Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Since there was the interesting idea of [Sharing] skills with the maid-san puppets, I tried it out.
But.
“……I can’t! You gave me such expectations and I can’t!”
[Sharing] skills with the maid-san puppets was not to be.
Or rather, I don’t know how to do it.
Since [Sharing] skills require hitting dog tags together, I cannot [Share] skills with the maid-san puppets which don’t have dog tags.
shame
In exchange, I could [Share] other things.
Basically, sight or hearing.
……puppets, have sight and hearing too……
Ah, as expected, there wasn’t the flood of information like when [Sharing] with humans or Ketorami.
Maybe because they’re puppets, compared to living creatures, there is less information.
surveillance drones?
And by [Sharing] once, the [Pa.s.s] or something might have become stronger, there was the nice side effect of the puppets becoming able to read my intentions when moving independently and becoming easier to control directly.

useful

Now then, this makes me want to form a maid corps all the more, so leaving everyone else alone (it’s more like I’m the one being left alone though) to go out exploring after lunch, correction, go Ketorami riding , I ma.s.s produced maid-san dolls.

I just kept ma.s.s producing. This is already in the realm of hobbies.
maid feti—
And I made them, a maid-san puppet corps with a full strength of twenty.
Okay, let’s try moving them immediately.
Directly control all twenty of the maid-san puppets……ah, hm? Bad, my head is a mess. Cannot, stop stop.
……I went with direct control to reduce the burden on me but…… guess I’ll try independent movement.
Okay. Making all twenty maid-san puppets move independently……ah, wai, time out time out stop stop.
Hey hey hey, calm down. Not good. I almost ran out of MP there.
I guess twenty all of a sudden wasn’t good. Mhm. Okay.
obv
And so, after drinking MP recovery tea and recovering, I started with moving three puppets and increased the puppets one by one.
The results, twelve is the limit for independent movement and six for direct control.
……with practice and depending on MP, I might be able to form a maid-san corps but……for now, it’s impossible.

sed

But if I practice, the chance of it working out somehow like with [Cleaning] is quite high.
Then I just need to practice! And so I’ve been preparing dinner with the puppets alone.
……since the puppets are small, they have to hold the kitchen knife with both hands.
They’re swinging around kitchen knives large than themselves , how to put it, it looks dangerous, so I tried letting them use fruit knives made from the boar tusks. It’s still big though……

Would it be better to have puppet-use kitchen knives? No, there’s only so much that can be cut by such tiny kitchen knives……
……I’ll do the cutting. Mhm.
yep
Today’s menu is j.a.panese cuisine.
Rice with grill fish, meat and potato stew, a vegetable side dish and soup.
Of course I handled the fish, mhm.
After that, I also removed the bones. The awaited deboning with [Cleaning]! This is the best!
Come on, I need to practice [Puppet Manipulation], but I also need to practice [Cleaning].

it’s her ident.i.ty

While the meat and potato stew cooked, I tried making a different puppet.
Since the Ketorami puppet and maid-san puppets had different movements and traits, I decided to try making a different puppet!
And so I tried making a creature with a completely different body, a jellyfish puppet.
I tried, but……
“……OH”
I’ll say it again, it’s not a hydroxyl group, it’s an exclamation.
How could it be, how could it be……it won’t move!

…are you sure you want that to move?

Why!? Why won’t it move?
It’s not like I ran out of MP. The maid-san puppets are still occasionally stirring the meat and potato stew to prevent it from burning.
And the Ketorami puppet could be moved. In this condition.
But, the jellyfish…..it won’t move.
……I, I doubt it but, could it be, could it be, I, can’t move puppets other than maids and watch dogs……there’s, no such thing right? It can’t be, right? Right?

….

……there was, such a thing.
Hahahaha, I’m stumped then! Iya— I had though that couldn’t I be part of the fighting force if I made swordmen puppets!? But this won’t work.
Seriously, I couldn’t move anything but maids and watch dogs.
There is absolutely no feeling of the skill activating, there is no hope.
Aaaah……is this also because my profession is not [Puppeteer] but [Maid]? Because I’m a [Maid]?
……it’s probably, because I’m a [Maid]……

it’s okay…maid-sans are cute enough

As I was being depressed, they came back, so time for dinner.
You guys look like you’re having fun. Was riding Ketorami that fun? I see.
But Ketorami is my futon. I absolutely won’t lend him to you guys. Absolutely.
Maito needs the healing
That aside, dinner was well received.
After all, it’s the first fish we’ve had since we were thrown here.
Any j.a.panese would want to eat fish.
Just meat tires out the stomach, yes.
Anyway, it really is nice to be able to eat delicious food.

blessings of having a maid

And there was something that made me even happier after that.
“Maito, come here.”
After the meal, as we finished cleaning up, they showed me……oh!
“……soy beans!”
It’s soy beans! Soy beans! It’s soy beans!
Stocked in the physics lecture hall with the rice, is the soy beans of my dreams!
There also seems to be edamame among them, hmhm!
It seem when they went a bit further riding Ketorami, they found a large clump of soy beans.
Iya—, it really was a good thing I lent them Ketorami! I don’t mind at all if you keep using him!
With this, with this we can drink miso soup! I can also use soy sauce without being stingy! Aaah how wonderful, soy beans!
I immediately tried making miso with [Ferment].
Ah, how wonderful. Seems like I can ferment it if I have soy beans and salt.
Which means the skill is doing the part done by the mould? I don’t get it.
I don’t get it but, what mould! Or koji! By focusing on those, they each become wheat miso or red miso.
Incidentally, I was able to make soy sauce the same way too.
Yahoi yahoi!
“A—h……well, it’s fine, tomorrow then…..”
I felt like I heard that complain from them, but it’s probably my imagination.

definitely

Perhaps tired from being ridden around, Ketorami-san was already curled up and asleep, so I’ll just be using his belly as my futon without permission.
Okay okay, bury myself in his stomach like this……ah, today is a little cold, what should I do.
Should I just bring a blanket over? As I thought that, Ketorami-san who should’ve been sleeping covered me with his tail, like a blanket.
……his eyes are closed, but he should be awake.
“Ketorami, thank you.”
When I thanked him, his tail flopped a little too.

good dog

I fully enjoyed my Ketorami futon until morning came.
Okay, breakfast.
……today, is a wonderful day, we get to start the day with miso soup!
It’s so wonderful I could cry! Come, let’s get started on preparations immediately!
so happy
Making five maid-san puppets move independently, I made a breakfast of rice, grilled fish and miso soup.
Yes yes, this this, this is what breakfast is.
It has to be miso soup. It really has to be miso soup.
….really?
Since I got used to moving the maid-san puppets, I continued preparations while adding on a sixth independent one in the middle.
Doing something while having my MP sucked away by the puppets is quite tiring. This really needs practice.

it’s worth it

And as I was done, well, since everyone woke up, I pofu pofu’ed them with the feather duster and we had breakfast.
The first miso soup in a long time was popular.
Of course, it’s miso soup you know? Instant home town.

kinda?

“I’m thinking of starting to head south today. Maito, ride Ketorami and follow. Take care to not be part of the battles.”
“Yes si—r.”
And we will finally be heading towards the princ.i.p.al’s office.
Normally, I think it would be better to go through the 1F and find out more, but since that would mean leaving Ketorami behind because he can’t pa.s.s through the ruins, my movement ability will be amazing in the negative direction.
Hence, we decided to find the ruins the corresponds to the 2F south building east staircase, go to 1F from there and find the princ.i.p.al’s office.
Like this, we can suppress my minus addition to the minimum.

maximise efficiency

“So. We’ll leave after eating lunch. I wanted to get it done yesterday, but Maito was in the clouds with the soy beans. So we’ll distribute equipment now.”
……nn?
……aah, come to think of it, there was that complaint yesterday. But nothing can replace soy beans, can’t be helped. ……never mind, I will be serious.
Sorry for getting too excited and delaying our departure.

repent

“A lot of things came out of the treasure chests here and there in the ruins, but with all that mess with Minehara-san, in the end it got delayed until now.”
We entered the physics lab which is being treated as an item inventory and there was……a mountain of weapons, armour, accessories and clumps of strange items.
I think there’s more than enough for us.
extra is fine
“First, let’s separate the weapons, armour, accessories, consumables and others.”
And so we started sorting them. This is a maid’s field of expertise!
But.
“Heavy, this is heavy, it won’t move……d.a.m.n i—t!”
“Maito, it’s fine! You just sort the light stuff!”
There was something like that.
……I am definitely not to blame for this. The ones who are able to casually lift a greatsword as tall as they are are definitely strange.
yep
For now, we’ve finished sorting.
Someho—w, they are further separated into light weapons and heavy weapons, metal armour and others, so it’s easy to search.
“Then can we just take what we want?”
“Isn’t that fine? It’ll be faster to figure it out later on if there are overlaps.”
And so, I also quickly went to look at the light weapons.
I feel like even I could use something like a light short sword.
“Eh, Maito-san, needs a weapon too?”
“Anything wrong?”
Hariu came to pick a fight……ah, I see.
“You, could you be, using light short swords to.”
“Ah, mhm, I throw them.”
……let’s not reduce other’s ammunition.
But since there was a kitchen knife mixed in, I received that.
It’s a kitchen knife with a strange pattern engraved in it, but it’s unmistakably a kitchen knife.
There wasn’t anyone else who wanted to equip that anyway.
See, a kitchen knife, even if used like short sword, it’s single-edged, has no hilt, so it’s hard to use……

it cuts it works

Then I went to look at armour.
There’s only so many types of armour that I can equip, is what I thought, but that wasn’t the case.
In fact, there was a lot that only I could equip.
Meaning, well, those things.
……when it comes to female armour, it’s those.
Skirts and dresses are still okay. The most troubling ones are……underwear. No, I’ll call it innerwear.
Yes, it’s innerwear. With how small the surface area is, the defence is naturally quite low but, look, either way, I’ll be wearing it under my maid uniform.
I don’t feel like wearing frilly dresses, but this is fine.
……actually, it’s about time, I want some underwear with proper wiring.
helps
Was this, called a, bustier? It’s something that firmly guards the area from the chest to the waist and aside from the strength of the cloth, the few vertical bones included are, although flexible, made of metal. Meaning this is stronger than normal cloth against a blade cutting at my torso horizontally.
And it’s light, it doesn’t really get in the way of movement.
……and this is a faint hope but……since it was in the ruins, it wouldn’t be, strange, for this to have some unknown fantasy correction attached right? Right?
hopefully
“Kariya—, [Appraise] this.”
“Ah, I’ll refrain.”

When I brought it to him, he ran away.
“No, er, [Appraise].”
“No, I, that is a little…..”
……incomprehensible.
“President, [Appraise] for a bit.”
“I refuse.”
“Were you the type to mind that kind of thing?”
“Myself aside, I think Meito-san should mind.”
just do it boys
……the result of the pus.h.i.+ng around, from Kariya’s words of ‘If only Maito-san could use [Appraisal]……’, I tried [Share] again, and this time, when I tried it, I got [Appraisal] through [Share].
“……eh?”
“You did it.”
I didn’t think it would really work. No, come on, normally, since it has already failed once……
“Did something, change?”
“A—h……mhm, my mental state changed a lot……”
……you, really hated [Appraising] underwear, no, armour that much? Somehow, sorry.
……and so, the mysteries of [Share] increased.
This might mean it is not only skills I have apt.i.tude for that I can [Share].
There should be more conditions but……I don’t know, so it’s going on hold!
….no care more about it
When I tried [Appraising], as expected, there was fantasy-feeling corrections applied to the innerwear.
Mhm, somehow, it has the defense of light armour……well, I’m happy about that.

the end

KAWAII MEIDO-SAN PUPPETS DESUUUU!!!

Was actually attached to the end of a short story, but that is after chapter 158, I’m not waiting that long.
Also realised how many spoilers there are in the second and third character intros when looking around for this picture. Guess those are going to have to wait for a long time