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-fashioned 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 shined . 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 shine . 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 shines 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 pass 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 . Damn it, feels like I lost .

to what? feather duster?

For now I roughly disassembled 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 glass 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?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 anticipation of even with the appetite 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 .