Ore no Osananajimi wa Joshikousei de Yuusha Chapter 17

It was a room with chandeliers hanging, like a hotel’s ballroom.

The appetite-stimulating aroma of food drifted about.
In the middle of the room there was a table for ten covered with white cloth, and seated on the seat of honor there was a single stupid-faced high-schooler.

Yep, that’s me.

“Preposterous…! This is preposterous…!”

“Why do I have to treat the likes of you like this!”

He can’t say it anyway.
“Damn this! Whatever, I’ll leave his reception to you”

“““ Yes, Tris-sama ”””

The maids answered Tris in unison.

*SLAM*! Tris closed the door and left, looking dissatisfied.

Well honestly, it’s not something to be worried about being hated by him, so let’s first enjoy the meal.

The maids started laying out the food…. wait, they’re not?

“He’s gone?”

“Yep, he’s gone”
They reported to each other, and then…

They simultaneously looked at me.
*grin*, they sent me inquisitive smiles and swarmed at me with great vigor.

“Hey hey, what’s your name?”

“How far have you gone with Lady Demy?”

“Kyaah! We wanna know!!”

“Wa…, wait a minute!! Everyone calm down!”

“Eeeh, but they look similar…. Don’t they?”

“Anyway, does this guy know?”

“Eh, I dunno. Since he’s being treated like a guest and all, he might actually be a noble even though he looks like this…”
“Eeh, no way, he doesn’t have the aura at all”

These girls are hopeless, even though they’re the ones asking questions they never planned to listen to me at all….
As the story develops and somehow the strange idea that I came down from the end of the sky came about (not entirely wrong, though…), I worked out a plan to shut them up and put it into action.

“Ah. It’s Tris!”

“!?” “!?” “!?”

“I lied. It’s alright, he’s not coming”

“One person asking questions at a time, please. I’m not Shoutoku Taisho”

Ah, right, they don’t know.

When I said that the maids…

“… this is somehow…”

“Humm”

“I felt like I’ve broken the good mood somehow”

“Hey, is this my fault”

“But how should I say”

“Ah. Yes, that”

“Alright. Let’s start from self-introduction then. I’m Yuuki. My job is Ojousama’s attendant”

“Noooo”

“Stop giggling!”

“I’m Mist. Nice to meet you, attendant-san”

“I’m Haibo, I’m the one who showed you to your room, see”

“Ah, the one who got scolded for peeping…”

“You’re the one who were listening in, weren’t you. The perpetrator shouldn’t get angry at the victim”

Sullen, Haibo stepped back.

“I’m Twys. Let me ask you stuff, kay”

You’re the most curious one, huh….

The three girls who had gotten used to the job briskly finished preparing my dinner.

Okay, let’s ea–t…. wait.

“You’re not going to eat?”

“You’re still a guest”

I’ll be too tense I won’t be able to taste the food.

“Isn’t it fine? Let’s eat together”

“…….. in that case”

“Ufufu. It’s been years since I’ve eaten with a boy!”

†

At a room inside the underground passage.

After Glenn went out to eat, Nikka who’s left behind was immersed in some kind of experiment.

Inside the beaker there were scores of mosquito larva looking needle-shaped creatures wriggling around.

Nikka spoke something to a small magic core and sank it in there.

Looking at that, Nikka made a satisfied smile but that smile immediately turned into a frown.

She stopped the fire, turned the lights out and hurriedly went outside.

“‘Darkness‘”

Without turning on the lights, Nikka ran through the passage. The passage Yuuki ran across was only a very small part, these passages ran throughout the entire premises.
It became tangled like a maze, if you entered without a map or have one memorized in your head you’d easily get lost.

Nikka’s movements were the latter, she ran to her destination without being lost.
There was a dropped lantern in her line of sight. Then an automaton apprehending a single maid.

She’s a maid that’s been working here since long ago.

She was carrying some kind of baggage on her back.

Nikka took a breath just before the scene of the crime and put on a clergywoman’s dignity.

She rebuked the maid.

She seems to have fallen into panic.
The maid responded in an unintelligible voice.

“Entry is forbidden here”

“This leads to the shrine’s sacred ground. You heard from Glenn-sama, didn’t you?”

“You cannot continue on from here. I won’t ask anything so go back to the residence”

No matter what she said the maid didn’t seem to settle down and Nikka’s expression became more and more irritated.

“The chicken’s head…”

The maid is acting strange.

“T, t, the chicken’s head, plucked off, that girl. Chicken, I, the chicken like that”

There was sweat on her forehead.
“What’s wrong? What’s this about a chicken?”

Nikka didn’t know.
She was the maid who ordered Arina to slaughter the chicken and fainted seeing her method.

The maid continued, frothing at the mouth.

“———………”

The panic caught onto Nikka.

“Hi–i…. after the chicken there’s the pighii, after the pig there’s the cowhii, hii, after the cow, after that, you have to listen…. Uuu, I said, I said!”

“….. who is ‘that girl’?”

The maid then answered.

†

“That girl? Arina-chan, was it?”

The girls said something like that.

While having my meal I had gotten friendly with the three girls, we talked to each other about whatever’s on our mind.

Of course, I intended to talk about the spies but right now I was talking about small topics.

“What, what’s wrong?”

“Rather than wrong…”

“N…. newbie bullying?”

“Also, rumor says the head maid there is quite a nasty one”

“Wait, stop it. Yuuki’s looking anxious”
“………..”

I am anxious.

When I saw her earlier she looks fine so I was relieved, but….

Mist said,

She tried to encourage me, but….—,

I hope her past trauma doesn’t come back to her….

Chapter end