earth Magic].
Me, [Cleaning].
I repeat. Me, [Cleaning].
……what did I do to deserve thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!

be a maid

“By the way, what’s with this kitchen knife?”
“It was in a treasure chest.”
……Is that so. I won’t say anything anymore. I’m not going to say anything anymore.

accept it

“When we went out and walked a little, these birds attacked from above.”
These birds, would refer to this thing that I had beheaded and hung up to drain the blood.
The strange calls I heard from outside probably belongs to these things.
Outside, flocks of these things attack you? Scary.
Even if it was just a bird, if birds with lengths similar to a human’s shoulder to fingers attacked, that would be scary.
“So at first I cut it down with my sword and no problem. This sword is amazing. I’ve never used a sword, but I know how to use it.”
There was something like that in Suzumoto’s skills. It’s probably thanks to that.
“And then we found a tree with fruits growing on it, when we picked it, President seemed to be able to tell whether it was edible.”
“The information just enters my head. The name, is it edible, is there poison, how to grow it.”
Mhm, I won’t say anything. I’m not going to say anything about this anymore.
“And so we decided to pick it and bring it back if it’s edible, and when we were gathering it, more birds came.”
“I raised my staff and they froze, so we brought them back.”
“There was also a treasure box under the fruit tree. We couldn’t equip the kitchen knife, so we decided to pa.s.s it to Maito-san.”
……okay, I got it. This is……that right? It must be that usual other world thing right?
The laws of conservation of matter and energy don’t work here right?
OK, OK. I got it. I give up. I’ll give up but. I’ll give up but.
……seriously, why, am I a maid?

fate

“Come to think of it, can we use the fire or water here?”
Since it’s the chemistry lab, there’s a water and gas supply. So can we?
“Both the water and gas supply are cut off. Naturally.”
Because there’s nothing at the ends of the water and gas pipes. There’s no way anything would come out.
“That’s bad, never mind fire, but without water we’ll die.”
“For drinking water, we can somehow last a day with fruits, after that, there should’ve been stocks of deionised or distilled water in the chemical store.”
“We should keep that as a last resort. Okay, let’s go out one more time and find water. If not then we will compromise with fruits. As for fire, even if we can’t use gas, we should have had matches. Let’s bring back something that we can light a fire with as well. Okay?”
Eh, I’m house-sitting again?
“Maito……drain the birds.”
Birds. This frozen thing? Drain this?
Just as well as you can, saying that, the three of them went off. ……eeeh, how should I do this?

no fire to melt the ice yet…

I continued my battle with the birds.
After I chopped of the heads and hung it upside down to drain the blood, a little blood came out. It’s because of that right? It’s frozen so blood doesn’t flow well. But if I wait for it to melt, it is definitely going to stink, but not gutting it would also lead to that, so I decided to take out the blood vessels along with the innards.
……and so I plucked the feathers, sliced open the stomach and somehow managed to take out the innards.
Somehow managed to, but, what am I to do with this?
……the remains of the innards, the frozen blood, the remains of the feathers, there’s a bunch of things left. It would be best to treat the feathers with hot water, I would also like to wash away the blood and innards with water.
But never mind hot, there is no water. Using deionised water to process the bird would be stupid. Aahah, why can’t this just be cleaned completely and just become meat.
……nn? Cleaned?

cleaning

Conclusion. That feather duster skill [Cleaning] is a special skill that erases what I think it rubbish.
This is bad. This is very bad. If I can clearly recognise the boundary between what is rubbish and what is not, no doubt things like deboning fish would become very easy.
Right now I can only erase the remaining innards, blood and feathers, but at some point I’ll learn to be able to erase the muscles or the skin. ……well, I did try, but I couldn’t do it for some reason. And it takes away a lot of my concentration, I’m kind of tired. d.a.m.n it, feels like I lost.

to what? feather duster?

For now I roughly disa.s.sembled the meat. I’m not familiar, but I could at least separate the skin, wing, breast, thighs, liver and fats.
This can probably be cooked somehow with fire, so let’s cook it later and have it for dinner today.
simple
Now then. There is cooking tools in our chemistry lab.
First, we have whisks and metal bowls.
We even have fry pans, aluminium cooking pots and clay pots.
It can’t be used since there is no electricity, but there is also an electric stove and hotplates.
They are things we used at camps or the cultural festival this year or last year.
No, there are also things that we were just simply using for experiments though.
And most of all, we have large stocks of bamboo skewers and disposable chopsticks which we used in place of disposable gla.s.s rods for the cultural festival and such.
Today, let’s have these work for us.
Fufufu……yes, we are having yakitori. Or more like, there is no other good way to cook it.
grilled chicken on a stick
As for seasoning, there is 10kg of table salt, so we can mainly use that. It’s what we were using in place of sodium chloride. Since it’s purified salt, it works for experiments that don’t need that much precision.
After I searched thoroughly, I also found soy sauce. Why. I understand salt, but soy sauce, why are you here.
I don’t even remember using you for camps. ……well, it’s fine.
There was also about 600g of sugar, seems to be the remains of something. Did we make honeycomb toffee?
(T?N: カルメ焼き direct translated is baked caramel, but google tells me honeycomb toffee. Idk anything about sweets, is this right?)
I also found about 800cc of salad oil left over. Was this for soap?
From what I can see, it seems usable for cooking, so let’s use it preciously.
good start
Hmmm, I would like some carbohydrates, but unfortunately, there is only a bit of flour left over in the chemistry store from when we made gluten.
I want rice, but as expected there isn’t any.
If there were then rather than the chemistry lab, this would be the home economics room, mhm.

to what? feather duster?

Everyone has yet to come back, so I prepared the meat.
I dipped the wings in soy sauce and a little sugar. Half soy sauce and half sugar for the thighs. The liver can be cooked and eaten as it is. If the smell is too bad then never mind. I put the normal amount of salt on half the breast and extra on the other half. Putting extra salt is to preserve it.
This is in antic.i.p.ation of even with the appet.i.te of 3 growing high school boys, we won’t be able to finish 3 birds.
By the way, there was no container to put the meat in, so I mobilised a new 1L beaker. It’s new so it’s safe, safe.

sterile

By the time it started getting dark, they came back.
“We’re back.”
“Welcome back, masters.”
“As I said, stop that.”
I even pinched the hem of my skirt and curtsied, but it was still unpopular. Well, that’s normal.
end

Hecate loves the casual narrative style.

It’s very different~ And it also how I prefer to do things~ I don’t like being stiff and formal. ……I swear the original is just as casual as this, it is most definitely not because it went through a certain filter (me)………..okay maybe 10% increased…..20%…….maybe.

Well, I can’t really convey the meidogo (maid language) well here either…….keigo is hard, just imagine her going extra polite mode when she’s messing around as a maid. Well her words are at least.