Chapter 121 - 120 - Not Cheap For Trouble Cause

Hermione enjoyed every tease I did to her, who was currently wearing a maid uniform and a witch hat. Bzztt... Zzzrrtt... My smartphone suddenly vibrated, make my hand to reach into my school uniform pocket. On my smartphone screen, a notification from the Special High School apps announced an update to the ranking list that had been adjusted based on the latest data. That made me curious about what Mei had done, and I accessed my student account to login into the Special High School apps that was installed on my smartphone. Using my recorded fingerprint on my smartphone, I accessed the main menu apps and saw the list of student rankings that had been updated. That updated ranking list made Hermione and Arvis curious about the updates that Mei had made, making Arvis shake her head at this. "I can’t believe this. Dontol Xu Mei, who is known for her cold and logical nature, would follow the advice of a student, even though she is a sage from another world who is quite famous on Earth and several other worlds who have recognized her intelligence in solving a big problem in another world in a clever way," said Arvis while shaking her head, until her sharp and flat Oni horns almost hit my head. "I don’t know the true strengths of each sage from the other world. Is Mei that great, Hermione?" With curiosity in my head, I asked Hermione about Mei greatness. Hermione, who was sitting on my lap, changed her position. She still blushing and showing her embarrassed face from the brim of her witch’s hat, and started to look at me with smile. Sitting on her Master’s lap and curious about the notifications on my smartphone screen, it made Hermione want to open her mouth regarding Arvis’s previous statement. "You need to know, Master Weiss. Of all the sages from other worlds, they have a capacity that is not to be trifled, to change an other world... they just use one of the abilities they have mastered. If we are talking about Dontol Xu Mei who is known as the Mother of Monster or the Goddess of Monster in some other worlds, then it would be very natural if this Oni woman thinks this Mei’s behavior is different than usual," said Hermione while giving a sharp glance at Arvis, as if not wanting her hugging my right arm. Hermione, who had changed her sitting position on my lap, made her back touch my chest, her eyes could now glance at Arvis, who still hadn’t let go of her tight embrace on my right arm. For some reason, I know this would happen, Then I pulled Hermione’s cheeks and tried to control her hostile attitude towards Arvis. Glare... Glare... Like two cats that wanted to fight each other, I could see some fire sparks and electric sparks from the gazes of both of them, who wanted to fight physically. "So that’s why you were surprised by Mei’s behavior, which seemed different from usual, Arvis," I said, to break up the two cats who were almost getting into physical fight. Caress... Caress... With a touch of my finger on Hermione’s cheek and a gentle rub afterward, I managed to stop these two cats from nearly getting into a physical fight. It make Arvis understood about Hermione behavior as a possessive nature of a maid who did not want to see her Master being touched by another woman, especially intimate touches like hugging her Master’s arm tightly. "Yes, Master Weiss. I’m much more surprised at someone who obeys your words, even though she didn’t form a Master-Maid contract with you... like this woman," Arvis replied while directing the tip of her Oni horn to touch my hair and glare back to Hermione. Srruss... Srruss.... Like a cat marking someone with its body odor, I just noticed Arvis’s behavior, which seemed unique like this. "Hey, what are you doing?" Hermione asked after my hand stopped caressing her cheek. "Just marking my future Master." "Do that after you become his Maid," replied Hermione, who this time seemed calmer than before. "Huhu... Please don’t worry, after undergoing Master Weiss’s training, I will become his loyal and useful maid. I’m confident that my medical skills will be unmatched. Even if there were a Saintess who excelled in healing using holy magic, my abilities would far surpass the Saintess herself!" Arvis replied confidently. After looking like cats about to fight, they now look like cats who have finally gotten along. This rapid behavior change is like training two different types of animals to live together. I think this is a pretty good thing, considering that my Maid Order abilities will continue to Level Up, just like when I lived in Narzik’s world. "Hermione... I think it’s time for you to answer my previous question," I said it, before Hermione forget the big question I had asked earlier. "What are we researching, Master Weiss?" Hermione asked to confirm. "Yes, about that. When I did the re-test, I saw an interesting fossil. I didn’t see it wrong, did I?" I replied, seeing Hermione’s facial expression slowly change, which looked more serious until Arvis released her tight embrace on my right arm. "You’re not seeing things wrong, Master Weiss. It’s indeed a fossil inside a giant magic crystal from a world that seems to have experienced an Apocalypse Event by something that remains a mystery. We’re researching this to fulfill one of our curiosity in that world, who late in dealing something that called... the Gate Breach phenomena," Hermione replied while pushing her back to find a comfortable position to sit on my lap. "Gate Breach, is that’s a phenomenon that’s quite serious compared to Void Gate?" I replied, try to understanding every context that Hermione had said. "Yes, Master Weiss. Unlike a Void Gate that would create a Gate that connects to a random Dungeon due to two different magical cores suppressing each other, it makes a Gate Breach far more dangerous than a Void Gate that could be created intentionally," Hermione said as she pulled my left hand to touch her cheek. "Even in our first meet in class, you almost created a Void Gate after your and Elysia’s magic cores collided and suppressed Elysia’s magic core. Is this Gate Breach more dangerous because it formed naturally or triggered by some high magical energy pressure that exceeded the formation of the Void Gate?" Caress... Caress... "To be honest, we still don’t know the extent of the danger of this Gate Breach. Some of our research samples saw signs of monsters that were born inside the Gate and grew stronger until they were able to escape from the Gate where they were born. At this time, we use the term Gate Breach for something that comes out of the Gate itself," Hermione said this while moving my hand to stroke her cheek and smiled happily at this. "Somehow, it sounds more like a Containment Breach than a Gate Breach," I said of this term. "I think that’s a pretty good term. Can we use it?" Mei said, suddenly appearing beside me. With no sign of the teleportation circle magic, I glanced toward the source of Mei’s voice and saw her standing calmly. Her gaze was fixed on me, holding Hermione in my lap, and Arvis, who was try to hugging my right arm again. "Oh, you’re back?" I replied calmly after seeing Mei’s sudden arrival. "M-Mei, you came back so quickly. I didn’t even notice you," Hermione said with a happy expression on her face, as if she were showing off that she had formed a Master-Maid contract with me. Mei’s sharp gaze fell on me. "I wanted to scold Hermione for revealing a big secret from the research being carried out by the sages from another world, but I remembered that you had seen something inside that giant magic crystal, Weiss." With elegant footsteps, Mei sat on a chair that I had previously sat on. Mei’s gaze shifted from me to Arvis, who seemed to have been involved in some of the sage research from another world. "This is troublesome," realizing that things had become more troublesome than usual, Mei gave up on this and try to keep the secret research being conducted by the sages from another world not leaked out. "Weiss, will this Oni woman be your Maid in the future?" "I don’t want this secret research to leak out of the Special High School area." Mei seemed to give a secret that she wanted to say directly, and made me admit that Arvis will be my Maid in the future. Nod... With a nod of my head, Mei revealed the secret research being conducted by the sages from another world. "We, the sages from another world, are currently in an internal conflict, where one of the sages from another world is conducting research that is capable of creating new life based on life samples that human on Earth called DNA and RNA," said Mei while revealing the secret, which coincidentally I already knew what Mei meant. Hearing this secret research, I decided to stop listening, "I think that’s enough, more or less... I know where this is going, and I don’t want to know any more." "..." Mei was pensive for a moment after hearing my reply. "We plan to use this fossil as bait for him who is trying to revive someone using specially engineered DNA," Mei continued, seemingly wanting to get me involved in this. "Hmm... I didn’t hear that. Did you say something, Mei?" I replied after hearing Mei’s words, which were trying to get me involved in this secret bait. "As I said before, some sages from another world tried to use this research to lure him out and fell into the trap we had prepared," Mei replied, making me understand the ins and outs of what was happening at the moment. "..." I was silent about this, and my left hand, which was touching Hermione’s cheek, moved to caress it. Caress... Caress... "Aahh, sorry, I was too busy pampering Hermione and I didn’t hear what you were talking about earlier," I replied, still trying not to get involved any further in the current problem. "..." Mei started to understand what I was doing and exhaled elegantly. Snap... With an elegant and charming snap of her fingers, I could see a blank sheet of Bank Check paper and Mei gave a pen towards me. This is the first time I’ve seen a sage from another world trying to get me into trouble using a blank Bank Check paper.