Chapter 118 - 117 - Is This Called Lobbying A Maid?

"Isn’t that a good thing, Hermione?" "Mei has permitted you to be my Maid and a sage from another world at the same time?" "Want to try forming a Master-Maid contract with me now?" By understanding the situation, I gave Hermione an offer in front of Mei and Arvis. It wasn’t an offer Hermione could easily accept. My words caused Mei to release her hand from my hair and sit back in her chair, while I did the same, sitting in my chairs. For now, I need for a protective spell that invades someone’s privacy. It make Hermione to become one of the strongest maid candidates who can obtain a Master-Maid contract directly from me. Hermione, who can peek at me from a distance, seems to have something that is used to protect all information of my private life that is difficult to hide from a magic that can peek from a distance. That’s why I hope Hermione will agree to my offer directly, rather than through a third party. My hand immediately reached out to her, as if making an offer that only happened once in a lifetime. Skkuutt... Skuutt... As I reached out my hand to Hermione, I could feel the jealous gaze of Arvis, who had to work harder to be a loyal Maid to me. Her unequal comparison to Hermione made her look like she was pouting cutely. Unlike a young girl who would puff out her cheeks in a cutesy tone or act immature, Arvis looked calm, her eyes unwaveringly jealous of Hermione. "I-Is this really okay, Mei?" Hermione asked, still looking unsure about the decision she was about to make. "Are you doubting your abilities and not being worthy of being Weiss’s Maid?" Mei replied with a smile at Hermione, as if enjoying every micro-expression that appeared on Hermione’s face. "No, that’s not it. I-Is a sage from another world who was tasked with researching the Tower of Fate allowed to have another job?" Hermione looked like a woman who was confused about the job she was being offered. My hand that was reaching out to her felt cramped, making me stand up from my chair to reduce the cramp I was feeling. My standing and extending my hand to her seemed like I was pressuring Hermione into a decision. "Of course you can. There are even some sages from other worlds who are secretly involved in one of the magic technology research projects on Earth. Having two jobs as a sage from another world and being a maid is a fairly easy job to manage your time. Besides, you aren’t alone, there four other maids who have sworn loyalty to Hans. Losing one maid who goes to work as a sage from another world will not disrupt the schedule of the other maids, especially with their main jobs as students of a Special High School," said Mei, giving a reasonable explanation like this. Mei, who gave permission for Hermione to become one of my Maids seemed to make her a subject test of her own research. I could sense this, when Mei’s gaze landed on Hermione as one of her research subjects, who would test her abilities after becoming one of my Maids. At this point, I think I should refrain from contacting Ashitaka, who’s currently teaching Princess Amagi how to properly become a maid. If they both found out that someone as Hermione had successfully become a maid through a direct offer from me, it would ruin my reputation for being too strict in hiring maids who are tied to my Maid Order’s abilities. Plaapp... My hands, which were starting to cramp, felt Hermione’s touch as she reached for my outstretched hand. This made Arvis lean back in her seat with a calm face after seeing Hermione, who agreed to become a maid bound by a Master-Maid contract with me. "Very well, I accept this offer with pleasure, Weiss." "Oh! Do I have to address you as Master Weiss, right now?" Hermione asked with a cheerful smile on her face. Hermione accepted my outstretched hand well, leading to a handshake between us. "Do that after our Master-Maid contract is successfully formed," I replied with my gaze suddenly diverted to my Maid Order ability that was triggered. The system screen of my Maid Order ability was triggered after my hand shook with Hermione, it also made the Maid Order ability assess Hermione’s ability which should have surpassed Novice Maid, but was hindered by the regulations that had to be carried out based on the Maid Order rules which required every maid who rose to the next level had to do night service together with her Master. [ System Notification: You have found a new candidate to be your loyal Maid! ] [ System Notification: Hermione has extraordinary abilities and already surpass the Novice Maid type, but that would violate the regulations of the rules implemented by the Maid Order. ] [ System Notification: Do you wish to make Hermione a Novice Maid under the regulations set by the Maid Order? YES/NO ] I felt like I was toyed between two difficult choices, but the solution was incredibly simple. I just needed to enjoy Hermione’s night service before she advanced to the next Maid-type level. However, I had to be patient with that after there was a Dungeon Master who was undergoing training to become a maid and a female Doctor from the Oni race who was trying to hold back her jealousy. Besides that, I have to go through the night service that will be done by Hitomi, Chizuru, Clara, and Momoka. At an important time like this, I have to share my love and affection with a maid who has never done night service with me. "Haaahh... this is going to be a tough job. Are you ready to accept the risks you’re going to take, Hermione?" I asked, letting go of my hand that was shaking Hermione’s. "W-What kind of hard work does a Maid do?" Hermione asked, seemingly clueless about the specific job she was about to undertake. "Well, the job you’ll be doing is to make sure your Master’s privacy and the privacy of the other Maids aren’t easily peeked at by magic, just like you did, to peek at me." Blush... Hearing my words, Hermione immediately blushed, her face a deep pink. This made Hermione cover her face with the wide brim of her witch’s hat. "Please forget about that one. I feel guilty for peeking at my own Master at the wrong time!" Hermione screamed in a tone of voice that was trying to forget what she had peeked at earlier. "Hermione... officially, we still haven’t formed a Master-Maid contract. Please refrain from calling me your Master," I said teasingly to Hermione. "Huuuu!!" Hermione sat down with her face covered in a pink blush. Seeing a grown woman feeling embarrassed like this, I could only smile and admire her beauty. "You seem to be enjoying this more than I am, Weiss," Mei snapped, seemingly enjoying every expression Hermione showed. "This is the first time I’ve seen Hermione blush like this. You can even make a grown woman who has lived for hundreds of years look like a teenage girl who has just experienced love. Aahh... maybe this is the first time Hermione has felt love in her hundreds of years," Mei continued while giving a teasing remark to Hermione. I responded to Mei’s words with a smile and a serious question to her. "What about you, do you want to be my maid too?" I asked Mei, noticing her facial expression. Like a noble who can control her facial expressions, I could see an elegant smile on Mei’s face. "That’s a pretty serious question for me, Weiss." Mei stood up and approached me while her hands gently pulled my hair, just like before. Mei’s fingers touched my hair like she was pulling it, but with a gentle movement. "Does it offend your pride that you’re pulling my hair like this?" I asked Mei, who seemed to be confused between pulling hair and caress it. "I’m not offended by that. By the way, I’m caressing your hair right now, not pulling it. Why do people always think I’m pulling their hair after doing things like this?" Mei replied in her elegant tone. "Mei, don’t tell me you don’t know that what you’re doing right now is pulling hair? Not caressing the hair, which is usually done with gentle movements?" I asked, trying to correct a fatal mistake Mei was making. "Hmm?" Mei tilted her head to understand something as simple as this. "Mei... I’m sorry if this is a bit rude for a male student to do to his instructor at school." While saying something like this, I started to touch Mei’s hair and caress it. As my fingers touched Mei’s hair, I could feel the softness of her well-maintained hair. The touch of my fingers on Mei’s hair caress it without any movement that showed that I was pulling Mei’s hair. Caress... Caress... The caress of my hand on Mei’s hair made her close her eyes and feel every caress I did to her hair. "This is something called caressing the hair of the head," I said, giving Mei a meaningful lesson. The caress of my hand on Mei’s hair turned into pulling her hair gently until it was hard. It made Mei open her eyelids wide. "Weiss... what are you doing?" After Mei’s eyelids fluttered open, I could see that she was annoyed by this. "This is something called hair pulling. You’ve already felt the two differences between hair pulling and caressing, right?" "..." Mei suddenly fell silent and began to gently release her fingers that were pulling my hair. "It has a different sensation?" Mei asked, seemingly just realizing it. "Want to feel it again?" I replied, caressing and pulling her hair at the same time. "Weiss..." I looked back at Mei’s elegant, annoyed expression and stopped my fingers from touching her soft hair. "Well, at least don’t pull my hair anymore. I’m already exhausted from the pain," I said, gently pulling Mei’s hand away from me, which was pulling my hair. "..." Mei fell silent again after I lowered her hand from the top of my hair. "Umm... Have I been pulling someone’s hair all this time, making them upset?" Mei muttered, seemingly only now realizing it. "Uh-huh," I replied with a wry smile.